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Standing Up for Scotland: Nationalist Unionism and Scottish Party Politics, 1884-2014 by David Torrance
RRP: €24.98€22.91This book reassesses the relationship between 'nationalism' and 'unionism' in Scottish politics, challenging a binary reading of the two ideologies with the concept of 'nationalist unionism'. Scottish nationalism did not begin with the SNP in 1934, nor... -
The Huthi Movement in Yemen: Ideology, Ambition and Security in the Arab Gulf Abdullah Hamidaddin 9780755644285
RRP: €27.36€22.82The Huthi rebels in Yemen are a resistance movement going back decades. Their coup against Yemeni President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi in 2015 - and the subsequent Yemeni civil war and the intervention of the Arab coalition in support of Hadi - has brought... -
Transformational Leadership for the Helping Professions: Engaging Head, Heart, and Soul by Jean F. East 9780190912437
RRP: €36.88€31.30Twenty-first-century challenges abound for people in leadership roles in the helping professions (i.e., social work, nursing, teaching, public health, and social services). It is the mission of these professionals to facilitate change not only for... -
Participation and Democratic Theory by Carole Pateman
RRP: €23.79€21.53Shows that current elitist theories are based on an inadequate understanding of the early writings of democratic theory and that much sociological evidence has been ignored.Reviews'This is a very important book ... a lucid, intelligent and direct... -
Mao Zedong: A Political and Intellectual Portrait Maurice Meisner (University of Wisconsin, Madison) 9780745631073
RRP: €21.41€19.39Revolutionary and ruler, Marxist and nationalist, liberator and despot, Mao Zedong takes a place among the iconic leaders of the twentieth century. In this book, Maurice Meisner offers a balanced portrait of the man who defined modern China. From his... -
Political Argument in a Polarized Age: Reason and Democratic Life Scott F. Aikin 9781509536535
RRP: €15.46€14.21From obnoxious public figures to online trolling and accusations of "fake news", almost no one seems able to disagree without hostility. But polite discord sounds farfetched when issues are so personal and fundamental that those on opposing sides appear... -
Undoing the Liberal World Order: Progressive Ideals and Political Realities Since World War II by Leon Fink 9780231202244
€130.39In the decades following World War II, American liberals had a vision for the world. Their ambitions would not stop at the water's edge: progressive internationalism, they believed, could help peoples everywhere achieve democracy, prosperity, and freedom... -
Command in War by Martin van Creveld 9780674144415
RRP: €41.59€33.80Many books have been written about strategy, tactics, and great commanders. This is the first book to deal exclusively with the nature of command itself, and to trace its development over two thousand years from ancient Greece to Vietnam. It treats... -
Studying Ealing Studios by Stephanie Muir
RRP: €27.36€25.48Located in the West London suburb from which it takes its name, Ealing Studios is one of the best loved and best known institutions of British cinema. Ealing represents a particular kind of institutional practice a community of filmmakers who collaborate... -
We're All Climate Hypocrites Now: How Embracing Our Limitations Can Unlock the Power of a Movement by Sami Grover
RRP: €17.84€12.07A useful - and sprightly! - effort to get at the choice between individual and systemic action on the greatest problem we've ever faced. - Bill McKibben, author, The End of Nature Taking a tongue-in-cheek approach, self-confessed eco-hypocrite Sami... -
Philosophy in a Time of Terror: Dialogues with Jurgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida by Giovanna Borradori 9780226066660
RRP: €28.56€27.41The idea for Philosophy in a Time of Terror was born hours after the attacks on 9/11 and was realized just weeks later when Giovanna Borradori sat down with Jurgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida in New York City, in separate interviews, to evaluate the... -
The Responsible Globalist: What Citizens of the World Can Learn from Nationalism by Hassan Damluji
RRP: €23.80€17.01'Thought provoking and well-written... a good read for people who care about solving global problems. Damluji puts forth ideas that can help make global systems more successful' - Bill Gates An incisive, optimistic manifesto for a more inclusive... -
Interviewing in Social Science Research: A Relational Approach Lee Ann Fujii 9780415843744
