Political Science

Spanning forty years, two women's stories of love, loss and betrayal are intertwined in this award-winning novel by Jojo Moyes, the Sunday Times bestselling author of Me Before You, After You and the new 2023 novel Someone Else's Shoes.**NOW A MAJOR...

How do markets function? Who creates, shapes and organizes them? And what do they mean for the relationship between labor and capital? Marketization examines how the state and capital use markets to discipline the working class. Ian Greer and Charles...

Children are in need of support not due to any fault on their part but due to their circumstances. Local authorities have a duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and provide services to those 'in need'. Children in Need is a...

The story of a single family during the Irish Revolution, Four Killings is a book about political murder, and the powerful hunger for land and the savagery it can unleash. 'A vivid and chilling narrative... Confronts uncomfortable questions that...

Reactions to the Coronavirus pandemic have escalated the pre-existing tensions between the US and China and among different Western nations. Confrontations between political globalists and mercantilist nationalists - between supporters of the rules-based...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250231307Author Bernard-Henri LevyFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Henry Holt & Company IncPublisher Henry Holt & Company IncWeight(grams)...

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. When are developing...

Woody Guthrie, American Radical reclaims the politically radical profile of America's greatest balladeer. Although he achieved a host of national honors and adorns U.S. postage stamps, and although his song "This Land Is Your Land" is often considered...

An iconoclastic history of the first two decades after independence in IndiaNehru's India brings a provocative but nuanced set of new interpretations to the history of early independent India. Drawing from her extensive research over the past two...

An extraordinary selection of the letters of Che Guevara'Always be capable of feeling deeply any injustice committed against anyone, anywhere in the world'Che Guevara was an inveterate letter writer and diarist throughout his short but extraordinary life...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629637990Author Silvia FedericiFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press

The story of a silenced minority who put their constitutional oaths before all else to keep our Founding Fathers' great gift of liberty alive. Defending the Constitution Behind Enemy Lines is an explosive, tell-all book, detailing the military COVID-19...

How constructions of time shape political beliefs about what is possible-and what is inevitable To secure power in a crisis, leaders must sell deep change as a means to future good. But how could we know the future? Nomi Claire Lazar draws on stories...

For over three centuries, slavery in the Americas fuelled the growth of capitalism. But the stirrings of a revolutionary age in the late eighteenth century challenged this "peculiar institution" and set the scene for great acts of emancipation in Haiti...

Natural resources like oil and minerals are the largest source of unaccountable power in the world. Petrocrats like Putin and the Saudis spend resource money on weapons and oppression; militants in Iraq and in the Congo spend resource money on...

The gripping new novel from the author of The Widows' Club. When a fire destroys the Empress Theatre, a devastating tragedy unfolds. Amelia's mother lost her piece of mind forever when she left her daughter...

The cold war ended more than two decades ago, and with its end came a reduction in the threat of nuclear weapons - a luxury that we can no longer indulge. It's not just the threat of Iran getting the bomb or North Korea doing something rash; the whole...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913026240Author Alan WoodsFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Well Red PublicationsPublisher Well Red Publications

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815738138Author Kerstin Bree CarlsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771134071Author Patrizia NanzFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Between the LinesPublisher Between the LinesWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 180mm *...

The Rise of the Memoir traces the growth and extraordinarily wide appeal of the memoir. Its territory is private rather than public life, shame, guilt, and embarrassment, not the achievements celebrated in the public record. What accounts for the sharp...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394753089Author David LambFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 335gDimensions(mm) 202mm...

Interrupted Time Series Analysis develops a comprehensive set of models and methods for drawing causal inferences from time series. It provides example analyses of social, behavioral, and biomedical time series to illustrate a general strategy for...

'Governments should spend no more than their tax income.' Most people in Europe and North America accept this statement as simple common sense. It resonates with the deeply engrained economic metaphors that dominate public discourse, from 'living within...

The first book on the tabloid news machine and its phone-hacking scandals in the mould of bestselling Flat Earth News.About the AuthorJames Hanning is Deputy Editor of the Independent on Sunday.Book InformationISBN 9781908096951Author James HanningFormat...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101912164Author Peter BakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 736Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 913gDimensions(mm) 233mm * 154mm...

Translated into twenty languages ?The Future of Freedom ?is a modern classic that uses historical analysis to shed light on the present, examining how democracy has changed our politics, economies, and social relations. Prescient in laying out the...

START-UP NATION addresses the trillion dollar question: How is it that Israel - a country of 7.1 million, only 60 years old, surrounded by enemies, in a constant state of war since its founding, with no natural resources-- produces more start-up...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594039683Author Heather Mac DonaldFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Encounter Books,USAPublisher Encounter Books,USA

International business is undergoing continuous transformation as multinational firms and comparative management evolve in the changing global economy. To succeed in this challenging environment, firms need a well-developed capability for sound strategic...

Improving the Sustainable Development Goals evaluates the Global Goals (Agenda 2030) by looking at their design and how they relate to theories of economic development. Adopted unanimously by the member states of the United Nations (UN) in 2015, the...

The Low-Carbon Good Life is about how to reverse and repair four interlocking crises arising from modern material consumption: the climate crisis, growing inequality, biodiversity loss and food-related ill-health.Across the world today and throughout...

How the Chinese Communist Party maintains its power by both repressing and responding to its peopleSince 1949, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has maintained unrivaled control over the country, persisting even in the face of economic calamity,...

A man's home is his castle. But demographic and economic changes have turned our castles into islands. How can we regain the elements of the traditional village - family, co-operation, community and a sense of belonging - within the context of 21st...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583674499Author Tamas KrauszFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U.S.

In this book Professor Kissinger examines the framework of our foreign policy, the stresses to which that framework is being subjected, and the prospects for world order in an era of high international tension. The three essays were written before...

This is a critical introduction to Giorgio Agamben's political thought that highlights its affirmative dimension. Rapidly becoming one of the most celebrated and controversial contemporary thinkers, Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben has made an...

A bracing account of liberalism's most radical critics introducing one of the most controversial movements of the twentieth century "Powerful. . . . Bracing. . . . Part of the book's eerie relevance comes from the role Russia plays throughout."-Ezra...

The geopolitics of American law enforcement and how it changed corporate criminal accountability in other countriesOver the past decade, many of the world's biggest companies have found themselves embroiled in legal disputes over corruption, fraud,...

In this engaging book, David M. McCourt makes the case for New Constructivist approaches to international relations scholarship. The book traces constructivist work on culture, identity, and norms within the historical, geographical, and professional...