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A Nation-State by Construction: Dynamics of Modern Chinese Nationalism by Suisheng Zhao
RRP: €33.31€29.18This is the first historically comprehensive, up-to-date analysis of the causes, content, and consequences of nationalism in China, an ancient empire that has struggled to construct a nation-state and find its place in the modern world. It shows how... -
The Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought: French Sociology and the Overseas Empire by George Steinmetz
RRP: €45.22€35.99A new history of French social thought that connects postwar sociology to colonialism and empireIn this provocative and original retelling of the history of French social thought, George Steinmetz places the history and development of modern French... -
The Affordable City: Strategies for Putting Housing Within Reach (and Keeping It There) Shane Phillips 9781642831337
RRP: €33.32€27.69From Los Angeles to Boston and Chicago to Miami, US cities are struggling to address the twin crises of high housing costs and household instability. In most cities, debates over the appropriate course of action have been defined by two poles: building... -
Why Voice Matters: Culture and Politics After Neoliberalism by Nick Couldry
RRP: €46.40€37.63"One of the best books I have read in years about what it means to engage neoliberalism through a critical framework that highlights those narratives and stories that affirm both our humanity and our longing for justice. It should be read by... -
On Universals: Constructing and Deconstructing Community by Etienne Balibar
RRP: €28.55€25.18Many on the Left have looked upon "universal" as a dirty word, one that signals liberalism's failure to recognize the masculinist and Eurocentric assumptions from which it proceeds. In rejecting universalism, we have learned to reorient politics around... -
Audience of One: Donald Trump, Television, and the Fracturing of America James Poniewozik 9781631494420
RRP: €26.17€22.55The New York Times chief television critic James Poniewozik traces the history of television and mass media from the early 1980s to today and demonstrates how a "volcanic, camera-hogging antihero" merged with America's most powerful medium to become the... -
Inequality and the Labyrinths of Democracy by Göran Therborn 9781788738996
RRP: €20.22€20.19Classical liberalism regarded universal suffrage as a mortal threat to property. So what explains the advent of liberal democracy, and how stable today is the marriage between representative government and the continued rule of capital?Across every... -
The Modern Presidency: Six Debates That Define the Institution by Michael Genovese 9780231206679
RRP: €21.41€17.11This book offers an accessible and compelling guide to the American presidency by exploring a series of key questions. How powerful is the American presidency, and to what extent is presidential power dependent on persuasion? Do the personal qualities of... -
Truth in Public Life by Claire Foster-Gilbert
RRP: €9.51€7.00Truth in Public Life explores the difficulty in defining truth, its critical importance in civilised society and the challenges and threats to telling the truth in different public service settings. Three leading experts reflect on subjects related... -
Family Criminology: An Introduction by Amanda Holt
RRP: €47.59€41.90This textbook offers a fresh conceptual approach to understanding the intersections of crime, criminal justice and family life. In doing so, it proposes a brand new sub-discipline of Criminology that places the family at the heart of its analysis,... -
The Hardhat Riot: Nixon, New York City, and the Dawn of the White Working-Class Revolution by David Paul Kuhn
RRP: €27.36€23.75In May 1970, four days after Kent State, construction workers chased students through downtown Manhattan, beating scores of protestors bloody. As hardhats clashed with hippies, it soon became clear that something larger was happening; Democrats were at... -
Indefensible: Democracy, Counter-Revolution, and the Rhetoric of Anti-Imperialism by Rohini Hensman 9781608469116
RRP: €26.17€17.65Using 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... -
Erasing Iraq: The Human Costs of Carnage by Michael Otterman 9780745328973
RRP: €29.74€19.79For nearly two decades, the US and its allies have prosecuted war and aggression in Iraq. Erasing Iraq shows in unparalleled detail the devastating human cost of the war in Iraq. Western governments and the mainstream media continue to ignore or play... -
Secret Service: National security in an age of open information by Jonathan Evans
