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The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order, 1930-1980 by Steve Fraser
RRP: €41.65€33.26The description for this book, The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order, 1930-1980, will be forthcoming.Reviews"As the twenty-first century approaches, a new generation of scholars is providing fresh historical perspectives on the twentieth. The... -
Nationalism and the Imagination Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (Columbia University) 9780857423184
RRP: €13.69€9.87Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has distinguished herself as one of the foremost scholars of contemporary literary and postcolonial theory and feminist thought. Known for her translation of Derrida's On Grammatology and her groundbreaking essay, Can the... -
Spartacus Howard Fast 9781563245992
RRP: €45.21€39.41The 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 -
Women as War Criminals: Gender, Agency, and Justice by Izabela Steflja
RRP: €13.08€11.54Women war criminals are far more common than we think. From the Holocaust to ethnic cleansing in the Balkans to the Rwandan genocide, women have perpetrated heinous crimes. Few have been punished. These women go unnoticed because their very existence... -
The Return of Grand Theory in the Human Sciences by Quentin Skinner
RRP: €27.36€22.05The past quarter of a century has seen dramatic developments in social and political thought. These essays offer an indispensable introduction to some of the most influential amongst them. Quentin Skinner's Introduction traces broad transformations such... -
China and the Geopolitics of Rare Earths by Sophia Kalantzakos 9780197598740
€28.61Featuring a new foreword that brings the book up to date Rare earths are elements that are found in the Earth's crust, and are vital ingredients for the production of a wide variety of high tech, defense, and green technologies-everything from iPhones... -
Untitled Tls by To Be Confirmed Threshold
RRP: €33.32€19.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501183690Author Tucker CarlsonFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Threshold EditionsPublisher Threshold EditionsWeight(grams) 381gDimensions(mm) 212mm *... -
Political Political Theory: Essays on Institutions by Jeremy Waldron
RRP: €40.40€34.50Political institutions are the main subject of political theory-or they ought to be. Making the case with his trademark forcefulness and intellectual aplomb, Jeremy Waldron argues in favor of reorienting the theory of politics toward the institutions and... -
Pawned States: State Building in the Era of International Finance by Didac Queralt
RRP: €35.70€28.16How foreign lending weakens emerging nationsIn the nineteenth century, many developing countries turned to the credit houses of Europe for sovereign loans to balance their books and weather major fiscal shocks such as war. This reliance on external... -
Decolonial Daughter: Letters from a Black Woman to Her European Son by Lesley-Ann Brown
RRP: €13.08€10.76In Decolonial Daughter: Letters from a Black Woman to her European Son, Trinidadian-American writer & activist Lesley-Ann Brown explores, through the lens of motherhood, issues such as migration, identity and nationhood, and how they relate to land,... -
Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Experience and American Prospects by Dmitry Orlov
RRP: €21.41€16.42The United States is in steep decline. Plagued by runaway debt, a shrinking economy, and environmental catastrophes to rival Chernobyl, the United States has been retracing the trajectory of the Soviet Union in the early 1980s toward national bankruptcy... -
Deep State: Trump, the FBI, and the Rule of Law by James B. Stewart
RRP: €20.22€13.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525559122Author James B. StewartFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Humanitarian Imperialism: Using Human Rights to Sell War by Jean Bricmont 9781583671474
RRP: €18.98€15.85Since the end of the Cold War, the idea of human rights has been made into a justification for intervention by the world's leading economic and military powers-above all, the United States-in countries that are vulnerable to their attacks. The criteria... -
Contemporary China: 1949 to the Present by Gilles Guiheux
RRP: €29.75€19.97With a population of nearly 1.5 billion and the world's second largest economy, China is a major player in the world today, and yet many in the West know very little about contemporary China. This book provides a clear, authoritative and up-to-date... -
