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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: £41.99£36.75Volume 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: £11.99£10.15An 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: £30.99£26.77Climate 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: £9.99£7.11A 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: £47.49£47.08This 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: £27.99£24.01A 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... -
The Politics of Community Action: A Decade of Struggle in Notting Hill by Jan O'Malley
RRP: £13.99£13.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780851248875Author Jan O'MalleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Spokesman BooksPublisher Spokesman Books -
British Foreign Policy: Crises, Conflicts and Future Challenges by Jamie Gaskarth 9780745651156
RRP: £26.99£23.46Britain has been a significant voice in global politics in the last two decades and its impact on world events far outweighs its material resources. But how does a small island on the edge of Europe continue to exercise this level of power on an... -
Shit Is Fucked Up And Bullshit: History Since the End of History by Malcolm Harris
RRP: £16.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612198361Author Malcolm HarrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House Publishing -
Not Being: A bigger and bolder version of who we are by Stephen D'Souza 9781912555901
RRP: £14.99£9.80For too long, we have bought into the myth of separation: the story that we each win or lose through the relentless pursuit of self-improvement, achieving personal and organizational goals and increasing consumerism. This has led us to being more lonely,... -
Africa's Struggle for Its Art: History of a Postcolonial Defeat by Benedicte Savoy
RRP: £25.00£18.56A major new history of how African nations, starting in the 1960s, sought to reclaim the art looted by Western colonial powers For decades, African nations have fought for the return of countless works of art stolen during the colonial era and placed in... -
The Muslims are Coming! by Arun Kundnani
£27.99The new front in the War on Terror is the "homegrown enemy," domestic terrorists who have become the focus of sprawling counterterrorism structures of policing and surveillance in the United States and across Europe. Domestic surveillance has... -
Trickle Down" Theory and "Tax Cuts for the Rich by Thomas Sowell
RRP: £4.95£4.75This essay unscrambles gross misconceptions that have made rational debates about tax policies virtually impossible for decades.About the AuthorThomas Sowell is the Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover Institution, USA... -
Media Representations of Anti-Austerity Protests in the EU: Grievances, Identities and Agency Tao Papaioannou 9781138685932
RRP: £135.00£117.68This book analyzes constructions of injustice, group identification and participation in news and social media in anti-austerity protests within the European Union (EU). Since 2008, EU member-states have witnessed waves of protests and demonstrations... -
Women as War Criminals: Gender, Agency, and Justice by Izabela Steflja
RRP: £10.99£9.60Women war criminals are far more common than we think. From the Holocaust to ethnic cleansing in the Balkans to the Rwandan genocide, women have perpetrated heinous crimes. Few have been punished. These women go unnoticed because their very existence... -
A GIFT: from artists, poets and photographers (under 13) by julian rothenstein 9780995518131
RRP: £12.95£11.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995518131Author julian rothensteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Redstone PressPublisher Redstone Press -
Survival February - March 2022: The Reckoning: Russia, Ukraine and NATO by The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)
RRP: £19.99£14.87Survival, the IISS's bimonthly journal, challenges conventional wisdom and brings fresh, often controversial, perspectives on strategic issues of the moment.In this issue:* The Ukraine crisis: Robert Hunter argues that the most important requirement of... -
The London Volvo B7TL by Wharmby, Matthew 9781526786951
RRP: £35.00£25.29At the turn of the century Volvo found itself in a three-way tussle with Dennis and DAF to design and produce Britain's first low-floor double-deck buses. The resulting B7TL was later into service in London than its competitors, but quickly caught up to... -
Democracy and Distrust: A Theory of Judicial Review by John Hart Ely 9780674196377
RRP: £30.95£24.42This powerfully argued appraisal of judicial review may change the face of American law. Written for layman and scholar alike, the book addresses one of the most important issues facing Americans today: within what guidelines shall the Supreme Court... -
Big Mind: How Collective Intelligence Can Change Our World by Geoff Mulgan
RRP: £20.00£15.89How collective intelligence can transform business, government, and our everyday livesA new field of collective intelligence has emerged in recent years, prompted by digital technologies that make it possible to think at large scale. This "bigger... -
Jeremy Corbyn and the Strange Rebirth of Labour England by Francis Beckett 9781785904004
RRP: £20.00£14.48In 2016 Labour burst into new life. The Westminster beltway of political insiders, pollsters, commentators and newspaper proprietors were left with egg all over their faces. Few took the trouble to ask how or why Labour, almost alone amongst parties on... -
Japan Rearmed: The Politics of Military Power by Sheila A. Smith 9780674293953
RRP: £20.95£16.88"Washington's relationship with Tokyo is generally considered the most important of the United States' 70-odd alliances. In this intimately knowledgeable book, Smith shows how that alliance looks to the Japanese: increasingly unreliable."-Andrew J... -
