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A Rule of Law for Our New Age of Anxiety by Stephen J Toope 9781009299459
RRP: $63.00$54.50Taking Auden's Age of Anxiety as a leitmotiv and drawing on literature from law, philosophy, political theory, international relations, and sociology, Toope argues with passion that a renewed faith in the rule of law can address troubling developments in... -
Nonstate Warfare: The Military Methods of Guerillas, Warlords, and Militias by Stephen Biddle
RRP: $73.50$59.09How nonstate military strategies overturn traditional perspectives on warfareSince September 11th, 2001, armed nonstate actors have received increased attention and discussion from scholars, policymakers, and the military. Underlying debates about... -
Dreams of Leaving and Remaining by James Meek
RRP: $35.68$25.79Since Britain's 2016 referendum on EU membership, the nation has been profoundly split: one side fantasizing that the referendum will never be acted upon, the other entrenched in questionable assumptions about reclaimed sovereignty and independence... -
Tryweryn: A New Dawn? by Dr Wyn Thomas 9781912631483
RRP: $41.98$40.03Definitive account of the cultural and political impact on Wales of the flooding of the Tryweryn Valley. The failure of the nation to block the move politically led to increased Welsh national consciousness and to a period of militant activism which... -
The American Revolution: A History by Gordon S Wood
RRP: $39.90$23.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812970418Author Gordon S. WoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm)... -
The Art of Organisational Resilience: Revisiting the Fall of France in 1940 Elmar Kutsch 9781138058767
RRP: $83.98$73.63The battlefield of the past is an opportunity for the future commander, the future manager to reflect. The books rationale for translating military concepts into management speak is the authors impression in the classroom that managers in commercial... -
The Neoliberal Subject: Resilience, Adaptation and Vulnerability by David Chandler 9781783487721
RRP: $94.50$82.93Political practices, agencies and institutions around the world promote the need for humans, individually and collectively, to develop capacities of resilience. We must accept and adapt to the 'realities' of an endemic condition of global insecurity and... -
The Impossible Revolution: Making Sense of the Syrian Tragedy by Yassin al-Haj Saleh
RRP: $46.20$40.99Yassin al-Haj Saleh is a leftist dissident who spent sixteen years as a political prisoner and now lives in exile. He describes with precision and fervour the events that led to Syria's 2011 uprising, the metamorphosis of the popular revolution into a... -
India and Asian Geopolitics: The Past, Present by Shivshankar Menon
RRP: $73.50$65.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815737230Author Shivshankar MenonFormat PaperbackPage Count 418Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams)... -
The Party's Over: The Rise and Fall of the Conservatives from Thatcher to Sunak by Phil Burton-Cartledge 9781839760372
$25.83Today, it is not a question of if, but when? What we are watching is the collapse of the most successful political party in Europe. Despite winning the December 2019 General Election, the parliamentary conservative and unionist party is facing its own... -
George Soros: A Life In Full Peter L. W. Osnos 9781647822798
RRP: $46.20$34.21A compelling new picture of one of the most important, complex, and misunderstood figures of our time.The name George Soros is recognized around the world. Universally known for his decades of philanthropy, progressive politics, and investment success,... -
Collision of Worlds: A Deep History of the Fall of Aztec Mexico and the Forging of New Spain by David M. Carballo
RRP: $38.83$33.43Mexico of five centuries ago was witness to one of the most momentous encounters between human societies, when a group of Spaniards led by Hernando Cortes joined forces with tens of thousands of Mesoamerican allies to topple the mighty Aztec Empire. It... -
The Butterfly Defect: How Globalization Creates Systemic Risks, and What to Do about It by Ian Goldin
RRP: $42.00$33.37The Butterfly Defect addresses the widening gap between the new systemic risks generated by globalization and their effective management. It shows how the dynamics of turbo-charged globalization has the potential and power to destabilize our societies... -
Keepers of the Flame: Understanding Amnesty International by Stephen Hopgood
