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Democratize Work: The Case for Reorganizing the Economy by Isabelle Ferreras
€14.45An urgent and deeply resonant case for the power of workplace democracy to restore balance between economy and society. What happens to a society-and a planet-when capitalism outgrows democracy? The tensions between democracy and capitalism are... -
The Guy Liddell Diaries, Volume I: 1939-1942: MI5's Director of Counter-Espionage in World War II by Nigel West
RRP: €64.25€56.25This is the first volume of Nigel West's acclaimed presentation of these fascinating diaries from the heart of Britain's Second World War intelligence operations.'No intelligence buff can be without this volume and anyone interested in British twentieth... -
Oil, the State, and War: The Foreign Policies of Petrostates by Emma Ashford
RRP: €33.32€29.68A comprehensive challenge to prevailing understanding of international implications of oil wealth that shows why it can create bad actors In a world where oil-rich states are more likely to start war than their oil-dependent counterparts, it's... -
Double Cross: The Explosive Inside Story of the Mobster Who Controlled America by Sam Giancana
RRP: €23.79€15.91New York Times Bestseller! "Sam Giancana tells all . . . Controversial . . . ties seven United States presidents to the mob."-Larry King, CNNOne of the most feared Chicago mobsters Sam Giancana clawed his way to the top of the Mafia hierarchy by starting... -
The Future of Northern Ireland by Mary C. Murphy 9781788214124
RRP: €23.79€22.37*** WINNER OF THE 2023 UACES BEST BOOK PRIZE *** The UK's decision to leave the EU has opened up huge existential questions for Northern Ireland as it marks its centenary. Constitutional conflict in Northern Ireland had been regarded as largely... -
Making Sense of Pakistan by Farzana Shaikh
RRP: €22.60€20.21Pakistan's transformation from a country once projected as a model of Muslim enlightenment to a state now threatened by an Islamist take over dominates the headlines. Many account for the change by pointing to Pakistan's controversial partnership with... -
Political Cleavages and Social Inequalities: A Study of Fifty Democracies, 1948-2020 by Amory Gethin
RRP: €41.59€34.24The empirical starting point for anyone who wants to understand political cleavages in the democratic world, based on a unique dataset covering fifty countries since World War II.Who votes for whom and why? Why has growing inequality in many parts of the... -
How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America: Problems in Race, Political Economy, and Society by Manning Marable 9781642591149
RRP: €61.88€41.76"How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America is one of those paradigm-shifting, life-changing texts that has not lost its currency or relevance even after three decades. Its provocative treatise on the ravages of late capitalism, state violence,... -
Finance for Housing: An Introduction Cathy Davis 9781447306481
RRP: €38.07€29.12The global financial crisis of 2007-08 was triggered by sub-prime mortgage mis-selling in the US and the global sale of these debts as new bonds. Austerity programmes are designed to reduce the borrowing that governments undertook to stabilise failing... -
Don't Be Silly by Padmacandra 9781915252111
RRP: €15.46€10.01Bouncy Bo and little Smudge Lived in a CASTLE, with their father, Mr Judge.... Bouncy Bo and Little Smudge live in a sombre castle with their serious father. They are full of laughter and mischief, but it seems as if all the adults have forgotten how... -
American Breakdown: The Trump Years and How They Befell Us by David Bromwich
RRP: €15.46€12.82American Breakdown is the brilliant political diary of one of America's leading essayists, David Bromwich, whose work has drawn wide appreciation for its incisive portraits and accurate prognosis. From his analysis of the Cheney-Bush co-presidency, in... -
Implementing Public Policy: An Introduction to the Study of Operational Governance by Michael Hill
RRP: €41.64€34.76The 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 Pentagon, Climate Change, and War: Charting the Rise and Fall of U.S. Military Emissions by Neta C. Crawford
RRP: €35.70€23.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262047487Author Neta C. CrawfordFormat HardbackPage Count 392Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Secret Empires: How the American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends by Peter Schweizer
