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Bean Counters: The Triumph of the Accountants and How They Broke Capitalism by Richard Brooks
RRP: €15.46€10.47'A devastating expose.' Mail on SundayThey helped cause the 2008 financial crash.They created a global tax avoidance industry.They lurk behind the scenes at every level of government...The world's 'Big Four' accountancy firms - PwC, Deloitte, Ernst &... -
Against the Double Blackmail: Refugees, Terror and Other Troubles with the Neighbours by Slavoj Zizek
RRP: €13.08€9.51'One of our best-known living philosophers' GuardianHow do we respond to the refugee crisis - by opening our doors, or pulling up the drawbridge? Both solutions, argues Slavoj Zizek, offer ideological blackmail, and both are wrong. He proposes that... -
A Post-Truth World: Politics, Polarization, and a Vision for Transcending the Chaos Ken Wilber 9781645473558
RRP: €20.22€13.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645473558Author Ken WilberFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc -
Postcolonial Theory: A Critical Introduction: Second Edition by Leela Gandhi 9780231178396
RRP: €26.18€20.66Published twenty years ago, Leela Gandhi's Postcolonial Theory was a landmark description of the field of postcolonial studies in theoretical terms that set its intellectual context alongside poststructuralism, postmodernism, Marxism, and feminism... -
Boris Johnson: The Rise and Fall of a Troublemaker at Number 10 by Andrew Gimson 9781398502819
RRP: €15.46€10.01'Entertaining...essential...peppered with brilliant observations' Tim Shipman, Sunday Times Andrew Gimson, whose previous book Boris is the essential read on Johnson's earlier career, returns with a penetrating and entertaining new account of Boris... -
Monstrous Anger of the Guns: How the Global Arms Trade is Ruining the World and What We Can Do About It Rhona Michie 9780745350363
RRP: €15.46€10.51We are seeing injustices caused by war and occupation unfold in real-time via social media, and we are speaking out in our millions against these horrors. Yet, from Gaza to Ukraine, the bombs continue to fall. We must understand why this is happening if... -
Eyes off the Prize: The United Nations and the African American Struggle for Human Rights, 1944-1955 by Carol Anderson
RRP: €28.55€23.78This book was first published in 2003. As World War II drew to a close and the world awakened to the horror wrought by white supremacists in Nazi Germany, African American leaders, led by the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored... -
In the Long Run: The Future as a Political Idea Jonathan White 9781800812307
RRP: €23.80€17.27Democracy is future-oriented and self-correcting: today's problems can be solved, we are told, in tomorrow's elections. But the biggest issues facing the modern world - from climate collapse and pandemics to recession and world war - each apparently... -
The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner by Daniel Ellsberg 9781408889282
RRP: €17.84€13.22From the legendary whistle-blower who revealed the Pentagon Papers, the first insider expose of the dangers of America's hidden, seventy-year-long nuclear policy. When former presidential advisor Daniel Ellsberg famously took the Pentagon Papers, he... -
How Democracy Ends by David Runciman
RRP: €13.08€9.51'Scintillating ... thought-provoking ... one of the very best of the great crop of recent books on the subject.' Andrew Rawnsley, Observer Democracy has died hundreds of times, all over the world. We think we know what that looks like: chaos descends... -
Deadly Revenge by Leigh Russell 9780857303059
RRP: €15.46€10.47When a hysterical mother reports her baby's sudden disappearance, suspicion immediately falls on the absent husband. But Detective Geraldine Steel's gut instinct tells her this case is not as simple as her colleagues think... Complications in the... -
The Five Giants [New Edition]: A Biography of the Welfare State by Nicholas Timmins
RRP: €23.79€17.47A TIMES POLITICAL BOOK OF THE YEAR A LONGMAN/HISTORY TODAY BOOK OF THE YEAR The award-winning history of the British Welfare State -now fully revised and updated for the 21st... -
Inequality, Democracy, and the Environment by Liam Downey 9781479843794
RRP: €29.74€25.79Winner, American Sociological Association Section on Environment and Technology Allan Schnaiberg Outstanding Publication Award The world currently faces several severe social and environmental crises, including economic under-development, widespread... -
Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin 9780393935615
