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The Case for a Four Day Week by Coote
RRP: $20.98$18.80Not so long ago, people thought that a ten-hour, six-day week was normal; now, it's the eight-hour, five-day week. Will that soon be history too? In this book, three leading experts argue why it should be. They map out a pragmatic pathway to a shorter... -
Authoritarian Century: Omens of a Post-Liberal Future by Azeem Ibrahim
RRP: $42.00$37.46Liberal democracy has produced the most freedom and security for the most people of any form of government in human history. For a while, and especially after the collapse of the Soviet Union, we believed that this would be enough. Yet, today, we face an... -
Bonded Labor: Tackling the System of Slavery in South Asia by Siddharth Kara 9780231158497
RRP: $52.50$41.14Siddharth Kara's Sex Trafficking has become a critical resource for its revelations into an unconscionable business, and its detailed analysis of the trade's immense economic benefits and human cost. This volume is Kara's second, explosive study of... -
Degenerations of Democracy by Craig Calhoun
RRP: $52.40$41.77Three leading thinkers analyze the erosion of democracy's social foundations and call for a movement to reduce inequality, strengthen inclusive solidarity, empower citizens, and reclaim pursuit of the public good.Democracy is in trouble. Populism is a... -
A History of Violence: Living and Dying in Central America by Oscar Martinez
RRP: $20.98$20.75El Salvador and Honduras have had the highest homicide rates in the world over the past ten years, with Guatemala close behind. Every day more than 1,000 people-men, women, and children-flee these three countries for North America. Oscar Martinez, author... -
Dugin Against Dugin: A Traditionalist Critique of the Fourth Political Theory by Charles Upton 9781597312196
$48.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781597312196Author Charles UptonFormat PaperbackPage Count 536Imprint ReviviscimusPublisher ReviviscimusWeight(grams) 812gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 30mm -
We the Fallen People: The Founders and the Future of American Democracy by Robert Tracy McKenzie
RRP: $46.18$35.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830852963Author Robert Tracy MckenzieFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint IVP AcademicPublisher IVP AcademicWeight(grams) 582gDimensions(mm) 236mm *... -
The Irish Times Book of the 1916 Rising by Shane Hegarty
RRP: $37.78$28.04This heavily illustrated book focuses on the events of the 1916 Easter Rising in Ireland, rather than the background and the consequences. In a widely expanded version of the supplement that appeared in The Irish Times in March to commemorate the 90th... -
Foreign Policy Analysis: New approaches by Chris Alden 9781138934290
RRP: $92.38$80.72Building on the success of the first edition, this revised volume re-invigorates the conversation between foreign policy analysis and international relations. It opens up the discussion, situating existing debates in foreign policy in relation to... -
The Honest Politician's Guide to Prisons and Probation by Roy D. King
RRP: $83.98$73.63Through a comprehensive analysis of legislative and organisational changes and interviews with all the key players, The Honest Politician's Guide to Prisons and Probation provides an authoritative account of the crisis which has gradually engulfed the... -
Betrayal Of Palestine: The Story Of George Antonius by Susan Boyle
RRP: $115.48$100.21This definitive biography of George Antonius tells the life story of a man who lived during a dramatic period of history, amid challenge that remains unresolved: the Palestine-Zionist conflict. Betrayal of Palestine is an important and innovative work... -
The Neoliberal Age?: Britain Since the 1970s by Aled Davies 9781787356863
RRP: $52.50$45.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787356863Author Aled DaviesFormat PaperbackImprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 550g -
Legacy of Empire: Britain, Zionism and the Creation of Israel by Gardner Thompson 9780863563614
RRP: $42.00$37.86It is now more than seventy years since the creation of the state of Israel, yet its origins and the British Empire's historic responsibility for Palestine remain little known. Confusion persists too as to the distinction between anti-Zionism and... -
Mad Money: With an Introduction by Benjamin J. Cohen Susan Strange 9781784991357
RRP: $52.50$37.63Mad money is a classic of International Relations and international political economy literature. It also has profound modern relevance. First published by Manchester University Press in 1998, the book called for an end to the volatility of international... -
