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Dragon's Teeth: Tales from North Kosovo by Ian Bancroft
RRP: £22.00£17.98Twenty years on from the end of war, the status of the north of Kosovo remains disputed. Ten years on from Kosovos declaration of independence from Serbia, the norths predominantly Serb population continues to resist integration. Education, health, and... -
Eating Grass: The Making of the Pakistani Bomb by Feroz Khan
RRP: £24.99£22.07The history of Pakistan's nuclear program is the history of Pakistan. Fascinated with the new nuclear science, the young nation's leaders launched a nuclear energy program in 1956 and consciously interwove nuclear developments into the broader narrative... -
Exposing The Real Che Guevara Humberto Fontova 9781595230522
RRP: £21.99£14.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781595230522Author Humberto FontovaFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint SentinelPublisher Sentinel -
Cold Black (An Aidan Snow SAS Thriller, Book 2) by Alex Shaw 9780008310189
RRP: £12.99£10.29Aidan Snow thought he could escape his past. But now it's back, with a vengeance. Now an MI6 operative, Snow must locate and rescue an old SAS colleague before an Al-Qaeda splinter cell can carry out acts of unprecedented horror. But who is... -
Happiness FM by Mary Dickins 9781911570837
RRP: £6.99£5.04Happiness FM will take you on a joyful journey that explores the complexities and contradictions of 21st century life. Meet uninhibited Russian grandmothers along with creepy fans of Professor Brian Cox and learn how to achieve your bucket list without... -
Global Poverty: A Theological Guide by Justin Thacker 9780334055150
RRP: £28.00£27.43While a number of secular philosophers have written on global poverty, theologians have either steered clear entirely or simply mimicked the political analysis currently on offer. Christian authors have argued either for a free market solution to global... -
Emancipation After Hegel: Achieving a Contradictory Revolution by Todd McGowan
RRP: £20.00£15.89Hegel is making a comeback. After the decline of the Marxist Hegelianism that dominated the twentieth century, leading thinkers are rediscovering Hegel's thought as a resource for contemporary politics. What does a notoriously difficult... -
Disobey!: A Philiosophy of Resistance by Frederic Gros
£15.10The world is out of joint, so much so that disobeying should be an urgent act for everyone. In this provocative essay, Frederic Gros explores the roots of political obedience, social conformity, economic subjection, respect for authorities,... -
Capital: v. 2 by Karl Marx 9780853150275
RRP: £30.00£29.49Volume II of Capital examines the movement of capital in circulation.Book InformationISBN 9780853150275Author Karl MarxFormat HardbackPage Count 551Imprint Lawrence & Wishart LtdPublisher Lawrence and Wishart Ltd -
Contested Politics in Tunisia: Civil Society in a Post-Authoritarian State by Edwige Fortier
RRP: £30.99£21.89Several thousand new civil society organisations were legally established in Tunisia following the 2010-11 uprising that forced the long-serving dictator, Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, from office. These organisations had different visions for a new Tunisia,... -
Japan Emerging: Premodern History to 1850 Karl F. Friday 9780813344836
RRP: £54.99£48.12Japan Emerging provides a comprehensive survey of Japan from prehistory to the nineteenth century. Incorporating the latest scholarship and methodology, leading authorities writing specifically for this volume outline and explore the main developments in... -
After Brexit and Other Essays Andrew Gamble (Politics Department, University of Sheffield) 9781529217100
RRP: £24.99£19.39'Being more like America again and less like Europe is the heart of the UK model of capitalism ... [but] there are many respects in which Britain remains unlike America despite its strong appeal to the British political class ...' In 'After Brexit'... -
The Campaign Manager: Running and Winning Local Elections Catherine Shaw 9780813350790
RRP: £43.99£38.44Everything you need to know about Vote by Mail!Successful campaign manager and three-term mayor of Ashland, Oregon, Catherine Shaw presents the must-have handbook for navigating local campaigns. This clear and concise handbook gives political novices and... -
Indefensible: Democracy, Counter-Revolution, and the Rhetoric of Anti-Imperialism by Rohini Hensman 9781608469116
RRP: £21.99£14.83Using an analysis of imperialism and case studies of Syria, Iran, Iraq, Bosnia, Russia and Ukraine, Global Democracy and the Crisis of Anti-Imperialism shows that the purported anti-imperialism of many self-professed socialists amounts to explicit or... -
