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Thinking like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy by Elizabeth Popp Berman
RRP: £35.00£28.14The story of how economic reasoning came to dominate Washington between the 1960s and 1980s-and why it continues to constrain progressive ambitions todayFor decades, Democratic politicians have frustrated progressives by tinkering around the margins of... -
Never Forget National Humiliation: Historical Memory in Chinese Politics and Foreign Relations by Zheng Wang
RRP: £28.00£21.80How could the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) not only survive but even thrive, regaining the support of many Chinese citizens after the Tiananmen Square crackdown of 1989? Why has popular sentiment turned toward anti-Western nationalism despite the... -
The Triumph of Injustice: How the Rich Dodge Taxes and How to Make Them Pay by Emmanuel Saez
RRP: £13.99£11.62Even as they became fabulously wealthy, the rich have seen their taxes collapse to levels last seen in the 1920s. Meanwhile, the working-class has been asked to pay more. The Triumph of Injustice is a forensic investigation into this dramatic... -
The Code of Putinism by Brian Taylor 9780190867324
RRP: £28.99£20.94What is Vladimir Putin up to? This book shows how the mentality of Putin and his team - the code of Putinism - has shaped Russian politics over the past two decades. It explains not only the thoughts and ideas that motivate Putin's decisions, but also... -
How The Other Half Learns: Equality, Excellence, and the Battle Over School Choice by Robert Pondiscio 9780525533733
RRP: £24.99£16.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525533733Author Robert PondiscioFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Avery Publishing Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
The Prince (Royal Collector's Edition) (Annotated) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket) by Niccolo Machiavelli 9781774378588
£30.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781774378588Author Niccolo MachiavelliFormat HardbackPage Count 108Imprint Royal ClassicsPublisher Royal ClassicsWeight(grams) 331gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
From Popular Sovereignty to the Sovereignty of Law: Law, Society, and Politics in Fifth-Century Athens by Martin Ostwald
RRP: £45.00£36.32Analyzing the 'democratic' features and institutions of the Athenian democracy in the fifth century B.C., Martin Ostwald traces their development from Solon's judicial reforms to the flowering of popular sovereignty, when the people assumed the right... -
Realism in Political Theory by Rahul Sagar 9780367530587
RRP: £39.99£35.46Over the past decade, an intellectual movement known as "realism" has challenged the reigning orthodoxy in political theory and political philosophy. Realists take issue with what they see as the excessive moralism and utopianism associated with... -
Think Like a Commoner: A Short Introduction to the Life of the Commons by David Bollier
RRP: £14.99£9.88The biggest "tragedy of the commons" is the misconception that commons are failures-relics from another era rendered unnecessary by the market and state. Think Like a Commoner dispels such prejudices by explaining the rich history and promising future of... -
The Guy Liddell Diaries, Volume I: 1939-1942: MI5's Director of Counter-Espionage in World War II by Nigel West
RRP: £53.99£47.27This is the first volume of Nigel West's acclaimed presentation of these fascinating diaries from the heart of Britain's Second World War intelligence operations.'No intelligence buff can be without this volume and anyone interested in British twentieth... -
Freedom's Dominion (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize): A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power by Jefferson Cowie 9781541605121
RRP: £18.99£13.49WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY! An "important, deeply affecting-and regrettably relevant" (New York Times Book Review) chronicle of a sinister idea of freedom: white Americans' freedom to oppress others and their fight against the government... -
Letter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris 9780307278777
RRP: £17.00£9.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307278777Author Sam HarrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 147gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
Cyprus: An Ancient People, a Troubled History, and One Last Chance for Peace by Lawrence Stevenson
RRP: £21.99£14.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781989555637Author Lawrence StevensonFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint The Sutherland House Inc.Publisher The Sutherland House Inc.Weight(grams) 454g -
