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The New Wars Herfried Munkler (Humboldt University, Berlin) 9780745633374
RRP: €19.03€17.40This important new book deals with the changing nature of war in the post-Cold War era and the emergence of new forms of warfare in which warlords, mercenaries and terrorists play an increasingly important role. In the modern era, warfare came to play... -
Captive Revolution: Palestinian Women's Anti-Colonial Struggle within the Israeli Prison System Nahla Abdo 9780745334936
RRP: €33.31€26.07Women throughout the world have always played their part in struggles against colonialism, imperialism and other forms of oppression. However, there are few books on Arab political prisoners, fewer still on the Palestinians who have been detained in... -
The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin by H. W Brands 9780385495400
RRP: €23.80€17.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Pulitzer Prize.Book InformationISBN 9780385495400Author H. W. BrandsFormat PaperbackPage Count 784Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Anchor BooksWeight(grams)... -
The Medieval Bestiary in English by Megan Cavell 9781554815180
RRP: €24.93€23.13First penned in Egypt between the 2nd and 4th centuries, the Physiologus brought together poetic descriptions of animals and their Christian allegories. Translated into a wide range of languages from across North Africa and much of Europe, each version... -
Iran and Palestine: Past, Present, Future by Seyed Ali Alavi
RRP: €45.21€39.72Examining the nature of relations between Iran and Palestine, this book investigates the relationship between state and authorities in the Middle East. Analysing the connections of the Iranian revolutionary movements, both the Left and the Islamic camps'... -
Just Institutions Matter: The Moral and Political Logic of the Universal Welfare State by Bo Rothstein 9780521598934
RRP: €41.64€37.53In this book Bo Rothstein seeks to defend the universal welfare state against a number of important criticisms which it has faced in recent years. He combines genuine philosophical analysis of normative issues concerning what the state ought to do with... -
World Peace: (And How We Can Achieve It) by Alex J. Bellamy
RRP: €27.36€19.37For as long as there has been war, there have been demands for its elimination. The quest for world peace has excited and eluded political leaders, philosophers, religious elders, activists, and artists for millennia. With war on the rise once again, we... -
Dark Age America: Climate Change, Cultural Collapse, and the Hard Future Ahead by John Michael Greer
RRP: €21.41€14.64After decades of missed opportunities, the door to a sustainable future has closed, and the future we face now is one in which today's industrial civilization unravels in the face of uncontrolled climate change and resource depletion. What is the world... -
Changing Times: Economics, Policies, and Resource Allocation in Britain since 1951 by Martin Chick
RRP: €48.78€40.92This is a study of how, and why, the British economy has changed since 1951. It covers the Golden Age of 1945-1973 when unemployment was below one million; when governments built millions of council houses and flats; when electricity, telephones, and gas... -
The Berlin Cold War Companion 1945-1989 by David McCormack 9781781557280
RRP: €22.60€22.16This highly detailed, absorbing Cold War guide is the ideal companion for anyone wishing to explore the once divided capital of Berlin. Using his in-depth knowledge as a historian and battlefield/historical guide, David McCormack describes in vivid... -
The War of Words: A Glossary of Globalization by Harold James
RRP: €26.18€22.09A timely call for recovering the true meanings of the nineteenth-century terms that are hobbling current political debates "Masterful. . . . James cuts through the tangled terminological and conceptual jungle of modern globalist discourse . . . [with]... -
This Is the Fire: What I Say to My Friends about Racism by Don Lemon
RRP: €21.41€12.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316257671Author Don LemonFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Little, Brown & CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams) 191gDimensions(mm)... -
Rethinking Political Thinkers by Manjeet Ramgotra
RRP: €47.59€46.71Rethinking Political Thinkers explores a uniquely diverse set of political thinkers, from traditionally canonical theorists such as Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, and Mill, to marginalized women and thinkers of colour, such as hooks, Du... -