RRP: $52.48$45.51"If one organization is synonymous with keeping hope alive, even as a faint glimmer in the darkness of a prison, it is Amnesty International. Amnesty has been the light, and that light was truth-bearing witness to suffering hidden from the eyes of the... -
Jealousy of Trade: International Competition and the Nation-State in Historical Perspective by Istvan Hont 9780674055773
RRP: $60.80$48.93This collection explores eighteenth-century theories of international market competition that continue to be relevant for the twenty-first century. "Jealousy of trade" refers to a particular conjunction between politics and the economy that emerged when... -
Solidarnosc: The Workers' Movement and the Rebirth of Poland in 1980-1 by Mark Osborn
RRP: $10.50$9.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909639492Author Mark OsbornFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Workers LibertyPublisher Phoenix Press -
The Role of Today's Museum by Clive Gray
RRP: $77.68$68.31The Role of Today's Museum provides a thorough investigation of what museums do and why. Arguing that museums are multifunctional institutions, the book examines the consequences of this for the services that museums provide, the publics to whom they are... -
Coup d'Etat: Exposing Deep State Treason and the Plan to Re-Elect President Trump by Jerome R Corsi 9781642934373
RRP: $63.00$38.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781642934373Author Jerome R CorsiFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Post Hill PressPublisher Post Hill PressWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 160mm... -
Red Scotland!: The Rise and Fall of the Radical Left, C. 1872 to 1932 by William Kenefick 9780748625185
RRP: $65.10$60.25An excellent resource for teaching and learning, this book explores the rise and decline of left radicalism in Scotland c.1872 to 1932. A journey through these turbulent times observes the response of Scottish artisans to legal restrictions on... -
Green Political Thought by Andrew Dobson
RRP: $92.38$80.72This highly acclaimed introduction to green political thought is now available in a new edition, having been fully revised and updated to take into account the areas which have grown in importance since the third edition was published.Andrew Dobson... -
The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy by Philip S. Gorski
RRP: $43.03$30.91A bracing examination of a force that imperils American democracy Most Americans were shocked by the violence they witnessed at the nation's Capital on January 6th, 2021. And many were bewildered by the images displayed by the insurrectionists: a... -
Defending the West by James Gow 9780745632353
RRP: $35.68$31.96What is the West? Why does it need to be defended? From what, by whom, and how? These are thorny questions that international society must grapple with in order to meet the security challenges of the 21st Century. This little book provides answers to... -
The Oxford Handbook of the Social Science of Poverty by David Brady 9780190947361
RRP: $93.43$88.58Despite remarkable economic advances in many societies during the latter half of the twentieth century, poverty remains a global issue of enduring concern. Poverty is present in some form in every society in the world, and has serious implications for... -
Negotiating a Settlement in Northern Ireland, 1969-2019 by Prof John Coakley 9780198882824
RRP: $84.00$76.52The Good Friday Agreement of 1998 ended a protracted violent conflict in Northern Ireland and became an international reference point for peace-building. Negotiating a Settlement in Northern Ireland, 1969-2019 traces the roots and out-workings of the... -
Whole New Plan for Living by Jim Lucey 9781529345650
RRP: $31.48$20.58'A timely book about mental wellbeing and how we can all prepare ourselves for the ups and downs of life' Miriam O'Callaghan'Jim Lucey has put all his experience into this book. It will empower you to update your strategy for a healthy and fulfilling... -
Who Goes Home? by Robert Rogers 9781849543965
RRP: $31.48$26.10Who Goes Home? A Parliamentary Miscellany is a wonderful and authoritative collection of Parliamentary wit and insult; of bizarre and hilarious stories; of odd and surprising facts about Parliament; and explanations of what is strange, mysterious and... -
The New Middle East: What Everyone Needs to Know (R) by James L. Gelvin
$23.98Since Muhammad Bouazizi set himself on fire in Tunisia on December 17, 2010, galvanizing the Arab uprisings that continue today, the entire Middle East landscape has changed in ways that were unimaginable years before. In spite of the early hype... -