RRP: €9.51€7.00'It was only two days after I arrived that I realised I had actually joined MI5. It did not exactly throw the doors wide and welcome scrutiny. The existence of the service was avowed but very little else about it was. Who worked for it? Where were its... -
Injustice: Political Theory for the Real World by Michael Goodhart 9780190692438
RRP: €39.85€26.05This book challenges the conventional approach to problems of injustice in global normative theory. It offers a radical alternative designed to transform our thinking about what kind of problem injustice is and to show how political theorists might do... -
The Hidden Wealth of Nations David Halpern (Institute for Government) 9780745648026
RRP: €23.79€21.37Richer nations are happier, yet economic growth doesn't increase happiness. This paradox is explained by the Hidden Wealth of Nations - the extent to which citizens get along with other independently drives both economic growth and well-being. Much of... -
The New British Politics by Ian Budge 9781405824217
€55.48The New British Politics is one of the most comprehensive and successful introductions to British politics ever published. Now available in a fully revised and updated fourth edition, this clear, lively and authoritative text has an emphasis on law and... -
Revolution Today by Susan Buck-Morss
RRP: €17.84€12.07Susan Buck-Morss asks: What does revolution look like today? How will the idea of revolution survive the inadequacy of the formula, "progress = modernization through industrialization," to which it has owed its political life? Socialism plus computer... -
Classic Supreme Court Cases by Corey Brettschneider
RRP: €17.85€10.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143135135Author Corey BrettschneiderFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Penguin ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 193gDimensions(mm)... -
Who Governs?: Democracy and Power in an American City by Robert A. Dahl 9780300103922
RRP: €26.18€25.25In this now-classic work, one of the most celebrated political scientists of the twentieth century offers a powerful interpretation of the location of political power in American urban communities. For this new edition, Robert A. Dahl has written a new... -
Institutional Theory in Political Science, Fourth Edition: The New Institutionalism B. Guy Peters 9781786437945
RRP: €40.40€36.40How are institutions formed and how do they change? How do institutions interact to produce action? And how formal do institutions need to be to become effective actors of governance? This textbook provides a thorough examination of institutions from a... -
Tiger Technology: The Creation of a Semiconductor Industry in East Asia by John A. Mathews
RRP: €35.69€33.08This book grows out of a five-year collaborative research project undertaken by the authors in East Asia. They have worked with firms and institutions in Korea, Taiwan, Singapore and Malaysia, to inquire into the micro-processes of firm-level... -
Reckless Minds: A Brief Intellectual History of the Trump Era by Carlos Lozada
RRP: €23.80€18.91The Washington Post's Pulitzer Prize-winning book critic uses the books of the Trump era to argue that our response to this presidency reflects the same failures of imagination that made it possible. As a book critic for The Washington Post, Carlos... -
Political Candidate Selection: Who Wins, Who Loses, and Under-Representation in the UK Jeanette Ashe (Douglas College, Canada) 9781032400938
RRP: €47.59€42.04The "secret garden of politics", where some win and others lose their candidate selection bids, and why some aspirant candidates are successful while others fail have been enduring puzzles within political science. This book solves this puzzle by... -
The New Environmental Economics: Sustainability and Justice Eloi Laurent 9781509533817
RRP: €21.41€19.09Too often, economics disassociates humans from nature, the economy from the biosphere that contains it, and sustainability from fairness. When economists do engage with environmental issues, they typically reduce their analysis to a science of efficiency... -
Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich by Peter Schweizer
RRP: €20.22€12.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062369291Author Peter SchweizerFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 201mm... -
Reasoning for Intelligence Analysts: A Multidimensional Approach of Traits, Techniques, and Targets by Noel Hendrickson 9781442272316
RRP: €63.07€55.16The goal of Reasoning for Intelligence Analysts is to address the three distinct dimensions of an analyst's thinking: the person of the analyst (their traits), the processes they use (their techniques), and the problems they face (their targets). Based... -