Domestic Extremist: A Practical Guide to Winning the Culture War by Peachy Keenan
RRP: £29.99£18.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684513529Author Peachy KeenanFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Regnery PublishingPublisher Regnery PublishingWeight(grams) 590gDimensions(mm) 226mm *... -
Fractured Continent: Europe's Crises and the Fate of the West William Drozdiak 9780393608687
RRP: £20.99£18.15In President Obama's effort to reshape America's image abroad, he made overtures to the Islamic world, pivoted towards China and vowed to "reset" relations with Russia. What he overlooked, argues William Drozdiak, was the imminent crisis in Europe. The... -
The Globalization Reader Frank J. Lechner (Emory University) 9781119409946
RRP: £32.95£30.14An introduction to the issues surrounding the complex and controversial realities of today's interconnected world, the revised sixth edition Since its initial publication, The Globalization Reader has been lauded for its comprehensive coverage of the... -
ISIS: A History by Fawaz A. Gerges 9780691175799
RRP: £16.99£13.65The 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... -
Rosa Luxemburg: Socialism or Barbarism: Selected Writings by Rosa Luxemburg
RRP: £24.99£16.38Rosa Luxemburg's writings reveal one of the most brilliant and passionate minds drawn to the revolutionary socialist movement. Through the letters, pamphlets and theorising, we see an outstanding social and economic theorist, a dedicated political... -
Revolutionary Change by Chalmers Johnson
RRP: £21.99£19.19A classic study by a leading theorist of revolution, Revolutionary Change has gone through eleven printings since its appearance in 1966 and been translated into German, French, and Korean. This carefully revised edition not only brings the original... -
The Crisis of Conservatism: The Politics, Economics and Ideology of the Conservative Party, 1880-1914 by E. H. H. Green
RRP: £41.99£37.15The Crisis of Conservatism 1880-1914 offers a new interpretation of Conservative politics in the period 1880-1914 and comes to the startling conclusion that, but for the intervention of the First World War, there may well have been a 'Strange Death of... -
Democracy in One Book or Less: How It Works, Why It Doesn't, and Why Fixing It Is Easier Than You Think by David Litt
£12.61Bill Bryson meets Thomas Frank in this deeply insightful, unexpectedly hilarious story of how politicians hijacked American democracy and how we can take it backThe democracy you live in today is different-completely different-from the democracy you were... -
War and Conflict in Africa Paul D. Williams (George Washington University) 9781509509058
RRP: £34.99£31.25After the Cold War, Africa earned the dubious distinction of being the world's most bloody continent. But how can we explain this proliferation of armed conflicts? What caused them and what were their main characteristics? And what did the world's... -
Can Russia Modernise?: Sistema, Power Networks and Informal Governance by Alena V. Ledeneva 9780521125635
RRP: £25.99£21.99In this original, bottom-up account of the evolution of contemporary Russia, Alena Ledeneva seeks to reveal how informal power operates. Concentrating on Vladimir Putin's system of governance - referred to as sistema - she identifies four key types of... -
The Opium of the Intellectuals by Raymond Aron 9780765807007
RRP: £51.99£45.59Raymond Aron's 1955 masterpiece The Opium of the Intellectuals, is one of the great works of twentieth- century political reflection. Aron shows how noble ideas can slide into the tyranny of "secular religion" and emphasizes how political thought has the... -
The Origins of Inequality: Mechanisms, Models, Policy by Per Molander 9783030931919
RRP: £69.99£59.61This book presents a unified approach to the problem of inequality, combining results from a variety of research fields - the human life cycle, group dynamics, networks, markets, and economic geography. Its main message is that inequality emerges as the... -
Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation by Kristin Kobes Du Mez 9781631495731
RRP: £22.99£17.48Jesus and John Wayne is a sweeping, revisionist history of the last seventy-five years of white evangelicalism, revealing how evangelicals have worked to replace the Jesus of the Gospels with an idol of rugged masculinity and Christian nationalism-or in... -
Environmental Politics and Policy by John McCormick 9781137603999
£40.89This book provides systematic coverage of the key concepts in the study of environmental politics; the evolution of environmental thinking; the national and international actors involved in environmental policy; and a selection of specific environmental... -
The Hardest Job in the World: The American Presidency by John Dickerson
RRP: £20.00£12.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984854537Author John DickersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 672Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
Liberty and Security Conor Gearty 9780745647197
RRP: £14.99£13.58All aspire to liberty and security in their lives but few people truly enjoy them. This book explains why this is so. In what Conor Gearty calls our 'neo-democratic' world, the proclamation of universal liberty and security is mocked by facts on the... -
Political Fictions by Joan Didion
RRP: £18.00£10.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375718908Author Joan DidionFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 278gDimensions(mm) 201mm *... -
The Invention of Marxism: How an Idea Changed Everything by Christina Morina 9780198852087
RRP: £34.49£29.67How did one man's critique of capitalism guide the course of modern history? When he died in 1883, Karl Marx left behind an intellectual legacy of formidable proportions and revolutionary potential, yet one that exerted limited actual political,...