The Limits of the Market: The Pendulum Between Government and Market by Paul de Grauwe 9780198784289
RRP: €47.59€47.37The 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... -
Vanishing for the Vote: Suffrage, Citizenship and the Battle for the Census by Jill Liddington 9780719087493
RRP: €23.79€21.56Vanishing for the vote recounts what happened on one night, Sunday 2 April, 1911, when the Liberal government demanded every household comply with its census requirements. Suffragette organisations urged women, all still voteless, to boycott this census... -
Condemned to Repeat?: The Paradox of Humanitarian Action by Fiona Terry
RRP: €29.74€26.19Humanitarian groups have failed, Fiona Terry believes, to face up to the core paradox of their activity: humanitarian action aims to alleviate suffering, but by inadvertently sustaining conflict it potentially prolongs suffering. In Condemned to Repeat?,... -
Progressivism: A Very Short Introduction by Walter Nugent
RRP: €10.70€8.12After decades of conservative dominance, the election of Barack Obama may signal the beginning of a new progressive era. But what exactly is progressivism? What role has it played in the political, social, and economic history of America? This very... -
From Women to the World: Letters for the Female Century by Elizabeth Filippouli
RRP: €29.75€22.82An Independent Book of the Month Featured in Vogue Arabia Featured by Vanity Fair Acclaimed writer Elif Shafak writes a letter to Jacinda Ardern, Prime Minister of New Zealand after the Christchurch attack. Actress Yasmine AlMassri pens a poem... -
Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better by Jennifer Pahlka
RRP: €38.07€22.61Learn more about Jennifer Pahlka's work at recodingamerica.us. "The book I wish every policymaker would read." -Ezra Klein, The New York Times A bold call to reexamine how our government operates-and sometimes fails to-from President Obama's... -
Insurrection: What the January 6 Assault on the Capitol Reveals about America and Democracy by John Rennie Short 9781789148411
RRP: €15.41€10.91Insurrection offers a profound and incisive analysis of the underlying factors that culminated in the assault on Washington’s Capitol Building on that fateful day: January 6th, 2021. Going far beyond mere journalistic accounts, the book delves into... -
Coronavirus Criminals and Pandemic Profiteers: Accountability for Those Who Caused the Crisis by John Nichols
RRP: €20.22€14.38This short book calls to account the government misrulers and corporate criminals who made suffering from the global coronavirus pandemic more acute. Modeled on a famous 1940 bestseller--a pamphlet exposing appeasers of Nazi Germany--Guilty Men shows how... -
China and Latin America: Development, Agency and Geopolitics Chris Alden (London School of Economics, UK) 9781786992529
RRP: €27.36€22.47Since the turn of the century bilateral trade between China and Latin America has increased by more than a factor of ten. In 2000, two-way trade stood at GBP12.17 billion; by 2019, it had reached $307.94 billion. Coupled with this commercial element of... -
Image by Boorstin
RRP: €21.42€13.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679741800Author Daniel J. BoorstinFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 289gDimensions(mm) 203mm... -
The Economics of Immigration: Market-Based Approaches, Social Science, and Public Policy by Benjamin Powell 9780190258795
RRP: €54.13€41.76The Economics of Immigration summarizes the best social science studying the actual impact of immigration, which is found to be at odds with popular fears. Greater flows of immigration have the potential to substantially increase world income and reduce... -
Cultural Evolution: People's Motivations are Changing, and Reshaping the World by Ronald F. Inglehart
RRP: €35.69€31.34Cultural Evolution argues that people's values and behavior are shaped by the degree to which survival is secure; it was precarious for most of history, which encouraged heavy emphasis on group solidarity, rejection of outsiders, and obedience to strong... -
Food Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know (R) by Robert Paarlberg
RRP: €13.08€9.90The politics of food is changing fast. In rich countries, obesity is now a more serious problem than hunger. Consumers once satisfied with cheap and convenient food now want food that is also safe, nutritious, fresh, and grown by local farmers using... -
Rethinking The Foundations of Modern Political Thought by Annabel S. Brett
