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Umbrella Of U.s. Power, The - 2nd Edition: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Contradict by Noam Chomsky 9781583225479
RRP: $10.48$7.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583225479Author Noam ChomskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 77g -
The Rise of China vs. the Logic of Strategy by Edward N. Luttwak 9780674066427
RRP: $48.20$38.60As the rest of the world worries about what a future might look like under Chinese supremacy, Edward Luttwak worries about China's own future prospects. Applying the logic of strategy for which he is well known, Luttwak argues that the most populous... -
The U.S. Congress: A Very Short Introduction by Donald A. Ritchie
RRP: $18.88$13.55Donald A. Ritchie, a congressional historian for forty years , takes readers on a fascinating, behind-the-scenes tour of Capitol Hill, pointing out the key players, explaining their behavior, and translating parliamentary language into plain English. He... -
Building Dignified Worlds: Geographies of Collective Action by Gerda Roelvink 9780816683178
RRP: $46.18$40.30Building Dignified Worlds examines how contemporary collectives are designing alternative economies. Contemporary collectives differ markedly from previous groups associated with revolutionary politics. Instead of assembling large groups of workers... -
Competitive Authoritarianism: Hybrid Regimes after the Cold War by Steven Levitsky
RRP: $65.08$52.04Based on a detailed study of 35 cases in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and post-communist Eurasia, this book explores the fate of competitive authoritarian regimes between 1990 and 2008. It finds that where social, economic, and technocratic ties to the... -
Ukraine and the Empire of Capital: From Marketisation to Armed Conflict by Yuliya Yurchenko
RRP: $56.68$43.76Since 1991, nominally independent Ukraine has been in turmoil, with the Orange Revolution and the Maidan protests marking its most critical moments. Now, its borders are threatened and the civil unrest and armed conflict continue to destabilise the... -
Martin Bormann: Hitler's Executioner by Volker Koop 9781473886926
RRP: $52.50$37.00Born on 17 June 1900, Martin Ludwig Bormann became one of the most powerful and most feared men in the Third Reich. An obsessive bureaucrat, it was Bormann who helped steer Hitler's apparatus of terror so effectively that he became the clandestine ruler... -
The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late Twentieth Century by Samuel P. Huntington
$72.16Between 1974 and 1990 more than thirty countries in southern Europe, Latin America, East Asia, and Eastern Europe shifted from authoritarian to democratic systems of government. This global democratic revolution is probably the most important political... -
The Zero Marginal Cost Society by Jeremy Rifkin 9781137280114
$28.60The capitalist era is passing. Rising in its wake is a new global collaborative Commons that will fundamentally transform our way of life. Bestselling author Jeremy Rifkin explains that intense competition is forcing the introduction of ever newer... -
The Fanaticism of the Apocalypse: Save the Earth, Punish Human Beings by Pascal Bruckner 9780745669779
RRP: $27.28$25.07The planet is sick. Human beings are guilty of damaging it. We have to pay. Today, that is the orthodoxy throughout the Western world. Distrust of progress and science, calls for individual and collective self-sacrifice to 'save the planet' and... -
Fear of Breakdown: Politics and Psychoanalysis by Noelle McAfee
RRP: $52.50$41.14What is behind the upsurge of virulent nationalism and intransigent politics across the globe today? In Fear of Breakdown, Noelle McAfee uses psychoanalytic theory to explore the subterranean anxieties behind current crises and the ways in which... -
Class Notes: Posing as Politics and Other Thoughts on the American Scene by Adolph L Reed 9781565846753
RRP: $27.28$18.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781565846753Author Adolph L. Reed, Jr.Format PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint The New PressPublisher The New PressWeight(grams) 269g -
How Global Currencies Work: Past, Present, and Future by Barry Eichengreen
RRP: $46.20$36.46A powerful new understanding of global currency trends, including the rise of the Chinese yuanAt first glance, the history of the modern global economy seems to support the long-held view that the currency of the world's leading power invariably... -
