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In Retrospect by Robert S. McNamara 9780679767497
RRP: $35.68$27.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679767497Author Robert S. McNamaraFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
The Putin Paradox by Richard Sakwa 9781838601270
RRP: $50.38$41.71Vladimir Putin has emerged as one of the key leaders of the twenty-first century. However, he is also recognized as one of the most divisive. Abroad, his assertion of Russia's interests and critique of the western-dominated international system has... -
The Psychology of Political Communicators: How Politicians, Culture, and the Media Construct and Shape Public Discourse Ofer Feldman 9781138596191
RRP: $92.38$80.72In this timely study, Ofer Feldman, Sonja Zmerli, and their team of experts shed light on the multiple ways communication affects political behavior and attitudes. Written for students and scholars alike, The Psychology of Political Communicators uses... -
Marx's Inferno: The Political Theory of Capital by William Clare Roberts
RRP: $46.20$36.46Marx's Inferno reconstructs the major arguments of Karl Marx's Capital and inaugurates a completely new reading of a seminal classic. Rather than simply a critique of classical political economy, William Roberts argues that Capital was primarily a... -
Liberty and Coercion: The Paradox of American Government from the Founding to the Present by Gary Gerstle 9780691162942
RRP: $63.00$49.75American governance is burdened by a paradox. On the one hand, Americans don't want "big government" meddling in their lives; on the other hand, they have repeatedly enlisted governmental help to impose their views regarding marriage, abortion, religion,... -
Rethinking Children's Rights: Attitudes in Contemporary Society Dr Phil Jones (IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society, University College London, UK) 9781350001244
RRP: $62.98$56.39Rethinking Children's Rights explores attitudes towards and experiences of children's rights. Phil Jones and Sue Welch draw on a wide range of thought, research and practice from different fields and countries to debate, challenge and re-appraise long... -
Outside the Box: How Globalization Changed from Moving Stuff to Spreading Ideas by Marc Levinson 9780691191768
RRP: $46.20$36.46From the acclaimed author of The Box, a new history of globalization that shows us how to navigate its futureGlobalization has profoundly shaped the world we live in, yet its rise was neither inevitable nor planned. It is also one of the most contentious... -
The European Left and the Financial Crisis by Michael Holmes 9781526163691
RRP: $63.00$56.60The global financial crisis of 2007-8 did not offer the political and economic opportunities to the left that many thought it would. As financial institutions collapsed, traditional left-wing issues were apparently back on the agenda. However, instead of... -
The Collapse of Globalism by John Ralston Saul
RRP: $23.08$15.37Globalization is dead. Nation states are resurgent, international trade has enriched the few rather than the promised many, and democratic values are on the retreat. The shining-eyed optimism of more open, more equal societies has given way to... -
Soccer Vs. The State 2nd Edition: Tackling Football and Radical Politics by Gabriel Kuhn 9781629635729
RRP: $39.88$26.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629635729Author Gabriel KuhnFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press -
American Whitelash: The Resurgence of Racial Violence in Our Time by Wesley Lowery 9780241517123
RRP: $52.50$37.00"American Whitelash is indispensable. Really. It is." - Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an AntiracistFrom a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, a shocking investigation into the cyclical pattern of violence that has marred racial progress in AmericaIn... -
Can Democracy Safeguard the Future? by Smith
RRP: $20.98$18.80Our democracies repeatedly fail to safeguard the future. From pensions to pandemics, health and social care through to climate, biodiversity and emerging technologies, democracies have been unable to deliver robust policies for the long term. In this... -
Active Defense: China's Military Strategy since 1949 by M. Taylor Fravel 9780691210339
RRP: $52.50$41.14What changes in China's modern defense policy reveal about military organizations and strategyActive Defense offers the first systematic look at China's military strategy from the mid-twentieth century to today. Exploring the range and intensity of... -
