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The Age of Responsibility: Luck, Choice, and the Welfare State by Yascha Mounk 9780674237674
RRP: €22.55€18.29A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceResponsibility-which once meant the moral duty to help and support others-has come to be equated with an obligation to be self-sufficient. This has guided recent reforms of the welfare state, making key... -
The Astrologer: How British Intelligence Plotted to Read Hitler's Mind by James Parris
RRP: €23.80€18.17In the darkest days of the Second World War, with Europe falling under German occupation and Britain facing invasion, a 36-year-old refugee from the Nazis, Louis de Wohl, made a curious offer to British Intelligence. Based on the widely-held belief that... -
Intelligence Success and Failure: The Human Factor by Uri Bar-Joseph 9780199341740
RRP: €40.45€30.65The study of strategic surprise has long concentrated on important failures that resulted in catastrophes such as Pearl Harbor and the September 11th attacks, and the majority of previously published research in the field determines that such large-scale... -
We Have Tired of Violence: A True Story of Murder, Memory, and the Fight for Justice in Indonesia by Matt Easton
RRP: €23.79€16.14Named a Best Book of the Year by The EconomistA chilling work of true crime about the midair murder of a human rights activist, set against a riveting political drama in the world's fourth-largest nationOn a warm Jakarta night in September 2004, Munir... -
Appalachian Fall: Dispatches from Coal Country on What's Ailing America by Jeff Young 9781982148867
RRP: €29.74€18.46A searing, on-the-ground examination of the collapsing coal industry-and the communities left behind-in the midst of economic and environmental crisis.Despite fueling a century of American progress, the people at the heart of coal country are being left... -
The Syrian Jihad: The Evolution of an Insurgency by Charles Lister
RRP: €23.79€21.21The eruption of the anti-Assad revolution in Syria has had many unintended consequences, among which is the opportunity it offered Sunni jihadists to establish a foothold in the heart of the Middle East. That Syria's ongoing civil war is so brutal and... -
Do It Yourself: A Handbook For Changing Our World by Trapese Collective
RRP: €32.12€20.93Do you really want to change the world? If the answer is YES, then this book shows you how. Ethical consumerism is now big business. But leading a sustainable and truly radical life encompasses a whole variety of things that challenge the mainstream... -
Asylum after Empire: Colonial Legacies in the Politics of Asylum Seeking by Lucy Mayblin
RRP: €41.65€36.54Asylum seekers are not welcome in Europe. But why is that the case? For many scholars, the policies have become more restrictive over recent decades because the asylum seekers have changed. This change is often said to be about numbers, methods of... -
Democracy Hacked: How Technology is Destabilising Global Politics by Martin Moore 9781786074089
RRP: €20.22€19.16In the space of one election cycle, authoritarian governments, moneyed elites and fringe hackers figured out how to game elections, bypass democratic processes, and turn social networks into battlefields. Facebook, Google and Twitter - where our politics... -
The Glass Half-Empty: Debunking the Myth of Progress in the Twenty-First Century Rodrigo Aguilera 9781912248803
RRP: €15.46€10.35Despite the doom and gloom of financial crises, global terrorism, climate collapse, and the rise of the far-right, a number of leading intellectuals (Steven Pinker, Hans Rosling, Johan Norberg, and Matt Ridley, among others) have been arguing in recent... -
Socialism and Hope: A Journey through Turbulent Times by Neil Findlay 9781912147274
RRP: €15.46€11.14The last few years have seen a Scottish independence referendum, a couple of General Elections and a vote on whether or not we should remain in the European Union. Throw in two uncompromising Labour leadership battles at UK level and a couple in ... -
Shallow Graves: A Memoir of the Ethiopia-Eritrea War by Richard Reid
RRP: €32.73€28.70This is a personal account of the war between Eritrea and Ethiopia, fought between May 1998 and June 2000, as well as of the periods immediately preceding and following the conflict. 'Shallow Graves' traces shifting local perceptions of time, the nation... -
The Oxford Handbook of Political Behavior by Russell J. Dalton
RRP: €41.64€41.52What does democracy expect of its citizens, and how do the citizenry match these expectations? This Oxford Handbook examines the role of the citizen in contemporary politics, based on essays from the world's leading scholars of political behavior... -
