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Housing: Where's the Plan? by Kate Barker 9781907994111
RRP: £12.99£11.95Housing matters a great deal. The present housing market has worked well for many of us (who have enjoyed the steeply rising values of our homes) which is why change, especially new building, is resisted. But for increasing numbers it now works less... -
Military Training in the British Army, 1940-1944: From Dunkirk to D-Day Timothy Harrison Place 9780714680910
RRP: £47.99£41.81In this study, the author traces the reasons for the British Army's tactical weakness in Normany to flaws in its training in Britain. The armour suffered from failures of experience. Disagreements between General Montgomery and the War Office exacerbated... -
A Dangerous Mind: Carl Schmitt in Post-War European Thought by Jan-Werner Muller
£27.41Carl Schmitt (1888-1985) was one of the twentieth century's most brilliant and disturbing critics of liberalism. He was also one of the most important intellectuals to offer his services to the Nazis, for which he was dubbed the "crown jurist of the... -
The Scariff Martyrs: War, Murder and Memory in East Clare by Dr. Tomas Mac Conmara 9781781177259
RRP: £17.99£13.61'This incredible book is very, very important'. Damien Dempsey In November 2008, Tomas Mac Conmara sat with a 105 five-year-old woman at a nursing home in Clare. While gently moving through her memories, he asked the east Clare native; 'Do you... -
Pretence: Why The UK Needs A Written Constitution by Austen Morgan
RRP: £29.99£18.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915406156Author Austen MorganFormat HardbackPage Count 150Imprint Eyewear PublishingPublisher Eyewear Publishing -
The Civic Bargain: How Democracy Survives by Brook Manville
RRP: £25.00£18.89A powerful case for democracy and how it can adapt and survive-if we want it toIs democracy in trouble, perhaps even dying? Pundits say so, and polls show that most Americans believe that their country's system of governance is being "tested" or is... -
The Price of Paradise Iain Overton 9781787470873
RRP: £12.99£7.51'A must-read book on the most frightening phenomenon of the modern age ... Fascinating' Sunday Times'Outstanding' New Statesman'Provocative and timely.... highly readable' Guardian'In an exceptional piece of work, Iain Overton subjects the suicide bomber... -
Japan 1941 by Eri Hotta
RRP: £15.99£11.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307739742Author Eri HottaFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
The Communist Movement at a Crossroads: Plenums of the Communist International's Executive Committee, 1922-1923 by Mike Taber
RRP: £60.00£45.98This volume contains the proceedings and resolutions from three expanded meetings of the Executive Committee of the Communist International (Comintern) held in 1922-1923, while Lenin was still alive. At these 'mini-congresses', Communist leaders from... -
Letters from the Trenches: The First World War by Those Who Were There by Wadsworth, Jacqueline 9781399085090
RRP: £14.99£11.61A history of the First World War told through the letters exchanged by ordinary British soldiers and their families. Letters from the Trenches reveals how people really thought and felt during the conflict and covers all social classes and groups D from... -
The Royal Navy in the Falklands Conflict and the Gulf War: Culture and Strategy Alastair Finlan 9780714685694
RRP: £36.99£32.53This book suggests that institutional culture can account for a great deal of the activities and rationale of the Royal Navy. War highlights the role of culture in military organizations and as such acts as a spotlight by which this phenomenon can be... -
Arms Around Frank Richardson by Sylvia Colley 9781739966096
RRP: £8.99£6.20Nature or nurture? The impact of traumatic childhood experience reverberates into the grown-up world of Frank, Alice and Henry - children from three families suffering the fall-out from their early life. Frank, a working-class boy abused by his... -
How to Subvert a Democracy: Inside India's Deep State by Josy Joseph
RRP: £16.99£15.31India is a democracy at bay. This compelling book puts the spotlight not on political leaders but on the murky workings of India's deep state-from the police to the federal investigative and intelligence agencies. Traversing the Mumbai train blasts,... -
The The Red Army Faction: a Documentary History: Volume 1: The Red Army Faction Volume 1: Projectiles For The People Projectiles for the People by J. Smith
