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A Road to Nowhere: The Idea of Progress and Its Critics by Matthew W. Slaboch
RRP: $81.90$71.65Since the Enlightenment, the idea of progress has spanned right- and left-wing politics, secular and spiritual philosophy, and most every school of art or culture. The belief that humans are capable of making lasting improvements-intellectual,... -
The Contentious Politics of Refugee and Migrant Protest and Solidarity Movements: Remaking Citizenship from the Margins Ilker Atac (University of Vienna, Austria) 9780367143060
RRP: $92.38$80.72Over the past two years, large-scale migratory movements to Europe have gained worldwide attention, and have prompted ever-greater desires to govern and control them. At the same time, we have seen the emergence of political struggles for rights to... -
The Falling Rate of Profit and the Great Recession of 2007-2009: A New Approach to Applying Marx’s Value Theory and Its Implications for Socialist Strategy by Peter H. Jones
RRP: $63.00$41.75In this ground breaking contribution to Marxist economic theory, Peter H. Jones provides a comprehensive analysis of profit rates in the lead up to the Great Recession. The Falling Rate of Profit and the Great Recession of 2007-2009 develops a new... -
The Four Ages of American Foreign Policy: Weak Power, Great Power, Superpower, Hyperpower by Michael Mandelbaum
RRP: $68.23$59.66A new and unique framework for understanding the history of the foreign policy of the United States. The United States is now nearly 250 years old. It arose from humble beginnings, as a strip of mostly agrarian and sparsely populated English colonies... -
Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America by Keisha N Blain
RRP: $48.30$32.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807061503Author Keisha N. BlainFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press -
The Puzzle of Prison Order: Why Life Behind Bars Varies Around the World by David Skarbek
RRP: $55.63$45.97Many people think prisons are all the same-rows of cells filled with violent men who officials rule with an iron fist. Yet, life behind bars varies in incredible ways. In some facilities, prison officials govern with care and attention to prisoners'... -
The Truth Lies Buried Morton S. Gray 9781781894040
RRP: $16.78$10.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781894040Author Morton S. GrayFormat PaperbackImprint Choc Lit PublishingPublisher Choc Lit Publishing -
Taking Control: Sovereignty and Democracy After Brexit Philip Cunliffe (University College London) 9781509553198
RRP: $105.00$91.37Taking Control argues that neither side in the Brexit debate really understood the European Union or what was involved in reclaiming Britain's sovereignty. The EU is neither a supranational nanny state, nor an internationalist peace project. It is the... -
The Devil's Highway by Luis Alberto Urrea
RRP: $29.38$23.08The author of 'Across the Wire' offers brilliant investigative reporting of what went wrong when, in May 2001, a group of 26 men attempted to cross the Mexican border into the desert of southern Arizona. Only 12 men came back out. 'Superb . . . Nothing... -
America in the World: A History of U.S. Diplomacy and Foreign Policy by Robert B. Zoellick
RRP: $31.48$25.33Recounting the actors and events of U.S. foreign policy, Zoellick identifies five traditions that have emerged from America's encounters with the world: the importance of North America; the special roles trading, transnational, and technological... -
The Battle That Time Forgot: Cold War Counterintelligence and the Enigma of the Soviet Military Liaison Mission by Aden Magee
RRP: $52.50$37.84This book details the Soviet Military Liaison Mission (SMLM) in West Germany and the U.S. Military Liaison Mission (USMLM) in East Germany as microcosms of the Cold War strategic intelligence and counterintelligence landscape. Thirty years since the fall... -
War Nerd by Gary Brecher
$27.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979663680Author Gary BrecherFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Soft Skull PressPublisher CounterpointWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 209mm * 140mm *... -
Bridgebuilders: How Government Can Transcend Boundaries to Solve Big Problems by William D. Eggers
RRP: $52.50$38.41In the face of ever more complex societal challenges, this book provides an essential new model for transforming the public sector and getting things done.Pandemics. Climate change. Refugee resettlement. Global supply chains. We face a new generation of... -
