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The Changing of the Guard: the British army since 9/11 by Simon Akam
RRP: $21.92$9.52A TLS and a Prospect Book of the Year A revelatory, explosive new analysis of the military today. Over the first two decades of the twenty-first century the British Army fought in Iraq and Afghanistan, at considerable financial and human cost. Yet... -
One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs Under the British Mandate by Tom Segev 9780349112862
RRP: $21.92$14.89Great Britain ruled Palestine from 1917 to 1948. The British presence replaced 500 years of Turkish control and led to the State of Israel, which celebrated its 50th anniversary in 1998. The British brought Palestine into the twentieth century. When... -
From Greed to Wellbeing: A Buddhist Approach to Resolving Our Economic and Financial Crises by Joel Magnuson 9781447318941
RRP: $20.63$16.58Despite our fitful attempts over decades at reform, the global financial system seems caught in cycles of boom and bust, instability, and scandal. In this timely new book, Joel Magnuson builds on the classic works of E. F. Schumacher and other kindred... -
India that is Bharat: Coloniality, Civilisation, Constitution by J Sai Deepak
$33.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789354352492Author Deepak J. SaiFormat HardbackPage Count 484Imprint Bloomsbury IndiaPublisher Bloomsbury IndiaDimensions(mm) 250mm * 200mm * 50mm -
Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics by Marc Lamont Hill
RRP: $16.76$11.13A bold call for the American Left to extend their politics to the issues of Israel-Palestine In this major work of daring criticism and analysis, scholar and political commentator Marc Lamont Hill and Israel-Palestine expert Mitchell Plitnick... -
The Secret War: Spies, Codes and Guerrillas 1939-1945 by Sir Max Hastings
RRP: $16.76$10.94'As gripping as any spy thriller, Hastings's achievement is especially impressive, for he has produced the best single volume yet written on the subject' Sunday Times 'Authoritative, exciting and notably well written' Daily Telegraph ... -
A Year At The Circus: Inside Trump's White House by Jon Sopel
RRP: $12.89$9.17Welcome to the White House.At the heart of Washington, there is a circus. It's raucous, noisy and full of clowns. Reporting on it is a daily cacophony. Four major stories can blow up and blow out before breakfast, and political weather systems are moving... -
Putin and the Return of History: How the Kremlin Rekindled the Cold War by Martin Sixsmith 9781399409865
RRP: $32.25$22.73An original history of Russia's thousand-year past, tracing the forces and the myths that have shaped Putin's politics and rekindled the Cold War. Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine has reshaped history. In the decades after the collapse of Soviet... -
The Small States Club: How Small Smart Powers Can Save the World by Armen Sarkissian 9781787389403
RRP: $32.25$28.42In this book, Armen Sarkissian, former president of Armenia, argues that small states can navigate the complex challenges of the twenty-first century in smarter ways than 'greater' powers. For smallness - often regarded as a weakness - can be a strength... -
Super Scotland Doodle Book by Susana Gurrea 9781782505570
RRP: $9.02$6.35Doodle your way across Scotland in this bright and lively activity book that's bursting with fun scenes to draw, design and colour. Draw your own Scottish castle, doodle the Loch Ness Monster, colour in the Highland Games, trace animals on the shore of... -
Deep Fakes and the Infocalypse: What You Urgently Need To Know by Nina Schick
RRP: $16.76$11.09It will soon be impossible to tell what is real and what is fake. Recent advances in AI mean that by scanning images of a person (for example using Facebook), a powerful machine learning system can create new video images and place them in scenarios and... -
Rise Of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris
RRP: $28.38$21.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Pulitzer Prize 1980.Book InformationISBN 9780375756788Author Edmund MorrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 960Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA... -
Net Positive: How Courageous Companies Thrive by Giving More Than They Take by Paul Polman 9781647824730
RRP: $14.18$10.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647824730Author Paul PolmanFormat PaperbackImprint Harvard Business Review PressPublisher Harvard Business Review Press -
