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Geo-economics and Power Politics in the 21st Century: The Revival of Economic Statecraft by Mikael Wigell
RRP: £41.99£36.75Starting from the key concept of geo-economics, this book investigates the new power politics and argues that the changing structural features of the contemporary international system are recasting the strategic imperatives of foreign policy practice... -
An Anthropology of the European Union: Building, Imagining and Experiencing the New Europe Irene Bellier 9781859733295
RRP: £37.99£33.38One 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... -
Blood and Belief: The PKK and the Kurdish Fight for Independence by Aliza Marcus
RRP: £23.99£20.84An in depth and scholarly report on the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), an essential actor on behalf of modern-day Kurds The Kurds, who number some 28 million people in the Middle East, have no country they can call their own. Long ignored by the West,... -
The Closed Partisan Mind: A New Psychology of American Polarization by Matthew D. Luttig
RRP: £29.99£26.50The Closed Partisan Mind traces the roots of partisan polarization to psychological closed-mindedness in the electorate and the changing perception of politics created by polarized political leaders and the new media environment. American politics today... -
The Ulster Unionist Party: Country Before Party? by Thomas Hennessey
£88.32The 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... -
Organizational Culture and Social Equity: An Experiential Guide by Stephanie Dolamore 9781032498126
RRP: £37.99£33.38Social equity, or the lack of social equity, is practiced in all of our organizations. By focusing on advancing social equity in organizational culture, public and non-profit organizations can create more inclusive operations, correct historical... -
The New Minority: White Working Class Politics in an Age of Immigration and Inequality by Justin Gest 9780190632557
RRP: £32.49£23.44It 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... -
Representing the Nation: A Reader: Histories, Heritage, Museums by David Boswell
RRP: £35.99£34.00Gathering key writings from leading thinkers in cultural studies, cultural history, and museum studies, Representing the Nation: A reader explores the role cultural institutions play in creating and shaping our sense of ourselves as a nation.With an... -
Implementing Public Policy: An Introduction to the Study of Operational Governance by Michael Hill
RRP: £34.99£29.21The only book to focus on implementing public policy, this state-of-the-art text offers a comprehensive and lively account of the major insights found in implementation theory and research. Its exploration of the field provides a reflective overview of... -
The Education Of Brett Kavanaugh by Robin Pogrebin
RRP: £25.99£16.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593084397Author Robin PogrebinFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint PortfolioPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
The Beginning or the End: How Hollywood Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb by Greg Mitchell
RRP: £19.99£13.56The shocking and significant story of how the White House and Pentagon scuttled an epic Hollywood production. Soon after atomic bombs exploded over Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, MGM set out to make a movie studio chief Louis B. Mayer called "the... -
Facing The Enemy: A History of Anarchist Organisation from Proudhon to May '68 by Alexandre Skirda 9781902593197
RRP: £12.00£8.00Apologies 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 -
Presidential Power in Russia Eugene Huskey 9781563245374
RRP: £43.99£38.84This is the first major assessment of the role of the presidency in Russia's difficult transition form communist rule. Huskey analyzes the establishment and functioning of the Russian presidency as an institution and in relation to the other leading... -
The Rise of Neoliberal Feminism by Catherine Rottenberg 9780190901226
RRP: £29.99£24.51From 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... -
Key Themes in Social Policy by Patricia Kennedy
RRP: £39.99£35.06Key Themes in Social Policy provides an accessible and authoritative introduction to the key concepts used in social policy, from autonomy to wellbeing.With over 100 ideas discussed, this is a comprehensive student guide and is designed to help readers... -
The ISIS Reader: Milestone Texts of the Islamic State Movement by Haroro J. Ingram
RRP: £37.50£33.39In the wake of its 'Caliphate' declaration in 2014, the self-described Islamic State has been the focus of countless academic papers, government studies, media commentaries and documentaries. Despite all this attention, persistent myths continue to... -
The Myth of Democratic Failure: Why Political Institutions Are Efficient Donald A. Wittman (University of California at Santa Cruz) 9780226904238
RRP: £32.00£31.11This 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... -
Cold War Women: The International Activities of American Women's Organisations by Helen Laville 9780719080449
RRP: £19.99£15.23For too long, American women have been hidden in the history of the Cold War. In *Cold War women* Helen Laville recovers their significance by examining the activities and ambitions of American women's organisations in the long period of uneasy peace... -
The Rift: A New Africa Breaks Free Alex Perry 9781780226859
RRP: £12.99£8.60Taking the Great Rift Valley - the geological fault that will eventually tear Africa in two - as his central metaphor, Alex Perry explores the split between a resurgent Africa and a world at odds with its rise. Africa has long been misunderstood - and... -
Continuity and Change in Public Policy and Management by Christopher Pollitt 9780857935434
RRP: £27.95£26.49Continuity and Change in Public Policy and Management offers a major reconsideration of patterns in long-term policymaking and organizational change. Christopher Pollitt and Geert Bouckaert use international and inter-sectoral comparison to challenge... -
Routledge Handbook of Critical Terrorism Studies Richard Jackson 9781138601147
RRP: £47.99£42.21This 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... -
Poor Numbers: How We Are Misled by African Development Statistics and What to Do about It by Morten Jerven