RRP: €44.02€38.71What is interviewing and when is this method useful? What does it mean to select rather than sample interviewees? Once the researcher has found people to interview, how does she build a working relationship with her interviewees? What should the dynamics... -
Post-Humanitarianism: Governing Precarity in the Digital World Mark Duffield 9780745698595
RRP: €21.41€19.39The world has entered an unprecedented period of uncertainty and political instability. Faced with the challenge of knowing and acting within such a world, the spread of computers and connectivity, and the arrival of new digital sense-making tools, are... -
The Science and Art of Interviewing by Kathleen Gerson
RRP: €27.95€20.38Qualitative interviewing is among the most widely used methods in the social sciences, but it is arguably the least understood. In The Science and Art of Interviewing, Kathleen Gerson and Sarah Damaske offer clear, theoretically informed and empirically... -
Taxing the Rich: A History of Fiscal Fairness in the United States and Europe by Kenneth Scheve
RRP: €21.41€17.37In today's social climate of acknowledged and growing inequality, why are there not greater efforts to tax the rich? In this wide-ranging and provocative book, Kenneth Scheve and David Stasavage ask when and why countries tax their wealthiest... -
Savage Economics: Wealth, Poverty and the Temporal Walls of Capitalism by David L. Blaney 9780415548489
RRP: €49.97€43.73This innovative book challenges the most powerful and pervasive ideas concerning political economy, international relations, and ethics in the modern world. Rereading classical authors including Adam Smith, James Steuart, Adam Ferguson, Hegel, and Marx,... -
Global Calvinism: Conversion and Commerce in the Dutch Empire, 1600-1800 by Charles H. Parker
RRP: €38.68€37.58A comprehensive study of the connection between Calvinist missions and Dutch imperial expansion during the early modern period "A tour de force offering the reader the best study of global Calvinism in the realms of the Dutch East India Company."-Ronnie... -
Israel Warrior: Fighting Back for the Jewish State from Campus to Street Corner by Shmuley Boteach 9781510780682
RRP: €22.60€13.89In light of the October 7th massacre of fourteen hundred Israeli and American Jews at the hands of the savage terrorists of Hamas, and the brazen tsunami of antisemitism that has been overtaking the media and college campuses, it's now time to fight back... -
Saviour's Gate: A scintillating novel of espionage and war by Tim Sebastian
RRP: €13.08€9.09How many have to die to save one man?Each night a small jet leaves Moscow heading for a lonely outpost in the frozen Soviet North. It takes no passengers and brings none back.Intelligence shows this is neither a cargo flight nor a military flight. The... -
End of Capitalism, The: The Thought of Henryk Grossman Ted Reese 9781789047738
RRP: €16.65€14.58Henryk Grossman is a name most socialists or students of political and social theory - let alone the mass of working people around the world - have probably never heard of. Yet Grossman, a Polish Jew born in 1881, deserves recognition as the most... -
Resistance Anew: Artworks, Culture & Democracy by Bernard Fibicher
RRP: €19.04€13.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783037645802Author Bernard FibicherFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint JRP RingierPublisher JRP RingierWeight(grams) 236g -
Policy Analysis for the Real World by Brian W. Hogwood
€74.27Hogwood, Brian W.DESCRIP_ALLOWEDBook InformationISBN 9780198761846Author Brian W. HogwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams) 382gDimensions(mm) 215mm * 138mm * 17mm -
Start-Up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle by Dan Senor 9780446541466
€31.09START-UP NATION addresses the trillion dollar question: How is it that Israel - a country of 7.1 million, only 60 years old, surrounded by enemies, in a constant state of war since its founding, with no natural resources-- produces more start-up... -
Recovering the Later Georg Lukács: A Study on the Unity of His Thought by Matthew J. Smetona
RRP: €85.68€85.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262545372Author Matthew J. SmetonaFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Hoodwinking the Nation Julian Simon 9781412805933
RRP: €54.73€47.75Most people in the United States believe that our envi- ronment is getting dirtier, we are running out of natural resources, and population growth in the world is a burden and a threat. These beliefs, according to Simon, are entirely wrong. Why do the... -
