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The Least of All Possible Evils: A Short History of Humanitarian Violence by Eyal Weizman
£13.22The principle of the 'lesser evil'-the acceptability of pursuing one exceptional course of action in order to prevent a greater injustice-has long been a cornerstone of Western ethical philosophy. From its roots in classical ethics and Christian... -
Dark Money: how a secretive group of billionaires is trying to buy political control in the US by Jane Mayer 9781925228847
RRP: £12.99£8.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for LA Times Book Prize 2017 (United States) and PEN/Jean Stein Book Award 2017 (United States) and J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize 2017 (United States) and... -
The Parliamentary Battle over Brexit by Meg Russell 9780192849717
RRP: £26.49£18.61The Parliamentary Battle Over Brexit provides answers to those who want to understand the bitter arguments that occurred over Brexit, what might have been handled better, and the role that parliament played. Since the 2016 referendum, the hotly... -
Most Secret: The Hidden History of Orford Ness by Paddy Heazell
RRP: £12.99£9.62Orford Ness was, for most of the twentieth century, a military research station so secret that nobody knew what went on there, and so remote that even now most people have never heard of it. Yet the contribution of its scientists, service and civilian,... -
No Easy Day: The Only First-hand Account of the Navy Seal Mission that Killed Osama bin Laden by Mark Owen
RRP: £10.99£7.77THE GRIPPING FIRST-PERSON ACCOUNT OF BIN LADEN'S EXECUTION For the first time, read the first-hand account of the planning and execution of the extraordinary mission to kill the terrorist mastermind. No Easy Day puts readers inside the elite,... -
Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center by Bell Hooks
RRP: £24.99£16.38Feminist Theory established bell hooks as one of international feminism's most challenging and influential voices. This edition includes a preface by the author, reflecting on the book's impact and the development of her ideas since it was first... -
Destined for War: can America and China escape Thucydides' Trap? by Graham Allison
RRP: £10.99£7.32A Sunday Times and FT Book of the Year When a rising power threatens to displace a ruling one, the most likely outcome is war. In this razor-sharp analysis, Harvard scholar Graham Allison examines the phenomenon known as Thucydides's Trap, which is... -
The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan by Yasmin Khan
RRP: £13.99£12.25A reappraisal of the tumultuous Partition and how it ignited long-standing animosities between India and Pakistan"Eloquently discusses the making of India and Pakistan after British rule on the subcontinent was dismantled in 1947. . . . A new look at... -
Putin by Philip Short
RRP: £30.00£20.77**A DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022**'Anyone wanting to learn more about Putin's personality, ideas, power...should read this outstanding biography' Ian Kershaw, author of Personality and PowerThis book is essential reading for anyone who wants to... -
Liberty's Daughters: The Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750-1800 by Mary Beth Norton 9780801483479
RRP: £16.99£15.29First published in 1980 and recently out of print, Liberty's Daughters is widely considered a landmark book on the history of American women and on the Revolution itself.About the AuthorMary Beth Norton is Mary Donlon Alger Professor of American History... -
Back from the Brink: 1000 Days at Number 11 by Alistair Darling
RRP: £14.99£9.80Back from the Brink is a gripping and immediate account of the British government's handling of an unprecedented global financial catastrophe. Alistair Darling's knowledge and understanding make this not only a unique perspective on the events that... -
The Imperial Mode of Living: Everyday Life and the Ecological Crisis of Capitalism by Markus Wissen
RRP: £16.99£14.10With the concept of the Imperial Mode of Living, Brand and Wissen highlight the fact that capitalism implies uneven development as well as a constant and accelerating universalisation of a Western mode of production and living. The logic of liberal... -
People Like Us: What it Takes to Make it in Modern Britain by Hashi Mohamed
RRP: £9.99£7.11A New Statesman Book of the Year AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4'S BOOK OF THE WEEK 'Hashi Mohamed powerfully exposes the alienating and segregating effect of social immobility in this country.' David Lammy 'A moving, shocking and clear-eyed account of... -
