Political Science

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781841741383Author Keir StarmerFormat PaperbackPage Count 382Imprint Blackstone Press LtdPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams) 1gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781931082549Author Alexis de TocquevilleFormat HardbackPage Count 928Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of AmericaWeight(grams)...

We need a world trade organization. We just don't need the one that we have. By pitching unequally matched states together in chaotic bouts of negotiating the global trade governance of today offers - and has consistently offered - developed countries...

The best-selling radical diary and weekly planner is back for the new year!The 2022 Verso Radical Diary and Weekly Planner is a beautifully designed week-to-view planner where you can keep track of your coming year. Alongside illustrations, it features...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525429135Author Nilofer MerchantFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Viking Press IncPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

"Boelsums' interplay of sky and light and land, her overwhelming and yet intimate photos add a magnificent touch to what might initially appear nondescript."- Manon Uphoff Quotes from the jury who selected Saskia Boelsums as the Dutch Artist...

India is driving some of the most important trends in global energy markets-with vast environmental implications. As the country grows wealthier, Indians are buying more cars, air conditioners, plane tickets, and other goods that increase demand for...

No conflict in the world has lasted as long, generated as many news headlines, or incited as much controversy as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Yet, despite, or perhaps because of, the degree of international attention it receives, the conflict is...

Peggy Noonan is one of the most brilliant and influential political thinkers and writers of our time. The author of five bestselling books (What I Saw at the Revolution is now a classic), her column in The Wall Street Journal is a must-read for millions...

In an article in 2001 the author analyzed the way the Hungarian political party Fidesz (the Federation of Young Democrats) was eliminating the institutional system of the rule of law as it was on government for the first time. At that time, many readers...

Fully revised and updated, this new edition of Simon James's comprehensible and accessible text provides an excellent insight into the work of the Prime Minister and Cabinet government. It draws on the wealth of new material that has become available in...

In this powerful memoir, former President and bestselling author Jimmy Carter writes about the powerful rhythms of countryside and community in a sharecropping economy. He offers an unforgettable portrait of his father, a brilliant farmer and strict...

"Essays From The Hermit's Lodge," is a collection of irreverent writings, scribbled from the forlorn hand of author Ali Kinteh. He is a flaneur and observer of these turbulent times. He offers adversarial musings about London, free speech, the culture of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912168316Author Giovan Battista FidanzaFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Ad IlissumPublisher Ad IlissumWeight(grams) 170g

Winner, 2022 Nellie Bly Book Award, Chanticleer International Book AwardsMore than a decade ago, counterterrorism expert Rita Katz began browsing white supremacist and neo-Nazi forums. The hateful rhetoric and constant threats of violence immediately...

From social theorist and psychotherapist Rabbi Michael Lerner comes a strategy for a new socialism built on love, kindness, and compassion for one another. Revolutionary Love proposes a method to replace what Lerner terms the "capitalist globalization of...

In January 2020, US President Donald Trump announced his 'deal of the century'. Supposedly intended to 'resolve' the Palestine-Israel conflict, it accepted Israeli occupation as a fait accompli. Azmi Bishara places this normalisation of occupation in its...

D'Anieri's INTERNATIONAL POLITICS: POWER AND PURPOSE IN GLOBAL AFFAIRS, 5th Edition, helps you make the connection between academic theories and real-world issues and events. Comparing international politics to a series of intellectual puzzles, the text...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780264448Author Sean Michael WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint New Internationalist Publications LtdPublisher New Internationalist Publications...

Totalitarianism: The Basics is an easy-to-read introduction into the main concepts, ideologies, and regimes associated with totalitarianism.Starting with an overview of how scholars have attempted to define totalitarianism, Phillip W. Gray begins with an...

In approach, organization, and projected use, the second edition will build largely on the first. The second edition will comprise a text of approximately 925,000 words, with approximately ten percent new text accommodated by corresponding cuts in...

Misunderstanding Terrorism provides a striking reassessment of the scope and nature of the global neo-jihadi threat to the West. The post-9/11 decade experienced the emergence of new forms of political violence and new terrorist actors. More recently,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840338232Author Graham LoweFormat PaperbackImprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake Publishing

Brownlie's Documents on Human Rights provides an extensive collection of key documents covering all elements of the subject, accompanied by authoritative commentary and bibliographic annotation. The result is a clear and accurate set of the most...

Raymond Aron, French scholar, journalist, philosopher, sociologist, and historian, is internationally recognized as one of the great thinkers in the modern social sciences, bringing to contemporary history the insights of both philosophy and social...

This textbook introduces advanced students of International Relations (and beyond) to the ways in which the advent of, and reflections on, the Anthropocene impact on the study of global politics and the disciplinary foundations of IR. The book contains...

Military occupation is a recurrent feature of modern international politics and yet has received little attention from political scientists. This book, newly available in paperback, sets out to remedy this neglect, offering: *an account of military...

Private Desires, Political Action is an accessible overview of one of the most important approaches to the study of politics in the modern world - rational choice theory. Michael Laver does not set out to review this entire field, but rather to discuss...

The administrative state is a powerful tool because it can control the population and, in moments of crisis, help leaders put down popular threats to their rule. But a state does not act; bureaucrats work through the state to carry out a leader's demands...

Advances an alternative approach to democratic reform that focuses on building institutions that empower people who have little time for politics. How do we make democracy more equal? Although in theory, all citizens in a democracy have the right to...

Spiralling inequality since the 1970s and the global financial crisis of 2008 have been the two most important challenges to democratic capitalism since the Great Depression. To understand the political economy of contemporary Europe and America we must,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250234810Author S WaltFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's Press

Armed conflict may appear to be in long term decline, but the intractability and destructiveness of contemporary conflicts make conflict resolution as urgent and necessary as ever. The Contemporary Conflict Resolution Reader is the first comprehensive...

How did representative institutions become the central organs of governance in Western Europe? What enabled this distinctive form of political organization and collective action that has proved so durable and influential? The answer has typically been...

Located 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...

In 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,...

Letters & Sounds (2021): Phase 3 Scholastic Set: 06 Title: I Hear Thunder Focus: ar ur ow ear er Tricky words: I my the are you all me no and Book Band: Red This title is part of a brand new set of...

The question of how Donald Trump won the 2016 election looms over his presidency. In particular, were the 78,000 voters who gave him an Electoral College victory affected by the Russian trolls and hackers? Trump has denied it. So has Vladimir Putin...

When the Cold War ended, the spying that marked the era did not. An incredible true story from the Pulitzer Prize-nominated New York Times bestselling author of Crazy.Between 1995 and 2000, "Comrade J" was the go-to man for SVR (the successor to the KGB)...

The 8th edition, already significantly updated, has now been further updated in 2023 to include the likely impact of the post-pandemic cutbacks, the overturning of Roe v Wade, and the Trump indictments on the 2024 national elections. These factors could...