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First Ladies: The Ever Changing Role, from Martha Washington to Melania Trump by Betty Boyd Caroli 9780190669133
RRP: £14.99£13.09Betty Boyd Caroli's engrossing and informative First Ladies is both a captivating read and an essential resource for anyone interested in the role of America's First Ladies. Caroli observes the role as it has shifted and evolved from ceremonial backdrop... -
The New Geography of Capitalism: Firms, Finance, and Society by Adam D. Dixon 9780199668243
£37.50Globalization is a dominant feature and force in the contemporary world, impacting all areas of business, economics, and society. This accessibly written overview of contemporary capitalism shows how the development of global supply chains, the global... -
Defending Democracy in an Age of Sharp Power by William J. Dobson 9781421448046
RRP: £29.00£26.08Explores how authoritarian regimes are deploying "sharp power" to undermine democracies from within by weaponizing universities, institutions, media, technology, and entertainment industries.The world's dictators are no longer content with shoring up... -
Ready For Revolution: The CNT Defense Committees in Barcelona, 1933-1938 by Agustin Guillamon 9781849351423
RRP: £12.95£8.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849351423Author Agustin GuillamonFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint AK PressPublisher AK PressWeight(grams) 286g -
Public Policy: An Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Policy Analysis Wayne Parsons 9781852785543
RRP: £34.95£32.69This major textbook presents for the first time a thoroughly modern introduction to policy studies - one of the fastest growing areas in the academic curriculum.Public Policy provides a lively, clear and highly accessible introduction to the theory and... -
Islamic Law and International Law: Peaceful Resolution of Disputes by Emilia Justyna Powell 9780197643020
RRP: £28.49£26.27There are twenty-nine Islamic law states (ILS) in the world today, and their Muslim population is over 900 million. Muslims in these countries--and, to some extent, all Muslims--are ethically, morally, doctrinally, or politically committed to the Islamic... -
Substance Not Spin: An Insider's View of Success and Failure in Government by Nick Raynsford 9781447331926
RRP: £18.99£15.03Why does policy succeed or fail? Nick Raynsford, a former MP, Minister and campaigner, tells us how it looks from the front line of policymaking. Based on his vast personal experience at the very heart of government and the voluntary sector, Raynsford... -
Islam and Human Rights: Tradition and Politics by Ann Elizabeth Mayer
RRP: £43.99£38.44Islam and Human Rights is a probing examination of how the Islamic tradition has been exploited for political ends by regimes and institutions seeking to legitimize policies inimical to human rights. Ann Elizabeth Mayer critically appraises Islamic human... -
State-building Interventions in Post-Conflict Liberia: Building a State without Citizens Susanne Mulbah (Kings College London, UK) 9780367888442
RRP: £39.99£35.06Post-conflict Liberia has been subjected to extensive international state-building, at some point hosting the largest and one of the longest UN peacekeeping missions in the world, and inflow of aid that exceeds in multiples the GDP. In order to... -
The Paradox of Democracy: Free Speech, Open Media, and Perilous Persuasion by Zac Gershberg
RRP: £24.00£20.52A thought-provoking history of communications that challenges ideas about freedom of speech and democracy. At the heart of democracy lies a contradiction that cannot be resolved, one that has affected free societies since their advent: Though freedom... -
Saving the Media: Capitalism, Crowdfunding, and Democracy by Julia Cage
RRP: £16.95£13.85The media are in crisis. Confronted by growing competition and sagging advertising revenue, news operations in print, on radio and TV, and even online are struggling to reinvent themselves. Many have gone under. For too many others, the answer has been... -
Future Primitive Revisited by John Zerzan 9781936239290
RRP: £14.99£9.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936239290Author John ZerzanFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Feral House,U.S.Publisher Feral House,U.S.Weight(grams) 280g -
Peace or Pacification?: Northern Ireland After the Defeat of the IRA Liam O Ruairc 9781789041279
RRP: £12.99£11.46Often the so-called 'Irish question' is reduced to one of ancestral hatreds, but this timely book following the revenant tensions borne out of Brexit negotiations grounds its study in the context of colonialism, anti-imperialism and liberation struggles... -
Governmentality: Power and Rule in Modern Society by Mitchell M. Dean
