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Strongmen: How They Rise, Why They Succeed, How They Fall by Ruth Ben-Ghiat
RRP: €14.27€10.31'A gripping and illuminating picture of how strongmen have deployed violence, seduction, and corruption' Daniel Ziblatt, co-author of How Democracies Die 'A timely analysis of how a certain kind of charisma delivers political disaster' Timothy Snyder,... -
Democratic Reason: Politics, Collective Intelligence, and the Rule of the Many by Helene Landemore
RRP: €26.18€20.98Individual decision making can often be wrong due to misinformation, impulses, or biases. Collective decision making, on the other hand, can be surprisingly accurate. In Democratic Reason, Helene Landemore demonstrates that the very factors behind the... -
Political ideas for A Level: Liberalism, Socialism, Conservatism, Multiculturalism, Nationalism, Ecologism 2nd Edition by Richard Kelly
€22.55These Student's Books will help students understand the core ideas and principles behind the political ideologies, and how they apply in practice to human nature, the state, society and the economy.- Comprehensive coverage of the ideologies of... -
Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon by Michael Lewis 9780241651117
RRP: €29.75€21.44*INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**NO. 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*'Extraordinary' The Observer'A stupefyingly pleasurable book to read' New Yorker'Lewis's storytelling is as good as ever' The EconomistFrom the #1 bestselling author of The Big Short and... -
My Revision Notes: Pearson Edexcel A Level UK Politics: Second Edition Neil McNaughton 9781398325531
RRP: €13.69€13.27Coverage of key up-to-date content is combined with study and exam tips and effective revision strategies to create a guide you can rely on to build both knowledge and memory.With My Revision Notes you can:- Consolidate your knowledge with clear, concise... -
The Penguin History of the World: 6th edition J M Roberts 9781846144431
RRP: €22.60€17.64The completely updated edition of J. M. Roberts and Odd Arne Westad's widely acclaimed, landmark bestseller The Penguin History of the WorldFor generations of readers The Penguin History of the World has been one of the great cultural experiences - the... -
The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time by Yascha Mounk 9780241638293
RRP: €29.75€21.44The origins, consequences and limitations of an ideology that has quickly become highly influential around the world.For much of their history, societies have violently oppressed ethnic, religious and sexual minorities. It is no surprise then that many... -
City of Djinns by William Dalrymple
RRP: €13.08€8.88'Could you show me a djinn?' I asked. 'Certainly,' replied the Sufi. 'But you would run away.' From the author of the Samuel Johnson prize shortlisted 'The Return of a King', this is William Dalrymple's captivating memoir of a year spent in... -
How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them by Barbara F. Walter
RRP: €13.08€9.51Sunday Times Smart Thinking Book of the Year 2022 * New York Times Bestseller* WINNER OF THE GLOBAL POLICY INSTITUTE AWARD * BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Financial Times, The Times, Esquire, Prospect'When one of the world's leading scholars of civil war tells us... -
Shooting an Elephant;With the Introductory Essay 'Why I Write' by George Orwell 9781528719049
RRP: €11.89€10.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528719049Author George OrwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 38Imprint Read BooksPublisher Read BooksWeight(grams) 32gDimensions(mm) 152mm * 102mm * 2mm -
SOE Manual: How to be an Agent in Occupied Europe by Special Operations Executive
RRP: €11.89€8.14The actual course given to all secret agents in SOE before working behind enemy lines. It includes everything you needed to know to go undercover - from documents, cover stories and how to live off the land to how to get through an interrogation. ... -
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder
RRP: €11.89€8.71**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**'A sort of survival book, a sort of symptom-diagnosis manual in terms of losing your democracy and what tyranny and authoritarianism look like up close' Rachel Maddow 'These 128 pages are a brief primer in every important... -
The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire by Edward N. Luttwak
RRP: €30.88€25.42In this book, the distinguished writer Edward Luttwak presents the grand strategy of the eastern Roman empire we know as Byzantine, which lasted more than twice as long as the more familiar western Roman empire, eight hundred years by the shortest... -