€15.86Written during the most eventful years of Benjamin Franklin's life (1771-90), the Autobiography is one of the most influential memoirs in history. This newly edited Norton Critical Edition includes an introduction that explains the history of the... -
The Arms of the Future: Technology and Close Combat in the Twenty-First Century Jack Watling (Royal United Services Institute, UK) 9781350352957
RRP: €26.17€21.88From sensor-fuzed munitions and autonomous weapons, to ground moving target indication radar, laser vibrometers and artificial intelligence, the weapons of warfare are undergoing a rapid transformation, with modern technologies reshaping how armies... -
The Long Game: Inside Sinn Féin by Aoife Moore 9780241993781
RRP: €11.89€8.71Inside the rise of the political party, once subordinate to the IRA, that is on the brink of taking power in Ireland Sinn Féin, long widely-regarded as the political wing of the Provisional IRA, is the most popular political party in both Northern... -
Sweet Land of Liberty?: The African-American Struggle for Civil Rights in the Twentieth Century by Robert Cook 9780582215320
RRP: €57.11€54.72A powerful and moving account of the campaign for civil rights in modern America. Robert Cook is concerned less with charismatic leaders like Martin Luther King, and more with the ordinary men and women who were mobilised by the grass-roots activities of... -
Inclusive Urban Development in the Global South: Intersectionality, Inequalities, and Community Andrea Rigon (Associate Professor, University College London) 9780367485405
RRP: €44.02€38.71Inclusive Urban Development in the Global South emphasizes the importance of the neighbourhood in urban development planning, with case studies aimed at transforming current intervention practices towards more inclusive and just means of engagement with... -
The Eighteenth Century: 1688-1815 by Paul Langford 9780198731313
RRP: €48.18€39.14This volume takes a thematic approach to the history of the eighteenth century in the British Isles, covering such issues as domestic politics (including popular political culture), religious developments and change, and social and demographic structure... -
What Happened Hillary Rodham Clinton 9781471166969
RRP: €13.08€8.58The Sunday Times Number One BestsellerComplete with new afterword where she discusses the past eighteen months since President Donald Trump has been serving in office. 'A compelling read' - Financial Times 'A sporadically absorbing, pleasingly vengeful... -
1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows: The story of two lives, one nation, and a century of art under tyranny by Ai Weiwei
RRP: €13.08€8.72A FAMILY STORY AND THE TALE OF A NATION.Ai Weiwei - one of the world's most famous artists and activists - weaves a century-long epic tale of China through the story of his own life and that of his father, Ai Qing, the nation's most celebrated poet... -
The Oxford Handbook on the United Nations by Thomas G. Weiss
€50.38This Handbook provides in one volume an authoritative and independent treatment of the UN's seventy-year history, written by an international cast of more than 50 distinguished scholars, analysts, and practitioners. It provides a clear and penetrating... -
The Decade in Tory: The Sunday Times Bestseller: An Inventory of Idiocy from the Coalition to Covid Russell Jones 9781800181717
RRP: €29.75€19.88In 2020 the United Kingdom reached a bewildering milestone: ten successive years of Conservative rule. In that decade there were three prime ministers, each in turn described as the worst leader we ever had; ministerial resignations by the hundred; and... -
How Long is a Whale? by Alison LImentani 9781912757855
RRP: €9.51€6.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912757855Author Alison LImentaniFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Boxer Books LimitedPublisher Boxer Books LimitedWeight(grams) 245g -
The Political Brain: The Role of Emotion in Deciding the Fate of the Nation by Drew Westen
RRP: €16.65€15.27The Political Brain is a ground-breaking investigation into the role of emotion in determining the political life of the nation. For two decades Drew Westen, professor of psychology and psychiatry at Emory University, has explored a theory of the mind... -
The Prince: The Original Classic Niccolo Machiavelli 9780857080783
RRP: €14.27€9.78THE HANDBOOK FOR LEADERS The Prince is often regarded as the first true leadership book. It shocked contemporary readers with its ruthless call for fearless and effective action. With simple prose and straightforward logic Machiavelli's guide still has... -
International Relations Theories by Tim Dunne 9780198814443