China's Rise in the Global South: The Middle East, Africa, and Beijing's Alternative World Order by Dawn C. Murphy 9781503630093
RRP: £70.00£60.31As China and the U.S. increasingly compete for power in key areas of U.S. influence, great power conflict looms. Yet few studies have looked to the Middle East and Africa, regions of major political, economic, and military importance for both China and... -
Teach Your Dog French by Anne Cakebread 9781800990326
RRP: £5.99£4.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800990326Author Anne CakebreadFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y LolfaWeight(grams) 105g -
The Right to Have Rights Stephanie DeGooyer 9781784787554
RRP: £12.99£9.09Sixty years ago, the political theorist Hannah Arendt, an exiled Jew deprived of her German citizenship, observed that before people can enjoy any of the "inalienable" Rights of Man-before there can be any specific rights to education, work, voting, and... -
Impaled Upon a Thistle: Scotland Since 1880 by Ewen A. Cameron
RRP: £25.99£21.46Ewen Cameron explores the political debate between unionism, liberalism, socialism and nationalism, and the changing political relationship between Scotland and the United Kingdom. He sets Scottish experience alongside the Irish, Welsh and European, and... -
Ethnonationalism: The Quest for Understanding by Walker Connor
RRP: £50.00£44.75Walker Connor, perhaps the leading student of the origins and dynamics of ethnonationalism, has consistently stressed the importance of its political implications. In these essays, which have appeared over the course of the last three decades, he argues... -
Influx and Efflux: Writing Up with Walt Whitman by Jane Bennett 9781478008309
RRP: £20.99£18.37In influx & efflux Jane Bennett pursues a question that was bracketed in her book Vibrant Matter: how to think about human agency in a world teeming with powerful nonhuman influences? "Influx & efflux"-a phrase borrowed from Whitman's "Song of... -
ISIS: A History by Fawaz A. Gerges 9780691170008
RRP: £25.00£19.59The Islamic State has stunned the world with its savagery, destructiveness, and military and recruiting successes. What explains the rise of ISIS, and what does it portend for the future of the Middle East? In this book, one of the world's leading... -
Taking Back Trump's America: Why We Lost the White House and How We'll Win It Back by Peter Navarro
RRP: £28.00£17.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637586785Author Peter NavarroFormat HardbackPage Count 376Imprint Bombardier BooksPublisher Bombardier BooksWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 231mm *... -
Natural Relations?: Animal Rights, Human Rights and the Environment by Ted Benton 9780860915904
RRP: £18.99£17.02In this challenging book, Ted Benton takes recent debates about the moral status of animals as a basis for reviewing the discourse of "human rights." Liberal-individualist views of human rights and advocates of animal rights tend to think of individuals,... -
The Spy in Moscow Station: A Counterspy's Hunt for a Deadly Cold War Threat by Eric Haseltine 9781785784927
RRP: £12.99£8.56'All the power and intrigue of a cinematic thriller ... immersive, dramatic, and historically edifying' KirkusMoscow in the late 1970s: one by one, CIA assets are disappearing. The perils of American arrogance, mixed with bureaucratic infighting, had... -
Jewish Statesmanship: Ten Studies in Leadership by Meir Y. Soloveichik 9781641773287
RRP: £21.99£14.83Ever since Plato's Republic, the study of statecraft has been a staple of Western discourse, and so has the study of particular leaders. Although Jewish scholars, thinkers, and popularizers have contributed notably to this genre, strikingly few have... -
A Norwegian Tragedy: Anders Behring Breivik and the Massacre on Utoya Aage Borchgrevink 9780745672205
RRP: £12.99£9.00On 22 July 2011 a young man named Anders Behring Breivik carried out one of the most vicious terrorist acts in post-war Europe. In a carefully orchestrated sequence of actions he bombed government buildings in Oslo, resulting in eight deaths, then... -
The Day the Great War Ended, 24 July 1923: The Civilianization of War by Jay Winter 9780192870735
RRP: £43.49£39.53On 24 July 1923 the last Treaty ending hostilities in the Great War was signed at Lausanne in Switzerland. That Treaty closed a decade of violence. Jay Winter tells the story of what happened on that day. On the shores of Lake Geneva, diplomats,... -
The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Politics by Carles Boix
RRP: £34.99£34.89The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Politics offers a critical survey of the field of empirical political science through the collection of a set of chapters written by 48 top scholars in the discipline of comparative politics. Part I includes chapters... -
