Political Science

From the acclaimed author of How Will Capitalism End? comes an omnibus of long-form critical essays engaging with leading economists and thinkers. Critical Encounters draws on Wolfgang Streeck's inimitable writing for the London Review of Books and New...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807000670Author Dr. Martin Luther KingFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 306gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062505521Author Martin Luther, Jr. KingFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint HarperOnePublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

Behavioural public policies, or nudges, have become increasingly popular in recent years, with governments keen to use light-touch interventions to improve the success of their public policies. In this unique book, Peter John explores nudges, their...

*Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Book Prize, 2019* *Shortlisted for the Isaac Deutscher Prize 2019* Why Marxism? Why today? In the first introduction to Marxist literary criticism to be published in decades, Barbara Foley argues that...

Leading scholars, activists, and political leaders on being victim's of the world's worst atrocities "How much compensation ought to be paid to a woman who was raped 7,500 times? What would the members of the Commission want for their daughters if their...

This first volume in a new trilogy of books by Antonio Negri examines and develops the Italian tradition of radical Marxist thought known as operaismo or 'autonomist Marxism' - the tradition to which Negri himself adheres and in which he is a leading...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627310963Author Tea KrulosFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Feral House,U.S.Publisher Feral House,U.S.

Armed resistance, suicide bombings, and rocket attacks, populate the Western media's depiction of Palestinian resistance. Synthesising data from hundreds of original sources, Dr Mazin Qumsiyeh provides the most comprehensive study of the always creative,...

The aim of this collection is to illustrate the pervasive influence of humanist rhetoric on early-modern literature and philosophy. The first half of the book focuses on the classical rules of judicial rhetoric. One chapter considers the place of these...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250266163Author William NeumanFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 528gDimensions(mm) 243mm *...

Until the Brexit referendum, there was widespread doubt as to whether English nationalism existed at all, at least beyond a small fringe. Since then, it has come to be regarded an obvious explanation for the vote to Leave the European Union. Subsequent...

How a notorious far right organization set the Republican Party on a long march toward extremismAt the height of the John Birch Society's activity in the 1960s, critics dismissed its members as a paranoid fringe. After all, "Birchers" believed that a...

The Economics and Politics of European Integration offers a comprehensive history of European integration, from the conceptualization of a United States of Europe, to the present day. The special role of the United States in this process of integration,...

An argument for the classical realist approach to world politics An Unwritten Future offers a fresh reassessment of classical realism, an enduring approach to understanding crucial events in the international political arena. Jonathan Kirshner identifies...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374513344Author Aleksandr SolzhenitsynFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Hill & WangPublisher Hill & WangWeight(grams) 177gDimensions(mm) 206mm *...

From Hillary Clinton to Ivanka Trump and from Emma Watson all the way to Beyonce, more and more high-powered women are unabashedly identifying as feminists in the mainstream media. In the past few years feminism has indeed gained increasing visibility...

The first general history of the evolution of European states and nations from medieval times to the present.About the AuthorHagen Schulze was born in Tangiers, Morocco in 1943. He was until recently Professor of Modern History and Head of Department at...

This volume investigates secret diplomacy with the aim of understanding its role in shaping foreign policy.Recent events, including covert intelligence gathering operations, accusations of spying, and the leaking of sensitive government documents, have...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781510732315Author Tim Pat CooganFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Skyhorse PublishingPublisher Skyhorse PublishingWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm) 239mm...

Assessment, intervention and living with children who are looked after or adopted all require an understanding of psychology and its application. This innovative collection makes thinking psychologically about looked after and adopted children...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398816657Author Ivy FinneganFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcturus Publishing LtdPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd

2021 marks the 40th anniversary of the Limehouse Declaration and the launch of the Social Democratic Party in the UK, which was later to merge and form the Liberal Democrats. To mark this important milestone, this book brings together prominent...

Part political thriller, part meditation on social change, part love story, The Children of Harvey Milk tells the epic stories of courageous men and women around the world who came forward to make their voices heard during the struggle for equal rights. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684124299Author Sun TzuFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Canterbury ClassicsPublisher Canterbury ClassicsWeight(grams) 562gDimensions(mm) 244mm *...

If the twentieth century witnessed the triumph of democracy then something appears to have gone seriously wrong in the twenty-first. Citizens around the world have become distrustful of politicians, sceptical about democratic institutions, and...

This book charts the new phase of global struggles around gender equality and sexual democracy: the ultraconservative mobilization against "gender ideology" and feminist efforts to counteract it. It argues that anti-gender campaigns, which emerged around...

Today's North Atlantic Treaty Organization, with nearly thirty members and a global reach, differs strikingly from the alliance of twelve created in 1949 to "keep the Americans in, the Russians out, and the Germans down." These differences are not simply...

In early 2011, the heart of the Muslim world roiled in protest, consumed with the upheaval of the Arab Spring. The governments of Tunisia and Egypt had already fallen; those of Libya and Yemen would soon follow. Watching the chaos from his hideout in...

Weapons proliferation is one of the most pressing global concerns following the end of the Cold War. Despite the absence of an overarching superpower conflict, armaments and related technologies have continued to spread throughout the international...

Winner, Sexuality and Politics Book Award - American Political Science Association Finalist, PROSE Award - Government and Politics What the evolving fight for transgender rights reveals about government power, regulations, and the law Every...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865971745Author M J C VileFormat HardbackPage Count 467Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 915g

This book explores the challenges and potential of Fair Trade, one of the world's most dynamic efforts to enhance global social justice and environmental sustainability through market based social change.Fair Trade links food consumers and agricultural...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780465098873Author Tamler SommersFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Basic Civitas BooksPublisher INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES USWeight(grams)...

How the creation of the Nobel Prize in Economics changed the economics profession, Sweden, and the worldOur confidence in markets comes from economics, and our confidence in economics is underpinned by the Nobel Prize in Economics, which was first...

The Levellers were a crucial component of a radically democratic movement during the civil wars in seventeenth-century England. This was to be democratic at a time when the very idea of democracy conjured up nothing good; with its suggestion of anarchy...

In times of climate change and public debt, a concern for intergenerational justice should lead us to have a closer look at theories of intergenerational justice. It should also press us to provide institutional design proposals to change the...

'Globalization' is one of the key concepts of our time. It is used by both the right and the left as the cornerstone of their analysis of the international economy and polity. In both political and academic discussions, the assumption is commonly made...

No other country has devised a grand strategy for managing China's rising economic and military power as deliberately or successfully as Japan. Seeking to counter Chinese ambitions toward regional hegemony, Japan has taken an increasingly assertive role...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780425259634Author Kate QuinnFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams)...