Profiles in Ignorance: How America's Politicians Got Dumb and Dumber Andy Borowitz 9781668003893
RRP: €13.08€8.45NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER *WASHINGTON POST BESTSELLER * Andy Borowitz, "one of the funniest people in America" (CBS Sunday Morning), brilliantly "chronicles our embrace of anti-intellectualism" (Walter Isaacson) in... -
Postcards of Political Icons: Leaders of the Twentieth Century Andrew Roberts 9781851243273
RRP: €10.70€9.41Opening in the reign of Kaiser Wilhelm II and continuing to the eve of the second Gulf War, Postcards of Political Icons tells the story of the twentieth century through images of its most recognizable leaders. The politicians who presided over the... -
After Brexit and Other Essays Andrew Gamble (Politics Department, University of Sheffield) 9781529217100
RRP: €29.74€23.07'Being more like America again and less like Europe is the heart of the UK model of capitalism ... [but] there are many respects in which Britain remains unlike America despite its strong appeal to the British political class ...' In 'After Brexit'... -
England's Future: The impact of politics on shaping the environment by Dr Nigel Moor
RRP: €23.74€18.15The 2019 general election radically changed the political map of England. People in "left-behind towns" want politics to reflect and respond to their needs. England needs its own devolution, and this book includes case studies where local communities... -
The Greco-Persian Wars by Peter Green
RRP: €32.13€25.06This is a reissue, with a new introduction and an update to the bibliography, of the original edition, published in 1970 as The Year of Salamis in England and as Xerxes at Salamis in the U.S. The long and bitter struggle between the great Persian Empire... -
China's Dream: The Culture of Chinese Communism and the Secret Sources of its Power Kerry Brown 9781509524570
RRP: €20.22€13.73The Communist Party of China (CPC) is one of the great political forces of modern times. In charge of the destiny of a fifth of humanity, it survives despite the collapse of similar systems elsewhere. Few, however, understand the sources of this... -
Body Horror: Capitalism, Fear, Misogyny, Jokes by Anne Elizabeth Moore
RRP: €16.65€11.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Best Book of 2017, Chicago Public Library 2017 (United States). Short-listed for Lambda Literary Awards Finalist, LGBTQ Nonfiction 2018 (United States) and... -
After the Storm: The World Economy and Britain's Economic Future Vince Cable 9781782394525
RRP: €11.89€8.21Vince Cable's bestselling book, The Storm, explored and explained the causes of the 2008 world economic crisis and how Britain should respond to the great challenges it brought. In After the Storm, Cable, who was Business Secretary in the 2010-2015... -
Road Warriors: Foreign Fighters in the Armies of Jihad by Daniel Byman
RRP: €27.95€20.24Ever since the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, fighters from abroad have journeyed in ever-greater numbers to conflict zones in the Muslim world to defend Islam from-in their view-infidels and apostates. The phenomenon recently reached its apogee... -
The Hidden Hand of American Hegemony: Petrodollar Recycling and International Markets by David E. Spiro
RRP: €53.55€46.98This study... makes a significant contribution to the literature of international political economy. The book also is a useful point of departure for further exploration by historians of finance, economics, and business. The data on capital flows alone... -
The Antitrust Paradigm: Restoring a Competitive Economy by Jonathan B. Baker
RRP: €49.92€40.77A new and urgently needed guide to making the American economy more competitive at a time when tech giants have amassed vast market power.The U.S. economy is growing less competitive. Large businesses increasingly profit by taking advantage of their... -
Russia's Politics of Uncertainty by Mary McAuley 9780521479769
RRP: €44.02€33.50In this book Mary McAuley explores the political reactions of elites and society in the Russian Federation in the years following the collapse of communist party rule and the break-up of the USSR. Spanning two republics and four regions, the book offered... -
Youth Policy, Civil Society and the Modern Irish State Fred Powell 9780719095429
RRP: €29.75€21.32This book, now available in paperback, explores the development of youth policy and youth work in Ireland from the mid-nineeenth century to the present day. Based on original research, funded by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social... -
