Political Science

Rosa Luxemburg is revered as one of the leading socialists of the early 20th century, whose vision for justice and equality continues to resonate throughout workers movements today. Paul Frelich was one of the founding members of the German Communist...

The Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 has its roots in the events of 2013-2014. Russia cynically termed the seditionist conflict in Crimea and Eastern Donbas a 'civil war' in order to claim non-involvement. This flies in the face of evidence, but the...

Who rules America? All the Presidents' Bankers is a ground-breaking narrative of how an elite group of men transformed the American economy and government, dictated foreign and domestic policy, and shaped world history.Culled from original presidential...

This book charts the development of political thought within the British Liberal Party and its successor, the Liberal Democrats. Beginning with Jo Grimond's rise to the leadership in 1956, it follows the Liberal resurgence in the second half of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800991842Author Sally Roberts JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y LolfaDimensions(mm) 215mm * 140mm * 15mm

The literature on policy strategies, instruments, and styles is impressive. Still, a complex variety of theoretical and conceptual approaches and analytical tools hamper a good overview. Carrots, Sticks, and Sermons proposes such a framework for the...

Atheism was the most fundamental challenge to early-modern French certainties. Leading educators, theologians and philosophers labelled such atheism as manifestly absurd, confident that neither the fact nor behaviour of nature was explicable without...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781902932705Author Muammar Al-QadhafiFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint Garnet PublishingPublisher Garnet PublishingWeight(grams) 91gDimensions(mm) 178mm...

As the financial crisis reached its climax in September 2008, the most important figure on the planet was Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke. The whole financial system was collapsing, without anything to stop it. When a senator asked Bernanke what...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583676592Author Eric Holt-Gim nezFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U.S.Weight(grams)...

International human rights law has expanded remarkably since the 1990s. It is therefore more important than ever to identify, beyond specific controversies, its deeper structure and the general pattern of evolution. Moreover, it has a logic of its own:...

Honorable Mention, Association for Middle East Women's Studies Honorable Mention, 2018 Arab American Book Awards (Non-Fiction) In contemporary France, particularly in the banlieues of Paris, the figure of the young, virile, hypermasculine Muslim...

How the US is losing the counterintelligence war and what the country should do to better protect our national security and trade secrets The United States is losing the counterintelligence war. Foreign intelligence services, particularly those of...

The Kennedys in the World: How Jack, Bobby, and Ted Remade America's Empire explores how the Kennedy brothers reshaped America's federation for more than six decades after World War II. For all the millions of words written about them, no one has...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629630991Author Gilles DauveFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press

Robert Nozick's Anarchy, State and Utopia is one of the works which dominates contemporary debate in political philosophy. Drawing on traditional assumptions associated with individualism and libertarianism, Nozick mounts a powerful argument for a...

Ever since Deng Xiaoping effectively de-radicalized China in the 1980s, there have been many debates about which path China would follow. Would it democratize? Would it embrace capitalism? Would the Communist Party's rule be able to withstand the...

ni de aqui, ni de alla: It starts neither here nor there, a liminal space between two states of being. A life captured within his lines, At Least This I Know guides the reader through Andres N. Ordorica's own story, of ancestry, nationhood, activism...

This engaging and concise new edition offers the student and general reader a compact, readable treatment of British membership of the European Union (EU) from 1973 up until the present day and Brexit, with detailed analysis of the period 1945-1972...

This book explores God's use of violence as depicted in the Hebrew Bible. Focusing on the Pentateuch, it reads biblical narratives and codes of law as documenting formations of theopolitical imagination. Ophir deciphers the logic of divine rule that...

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Guy Standing's immensely influential 2011 book introduced the Precariat as an emerging mass class, characterized by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781927987117Author Janine VangoolFormat PaperbackPage Count 450Imprint UPPERCASE publishing incPublisher UPPERCASE publishing inc

"Freedom Fighters" covers a violent episode in recent Welsh history shunned or relegated to the sidelines by more conventional historians. By drawing together various sources, the author has produced a highly compelling narrative of a period when a group...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title for 2004 2004.Book InformationISBN 9780262524407Author Bruce Bueno de MesquitaFormat PaperbackPage Count 550Imprint MIT...

This volume explores the origins of Japan's current economic crisis and assesses the country's prospects for recovery. An exploration of the origins and consequences of Japan's current economic crisis. Examines the collapse of the equity and real estate...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsLong-listed for Cundill History Prize 2023.Book InformationISBN 9781101973677Author Matthew ConnellyFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random...

Do you know your Boosterism from your Backstopectomy? Can you tell Prometheus from Cincinnatus, and if so, do you know what Prime Minister Boris Johnson is trying to say when he namechecks esoteric figures from the classics, quotes obscure phrases from...

This groundbreaking study sets out to clarify one of the most influential but least studied of all political concepts. Despite continual talk of popular sovereignty, the idea of the people has been neglected by political theorists who have been deterred...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905664658Author Berni StringerFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint British Association for Adoption and Fostering (BAAF)Publisher CoramBAAFWeight(grams)...

This book explores why naive ideals about better policymaking persist even in cynical times, revealing the careful reflection at the heart of what appears to be 'magical thinking' in public policy. Contemporary policy scholarship tends to be cynical...

Waiting for the revolution is a volume of essays examining the diverse currents of British left-wing politics from 1956 to the present day. The book is designed to complement the previous volume, Against the grain: The far left in Britain from 1956,...

'This is a book in the finest tradition of investigative scholarship. The research is awesome...Seale's great strength is his ability to explain the confusing kaleidoscopic nature of Middle Eastern diplomacy. He understands the game being played and also...

The tragic events of September 11, 2001, and the false assessment of Saddam Hussein's weapons arsenal were terrible reminders that good information is essential to national security. These failures convinced the American public that their intelligence...

Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-BD licence. Based on the findings of the Innovate Project, a four year pan-UK study to identify the processes of innovation in care, this book asks: how can services be re-envisioned and transformed through...

Why has nationalism come roaring back? Trump in America, Johnson in the U.K., anti-EU parties in Italy, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Austria, Poland, and Hungary, and nativist or authoritarian leaders in Turkey, Russia, India, and China-Why has...

This study examines the spread of socialism in late-Victorian and Edwardian Wales, paying particular attention to the relationship between socialism and Welsh national identity. Welsh opponents of socialism often claimed it to be a foreign import,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904563389Author Philip Jones GriffithsFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Trolley BooksPublisher Trolley Books

Sylvia Pankhurst was a tireless activist for a variety of radical causes, including women's suffrage, labour movements and international solidarity campaigns. She made pioneering contributions to gender and class politics, revolutionary communist...

The freedom to think what you want and to say what you think has always generated a pushback of regulation and censorship. This raises the thorny question: to what extent does free speech actually endanger speech protection? This book examines today's...

The site of industrial struggle is shifting. Across the Global South, peasant communities are forced off the land to live and work in harsh and impoverished conditions. Inevitably, new methods of combating the spread of industrial capitalism are evolving...