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Grave Issue by Julia Vaughan 9781739801557
RRP: $20.98$17.16Who killed Abraham and Esther Downing in the 1970s? What is the significance of the seven tiny skeletons unearthed in the garden of the Downing's cottage? And why does no-one care? As DCI Kath Fortune and her Cold Case team dive deep into their... -
Elections Matter: Ten Federal Elections that Shaped Australia by Frank Bongiorno
RRP: $41.98$34.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925523157Author Frank BongiornoFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Monash University PublishingPublisher Monash University Publishing -
The Forum and the Tower: How Scholars and Politicians Have Imagined the World, from Plato to Eleanor Roosevelt by Mary Ann Glendon 9780199782451
RRP: $49.33$36.69The Forum and the Tower tackles a fascinating and perennial topic: the relationship between the academy and the world of politics. For all the talk about the remoteness of ivory tower ideas from 'the real world,' it is the case that ideas do in fact have... -
Jihadi Politics: The Global Jihadi Civil War, 2014-2019 by Tore Hamming
RRP: $63.00$56.60In February 2014, al-Qaida issued a statement that shocked the entire Jihadi movement. For the first time in its history, the group declared that a local affiliate, the Islamic State in Iraq, was no longer part of al-Qaida. The renegade Iraqi group, led... -
Anti-Bolshevik Communism by Paul Mattick 9780850362237
RRP: $31.40$28.56Communism aims at putting working people in charge of their lives. A multiplicity of Councils, rather than a big state bureaucracy is needed to empower working people and to focus control over society. Mattick develops a theory of a council communism... -
Making the Future: Occupations, Interventions, Empire and Resistance by Noam Chomsky
RRP: $23.08$16.32Making the Future is the latest collection of essays from Noam Chomsky, one of our most vital and provocative voices of political dissent. Taking up the thread from 2007's Interventions, these penetrating and compelling articles examine numerous topics,... -
Agendas and Instability in American Politics by Frank R. Baumgartner 9780226039497
RRP: $56.70$55.59When "Agendas and Instability in American Politics" appeared fifteen years ago, offering a profoundly original account of how policy issues rise and fall on the national agenda, the "Journal of Politics" predicted that it would 'become a landmark study... -
A Patriot's History of Globalism: Its Rise and Decline by Larry Schweikart 9781648210051
RRP: $42.00$27.01Larry Schweikart has won wide acclaim for his number one New York Times bestseller, A Patriot's History of the United States. Now, with A Patriot's History of Globalism, Schweikart shows that globalism, or the attempt to form a one-world government is... -
The Rights Of Nature: A Legal Revolution That Could Save the World by David R. Boyd
RRP: $33.58$26.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781770412392Author David R. BoydFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,Canada -
Russia after the Cold War by Mike Bowker 9780582368156
$102.56In Russia after the Cold War the editors provide an accessible and comprehensive survey of the state of Russia at the end of the twentieth century, as it seeks to come to terms with its new status in the world community, the pressures and tensions... -
The Great Regression Heinrich Geiselberger 9781509522361
RRP: $27.28$25.07We are living through a period of dramatic political change - Brexit, the election of Trump, the rise of extreme right movements in Europe and elsewhere, the resurgence of nationalism and xenophobia and a concerted assault on the liberal values and... -
Chinese Foreign Policy: An Introduction by Marc Lanteigne 9781138345409
RRP: $77.68$68.31This updated and expanded fourth edition of Chinese Foreign Policy seeks to examine the decision-makers, processes, and rationales behind China's expanding international relations as well as offering an in-depth look at China's modern global relations... -
Culture and Values at the Heart of Policy Making: An Insider's Guide Stephen Muers (University of Bath and Big Society Capital) 9781447356158
RRP: $46.18$36.14Why do so many government policies fail to achieve their objectives? Why are our political leaders not held to account for policy failures? Stephen Muers draws on his years of experience as a senior government policymaker, as well as global research... -
Faded Giant by Robert Salas 9781419603419