RRP: €29.74€25.20Quentin Skinner's classic study The Foundations of Modern Political Thought was first published by Cambridge in 1978. This was the first of a series of outstanding publications that have changed forever the way the history of political thought is taught... -
El Engaao Populista by Axel Kaiser 9786077472285
RRP: €15.41€10.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786077472285Author Axel KaiserFormat PaperbackPage Count 207Imprint Editorial Planeta Mexicana S.A. de C.V.Publisher Editorial Planeta Mexicana S.A. de C.V... -
The Gift Relationship: From Human Blood to Social Policy Richard M Titmuss 9781447349600
RRP: €34.50€27.00Richard Titmuss (1907-1973) was a pioneer in the field of social administration (now social policy). In this reissued classic, listed by the New York Times as one of the 10 most important books of the year when it was first published in 1970, he compares... -
Green Fraud: Why the Green New Deal Is the Wrong Solution to the Wrong Problem by Marc Morano
RRP: €34.50€22.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684510856Author Marc MoranoFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Regnery PublishingPublisher Regnery PublishingWeight(grams) 612gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Drug Policy Constellations: The Role of Power and Morality in the Making of Drug Policy in the UK Alex Stevens (Kent University) 9781529231328
RRP: €95.20€71.86How is UK drugs policy made, and why does it so often seem irrational when considering what works in reducing drug-related harms? This book explains how the concept of drug policy constellations - the loosely concerted policy actors with shared moral... -
Facts & Fury: An Unapologetic Primer on How the GOP Has Destroyed American Democracy by Bill Kuhn
RRP: €31.54€25.98From the cofounder of Fight for a Better America, the non-profit organization dedicated to voter engagement and local grassroots organizing, is a searing, unflinching, and thorough exploration of the Republican Party's dissolution of government. ... -
Affective Communities: Anticolonial Thought, Fin-de-Siecle Radicalism, and the Politics of Friendship by Leela Gandhi
RRP: €26.17€23.19"If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country." So E. M. Forster famously observed in his Two Cheers for Democracy. Forster's epigrammatic manifesto, where the idea of the... -
DiY Culture: Party and Protest in Nineties' Britain by George McKay
€28.36Collective youth up trees or down tunnels, protest camps and all-night raves across the land-these are the spectacular features of the politics and culture of nineties youth in Britain. DiY Culture lays to rest the myth of "Thatcher's children," for the... -
Locke: Political Writings by John Locke 9780872206762
RRP: €22.60€18.65John Locke's Second Treatise of Government (c. 1681) is perhaps the key founding liberal text. A Letter Concerning Toleration, written in 1685 (a year when a Catholic monarch came to the throne of England and Louis XVI unleashed a reign of terror against... -
America Second: how America's elites are making China stronger by Isaac Stone Fish
RRP: €20.22€13.78A timely, provocative expose of America's political and business leadership's deep ties to China: a network of people who believe they are doing the right thing - at a profound and often hidden cost to American and Western interests. The past few years... -
The Hundred-Year Marathon by Michael Pillsbury 9781250081346
RRP: €14.27€13.30The Hundred-Year Marathon reveals China's secret strategy to supplant the United States as the world's dominant power, and to do so by 2049, the one hundredth anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic. Michael Pillsbury, who has served in... -
BSAVA Manual of Canine and Feline Gastroenterology Edward Hall (University of Bristol) 9781905319961
RRP: €113.05€97.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905319961Author Edward HallFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint British Small Animal Veterinary AssociationPublisher British Small Animal Veterinary... -
Comradely Greetings: The Prison Letters of Nadya and Slavoj by Nadezhda Tolokonnikova
€16.15"We are the rebels asking for the storm, and believing that truth is only to be found in an endless search ... Two years of prison for Pussy Riot is our tribute to a destiny that gave us sharp ears, allowing us to sound the note A when everyone else is... -
Ollie's Ski Trip by Elsa Beskow 9781782508052
RRP: €15.46€10.94Ollie can't wait to use his first pair of real skis! Finally, the woods are blanketed in snow and Ollie sets off for a day of fun, where he meets cheerful Jack Frost and troublesome Mrs Thaw and visits King Winter's palace.Ollie has a wonderful time...