RRP: £23.99£20.84One of the most urgent challenges in African economic development is to devise a strategy for improving statistical capacity. Reliable statistics, including estimates of economic growth rates and per-capita income, are basic to the operation of... -
Divided Nations: Why global governance is failing, and what we can do about it by Ian Goldin 9780199689033
RRP: £11.99£8.43With rapid globalization, the world is more deeply interconnected than ever before. While this has its advantages, it also brings with it systemic risks that are only just being identified and understood. Rapid urbanization, together with technological... -
Advanced Introduction to International Political Economy: Second Edition Benjamin J. Cohen 9781788971560
RRP: £19.95£18.15Acclaim for previous edition:'Benjamin J. Cohen's Advanced Introduction to International Political Economy evaluates the fragmented intellectual landscape of international political economy and suggests points of convergence, if not integration, among... -
A Guerrilla Guide to Refusal by Andrew Culp
RRP: £19.99£17.54A field guide to a nonfascist life at the end of the world as we know itA Guerrilla Guide to Refusal is an unexpected approach to philosophy from a guerrilla-logic point of view. Harnessing critical theory to creatively reimagine counterinsurgency,... -
John Hume: In His Own Words by Sean Farren
£25.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846829987Author Sean FarrenFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Four Courts Press LtdPublisher Four Courts Press LtdWeight(grams) 700gDimensions(mm)... -
The Dumbing Down of Britain by Duncan Barkes 9781783960941
RRP: £8.99£6.22If they could see us today, our forefathers would be spluttering into their pint glasses, wondering where it all went wrong. Happy to be spoon-fed on a diet of blandness, buzzwords and uniformity, in the last 20 years our society has become more insular,... -
Officious - Rise of the busybody state Josie Appleton 9781785354205
RRP: £9.99£8.59In Anglo-Saxon countries there is a new and distinctive form of state: the busybody state. This state is defined by an attachment to bureaucratic procedures for their own sake: the rule for the sake of a rule; the form for the sake of a form. Its... -
Rebuilding Social Democracy: Core Principles for the Centre Left Kevin Hickson (University of Liverpool) 9781447333173
RRP: £10.99£8.71The British Labour Party is in crisis. A prolonged period of government between 1997 and 2010 saw the party intellectually exhausted. The subsequent leadership of Ed Miliband ultimately failed with the loss of the 2015 General Election, and the party... -
Tyranny and Revolution: Rousseau to Heidegger by Waller R. Newell
RRP: £29.99£26.34The Philosophy of Freedom from Rousseau to Heidegger launched a great protest against modern liberal individualism, inspired by the virtuous political community of the ancient Greeks. Hegel argued that the progress of history was gradually bringing about... -
National Liberation, Socialism and Imperialism by V I Lenin 9780717801350
RRP: £14.99£12.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780717801350Author V I LeninFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint International Publishers Co Inc.,U.S.Publisher International Publishers Co Inc.,U.S... -
On Assassinations by Kenneth Baker
RRP: £20.00£14.69In this revealing look at the history of assassinations, Kenneth Baker examines over a hundred political and religious murders or attempted murders, ranging from Julius Caesar to President Kennedy to Osama bin Laden. Assassins hope to change the... -
International Relations in the Middle East: Hegemonic Strategies and Regional Order by Ewan Stein
RRP: £23.99£20.37Developing an original theoretical approach to understanding the roots of regional conflict and cooperation, International Relations in the Middle East explores domestic and international foreign policy dynamics for an accessible insight into how and why... -
Profits and Power: Navigating the Politics and Geopolitics of Oil by David A. Detomasi
RRP: £22.99£19.19Oil fuels the global economy and remains a staple of our energy system. Yet, its production and use continue to draw negative criticism, and an increasing number of people want to reduce or eliminate its use altogether. Profits and Power sheds light on... -
Ferrocement Water Tanks: A Comprehensive Guide to Domestic Water Harvesting by Felicity, Daniel Lee, Coleman 9781856232494
RRP: £9.95£6.39The combination of cheap, easily available materials, margin for error, suitability for amateurs and flexibility in terms of size and shape, make ferrocement tanks an ideal choice for anyone looking for long-term water security on a budget, and they work... -
New Order in the Gulf: The Rise of the UAE by Dina Esfandiary
RRP: £24.99£21.78For over a decade now, thinking on regional relations in the Gulf has focused on the competition for regional hegemony between Iran and Saudi Arabia. Today, this perspective is outdated. The smaller Gulf Arab states, led by the United Arab Emirates, are... -
On the Other Side of Freedom: Race and Justice in a Divided America by DeRay Mckesson
RRP: £9.99£7.11Five years ago, DeRay Mckesson quit his job as a schoolteacher, moved to Ferguson, Missouri, and spent the next 400 days on the streets as an activist, helping to bring the Black Lives Matter movement into being. Now, in his first book, he draws on... -
Media Democracy: How the Media Colonize Politics Thomas Meyer (Universitat Dortmund) 9780745628448
RRP: £16.99£15.22In his controversial new book, Thomas Meyer argues that the media are transforming traditional party democracy into 'media democracy'. Political elites submit to the mass media's formulas in the hope of salvaging some influence over their public images... -
A Rebel's Guide To Eleanor Marx by Siobhan Brown 9781909026773
RRP: £4.00£3.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909026773Author Siobhan BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Bookmarks PublicationsPublisher Bookmarks PublicationsWeight(grams) 53g -
Triggered: How the Left Thrives on Hate and Wants to Silence Us by Donald Trump Jr.
RRP: £25.00£18.61In Triggered, Donald Trump, Jr. will expose all the tricks that the left uses to smear conservatives and push them out of the public square, from online "shadow banning" to fake accusations of "hate speech." No topic is spared from political correctness...