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A History of the Scottish Liberals and Liberal Democrats by David Torrance 9781399506397
RRP: £20.99£17.19The Scottish Liberal Party was the dominant party of Victorian Scotland. While its electoral fortunes declined with the rise of the Labour and (Scottish) Unionist parties during the 1920s, it remained a significant 'third' force in an increasingly... -
The English School of International Relations: A Contemporary Reassessment by Andrew Linklater
RRP: £30.99£28.28What is the English School of International Relations and why is there increasing interest in it? Linklater and Suganami provide a comprehensive account of this distinctive approach to the study of world politics which highlights coexistence and... -
The New Sultan: Erdogan and the Crisis of Modern Turkey by Soner Cagaptay
RRP: £9.99£7.67*New Edition of the Leading Work on Modern Turkey* In a world of rising tensions between Russia and the United States, the Middle East and Europe, Sunnis and Shiites, Islamism and liberalism, Turkey is at the epicentre. And at the heart of Turkey is its... -
Moscow in Movement: Power and Opposition in Putin's Russia by Samuel A. Greene
RRP: £23.99£20.84Moscow in Movement is the first exhaustive study of social movements, protest, and the state-society relationship in Vladimir Putin's Russia. Beginning in 2005 and running through the summer of 2013, the book traces the evolution of the relationship... -
At Least This I Know by Andres Ordorica 9781912489466
RRP: £9.99£6.41ni 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... -
The Limits of the Market: The Pendulum Between Government and Market by Paul De Grauwe
RRP: £23.49£17.13The old discussion of 'Market or State' is obsolete. There will always have to be a mix of market and state. The only relevant question is what that mix should look like. How far do we have to let the market go its own way in order to create as much... -
The Political Economy of Cooperatives and Socialism by Bruno Jossa 9781032087924
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book argues that capitalism cannot be said to be truly democratic and that a system of producer cooperatives, or democratically managed enterprises, is needed to give rise to a new mode of production that is genuinely socialist and fully consistent... -
Race, Rights, and Rifles: The Origins of the NRA and Contemporary Gun Culture by Alexandra Filindra 9780226828763
RRP: £24.00£23.03An eye-opening examination of the ties between American gun culture and white male supremacy from the American Revolution to today. One-third of American adults-approximately 86 million people-own firearms. This is not just for protection or hunting... -
Power to the Public: The Promise of Public Interest Technology by Hana Schank
RRP: £16.99£13.65"Worth a read for anyone who cares about making change happen."-Barack ObamaA powerful new blueprint for how governments and nonprofits can harness the power of digital technology to help solve the most serious problems of the twenty-first centuryAs the... -
After the Cataclysm: The Political Economy of Human Rights: Volume II by Noam Chomsky 9780745335506
£19.04The second volume of The Political Economy of Human Rights remains one of the most controversial works produced by Chomsky to date. In a much discussed chapter on Cambodia, Chomsky and Herman questioned official Western narratives on the Khmer Rouge and... -
African Pearl: AIDS, loss and redemption in the shadow of the Rwenzori Mountains by Pamela Brown-Peterside 9781912726202
RRP: £8.99£6.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912726202Author Pamela Brown-PetersideFormat PaperbackImprint Instant ApostlePublisher Instant Apostle -
The Audacious Ascetic: What Osama Bin Laden's Sound Archive Reveals About al-Qa'ida by Flagg Miller
RRP: £22.00£19.92In late 2002, over 1500 audiotapes were discovered in Kandahar, Afghanistan, in a house once occupied by Osama bin Laden. The Audacious Ascetic is the first book to explore this extraordinary archive. It details how Islamic cultural, legal, theological... -
How Party Activism Survives: Uruguay's Frente Amplio by Veronica Perez Bentancur
RRP: £30.99£19.04Political parties with activists are in decline due to various external shocks. Societal changes, like the emergence of new technologies of communication have diminished the role and number of activists, while party elites increasingly can make do... -
Transitional Justice Theories Susanne Buckley-Zistel 9781138924451
