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Deceiving the Sky: Inside Communist China's Drive for Global Supremacy by Bill Gertz 9781641770545
RRP: €22.60€15.39The United States' approach to China since the Communist regime in Beijing began the period of reform and opening in the 1980s was based on a promise that trade and engagement with China would result in a peaceful, democratic state. Forty years later... -
The Threat of Liberation: Imperialism and Revolution in Zanzibar Amrit Wilson 9780745334073
RRP: €33.31€26.07The Threat of Liberation returns to the tumultuous years of the Cold War, when, in a striking parallel with today, imperialist powers were seeking to institute 'regime change' and install pliant governments. Using iconic photographs, declassified US... -
CRITIQUE OF MODERN BARBARISM: Essays on fascism, anti-Semitism and the use of history by Enzo Traverso 9780902869820
RRP: €20.23€19.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780902869820Author Enzo TraversoFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Resistance BooksPublisher Resistance Books -
Revolutionary Love: A Political Manifesto to Heal and Transform the World by RABBI Michael Lerner
RRP: €24.99€19.79From 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... -
The Fascist Revolution: Toward a General Theory of Fascism by George L. Mosse
RRP: €26.12€26.01The Fascist Revolution is the culmination of George L. Mosse's groundbreaking work on fascism. Originally published posthumously in 1999, the volume covers a broad spectrum of topics related to cultural interpretations of fascism from its origins through... -
Lies and the Brontes: The Quest for the Jenkins Family by Monica Kendall 9781800420052
RRP: €29.75€28.12'Do you like the truth? It is well for you. Adhere to that preference - never swerve thence.' - Charlotte Bronte, Shirley The Jenkins family knew the Brontes in Brussels and West Yorkshire. Eager to learn about them, their descendant read the Bronte... -
The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America by Naomi Murakawa 9780199892808
RRP: €43.42€32.61The explosive rise in the U.S. incarceration rate in the second half of the twentieth century, and the racial transformation of the prison population from mostly white at mid-century to sixty-five percent black and Latino in the present day, is a trend... -
How Markets Fail: The Rise and Fall of Free Market Economics by John Cassidy 9781250781284
RRP: €23.80€20.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250781284Author How Markets FailFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's Press -
The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: An Investigation into the Scapegoating of Canada's Grey Seal by Linda Pannozzo
RRP: €23.74€19.50In the early 1990s the collapse of the Atlantic groundfish stocks signaled the destruction of life in the seas, but it also threw 40,000 people out of work, unraveling the very fabric of rural life throughout Atlantic Canada. Twenty years later, even... -
The Struggle for Development Benjamin Selwyn (University of Sussex) 9781509512799
RRP: €19.03€17.15The world economy is expanding rapidly despite chronic economic crises. Yet the majority of the world's population live in poverty. Why are wealth and poverty two sides of the coin of capitalist development? What can be done to overcome this destructive... -
Confronting apartheid: A personal history of South Africa, Namibia and Palestine by John Dugard
RRP: €26.78€21.85Most personal histories of apartheid in Southern Africa tell the story of the armed struggle. This book is about opposition to apartheid within the law and through the law. South Africa achieved notoriety for its apartheid policies and practices both in... -
Decolonizing the Study of Palestine: Indigenous Perspectives and Settler Colonialism after Elia Zureik Ahmad H. Sa'di 9780755648351
RRP: €29.74€24.72Writing about Palestine and the Palestinians continue to be controversial. Until the late 1980s, the question of Palestine was approached through Western social theories that had appeared after World War 2. This endowed European settlers and colonists... -
Devil's Advocate by John Humphrys
RRP: €19.03€13.82________________________For decades, John Humphrys has been at the beating heart of the BBC's news division.From the 9 O'Clock News desk to his marathon 32-year stint on the Today Programme, Humphrys has had a remarkable career as a journalist, steering... -
Women and the Vote: A World History by Jad Adams 9780198706854