The Shadow of the Sun: My African Life by Ryszard Kapuscinski
RRP: $14.18$10.02'Only with the greatest of simplifications, for the sake of convenience, can we say Africa. In reality, except as a geographical term, Africa doesn't exist'. Ryszard Kapuscinski has been writing about the people of Africa throughout his career. In astudy... -
The Government of No One: The Theory and Practice of Anarchism by Ruth Kinna
RRP: $14.18$10.02'The standard book on anarchism for the twenty-first century. Written with brio, quiet insight and clarity' Carl LevyA magisterial study of the history and theory of one of the most controversial political movementsAnarchism routinely gets a bad press... -
The Free Economy and the Strong State: The Politics of Thatcherism by Andrew Gamble 9780333363119
RRP: $58.04$58.01An attempt to provide an account of the genesis of Thatcherism in opposition, its record in government, its relationship to the Conservative tradition and the ideological challenge of the New Right. The manner in which Thatcherism has been analysed by... -
A Message from Ukraine by Volodymyr Zelensky
RRP: $12.89$9.17'Remarkable' The Times'Inspiring' Caroline Lucas 'Compelling' Observer'A masterpiece' Paul MasonPresident Volodymyr Zelensky's message to the world - a rallying cry for us all to stand up, support Ukraine and fight for democracyThe words of a man. The... -
A Life by Simone Veil
RRP: $16.76$11.60Veil, the former French politician who became first President of the European Union, was born Simone Jacob in 1927. In her long-awaited memoir, she describes in vivid detail a time of happiness and innocence spent in Nice where she grew up. This happy... -
Anglophobia: The Unrecognised Hatred by Harry Richardson 9780645716320
RRP: $19.25$14.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645716320Author Harry RichardsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Social TechnologiesPublisher Social TechnologiesWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm)... -
Global Problems, Smart Solutions: Costs and Benefits by Bjorn Lomborg
RRP: $37.40$33.57Every four years since 2004, the Copenhagen Consensus Center has organized and hosted a high profile thought experiment about how a hypothetical extra $75 billion of development assistance money might best be spent to solve twelve of the major crises... -
MI6: Life and Death in the British Secret Service by Gordon Corera 9780753828335
RRP: $16.76$11.09Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Sankofa: A Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick and a BBC 2 Between the Covers Book Club Pick by Chibundu Onuzo
RRP: $11.60$8.00A REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB PICK * A BBC 2 BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICK * SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION FUTURES PRIZE * AN AMAZON BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR'A captivating story about a mixed-race British woman who goes in search of the... -
On Grand Strategy by John Lewis Gaddis
RRP: $14.18$10.02'A training manual for our troubled times ... It makes sense of our world, but is also capable of beautifully crafted pithy historical judgements. ... It is a book that cares about liberty, choice and a moral compass, that warns against hubris' Roger... -
Burned: The Inside Story of the `Cash-for-Ash' Scandal and Northern Ireland's Secretive New Elite by Sam McBride
RRP: $19.34$18.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785372698Author Sam McBrideFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint Merrion PressPublisher Merrion Press -
The Revenge of Power: How Autocrats Are Reinventing Politics for the 21st Century by Moises Naim 9781250279200
RRP: $30.95$23.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250279200Author Moises NaimFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 488gDimensions(mm) 243mm *... -
The Berlin-Baghdad Express: The Ottoman Empire and Germany's Bid for World Power, 1898-1918 by Sean McMeekin
RRP: $16.76$11.73WINNER OF THE BARBARA JELAVICH BOOK PRIZE'Sean McMeekin has written a classic of First World War history ... This superb and original book is the reality behind Greenmantle' Norman StoneThe Berlin-Baghdad Express explores one of the big, previously... -
What Happened by Hillary Rodham Clinton 9781471166969
RRP: $14.18$9.03The Sunday Times Number One BestsellerComplete with new afterword where she discusses the past eighteen months since President Donald Trump has been serving in office. 'A compelling read' - Financial Times 'A sporadically absorbing, pleasingly vengeful... -