India vs UK: The Story of an Unprecedented Diplomatic Win by Syed Akbaruddin 9789354892035
€12.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789354892035Author Syed AkbaruddinFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint HarperCollins IndiaPublisher HarperCollins IndiaDimensions(mm) 250mm * 200mm * 50mm -
The Politics of Exile by Elizabeth Dauphinee
RRP: €44.02€38.71"The most thought-provoking and refreshing work on Bosnia and the former Yugoslavia in a long time.It is certainly an immense contribution to the broadening schools within international relations." Times Higher Education (THE). Written in both... -
Resilient Life: The Art of Living Dangerously Brad Evans (University of Bristol) 9780745671536
RRP: €22.60€20.08What does it mean to live dangerously? This is not just a philosophical question or an ethical call to reflect upon our own individual recklessness. It is a deeply political issue, fundamental to the new doctrine of 'resilience' that is becoming a key... -
Climacteric by Jo Bratten 9781913211844
RRP: €8.32€6.21Climacteric noun 1. a critical period or event. "the first major climacteric in twenty-first-century poetry" 2. MEDICINE the period of life when fertility is in decline; (in women) menopause. "most women do not experience significant... -
Saving Sick Britain: Why We Need the 'Health Society' by Martin Yuille
RRP: €29.75€22.38Britain is sick and it needs saving. Covid-19 has brought death, disruption and disorder. It has revealed fundamental failures in public policy and our approach to health. For years, the same failures have perpetuated a host of modern plagues -... -
A History of Ireland in International Relations by Owen McGee 9781788551137
RRP: €26.17€24.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788551137Author Owen McGeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Irish Academic Press LtdPublisher Irish Academic Press Ltd -
Responsible Parties: Saving Democracy from Itself by Frances McCall Rosenbluth
RRP: €26.78€26.63How popular democracy has paradoxically eroded trust in political systems worldwide, and how to restore confidence in democratic politics Democracies across the world are adopting reforms to bring politics closer to the people. Parties have turned to... -
Marx's Theory Of The Genesis Of Money: How, Why, and Through What is Commodity Money? by Samezo Kuruma
RRP: €35.70€23.66In this volume, the first of the author's works to be translated into English, Samezo Kuruma examines the different angles from which Marx analyses the commodity and money in the first two chapters of Capital, Vol I. Kuruma carefully explains each of the... -
The Man on Horseback: The Role of the Military in Politics Samuel Finer 9780765809223
RRP: €52.35€46.10The role of the military in a society raises a number of issues: How much separation should there be between a civil government and its army? Should the military be totally subordinate to the polity? Or should the armed forces be allowed autonomy in... -
Near Abroad: Putin, the West, and the Contest over Ukraine and the Caucasus by Gerard Toal
RRP: €36.88€31.34Vladimir Putin's intervention into the Georgia/South Ossetia conflict in summer 2008 was quickly recognized by Western critics as an attempt by Russia to increase its presence and power in the "near abroad", or the independent states of the former Soviet... -
Revolutionary Constitutions: Charismatic Leadership and the Rule of Law by Bruce Ackerman
RRP: €35.64€29.07A 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... -
Brown Skin, White Masks Hamid Dabashi 9780745328737
RRP: €29.74€19.79This book is a a critical examination of the role that immigrant intellectuals play in facilitating the global domination of American imperialism. In his pioneering book about the relationship between race and colonialism, Black Skin, White Masks,... -
Mysteries of the Norman Conquest: Unravelling the Truth of the Battle of Hastings and the Events of 1066 by Allred, Robert 9781399088039
RRP: €29.75€20.97Recent challenges to the traditional site of the Battle of Hastings have led to a surge of interest in the events surrounding England's most famous battle. This, in turn, has increased speculation that the titanic struggle for the English crown in 1066... -
Design for Policy by Christian Bason
RRP: €39.26€34.70Design for Policy is the first publication to chart the emergence of collaborative design approaches to innovation in public policy. Drawing on contributions from a range of the world's leading academics, design practitioners and public managers, it...