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The New Rules of War: Victory in the Age of Durable Disorder by Sean McFate
RRP: €22.60€13.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062843593Author Sean McfateFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
Believing in Me by Deborah Somorin
RRP: €21.41€15.65Homeless at 13, pregnant at 14: life was not working out the way young Deborah Somorin had hoped. And yet, Deborah is now a chartered accountant at Ernst & Young, founder of housing body Empower the Family and mother of a 13-year-old. How was... -
Against Charity by Julie Wark 9781849353045
RRP: €16.07€10.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849353045Author Julie WarkFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint AK PressPublisher AK Press -
From Silk to Silicon: The Story of Globalization Through Ten Extraordinary Lives by Jeffrey E. Garten
RRP: €23.80€16.35Globalisation often seems to be an impersonal and abstract phenomenon. Whether in everyday culture or matters of policy, its force has been experienced as something at once general and monolithic. By contrast, From Silk to Siliconis the first book to... -
Irregular Armed Forces and their Role in Politics and State Formation by Diane E. Davis 9780521012188
RRP: €44.02€40.08Existing models of state formation are derived primarily from early Western European experience, and are misleading when applied to nation-states struggling to consolidate their dominion in the present period. In this volume, scholars suggest that the... -
Scalia: Rise to Greatness, 1936 to 1986 by James Rosen
RRP: €35.70€22.86The bestselling historian and journalist James Rosen provides the first comprehensive account of the brilliant and combative Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia, whose philosophy and judicial opinions defined our legal era. With SCALIA: Rise to... -
Pitfall: The Dark Truth About Mining the World's Most Vulnerable Places by Christopher Pollon 9781771649124
RRP: €26.17€17.65A harrowing journey through the past, present, and future of mining, this expertly-researched account ends on a vision for how industry can better serve the needs of humanity.A race is on to exploit the last bonanzas of gold, silver, and industrial... -
The Chinese Conundrum: Engagement or Economic War by Vince Cable 9781846884689
RRP: €23.80€15.59According to many experts, China is already the largest economy on the planet - yet its relations with the rest of the world have deteriorated in recent years, and are now at an all-time low. Is this a passing phase caused by the shockwaves of... -
Qaum, Mulk, Sultanat: Citizenship and National Belonging in Pakistan by Ali Usman Qasmi 9781503637788
RRP: €33.31€28.73After the trauma of mass violence and massive population movements around the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947, both new nation states faced the enormous challenge of creating new national narratives, symbols, and histories, as well as a new... -
Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic by David Frum
€17.83NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!Bestselling author, former White House speechwriter, and Atlantic columnist and media commentator David Frum explains why President Trump has undermined our most important institutions in ways even the most critical media has... -
Socialism for a Sceptical Age Ralph Miliband (Formerly, Graduate Center, City University of New York) 9780745614274
RRP: €21.41€19.39This book presents Ralph Miliband's reflections on the world socialists face after the fall of communism and the fundamental changes in social structure which Western societies have undergone in recent times. Miliband argues thta socialism has to be... -
Marxism and Decolonization in the 21st Century: Living Theories and True Ideas by Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni
RRP: €44.02€38.71Marxism and Decolonization in the 21st Century is a ground-breaking work that highlights the resurgence and insurgence of Marxism and decolonization, and the ways in which decolonization and decoloniality are grounded in the contributions of Black... -
Four Killings: Land Hunger, Murder and A Family in the Irish Revolution Myles Dungan 9781800244856
RRP: €11.89€8.58The story of a single family during the Irish Revolution, Four Killings is a book about political murder, and the powerful hunger for land and the savagery it can unleash. 'A vivid and chilling narrative... Confronts uncomfortable questions that... -
Youth to Power: Your Voice and How to Use It by Jamie Margolin