RRP: $37.78$31.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781419603419Author Robert SalasFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Booksurge PublishingPublisher Booksurge PublishingWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm)... -
Qatar: Securing the Global Ambitions of a City-state by David B. Roberts
RRP: $73.50$65.60Rarely has a state changed its character so completely in so short a period of time. Previ- ously content to play a role befitting its small size, Qatar was a traditional, risk-averse Gulf monarchy until the early 1990s. A bloodless coup in 1995 brought... -
Knowing the Adversary: Leaders, Intelligence, and Assessment of Intentions in International Relations by Keren Yarhi-Milo
RRP: $67.20$52.00States are more likely to engage in risky and destabilizing actions such as military buildups and preemptive strikes if they believe their adversaries pose a tangible threat. Yet despite the crucial importance of this issue, we don't know enough about... -
Freedom: An Unruly History by Annelien De Dijn
RRP: $41.90$33.85Winner of the PROSE AwardAn NRC Handelsblad Best Book of the Year"Ambitious and impressive...At a time when the very survival of both freedom and democracy seems uncertain, books like this are more important than ever."-The Nation"Helps explain how... -
The Military Revolution Debate: Readings On The Military Transformation Of Early Modern Europe Clifford J Rogers 9780813320540
RRP: $123.88$108.11This book brings together, for the first time, the classic articles that began and have shaped the debate about the Military Revolution in early modern Europe, adding important new essays by eminent historians of early modern Europe to further this... -
A History of Political Thought: From the Middle Ages to the Renaissance by Janet Coleman 9780631186533
RRP: $71.30$63.80This volume continues the story of European political theorising by focusing on medieval and Renaissance thinkers. It includes extensive discussion of the practices that underpinned medieval political theories and which continued to play crucial roles in... -
License to Travel: A Cultural History of the Passport by Patrick Bixby
RRP: $44.10$33.16This surprising global history of an indispensable document reveals how the passport has shaped art, thought, and human experience while helping to define the modern world. In License to Travel, Patrick Bixby takes the reader on a captivating journey... -
Latin America's Turbulent Transitions: The Future of Twenty-First Century Socialism by Roger Burbach 9781848135673
$50.63Over the past few years, something remarkable has occurred in Latin America. For the first time since the Sandinista Revolution in Nicaragua in the 1980s, people within the region have turned toward radical left governments - specifically in Venezuela,... -
The Cambridge Handbook of Environmental Justice and Sustainable Development by Sumudu A. Atapattu
$64.53Despite the global endorsement of the Sustainable Development Goals, environmental justice struggles are growing all over the world. These struggles are not isolated injustices, but symptoms of interlocking forms of oppression that privilege the few... -
Microsociology: Discourse, Emotion and Social Structure by Thomas J. Scheff
RRP: $56.70$55.59Moving beyond the traditional boundaries of sociological investigation, Thomas J. Scheff brings together the study of communication and the social psychology of emotions to explore the microworld of thoughts, feelings, and moods. Drawing on strikingly... -
Cultural Heritage and Mass Atrocities by James Cuno
RRP: $157.50$129.80A pathbreaking call to halt the intertwined crises of cultural heritage attacks and mass atrocities and mobilize international efforts to protect people and cultures. Intentional destruction of cultural heritage has a long history. Contemporary examples... -
Don't Vote by Uncle Dic 9781804391877
RRP: $16.78$12.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804391877Author Uncle DicFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Olympia PublishersPublisher Olympia Publishers -
Global Environmental Politics by Pamela Chasek
RRP: $75.58$66.55Global Environmental Politics has provided an accurate, up-to-date, and unbiased understanding of the world's most pressing environmental issues for thirty years. The eighth edition continues this practice by covering critical new developments in global... -
The Power of Platforms: Shaping Media and Society by Rasmus Kleis Nielsen 9780190908867
RRP: $44.08$37.67More people today get news via Facebook and Google than from any news organization in history, and smaller platforms like Twitter serve news to more users than all but the biggest media companies. In The Power of Platforms, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen and Sarah... -