RRP: £47.99£41.81Transitional Justice Theories is the first volume to approach the politically sensitive subject of post-conflict or post-authoritarian justice from a theoretical perspective. It combines contributions from distinguished scholars and practitioners as well... -
War by Other Means: A General in the Trump White House by Keith Kellogg 9781684512461
RRP: £28.99£16.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684512461Author Keith KelloggFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Regnery PublishingPublisher Regnery PublishingWeight(grams) 152g -
The 14th Dalai Lama: Peacekeeping and Universal Responsibility by Mario I. Aguilar 9780367442606
RRP: £27.99£15.96This book outlines the life of spiritual diplomacy of the 14th Dalai Lama and his emergence as a global peace icon. It traces his evolution as a Tibetan Buddhist monk rooted in the Geluk tradition, as a Nobel laureate, and as an internationally... -
Populocracy by Catherine Fieschi
RRP: £22.99£21.48Populism has become a significant feature of mature democracies in the twenty-first century and the rise of populist parties is proving a powerful and disruptive force. Catherine Fieschi offers a comparative analysis of the rise of populist parties in... -
UNITE History Volume 1 (1880-1931): The Transport and General Workers' Union (TGWU): Representing a mass trade union movement Mary Davis 9781800859715
RRP: £7.68£7.26Sold as a multi-volume set - the individual volumes are also available for purchase. This is volume 1 of six accessible volumes covering UNITE's history from 1880-2010. The history of the TGWU is the core of this collection, with a significant emphasis... -
The Shape of the State in Medieval Scotland, 1124-1290 by Alice Taylor 9780198861256
RRP: £40.49£37.28This is the first full-length study of Scottish royal government in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries ever to have been written. It uses untapped legal evidence to set out a new narrative of governmental development. Between 1124 and 1290, the way in... -
The Good Politician: Folk Theories, Political Interaction, and the Rise of Anti-Politics by Nick Clarke
RRP: £25.99£22.39Surveys show a lack of trust in political actors and institutions across much of the democratic world. Populist politicians and parties attempt to capitalise on this political disaffection. Commentators worry about our current 'age of anti-politics'... -
Freedom Feminism: Its Surprising History and Why it Matters Today by Christina Hoff Sommers 9780844772622
RRP: £5.99£4.34Women's equality is one of the great achievements of Western civilization. Yet most American women today do not consider themselves "feminists." Why is the term that describes one of the great chapters in the history of freedom in such disrepute? In... -
Redefining Development: The Extraordinary Genesis of the Sustainable Development Goals by Paula Caballero
£29.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781955055260Author Paula CaballeroFormat PaperbackPage Count 293Imprint Lynne Rienner PublishersPublisher Lynne Rienner PublishersWeight(grams) 404g -
Defending the National Interest: Raw Materials Investments and U.S. Foreign Policy by Stephen D. Krasner 9780691021829
RRP: £75.00£58.49Stephen Krasner's assumption of a distinction between state and society is the root of his argument for the superiority of a statist interpretation of American foreign policy. Here he challenges the two dominant and rival interpretations of the... -
Scotland: The New State of an Old Nation by Murray Stewart Leith
RRP: £20.00£14.93Scotland's future in the Union is in question. Since Devolution in 1997, there has been a sea-change in Scotland's sense of itself. A distinct Scottish political culture has emerged: confident, assertive and increasingly divergent from that of its... -
Politics and History: Montesquieu, Rousseau, Marx by Louis Althusser 9781844675722
£16.86In the first two essays of this book, Louis Althusser analyses the work of two of the greatest thinkers of the Enlightenment - Montesquieu and Rousseau. He shows that although they made considerable advances towards establishing a science of politics,... -
War and Peacekeeping: Personal Reflections on Conflict and Lasting Peace by Martin Bell
RRP: £20.00£14.29There are no winners in war, only losers. We have so far avoided a third world war, but across the globe regional conflicts flare up in a seemingly unstoppable cycle. Who can stand between the armed camps? Over six decades, Martin Bell has stood in... -
China's Dream: The Culture of Chinese Communism and the Secret Sources of its Power Kerry Brown 9781509524570