RRP: €16.65€14.21The 1963 Children's March in Birmingham, Alabama. Tiananmen Square, 1989. The 2016 Dakota Access Pipeline protests. March for Our Lives, and School Strike for Climate. What do all these social justice movements have in common? They were led by... -
What is Intergenerational Justice? Axel Gosseries 9781509525720
RRP: €17.84€16.16Can people alive now have duties to future generations, the unborn millions? If so, what do we owe them? What does "justice" mean in an intergenerational context, both between people who will coexist at some point, and between generations that will never... -
Chemistry For OCR: 500 Questions and Answers by Dr Pasan Witharana, MD 9781913606800
RRP: €53.55€33.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913606800Author Dr. Pasan WitharanaFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Eyewear PublishingPublisher Eyewear PublishingWeight(grams) 1010g -
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander 9781620971932
RRP: €22.60€13.74Seldom does a book have the impact of Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow. Since it was first published in 2010, it has been cited in judicial decisions and has been adopted in campus-wide and community-wide reads; it has been the winner of numerous... -
Adam Smith in Beijing: Lineages of the 21st Century by Giovanni Arrighi
€35.08In the late eighteenth century, the political economist Adam Smith predicted an eventual equalization of power between the West and the territories it had conquered. In this magisterial new work, Giovanni Arrighi shows how China's extraordinary rise... -
An Anthropology of the European Union: Building, Imagining and Experiencing the New Europe Irene Bellier 9781859733295
RRP: €45.21€39.72One of the problems facing Europe is that the building of institutional Europe and top-down efforts to get Europeans to imagine their common identity do not necessarily result in political and cultural unity. Anthropologists have been slow to consider... -
Foot Work: What Your Shoes Tell You About Globalisation Tansy E. Hoskins 9781474609869
RRP: €11.89€8.21'Fascinating and eye-opening' OWEN JONESDO YOU KNOW WHERE YOUR SHOES COME FROM?DO YOU KNOW WHERE THEY GO WHEN YOU'RE DONE WITH THEM?In 2019, 66.6 million pairs of shoes were manufactured across the world every single day. They have never been cheaper to... -
The Private Is Political: Networked Privacy and Social Media by Alice E. Marwick 9780300229622
RRP: €23.80€20.21A compelling firsthand investigation of how social media and big data have amplified the close relationship between privacy and inequality Online privacy is under constant attack by social media and big data technologies. But we cannot rely on... -
Digital Technology and Democratic Theory by Lucy Bernholz
RRP: €30.94€29.57One of the most far-reaching transformations in our era is the wave of digital technologies rolling over--and upending--nearly every aspect of life. Work and leisure, family and friendship, community and citizenship have all been modified by... -
The Making of Law: An Ethnography of the Conseil d'Etat by Bruno Latour
RRP: €23.79€21.41In this book, Bruno Latour pursues his ethnographic inquiries into the different value systems of modern societies. After science, technology, religion, art, it is now law that is being studied by using the same comparative ethnographic methods. The case... -
Bridgebuilders: How Government Can Transcend Boundaries to Solve Big Problems by William D. Eggers
RRP: €29.75€21.77In 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... -
The Ulster Unionist Party: Country Before Party? by Thomas Hennessey
€105.10The Ulster Unionist Party: Country Before Party? uses unprecedented access to the party that dominated Northern Ireland politics for decades to assess the reasons for its decline and to analyse whether it can recover. Having helped produce the... -
The New Minority: White Working Class Politics in an Age of Immigration and Inequality by Justin Gest 9780190632557
RRP: €38.66€27.89It wasn't so long ago that the white working class occupied the middle of British and American societies. But today members of the same demographic, feeling silenced and ignored by mainstream parties, have moved to the political margins. In the United... -
The Hidden Agenda of the Political Mind: How Self-Interest Shapes Our Opinions and Why We Won't Admit It by Jason Weeden 9780691161112
RRP: €29.75€23.68When it comes to politics, we often perceive our own beliefs as fair and socially beneficial, while seeing opposing views as merely self-serving. But in fact most political views are governed by self-interest, even if we usually don't realize it... -
