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Politics and Governance in the Middle East by Vincent Durac
RRP: $71.38$63.61This textbook offers a systematic and up-to-date introduction to politics and society in the Middle East. Taking a thematic approach that engages with core theory as well as a wide range of research, it examines postcolonial political, social and... -
Pakistan: Origins, Identity and Future by Pervez Hoodbhoy 9781032270234
RRP: $273.00$235.43This book is an accessible, comprehensive, and nuanced history of Pakistan. It reflects upon state and society in Pakistan and shows they have been shaped by historical forces and personae. Hoodbhoy expertly maps the journey of the region from many... -
What is Iran?: Domestic Politics and International Relations in Five Musical Pieces by Arshin Adib-Moghaddam
RRP: $65.08$47.99What is Iran? What are its domestic politics? Its history? Its international relations? Here, Arshin Adib-Moghaddam sheds fresh light on these questions, offering a general introduction to everything there is to know about this country. Uniquely, he uses... -
Introduction to Global Studies John McCormick (Indiana University, USA) 9781352013047
RRP: $71.38$63.61The second edition of Introduction to Global Studies offers a succinct and authoritative introduction to the important issues and events of our rapidly changing world. It covers all of the key topics in the field, including introductions to history,... -
The Paradox of Myanmar's Regime Change Roger Huang 9781032400112
RRP: $83.98$73.63This book analyzes Myanmar's contemporary political history, arguing that Myanmar's so-called "democratization" has always been a calculated regime transition, planned by the military, with every intention that the military to remain the key permanent... -
Black Visions: The Roots of Contemporary African-American Political Ideologies Michael C. Dawson 9780226138619
RRP: $54.60$53.03This book represents the most comprehensive analysis to date of the complex relationships between black political thought and black political identity and behaviour. Ranging from Frederick Douglass to rap artist Ice Cube, Michael C. Dawson illuminates... -
Political Thought and Political Thinkers by Judith N. Shklar 9780226753461
RRP: $63.00$62.27This is the second volume of Judith Shklar's work and brings together essays on a number of themes, including the place of the intellect in the modern political world and the dangers of identity politics. Editor Stanley Hoffman provides a guide to... -
Rights, Bodies and Recognition: New Essays on Fichte's Foundations of Natural Right by Tom Rockmore 9781138252257
RRP: $83.98$73.63The German philosopher, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, has long been recognized as an important and original figure in the history of philosophy and Western thought and as a seminal influence upon the Romantic tradition. This book focuses on Fichte's... -
The Lost Majority by Michael Ashcroft 9781785903335
RRP: $21.00$15.27The 2017 general election was supposed to be a walkover for the Conservative Party - but the voters had other ideas. In The Lost Majority, Lord Ashcroft draws on his unique research to explain why the thumping victory the Tories expected never... -
First They Took Rome: How the Populist Right Conquered Italy by David Broder
RRP: $35.68$29.61It is difficult for Italians to have much faith in the future. The last Labour Minister said it was a good thing if young people emigrated, to stop them 'getting under our feet'; one recent Prime Minister said that young Italians should not invest their... -
The Political Economy of Industrial Strategy in the UK: From Productivity Problems to Development Dilemmas by Dr Craig Berry
RRP: $62.98$59.85Does the UK still have an industrial strategy? How should we understand the renewed interest within government in industrial policy - and now its apparent reversal - in recent years? This collection of essay by leading academics and practitioners... -
Playing with Fire: The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics by Lawrence O'Donnell 9780399563164
RRP: $37.80$25.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399563164Author Lawrence O'DonnellFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Penguin BooksPublisher Penguin BooksWeight(grams) 408g -
The World Turned Upside Down: America, China, and the Struggle for Global Leadership by Clyde Prestowitz
RRP: $52.50$44.77An authority on Asia and globalization identifies the challenges China's growing power poses and how it must be confronted"Timely and thought-provoking. . . . An unsparing analysis of how Washington's elite fell into the grip of their China delusion... -