Modern Money Theory: A Primer on Macroeconomics for Sovereign Monetary Systems by L. Randall Wray
RRP: $167.98$151.54This second edition explores how money 'works' in the modern economy and synthesises the key principles of Modern Money Theory, exploring macro accounting, currency regimes and exchange rates in both the USA and developing nations.About the AuthorL... -
Neoliberalism and Early Childhood Education: Markets, Imaginaries and Governance by Peter Moss
RRP: $69.28$61.24Neoliberalism, with its worldview of competition, choice and calculation, its economisation of everything, and its will to govern has 'sunk its roots deep' into Early Childhood Education and Care. This book considers its deeply detrimental impacts upon... -
Digital Life Story Work by Simon P. Hammond
RRP: $35.60$24.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907585678Author Simon P. HammondFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint British Association for Adoption and Fostering (BAAF)Publisher... -
Seamus Mallon: A Shared Home Place by Seamus Mallon
$38.24As one of Northern Ireland's most prominent nationalist politicians, Seamus Mallon has always sought the genuine reconciliation of conflicting traditions using only peaceful means. This is his personal testament. In A Shared Home Place, Mallon evokes... -
The Passion by Patrick Keddie
RRP: $73.50$56.97In 1981 a young semi-professional footballer - known as `Imam Beckenbauer' for his piety and his dominant style of play - has his career cut short after a confrontation with Turkey's military junta. His name was Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and three decades... -
The SAGE Handbook of Public Administration by B. Guy Peters 9781446295809
RRP: $73.50$62.41The original Handbook of Public Administration was a landmark publication, the first to provide a comprehensive and authoritative survey of the discipline. The eagerly-awaited new edition of this seminal international handbook continues to provide a... -
Information Feudalism: Who Owns the Knowledge Economy Peter Drahos 9781853839177
RRP: $79.78$70.10New intellectual property regimes are entrenching new inequalities. Access to information is fundamental to the exercise of human rights and marketplace competition, but patents are being used to lock up vital educational, software, genetic and other... -
Kitty's Salon: Sex, Spying and Surveillance in the Third Reich by Nigel Jones 9781789466133
RRP: $35.68$21.17There is no book in English about the wartime Berlin 'salon' run by Kitty Schmidt under the secret control of Reinhard Heydrich, one of the architects of the Final SolutionSalon Kitty was the most notorious brothel in the decadent Berlin of the Weimar... -
The Supermajority: How the Supreme Court Divided America by Michael Waldman
RRP: $62.98$38.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781668006061Author Michael WaldmanFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 540gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Singapore: Unlikely Power by John Curtis Perry
RRP: $51.43$37.13When Lee Kuan Yew died recently, the world media turned its attention to the nation he led for decades: Singapore. Lee Kuan Yew's revolutionary transformation of Singapore from a poor and corrupt colonial backwater into an economic powerhouse renowned... -
Brainwashed: Challenging the Myth of Black Inferiority by Tom Burrell 9781401925925
RRP: $41.98$29.57"Black people are not dark-skinned white people," says advertising visionary Tom Burrell. In fact, they are a lot more.They are survivors of the Middle Passage and centuries of humiliation and deprivation, who have excelled against the odds, constantly... -
Israel/palestine: How to End the War of 1948, 2nd edition by Tanya Reinhart
RRP: $20.98$14.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583226513Author Tanya ReinhartFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 299g -
Espionage by Kristie Macrakis
RRP: $33.58$20.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262545020Author Kristie MacrakisFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Key Concepts in Migration by David Bartram
RRP: $73.48$60.29"Demonstrates that the study of international migration has really come of age. From acculturation to undocumented immigration, the authors consider more than three dozen concepts at the heart of migration studies. Clearly written in a highly readable... -
