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The Arc of War: Origins, Escalation, and Transformation Jack S. Levy (Rutgers University, USA) 9780226476292
RRP: €33.32€32.59In this far-reaching exploration of the evolution of warfare in human history, Jack S. Levy and William R. Thompson provide insight into the perennial questions of why and how humans fight. Beginning with the origins of warfare among foraging groups,... -
A Political Economy of Behavioural Public Policy by Adam Oliver
RRP: €27.36€23.28Behavioural public policy has thus far been dominated by approaches that are based on the premise that it is entirely legitimate for policymakers to design policies that nudge or influence people to avoid desires that may not be in their own self-... -
The Infographic Guide to American Government: A Visual Reference for Everything You Need to Know by Carissa Lytle 9781507210802
RRP: €15.46€13.29This vibrant, illustrated guide to the ins and outs of United States politics provides a clearer understanding of the current events and regular processes that shape this nation and the world.Decipher the American political system with this clear,... -
On Edward Said: Remembrance of Things Past by Hamid Dabashi 9781642592733
RRP: €20.22€13.89Edward Said (1935-2003) was a towering figure in post-colonial studies and the struggle for justice in his native Palestine, best known for his critique of orientalism in western portrayals of the Middle East. As a public intellectual, activist, and... -
The Revolutionary City: Urbanization and the Global Transformation of Rebellion by Mark Beissinger
RRP: €35.70€28.63How and why cities have become the predominant sites for revolutionary upheavals in the contemporary worldExamining the changing character of revolution around the world, The Revolutionary City focuses on the impact that the concentration of people,... -
War Dogs: The True Story of How Three Stoners from Miami Beach Became the Most Unlikely Gunrunners in History by Guy Lawson 9781501154195
RRP: €11.89€7.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501154195Author Guy LawsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Pocket BooksPublisher Pocket BooksWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 168mm * 104mm * 25mm -
The Political and Social Philosophy of Ze'ev Jabotinsky: Selected Writings by Mordechai Sarig
RRP: €23.74€23.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853033592Author Mordechai SarigFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdWeight(grams)... -
Suicide and Social Justice: New Perspectives on the Politics of Suicide and Suicide Prevention by Mark E. Button
RRP: €41.64€37.00Suicide and Social Justice unites diverse scholarly and social justice perspectives on the international problem of suicide and suicidal behavior. With a focus on social justice, the book seeks to understand the complex interactions between individual... -
Ripe for Revolution: Building Socialism in the Third World by Jeremy Friedman 9780674244313
RRP: €36.83€30.00A historical account of ideology in the Global South as the postwar laboratory of socialism, its legacy following the Cold War, and the continuing influence of socialist ideas worldwide.In the first decades after World War II, many newly independent... -
Disasters: A Sociological Approach Kathleen Tierney 9780745671024
RRP: €22.60€20.43Disasters kill, maim, and generate increasingly large economic losses. But they do not wreak their damage equally across populations, and every disaster has social dimensions at its very core. This important book sheds light on the social conditions and... -
English for Diplomatic Purposes by Patricia Friedrich
RRP: €35.64€31.77English is used in diplomatic contexts worldwide, including in situations where none of the interlocutors are native-speakers. This ground-breaking volume brings together the perspectives of researchers and practitioners to discuss the needs of those... -
The Children of China's Great Migration by Rachel Murphy
RRP: €35.69€32.61In 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... -
Hinterland: America's New Landscape of Class and Conflict by Phil A. Neel
RRP: €18.98€13.79Over the last forty years, the landscape of the United States has been fundamentally transformed. It is partially visible in the ascendance of glittering, coastal hubs for finance, infotech and the so-called `creative class'. But this is only the tip of... -
Imagining Global Futures by Adom Getachew