RRP: £48.99£39.74"Mitchell Dean has written an outstandingly clear and scholarly introduction to the central theses and methods of the analysis of the mentalities and techniques of rule... He not only provides a guide to Foucault's own thought in this area, but he... -
A Political Economy of the Middle East by Melani Cammett 9780813349381
£47.27A Political Economy of the Middle East is the most comprehensive analysis of developments in the political economy of the region over the past several decades, examining the interaction of economic development processes, state systems and policies, and... -
Moral Economies of Money: Politics and the Monetary Constitution of Society by Jakob Feinig
RRP: £21.99£19.19For much of American history, large numbers of people claimed that money was a public good and asserted the right to shape money creation practices. If popular knowledge about money creation was once widely shared, how and why did it disappear? In this... -
Museums and Social Change: Challenging the Unhelpful Museum by Adele Chynoweth 9780367228019
RRP: £36.99£32.53Museums and Social Change explores the ways museums can work in collaboration with marginalised groups to work for social change and, in so doing, rethink the museum. Drawing on the first-hand experiences of museum practitioners and their partners around... -
The Next Public Administration: Debates and Dilemmas by B. Guy Peters 9781446252895
RRP: £38.99£31.87Written by two of the leading scholars in the field, this book explores public administration in the past, present and future, critically reviewing the modernization of public management reform. It reasserts public administration as an integral component... -
The Silver Waterfall: How America Won the War in the Pacific at Midway by Brendan Simms
RRP: £25.00£18.10The Battle of Midway was, on paper, an improbable victory for the smaller, less experienced American navy and air force, so much so that it was quickly described as "a miracle." Yet fortune favored the Americans at Midway, and the conventional wisdom has... -
Planning For Good Or Ill: A Review of the UK Planning System: 1944 to the present day by Clive Brook 9781839526138
RRP: £22.50£15.96Planning is good for us all! This bold statement neatly summarises the core theme of this new book, which reviews the origins, evolution and operation of the modern UK Town and Country Planning system. The author provides a personal, and at times... -
A Secret Well Kept: The Untold Story of Sir Vernon Kell, Founder of MI5 by Constance Kell
RRP: £16.99£12.28The United Kingdom's domestic counter-intelligence and security agency, most commonly known as MI5, was founded in 1909 by Sir Vernon Kell KBE. Kell ('K' within the agency) not only founded MI5 but was also its Director for 31 years, the longest tenure... -
Imray Chart Y6: Suffolk and Essex Coasts: 2022 by Imray 9781786794246
RRP: £16.95£14.08For this 2022 edition the chart has been fully updated throughout with revised depths and the latest wind farm developments.About the AuthorImray Laurie Norie & Wilson Ltd was formed in 1904 when three private chart publishing firms amalgamated. Each of... -
Marx at the Arcade: Consoles, Controllers, and Class Struggle by Jamie Woodcock
RRP: £16.99£11.63In Marx at the Arcade, acclaimed researcher Jamie Woodcock delves into the hidden abode of the gaming industry. In an account that will appeal to hardcore gamers, digital skeptics, and the joystick-curious, Woodcock unravels the vast networks of artists,... -
Face of Imperialism Michael Parenti 9781594519185
RRP: £35.99£31.69The relationship between US economic and military power is not often considered within mainstream commentary. Similarly the connection between US military interventions overseas and US domestic problems is rarely considered in any detail. In this... -
Everything Must Change!: The World After Covid-19 by Renata Avila
RRP: £12.99£8.63Everything Must Change! brings together prominent commentators from around the world to present a rich and nuanced weighing of progressive possibilities in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. In these pages you'll encounter influential voices across... -
Rethinking Camelot: JFK, the Vietnam War, and U.S. Political Culture Noam Chomsky (Massachusetts Institute Of Technology) 9780745335421
RRP: £16.99£11.54In a potent act of myth busting, Noam Chomsky turns his critical gaze upon the Kennedy Administration and draws controversial parallels between the Presidency of JFK and that of Ronald Reagan, with particular focus on the Vietnam War. For anyone... -
Singapore: A Modern History by Michael D. Barr
