Political Science

This hard-hitting expose by leading national muckraker Martha Rosenberg blows the lid off of everything you thought you knew about Big Pharma and Big Food. What goes on behind the scenes in these industries is more suspicious, more devious, more...

Contributors ask whether it is more useful to conceive of the world as arrayed in regional, cultural, institutional complexes or organized along the conventional dimensions of power, alliance, and geography. They argue that perspectives that neglect the...

Combining fertile soils, vital trade routes, and a coveted strategic location, the islands and surrounding continental lowlands of the Caribbean were one of Europe's earliest and most desirable colonial frontiers. The region was colonized over the course...

"A great read."-Whoopi Goldberg, The ViewHow the clash between the civil rights firebrand and the father of modern conservatism continues to illuminate America's racial divideOn February 18, 1965, an overflowing crowd packed the Cambridge Union in...

This timely book provides in-depth analytical comparison of the nineteenth century evolution of the American single market with corresponding political, economic, and social developments in post-WWII European efforts to create a single European market...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609805333Author Jacques RanciereFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 222g

Volume II of Capital examines the movement of capital in circulation.Book InformationISBN 9780853150275Author Karl MarxFormat HardbackPage Count 551Imprint Lawrence & Wishart LtdPublisher Lawrence and Wishart Ltd

This book addresses the most important question in geopolitics today - the future of relations between the US and China. Concerned that the rise of China will challenge the its hegemony in world affairs, the US has decided to reassert its influence in...

1960s Zhongguancun, Beijing. A gang of young scientists toils into the night over the nation's first atomic bomb. They have no way of knowing that their work will go on to lay the foundation of China's enterprising tech sector, producing the likes of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806538631Author John R. BarlettaFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Citadel Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Citadel Press Inc.,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316352543Author Liza MundyFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Hachette BooksPublisher Hachette BooksWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 137mm *...

In recent years, the West has seen a rising tide of populist and anti-political feeling. Figures like Donald Trump and Nigel Farage have gained power by distancing themselves from "the establishment" and portraying politics itself as the enemy of the...

For the first time, the full story of the conflict between two of the twentieth century's most important thinkers-and the lessons their disagreements continue to offerTwo of the most iconic thinkers of the twentieth century, Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) and...

"Never Silent is a gorgeous book . . . Peter Staley has written an electrifying primer for anyone who's thinking/worrying/wondering about how to change/save the world." -Tony Kushner, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of Angels in AmericaThe previously...

Building on the successes of Understanding Global Social Policy (Yeates ed. 2008) and its companion text, the Global Social Policy Reader (Yeates and Holden ed. 2009), the second edition of this leading textbook in social policy identifies and reviews...

Europe is in a period of transition and there is great uncertainty about its direction. No country plays a greater role in influencing Europe's future path than Germany, which is either seen as overbearing or indecisive in its imposition of policies-and...

If the question of communism is making a comeback today, this renewed interest is often accompanied by an abandonment of any concrete political perspective. Critical philosophies are flourishing and proliferating, but, folded into the academic terrain,...

Plato's Critique of Impure Reason offers a dramatic interpretation of the Republic, at the center of which lies a novel reading of the historical person of Socrates as the "real image" of the good. Schindler argues that a full response to the attack on...

Britain Votes 2017 offers a comprehensive analysis of one of the most extraordinary elections ever, with an outcome few predicted. It contains dedicated chapters on the results; the fortunes of each the major parties; the campaign and outcomes in each...

Contemporary, thoughtful and extensively illustrated, Modern Diplomacy examines a broad range of current diplomatic practice. This leading and widely used book - now in its fifth edition - equips students with a detailed analysis of important...

The second volume of The Political Economy of Human Rights remains one of the most controversial works produced by Chomsky to date. In a much discussed chapter on Cambodia, Chomsky and Herman questioned official Western narratives on the Khmer Rouge and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474432979Author Patricia DennisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams)...

Janet Coleman's two volume history of European political theorising, from the ancient Greeks to the Renaissance is the introduction which many have been waiting for. In this volume, Coleman discusses the acknowledged great works of Greek, Roman, and...

To most Americans, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. represent contrasting ideals: self-defense versus nonviolence, Black Power versus civil rights, the sword versus the shield. The struggle for Black freedom is wrought with the same contrasts. While...

This is a substantially updated edition of the established guide to this key debate in modern political philosophy.About the AuthorStephen Mulhall is Reader Philosophy at Essex University and a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He is the author of On...

Despite -- and perhaps because of -- increasing global mobility, there are more types of borders today than ever before in history. Borders of all kinds define every aspect of social life in the twenty-first century. From the biometric data that divides...

How do non-governmental humanitarian aid organizations initiate, terminate and extend their project activities? Humanitarian aid organizations regularly face difficult decisions about life and death in a context of serious time constraints which force...

Washington's expansion of the War on Terror to the African continent substantiated claims that the U.S. fabricated terrorism in order to justify their military campaign. This book chronicles the effect of this warmongering and the creation of a...

This is an authoritative, one-volume, and independent treatment of the history, functioning and nature of the European integration. Written by a selection of leading scholars. It covers the major institutions, policies, and events in the history of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394499734Author Robert A. CaroFormat HardbackPage Count 912Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 1378gDimensions(mm) 242mm *...

Liberal democracy is in crisis around the world, unable to address pressing problems such as climate change. There is, however, another path-cooperation democracy. From consumer co-ops to credit unions, worker cooperatives to insurance mutuals,...

Buried in many people and operating largely outside the realm of conscious thought are forces inclining us toward liberal or conservative political convictions. Our biology predisposes us to see and understand the world in different ways, not always...

How did the Shah of Iran become a modern despot? In 1953, Iranian monarch Mohammad-Reza Shah Pahlavi emerged victorious from a power struggle with his prime minister, Mohammad Mosaddeq, thanks to a coup masterminded by Britain and the United States...

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This book outlines the threats from information warfare faced by the West and analyses the ways it can defend itself. Existing on a spectrum from communication to indoctrination, information can be used to undermine trust, amplify emotional resonance...

This is a major new account of how modern humanitarian action was shaped by transformations in the French intellectual and political landscape from the 1950s to the 1980s. Eleanor Davey reveals how radical left third-worldism was displaced by the...

If 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,...

Why did so many distinguished Western Intellectuals-from G.B. Shaw to J.P. Sartre, and. closer to home, from Edmund Wilson to Susan Sontag- admire various communist systems, often in their most repressive historical phases? How could Stalin's Soviet...

America is witnessing the rise of a new generation of socialist activists. More young people support socialism now than at any time since the labor movement of the 1920s. The Democratic Socialists of America, a big-tent leftist organisation, has well...

Countering Cyber Sabotage: Introducing Consequence-Driven, Cyber-Informed Engineering (CCE) introduces a new methodology to help critical infrastructure owners, operators and their security practitioners make demonstrable improvements in securing their...