MI9: A History of the Secret Service for Escape and Evasion in World War Two by Helen Fry
RRP: $15.47$13.09A thrilling history of MI9-the WWII organization that engineered the escape of Allied forces from behind enemy lines"A fitting tribute to the hundreds of men and women who risked their lives in assisting Allied escapees."-Giles Milton, Sunday Times... -
How to Avoid Being Killed in a War Zone: The Essential Survival Guide for Dangerous Places by Rosie Garthwaite
RRP: $25.80$18.95Everyone needs this book if they want to know how to get out of difficult situations whether at home or abroad. Written by Rosie Garthwaite, whose career as a journalist started in war-torn Basra, this book combines practical advice with contributions... -
Stalin, Vol. I: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928 by Stephen Kotkin
RRP: $24.50$19.72In January 1928 Stalin, the ruler of the largest country in the world, boarded a train bound for Siberia where he would embark upon the greatest gamble of his political life. He was about to begin uprooting and collectivization of agriculture and... -
First Lady: Intrigue at the Court of Carrie and Boris Johnson by Michael Ashcroft 9781785907500
RRP: $25.80$18.68Carrie Johnson is not only the consort of the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson; she is also considered by some to be the second most powerful unelected woman in Britain after the Queen. Since she moved into Downing Street in July 2019, questions have been... -
The French Revolution by Christopher Hibbert
RRP: $16.76$11.73Concise, convincing and exciting, this is Christopher Hibbert's brilliant account of the events that shook eighteenth-century Europe to its foundation. With a mixture of lucid storytelling and fascinating detail, he charts the French Revolution from its... -
Scramble for the Skies: The Great Power Competition to Control the Resources of Outer Space by Namrata Goswami 9781498583138
RRP: $49.02$43.74With a focus on China, the United States, and India, this book examines the economic ambitions of the second space race. The authors argue that space ambitions are informed by a combination of factors, including available resources, capability, elite... -
Our Poisoned Land: Living in the Shadows of Zuma’s Keepers by Jacques Pauw 9780624090533
RRP: $27.09$22.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780624090533Author Jacques PauwFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Tafelberg Publishers LtdPublisher Tafelberg Publishers LtdWeight(grams)... -
My Life, Our Times by Gordon Brown
RRP: $19.34$14.13Former Prime Minister and the country's longest-serving Chancellor, Gordon Brown has been a guiding force for Britain and the world over three decades. This is his candid, poignant and deeply relevant story.In describing his upbringing in Scotland as the... -
Inside the Whale by George Orwell
RRP: $6.45$5.70George Orwell set out 'to make political writing into an art', and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature - his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding... -
The Death of Expertise: The Campaign against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters by Tom Nichols 9780197763834
RRP: $18.05$15.84Building on his enormously successful first edition, Tom Nichols confirms his thesis that events, such as the COVID pandemic, prove that the assault on expertise has only intensified. Fully updated chapters continue to address how technology and... -
Leadership: A Very Short Introduction by Keith Grint
RRP: $11.60$8.32The subject of leadership raises many questions: What is it? How does it differ from management and command? Are leaders born or bred? Who are the leaders? Do we actually need leaders? Inevitably, the answers are provocative and partial; leadership... -
Permanent Record by Edward Snowden
RRP: $16.76$11.73The Sunday Times top ten bestseller.Edward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government's system of mass surveillance, reveals for the first time the story of his life, including how he helped to build that system and what motivated... -
The Constitution of Liberty by F. A. Hayek
RRP: $28.37$25.46Working after the war, Hayek's writing was very much against the tide of mainstream Keynesian economic thought. But in the 1970s and 1980s - the eras of Thatcherism and Reaganomics - he was championed as a prophet of neo-liberalism by those who were...