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Artisans Abroad: British Migrant Workers in Industrialising Europe, 1815-1870 by Fabrice Bensimon 9780198835844
RRP: £98.00£88.71Between 1815 and 1870, when European industrialisation was in its infancy and Britain enjoyed a technological lead, thousands of British workers emigrated to the continent. They played a key role in several sectors, like textiles, iron, mechanics, and... -
New Industrial Urbanism: Designing Places for Production by Tali Hatuka
RRP: £32.99£29.16Since the Industrial Revolution, cities and industry have grown together; towns and metropolitan regions have evolved around factories and expanding industries. New Industrial Urbanism explores the evolving and future relationships between cities and... -
Ethics and World Politics by Duncan Bell 9780199548620
£51.38Designed to appeal to teachers and students of international relations and political theory, this exciting, user-friendly text explores the ethical dimensions of some of the most complex problems in world politics. The book opens with a discussion of... -
Romanifesto: Modern Lessons from Classical Politics by Asa Bennett 9781785905193
RRP: £11.99£8.60Despite the last days of Rome being around 1,500 years ago, the shadow of its empire - and what those who lived in it had to say - still looms large over modern politics. Indeed, we would not think of `politics' as it is without our Classical... -
Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past by Kevin Kruse 9781541604667
RRP: £16.99£13.27In this "incisive" (Vanity Fair) and "authoritative" (New York Times) instant New York Times bestseller, America's top historians set the record straight on the most pernicious myths about our nation's pastThe United States is in the grip of a crisis of... -
Handbook of Intelligence Studies Loch K. Johnson (University of Georgia, Athens, USA) 9780415777834
RRP: £54.99£48.12This topical volume offers a comprehensive review of secret intelligence organizations and activities. Intelligence has been in the news consistently since 9/11 and the Iraqi WMD errors. Leading experts in the field approach the three major missions of... -
From Kosovo to Kabul and Beyond: Human Rights and International Intervention by David Chandler 9780745325040
£28.38This new and updated edition of David Chandler's acclaimed book takes a critical look at the way in which human rights issues have been brought to the fore in international affairs. The UN and Nato's new policy of interventionism--as shown in Iraq,... -
Edmund Burke and the Invention of Modern Conservatism, 1830-1914: An Intellectual History by Emily Jones 9780198831334
£35.74Between 1830 and 1914 in Britain a dramatic modification of the reputation of Edmund Burke (1730-1797) occurred. Burke, an Irishman and Whig politician, is now most commonly known as the 'founder of modern conservatism' - an intellectual tradition which... -
Leading change: A guide to whole systems working by Margaret Attwood 9781861344496
RRP: £29.99£23.02There is continuing government pressure on public services to 'reform' and change. Expectations of new forms and standards of delivery, joined-up practice and the re-connection of services to users are high. Unfortunately, many policy makers have become... -
The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America by Greg Grandin
RRP: £13.99£13.31Ever since this nation's inception, the idea of an open and ever-expanding frontier has been central to American identity. Symbolising a future of endless promise, it was the foundation of the United States' belief in itself as an exceptional nation -... -
The Spectre Of Babeuf by Ian Birchall
RRP: £19.95£13.54The Spectre of Babeuf is a long-awaited introduction to Babeuf written by Ian Birchall. Little known to today's radicals, Babeuf and his conspiracy of equals were in some ways the direct historical precursor of the revolutionary socialist movement. Ian... -
The Spark that Lit the Revolution: Lenin in London and the Politics that Changed the World by Dr Robert Henderson
RRP: £14.99£11.75Vladimir Ilyich Lenin visited London on six occasions at the beginning of the twentieth century and it was in this city, where Marx wrote Das Kapital, that the roots of Lenin's political thought took shape. This book, from a former curator of the Russian... -
The Crisis of Liberal Internationalism: Japan and the World Order by Yoichi Funabashi
RRP: £35.00£31.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815737674Author Yoichi FunabashiFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 572gDimensions(mm)... -
Metaverse: A Business and Ethical Survival Guide by N Rosa 9781119911807
