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My Country, My Life: Fighting for Israel, Searching for Peace by Ehud Barak
RRP: £25.00£18.02From the former Prime Minister and most decorated solder in Israel's history, this is essential reading to understand today's Israel-Palestine conflict and the precarious path to a two-state solution.'There is scarcely one of Israel's security or... -
The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels by Jon Meacham 9780399589812
RRP: £30.00£20.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399589812Author Jon MeachamFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Cockroaches by Scholastique Mukasonga
RRP: £12.99£9.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780914671534Author Scholastique MukasongaFormat PaperbackPage Count 165Imprint Archipelago BooksPublisher Archipelago Books -
Think Tank Traditions: Policy Analysis Across Nations by Diane Stone 9780719064791
RRP: £19.99£14.52As think tank numbers explode, they have become an integral part of political life. Political leaders, corporations and non-governmental organisations draw upon their expert advice to advance their causes in the battle of ideas.About the AuthorDiane... -
Global Cities: A Short History by Greg Clark
RRP: £12.99£11.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815728917Author Greg ClarkFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 218gDimensions(mm) 180mm... -
Really Existing Nationalisms by Erica Benner
RRP: £11.99£9.70Really Existing Nationalisms challenges the conventional view that Marx and Engels lacked the theoretical resources needed to understand nationalism. It argues that the two thinkers had a much better explanatory grasp of national phenomena than is... -
The Toddler-In-Chief: What Donald Trump Teaches Us about the Modern Presidency by Daniel W Drezner
RRP: £15.00£11.67"It may be cold comfort in this chaotic era, but Americans should know that there are adults in the room. . . . And we are trying to do what's right even when Donald Trump won't."--An anonymous senior administrative official in an op-ed published in a... -
Thrown Under the Omnibus by P. J. O'Rourke
RRP: £20.00£14.46'Whether you agree with him or not, P.J. writes a helluva piece.' Richard Nixon P.J. O'Rourke has had a prolific career as one of America's most celebrated humourists. But that career almost didn't happen. As he tells it, 'I began to write for pay in the... -
No Shortcuts: Why States Struggle to Develop a Military Cyber-Force by Max Smeets
RRP: £40.00£35.22Over the past decade, numerous states have declared cyberspace as a new domain of warfare, sought to develop a military cyber strategy and establish a cyber command. These developments have led to much policy talk and concern about the future of warfare... -
Modern Egypt: What Everyone Needs to Know (R) by Bruce K. Rutherford
RRP: £10.99£7.97With almost every news broadcast, we are reminded of the continuing instability of the Middle East, where state collapse, civil wars, and terrorism have combined to produce a region in turmoil. If the Middle East is to achieve a more stable and... -
Critique and Praxis by Bernard E. Harcourt 9780231195737
RRP: £25.00£20.59Critical philosophy has always challenged the division between theory and practice. At its best, it aims to turn contemplation into emancipation, seeking to transform society in pursuit of equality, autonomy, and human flourishing. Yet today's critical... -
Human Capital: A History of Putting Refugees to Work Laura Robson 9781804290217
RRP: £25.00£20.30Historian Laura Robson unveils the dark heart of our purportedly humanitarian international regime. Tracing the century-long history of attempts to remake refugees into disposable migrant labor, Robson elucidates global humanitarianism's deep-seated... -
Crisis and Constitutionalism: Roman Political Thought from the Fall of the Republic to the Age of Revolution by Benjamin Straumann 9780190879532
£44.26Crisis and Constitutionalism argues that the late Roman Republic saw, for the first time in the history of political thought, the development of a normative concept of constitution--the concept of a set of constitutional norms designed to guarantee and... -
Reimagining Sustainable Cities: Strategies for Designing Greener, Healthier, More Equitable Communities by Stephen M. Wheeler
RRP: £23.00£18.50A cutting-edge, solutions-oriented analysis of how we can reimagine cities around the world to build sustainable futures. What would it take to make urban places greener, more affordable, more equitable, and healthier for everyone? In recent years,... -