Life in Britain and Germany on the Road to War: Keeping an Eye on Hitler Anton Rippon 9781399047166
RRP: £22.00£15.62In December 1922, the distinguished foreign correspondent Leonard Spray warned Britain to ‘keep your eye on Hitler’. The carnage of the so-called ‘war to end all wars’ had left 900,000 British servicemen dead, and more than 2 million suffering physical... -
Click Here to Kill Everybody: Security and Survival in a Hyper-connected World by Bruce Schneier 9780393357448
RRP: £13.99£11.58We have created the ultimate hive-mind robot: an Internet of interconnected devices that senses, thinks and acts. Bruce Schneier calls it the "World-Sized Web". It includes everything from driverless cars to smart thermostats, from billboards that... -
State Crime: Governments, Violence and Corruption Penny Green 9780745317847
RRP: £29.99£23.02What is state crime? This book sets out the parameters of state crime and highlights the complex issues involved. The authors provide a clear chapter-by-chapter assessment of state violence, corruption, state involvement in organised and corporate crime,... -
Contemporary Trotskyism: Parties, Sects and Social Movements in Britain John Kelly 9781138943810
RRP: £37.99£33.38Almost 80 years after Leon Trotsky founded the Fourth International, there are now Trotskyist organizations in 57 countries, including most of Western Europe and Latin America. Yet no Trotskyist group has ever led a revolution or built an enduring mass,... -
The Wake Up: Closing the Gap Between Good Intentions and Real Change by Michelle Mijung Kim
RRP: £22.00£16.67As we become more aware of various social injustices in the world, many of us want to be part of the movement toward positive change. But sometimes our best intentions cause unintended harm, and we fumble. We might feel afraid to say the wrong thing and... -
India vs UK: The Story of an Unprecedented Diplomatic Win by Syed Akbaruddin 9789354892035
£10.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789354892035Author Syed AkbaruddinFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint HarperCollins IndiaPublisher HarperCollins IndiaDimensions(mm) 250mm * 200mm * 50mm -
The Limits of the Market: The Pendulum Between Government and Market by Paul de Grauwe 9780198784289
RRP: £39.99£39.81The old discussion of 'Market or State' is obsolete. There will always have to be a mix of market and state. The only relevant question is what that mix should look like. How far do we have to let the market go its own way in order to create as much... -
The Humanitarian Machine: Reflections from Practice Diego Fernandez Otegui 9780367689759
RRP: £33.99£30.00As the world reels from the impact of a global pandemic and increasing intensity of climate-caused hazards, the humanitarian sector has never been more relevant. But providing aid to those affected by disasters and crises is more complex than ever.In The... -
Masters of Mankind: Essays and Lectures, 1969-2013 by Noam Chomsky
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Arguably the most important intellectual alive' New York Times on Noam ChomskyIn this collection of essays from 1969-2013, Noam Chomsky exposes the real nature of state power. With unrelenting logic, he holds the arguments of empire up to critical... -
The Triumph of Injustice: How the Rich Dodge Taxes and How to Make Them Pay by Emmanuel Saez 9781324002727
RRP: £21.99£17.83Even as they became fabulously wealthy, the rich have seen their taxes collapse to levels last seen in the 1920s. Meanwhile working-class Americans have been asked to pay more. The Triumph of Injustice is a forensic investigation into this dramatic... -
When Kids Rule the School: The Power and Promise of Democratic Education by Jim Rietmulder
RRP: £14.99£13.40How self-directed democratic schooling builds fulfilling lives and can lead the way back to a civilized society Education is ripe for democratic disruption. Students in most schools are denied fundamental social ideals such as personal freedom, public... -
The Crisis of Parliaments: English History 1509-1660 by Conrad Russell
£53.69Political, social, and economic factors are integrated in this book, the two themes of which are the political and constitutional effects of rapid inflation and the difficulties caused by the universal desire to achieve and enforce religion in a... -
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond 9780553447453
RRP: £18.99£11.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of American Bar Association Silver Gavel Award 2017 and Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction 2017 and Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Award...