The Shadow Man: At the Heart of the Cambridge Spy Circle by Geoff Andrews 9781350405233
RRP: $27.28$20.56James Klugmann appears as a shadowy figure in the legendary history of the Cambridge spies. As both mentor and friend to Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess and others, Klugmann was the man who manipulated promising recruits deemed ripe for conversion to the... -
Fixing the Climate: Strategies for an Uncertain World by David G. Victor
RRP: $42.00$33.37Solving the global climate crisis through local partnerships and experimentationGlobal climate diplomacy-from the Kyoto Protocol to the Paris Agreement-is not working. Despite decades of sustained negotiations by world leaders, the climate crisis... -
Agent Moliere: The Life of John Cairncross, the Fifth Man of the Cambridge Spy Circle by Geoff Andrews
RRP: $73.50$56.13The Cambridge Spies continue to fascinate - but one of them, John Cairncross, has always been more of an enigma than the others. He worked alone and was driven by his hostility to Fascism rather than to the promotion of Communism. During his war-time... -
British Civilization: An Introduction John Oakland 9781138318144
RRP: $77.68$70.41Thoroughly updated and revised, the ninth edition of the highly regarded British Civilization: An Introduction continues to be the ideal textbook on Britain, its country and people, religion, politics and government, international relations, legal... -
China Shakes The World: The Rise of a Hungry Nation James Kynge 9780753826706
RRP: $20.98$12.52Authoritative and fully up-to-date account by leading China expert on China's economic rise and how it will affect the worldThe new China, the nation that in 25 years has changed beyond all recognition is becoming an industrial powerhouse for the world... -
Liverpool Beyond the Brink: The Remaking of a Post Imperial City by Michael Parkinson 9781786942173
RRP: $46.10$41.69Liverpool Beyond the Brink is a fascinating commentary on the economic decline that caused the physical, social and political fragmentation of the imperial city during the 1970s and the efforts since then to revive and reconnect it. It charts... -
Competition Overdose: How Free Market Mythology Transformed Us from Citizen Kings to Market Servants by Maurice E. Stucke 9780062892836
RRP: $52.50$37.00Using dozens of vivid examples to show how society overprescribed competition as a solution and when unbridled rivalry hurts consumers, kills entrepreneurship, and increases economic inequality, two free-market thinkers diagnose the sickness caused by... -
The Snowdon Mountain Railway by Johnson, Peter 9781526776099
RRP: $73.50$51.01The Snowdon Mountain Railway is one of the great narrow gauge railways of North Wales, with thousands of visitors travelling to the summit of Mount Snowdon along the line each year. This book covers the history of this historic and interesting line from... -
Forging Diasporic Citizenship: Narratives from German-Born Turkish Ausländer by Gül Çalışkan
RRP: $62.98$55.65Around the world, a new kind of diasporic citizenship is appearing, especially among diasporic people such as German-born Berliners of Turkish origin. Drawing on interviews conducted over a fifteen-year period, Forging Diasporic Citizenship explores the... -
Patient Capital: The Challenges and Promises of Long-Term Investing by Victoria Ivashina
RRP: $37.78$30.20How to overcome barriers to the long-term investments that are essential for solving the world's biggest problemsThere has never been a greater need for long-term investments to tackle the world's most difficult problems, such as climate change, human... -
Turning the Tide: U.S. Intervention in Central America and the Struggle for Peace by Noam Chomsky 9780745335452
RRP: $35.68$24.23For decades, Noam Chomsky has been considered one of the most important critics of American's foreign policy in Central and Latin America and yet Turning the Tide is one of his only written works which makes that region its sole focus. At last back... -
Punjab - From the Perspective of a Punjabi Hindu by Vinayak Dutt 9781636409061
RRP: $42.00$38.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781636409061Author Vinayak DuttFormat PaperbackPage Count 430Imprint White Falcon PublishingPublisher White Falcon PublishingWeight(grams)... -
A Feminist Theory of Refusal by Bonnie Honig
RRP: $56.60$44.96An acclaimed political theorist offers a fresh, interdisciplinary analysis of the politics of refusal, highlighting the promise of a feminist politics that does not simply withdraw from the status quo but also transforms it.The Bacchae, Euripides's... -