China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know (R) by Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom
RRP: $23.08$16.32In this fully revised and updated third edition of China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know (R) , Jeffrey Wasserstrom and Maura Elizabeth Cunningham provide cogent answers to the most urgent questions regarding the newest superpower, and... -
Havens in a Storm: The Struggle for Global Tax Regulation by J. C. Sharman
RRP: $105.00$91.16Small states have learned in recent decades that capital accumulates where taxes are low; as a result, tax havens have increasingly competed for the attention of international investors with tax and regulatory concessions. Economically powerful countries... -
Drafted into the Meme Wars: How a Decade of Online Battles Threatened American Democracy by Joan Donovan
RRP: $63.00$35.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635578638Author Joan DonovanFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USAWeight(grams) 746g -
Resistance Against Empire Derrick Jensen 9781604860467
RRP: $39.88$26.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604860467Author Derrick JensenFormat PaperbackPage Count 275Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 398g -
Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis by Robert D. Putnam
$26.78A New York Times bestseller and "a passionate, urgent" (The New Yorker) examination of the growing inequality gap from the bestselling author of Bowling Alone: why fewer Americans today have the opportunity for upward mobility. Central to the very... -
On Decline: Stagnation, Nostalgia, and Why Every Year is the Worst One Ever by Andrew Potter
RRP: $20.98$14.18A Winnipeg Free Press Top Read of 2021 What if David Bowie really was holding the fabric of the universe together? The death of David Bowie in January 2016 was a bad start to a year that got a lot worse: war in Syria, the Zika virus, terrorist... -
Pathologies of Reason: On the Legacy of Critical Theory by Axel Honneth 9780231146272
RRP: $42.00$33.37Axel Honneth has been instrumental in advancing the work of the Frankfurt School of critical theorists, rebuilding their effort to combine radical social and political analysis with rigorous philosophical inquiry. These eleven essays reclaim the relevant... -
The Troubled Mind of Mary Shelley by Wendy L Bardsley 9780413778314
RRP: $39.88$32.87Mary Shelley was the daughter of philosopher William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft. Her mother died soon after her birth and her father remarried. The poet Percy Bysshe Shelley was a friend of Godwin and a frequent visitor to his home. Though married... -
The Globotics Upheaval: Globalisation, Robotics and the Future of Work Richard Baldwin 9781474609036
RRP: $23.08$15.54'A manifesto for future-proofing our jobs and prosperity' THE SUNDAY TIMESWe stand on the edge of a new era that will bring change to our world on a par with the Industrial Revolution. Automation, artificial intelligence and robotics are changing our... -
CEO Society: The Corporate Takeover of Everyday Life by Peter Bloom 9781786990723
RRP: $37.78$33.47Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) have become the cultural icons of the 21st century. Figures like Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg are held up as role models who epitomise the modern pursuit of innovation, wealth and success. We now live, Bloom and Rhodes... -
Machiavelli's Prince: A New Reading by Erica Benner 9780198746805
$103.26Why did Machiavelli write the Prince - and why did religious and political authorities find it so threatening? Five hundred years on, this book tries to answer these questions. In the first detailed, chapter-by-chapter reading of the Prince in any... -
United States Of Jihad: Who Are America's Homegrown Terrorists, and How Do We Stop Them? by Peter Bergen
RRP: $31.48$23.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804139564Author Peter BergenFormat PaperbackPage Count 424Imprint Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc)Publisher... -
Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates by Harry V. Jaffa
RRP: $48.30$41.45"Crisis of the House Divided" is the standard historiography of the Lincoln-Douglas debates. Harry V. Jaffa provides the definitive analysis of the political principles that guided Lincoln from his reentry into politics in 1854 through his Senate... -
Counterinsurgency: Theory and Reality by Daniel Whittingham