The Cold War's Odd Couple: The Unintended Partnership between the Republic of China and the UK, 1950 - 1958 by Steve Tsang
€39.58The 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... -
A Radical History of Development Studies: Individuals, Institutions and Ideologies Uma Kothari 9781786997661
€33.90A Radical History of Development Studies traces the history of the subject from the late colonial period all the way through to contemporary focus on poverty reduction. In this now classic genealogy of development, the authors look at the contested... -
Britain's Secret Wars: How and why the United Kingdom sponsors conflict around the world by T. J. Coles 9781905570959
RRP: €20.22€14.61In a devastating analysis, T. J. Coles reveals the true extent of Britain's covert foreign policy that supports war, conflict and oppression around the world. Unbeknownst to the broad population, the Shadow State sponsors a `new world order' that allies... -
Triple-Axis: Iran's Relations with Russia and China by Ariane Tabatabai
RRP: €22.60€20.28The most significant challenge to the post-Cold War international order is the growing power of ambitious states opposed to the West. Iran, Russia and China each view the global structure through the prism of historical experience. Rejecting the... -
A Government that Worked Better and Cost Less?: Evaluating Three Decades of Reform and Change in UK Central Government by Christopher Hood 9780199687022
€66.99The UK is said to have been one of the most prolific reformers of its public administration. Successive reforms have been accompanied by claims that the changes would make the world a better place by transforming the way government worked. Despite much... -
The New Geopolitics of Natural Gas by Agnia Grigas
RRP: €40.40€33.34We are in the midst of an energy revolution, led by the United States. As the world's greatest producer of natural gas moves aggressively to expand its exports of liquefied natural gas (LNG), America stands poised to become an energy superpower-an... -
Our Planet: Infographics for Discovering Planet Earth Christina Banfi 9788854418189
RRP: €15.46€10.35This wonderfully illustrated infographic book is filled with visual representations to captivate children and teach them the secrets of our planet as well as many curious facts about them. Through intuitive infographic tables, children will learn... -
Captain Gill's Walking Stick: The True Story of the Sinai Murders by Saul Kelly
RRP: €41.65€31.56At an auction in Edinburgh in 2010, the sale of an old walking stick belonging to a British officer, Captain Gill, shed new light on one of the mysterious crimes of the Victorian era. Captain William Gill and his companions, the noted Arabist Professor... -
A Utopia Like Any Other: Inside the Swedish Model by Dominic Hinde 9781910745328
RRP: €9.51€7.19A Utopia Like Any Other is an accessible and easy to understand guide to contemporary Sweden and its politics. Part travelogue, part academic primer and part reflection on our own need for utopias, the book takes readers on a journey from the 1930s to... -
Audience of One: Trump, Television, and the Fracturing of America by James Poniewozik
RRP: €16.65€14.58The New York Times chief television critic James Poniewozik traces the history of television and mass media from the early 1980s to today and demonstrates how a "volcanic, camera-hogging antihero" merged with America's most powerful medium to become the... -
What is International Relations? Knud Erik Jorgensen (Aarhus University) 9781529210972
RRP: €29.74€23.07As International Relations enters its second century as an academic discipline, leading expert Knud Erik Jorgensen provides a provocative assessment of its past, present and future. In this book, Jorgensen traces International Relations scholarship,... -
SNP: The History of the Scottish National Party by Peter Lynch
RRP: €23.79€20.96Though the SNP has existed since 1934, no full-length history of the Scottish National Party was written until the first edition of this book in 2002. With the SNP having governed Scotland since 2007, and with an outright majority since 2011, the... -
Equipping James Bond: Guns, Gadgets, and Technological Enthusiasm by Andre Millard 9781421426648
RRP: €51.17€45.01James Bond's amazing gadgets reveal both enthusiasm about technology and fear of its potential ramifications.The popularity of the 007 franchise depends on a seductive formula of sex, violence, and snobbery. Much of its appeal, too, lies in its gadgets:... -