This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality by Peter Pomerantsev
RRP: £10.99£7.32**HOW TO WIN AN INFORMATION WAR: THE PROPAGANDIST WHO OUTWITTED HITLER AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW**WINNER OF THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2020A TIMES and GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR'Quietly frightening.' Guardian'Essential reading.' Irish Times'Consistently... -
Angela Merkel: A Chancellorship Forged in Crisis by Alan Crawford
RRP: £19.99£13.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781118641101Author Alan CrawfordFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Bloomberg PressPublisher Bloomberg PressWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 163mm... -
Attachment, Trauma and Resilience by Kate Cairns 9781910039359
RRP: £19.95£13.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910039359Author Kate CairnsFormat PaperbackImprint CoramBAAFPublisher CoramBAAF -
The Informer by Sean O'Callaghan
RRP: £12.99£9.09In 1988 IRA terrorist Sean O'Callaghan walked into a Tunbridge Wells police station and gave himself up. Two years later, in a Belfast courtroom, he pleaded guilty to all charges of which he was accused and received a sentence of 539 years. Since being... -
Target-Centric Network Modeling: Case Studies in Analyzing Complex Intelligence Issues by Robert M. Clark 9781483316987
RRP: £76.00£67.24In Target-Centric Network Modeling: Case Studies in Analyzing Complex Intelligence Issues, authors Robert Clark and William Mitchell take an entirely new approach to teaching intelligence analysis. Unlike any other book on the market, it offers case... -
Rumbles of Thunder: Power Shifts and the Danger of Sino-American War by Steve Chan
RRP: £28.00£21.80It is widely believed that shifts in the balance of power between an established hegemon and a rising upstart can lead to war. To what extent does this proposition hold true for Sino-American relations today?Steve Chan examines a range of international... -
Empire of Lies by Paul Craig Roberts 9788793987494
RRP: £18.95£17.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788793987494Author Paul Craig RobertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Korsgaard PublishingPublisher Korsgaard PublishingWeight(grams)... -
Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict by Norman G. Finkelstein
RRP: £21.99£21.89First published in 1995, this acclaimed study challenges generally accepted truths of the Israel-Palestine conflict as well as much of the revisionist literature. This new edition critically reexamines dominant popular and scholarly images in the light... -
Communism: A Very Short Introduction by Leslie Holmes
RRP: £8.99£6.45The collapse of communism was one of the most defining moments of the twentieth century. At its peak, more than a third of the world's population had lived under communist power. What is communism? Where did the idea come from and what attracted... -
The Punishment of Gaza by Gideon Levy
£16.65Israel's 2009 invasion of Gaza was an act of aggression that killed over a thousand Palestinians and devastated the infrastructure of an already impoverished enclave. The Punishment of Gaza shows how the ground was prepared for the assault and documents... -
Thrive: The Freedom to Flourish by Lesley Riddoch 9781804250815
RRP: £10.99£7.93Why won't Scots simmer down?Why batter on about independence when folk voted No a decade back?After all. Scotland's not as populated as Yorkshire, nor as wealthy as London. But it's also not as Conservative, as keen on Brexit, or as willing to flog... -
Juve! by Herbie Sykes
RRP: £12.99£9.09The definitive history of the iconic football club: the glory, the scandal, the stars and its enduring influence on Italian life.Juventus utterly dominates the Italian game. Home to some of the biggest names in sport, it has won title after title, trophy... -
The Captive Mind by Czeslaw Milosz
RRP: £12.99£9.09Written in Paris in the early 1950s, this book created instant controversy in its analysis of modern society that had allowed itself to be hypnotized by socio-political doctrines, and to accept totalitarian terror on the strength of a hypothetical future... -
How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them by Barbara F. Walter
RRP: £10.99£7.77Sunday Times Smart Thinking Book of the Year 2022 * New York Times Bestseller* WINNER OF THE GLOBAL POLICY INSTITUTE AWARD * BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Financial Times, The Times, Esquire, Prospect'When one of the world's leading scholars of civil war tells us... -