RRP: $42.00$39.67Counterinsurgency is defined as efforts to defeat and confine a rebellion against a constituted authority. While it has become a buzz-word in the last twenty years, it is as old as society itself. This concise history discusses the development of modern... -
The Clintons' War on Women by Robert Morrow 9781510713925
RRP: $27.28$17.18"This book on Hillary - really tough." - President Donald TrumpHillary Clinton is running for president as an "advocate of women and girls," but there is another shocking side to her story that has been carefully covered up until now. This stunning... -
Nutmeg Gets a Little Sister by Judith Foxon 9781905664221
RRP: $25.20$16.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905664221Author Judith FoxonFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint British Association for Adoption and Fostering (BAAF)Publisher CoramBAAFWeight(grams)... -
Notes on Resistance by Noam Chomsky
RRP: $33.50$23.46Noam Chomsky dissects the multiple crises facing humankind and the planet; and provides a road map for resistance.In this completely original set of interviews between the legendary duo of Noam Chomsky and David Barsamian, the two confront topics such as... -
The Tiger Leading the Dragon: How Taiwan Propelled China's Economic Rise by Shelley Rigger 9781442219595
RRP: $52.50$46.07How did the once-secretive, isolated People's Republic of China become the factory to the world? Shelley Rigger convincingly demonstrates that the answer is Taiwan. She follows the evolution of Taiwan's influence from the period when Deng Xiaoping lifted... -
Raising the Roof: How to Solve the United Kingdom's Housing Crisis by Jacob Rees-Mogg
RRP: $26.25$24.26Raising the Roof addresses one of the key issues of our era - the UK's housing crisis. Housing costs in the United Kingdom are among the highest on the planet, with London virtually the most expensive major city in the world for renting or buying a home... -
Harnessing Complexity for Better Outcomes in Public and Non-profit Services Max French (Northumbria University) 9781447364115
RRP: $27.28$21.32ePDF and ePUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. How can public services and social interventions create and sustain good outcomes for the populations they serve? Building on research in public health, social epidemiology and the social... -
The Ethnic Origins of Nations Anthony D. Smith (London School of Economics) 9780631161691
RRP: $71.30$62.96This book is an excellent, comprehensive account of the ways in which nations and nationhood have evolved over time. Successful in hardback, it is now available in paperback for a student audience.About the AuthorAnthony David Stephen Smith was a British... -
The Official History of the UK Strategic Nuclear Deterrent: Volume I: From the V-Bomber Era to the Arrival of Polaris, 1945-1964 by Matthew Jones
RRP: $88.18$77.18Volume I of The Official History of the UK Strategic Nuclear Deterrent provides an authoritative and in-depth examination of the British government's strategic nuclear policy from 1945 to 1964.Written with full access to the UK documentary record, this... -
A Blue New Deal: Why We Need a New Politics for the Ocean by Chris Armstrong
RRP: $25.18$21.32An urgent account of the state of our oceans today-and what we must do to protect them "Provides a persuasive guide to recovery, and is an inspiring and invigorating read."-Phoebe Weston, The Guardian The ocean sustains life on our planet, from... -
Climate Change, Disasters, and the Refugee Convention by Matthew Scott 9781108747127
RRP: $65.08$56.22Climate Change, Disasters and the Refugee Convention is concerned with refugee status determination (RSD) in the context of disasters and climate change. It demonstrates that the legal predicament of people who seek refugee status in this connection has... -
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft 9780099595823
RRP: $20.98$14.93A key work of proto-feminism, Mary Wollstonecraft's readable and impassioned argument is as relevant today as it was two hundred years ago. ... -
The New Politics of Class: The Political Exclusion of the British Working Class by Geoffrey Evans 9780198755753
RRP: $99.73$98.87This book explores the new politics of class in 21st century Britain. It shows how the changing shape of the class structure since 1945 has led political parties to change, which has both reduced class voting and increased class non-voting. This... -
The Rise of English: Global Politics and the Power of Language by Rosemary Salomone
RRP: $58.78$50.42A sweeping account of the global rise of English and the high-stakes politics of language Spoken by a quarter of the world's population, English is today's lingua franca--its common tongue. The language of business, popular media, and international...