RRP: £24.99£16.78An expansive discussion of the mechanics, framework, and implications of the metaverse In Understanding the Metaverse: A Business and Ethical Guide, expert product and customer experience strategist Nick Rosa delivers a timely exploration of what is... -
After the Caliphate: The Islamic State & the Future Terrorist Diaspora by Colin P. Clarke 9781509533886
RRP: £14.99£13.58In 2014, the declaration of the Islamic State caliphate was hailed as a major victory by the global jihadist movement. But it was short-lived. Three years on, the caliphate was destroyed, leaving its surviving fighters - many of whom were foreign... -
The Destruction of Reason by Georg Lukacs
RRP: £30.00£29.95A classic of Western Marxism, The Destruction of Reason is Georg Lukacs's trenchant criticism of German philosophy after Marx and the role it played in the rise of National Socialism. Originally published in 1952, the book is a sustained and detailed... -
False Prophets: British Leaders' Fateful Fascination with the Middle East from Suez to Syria by Professor Nigel Ashton 9781786493286
RRP: £12.99£8.56'Fascinating' Guardian, 'Book of the Day''A truly masterly book... A tour de force that will be read for a very long time.' Peter HennessySelected by the New Statesman as an essential read for 2022Britain shaped the modern Middle East through the lines... -
America's Strategy in World Politics: The United States and the Balance of Power by Nicholas J. Spykman
RRP: £48.99£43.06Less than a year after the United States entered the Second World War, Nicholas Spykman wrote a book that placed the war effort in the broader context of the 1940s global balance of power. In America's Strategy in World Politics, Spykman examined world... -
Thomas Jefferson: The Art Of Power by Jon Meacham 9781400067664
RRP: £33.00£26.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Indies Choice Book Awards (Nonfiction) 2013.Book InformationISBN 9781400067664Author Jon MeachamFormat HardbackPage Count 800Imprint Random House... -
The Strongman: Vladimir Putin and the Struggle for Russia by Angus Roxburgh
RRP: £16.99£13.16Vladimir Putin has turned Russia from fledgling democracy into a police state, and in 2020 a constitutional change gave him the means to stay in power until 2036. In this acclaimed political biography, former BBC Moscow correspondent Angus Roxburgh... -
Scottish National Party Leaders by Gerry Hassan 9781785900921
RRP: £25.00£18.24By any measure, the story of the Scottish National Party is an extraordinary one.Forced to endure decades of electoral irrelevance since its creation in the 1930s, during which it often found itself grappling with internal debate on strategy, and... -
Carceral Humanitarianism: Logics of Refugee Detention by Kelly Oliver 9781517903275
RRP: £9.00£7.98Coopted by military operations, humanitarianism has never been neutral. Rather than welcoming refugees, host countries assess the relative risks of taking them in versus turning them away, using a risk-benefit analysis that often reduces refugees to... -
The War on the Uyghurs: China's Campaign Against Xinjiang's Muslims by Sean R. Roberts 9781526147684
RRP: £25.00£18.02The first account of one of the world's most pressing humanitarian catastrophes.This eye-opening book reveals how China has used the US-led Global War on Terror as cover for its increasingly brutal suppression of the Uyghur people. China's actions, it... -
The Politics of Elite Corruption in Africa: Uganda in Comparative African Perspective by Roger Tangri 9781138496286
RRP: £45.99£40.13This book considers the causes of high-level state corruption as well as the political constraints of countering corruption in Africa. It examines elite corruption in government as well as in the political and military spheres of state activity, and... -
Merze Tate: The Global Odyssey of a Black Woman Scholar by Barbara D. Savage 9780300270273
RRP: £27.50£26.93A powerful and inspiring biography of Merze Tate, a trailblazing Black woman scholar and intrepid world traveler Born in rural Michigan during the Jim Crow era, the bold and irrepressible Merze Tate (1905-1996) refused to limit her intellectual... -
Crossing the Congo: Over Land and Water in a Hard Place by Mike Martin
RRP: £17.99£16.14In 2013, three friends set off on a journey that they had been told was impossible: the north-south crossing of the Congo River Basin, from Kinshasa, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, to Juba, in South Sudan.Traversing two and a half thousand miles of... -
Politics by Other Means: The Free German League of Culture in London 1939-1946 by Charmian Brinson
RRP: £25.00£23.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912676613Author Charmian BrinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd -
We Are the Change We Seek by E.J. Dionne Jr.
