Political Science

United Nations peacekeeping has undergone radical transformation in the new millennium. Where it once was limited in scope and based firmly on consent of all parties, contemporary operations are now charged with penalizing spoilers of peace and...

Winston Churchill was truly a man of the world. In his long career as a soldier and statesman, and latterly as a global celebrity and artist, he visited and wrote about the length and breadth of the United States and Canada, the United Kingdom, Europe,...

Recent years have seen a massive growth of interest in socialism, particularly among young people. But few are fully aware of socialism 's revolutionary history. For this reason, an appreciation of the Second International--often called the "Socialist...

Thomas More remains one of the most enigmatic thinkers in history, due in large part to the enduring mysteries surrounding his best-known work, Utopia. He has been variously thought of as a reformer and a conservative, a civic humanist and a devout...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781734805390Author Mark LambFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Bcg PublishingPublisher Bcg PublishingWeight(grams) 132gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 7mm

This eagerly-anticipated third edition builds on the established reputation of the Understanding series. It provides an accessible and intelligible text without compromising its high academic standards. Devices designed to help students study and revise...

The 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...

So you're now a carer. Your elderly parents need you as never before. Nobody's ever trained you for what comes next, yet you re the unofficial project manager. Emily Ackerman looks at practical and emotional issues like finding time, coping with...

The Political Economy Reader advocates a particular approach to the study of political economy - the "market-institutional" perspective - which emphasizes the ways in which markets are embedded in political and social institutions. This perspective...

This book reflects on the complex and contested idea of South Africa, drawing on a wide range of disciplinary perspectives. Ever since the delineation of South Africa as a country, the many diverse groups of people contained within its borders have...

The growing influence of Russia on the Western far right has been much discussed in the media recently. This book is the first detailed inquiry into what has been a neglected but critically important trend: the growing links between Russian actors and...

The American political reformer Herbert Croly wrote, "For better or worse, democracy cannot be disentangled from an aspiration toward human perfectibility." Democratic Faith is at once a trenchant analysis and a powerful critique of this underlying...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865972186Author James M BuchananFormat PaperbackPage Count 356Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 654g

Over several centuries, England imposed itself by force and by treaty on the other three nations of the Hiberno-British Isles to form its own English Empire. For much of its life, the United Kingdom has only endured out of shared interest in overseas...

As ongoing controversies over commercial sex attest, the relationship between capitalism and sexuality is deeply contentious. Economic and sexual practices are assumed to be not only separable but antithetical, hence why paid sex is so often criminalized...

This book explores the role of law and policy in circular economy transitions and their impacts on justice, including on distributional equity and recognition and procedural rights, especially for people already marginalised under the current dominant...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Guardian First Book Award 2013.Book InformationISBN 9780345806475Author Stephen EmmottFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random...

Written in a straightforward way to appeal to a range of abilities. A lively new page design encourages students to engage with the information, appealing to a wide range of learning styles. Offers advice and guidance to help students get the most from...

For many progressives, racial identities are the engine of American history, and by extension, contemporary politics. They, in short, want to separate race from class. While policymakers and pundits find an almost metaphysical racism, or the survival of...

If there was a bomb hidden somewhere in a major city, and you had the person responsible in your custody, would you torture them to get the information needed to stop the bomb exploding, preventing a devastating terrorist attack and saving thousands of...

This book provides a detailed narrative and analysis of the 50-year development of the personal social services in England, located throughout the changing ideological, political and relevant professional contexts of the period. Drawing on the...

Political parties are an established feature of contemporary democratic politics. For decades, parties have organised government, competed in elections and influenced the way society is run. Yet despite their importance, the status of political parties...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912436965Author Matt CookFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Lendal PressPublisher Valley Press

How many have to die to save one man?Each night a small jet leaves Moscow heading for a lonely outpost in the frozen Soviet North. It takes no passengers and brings none back.Intelligence shows this is neither a cargo flight nor a military flight. The...

In 1939, with Europe on the brink of war, Peter Gumbel's grandparents fled Nazi Germany for England. In2019, appalled not only by the result of the Brexit referendum but by the ugliness it exposed in our politics and wider society, he became a citizen of...

Malkin follows the money and motives to show that how we're falling victim to a massive immigration scam.About the Author MICHELLE MALKIN is a mother, wife, blogger, conservative syndicated columnist, and bestselling author of six books. She founded...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789087283896Author Edwin BakkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Leiden University PressPublisher Leiden University Press

The mass graves from our long human history of genocide, massacres, and violent conflict form an underground map of atrocity that stretches across the planet's surface. In the past few decades, due to rapidly developing technologies and a powerful global...

Institutions shape every dimension of politics. This volume collects original essays on how such institutions are formed, operated, and changed, both in theory and in practice. Ranging across formal institutions of government such as legislatures,...

A #1 Sunday Times bestseller [UK] A titanic battle is being waged for Europe's integrity and soul, with the forces of reason and humanism losing out to growing irrationality, authoritarianism, and malice, promoting inequality and austerity. The whole...

This volume comprises some of the key essays by Professor Crenshaw, from 1972 to the present-day, on the causes, processes and consequences of terrorism. Since the early 1970s, scholars and practitioners have tried to explain terrorism and to assess the...

The birthplace of the nation-state and modern nationalism at the end of the eighteenth century, Europe was supposed to be their graveyard at the end of the twentieth. Yet, far from moving beyond the nation-state, fin-de-siecle Europe has been moving back...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262544399Author Jesse Olszynko-GrynFormat PaperbackPage Count 424Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 680gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Geoff Shepard's shocking expose of corrupt collusion between prosecutors, judges, and congressional staff to void Nixon's 1972 landslide reelection. Their success changed the course of American history.Geoff Shepard had a ringside seat to the unfolding...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612290140Author Joy MurrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Common Ground PublishingPublisher Common Ground PublishingWeight(grams)...

Institutions do not decide whom to destroy or to kill, whether to make peace or war; those decisions are the responsibility of individuals. This book argues that the most important aspect of conflict resolution is for antagonists to understand their...

Vernacular Rights Cultures offers a bold challenge to the dominant epistemologies and political practices of global human rights. It argues that decolonising global human rights calls for a serious epistemic accounting of the historically and politically...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805211948Author Hannah ArendtFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint Schocken BooksPublisher Schocken BooksWeight(grams) 527gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 132mm *...

It is virtually impossible to understand the history of modern Guyana without understanding the role played by Forbes Burnham. As premier of British Guiana, he led the country to independence in 1966 and spent two decades as its head of state until his...