RRP: €21.41€15.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781946511744Author Adom GetachewFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Boston Review/Boston Critic Inc.Publisher Boston Review/Boston Critic Inc. -
Dare to Speak: Defending Free Speech for All by Suzanne Nossel
€15.48"A must read."-Margaret AtwoodA vital, necessary playbook for navigating and defending free speech today by the CEO of PEN America, Dare To Speak provides a pathway for promoting free expression while also cultivating a more inclusive public culture... -
The Field of Fight: How We Can Win the Global War Against Radical Islam and Its Allies by Lieutenant General (Ret ) Michael T Flynn 9781250131621
RRP: €22.61€13.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250131621Author Lieutenant General (Ret ) Michael T FlynnFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's... -
Resident Foreigners: A Philosophy of Migration Donatella Di Cesare 9781509533558
RRP: €22.60€20.08From the shores of Europe to the Mexican-US border, mass migration is one of the most pressing issues we face today. Yet at the same time, calls to defend national sovereignty are becoming ever more vitriolic, with those fleeing war, persecution, and... -
Race and Racism in International Relations: Confronting the Global Colour Line by Alexander Anievas
RRP: €52.35€45.74International Relations, as a discipline, does not grant race and racism explanatory agency in its conventional analyses, despite such issues being integral to the birth of the discipline. Race and Racism in International Relations seeks to remedy this... -
An Anarchist Faq: Volume One by Iain McKay 9781902593906
RRP: €23.80€17.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781902593906Author Iain McKayFormat PaperbackPage Count 555Imprint AK PressPublisher AK PressWeight(grams) 1282g -
The Left in China: A Political Cartography Ralf Ruckus 9780745342955
RRP: €20.22€13.93'Does a great service by shifting our attention to the oppositional movements of Chinese workers, peasants, students, and women who have contested inequality and exploitation' - Manfred Elfstrom Tracing the history of left-wing, subversive and... -
Kew Pocketbooks: Palms by Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew 9781842467114
RRP: €10.70€7.27This stunning new series of pocketbooks from Kew offer a snapshot into the diverse and beautiful world of plants. Each book lavishly showcases choice examples from individual plant groups or collections, beginning with the popular plant groups Palms and... -
Aliquot by John Clegg 9781800172357
RRP: €14.27€10.14The chemist with a sample analyses an aliquot of that sample, a part of a part of a larger whole. The title of John Clegg's new collection speaks to the poems' sense of being parts of larger wholes, themselves parts of a larger whole... The scientific... -
The Occupation: War and Resistance in Iraq by Patrick Cockburn 9781844671649
€23.99In February 2003, Patrick Cockburn secretly crossed the Tigris river from Syria into Iraq just before the US/British invasion, and has covered the war ever since. In The Occupation, he provides a vivid and disturbing picture of a country in turmoil, and... -
On Dangerous Ground: America's Century in the South China Sea by Gregory B Poling
RRP: €37.47€32.82A robust yet accessible history of US involvement in the world's most dangerous waterway, and a guide for what to do about it. Lamentations that the United States is "losing" the South China Sea to China are now common. China has rapidly militarized... -
A Pretext for War: 9/11, Iraq, and the Abuse of America's Intelligence Agencies by James Bamford 9781400030347
RRP: €22.60€15.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400030347Author James BamfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 365gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
Advanced Introduction to Public Management and Administration Christopher Pollitt 9781784712334
RRP: €23.74€21.60Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences and law, expertly written by the world's leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of... -
The Opening Up of International Organizations: Transnational Access in Global Governance by Jonas Tallberg
RRP: €28.55€23.79Once the exclusive preserve of member states, international organizations have become increasingly open in recent decades. Now virtually all international organizations at some level involve NGOs, business actors and scientific experts in policy-making... -
The German New Right: AFD, PEGIDA and the Re-imagining of National Identity by Jay Julian Rosellini