Security as Practice: Discourse Analysis and the Bosnian War by Lene Hansen
RRP: $96.58$84.27This important text offers a full and detailed account of how to use discourse analysis to study foreign policy. It provides a poststructuralist theory of the relationship between identity and foreign policy and an in-depth discussion of the methodology... -
Farming for the Long Haul: Resilience and the Lost Art of Agricultural Inventiveness Michael Foley 9781603588003
RRP: $35.68$24.23It's all but certain that the next fifty years will bring enormous, not to say cataclysmic, disruptions to our present way of life. World oil reserves will be exhausted within that time frame, as will the lithium that powers today's most sophisticated... -
Stories of Peoplehood: The Politics and Morals of Political Membership by Rogers M. Smith
RRP: $48.28$41.08How can we build thriving political communities? In this provocative account of how societies are bound together, Rogers Smith examines the importance of 'stories of peoplehood', narratives that promise economic or political power and define political... -
Miss Seeton Cracks the Case by Hamilton Crane 9781788420808
RRP: $16.78$11.55A positive crimewave has descended on Miss Seeton's peaceful home village of Plummergen. There's the Sherry Gang, who go round offering to help old folk with their shopping then ply them with drugged booze and rob them. And a return to olden times with... -
Full Disclosure by Stormy Daniels
RRP: $23.08$18.77THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Make no mistake, Full Disclosure is a story for our times' - Guardian'Funny, candid, mischievous . . . and unapologetic' - TelegraphOn 6 March 2018 Stormy Daniels filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump over a... -
Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America by Maggie Haberman 9780008470197
RRP: $35.68$26.06*THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* *A Financial Times Book of the Year* *Economist Book of the Year* 'A political epic' - Guardian ... -
You Back The Attack!: Remixed War Propaganda by Micah Ian Wright 9781583225844
RRP: $23.08$16.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583225844Author Micah Ian WrightFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 228g -
The Black Panther Party: A Graphic Novel History by David F. Walker
RRP: $35.68$25.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984857705Author David F. WalkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Crown Books for Young ReadersPublisher Random House USA Inc -
The Battle for British Islam: Reclaiming Muslim Identity from Extremism: 2016 by Sara Khan 9780863561597
RRP: $31.48$20.58Across Britain, Muslims are caught up in a battle over the very nature of their faith. And extremists appear to be gaining the upper hand. Sara Khan has spent the past decade campaigning for tolerance and equal rights within Muslim communities, and is... -
Russia'S Dead End: A Kremlin Insider's Testimony from Gorbachev to Putin by Andrei A. Kovalev
RRP: $58.78$51.53Elite-level Soviet politics, privileged access to state secrets, knowledge about machinations inside the Kremlin-such is the environment in which Andrei A. Kovalev lived and worked. In this memoir of his time as a successful diplomat serving in various... -
Hitler's Secret War: The Nazi Espionage Campaign Against the Allies Charles Whiting 9781800325098
RRP: $27.28$17.18In the shadows was another war... An unputdownable account of the Nazi spy operation and how it ultimately failedDuring the Second World War there was, behind the scenes, a bitter conflict was stamped 'Top Secret'. It was a war of infiltration and... -
When Women Ruled the World: Making the Renaissance in Europe by Maureen Quilligan 9781324092377
RRP: $31.48$23.98Sixteenth-century Europe was a time of destabilisation of age-old norms and the waging of religious wars-yet it also witnessed the remarkable flowering of a pacific culture cultivated by a cohort of extraordinary women rulers who sat on Europe's thrones,... -
Digital Citizenship in Africa: Technologies of Agency and Repression by Tony Roberts
RRP: $46.18$40.49Since the so-called Arab Spring, citizens of African countries have continued to use digital tools in creative ways to ensure that marginalised voices are heard, and to demand for the rights they are entitled to in law: to freely associate, to form... -
Looking for History: Dispatches from Latin America by Alma Guillermoprieto 9780375725821
