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Shallow Graves: A Memoir of the Ethiopia-Eritrea War by Richard Reid
RRP: £27.50£24.12This 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... -
Ukraine vs. Darkness - (Undiplomatic Thoughts) by Olexander Scherba
RRP: £18.00£15.28This book draws on the authors experience from 26 years of Ukrainian diplomatic service in, among others, Bonn, Berlin, Washington, and Vienna, and his work as a speechwriter to most Ukrainian foreign ministers for the last two decades. Scherbas... -
The Closing of the Muslim Mind: How Intellectual Suicide Created the Modern Islamist Crisis by Robert R. Reilly 9781610170024
RRP: £18.95£11.47The book you must read to understand the Islamist crisis-and the threat to us all.Robert R. Reilly's eye-opening book masterfully explains the frightening behavior coming out of the Islamic world. Terrorism, he shows, is only one manifestation of the... -
Culture Strike: Art and Museums in an Age of Protest by Laura Raicovich
RRP: £16.99£16.73In an age of protest, culture and museums have come under fire. Protests of museum funding (for example, the Metropolitan Museum accepting Sackler family money) and boards (for example, the Whitney appointing tear gas manufacturer Warren Kanders)--to say... -
Nine Lives of Neoliberalism by Dieter Plehwe
£25.46Neoliberalism is dead. Again. Yet the philosophy of the free market and the strong state has an uncanny capacity to survive and even thrive in crisis. This volume breaks with the caricature of neoliberalism as a simple belief in market fundamentalism to... -
Brexit and its Aftermath Sophie Loussouarn (University of Amiens, France) 9780755640782
RRP: £22.99£18.88The British referendum on the membership of the European Union on 23 June 2016 was a cataclysmic event in British and European politics. Years later the consequences are still unknown. This collection seeks to answer the key questions relating to the... -
Whatever it Takes by George Papaconstantinou
RRP: £22.99£11.67For generations, Europeans have become accustomed to rising prosperity, an increasingly supportive social safety net and the expectation that each generation will fare better than the last. Europe has built a social model that is second to none, and... -
Telling Tales on Technology: Qualitative Studies of Technology and Education by Neil Selwyn
RRP: £32.99£29.16This title was first published in 2002.The educational potential of information and communications technology (ICT) has been speculated upon endlessly - from the early days of the micro-computer to the present excitement surrounding virtual education... -
Post-Western World: How Emerging Powers Are Remaking Global Order Oliver Stuenkel 9781509504572
RRP: £18.99£16.87With the United States' superpower status rivalled by a rising China and emerging powers like India and Brazil playing a growing role in international affairs, the global balance of power is shifting. But what does this mean for the future of the... -
Ruth Bader Ginsburg Dissents by Ruth Bader Ginsburg
RRP: £10.99£7.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645178897Author Ruth Bader GinsburgFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint Readerlink Distribution Services, LLCPublisher Readerlink Distribution Services,... -
After the Storm: The World Economy and Britain's Economic Future Vince Cable 9781782394525
RRP: £9.99£6.70Vince 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... -
The Dynamics of Global Dominance: European Overseas Empires, 1415-1980 by David B. Abernethy 9780300093148
RRP: £30.00£29.65For centuries Europeans ruled vast portions of the world, as inhabitants of west European countries sailed to distant continents and took possession of territories whose societies and economies they set out to change. How and why did these farflung... -
Premodern Japan: A Historical Survey Mikiso Hane 9780813349657
RRP: £54.99£48.12Japanese historian Louis Perez brings Mikiso Hane's rich and beloved account of early Japanese history up-to-date in this thoroughly revised Second Edition of Premodern Japan. The text traces the key developments of Japanese history in the premodern... -
Covid-19 in Palestine: The Settler Colonial Context Nadia Naser-Najjab (University of Exeter, UK) 9780755651177
RRP: £21.99£18.10Israel and Palestine were worlds apart during the pandemic that claimed over five million lives globally. While Palestinians were forced to adopt crude survival measures and endure economic privations, Israel was praised as a vaccination world leader. ... -
Youth Policy, Civil Society and the Modern Irish State Fred Powell 9780719095429
RRP: £25.00£17.92This 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... -
A Death-Dealing Famine: The Great Hunger in Ireland by Christine Kinealy 9780745310749
£30.33Famine expert Christine Kinealy examines the influences that shaped the responses to the Famine of 1845-52. The key factors she analyses include political ideologies; providentialist ideas that read the potato blight as a judgement from God;... -
Hugo Chavez Presents Simon Bolivar: The Bolivarian Revolution by Hugo Chavez 9781844673810
£16.18Known throughout Latin America as El Libertador, Venezuelan revolutionary Simon Bolivar was one of the most important leaders in the wars of independence from Spain. Recently revived by Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez for his own political program-which... -
Centralisation, Devolution and the Future of Local Government in England by Steve Leach
RRP: £41.99£36.75English local government is in a state of decline after 40 years of incremental but cumulative centralisation by central government. This book is the first to directly address this trend's impact upon the institution of local government, a crucial... -
The Party Is Over: How Republicans Went Crazy, Democrats Became Useless, and the Middle Class Got Shafted by Mike Lofgren
RRP: £19.01£14.54Apologies 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 *... -
Economics and the Left: Interviews with Progressive Economists by Robert Pollin
£25.46Economics and the Left presents interviews with 24 leading progressive economists, whose life work has been dedicated to both interpreting the world and changing it for the better. They all deploy the technical tools of their trade-the "dismal... -
Remembering Leningrad: The Story of a Generation by Mary McAuley 9780299322502
£49.33Englishwoman Mary McAuley first arrived in Leningrad in the early 1960s, eager to study labor relations for her thesis. Staying at a hostel, she met a number of Soviet students, many born under the rule of Joseph Stalin. Over the half-century that... -