RRP: £16.99£11.54The Communist Party of China (CPC) is one of the great political forces of modern times. In charge of the destiny of a fifth of humanity, it survives despite the collapse of similar systems elsewhere. Few, however, understand the sources of this... -
Popular Politics and British Anti-Slavery: The Mobilisation of Public Opinion against the Slave Trade 1787-1807 J.R. Oldfield 9780714644622
RRP: £47.99£41.81In 1792, 400,000 people put their signature to petitions calling for the abolition of the slaves trade. This work explains how this remarkable expression of support for black people was organized and orchestrated, and how it contributed to the growth of... -
Neorealism and Its Critics by Robert O. Keohane
RRP: £35.00£28.14Sparked by Kenneth Waltz's Theory of International Relations, this classic text is a summary of current thinking on neorealism, a revival of the tradition that emphasizes state power struggles in world affairs. With contributions by John Ruggie, Robert... -
To Shape a New World: Essays on the Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Tommie Shelby
RRP: £33.95£27.81Martin Luther King, Jr., may be America's most revered political figure, commemorated in statues, celebrations, and street names around the world. On the fiftieth anniversary of King's assassination, the man and his activism are as close to public... -
Nazism and German Society, 1933-1945 by David F. Crew 9780415082402
RRP: £39.99£35.06The image of the Third Reich as a monolithic state presiding over the brainwashed, fanatical masses, retains a tenacious grip on the general public's imagination. However, a growing body of research on the social history of the Nazi years has revealed... -
The Spy in Moscow Station: A Counterspy's Hunt for a Deadly Cold War Threat by Eric Haseltine
RRP: £12.99£8.56'All the power and intrigue of a cinematic thriller ... immersive, dramatic, and historically edifying' KirkusMoscow in the late 1970s: one by one, CIA assets are disappearing. The perils of American arrogance, mixed with bureaucratic infighting, had... -
Montesquieu: Let There Be Enlightenment by Catherine Volpilhac-Auger
RRP: £29.99£25.94Since the last biography of Montesquieu in English (Shackleton, Oxford, 1961) Montesquieu scholarship has been entirely renewed, culminating in a critical edition of his complete works in twenty-two volumes that is nearing completion. Since 1998, this... -
Authoritarian Contagion: The Global Threat to Democracy Luke Cooper (London School of Economics) 9781529217797
RRP: £9.99£7.99The 21st century has not seen the triumph of democracy that some predicted but instead, in many cases, a turn towards authoritarian forms of government as an imagined solution to the many crises facing humanity. This innovative and important book draws... -
Politics in the Developing World by Peter Burnell
RRP: £47.99£45.97An impressive line-up of international contributors provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to politics in the developing world. The first four parts explore the theoretical approaches, the changing nature and role of the state, and the... -
The Doomsday Clock at 75 by Robert K Elder
RRP: £36.00£24.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781955125154Author Robert K. ElderFormat HardbackPage Count 184Imprint Hat & Beard, LLCPublisher Hat & Beard, LLC -
Introducing Just Sustainabilities: Policy, Planning, and Practice by Julian Agyeman 9781780324098
RRP: £23.99£23.80This unique and insightful text offers an exploration of the origins and subsequent development of the concept of just sustainability. Introducing Just Sustainabilities discusses key topics, such as food justice, sovereignty and urban agriculture;... -
Erasing Iraq: The Human Costs of Carnage by Michael Otterman 9780745328973
RRP: £24.99£16.38For nearly two decades, the US and its allies have prosecuted war and aggression in Iraq. Erasing Iraq shows in unparalleled detail the devastating human cost of the war in Iraq. Western governments and the mainstream media continue to ignore or play... -
A Future in Ruins: UNESCO, World Heritage, and the Dream of Peace by Lynn Meskell 9780197503188
£19.85Best known for its World Heritage program committed to "the identification, protection and preservation of cultural and natural heritage around the world considered to be of outstanding value to humanity," the United Nations Educational, Scientific and... -
American Muckraker: Rethinking Journalism for the 21st Century by James O'Keefe 9781637580905
RRP: £28.00£17.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637580905Author James O'KeefeFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Post Hill PressPublisher Post Hill PressWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 157mm...