K9 Agression Control: Teaching the "Out" by Stephen A. Mackenzie 9781550597066
RRP: $48.28$39.33Today, most K9 trainers understand the advantages of non-compulsive training methods for teaching aggression control. When Stephen Mackenzie started his career training police service dogs, trainers relied on pain to teach dogs what was expected of them,... -
Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville 9780553214642
RRP: $14.68$10.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553214642Author Alexis De TocquevilleFormat PaperbackPage Count 976Imprint Bantam Doubleday DellPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group... -
Biblical Judgments: New Legal Readings in the Hebrew Bible by Daphne Barak-Erez 9780472056583
$71.30Biblical Judgments invites readers to consider today's timeless dilemmas of law and government, social justice, and human rights, through the perspective of a text that has helped shape western society: the Hebrew Bible. By focusing on biblical... -
Malcolm X Speaks by Malcolm X 9780873485463
RRP: $29.40$23.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873485463Author Malcolm XFormat HardbackPage Count 233Imprint Pathfinder Books LtdPublisher Pathfinder Books LtdWeight(grams) 420g -
Contemporary Left Antisemitism by David Hirsh
RRP: $81.88$71.86Today's antisemitism is difficult to recognize because it does not come dressed in a Nazi uniform and it does not openly proclaim its hatred or fear of Jews. This book looks at the kind of antisemitism which is tolerated or which goes unacknowledged in... -
Care to Communicate: Helping the Older Person with Dementia by Jennie Powell 9781874790488
$35.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781874790488Author Jennie PowellFormat PaperbackPage Count 103Imprint Hawker Publications LtdPublisher Hawker Publications LtdWeight(grams) 420g -
This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible by Charles E. Cobb
RRP: $41.98$37.19Visiting Martin Luther King Jr. during the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott, journalist William Worthy almost sat on a loaded pistol. "Just for self-defense," King assured him. It was not the only weapon King kept for such a purpose; one of his advisors... -
The Unexpected President: The Life and Times of Chester A. Arthur by Scott S. Greenberger
RRP: $31.48$25.87Despite his promising start as a young man, by his early fifties Chester A. Arthur was known as the crooked crony of New York machine boss Roscoe Conkling. For years Arthur had been perceived as unfit to govern, not only by critics and the vast majority... -
The Making of Her: Why School Matters by Clarissa Farr 9780008271329
RRP: $20.98$13.94What makes a good education? 'A crucial book of the moment: the best-informed education insider laying out how schools should work' David Bodanis In a brilliant blend of memoir and manifesto,... -
Bombing Without Moonlight: The origins of suicidal terrorism by Abdal Hakim Murad 9781872038261
RRP: $27.20$23.14In this probing investigation of the phenomenon of suicidal terrorism, Abdal Hakim Murad finds not 'Jihad versus MacWorld,' but 'MacJihad versus MacWorld.' Today's terrorist movements have their roots in a very Western and very relativistic worldview,... -
Catastrophic Success: Why Foreign-Imposed Regime Change Goes Wrong by Alexander B. Downes
RRP: $92.40$80.51In Catastrophic Success, Alexander B. Downes compiles all instances of regime change around the world over the past two centuries. Drawing on this impressive data set, Downes shows that regime change increases the likelihood of civil war and violent... -
Cedric J. Robinson: On Racial Capitalism, Black Internationalism, and Cultures of Resistance Cedric J. Robinson 9780745340036
RRP: $46.18$30.58Cedric J. Robinson is considered one of the doyens of Black Studies and a pioneer in study of the Black Radical Tradition. His works have been essential texts, deconstructing racial capitalism and inspiring insurgent movements from Ferguson to the West... -
Moral Economy Of The State: Conservation, Community Development, & State-Making in Zimbabwe by William A. Munro 9780896802025
RRP: $67.20$60.08The Moral Economy of the State examines state formation in Zimbabwe from the colonial period through the first decade of independence. Drawing on the works of Gramsci, E. P. Thompson, and James Scott, William Munro develops a theory of "moral economy"...