If You Want Something Done: Leadership Lessons from Bold Women Nikki R. Haley 9781250284976
RRP: £11.99£8.00In the spirit of Thatcher's quote, Ambassador Nikki R. Haley offers inspiring examples of women who worked against obstacles and opposition to get things done - including Haley herself. As a brown girl growing up in Bamberg, South Carolina, no one would... -
Human Scale Revisited: A New Look at the Classic Case for a Decentralist Future Kirkpatrick Sale 9781603587129
RRP: £18.99£13.15Big government, big business, big everything: Kirkpatrick Sale took giantism to task in his 1980 classic, Human Scale, and today takes a new look at how the crises that imperil modern America are the inevitable result of bigness grown out of control-and... -
The Silence of Constitutions: Gaps, 'abeyances' and political temperament in the maintenance of government by Michael Foley
RRP: £37.99£33.38First published in 1989, Michael's Foley's book deals with the 'abeyances' present in both written and unwritten constitutions, arguing that these gaps in the explicitness of a constitution, and the various ways they are preserved, provide the means by... -
How to Steal a Presidential Election by Lawrence Lessig 9780300270792
RRP: £25.00£16.76From two distinguished experts on election law, an alarming look at how the American presidency could be stolen-by entirely legal means "Their new book asks whether a second Trump attempt to subvert democracy could succeed. Their answer makes for... -
The Children of China's Great Migration by Rachel Murphy
RRP: £29.99£27.40In China in 2018 over 200 million rural migrants worked away from their home villages, fuelling the country's rapid economic boom. In the 2010s over sixty-one million rural children had at least one parent who had migrated without them, while nearly half... -
God of the Machine Isabel Paterson 9781560006664
RRP: £45.99£40.13The God of the Machine presents an original theory of history and a bold defense of individualism as the source of moral and political progress. When it was published in 1943, Isabel Paterson's work provided fresh intellectual support for the endangered... -
War and Conflict in the Middle East and North Africa by Ahram
RRP: £18.99£16.87For much of the last half century, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) has seemed the outlier in global peace. Today Iraq, Libya, Israel/Palestine, Yemen, and Syria are not just countries, but synonyms for prolonged and brutal wars. But why is MENA... -
Post-Digital Cultures of the Far Right: Online Actions and Offline Consequences in Europe and the Us by Maik Fielitz
RRP: £33.99£28.01How have digital tools and networks transformed the far right's strategies and transnational prospects? This volume presents a unique critical survey of the online and offline tactics, symbols and platforms that are strategically remixed by contemporary... -
Politics, Landlords and Islam in Pakistan Nicolas Martin (University College London, UK University College London, London, ENG University College London, UK) 9780815392989
RRP: £47.99£41.81This book offers unique insights into the changing nature of power and hierarchy in rural Pakistan from colonial times to present day. It shows how electoral politics and the erosion of traditional patron-client ties have not empowered the lower classes... -
Russian Cyber Operations: Coding the Boundaries of Conflict by Scott Jasper
RRP: £26.50£23.29Russia has deployed cyber operations to interfere in foreign elections, launch disinformation campaigns, and cripple neighboring states-all while maintaining a thin veneer of deniability and avoiding strikes that cross the line into acts of war. How... -
Never Ending Nightmare: The Neoliberal Assault on Democracy Pierre Dardot 9781786634740
RRP: £16.99£14.50How do we explain the strange survival of the forcesresponsible for the 2008 economic crisis, one of the worst since 1929? How do we explain the fact that neoliberalism has emerged from the crisis strengthened? When it broke, a number of the most... -
Marina Bay Sins Neil Humphreys 9781838340148
RRP: £8.99£6.20Low goes undercover returning to a world that the city refuses to acknowledge; a world of gambling addiction, crime syndicates, international money launderers, immoral celebrities and corrupt politicians, all living in Asia's cleanest metropolis. Marina... -
American Conspiracies by Jesse Ventura 9781634505451
RRP: £18.99£15.69A New York Times Best Seller!New York Times bestselling author Jesse Ventura is back with more conspiracies that our government wishes you didn't know about!In this explosive account of wrongful acts and ensuing cover-ups, Jesse Ventura offers a... -
Lift Every Voice: The NAACP and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement by Patricia Sullivan 9781595585448
£23.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781595585448Author Patricia SullivanFormat PaperbackPage Count 522Imprint The New PressPublisher The New PressWeight(grams) 785g -
Revolutionary Constitutions: Charismatic Leadership and the Rule of Law by Bruce Ackerman
RRP: £29.95£24.06A robust defense of democratic populism by one of America's most renowned and controversial constitutional scholars-the award-winning author of We the People.Populism is a threat to the democratic world, fuel for demagogues and reactionary crowds-or so... -
Nationalism and the Imagination Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (Columbia University) 9780857423184
RRP: £11.50£9.78Gayatri 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... -
1916: Ireland's Revolutionary Tradition by Kieran Allen 9780745336329
RRP: £18.99£12.75A few minutes after noon on the 24th April, 1916, Patrick Pearse stepped outside the newly occupied GPO on Sackville Street with a copy of the Proclamation of the Irish Republic. Reading aloud, he declared a strike for Irish freedom against the world's... -
The Hidden Wound by Wendell Berry
RRP: £15.99£9.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781582434865Author Wendell BerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint CounterpointPublisher CounterpointWeight(grams) 139g -
The Fifty Years War: The United States and the Soviet Union in World Politics, 1941-1991 by Richard Crockatt
RRP: £79.99£70.00This is an authoritative and comprehensive history of the Fifty Years' war and the relationship that dominated world politics in the second half of the twentieth century.For fifty years relations between the United States and the Soviet Union were...