RRP: £32.99£21.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604860290Author J. SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 736Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 782g -
Interior Frontiers: Essays on the Entrails of Inequality by Ann Laura Stoler
RRP: £20.99£17.94In this book, Ann Laura Stoler navigates the shadows and shatterzones of democratic policies, considering how imperial features are folded through (il)liberal orders, where racial inequities thicken in the borderlands of interior frontiers. Sometimes... -
Death in the Congo: Murdering Patrice Lumumba by Emmanuel Gerard
RRP: £32.95£27.04Death in the Congo is a gripping account of a murder that became one of the defining events in postcolonial African history. It is no less the story of the untimely death of a national dream, a hope-filled vision very different from what the war-ravaged... -
The Case for Sanctions Against Israel by Roane Carey 9781844674503
£20.36In July 2011, Israel passed legislation outlawing the public support of boycott activities against the state, corporations, and settlements, adding a crackdown on free speech to its continuing blockade of Gaza and the expansion of illegal settlements... -
Mossad Exodus: The Daring Undercover Rescue of the Lost Jewish Tribe by Gad Shimron 9789652294036
RRP: £17.99£11.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789652294036Author Gad ShimronFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Gefen Publishing HousePublisher Gefen Publishing HouseWeight(grams) 358g -
Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest: Updated Edition by Edwin Erle Sparks Professor Matthew Restall
£21.64An update of a popular work that takes on the myths of the Spanish Conquest of the Americas, featuring a new afterword. Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest reveals how the Spanish invasions in the Americas have been conceived and presented,... -
Summer Of Hamn: Hollowpointlessness Aiding Mass Nihilsm A 'Naphic Grovel' by Chuck D by Chuck D 9781636141527
RRP: £34.99£22.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781636141527Author Chuck DFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Akashic Books,U.S.Publisher Akashic Books,U.S. -
Women and the Vote: A World History by Jad Adams 9780198706854
RRP: £19.99£14.68Before 1893 no woman anywhere in the world had the vote in a national election. A hundred years later almost all countries had enfranchised women, and it was a sign of backwardness not to have done so. This is the story of how this momentous change... -
The Portable Edmund Burke by Edmund Burke 9780140267600
£15.17The intellectual wellspring of modern political conservatism, Edmund Burke is also considered a significant figure in aesthetic theory and cultural studies. As a member of the House of Commons during the late eighteenth century, Burke shook Parliament... -
We're Not Here to Entertain: Punk Rock, Ronald Reagan, and the Real Culture War of 1980s America by Kevin Mattson
RRP: £23.49£17.44We remember the 1980s as the era of Ronald Reagan, a conservative decade populated by preppies and yuppies dancing to a soundtrack of electronic synth pop music (the "MTV generation"). But the decade also produced some of the most creative works of punk... -
Lincoln on Leadership by Donald T. Phillips
RRP: £12.99£10.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780446394598Author Donald T. PhillipsFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Business PlusPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams) 180gDimensions(mm)... -
The Senate Intelligence Committee Report On Torture: Committee Study of the Central Intelligence Agency's Detention and Interrogation Program by Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
RRP: £16.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612194851Author Senate Select Committee on IntelligenceFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House... -
The Routledge Handbook to Global Political Economy: Conversations and Inquiries by Ernesto Vivares
RRP: £44.99£39.28The Routledge Handbook to Global Political Economy provides a comprehensive guide to how Global Political Economy (GPE) is conceptualized and researched around the world. Including contributions that range from traditional International Political Economy... -
Ireland Her Own: An Outline History of the Irish Struggle for National Freedom and Independence by Thomas Alfred Jackson 9780853157359
RRP: £22.00£21.45This classic book tells the history of eight hundred years of the Irish people's struggles for freedom. It takes us from the arrival of English settlers in the Middle ages up to the present day -the struggle in the words of James Fintan Lalor, to make... -