The Rise of New Labour: Party Policies and Voter Choices by Anthony F. Heath 9780199245116
£48.77This major new work from the well-known team of Heath, Jowell and Curtice explores the emergence of New Labour from the ruins of old Labour's four successive defeats at the hands of the Conservatives. Based on the authoritative British Election Surveys... -
Plagues and Their Aftermath: How Societies Recover from Pandemics by Brian Michael Jenkins
RRP: £11.99£8.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781685890162Author Brian Michael JenkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House Publishing -
Seeing Like an Activist: Civil Disobedience and the Civil Rights Movement by Erin R. Pineda
RRP: £24.49£20.78There are few movements more firmly associated with civil disobedience than the Civil Rights Movement. In the mainstream imagination, civil rights activists eschewed coercion, appealed to the majority's principles, and submitted willingly to legal... -
Seeking the Bomb: Strategies of Nuclear Proliferation by Vipin Narang
RRP: £28.00£21.80The first systematic look at the different strategies that states employ in their pursuit of nuclear weaponsMuch of the work on nuclear proliferation has focused on why states pursue nuclear weapons. The question of how states pursue nuclear weapons has... -
In the Country We Love: My Family Divided (Updated with New Material) by Diane Guerrero
RRP: £18.99£11.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250134967Author Diane GuerreroFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm)... -
A Transnational History of Right-Wing Terrorism: Political Violence and the Far Right in Eastern and Western Europe since 1900 by Johannes Dafinger
RRP: £36.99£32.53A Transnational History of Right-Wing Terrorism offers new insights into the history of right-wing extremism and violence in Europe, East and West, from 1900 until the present day. It is the first book to take such a broad historical approach to the... -
Looting and Rape in Wartime: Law and Change in International Relations by Tuba Inal
RRP: £23.99£20.84Women were historically treated in wartime as property. Yet in the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907, prohibitions against pillaging property did not extend to the female body. There is a gap of nearly a hundred years between those early prohibitions of... -
What Is War For? Jack McDonald (King's College London) 9781529228380
RRP: £8.99£7.27How does armed conflict shape global politics? And, critically, can it ever be regulated, a necessary first step to achieving a more peaceful world? This book examines the factors that define and shape war in the contemporary world, and how changes to... -
Tolstoy's Political Thought: Christian Anarcho-Pacifist Iconoclasm Then and Now by Alexandre Christoyannopoulos
RRP: £41.99£36.75Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), besides writing famous novels such as War and Peace, also wrote on political issues, especially later in his life, putting forward a political philosophy which might be termed 'Christian anarchism'. This book provides a... -
The Great Escape: A True Story of Forced Labor and Immigrant Dreams in America by Saket Soni 9781643755755
RRP: £15.99£12.05In late 2006, Saket Soni, a twenty-eight-year-old Indian-born community organizer, received an anonymous phone call from an Indian migrant worker in Mississippi. He was one of five hundred men trapped in squalid Gulf Coast "man camps," surrounded by... -
Protest Policing and Human Rights: A Dialogical Approach by Michael Smith
RRP: £35.99£31.69This book examines protest policing and the toolbox of options available to police commanders in response. The right to peacefully protest is intrinsic to democracy and embedded in British history and tradition. The police are responsible for managing... -
The Alt-Right: What Everyone Needs to Know (R) by George Hawley 9780190905200
RRP: £10.99£8.22In recent years, the so-called Alt-Right, a white nationalist movement, has grown at an alarming rate. Taking advantage of high levels of racial polarization, the Alt-Right seeks to normalize explicit white identity politics. Growing from a marginalized... -
The Arab Bureau: British Policy in the Middle East, 1916-1920 by Bruce L. Westrate
RRP: £34.95£31.19Founded in 1916, the Arab Bureau was a small collection of British intelligence officers headquartered in Cairo and charged with the task of coordinating imperial intelligence activities in the Middle East. It is most often remembered for its flamboyant... -