Sustainability Science by Bert J. M. de Vries 9781009300216
RRP: $104.98$93.98The fully updated second edition of this innovative textbook provides a system analysis approach to sustainability for advanced undergraduate and graduate students. To an extent unparalleled in other textbooks, the latest scientific data and insights are... -
Golden Phoenix, The: Russia, Ukraine and a Coming New World Order Nicholas Hagger 9781803412757
RRP: $27.28$24.07In The Fall of the West Nicholas Hagger examined the evidence for the origin of Covid and whether it has been used as a bio-weapon between West and East. He saw the US, worried by China's Belt-and-Road Initiative in 140 countries, as collaborating with... -
A Leap in the Dark: The Struggle to Create the American Republic by John Ferling
RRP: $38.83$35.05It was an age of fascinating leaders and difficult choices, of grand ideas eloquently expressed and of epic conflicts bitterly fought. Now comes a brilliant portrait of the American Revolution, one that is compelling in its prose, fascinating in its... -
Irish Political Prisoners 1960-2000: Braiding Rage and Sorrow by Sean McConville
RRP: $92.38$80.72This is a comprehensive, detailed and humane account of the thousands who came into custody during the years of the Northern Ireland conflict and how they lived out the months, years and decades in Irish and English maximum security prisons.Erupting in... -
The New Populism: Democracy Stares Into the Abyss Marco Revelli 9781788734509
RRP: $35.68$29.61The word 'populism' has come to cover all manner of sins. Yet despite the prevalence of its use, it is often difficult to understand what connects its various supposed expressions. From Syriza to Trump and from Podemos to Brexit, the electoral... -
Foreign Policy as Nation Making: Turkey and Egypt in the Cold War by Reem Abou-El-Fadl
RRP: $77.68$53.45After the Second World War, Turkey and Egypt were among the most dynamic actors in the Middle East. Their 1950s foreign policies presented a puzzle, however: Turkey's Democrat Party pursued NATO membership and sponsored the pro-Western Baghdad Pact... -
Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism's Stealth Revolution by Wendy Brown
RRP: $63.00$45.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935408536Author Wendy BrownFormat HardbackPage Count 296Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone Books -
The Trouble with Africa: Why Foreign Aid Isn't Working by Robert Calderisi 9780300125122
RRP: $27.28$24.07Calderisi shows that Africa has steadily lost markets by its own mismanagement; that corrupt, dictatorial regimes have hobbled agriculture, enterprise and foreign investment; that African family values and fatalism are more destructive than tribalism;... -
Spartacus Howard Fast 9781563245992
RRP: $79.78$70.10The best-selling novel about a slave revolt in ancient Rome and the basis for the popular motion picture.Book InformationISBN 9781563245992Author Howard FastFormat PaperbackPage Count 372Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis IncWeight(grams) 520g -
Jobs and Homes: stories of the law in lockdown by David Renton 9781913648190
RRP: $52.50$51.79COVID-19 has given many people a window through which they can see how easily life can turn for the worse, and how quickly they might end up needing the help of a legal aid lawyer like David Renton. Renton takes the reader on a journey through the... -
Known Associate: An Intimate View of Lee Harvey Oswald by Paul R. Gregory
RRP: $56.68$38.51The closest friend of Lee Harvey Oswald and his Soviet wife Marina upon the couple's arrival in Texas breaks a sixty-year silence with a riveting story of his time with JFK's assassin and his candid assessment of the murder that marked a turning point in... -
Xi Jinping: The Hidden Agendas of China's Ruler for Life Willy Lam 9781032301402
RRP: $75.58$66.55This book examines the policy, ideology and politics of Xi Jinping, State President and General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and China's "ruler for life."Through comparisons with former CCP leaders, including Deng Xiaoping, it assesses... -
Justice Is Coming: How Progressives Are Going to Take Over the Country and America Is Going to Love It by Cenk Uygur
RRP: $63.00$37.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250272799Author Cenk UygurFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint St. Martin's PressPublisher St. Martin's PressWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm) 239mm *...