Politics of Heroin, New Edn****o/p by Alfred W. McCoy 9781556524837
RRP: £28.95£23.58The first book to prove CIA and U.S. government complicity in global drug trafficking, The Politics of Heroin includes meticulous documentation of dishonesty and dirty dealings at the highest levels from the Cold War until today. Maintaining a global... -
The Deep State by Mike Lofgren
RRP: £16.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143109938Author Mike LofgrenFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Now We Have Your Attention: The New Politics of the People by Jack Shenker
RRP: £9.99£7.11'One of the most important and compelling books I've ever read...If you want to understand why we are in this crisis, listen to the voices all too often airbrushed from the political conversation' Owen JonesNow We Have Your Attention makes sense of what... -
Humans as a Service: The Promise and Perils of Work in the Gig Economy by Jeremias Prassl 9780198797029
RRP: £22.49£19.16WHAT IF YOUR BOSS WAS AN ALGORITHM? The gig economy promises to revolutionise work as we know it, offering flexibility and independence instead of 9-to-5 drudgery. The potential benefits are enormous: consumers enjoy the convenience and affordability of... -
Dark Winter: How the Sun Is Causing a 30-Year Cold Spell by John L. Casey
RRP: £17.99£12.30Climate change has been a perplexing problem for years. In Dark Winter, author John L. Casey, a former White House national space policy advisor, NASA headquarters consultant, and space shuttle engineer tells the truth about ominous changes taking place... -
It Was a Long Time Ago, and It Never Happened Anyway: Russia and the Communist Past by David Satter 9780300192377
RRP: £22.50£21.68A veteran writer on Russia and the Soviet Union explains why Russia refuses to draw from the lessons of its past and what this portends for the future Russia today is haunted by deeds that have not been examined and words that have been left unsaid. A... -
Churchill's Spy Files: MI5's Top-Secret Wartime Reports by Nigel West 9780750985499
£30.78The Second World War saw the role of espionage, secret agents and spy services increase exponentially as the world was thrown into a conflict unlike any that had gone before it.At this time, no one in government was really aware of what MI5 and its... -
Privilege Guinevere Glasfurd 9781529342901
RRP: £18.99£12.75'Tightly plotted and hugely readable' Jane Rogers, author of PROMISED LANDS'Marvellous . . . fans of immersive historical fiction, the 18th century, all things French and a dash of peril, this one's for you' Emily Brand, author of THE FALL OF THE HOUSE... -
Prague Spring: Warsaw Pact Invasion, 1968 by Phil Carradice 9781526757005
RRP: £14.99£10.95Cold War nadir: January 1968 and in Czechoslovakia the new Communist Party leader Alexander Dubcek has made it clear that this is the opportunity to loosen the Soviet stranglehold on the country. As the Prague winter slowly eases into a Prague spring, it... -
Citizenship by Dimitry Kochenov
RRP: £14.99£9.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262537797Author Dimitry KochenovFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 178mm * 127mm * 22mm -
Double Agent Balloon: Dickie Metcalfe's Espionage Career for MI5 and the Nazis by David Tremain
RRP: £25.00£17.62Dickie Metcalfe was not your typical secret agent, but he was larger than life in more ways than one. Unlike many other agents who were part of the Double Cross System during the Second World War, he did not defect; nor was he blackmailed into becoming a... -
The Case for Universal Basic Services by Anna Coote 9781509539833
RRP: £15.99£10.27The idea that healthcare and education should be provided as universal public services to all who need them is widely accepted. But why leave it there? Why not expand it to more of life's essentials? In their bold new book, Anna Coote and Andrew Percy... -
The Oxford Handbook of Grand Strategy by Thierry Balzacq 9780198890935
£47.99A clearly articulated, well-defined, and relatively stable grand strategy is supposed to allow the ship of state to steer a steady course through the roiling seas of global politics. However, the obstacles to formulating and implementing grand strategy... -
Rebel Rulers: Insurgent Governance and Civilian Life during War by Zachariah Cherian Mampilly