RRP: €23.79€17.47Before 1893 no woman anywhere in the world had the vote in a national election. A hundred years later almost all countries had enfranchised women, and it was a sign of backwardness not to have done so. This is the story of how this momentous change... -
The Case for Universal Basic Services by Anna Coote 9781509539833
RRP: €19.03€12.98The idea that healthcare and education should be provided as universal public services to all who need them is widely accepted. But why leave it there? Why not expand it to more of life's essentials? In their bold new book, Anna Coote and Andrew Percy... -
The Blackbird by Claire Allen 9781999797409
RRP: €15.46€15.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999797409Author Claire AllenFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Henningham Family PressPublisher Henningham Family PressWeight(grams) 130g -
Reconstructing Democracy: How Citizens Are Building from the Ground Up by Charles Taylor
RRP: €15.41€13.09"An urgent manifesto for the reconstruction of democratic belonging in our troubled times." -Davide PanagiaAcross the world, democracies are suffering from a disconnect between the people and political elites. In communities where jobs and industry are... -
Poverty and Insecurity: Life in Low-Pay, No-Pay Britain Tracy Shildrick (University of Newcastle) 9781847429100
RRP: €38.07€29.12Winner of the British Academy Peter Townsend Prize for 2013 How do men and women get by in times and places where opportunities for standard employment have drastically reduced? Are we witnessing the growth of a new class, the 'Precariat', where people... -
Should Britain Leave the EU?: An Economic Analysis of a Troubled Relationship, Second Edition by Patrick Minford 9781785360343
RRP: €42.78€39.47The policy framework advocated by Minford et al. . . . is grounded in economic theory and an incisive empirical analysis of the costs of UK's membership of the EU. Their thesis that the EU is a political union practising economic protectionism in the... -
Marx'S Das Capital for Beginners by Michael Wayne
RRP: €15.46€14.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934389591Author Michael WayneFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint For BeginnersPublisher For Beginners -
From Printing to Streaming: Cultural Production under Capitalism by Michael Chanan
RRP: €23.79€19.04**Shortlisted for the Deutscher Memorial Prize 2023** For mainstream economics, cultural production raises no special questions: creative expression is to be harvested for wealth creation like any other form of labour. As Karl Marx saw it, however,... -
The Future of Planning: Beyond Growth Dependence Yvonne Rydin (Bartlett School of Planning, University College London) 9781447308409
RRP: €28.55€22.21For the past half-century, the planning system has operated on the basis of a growth-dependence paradigm. It has been based on market-led urban development and has sought to provide community benefits from a share of development profits. However, we do... -
Bridge Over Blood River: The Rise and Fall of the Afrikaners by Kajsa Norman
RRP: €21.41€19.21Nelson Mandela is dead and his dream of a rainbow nation in South Africa is fading. Twenty years after the fall of apartheid the white Afrikaner minority fears cultural extinction. How far are they prepared to go to survive as a people? Kajsa Norman's... -
Does ASEAN Matter?: A View from Within by Marty Natalegawa 9789814786744
RRP: €53.49€32.90Written by the highly regarded diplomat Marty Natalegawa, former ambassador and foreign minister of Indonesia, this book offers a unique insider-perspective on the present and future relevance of ASEAN. It is about ASEAN's quest for security and... -
City of Gold: Dubai and the Dream of Capitalism by Jim Krane
RRP: €24.99€14.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312655433Author Jim KraneFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 209mm * 141mm... -
North Korea's Hidden Revolution: How the Information Underground Is Transforming a Closed Society by Jieun Baek
RRP: €32.73€27.72The story of North Korea's information underground and how it inspires people to seek better lives beyond their country's borders One of the least understood countries in the world, North Korea has long been known for its repressive regime. Yet it is far... -
Migration Beyond Capitalism by H Cross
RRP: €21.41€19.09Harshly exploited migrant labour plays a fundamental role in the political economy of contemporary capitalism. The abstract and utopian theorising of many liberals and leftists on the migration question often ignores or downplays patterns of displacement... -