RRP: €51.16€48.55Bringing together the most influential scholars in the field, the fifth edition of this best-selling text provides unrivalled coverage of international relations theories and arguments. Dunne, Kurki and Smith explore the full spectrum of theoretical... -
Key Thinkers on the Environment Joy A. Palmer Cooper (University of Durham, UK) 9781138684737
RRP: €35.69€31.94Key Thinkers on the Environment is a unique guide to environmental thinking through the ages. Joy A. Palmer Cooper and David E. Cooper, themselves distinguished authors on environmental matters, have assembled a team of expert contributors to summarize... -
Neoliberalism: A Very Short Introduction by Manfred B. Steger
RRP: €10.70€7.91Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Anchored in the principles of free-market economics, neoliberalism emerged in the 1990s as the world's most dominant economic paradigm. It has been associated with various political leaders from... -
Our Lives in Their Portfolios: Why Asset Managers Own the World Brett Christophers 9781839768996
RRP: €15.46€13.29Banks have taken a backseat since the global financial crisis over a decade ago. Today, our new financial masters are asset managers, like Blackstone and BlackRock. And they don't just own financial assets.The roads we drive on; the pipes that supply our... -
No Future Without Forgiveness by Archbishop Desmond Tutu
RRP: €17.84€13.22No Future Without Forgiveness is a quintessentially humane account of an extraordinary life. Desmond Tutu describes his childhood and coming of age in the apartheid era in South Africa. He examines his reactions on being able to vote for the first time... -
Letters To My Grandchildren by Tony Benn
RRP: €11.89€8.71As a diarist I have chronicled the time through which I have lived in meticulous detail: but all that is history. What matters now is the future for those who will live through it.The past is the past but there may be lessons to be learned which could... -
Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left by Roger Scruton
RRP: €17.84€13.22A devastating critique of New Left thinking. In Fools, Frauds and Firebrands, Roger Scruton first surveys and then deconstructs the golden idols of left wing thought from the 1960s to the present day. He dissects the hollow works of Hobsbawm and E. P... -
In the Thick of It: The Private Diaries of a Minister by Alan Duncan 9780008422295
RRP: €13.08€8.88'Sensational ... One of the most explosive political diaries ever to be published ... As candid, caustic and colourful as the sensational Alan Clark Diaries of the 1990s' DAILY MAIL The Sunday Times bestseller As... -
A Very Simple Secret: My parents, their mission to change the world, and me by Judi Conner 9781805141624
RRP: €15.46€11.11Judi's parents were on a mission to remake the world. These were the Cold War years of the 1950s and '60s, following a catastrophic world war and the breaking up of colonial empires. The couple had joined many others in giving up conventional careers and... -
Insane Clown President: Dispatches from the American Circus by Matt Taibbi
RRP: €20.22€14.84One of the most important voices in contemporary American journalism - Independent Matt Taibbi is one of the few journalists in America who speaks truth to power - Bernie Sanders Matt Taibbi is the best polemic journalist in America - Felix Salmon NEW... -
The Abuse of Power: Confronting Injustice in Public Life by Theresa May 9781035409884
RRP: €29.75€19.79THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER'So boldly different it creates a mini-genre all of its own' - ANDREW MARRAs Prime Minister for three years and Home Secretary for six years, Theresa May confronted a series of issues in which the abuse of power led to... -
Red Plenty by Francis Spufford
RRP: €15.46€10.47'Bizarre and quite brilliant.' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times'Thrilling.' Michael Burleigh, Sunday Telegraph'Francis Spufford has one of the most original minds in contemporary literature.' Nick HornbyThe Soviet Union was founded on a fairytale. It was... -
The New Crusades: Islamophobia and the Global War on Muslims by Khaled A. Beydoun 9780520402690
RRP: €23.80€18.92"The New Crusades is an intersectional milestone. It lucidly illustrates how converging systems of subordination, power, and violence related to Islamophobia are experienced across the globe."-Kimberle Crenshaw, from the foreword "A profound wake-up call... -
All the Kremlin's Men: Inside the Court of Vladimir Putin by Mikhail Zygar
RRP: €19.03€16.01All the Kremlin's Men is a gripping narrative of an accidental king and a court out of control. Based on an unprecedented series of interviews with Vladimir Putin's inner circle, this book presents a radically different view of power and politics in...