RADICAL NATION: The Dangerous Scheme to Change America by Sean Spicer
RRP: €23.79€13.89RADICAL - PROGRESSIVE - SOCIALIST The Biden-Harris progressive agenda presents a radical change to the American economy, values, national security, and freedom. From the former Trump White House press secretary and New York Times bestselling author... -
The New Global Rulers: The Privatization of Regulation in the World Economy by Tim Buthe 9780691157979
RRP: €33.32€25.94Over the past two decades, governments have delegated extensive regulatory authority to international private-sector organizations. This internationalization and privatization of rule making has been motivated not only by the economic benefits of common... -
The Deep State: How an Army of Bureaucrats Protected Barack Obama and Is Working to Destroy the Trump Agenda by Jason Chaffetz
RRP: €34.50€25.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062851567Author Jason ChaffetzFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Broadside BooksPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
Mobutu's Totalitarian Political System: An Afrocentric Analysis Jean-Louis Peta Ikambana (Washington DC, USA) 9780415650212
RRP: €52.35€45.74Mobutu's political system, inaugurated in 1965 and lasting more than three decades, met all the characteristics of totalitarianism. This study shows that the failures and misdeeds of Mobutu's system were clear evidence that it lacked an African-centred... -
Socialism . . . Seriously: A Brief Guide to Surviving the 21st Century (Revised & Updated Edition) by Danny Katch
RRP: €17.84€12.07A sharp, funny, and engaging introduction to socialist ideas, movements, and solutions for a world in crisis.Now with 50% more socialism!Socialism...Seriously is a warm and witty introduction to the radical traditions of protest and politics that stretch... -
Identity: Community, Culture, Difference by Jonathan Rutherford 9780853158714
RRP: €21.42€21.05This collection of essays addresses the issues and concerns raised by the emphasis on society not as a series of homogeneous interlocking blocks, but as a plethora of different, sometimes overlapping and often conflicting communities. Reflecting, for... -
Truth and Post-Truth in Public Policy by Frank Fischer
RRP: €20.23€17.52The phenomenon of post-truth poses a problem for the public policy-oriented sciences, including policy analysis. Along with "fake news," the post-truth denial of facts constitutes a major concern for numerous policy fields. Whereas a standard response is... -
White Market Drugs: Big Pharma and the Hidden History of Addiction in America by David Herzberg
RRP: €28.56€23.94The contemporary opioid crisis is widely seen as new and unprecedented. Not so. It is merely the latest in a long series of drug crises stretching back over a century. In White Market Drugs, David Herzberg explores these crises and the drugs that fueled... -
The Republican Evolution: From Governing Party to Antigovernment Party, 1860-2020 Kenneth Janda 9780231207898
RRP: €29.75€26.69The Republican Party was founded in 1854 to oppose slavery and its spread to new territories and states. Today, under the sway of Donald Trump, it is hardly recognizable as the party of Lincoln or even the party of Eisenhower. How and why has the... -
Realism in Political Theory by Rahul Sagar 9780367530587
RRP: €47.59€42.20Over the past decade, an intellectual movement known as "realism" has challenged the reigning orthodoxy in political theory and political philosophy. Realists take issue with what they see as the excessive moralism and utopianism associated with... -
Black Women Taught Us: An Intimate History of Black Feminism by Jenn M. Jackson 9780593243336
RRP: €29.75€19.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593243336Author Jenn M. JacksonFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Making and Unmaking Nations: War, Leadership, and Genocide in Modern Africa by Scott Straus 9780801479687
RRP: €33.31€29.20Winner of the Grawmeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order, 2018 Winner of the Joseph Lepgold Prize Winner of the Best Books in Conflict Studies (APSA) Winner of the Best Book in Human Rights (ISA) In Making and Unmaking Nations, Scott Straus... -
The Politics of Space Security: Strategic Restraint and the Pursuit of National Interests, Third Edition by James Clay Moltz
RRP: €35.69€31.29For the past sixty years, countries have conducted military and civilian activities in space, often for competitive purposes. But they have not yet fought in this environment. This book examines the international politics of the space age from 1957 to...