RRP: $46.20$32.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375725821Author Alma GuillermoprietoFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 288gDimensions(mm)... -
Containing Big Tech: How to Protect Our Civil Rights, Economy, and Democracy by Tom Kemp 9781639080618
RRP: $53.55$37.72The path forward to rein in online surveillance, AI, and tech monopolies. Technology is a gift and a curse. The five Big Tech companies-Meta, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google-have built innovative products that improve many aspects of our lives... -
Governing Global Health: Who Runs the World and Why? by Chelsea Clinton 9780190253271
RRP: $55.63$41.94The past few decades have seen a massive increase in the number of international organizations focusing on global health. Campaigns to eradicate or stem the spread of AIDS, SARS, malaria, and Ebola attest to the increasing importance of globally-oriented... -
Disease by Frances Darlington-Pollock
RRP: $35.68$33.85In 1942 life expectancy at birth was 66 for women and 60 for men. Death was usually due to degenerative and infectious diseases. The greatest postwar success in the fight against disease was the establishment of the NHS and care that was free at the... -
The Gunpowder Plot: Terror in Shakespeare's England by James Travers 9781445684673
RRP: $42.00$30.01The Gunpowder Plot is perhaps the most famous and well-documented event in British Early Modern history. This means the story can be told through original dialogue recorded at the time to a greater extent than any other of the period. James Travers' new... -
The Coming Collapse Of China by Gordon G. Chang
RRP: $33.58$24.38Fully revised and updated edition covering China's new membership of the WTO and with a new introduction. 'Damning data and persuasive arguments that should set some Communist knees a-knocking.' Kirkus Reviews'A compelling account of the rot in China's... -
A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal by Kate Aronoff
RRP: $23.08$18.77All politics are climate politics in the twenty-first century - and this bold book argues for a Green New Deal that confronts both climate change and inequalityThe age of climate gradualism is over, as unprecedented disasters are exacerbated by... -
World Poverty and Human Rights by Thomas W. Pogge
RRP: $52.48$45.80Some 2.5 billion human beings live in severe poverty, deprived of such essentials as adequate nutrition, safe drinking water, basic sanitation, adequate shelter, literacy, and basic health care. One third of all human deaths are from poverty-related... -
Combating Inequality: Rethinking Government's Role by Olivier Blanchard
RRP: $67.20$40.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262045612Author Olivier BlanchardFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Beijing's Global Media Offensive: China's Uneven Campaign to Influence Asia and the World by Joshua Kurlantzick
RRP: $58.78$51.68A major analysis of how China is attempting to become a media and information superpower around the world, seeking to shape the politics, local media, and information environments of both East Asia and the World. Since China's ascendancy toward... -
Empires of the Weak: The Real Story of European Expansion and the Creation of the New World Order by Jason Sharman
RRP: $73.50$58.25How the rise of the West was a temporary exception to the predominant world orderWhat accounts for the rise of the state, the creation of the first global system, and the dominance of the West? The conventional answer asserts that superior technology,... -
Designing Public Policies: Principles and Instruments by Michael Howlett 9781032380865
RRP: $75.58$67.39The third edition of this highly regarded book provides a concise and accessible introduction to the principles and elements of policy design in contemporary governance. It examines in detail the range of substantive and procedural policy instruments... -
Friendly Fire: how Israel became its own worst enemy by Ami Ayalon
RRP: $39.88$26.94A powerful personal testimony and an urgent call for Israel to change direction, from an unexpected source: the former director of the internal security service, Shin Bet. Raised on a kibbutz by parents who had fled the Holocaust, Ami Ayalon's life... -
The Fire Is upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America by Nicholas Buccola 9780691210773
RRP: $33.58$27.11How the legendary debate between a civil rights firebrand and the father of modern conservatism illuminates America's racial divideOn February 18, 1965, an overflowing crowd packed the Cambridge Union in Cambridge, England, to witness a historic...