Cognitive Bias in Intelligence Analysis: Testing the Analysis of Competing Hypotheses Method by Martha Whitesmith
RRP: €30.93€28.06Recent high-profile intelligence failures from 9/11 to the 2003 Iraq war prove that cognitive bias in intelligence analysis can have catastrophic consequences. This book critiques the reliance of Western intelligence agencies on the use of a method... -
Other People's Politics: Populism to Corbynism J.A. Smith 9781782791447
RRP: €15.46€13.64How did Trump and Brexit go from laughable impossibilities to everyday reality? Why did digital media stop being cool and progressive, and become a reactionary, brainwashing nightmare? And, how did the Left get its act together and start winning again?... -
The Great Escape: A True Story of Forced Labor and Immigrant Dreams in America by Saket Soni
RRP: €27.36€19.49"An eye-opening look at the world of global itinerant workers . . . The Great Escape is a must-read." -The New York Times Book Review The astonishing story of immigrants lured to the United States from India and trapped in forced labor-told by the... -
Small Wars, Big Data: The Information Revolution in Modern Conflict by Eli Berman 9780691204017
RRP: €26.18€20.66How a new understanding of warfare can help the military fight today's conflicts more effectivelyThe way wars are fought has changed starkly over the past sixty years. International military campaigns used to play out between armies at central fronts... -
The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad by Fareed Zakaria
RRP: €16.65€13.45Translated into twenty languages ?The Future of Freedom ?is a modern classic that uses historical analysis to shed light on the present, examining how democracy has changed our politics, economies, and social relations. Prescient in laying out the... -
External Mission: The ANC in Exile, 1960-1990 by Stephen Ellis 9781849045063
RRP: €32.73€28.70External Mission is the Winner of the Recht Malan Prize for Non-Fiction awarded by Media24 in South Africa. Nelson Mandela's release from prison in February 1990 was one of the most memorable moments of recent decades. It came a few days after the... -
The Dictatorship Syndrome by Alaa Al Aswany
RRP: €11.89€8.52The study of dictatorship in the West has acquired an almost exotic dimension. But authoritarian regimes remain a painful reality for billions of people worldwide who still live under them, their freedoms violated, and their rights abused. They are... -
The Ground Truth: The Untold Story of America Under Attack on 9/11 by John Farmer 9781594484780
RRP: €28.56€20.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594484780Author John FarmerFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Riverhead Books,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 374gDimensions(mm) 209mm *... -
Civil War in Central Europe, 1918-1921: The Reconstruction of Poland by Jochen Boehler
RRP: €33.90€28.57The First World War did not end in Central Europe in November 1918. The armistices marked the creation of the Second Polish Republic and the first shot of the Central European Civil War which raged from 1918 to 1921. The fallen German, Russian, and... -
Breaking Through Gridlock: The Power of Conversation in a Polarized World by JAY 9781626568952
RRP: €21.41€14.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626568952Author JAYFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Berrett-KoehlerPublisher Berrett-KoehlerWeight(grams) 296gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 139mm * 16mm -
Litigating the Climate Emergency: How Human Rights, Courts, and Legal Mobilization Can Bolster Climate Action by Cesar Rodriguez-Garavito
RRP: €101.15€90.90As the climate emergency intensifies, rights-based climate cases - litigation that is based on human rights law - are becoming an increasingly important tool for securing more ambitious climate action. This book is the first to offer a systematic... -
From Stalin to Mao: Albania and the Socialist World by Elidor Mehilli
RRP: €44.03€38.76Elidor Mehilli has produced a groundbreaking history of communist Albania that illuminates one of Europe's longest but least understood dictatorships. From Stalin to Mao, which is informed throughout by Mehilli's unprecedented access to previously... -
The 99 Percent Economy: How Democratic Socialism Can Overcome the Crises of Capitalism by Paul S. Adler
RRP: €99.96€85.18We live in a time of crises - economic turmoil, workplace disempowerment, unresponsive government, environmental degradation, social disintegration, and international rivalry. In The 99 Percent Economy, Paul S. Adler, a leading expert on business...