Political Science

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262661317Author Torsten PerssonFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 862gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 178mm * 24mm

The third edition of Jill Steans' popular and highly respected text offers a comprehensive and up to date introduction to gender in international relations today. Its nine chapters have been fully revised and expanded to cover key issues, developments...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062883759Author Arthur C. BrooksFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Broadside BooksPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

This book offers an accessible and rigorous introduction to the context, diplomacy, and law of the European Union's response to Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine. The book explores how the EU responded to the war in the initial months, and is based on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815738374Author Daniel W. DreznerFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams)...

Renowned critical theorist Susan Buck-Morss argues convincingly that a global public needs to think past the twin insanities of terrorism and counter-terrorism in order to dismantle regressive intellectual barriers. Surveying the widespread literature on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629633848Author PATRICK REINSBOROUGHFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press

For centuries, the trickster has been used in various narratives, including mythological, literary and cinematic, to convey the idea of agency, rebellion and, often turbulent, progress. In The Trickster and the System: Identity and Agency in Contemporary...

The first edition of The Law of Refugee Status (published in 1991) is generally regarded as the seminal text on interpreting the refugee definition set by the UN's 1951 Refugee Convention. Its groundbreaking analysis served as the bedrock for not only...

Strategy and Defence Planning: Meeting the Challenge of Uncertainty explores and examines why and how security communities prepare purposefully for their future defence. The author explains that defence planning is the product of interplay among...

The relationship between the USA and the People's Republic of China (PRC) was the defining factor in the Cold War in Asia - the potentially explosive conflict which, as seen in the Korean War, brought the world to the brink of nuclear disaster. The PRC...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788189487201Author Peter CustersFormat PaperbackPage Count 452Imprint Tulika BooksPublisher Tulika BooksWeight(grams) 670gDimensions(mm) 247mm * 159mm * 23mm

Why are some countries better than others at science and technology (S&T)? Written in an approachable style, The Politics of Innovation provides readers from all backgrounds and levels of expertise a comprehensive introduction to the debates over...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807028377Author Alexandra Minna SternFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022 was a war long in the making and is the latest in a series of military interventions that have showcased Vladimir Putin's deadly imperial ambitions and the ruthless and bloody strategies that serve his vision of a...

'A thriller dipped in poison... Lebedev shares some of le Carre's fascination with secret worlds and the nature of evil' New York Times An extraordinary and angry Russian novel about poisons of all kinds: physical, moral and political. Professor...

Mark Steyn's New York Times bestseller, After America, is now in paperback! Featuring a new introduction and updated throughout, After America takes on Obama's disastrous plan for our nation, and reveals exactly what a post-American world will look like...

The dominant view concerning the rule of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is that it is simply a matter of time before it comes to an end. This view has been dominant since the pro-democracy protests in 1989 and has only been strengthened by the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780932415387Author Jordan Gebre-MedhinFormat HardbackPage Count 220Imprint Red Sea Press,U.S.Publisher Red Sea Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 437g

Plato's Republic is one of the most well-known and widely discussed texts in the history of philosophy, but how might we get to the heart of this work today, 2500 years after it was originally composed? Alain Badiou invents a new genre in order to...

Based on new archival research, G. Williams Domhoff challenges popular conceptions of the 1930's New Deal. Arguing instead that this period was one of increasing corporate dominance in government affairs, affecting the fate of American workers up to the...

Solving Urban Infrastructure Problems Using Smart City Technologies is the most complete guide for integrating next generation smart city technologies into the very foundation of urban areas worldwide, showing how to make urban areas more efficient, more...

This book tells the story of Sure Start, one of the flagship programmes of the last government. It tells how Sure Start was set up, the numerous changes it went through, and how it has changed the landscape of services for all young children in England...

The 2000 presidential race resulted in the highest-profile ballot battle in over a century. But it is far from the only American election determined by a handful of votes and marred by claims of fraud. Since the founding of the nation, violence...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780932863379Author Francis A. BoyleFormat PaperbackPage Count 205Imprint Clarity PressPublisher Clarity Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780265018Author T J ColesFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint New Internationalist Publications LtdPublisher New Internationalist Publications...

In recent years, international trade in toxic waste and hazardous technologies by firms in rich industrialized countries has emerged as a routine practice. Many poor countries have accepted these deadly imports but are ill equipped to manage the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781636410555Author Shawn BolzFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Charisma HousePublisher Charisma House

Visually and pedagogically rich, this wide-ranging introduction to key concepts and debates in welfare uses an innovative, question-based narrative to highlight the importance of theory to understanding welfare. In particular, it: * Introduces concepts...

Recounting the actors and events of U.S. foreign policy, Zoellick identifies five traditions that have emerged from America's encounters with the world: the importance of North America; the special roles trading, transnational, and technological...

Inequality is not just about the size of our wallets. It is a socio-cultural order which, for most of us, reduces our capabilities to function as human beings, our health, our dignity, our sense of self, as well as our resources to act and participate in...

Andre Gorz's earlier books-from Ecology as Politics to Farewell to the Working Class and Paths to Paradise-have informed and inspired the most radical currents in Green movements in Europe and America over the last two decades. In Critique of Economic...

Discovering Isaiah is the perfect introduction to the interpretation of Isaiah Through a critical assessment of key interpreters and interpretative debates, this is an Old Testament commentary that encourages in-depth study of the text and a genuine...

Investigative journalist and al Qa'ida expert Camille Tawil analyses the close and complex links between the group and related Arab jihadi movements in Libya, Egypt and Algeria. Tawil investigates these jihadis' attempts at toppling their Arab...

From the historical Jesus and his disciples through to the present day, Greg Sheridan has written an impassioned, informed and utterly compelling case for the truth and importance of Christianity in our lives. He presents a strong argument for the...

As well as introducing the "mainstream" ideologies of Liberalism, Conservatism and Socialism, this text examines challenges from nationalist, feminist and Green thinkers, amongst others. Now in its third edition, it includes a new chapter on anarchism...

In the 1970s Americans learned for the first time that they had been used for decades as unsuspecting guinea pigs in a series of astonishing experiments conducted by the US Army. Military researchers had been secretly spraying clouds of bacteria over...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524746964Author Erin A. BrockovichFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA Inc

Coluccio Salutati (1332-1406) was chancellor of the Florentine Republic (1375-1406) and the leader of the humanist movement in Italy in the generation after Petrarch and Boccaccio. As such, he was among the first humanists to apply his Classical learning...