RRP: £12.99£9.09'Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change we seek' In his speeches as president, Barack Obama had the power to move people from all over the world as few... -
A Collection of Ranter Writings: Spiritual Liberty and Sexual Freedom in the English Revolution by Nigel Smith
RRP: £28.99£18.80The Ranters - like the Levellers and the Diggers - were a group of religious libertarians who flourished during the English Civil War (1642-1651), a period of social and religious turmoil which saw, in the words of the historian Christopher Hill, 'the... -
The CaPDID Training Manual: A Trauma-informed Approach to Caring for People with a Personality Disorder and an Intellectual Disability by Jo Anderson
£86.93Trauma informed approaches have not generally been made available to staff working in services supporting people who have both a personality disorder and an intellectual disability. This distinctive training manual enables facilitators who already have... -
The Syrian Conflict: The Role of Russia, Iran and the US in a Global Crisis Ghaidaa Hetou (iStrategic LLC, USA) 9781138349148
RRP: £37.99£33.38This book explores the global impact of the Syrian conflict, and the roles of Russia, Iran and the US in its wake. It looks closely at origins of political turmoil in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region by analysing the growing influence of... -
Shadow Government: Surveillance, Secret Wars, and a Global Security State in a Single Superpower World by Tom Engelhardt
RRP: £16.99£12.72In 1964, a book entitled The Invisible Government shocked Americans with its revelations of agencies playing fast and loose; a secret government lodged inside the one they knew that even the president didn't fully control. Almost half a century later,... -
Introduction to Urban Science: Evidence and Theory of Cities as Complex Systems by Luis M a Bettencourt
RRP: £43.00£30.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262046008Author Luis M. A. BettencourtFormat HardbackPage Count 568Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Hannah Arendt and Isaiah Berlin: Freedom, Politics and Humanity by Kei Hiruta 9780691226125
RRP: £20.00£15.89For the first time, the full story of the conflict between two of the twentieth century's most important thinkers-and the lessons their disagreements continue to offerTwo of the most iconic thinkers of the twentieth century, Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) and... -
Wars of Revelation: The Transformative Effects of Military Intervention on Grand Strategy by Rebecca Lissner
RRP: £26.49£23.82Rich in historical detail and theoretical insight, Wars of Revelation explains why the United States' military interventions have repeatedly transformed its global role - and what that means for the future of American grand strategy. More than... -
Walker by Shoo Rayner 9781910080900
RRP: £6.99£4.64All Walker wants is a dog, but his mother is allergic. So he decides to set up his own business walking everyone else's dogs. This works better than he could have imagined when he finds he can talk to dogs and understand what they say to him! The dogs... -
Eagle Down: The Last Special Forces Fighting the Forever War by Jessica Donati
RRP: £22.00£16.67In 2013, President Obama began the drawdown of troops in Afghanistan. But only a year into the withdrawal, Obama began allowing the U.S. military to resume combat operations, relying almost entirely on U.S. Special Operations forces. It was the beginning... -
The Sovereign Self: Pitfalls of Identity Politics Elisabeth Roudinesco (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris) 9781509551231
RRP: £17.99£16.04The toppling of statues in the name of anti-racism is disconcerting, as is the violence sometimes displayed towards others in the name of gender equality. The emancipation movements of the past seem to have undergone a subtle transformation: the struggle... -
The Green & White House: Ireland and the US Presidents by Lynne Kelleher
RRP: £17.99£12.95'Carefully researched and excellently written . . . a wonderful account of the special relationship between Ireland and the USA.' BERTIE AHERN'Anybody with an interest in Irish-American politics and personalities will want to read The Green and White... -
Imperialism and Global Political Economy by Alex Callinicos 9780745640464
RRP: £19.99£19.28In Imperialism and Global Political Economy Alex Callinicos intervenes in one of the main political and intellectual debates of the day. The global policies of the United States in the past decade have encouraged the widespread belief that we live in a...