Theories of Violent Conflict: An Introduction Jolle Demmers (Utrecht University, the Netherlands) 9781138856400
RRP: £39.99£35.06This revised and updated second edition introduces students of violent conflict to a variety of prominent theoretical approaches, and examines the ontological stances and epistemological traditions underlying these approaches.Theories of Violent Conflict... -
Why Nations Rise: Narratives and the Path to Great Power by Manjari Chatterjee Miller
RRP: £25.99£23.38What are rising powers? Do they challenge the international order? Why do some countries but not others become rising powers? In Why Nations Rise, Manjari Chaterjee Miller answers these questions and shows that some countries rise not just because they... -
How to Save Our Town Centres: A Radical Agenda for the Future of High Streets Julian Dobson (Urban Pollinators) 9781447323938
RRP: £27.99£21.57Has the age of the internet killed our high streets? Have our town and city centres become obsolete? How to Save Our Town Centres delves below the surface of empty buildings and 'shop local' campaigns to focus on the real issues: how the relationship... -
Politics and Vision: Continuity and Innovation in Western Political Thought - Expanded Edition by Sheldon S. Wolin 9780691174051
RRP: £22.00£17.69Politics and Vision is a landmark work by one of the great thinkers of the twentieth century. This is a significantly expanded edition of one of the greatest works of modern political theory. Sheldon Wolin's Politics and Vision inspired and instructed... -
Democracy in a Hotter Time: Climate Change and Democratic Transformation by David W. Orr 9780262048590
RRP: £23.00£15.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262048590Author David W. OrrFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Post-Truth, Fake News and Democracy: Mapping the Politics of Falsehood by Johan Farkas
£38.14Western societies are under siege, as fake news, post-truth and alternative facts are undermining the very core of democracy. This dystopian narrative is currently circulated by intellectuals, journalists and policy makers worldwide. In this book, Johan... -
Revolutionary Power: An Activist's Guide to the Energy Transition by Shalanda Baker 9781642830675
RRP: £26.00£21.70In September 2017, Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, completely upending the energy grid of the small island. The nearly year-long power outage that followed vividly shows how the new climate reality intersects with race and access to energy. The island... -
UNITE History Volume 4 (1960-1974): The Transport and General Workers' Union (TGWU): 'The Great Tradition of Independent Working Class Power' by John Foster
RRP: £6.99£6.67Sold as a multi-volume set - the individual volumes are also available for purchase. The fourteen years between 1960 and-1974 saw the trade union and labour movement transformed. In 1959 Labour had been beaten at the polls for the third successive time -... -
Roman Law in the State of Nature: The Classical Foundations of Hugo Grotius' Natural Law by Benjamin Straumann
RRP: £24.99£19.99Roman Law in the State of Nature offers a new interpretation of the foundations of Hugo Grotius' natural law theory. Surveying the significance of texts from classical antiquity, Benjamin Straumann argues that certain classical texts, namely Roman law... -
Neoclassical Realist Theory of International Politics by Norrin M. Ripsman 9780199899258
RRP: £40.49£30.15Since Gideon Rose's 1998 review article in the journal World Politics and especially following the release of Lobell, Ripsman, and Taliaferro's 2009 edited volume Neoclassical Realism, the State, and Foreign Policy, neoclassical realism has emerged as... -
Introduction to International Relations: Theories and Approaches by Robert Jackson 9780199694747
RRP: £30.99£29.42The fifth edition of this successful textbook has been updated in light of current international events and ongoing debates in the subject. It provides a highly readable introduction to the principal theories in international relations, combining... -
Orthodoxy and Islam in the Middle East: The Seventh to the Sixteenth Centuries by Constantin A. Panchenko 9781942699330
RRP: £15.99£13.33Conflict 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... -
An Introduction to International Relations by Richard Devetak 9781316631553
£51.83An Introduction to International Relations is a comprehensive introduction to the history, theories, developments and debates that shape the dynamic discipline of international relations and contemporary world politics. Bringing together an expert author...