€16.54#1 New York Times Bestseller!Peter Schweizer has been fighting corruption-and winning-for years. In Throw Them All Out, he exposed insider trading by members of Congress, leading to the passage of the STOCK Act. In Extortion, he uncovered how politicians... -
All Roads Lead North: China, Nepal and the Contest for the Himalayas by Amish Raj Mulmi
RRP: €35.70€31.82During the June 2020 territorial dispute over Kalapani, India blamed tensions on a newly assertive Nepal's deepening relations with China. But beyond the accusations and grandstanding, this reflects a new reality: the power equations in South Asia have... -
Gandhi: 'Hind Swaraj' and Other Writings Centenary Edition by Mohandas Gandhi
RRP: €30.93€26.17Hind Swaraj is Mahatma Gandhi's fundamental work. Not only is it key to understanding his life and thoughts, but also the politics of South Asia in the first half of the twentieth century. Celebrating 100 years since Hind Swaraj was first published in a... -
Small Farm Republic: Why Conservatives Must Embrace Local Agriculture, Reject Climate Alarmism, and Lead an Environmental Revival John Klar 9781645022190
RRP: €23.80€15.89From farmer, lawyer and political activist John Klar comes a bold, solutions-based plan for Conservatives that gets beyond the fatuous pipe dreams and social-justice platitudes of the dominant, Liberal "Green" agenda - offering a healthy way forward for... -
No Refuge: Ethics and the Global Refugee Crisis by Serena Parekh
RRP: €27.95€23.76Syrians crossing the Mediterranean in ramshackle boats bound for Europe; Sudanese refugees, their belongings on their backs, fleeing overland into neighboring countries; children separated from their parents at the US/Mexico border--these are the images... -
Medieval Law in Context: The Growth of Legal Consciousness from Magna Carta to the Peasants' Revolt by Anthony Musson 9780719054945
RRP: €23.79€21.54Examines how medieval people at all social levels thought about law, justice and politics, as well as their role in society. Provides a clear, structured view of judicial developments and experience of litigation in the thirteenth and fourteenth... -
Essays by Wallace Shawn 9781608460960
RRP: €17.84€12.15With his distinctive brand of humour and insight, acclaimed playwright and beloved actor Wallace Shawn takes his readers on a revelatory journey through high art, war, culture, politics and privilege with his first non-fiction collection, which received... -
Kennan: A Life between Worlds by Frank Costigliola 9780691165400
RRP: €41.65€27.94A definitive biography of the U.S. diplomat and prize-winning historian George F. KennanThe diplomat and historian George F. Kennan (1904-2005) ranks as one of the most important figures in American foreign policy-and one of its most complex. Drawing on... -
Struggles for the Human: Violent Legality and the Politics of Rights by Lara Montesinos Coleman 9781478025566
RRP: €26.17€22.84In Struggles for the Human, Lara Montesinos Coleman blends ethnography, political philosophy, and critical theory to reorient debates on human rights through attention to understandings of legality, ethics, and humanity in anticapitalist and decolonial... -
The Laws: Bks. I-VI by Plato
RRP: €29.69€28.27Final thoughts on an ideal constitution.Plato, the great philosopher of Athens, was born in 427 BC. In early manhood an admirer of Socrates, he later founded the famous school of philosophy in the grove Academus. Much else recorded of his life is... -
Comparative Grand Strategy: A Framework and Cases by Thierry Balzacq 9780198840855
RRP: €42.23€37.73This book develops a new approach in explaining how a nation's Grand Strategy is constituted, how to assess its merits, and how grand strategies may be comparatively evaluated within a broader framework. The volume responds to three key problems... -
The Identity Myth: Why We Need to Embrace Our Differences to Beat Inequality by David Swift
RRP: €13.08€9.06We are in crisis. As a society we have never been less connected. The internet and globalisation fuel ignorance and anger, while the disconnect between people's reality and perceived identities has never been greater. Karl Marx outlined the idea of a... -
Foucault with Marx by Jacques Bidet 9781783605378
RRP: €20.22€17.98With this timely commitment, Jacques Bidet unites the theories of arguably the world's two greatest emancipatory political thinkers. In this far-reaching and decisive text, Bidet examines Marxian and Foucauldian criticisms of capitalist modernity. For... -
Blind Obedience and Denial: The Nuremberg Defendants by Andrew Sangster
RRP: €29.75€20.97A revealing yet accessible examination of the Nuremberg trial, and most crucially all 23 men who stood accused, not just the most infamous-Speer, Hess, and Goering. This account sets the scene by explaining the procedures, the legal context, and the... -