Policy Paradox: The Art of Political Decision Making by Deborah Stone
€50.61Policy making is a political struggle over values and ideas. By exposing the paradoxes that underlie even seemingly straightforward policy decisions, Policy Paradox shows students that politics cannot be cleansed from the process in favor of "rationality... -
Hellhound on his Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin Hampton Sides 9780718192068
RRP: €15.46€11.11Hellhound on His Trail is the story of two very different men whose lives catastrophically interweaved over the course of some nine months in the late 1960s: one was a thief and con man called James Earl Ray, the other one of the greatest American... -
The Fishing Fleet: Husband-Hunting in the Raj Anne De Courcy 9780753828960
RRP: €11.89€8.33The adventurous young women who sailed to India during the Raj in search of husbands.From the late 19th century, when the Raj was at its height, many of Britain's best and brightest young men went out to India to work as administrators, soldiers and... -
Unshook Till the End of Time: A History of Relations between Britain & Oman 1650 - 1970 by Stuart Laing 9781908531070
RRP: €29.75€19.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908531070Author Stuart LaingFormat HardbackPage Count 350Imprint Nomad PublishingPublisher Nomad Publishing -
The ALL NEW Don't Think of an Elephant!: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate George Lakoff 9781603585941
RRP: €14.27€9.78Lakoff researches how framing influences reasoning, or how the way we say something often matters much more than what we say. the Guardian Over a quarter of a million copies sold worldwide! Ten years after writing the definitive, international... -
In the Dragon's Shadow: Southeast Asia in the Chinese Century by Sebastian Strangio
RRP: €14.27€12.39A timely look at the impact of China's booming emergence on the countries of Southeast Asia"An expert and lucid synthesis of the historical context and recent developments of Southeast Asia's rich and complex relations with Beijing."-John Reed, Financial... -
Sanctions: What Everyone Needs to Know (R) by Bruce W. Jentleson
RRP: €15.46€11.11A concise, authoritative overview of a little-understood yet extremely important phenomenon in world politics: the use of economic sanctions by one country to punish another. It's hard to browse the news without seeing reports of yet another... -
The Last Politician: Inside Joe Biden's White House and the Struggle for America's Future by Franklin Foer 9781101981146
RRP: €35.70€22.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101981146Author Franklin FoerFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 658gDimensions(mm) 242mm *... -
Servants of the Damned: giant law firms and the corruption of justice by David Enrich
RRP: €23.80€16.02A long-overdue expose of the astonishing yet shadowy power wielded by the world's largest law firms. Though not a household name, Jones Day is well known in the halls of power, and serves as a powerful encapsulation of the changes that have swept the... -
Let's Be Honest Jess Phillips 9781398500938
RRP: €23.80€15.30From culture wars to clickbait, it’s fair to say that politics has lost some of its integrity, and we’ve all suffered as a result. If it hadn’t almost wrecked the country with calamitous consequences in nearly every sector of public life, it would be... -
The Dirty War by Martin Dillon
RRP: €13.08€9.51___________'This excellent book demands the attention of anyone concerned about civil liberties in the United Kingdom' Guardian1969 was a year of rising tension, violence and change for the people of Northern Ireland. Rioting in Derry's Bogside led to... -
Against White Feminism by Rafia Zakaria 9780241989319
RRP: €13.08€9.51Personal, provocative and powerfully persuasive - an essential guide to what white feminism is, why it matters, and how we can put an end to it'Thoughtful and provocative... It is a must-read' Roxane Gay'A book to make you stop and think' Mishal... -
Behind Closed Doors Jenny Tomlin 9780340837924
RRP: €13.08€9.06Jenny grew up in a house where no-one was safe. Born one of five children in the East End, her childhood was spent in squalor and terror. Her father's violent beatings, humiliations, and sexual abuse were part of daily life; her mother - also his sexual... -
Iran by Ali M. Ansari 9781509541515
