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The Political Ecology of Climate Change Adaptation: Livelihoods, agrarian change and the conflicts of development by Marcus Taylor 9781138237346
RRP: $100.78$87.80This book provides the first systematic critique of the concept of climate change adaptation within the field of international development. Drawing on a reworked political ecology framework, it argues that climate is not something 'out there' that we... -
Masters of War: Classical Strategic Thought Michael I. Handel 9780714681320
RRP: $123.88$108.11This is the first comprehensive study based on a detailed textual analysis of the classical works on war by Clausewitz, Sun Tzu, Mao Tse-tung, and to a lesser extent, Jomini and Machiavelli. Brushing stereotypes aside, the author takes a fresh look at... -
Brainwashed: How Universities Indoctrinate America's Youth by Ben Shapiro
RRP: $27.28$19.09Brainwashed is the explosive expose of the leftist agenda at work in today's colleges, revealed by firebrand Ben Shapiro-syndicated columnist, podcaster, radio show host, and one of today's most exciting conservative voices-who's been on the front lines... -
Marx's Theory of Alienation by Istvan Meszaros 9780850365542
RRP: $42.00$37.465th Edition with new preface. This book focuses on the origins of Marx's thought and on his early writings especially The Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844. It was a winner of the Isaac Deutscher Memorial Prize. 'In the hands of a creative... -
Theories of the Democratic State by John Dryzek
$100.21We live in a world governed by states whose enduring importance and domination of contemporary politics has been strikingly underlined by their renewed activism in the face of a global economic crisis.Yet the very nature of states remains deeply... -
Revolutionary Rehearsals in the Neoliberal Age: Struggling to Be Born? by Colin Barker
RRP: $41.98$29.32This ambitious volume examines revolutionary situations during a non-revolutionary historical conjuncture--the neoliberal era. The last three decades have seen an increase in the number of political upheavals that challenge existing power structures,... -
C.l.r. James And Revolutionary Marxism: Selected Writings of C.L.R. James 1939-1949 by Paul Le Blanc
RRP: $41.98$28.58C. L. R. James was one of the most influential Marxists of his generation. His important contributions ranged from the subjects of Black liberation to contemporary philosophy and even touched on the anti-colonial potential of cricket. In this collection... -
We Were Never There Volume 2: CIA U-2 Asia and Worldwide Operations 1957-1974 by Kevin Wright
RRP: $35.60$29.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915070692Author Kevin WrightFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
How Should A Government Be?: The New Levers of State Power by Jaideep Prabhu
RRP: $42.00$27.51For a century, the most divisive question in political thought has been about the size of the state. Should it expand and take an active role in all sorts of areas of life? Or is that just meddlesome and wasteful? Those questions might have made sense in... -
Where COVID Came From by Nicholas Wade
RRP: $23.08$15.50Did the Covid virus jump naturally from an animal species to humans, or did it escape from a laboratory experiment? In this essay, science writer Nicholas Wade explores the two scenarios and argues that, on present evidence, lab escape is the more... -
Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism by Steven Levitsky
RRP: $73.50$58.25Why the world's most resilient dictatorships are products of violent revolutionRevolution and Dictatorship explores why dictatorships born of social revolution-such as those in China, Cuba, Iran, the Soviet Union, and Vietnam-are extraordinarily durable,... -
Diaries Volume Two: Power and the People by Alastair Campbell
RRP: $39.88$28.58Power & the People covers the first two years of the New Labour government, beginning with their landslide victory at the polls in 1997. This second voume of Campbell's unexpurgated diaries details the initial challenges faced by Labour as they come to... -
Navigation by Judgment: Why and When Top-Down Management of Foreign Aid Doesn't Work by Dan Honig 9780197506394
RRP: $79.78$51.47Foreign aid organizations collectively spend hundreds of billions of dollars annually, with mixed results. Part of the problem in these endeavors lies in their execution. In Navigation by Judgment, Dan Honig argues that high-quality implementation of... -
Trudeau: The Education of a Prime Minister by John Ivison 9780771048951