Posh Boys: How English Public Schools Ruin Britain by Robert Verkaik
RRP: £10.99£7.77'The latest in the series of powerful books on the divisions in modern Britain, and will take its place on many bookshelves beside Reni Eddo-Lodge's Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race and Owen Jones's Chavs.' -Andrew Marr, Sunday... -
The Africa House: The True Story of an English Gentleman and His African Dream by Christina Lamb
RRP: £10.99£7.77Christina Lamb's The Africa House is the bestselling account of an English gentleman and his African dream. In the last decades of the British Empire, Stewart Gore-Brown build himself a feudal paradise in Northern Rhodesia; a sprawling country estate... -
The Fourth Ordeal: A History of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, 1968-2018 by Victor J. Willi 9781108822459
RRP: £36.99£32.15The Fourth Ordeal tells the history of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt from the late 1960s until 2018. Based on over 140 first-hand interviews with leaders, rank-and-file members and dissidents, as well as a wide range of original written sources, the... -
Secret Victory: The Intelligence War That Beat the IRA by William Matchett
RRP: £12.95£9.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781527202054Author William MatchettFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint William MatchettPublisher William Matchett -
Long Walk To Freedom Vol 2: 1962-1994 by Nelson Mandela 9780349116303
£13.33The riveting memoirs of the outstanding moral and political leader of our time, LONG WALK TO FREEDOM brilliantly recreates the drama of the experiences that helped shape Nelson Mandela's destiny. From his imprisonment on Robben Island to his remarkable... -
The Burden of Bad Ideas: How Modern Intellectuals Misshape Our Society by Heather MacDonald 9781566633963
RRP: £14.99£11.53Critics have attacked the foolishness of some of today's elite thought from many angles, but few have examined the real-world consequences of those ideas. In The Burden of Bad Ideas, Heather Mac Donald reports on their disastrous effects throughout our... -
Healing through the Bones: Empowerment and the Process of Exhumations in the Context of Cyprus by Kristian T. P. Fics 9780761868194
RRP: £30.00£28.02Violent conflict created a divide in Cyprus (1950-1974) that still exists to this day between Turkish and Greek Cypriots. This study explores specifically an effect of violent conflict-Missing Persons and the bi-communal process of their humanitarian... -
Edmund Burke: The Visionary who Invented Modern Politics by Jesse Norman
RRP: £12.99£8.48Longlisted for the Orwell Prize and the Samuel Johnson prize for non-fiction; both conservative and subversive, Burke's beliefs have never been more relevant, as MP Jesse Norman explains. Philosopher, statesman, and founder of modern... -
Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War by Laurence Rees
RRP: £12.99£9.09'You have to read it' Volodymyr Zelensky'Laurence Rees brilliantly combines powerful eye-witness testimony, vivid narrative and compelling analysis in this superb account' Professor Sir Ian Kershaw, author of Hitler: Hubris and Hitler: Nemesis'In this... -
Saving Justice: Truth, Transparency and Trust by James Comey
RRP: £20.00£15.04'The Capitol riot was our Chernobyl.'(Guardian interview, Jan 19th 2021)'An absolutely fascinating read.'Emily MaitlisJames Comey, former FBI Director and Sunday Times number one bestselling author of A Higher Loyalty, uses his long career in federal law... -
A Future for Israel: Beyond the Two-State Solution by Omri Boehm
RRP: £13.99£9.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681373935Author Omri BoehmFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc -
Animal Farm: Annotation-Friendly Edition by George Orwell 9780702319600
RRP: £7.99£5.23Examination: English Language & Literature Specification: GCSE 9-1 Set Text covered: Animal Farm by George Orwell Type: Set Text: Annotation Edition "This version of the text [Annotation Edition Texts: A ... -
Nothing Like the Truth: The Trial and Tribulations of a Criminal Judge by Nigel Lithman QC 9781913532727
RRP: £9.99£8.17In 100 per cent of criminal trials someone, if not everyone, tells lies. If it wasn't for liars, there wouldn't be trials. When a defendant swears 'to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth', most judges and barristers...