RRP: £46.00£40.43Rebel groups are often portrayed as predators, their leaders little more than warlords. In conflicts large and small, however, insurgents frequently take and hold territory, establishing sophisticated systems of governance that deliver extensive public... -
Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat from Mayflower to Modern by J. Sakai 9781629630373
RRP: £21.99£14.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629630373Author J. SakaiFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 495g -
Energy and Change: A New Materialist Cosmotheology by Clayton Crockett
RRP: £30.00£23.29As humanity continues to consume planetary resources at an unsustainable rate, we require not only new and renewable forms of energy but also new ways of understanding energy itself. Clayton Crockett offers an innovative philosophy of energy that cuts... -
David Harvey: A Critical Introduction to His Thought by Noel Castree
RRP: £19.99£17.69David Harvey is among the most influential Marxist thinkers of the last half century. This book offers a lucid and authoritative introduction to his work, with a structure designed to reflect the enduring topics and insights that serve to unify Harvey's... -
Combatting Modern Slavery: Why Labour Governance is Failing and What We Can Do About It Genevieve LeBaron (University of Sheffield) 9781509513673
RRP: £15.99£14.41Over the last decade, the world's largest corporations - from The Coca Cola Company to Amazon, Apple to Unilever - have taken up the cause of combatting modern slavery. Yet, by most measures, across many sectors and regions, severe labour exploitation... -
The French at Waterloo: Eyewitness Accounts: Napoleon, Imperial Headquarters and 1st Corps by Andrew W Field 9781526768469
RRP: £19.99£14.28Andrew Field, who has published four best-selling books on the Battle of Waterloo, has established himself as one of the leading experts on the French perspective of the campaign. Using selected extracts from French eyewitness accounts that haven't been... -
The Anatomy of Post-Communist Regimes: A Conceptual Framework by Balint Magyar
RRP: £41.95£38.71Offering a single, coherent framework of the political, economic, and social phenomena that characterize post-communist regimes, this is the most comprehensive work on the subject to date. Focusing on Central Europe, the post-Soviet countries and China,... -
Privatization and Market Development: Global Movements in Public Policy Ideas by Graeme A. Hodge 9781843769354
£100.61This accessible book aims to inform readers interested in assessing privatization and market development concepts on a global scale, and outlines a range of thinking on how these policy ideas have moved around the globe. Bringing together an... -
Inhuman Power: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Capitalism by Nick Dyer-Witheford 9780745338606
RRP: £18.99£12.75Artificial Intelligence (AI) has seen major advances in recent years. While machines were always central to the Marxist analysis of capitalism, AI is a new kind of machine that Marx could not have anticipated. Contemporary machine-learning AI allows... -
Left and Right: The Significance of a Political Distinction by Norberto Bobbio 9780745615615
RRP: £14.99£13.58Following the collapse of communism and the decline of Marxism, some commentators have claimed that we have reached the 'end of history' and that the distinction between Left and Right can be forgotten. In this book - which was a tremendous success in... -
Syria Betrayed: Atrocities, War, and the Failure of International Diplomacy by Alex J. Bellamy
RRP: £30.00£23.69The suffering of Syrian civilians, caught between the government's barrel bombs and chemical weapons and religious fanatics' beheadings and mass killings, shocked the world. Yet despite international law and political commitments proclaiming a... -
Party Systems and Foreign Policy Change in Liberal Democracies: Cleavages, Ideas, Competition Angelos Chryssogelos (London Metropolitan University, UK) 9780367647704
RRP: £39.99£35.06How do political parties affect foreign policy? This book answers this question by exploring the role of party politics as source of foreign policy change in liberal democracies. The book shifts the focus from individual political parties to party... -
A Vindication of the Rights of Women by Mary Wollstonecraft 9781914317811
RRP: £14.99£9.80A seminal book in a feminist conversation that still continues today.Now regarded as one of the founding feminist philosophers, Mary Wollstonecraft's writings have inspired conversation and action since their first publication. Wollstonecraft produced...