RRP: €59.50€52.10Contemporary Germany is a modern industrial democracy admired throughout the world. Many Germans believe that they live in the 'best Germany' that has ever existed. Yet there are dissenting voices: individuals and groups that reject cosmopolitanism,... -
Ecology And Socialism: Capitalism and the Environment by Chris Williams
RRP: €17.84€11.42As global temperatures rise and polar bears begin to drown in the melting artic ice, a growing chorus of voices is calling on governments to act now whilst there is still a small chance of saving the planet. Yet the harsh reality ignored by pundits and... -
Making Sense of the Central African Republic Tatiana Carayannis 9781783603794
RRP: €28.55€24.92Lying at the centre of a tumultuous region, the Central African Republic and its turbulent history have often been overlooked. Democracy, in any kind of a meaningful sense, has eluded the country. Since the mid-1990s, army mutinies and serial rebellion... -
The Power of Hope: How the Science of Well-Being Can Save Us from Despair by Carol Graham
RRP: €35.70€28.16Why hope matters as a metric of economic and social well-beingIn a society marked by extreme inequality of income and opportunity, why should economists care about how people feel? The truth is that feelings of well-being are critical metrics that... -
Orthodoxy and Islam in the Middle East: The Seventh to the Sixteenth Centuries by Constantin A. Panchenko 9781942699330
RRP: €19.03€15.86Conflict or concord? Histories of Islam from its early seventh century beginnings in Arabia often portray its explosive growth into the wider Middle East as a story of struggle and conquest of the Christian people of Greater Syria, Palestine and Egypt... -
Surrealpolitik: Surreality and the National Security State John Schoneboom 9781785359491
RRP: €15.46€13.64Our times are not just weird, but literally surreal: we live in a paranoid, increasingly authoritarian culture in which the real, the presumed and the purported are indistinguishable strands of a dense hallucinatory web of mediated spectacles... -
Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist by Eli Saslow
RRP: €20.23€11.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Nonfiction 2019.Book InformationISBN 9780525434955Author Eli SaslowFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher... -
How To Guide to Cosmopolitan Socialism, A: A Tribute to Michael Brooks by Matthew McManus 9781782793168
RRP: €15.46€13.64Socialism has always had internationalist ambitions, but what those ambitions should be and how to rethink them in the 21st century remain open questions. Before his tragic passing in 2020, Michael Brooks talked about a new kind of cosmopolitan socialism... -
Who Cares?: How to Reshape a Democratic Politics by Joan C. Tronto 9781501702747
RRP: €8.32€4.40The 2015 winner of the Brown Democracy Medal, Joan C. Tronto, argues in Who Cares? that we need to rethink American democracy, as well as our own fundamental values and commitments, from a caring perspective. Asserting that Americans are facing a "caring... -
Energy Kingdoms: Oil and Political Survival in the Persian Gulf by Jim Krane 9780231179300
RRP: €33.32€25.94After the discovery of oil in the 1930s, the Gulf monarchies-Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, and Bahrain-went from being among the world's poorest and most isolated places to some of its most ostentatiously wealthy. To... -
Winning Elections: Political Campaign Management, Strategy, and Tactics by Ronald A. Faucheux 9781590770269
RRP: €45.22€34.69This is an advanced guide to running political campaigns. It provides invaluable, practical advice from the leading professionals in the industry, together with thousands of vote-winning, money-saving, time-conserving tips. Chapters include new articles... -
Wild Grass: China's Revolution from Below by Ian Johnson
RRP: €13.08€8.72'Illuminating ... Johnson has not only lifted a corner of the curtain which covers China's reality beyond its glittering eastern cities; he has drawn the whole curtain' The Times Literary SupplementIn Wild Grass, Pulitzer Prize-winning Ian Johnson... -
Rough Justice: The International Criminal Court's Battle to Fix the World, One Prosecution at a Time by David L. Bosco 9780199844135
RRP: €51.16€41.76The Nuremberg trials after World War II constituted a landmark in the development of international criminal justice: presided over by jurists from the victorious powers, it set new standards for defining international war crimes. Set in motion shortly...