RRP: £19.99£17.29Singapore gained independence in 1965, a city-state in a world of nation-states. Yet its long and complex history reaches much farther back. Blending modernity and tradition, ideologies and ethnicities, a peculiar set of factors make Singapore what it is... -
International Migration and Citizenship Today Niklaus Steiner 9781032114118
RRP: £33.99£30.00This completely revised and updated textbook explores the moral, economic, political, and cultural dimensions of the movement of people across international borders. In style and substance, it is designed to spark thoughtful discussions and to challenge... -
Empire of Rubber: Firestone’s Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia by Gregg Mitman
RRP: £13.99£9.26"A well-rendered and -documented tale of exploitation in the developing world" (Kirkus Reviews) with deep resonance in the present day In a book Paul Farmer called "a gem of a social history linking two countries stuck in uncomfortable embrace for... -
Understanding Global Security Peter Hough 9781032244600
RRP: £35.99£31.69Fully revised and updated, this fifth edition of Understanding Global Security considers the variety of ways in which peoples' lives are threatened and / or secured in contemporary global politics. The traditional focus of security studies - war,... -
Taiwan: A New History: A New History by Murray A. Rubinstein 9780765614957
RRP: £51.99£45.59This book explores Taiwan's development from its formal beginnings as a political entity to a home for a Ming-loyalist regime, to a Ch'ing prefecture and province, to its half-century as a Japanese possession, and to fifty years as the home of the... -
Requiem for a Species by Clive Hamilton
RRP: £21.99£19.34This book does not set out once more to raise the alarm to encourage us to take radical measures to head off climate chaos. There have been any number of books and reports in recent years explaining just how dire the future looks and how little time we... -
Camp David Summit, What Went Wrong?: Americans, Israelis, and Palestinians Analyze the Failure of the Boldest by Shimon Shamir 9781845191009
RRP: £23.95£21.55The Camp David Summit of 2000 was a formative event in the history of the Israeli-Palestinian relations. It was the most comprehensive effort ever to resolve a hundred-year conflict. Yet, it not only ended in failure but was immediately followed by the... -
Root Causes of Terrorism: Myths, Reality and Ways Forward by Tore Bjorgo
RRP: £43.99£38.44This team of international experts analyses the possibilities and limitations of preventing or reducing terrorism by addressing the factors that give rise to it and sustain it. The key questions raised include:* what are the main circumstances that... -
The Contentious History of the International Bill of Human Rights by Christopher N. J. Roberts 9781107601635
RRP: £24.99£21.18Today, the idea of human rights enjoys near-universal support; yet, there is deep disagreement about what human rights actually are - their true source of origin, how to study them, and how best to address their deficits. In this sweeping historical... -
The Kingdom of Darkness: Bayle, Newton, and the Emancipation of the European Mind from Philosophy by Dmitri Levitin
RRP: £79.99£73.76In 1500, speculative philosophy lay at the heart of European intellectual life; by 1700, its role was drastically diminished. The Kingdom of Darkness tells the story of this momentous transformation. Dmitri Levitin explores the structural factors behind... -
The Sanction: An explosive, twisting espionage thriller by Mark Sennen
RRP: £10.99£7.00A bullet in the right place can change the world...Rebecca da Silva, former crack sniper in the British Special Forces stationed in Afghanistan, is languishing in a dead-end job.Stephen Holm, an intelligence analyst, gambles his position upon the capture... -
The Making Of The October Crisis by D'arcy Jenish
RRP: £19.99£13.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385663274Author D'arcy JenishFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA Inc -
The Sweatshop Regime: Labouring Bodies, Exploitation, and Garments Made in India by Alessandra Mezzadri
RRP: £22.99£20.66This book explores the processes producing and reproducing the garment sweatshop in India. Drawing from Marxian and feminist insights, the book theorises the garment sweatshop in India as a complex 'regime' of exploitation and oppression, jointly crafted... -
More Sex, Lies and the Ballot Box: Another Fifty Things You Need to Know About British Elections by Philip Cowley 9781785900907
RRP: £14.99£12.55With a foreword by Isabel Hardman HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED...how people feel about sleeping with the political enemy? ...whether gambling markets are best at predicting political outcomes? ...who Santa Claus would vote for? Then look no further. More Sex,...