Disposable Futures: The Seduction of Violence in the Age of Spectacle Brad Evans 9780872866584
RRP: $27.28$18.12"This is a must-read book for anyone ready to transcend fear and imagine a new reality."--Tikkun Disposable Futures makes the case that we have not just become desensitized to violence, but rather, that we are being taught to desire it. From movies and... -
Jesuit Political Thought: The Society of Jesus and the State, c.1540-1630 by Harro Hopfl
RRP: $56.68$51.41Harro Hoepfl presents here a full-length study of the single most influential organized group of scholars and pamphleteers in early modern Europe (1540-1630), namely the Jesuits. He explores the academic and political controversies in which they were... -
The Child Placement Handbook by Gillian Schofield 9781905664467
RRP: $58.70$39.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905664467Author Gillian SchofieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint British Association for Adoption and Fostering (BAAF)Publisher... -
Major Infrastructure Planning and Delivery: Exploring Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (Nsips) in England and Wales by Ben Clifford 9781800085244
RRP: $63.00$56.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800085244Author Ben CliffordFormat PaperbackImprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 610gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 22mm -
The Venlo Sting: Mi6'S Deadly Fiasco by Norman Ridley
RRP: $62.90$45.05On 9 November 1939, two unsuspecting British agents of the Special Intelligence Services walked into a trap set by German Spymaster Reinhard Heydrich. Believing that they were meeting a dissident German general for talks about helping German military... -
The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism by Katherine Stewart
RRP: $39.88$24.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635577877Author Katherine StewartFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USAWeight(grams) 364g -
Love and War in the WRNS: Letters Home 1940-46 by Vicky Unwin 9781803990590
RRP: $31.48$24.26Sheila Mills's story is a unique perspective of the Second World War. She is a clever, middle-class Norfolk girl with a yen for adventure and joins the WRNS in 1940 to escape the shackles of secretarial work in London, her unhappy childhood and her... -
Escalation Dynamics in Cyberspace by Erica D. Lonergan
RRP: $44.08$37.67To what extent do cyberspace operations increase the risks of escalation between nation-state rivals? Scholars and practitioners have been concerned about cyber escalation for decades, but the question remains hotly debated. The issue is increasingly... -
Apollo 13: Anniversary Edition by Jim Lovell 9780618056651
$39.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618056651Author Jim LovellFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 326g -
Carrots, Sticks and Sermons: Policy Instruments and Their Evaluation Ray Rist 9780765805461
RRP: $92.38$80.72The 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... -
Prison Time in Sana'a by Abdulkader Al-Guneid 9780992980870
RRP: $42.00$34.50Prison Time in Sana'a tells the story of Dr Abdulkader Al-Guneid's harrowing experience inside jail in Yemen's capital shortly after it was taken over by Houthi rebels. In his hometown of Taiz, Al-Guneid, a medical doctor, had been an outspoken... -
The East Asian Computer Chip War Ming-chin Monique Chu (University of Southampton, UK) 9781138200128
RRP: $96.58$85.11The semiconductor industry is a vital industry for military establishments worldwide, and the control of, or loss of control of, this key industry has enormous strategic implications. This book focuses on the globalization of the strategic semiconductor... -
Operation Car Wash: Brazil's Institutionalized Crime, and The Inside Story of the Biggest Corruption Scandal in History by Jorge Pontes
RRP: $52.50$39.65A Financial Times Book to Read in 2022 Operation Car Wash is the inside story of two Brazilian Federal Police officers who found themselves at the centre of the biggest corruption scandal in history; uncovering a web of political and corporate... -
The Cuban Missile Crisis: Thirteen Days on an Atomic Knife Edge, October 1962 by Phil Carradice 9781526708069
