Political Science

The changes and divisions on the left over the Israel-Palestine conflict forms the central theme of this archive based study. While the Labour Party supported establishing a Jewish state in Palestine, as a modernising force, the communist movement...

There was a time when humanity looked in the mirror and saw something precious, worth protecting and fighting for--indeed, worth liberating. But now we are beset on all sides by propaganda promoting a radically different viewpoint. According to this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143036487Author Marshall FradyFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 171gDimensions(mm) 179mm * 129mm...

Study Skills Guide Your study Skills Guide is designed to help you develop the skills you need to successfully complete your BTEC National course. It will help you to: * Understand the best way for you to learn * Cope with assessments * Manage your...

This book makes an original contribution to reconnecting criminological inquiry to the core concerns of the classical sociological imagination and to the intellectual resources of comparative and historical sociology. Throughout the book Hughes...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780922915866Author Smedley D ButlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Feral House,U.S.Publisher Feral House,U.S.Weight(grams) 101g

This accessible volume shines a light on how autocracy really works by providing basic facts about how post-World War II dictatorships achieve, retain, and lose power. The authors present an evidence-based portrait of key features of the authoritarian...

As Katherine Verdery observes, "There's nothing like reading your secret police file to make you wonder who you really are." In 1973 Verdery began her doctoral fieldwork in the Transylvanian region of Romania, ruled at the time by communist dictator...

China's emergence as a twenty-first-century global economic, cultural, and political power is often presented as a story of what Chinese leader Xi Jinping calls the nation's "great rejuvenation," a story narrated as the return of China to its "rightful"...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781902932705Author Muammar Al-QadhafiFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint Garnet PublishingPublisher Garnet PublishingWeight(grams) 91gDimensions(mm) 178mm...

Militancy continues to be characteristic of many supporters of the Russian far right, encompassing a belligerent rhetoric, a strong perception of participants as political warriors and often the use of physical violence. How serious a threat does Russian...

Is the West to blame for the agony of Uganda and its neighbors?In this powerful account of Ugandan dictator Yoweri Museveni's 30 year reign, Helen Epstein chronicles how Western leaders' single-minded focus on the War on Terror and their naive dealings...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805211627Author Hannah ArendtFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Schocken BooksPublisher Schocken BooksWeight(grams) 357gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm *...

A revealing portrait of a young Black man asking questions about self-discovery and belonging - long before he became one of the most important voices in America.The son of a white American mother and a Black Kenyan father, Obama was born in Hawaii,...

In the 1920s, many in the British establishment became convinced that their way of life was being threatened by the new Soviet state. The British government launched vast spying operations in response, carrying out surveillance on not only suspect...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780930852924Author Webster G TarpleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 659Imprint Progressive PressPublisher Progressive PressWeight(grams) 792g

This is a colorful, comprehensive, and authoritative introduction to the life and work of the author of The Prince--Florentine statesman, writer, and political philosopher Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527). Corrado Vivanti, who was one of the world's...

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2020 From the bestselling author of Nixonland and The Invisible Bridge comes the dramatic conclusion of how conservatism took control of American political power.Over two decades, Rick Perlstein has published three...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474460385Author Evert Van Der ZweerdeFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams)...

Security Manual provides practical guidance on all aspects of security work and is a ready made source of information for all members of the security profession, including managers, supervisors and trainers. This eighth edition has been fully...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781401324568Author Ted WidmerFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint HyperionPublisher HyperionWeight(grams) 660gDimensions(mm) 238mm * 164mm * 30mm

This book shows why Vietnam has not become the dragon it is often touted to be. The team of authors include both long-time observers and junior scholars who present cutting-edge research on the latest trends as well as major challenges facing the...

In They Knew, New York Times best-selling author Sarah Kendzior explores the United States' "culture of conspiracy," putting forth a timely and unflinching argument: uncritical faith in broken institutions is as dangerous as false narratives peddled by...

An Introduction to Sustainability provides students with a comprehensive overview of the key concepts and ideas which are encompassed within the growing field of sustainability.The fully updated second edition, including new figures and images, teases...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for National Book Awards (Nonfiction) 2021.Book InformationISBN 9780525509561Author Heather McGheeFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint One World BooksPublisher...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501127267Author Kevinrocke LaczFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 226mm *...

Throughout her intense career, Oriana Fallaci, one of Italy's most notorious recorders of history, has ignited passionate debate amongst politicians, intellectuals, and ordinary citizens both European and American. The genesis for "The Force of Reason"...

Building and sustaining solidarity is a compelling challenge, especially in ethnically and religiously diverse societies. Recent research has concentrated on forces that trigger backlash and exclusion. The Strains of Commitment examines the politics of...

From videos of rights violations, to satellite images of environmental degradation, to eyewitness accounts disseminated on social media, human rights practitioners have access to more data today than ever before. To say that mobile technologies, social...

We are surrounded by images, fairly drowning in them. From our cell phones to our computers, from our televisions at home to the screens that light up while we wait in the grocery store checkout line, images of all kinds are seducing us, commanding us to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780770436919Author Jessica AlexanderFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Crown Publishing Group (NY)Publisher Crown Publishing Group (NY)Weight(grams)...

Why does democracy-as a word and as an idea-loom so large in the political imagination, though it has so often been misused and misunderstood? Setting the People Free starts by tracing the roots of democracy from an improvised remedy for a local Greek...

In 2018, journalist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered by Saudi regime operatives, shocking the international community and tarnishing the reputation of Muhammad bin Salman, the kingdom's young, reformist crown prince. Domestically, bin Salman's reforms have...

The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social Work provides a concise guide to 400 topics relevant to the practice of social work in the 21st Century. It brings together 250 top authors and covers all service user groups.About the AuthorMartin Davies has been a...

The definitive account of the career and legacy of the most influential Western exponent of violent jihad.Anwar al-Awlaki was, according to one of his followers, "the main man who translated jihad into English." By the time he was killed by an American...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780902869103Author Hall GreenlandFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Resistance BooksPublisher Resistance Books

Anyone who experienced the attacks on September 11 cannot forget the imagery: the smoking, falling towers, the Pentagon smoldering, the Shanksville crash site, the first responders.But there is an invisible story hidden in the wreckage, one that required...

The end of the Cold War was a "big bang" reminiscent of earlier moments after major wars, such as the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 and the end of the World Wars in 1919 and 1945. Here John Ikenberry asks the question, what do states that win wars...

In the decade before the onset of the Civil War, groups of Americans engaged in a series of longshot-and illegal-forays into Mexico, Cuba, and other Central American countries in hopes of taking them over. These efforts became known as filibustering, and...

The eviction at Dale Farm in the UK in 2011 brought the conflicting issues relating to Gypsy and Traveller accommodation to the attention of the world's media. However, as the furore surrounding the eviction has died down, the very pressing issues of...