RRP: $52.48$30.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780771048951Author John IvisonFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint McClelland & Stewart Inc.Publisher McClelland & Stewart Inc. -
Wiring Prometheus: Globalisation, History & Technology by Peter Lyth 9788772889474
RRP: $48.20$36.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788772889474Author Peter LythFormat PaperbackPage Count 255Imprint Aarhus University PressPublisher Aarhus University Press -
Alternatives to Capitalism: Proposals for a Democratic Economy by Erik Olin Wright
RRP: $29.38$28.62What would a viable free and democratic society look like? Poverty, exploitation, instability, hierarchy, subordination, environmental exhaustion, radical inequalities of wealth and power-it is not difficult to list capitalism's myriad injustices. But is... -
The Five Health Frontiers: A New Radical Blueprint Christopher Thomas (Institute for Public Policy Research) 9780745343921
RRP: $35.68$24.23'A brilliant expose' - Danny Dorling Covid-19 has exposed the limits of a neoliberal public health orthodoxy. But instead of imagining radical change, the left is stuck in a rearguard action focused on defending the NHS from the wrecking ball of... -
Nostalgia and the Post-War Labour Party: Prisoners of the Past by Richard Jobson 9781526113313
RRP: $52.50$46.26This book examines the impact that nostalgia has had on the Labour Party's political development since 1951. In contrast to existing studies that have emphasised the role played by modernity, it argues that nostalgia has defined Labour's identity and... -
Planetary Mine: Territories of Extraction under Late Capitalism by Martin Arboleda
RRP: $41.98$41.54Planetary Mine rethinks the politics and territoriality of resource extraction, especially as the mining industry becomes reorganized in the form of logistical networks, and East Asian economies emerge as the new pivot of the capitalist world-system... -
Malayan Emergency by Gerry Van Tonder 9781526707864
RRP: $31.48$23.00When the world held its breath It is 25 years since the end of the Cold War, now a generation old. It began over 75 years ago, in 1944 long before the last shots of the Second World War had echoed across the wastelands of Eastern Europe with the brutal... -
Routledge Handbook of U.S. Counterterrorism and Irregular Warfare Operations by Michael A. Sheehan 9780367759032
RRP: $92.38$82.82This handbook comprises essays by leading scholars and practitioners on the topic of U.S. counterterrorism and irregular warfare campaigns and operations around the globe.Terrorist groups have evolved substantially since 9/11, with the Islamic State... -
Crisis of Conscience: Whistleblowing in an Age of Fraud by Tom Mueller
RRP: $25.18$16.65'Powerful...His extensively reported tales of individual whistleblowers and their often cruel fates are compelling...They reveal what it can mean to live in an age of fraud.' Washington Post'Tom Mueller's authoritative and timely book reveals what drives... -
Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II by Liza Mundy 9780316352543
RRP: $46.18$29.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316352543Author Liza MundyFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Hachette BooksPublisher Hachette BooksWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 137mm *... -
Fighting to the End: The Pakistan Army's Way of War by C. Christine Fair 9780190686161
RRP: $79.78$46.98Since Pakistan was founded in 1947, its army has dominated the state. The military establishment has locked the country in an enduring rivalry with India, with the primary aim of wresting Kashmir from it. To that end, Pakistan initiated three wars over... -
Inside the Kremlin's Cold War: From Stalin to Krushchev by Vladislav Zubok 9780674455320
RRP: $62.90$50.53Covering the volatile period from 1945 to 1962, Vladislav Zubok and Constantine Pleshakov explore the personalities and motivations of the key people who directed Soviet political life and shaped Soviet foreign policy. They begin with the fearsome figure... -
The First 90 Days in Government: Critical Success Strategies for New Public Managers at All Levels Peter H. Daly 9781591399551
RRP: $52.50$37.57More than 250,000 public sector managers in the United States take on new positions each year and many more aspire to leadership. Each will confront special challenges--from higher public profiles to a greater number of stakeholders to volatile political... -
Political Racism: Brexit and its Aftermath by Martin Shaw