RRP: $31.48$23.00When the world held its breath It is more than 25 years since the end of the Cold War. It began over 75 years ago, in 1944 long before the last shots of the Second World War had echoed across the wastelands of Eastern Europe with the brutal Greek Civil... -
The Enemy, The: An Intellectual Portrait of Carl Schmitt by Gopal Balakrishnan
RRP: $44.08$43.11The writings of Carl Schmitt form what is arguably the most disconcerting, original, and yet still unfamiliar body of twentieth-century political thought. In the English-speaking world, he is terra incognita, a name associated with Nazism, the author of... -
Trigger Warnings: political correctness and the rise of the right by Jeff Sparrow 9781911617075
RRP: $31.48$20.58A timely examination of progressive politics in the era of radical populism. Since 2016, western democracies have experienced a series of political earthquakes, spectacularly upending conventional political wisdom. Everywhere, outsider politicians... -
This Deadly Isle: A Golden Age Mystery Map by Martin Edwards 9781739897123
RRP: $25.20$16.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739897123Author Martin EdwardsImprint Herb Lester Associates LtdPublisher Herb Lester Associates Ltd -
Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control by Benjamin Medea 9781781680773
$42.23Drone Warfare is the first comprehensive analysis of one of the fastest growing-and most secretive-fronts in global conflict: the rise of robot warfare. In 2000, the Pentagon had fewer than fifty aerial drones; ten years later, it had a fleet of nearly... -
Miami by Joan Didion 9780679781806
RRP: $35.70$21.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679781806Author Joan DidionFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint VintagePublisher VintageWeight(grams) 272g -
Rapunzel by Laura Cowan 9781474939935
RRP: $14.68$10.04"Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your long hair!" A witch keeps Rapunzel in a tall tower without a door or stairs - but she isn't the only one visiting the lovely girl.Includes a word list, 5 pages of activities and free online audio (British English and... -
Why Congress by Philip A. Wallach
RRP: $48.28$41.08A bold defense of our nation's legislature and its ability to work through the country's deepest divisions, and a stark warning of what our political future holds if we allow Congress to decay. Like it or not, our country's future depends on Congress... -
The Emergence of Minorities in the Middle East: The Politics of Community in French Mandate Syria by Benjamin Thomas White
RRP: $60.88$49.10This book shows which historical developments led people to start describing themselves and others as 'minorities'. Why, in the years around 1920, did the concept of 'minority' suddenly become prominent in public affairs worldwide? Within a decade of... -
The Recruiter: Spying and the Lost Art of American Intelligence by Douglas London
RRP: $39.88$24.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780306847318Author Douglas LondonFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Hachette BooksPublisher Hachette BooksWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm... -
What Is a Border? by Manlio Graziano
RRP: $23.08$20.16The fall of the Berlin Wall, symbol of the bipolar order that emerged after World War II, seemed to inaugurate an age of ever fewer borders. The liberalization and integration of markets, the creation of vast free-trade zones, the birth of a new... -
Royals on Tour: Politics, Pageantry and Colonialism by Robert Aldrich 9781526109385
RRP: $41.98$37.42Royals on Tour explores visits by European monarchs and princes to colonies, and by indigenous royals to Europe in the 1800s and early 1900s with case studies of travel by royals from Britain, France, Portugal, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium,... -
The Individualists: Radicals, Reactionaries, and the Struggle for the Soul of Libertarianism by Matt Zwolinski
RRP: $63.00$49.75A sweeping history of libertarian thought, from radical anarchists to conservative defenders of the status quoLibertarianism emerged in the mid-nineteenth century with an unwavering commitment to progressive causes, from women's rights and the fight... -
Oracles of God: The Roman Catholic Church and Irish Politics, 1922-37 by Patrick Murray 9781900621281
RRP: $50.40$48.87This volume presents a detailed account of the political outlook and activities of the Roman Catholic clergy, nationally and in the localities, during the 15 years after the Treaty. The author discusses the clerical response to the Treaty, the...