Jihad in Saudi Arabia: Violence and Pan-Islamism since 1979 by Thomas Hegghammer
RRP: €30.93€26.17Saudi Arabia, homeland of Osama bin Laden and many 9/11 hijackers, is widely considered to be the heartland of radical Islamism. For decades, the conservative and oil-rich kingdom contributed recruits, ideologues and money to jihadi groups worldwide. Yet... -
The Human Right to a Healthy Environment by John H. Knox
RRP: €32.12€27.13The absence of a globally recognized right to a healthy environment has not prevented the development of human rights norms relating to the environment. Indeed, one of the most noteworthy aspects of human rights law over the last twenty years is that UN... -
The People Want: A Radical Exploration of the Arab Uprising by Gilbert Achcar 9780863564772
RRP: €20.22€13.93"The people want ...": the first half of slogans chanted by millions of Arab protesters in 2011 revealed a long-suppressed craving for democracy. But huge social and economic problems were also laid bare by their demands. In this landmark work, noted... -
Liberal Capitalist Democracy by Krishnan Nayar
RRP: €41.65€36.88A spectre is haunting Europe and America: the spectre of anti-democratic, right-wing nationalism. This has finally exposed as ill- based the astonishingly widely shared belief that unleashing capitalism will, sooner or later, lead societies to democratic... -
Democracy in the Political Present: A Queer-Feminist Theory by Isabell Lorey
RRP: €21.41€15.15'Presentist democracy is without a people and without nation. Rather than regimes of borders and migration, its borders are sexism and racism, homo- and transphobia, colonialism and extractivism.'In the midst of the crises and threats to liberal... -
Stronger: Adapting America's China Strategy in an Age of Competitive Interdependence by Ryan Hass
€24.26An examination of how America can strengthen its approach to China by building on its existing advantages"This book is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding how the United States can renew its advantages in its competition with China... -
Compulsion in Religion: Saddam Hussein, Islam, and the Roots of Insurgencies in Iraq by Samuel Helfont
RRP: €29.14€24.73Samuel Helfont draws on extensive research with Ba'thist archives to investigate the roots of the religious insurgencies that erupted in Iraq following the American-led invasion in 2003. In looking at Saddam Hussein's policies in the 1990s, many have... -
China’s Quest for Foreign Technology: Beyond Espionage by William C. Hannas
RRP: €45.21€40.20This book analyzes China's foreign technology acquisition activity and how this has helped its rapid rise to superpower status.Since 1949, China has operated a vast and unique system of foreign technology spotting and transfer aimed at accelerating... -
Psychology and Deterrence by Robert Jervis
€31.78Now available in paperback, Psychology and Deterrence reveals deterrence strategy's hidden and generally simplistic assumptions about the nature of power and aggression, threat and response, and calculation and behavior in the international arena.About... -
Sectarian Gulf: Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and the Arab Spring That Wasn't by Toby Matthiesen 9780804785730
RRP: €13.08€11.72As popular uprisings spread across the Middle East, popular wisdom often held that the Gulf States would remain beyond the fray. In Sectarian Gulf, Toby Matthiesen paints a very different picture, offering the first assessment of the Arab Spring across... -
Globalization / Anti-Globalization: Beyond the Great Divide David Held (London School of Economic and Political Science) 9780745639116
€24.17Is globalization being eclipsed by a resurgent geopolitics? Does the war on terror denote the end of globalization or a new phase of militarized globalization? Empire or globalization - are these the right terms to describe the current global order? The... -
Humanitarian Intervention by Thomas G. Weiss 9781509507320
RRP: €22.60€17.48A singular development in the post-Cold War era is the use of military force to protect human beings. From Rwanda to Kosovo, Sierra Leone to East Timor, and Libya to Cote d Ivoire, soldiers have rescued civilians in some of the world's most notorious war... -
The Prophet Outcast: Trotsky 1929-1940 by Isaac Deutscher 9781859844519
RRP: €42.83€37.94Few political figures of the twentieth century have aroused as much controversy as the Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky. Trotsky's extraordinary life and extensive writings have left an indelible mark on revolutionary conscience, yet there was a danger...