Building an American Empire: The Era of Territorial and Political Expansion by Paul Frymer 9780691191560
RRP: $46.20$36.46How American westward expansion was governmentally engineered to promote the formation of a white settler nationWestward expansion of the United States is most conventionally remembered for rugged individualism, geographic isolationism, and a fair amount... -
Contemporary Plays by Black British Writers (NHB Modern Plays) by Natalie Ibu 9781848429840
RRP: $39.88$29.00'Welcome. Welcome to Bristol in 1963. Welcome to Waterloo Bridge in 2016. Welcome to a house in May 2017. Welcome to three couples and what might be, what once was and what could have been in 2017. Welcome to a West Indian household in 2018. Welcome to... -
The Politicization of Mumsnet by Sarah Pedersen
RRP: $37.78$27.76This book investigates the growing politicization of Mumsnet and its use by politicians to influence middle-class women in the UK. The site's discussion topics go far beyond traditional 'mothering' subjects and encompass politics, feminism and current... -
The Trieste Crisis 1953: The First Cold War Confrontation in Europe by Bojan Dimitrijevic 9781912866342
RRP: $35.60$25.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912866342Author Bojan DimitrijevicFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The Natural: The Misunderstood Presidency of Bill Clinton by Joe Klein 9780767914123
RRP: $37.80$26.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767914123Author Joe KleinFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 191gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
The Oxford Handbook of Political Psychology by Leonie Huddy 9780199760107
RRP: $115.50$107.02Political psychology applies what is known about human psychology to the study of politics. It examines how, for example, people reach political decisions on topics such as voting, party identification, and political attitudes as well as how leaders... -
Why Government Is the Problem by Milton Friedman
RRP: $11.55$10.61The major social problems of the United States-deteriorating education, lawlessness and crime, homelessness, the collapse of family values, the crisis in medical care-have been produced by well-intended actions of government. That is easy to document... -
Who Really Killed Claire? by Alan Jackaman 9781914603365
$42.00Who Really Killed Claire? re-investigates the brutal yet apparently motiveless murder of 16-year-old Claire Tiltman in Greenhithe, Kent in 1993. It describes how police investigations faltered for almost 20 years until Colin Ash-Smith, due to be released... -
Mind Fuck: The Mass Psychology of Creeping Fascism by Neil Faulkner 9780902869318
RRP: $12.60$12.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780902869318Author Neil FaulknerFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Resistance BooksPublisher Resistance Books -
Information in War: Military Innovation, Battle Networks, and the Future of Artificial Intelligence by Benjamin M. Jensen 9781647122645
RRP: $84.00$74.61An in-depth assessment of innovations in military information technology informs hypothetical outcomes for artificial intelligence adaptations In the coming decades, artificial intelligence (AI) will revolutionize the way we live and the way we wage war... -
Terrorist Hunter by Tamer Elnoury
RRP: $18.88$13.55THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe gripping true story of the undercover agent risking his life to fight terrorismTheir aim was to kill as many people as possible.His mission was to stop them.A terrorist plot to kill hundreds of innocent people. An... -
Palestine in Turmoil: The Struggle for Sovereignty, 1933-1939 (Vol. II) by Monty Noam Penkower 9781618113177
RRP: $163.78$157.50This comprehensive account examines the growing conflict between Arab and Jew in Palestine that first surfaced clearly in the pivotal years 1933-1939, and which proved to be an irreconcilable rift once the leadership of both peoples refused to accept... -
Resonance: A Sociology of Our Relationship to the World Hartmut Rosa (Friedrich-Schiller-Universitat Jena, Germany; Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies, Erfurt, Germany) 9781509519897
RRP: $136.50$120.02The pace of modern life is undoubtedly speeding up, yet this acceleration does not seem to have made us any happier or more content. If acceleration is the problem, then the solution, argues Hartmut Rosa in this major new work, lies in "resonance." The...