RRP: €15.46€14.21Both revolutionary and reactionary, the Islamic Republic of Iran has long been a conundrum for Western observers. A theocracy that aspires to a popular mandate; an anti-colonial state with imperial pretensions of its own: modern Iran is in many ways a... -
Wilful Blindness by Sam Cooper 9780888903402
RRP: €27.36€22.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780888903402Author Sam CooperFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint Optimum Publishing InternationalPublisher Optimum Publishing InternationalWeight(grams)... -
Stolen Pride: Loss, Shame, and the Rise of the Right Arlie Russell Hochschild 9781620976463
RRP: €26.17€22.55In her first book since the widely acclaimed Strangers in Their Own Land, the National Book Award finalist and bestselling author Arlie Russell Hochschild now ventures to Appalachia, uncovering the “pride paradox” that has given the right’s appeals such... -
Called to Account: How Corporate Bad Behaviour and Government Waste Combine to Cost us Millions. by Margaret Hodge
RRP: €11.89€5.08In a recent study of 61 hospitals, it was found that they bought 21 different types of A4 paper, 652 different kinds of surgical gloves and 1751 different cannulas.Police forces could cut the cost of their uniforms by over 30 per cent if they all bought... -
Our Enemies Will Vanish: The Russian Invasion and Ukraine's War of Independence by Yaroslav Trofimov
RRP: €38.08€14.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593655184Author Yaroslav TrofimovFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 624gDimensions(mm) 242mm... -
The Whole Picture: The colonial story of the art in our museums & why we need to talk about it Alice Procter 9781788402453
RRP: €15.46€10.51"Probing, jargon-free and written with the pace of a detective story... [Procter] dissects western museum culture with such forensic fury that it might be difficult for the reader ever to view those institutions in the same way again. " Financial Times ... -
Textbook on Land Law by Judith-Anne MacKenzie 9780198839828
€48.90Practical and contextual in its approach, lucid and engaging in style, Textbook on Land Law enlivens the subject for students. The innovative running case study used throughout illustrates the law in action, helping students to visualize the real... -
Postcapitalist Desire: The Final Lectures Mark Fisher 9781913462482
RRP: €15.46€10.51Edited and with an introduction by Matt Colquhoun, this collection of lecture notes and transcriptions reveals acclaimed writer and blogger Mark Fisher in his element - the classroom - outlining a project that Fisher's death left so bittersweetly... -
Open with a Close by Matt Elwell 9781781334423
€14.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781334423Author Matthew ElwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Rethink PressPublisher Rethink PressWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *... -
Coffee with Hitler: The British Amateurs Who Tried to Civilise the Nazis by Charles Spicer 9780861546176
RRP: €13.08€9.04How the British might have handled Hitler differently remains one of history's greatest 'what ifs'... A TELEGRAPH AND SPECTATOR HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR Coffee with Hitler tells the astounding true story of a handful of amateur British intelligence... -
The Path of the Warrior Ornate Box Set: The Art of War, The Way of the Samurai, The Book of Five Rings by Sun Tzu 9781398815438
RRP: €35.69€25.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398815438Author Sun TzuImprint Arcturus Publishing LtdPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd -
Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America - A Recent History by Kurt Andersen
RRP: €15.46€10.19How an elite cabal rewrote the American dream for their gain - and left the rest of world behind.Evil Geniuses is the secret history of how, over the last half century, from even before Ronald Reagan through Donald Trump, America has sharply swerved away... -
Violent Borders: Refugees and the Right to Move by Reece Jones
RRP: €14.27€11.85Forty thousand people died trying to cross international borders in the past decade, with the high-profile deaths along the shores of Europe only accounting for half of the grisly total.Reece Jones argues that these deaths are not exceptional, but rather... -
Conservatism: An Anthology of Social and Political Thought from David Hume to the Present by Jerry Z. Muller
RRP: €41.65€33.74At a time when the label "conservative" is indiscriminately applied to fundamentalists, populists, libertarians, fascists, and the advocates of one or another orthodoxy, this volume offers a nuanced and historically informed presentation of what is...