Fichte: Addresses to the German Nation by Johann Gottlieb Fichte
RRP: €29.74€25.92This is the first translation of Fichte's addresses to the German nation for almost 100 years. The series of 14 speeches, delivered whilst Berlin was under French occupation after Prussia's disastrous defeat at the Battle of Jena in 1806, is widely... -
The Euro and the Battle of Ideas by Markus K. Brunnermeier 9780691172927
RRP: €35.70€28.63Why is Europe's great monetary endeavor, the Euro, in trouble? A string of economic difficulties in Greece, Ireland, Spain, Italy, and other Eurozone nations has left observers wondering whether the currency union can survive. In this book, Markus... -
The Party Is Over: How Republicans Went Crazy, Democrats Became Useless, and the Middle Class Got Shafted by Mike Lofgren
RRP: €22.62€17.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143124214Author Mike LofgrenFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 210gDimensions(mm) 198mm * 130mm *... -
India's Moment: Changing Power Equations around the World by Mohan Kumar 9789356999527
RRP: €23.79€19.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789356999527Author Mohan KumarFormat HardbackPage Count 296Imprint HarperCollins IndiaPublisher HarperCollins IndiaDimensions(mm) 220mm * 140mm * 20mm -
Policy Analysis: Concepts and Practice David Weimer 9781138216518
RRP: €124.95€120.48Often described as a public policy "bible," Weimer and Vining remains the essential primer it ever was. Now in its sixth edition, Policy Analysis provides a strong conceptual foundation of the rationales for and the limitations to public policy. It... -
Hope Lies in the Proles: George Orwell and the Left by John Newsinger
RRP: €22.60€15.40George Orwell was one of the most significant literary figures on the left in the twentieth century. While titles such as 1984, Animal Farm and Homage to Catalonia are still rightly regarded as modern classics, his own politics are less well understood. ... -
Roch Winds: A Treacherous Guide to the State of Scotland by Cailean Gallagher 9781910745588
RRP: €10.70€7.97Did Scotland's rough wind become something more after the referendum, as so many hoped it would, or did it blow itself out? What power can pessimism have in a nation of newfound self-confidence? A generation ago, the socialist poet Hamish Henderson... -
The Case for Economic Democracy Andrew Cumbers 9781509533855
RRP: €11.89€10.77The idea that the people have a right to shape political decisions through democratic means is widely accepted. The same cannot be said of the decisions that impact on our everyday economic life in the workplace and beyond. Andrew Cumbers shows why this... -
Marxism and Philosophy by Karl Korsch 9781781680278
RRP: €17.84€16.62In Marxism and Philosophy Korsch argues for a reexamination of the relationship between Marxist theory and bourgeois philosophy, and insists on the centrality of the Hegelian dialectic and a commitment to revolutionary praxis. Although widely attacked in... -
The Imperative of Integration by Elizabeth Anderson
RRP: €26.18€20.98More than forty years have passed since Congress, in response to the Civil Rights Movement, enacted sweeping antidiscrimination laws in the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Fair Housing Act of 1968. As a signal achievement... -
Nationalism Elie Kedourie (Late of the London School of Economics) 9780631188858
RRP: €46.35€41.01This edition of Elie Kedourie's Nationalism brings back into print one of the classic texts of our times. With great elegance and lucidity, the author traces the philosophical foundations of the nationalist doctrine, the conditions which gave rise to it,... -
Requiem for a Species Clive Hamilton 9781849710817
RRP: €44.02€38.41This book does not set out once more to raise the alarm to encourage us to take radical measures to head off climate chaos. There have been any number of books and reports in recent years explaining just how dire the future looks and how little time we... -
Class Struggle Unionism by Joe Burns 9781642595840
RRP: €20.22€13.89For those who want to build a fighting labor movement, there are many questions to answer. How to relate to the union establishment which often does not want to fight? Whether to work in the rank and file of unions or staff jobs? How much to prioritize... -
Our Man In Orlando: Murder, Mayhem and Madness in the Sunshine State Hugh Hunter 9781906308155
RRP: €10.70€7.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906308155Author Hugh HunterFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Monday BooksPublisher Monday BooksWeight(grams) 216g