Encyclopedia of Native Tribes Of North America by Michael G. Johnson 9780228104025
RRP: £24.95£21.54"A model of excellence in the art of reference volume publishing... Every public and school library... should acquire this treasure. It will remain the standard for many years to come." - Dr. James A. Clifton, Department of Anthropology, Western Michigan... -
Unsilencing Gaza: Reflections on Resistance by Sara Roy 9780745341378
RRP: £25.99£16.98Palestine Book Awards Lifetime Achievement Winner 2022 'Roy is humanely and professionally committed in ways that are unmatched by any other non-Palestinian scholar' - Edward W. Said Gaza, the centre of Palestinian nationalism and resistance to the... -
The Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought: French Sociology and the Overseas Empire by George Steinmetz
RRP: £38.00£30.01A new history of French social thought that connects postwar sociology to colonialism and empireIn this provocative and original retelling of the history of French social thought, George Steinmetz places the history and development of modern French... -
Karl Polanyi: The Limits of the Market by Dr. Gareth Dale
£19.99Karl Polanyi's The Great Transformation is generally acclaimed as being among the most influential works of economic history in the twentieth century, and remains as vital in the current historical conjuncture as it was in his own. In its critique of... -
Paw Patrol My First Library by P I Kids 9781503760486
RRP: £14.99£9.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781503760486Author PI KidsPage Count 120Imprint PI KidsPublisher Phoenix International Publications, IncorporatedWeight(grams) 839gDimensions(mm) 221mm *... -
Micromotives and Macrobehavior by Thomas C. Schelling 9780393329469
RRP: £14.99£12.11"Schelling here offers an early analysis of 'tipping' in social situations involving a large number of individuals." -official citation for the 2005 Nobel Prize Micromotives and Macrobehavior was originally published over twenty-five years ago, yet the... -
American Zealots: Inside Right-Wing Domestic Terrorism by Arie Perliger
RRP: £22.00£17.36In an unsettling time in American history, the outbreak of right-wing violence is among the most disturbing developments. In recent years, attacks originating from the far right of American politics have targeted religious and ethnic minorities, with a... -
Liberalism at Large: The World According to the Economist by Alexander Zevin 9781788739627
RRP: £16.99£14.10In this landmark book, Alexander Zevin looks at the development of modern liberalism by examining the long history of the Economist newspaper, which, since 1843, has been the most tireless - and internationally influential - champion of the liberal cause... -
English Nationalism: A Short History by Professor Jeremy Black
RRP: £19.99£17.82Englishness is an idea, a consciousness and a proto-nationalism. There is no English state within the United Kingdom, no English passport, Parliament or currency, nor any immediate prospect of any. That does not mean that England lacks an identity,... -
In Praise Of Blood: The Crimes of the Rwandan Patriotic Front by Rever Judi 9780345812100
RRP: £14.99£9.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of The Quebec Writers' Federation Literary Award - Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction 2018. Short-listed for Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize 2018... -
A Dictionary of Marxist Thought Tom Bottomore (University of Sussex) 9780631180821
RRP: £44.95£39.66Part dictionary and part encyclopedia, this book has become the standard reference work on the concepts of Marxism and the individuals and schools of thought that have subsequently contributed to the body of Marxist ideas.About the AuthorThomas Burton... -
Afghanistan: What Everyone Needs to Know by Barnett R. Rubin
RRP: £10.99£7.77Afghanistan, a landlocked country in Central Asia, has improbably been at the center of international geopolitics for four decades. After the Soviet Union invaded in 1980, Afghanistan descended into an unending conflict that featured at various points... -
Reconstructing Solidarity: Labour Unions, Precarious Work, and the Politics of Institutional Change in Europe by Virginia Doellgast
RRP: £40.49£34.00Work is widely thought to have become more precarious. Many people feel that unions represent the interests of protected workers in good jobs at the expense of workers with insecure employment, low pay, and less generous benefits. Reconstructing...