RRP: $41.98$39.48Political Racism conceptualizes a distinctive form of racism - intentional, organized hostility mobilized by political actors - and examines its role in the Brexit conflict and in the rise of a new nationalist politics in the UK. In a compelling... -
The Invention of International Order: Remaking Europe after Napoleon by Professor Glenda Sluga
RRP: $63.00$49.75The story of the women, financiers, and other unsung figures who helped to shape the post-Napoleonic global order In 1814, after decades of continental conflict, an alliance of European empires captured Paris and exiled Napoleon Bonaparte, defeating... -
Dear Cyborgs by Eugene Lim
RRP: $33.60$19.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374537111Author Eugene LimFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Fsg OriginalsPublisher Fsg OriginalsWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 188mm * 124mm * 13mm -
K9 Teams: Beyond the Basics for Search and Rescue and Recovery by Vi Hummel Shaffer 9781550597622
RRP: $58.78$47.42K9 Teams is for all levels of K9 detection handlers and anyone who works with K9 search and rescue and recovery teams. If you're looking to maximize the operational performance of your SAR/R team, this book is for you. This unique handbook compiles... -
The Novotny Papers: 'A bit Vulture, A bit Eagle' by Lilian Pizzichini
RRP: $23.08$15.23It is almost impossible to summarise the extraordinary life of Mariella Novotny in a few paragraphs. In 1961 she was an underage hooker engaging in sexual relations with President John F. Kennedy, the most powerful man in the world. She was believed to... -
No Harmless Power by Kevin Matthews
RRP: $44.08$29.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629634715Author Charlie AllisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press -
Batman: A Death in the Family The Deluxe Edition by Jim Starlin 9781779509178
RRP: $94.50$61.26Death comes to us all. In 1988 the pop culture world was rocked when comics readers were given the opportunity to decide the outcome of one of the medium s most controversial quandaries: Should the Boy Wonder die? When Jason Todd s impulsive nature... -
Aleppo: The Rise and Fall of Syria's Great Merchant City by Philip Mansel
RRP: $31.48$24.68A poignant testament to the city shattered by Syria's civil war. Aleppo lies in ruins, a casualty of Syria's brutal civil war. Its streets are cloaked in darkness, its population scattered, its memories ravaged. But this was once a vibrant world city,... -
The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation on Survivorship, Healing, and Abolition by Thenmozhi Soundararajan
RRP: $35.68$24.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623177652Author Thenmozhi SoundararajanFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S. -
The Honourable Ladies: Profiles of Women MPs 1997-2019: Volume II by Iain Dale 9781785902451
RRP: $73.50$53.11Biteback Publishing is delighted to announce a major new project, a two volume series of biographies of every female MP ever to be elected to the House of Commons. When Constance Markievicz stood as the Sinn Fein candidate for Dublin St Patrick's in... -
Fifty Key Thinkers in International Relations Martin Griffiths 9780415775717
RRP: $69.28$61.24Now in its second edition, Fifty Key Thinkers in International Relations has been thoroughly updated with several new entries and a new preface to reflect the latest developments. There are new sections on Constructivism, International Political Theory,... -
Laboratories of Learning: Social Movements, Education and Knowledge-Making in the Global South by Mario Novelli 9780745348926
RRP: $39.88$26.78'Outstanding ... This book is a must-read for scholars and activists interested in the impact of grassroots knowledge-making on individuals, institutions and society' Rebecca Tarlau, author of Occupying Schools, Occupying Land 'In social movements,... -
Different Speeds, Same Furies: Powell, Proust and the Historical Novel by Perry Anderson 9781804290798
RRP: $35.68$29.61There are few writers about whom opinions diverge so widely as Anthony Powell, whose Dance to the Music of Time sequence is one of the most ambitious literary constructions in the English language. In Different Speeds, Same Furies, Perry Anderson... -
Sunnis and Shi'a: A Political History by Laurence Louer 9780691186610
RRP: $52.50$41.14A compelling history of the ancient schism that continues to divide the Islamic worldWhen Muhammad died in 632 without a male heir, Sunnis contended that the choice of a successor should fall to his closest companions, but Shi'a believed that God had...