Facing The Enemy: A History of Anarchist Organisation from Proudhon to May '68 by Alexandre Skirda 9781902593197
RRP: €14.28€9.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781902593197Author Alexandre SkirdaFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint AK PressPublisher AK PressWeight(grams) 418g -
The Rise of Neoliberal Feminism by Catherine Rottenberg 9780190901226
RRP: €35.69€29.17From Hillary Clinton to Ivanka Trump and from Emma Watson all the way to Beyonce, more and more high-powered women are unabashedly identifying as feminists in the mainstream media. In the past few years feminism has indeed gained increasing visibility... -
Beyond Left and Right: The Future of Radical Politics Anthony Giddens (London School of Economics and Political Science) 9780745614397
RRP: €22.60€20.38How should one understand the nature and possibilities of political radicalism today? The political radical is normally thought of as someone who stands on the left, opposing backward-looking conservatism. In the present day, however, the left has turned... -
The Myth of Democratic Failure: Why Political Institutions Are Efficient Donald A. Wittman (University of California at Santa Cruz) 9780226904238
RRP: €38.08€37.02This is a text seeking to refute one of the cornerstone beliefs of economics and political science: that economic markets are more efficient than the processes and institutions of democratic government. The author first considers the characteristic of... -
Routledge Handbook of Critical Terrorism Studies Richard Jackson 9781138601147
RRP: €57.11€50.23This new handbook is a comprehensive collection of cutting-edge essays that investigate the contribution of Critical Terrorism Studies to our understanding of contemporary terrorism and counterterrorism.Terrorism remains one of the most important... -
Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship by Jon Meacham
RRP: €26.18€16.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812972825Author Jon MeachamFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 352gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
Ways of War and Peace: Realism, Liberalism, and Socialism by Michael W. Doyle 9780393969474
€42.21He explores their enduring theories, and recommends that they be applied to today's fundamental international dilemmas. Although no one school has all the answers, this analysis maintains that history has provided the theoretical tools to meet modern... -
The Case for a Maximum Wage Sam Pizzigati 9781509524921
RRP: €11.89€10.77Modern societies set limits, on everything from how fast motorists can drive to how much waste factory owners can dump in our rivers. But incomes in our deeply unequal world have no limits. Could capping top incomes tackle rising inequality more... -
Never Ending Nightmare: The Neoliberal Assault on Democracy Pierre Dardot 9781786634740
RRP: €20.22€17.26How do we explain the strange survival of the forcesresponsible for the 2008 economic crisis, one of the worst since 1929? How do we explain the fact that neoliberalism has emerged from the crisis strengthened? When it broke, a number of the most... -
Establishment and Meritocracy by Peter Hennessy
RRP: €9.51€7.00Like so many of the postwar generation in Britain, Peter Hennessy climbed the ladders of opportunity set up by the 1944 Education Act designed to encourage a more meritocratic society. In this highly personal book, Hennessy examines the rise of... -
Central Asia: A New History from the Imperial Conquests to the Present by Adeeb Khalid 9780691235196
RRP: €26.18€19.78A major history of Central Asia and how it has been shaped by modern world eventsCentral Asia is often seen as a remote and inaccessible land on the peripheries of modern history. Encompassing Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan,... -
Anarchafeminism by Chiara Bottici
RRP: €22.60€19.97How can we be sure the oppressed do not become oppressors in their turn? How can we create a feminism that doesn't turn into yet another tool for oppression? It has become commonplace to argue that, in order to fight the subjugation of women, we have to... -
Breaking Up Britain: Four Nations After a Union by Mark Perryman 9781905007967
RRP: €20.23€19.65May 2009 will be the tenth anniversary of the first elections to the Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly. This was the beginning of a decade of change - which now includes the restoration of powers to Stormont - that is showing every sign of being an...