The Man Who Stayed Behind by Sidney Rittenberg
RRP: $54.58$48.07The Man Who Stayed Behind is the remarkable account of Sidney Rittenberg, an American who was sent to China by the U.S. military in the 1940s. A student activist and labor organizer who was fluent in Chinese, Rittenberg became caught up in the turbulence... -
Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization by Lester R. Brown 9780393337198
RRP: $27.28$24.91As fossil fuel prices rise, oil insecurity deepens, and concerns about climate change cast a shadow over the future of coal, a new energy economy is emerging. Wind, solar, and geothermal energy are replacing oil, coal, and natural gas, at a pace and on a... -
English Uprising: Brexit and the Mainstreaming of the Far-Right by Paul Stocker 9781911545101
RRP: $31.48$20.58'Brexit' reflected perhaps the biggest vote of no confidence in the political establishment in modern British history. But how did we get here? Paul Stocker examines how ideas of the far right-always a fringe movement in Britain-have become part of the... -
The Coming of the American Behemoth: The Origins of Fascism in the United States, 1920 -1940 by Michael Joseph Roberto 9781583677315
RRP: $39.88$32.87Most people in the United States have been trained to recognize fascism in movements such as Germany's Third Reich or Italy's National Fascist Party, where charismatic demagogues manipulate incensed, vengeful masses. We rarely think of fascism as... -
August in Kabul: America's Last Days in Afghanistan by Mr Andrew Quilty
RRP: $42.00$32.17Told through the eyes of witnesses to the fall of Kabul, Walkley award-winning journalist Andrew Quilty's debut book offers a remarkable record of this historic moment. As night fell on 15 August 2021, the Taliban entered Kabul, capital of Afghanistan... -
Politics after Christendom: Political Theology in a Fractured World by David VanDrunen 9780310108849
RRP: $42.00$30.01For more than a millennium, beginning in the early Middle Ages, most Western Christians lived in societies that sought to be comprehensively Christian--ecclesiastically, economically, legally, and politically. That is to say, most Western Christians... -
Meir Kahane: The Public Life and Political Thought of an American Jewish Radical by Shaul Magid
RRP: $63.00$49.75The life and politics of an American Jewish activist who preached radical and violent means to Jewish survivalMeir Kahane came of age amid the radical politics of the counterculture, becoming a militant voice of protest against Jewish liberalism. Kahane... -
State Power by Bob Jessop 9780745633213
RRP: $39.88$35.43Bob Jessop presents an up-to-date account of his distinctive approach to the dialectics of structure and strategy in the exercise of state power. While his earlier work critically surveys other state theories, this book focuses on the development of his... -
Classical Sociological Theory: A Reader by Ian McIntosh
RRP: $65.10$60.25This Reader brings together a generous selection of readings from the original texts of the three major classical sociological theorists: Karl Marx, Max Weber, Emile Durkheim. The readings are deliberately of a substantial length to allow students to... -
Rural Development: Putting the last first by R. Chambers 9780582644434
$75.05Rural poverty is often unseen or misperceived by outsiders. Dr Chambers contends that researchers, scientists, administrators and fieldworkers rarely appreciate the richness and validity of rural people's knowledge or the hidden nature of rural poverty... -
Five Year Mission: The Labour Party under Ed Miliband by Tim Bale
RRP: $27.28$19.09In May 2010, Labour suffered one of its worst ever election defeats. A few months later it chose Ed Miliband as its new leader. His task? To win back power after just one term in opposition - a tall order given how many voters had come to blame Labour... -
The Cambridge History of Modern European Thought: Volume 2, The Twentieth Century by Peter E. Gordon 9781107483804
RRP: $88.18$76.21The Cambridge History of Modern European Thought is an authoritative and comprehensive exploration of the themes, thinkers and movements that shaped our intellectual world in the late-eighteenth and nineteenth century. Representing both individual... -
A History of Humanitarianism, 1755-1989: In the Name of Others by Silvia Salvatici
RRP: $52.50$37.63The book traces the history of international humanitarianism from the anti-slavery movement to the end of the cold war. It is based on an extensive survey of the international literature and is retold in an original narrative that relies on a close...