Rival Power: Russia in Southeast Europe by Dimitar Bechev
RRP: €29.75€28.96A nuanced and comprehensive study of the political dynamics between Russia and key countries in Southeast Europe Is Russia threatening to disrupt more than two decades' of E.U. and U.S. efforts to promote stability in post-communist Southeast Europe?... -
Rent Joe Collins 9781509539062
RRP: €17.84€16.16The problem of rent is at the root of vital social concerns in the twenty-first century, ranging from the climate emergency and spiralling economic inequality to the repercussions of global economic crises. But while many of us may be familiar with rent... -
Internal Exile in Fascist Italy: History and Representations of Confino by Piero Garofalo 9781526163875
RRP: €30.94€27.22This study offers a clear, concise introduction to the Fascist-era practice, know as confino, of exiling antifascist dissidents to parts of Italy far from the dissidents' homes, often on islands or in tiny inland villages. The book is organised in two... -
Why David Sometimes Wins: Leadership, Organization, and Strategy in the California Farm Worker Movement by Marshall Ganz
RRP: €42.23€28.32Why David Sometimes Wins tells the story of Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers' groundbreaking victory, drawing important lessons from this dramatic tale. Since the 1900s, large-scale agricultural enterprises relied on migrant labor--a cheap,... -
Primal Screams: How the Sexual Revolution Created Identity Politics by Mary Eberstadt
RRP: €17.84€15.96Who am I? The question today haunts every society in the Western world. Legions of people-especially the young-have become unmoored from a firm sense of self. To compensate, they join the ranks of ideological tribes spawned by identity politics and... -
Britain's New Towns: Garden Cities to Sustainable Communities by Anthony Alexander
RRP: €57.11€50.23The New Towns Programme of 1946 to 1970 was one of the most substantial periods of urban development in Britain. The New Towns have often been described as a social experiment; so what has this experiment proved?This book covers the story of how these... -
Bucking the Buck: US Financial Sanctions and the International Backlash against the Dollar by Daniel McDowell 9780197679883
RRP: €24.98€21.35The US dollar is the world's indispensable currency. The dollar's preeminent status gives the United States enormous coercive powers which it flexes in the form of financial sanctions to punish its adversaries. Over the last twenty years, Washington has... -
War and Genocide in South Sudan by Clémence Pinaud
RRP: €21.41€18.92Using more than a decade's worth of fieldwork in South Sudan, Clemence Pinaud here explores the relationship between predatory wealth accumulation, state formation, and a form of racism-extreme ethnic group entitlement-that has the potential to result in... -
The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides 9780226801063
RRP: €28.56€27.88"Thomas Hobbes's translation of Thucydides brings together the magisterial prose of one of the greatest writers of the English language and the depth of mind and experience of one of the greatest writers of history in any language. . . . For every... -
The Rule is for None but Allah: Islamist Approaches to Governance by Joana Cook
RRP: €59.50€52.10The last four decades have been shaped by the rise of Islamist politics across significant swathes of the globe. Whether by gun or by ballot box, various Islamist movements--from as far and wide as the Malian desert and Indonesia's archipelagos--have... -
Hook, Line and Scammer: A Story about Relationships, Cybercrime, and Justice by David Crawford 9781398428751
RRP: €11.89€8.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398428751Author David CrawfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers -
The Coloniality of the Secular: Race, Religion, and Poetics of World-Making by Yountae An 9781478025108
RRP: €24.98€21.86In The Coloniality of the Secular, An Yountae investigates the collusive ties between the modern concepts of the secular, religion, race, and coloniality in the Americas. Drawing on the work of Edouard Glissant, Frantz Fanon, Aime Cesaire, Sylvia Wynter,... -
Assembly by Michael Hardt
RRP: €32.12€23.48Each year a new eruption of "leaderless" social movements -- from North Africa and the Middle East to Europe, the Americas, and East Asia -- leaves journalists, political analysts, police forces, and governments disoriented and perplexed. Activists too...