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Politics Is for Power: How to Move Beyond Political Hobbyism, Take Action, and Make Real Change by Eitan Hersh
RRP: $37.78$20.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982116798Author Eitan HerschFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm)... -
Israel's Moment: International Support for and Opposition to Establishing the Jewish State, 1945-1949 by Jeffrey Herf
RRP: $83.98$64.53Israel's Moment is a major new account of how a Jewish state came to be forged in the shadow of World War Two and the Holocaust and the onset of the Cold War. Drawing on new research in government, public and private archives, Jeffrey Herf exposes the... -
Countering Cyber Sabotage: Introducing Consequence-Driven, Cyber-Informed Engineering (CCE) by Andrew A. Bochman 9780367673710
RRP: $67.18$59.49Countering Cyber Sabotage: Introducing Consequence-Driven, Cyber-Informed Engineering (CCE) introduces a new methodology to help critical infrastructure owners, operators and their security practitioners make demonstrable improvements in securing their... -
Reconciling Ireland: 50 Years of British-Irish Agreements by Richard Humphreys
RRP: $62.98$60.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788551571Author Richard HumphreysFormat HardbackPage Count 475Imprint Irish Academic Press LtdPublisher Irish Academic Press Ltd -
The Age of Responsibility: Luck, Choice, and the Welfare State by Yascha Mounk 9780674237674
RRP: $39.80$32.28A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceResponsibility-which once meant the moral duty to help and support others-has come to be equated with an obligation to be self-sufficient. This has guided recent reforms of the welfare state, making key... -
Climate Change: The Science of Global Warming and Our Energy Future by Jason Smerdon 9780231172837
RRP: $94.50$77.53This second edition of Climate Change is an accessible and comprehensive guide to the science behind global warming. Exquisitely illustrated, the text is geared toward students at a variety of levels. Edmond A. Mathez and Jason E. Smerdon provide a... -
A Nation-State by Construction: Dynamics of Modern Chinese Nationalism by Suisheng Zhao
RRP: $58.78$50.69This 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... -
Decolonial Voices, Language and Race by Sinfree Makoni 9781800413474
RRP: $31.40$28.56In the wake of #MeToo, Black Lives Matter, #rhodesmustfall and the Covid-19 pandemic, this groundbreaking book echoes the growing demand for decolonization of the production and dissemination of academic knowledge. Reflecting the dynamic and... -
Eritrea: Nationhood And Sovereignty by Bereket Habte Selassie
RRP: $62.90$40.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781569028100Author Bereket Habte SelassieFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint Red Sea Press,U.S.Publisher Red Sea Press,U.S. -
Return to the Shadows: The Muslim Brotherhood and an-Nahda Since the Arab Spring by Alison Pargeter 9780863561443
RRP: $35.68$24.23The Arab Spring heralded a profound shift in the Middle East, bringing to power Islamist movements which had previously been operating in the shadows. The Muslim Brotherhood stormed to victory in Egypt and emerged as a key player in Libya's nascent... -
International Law and International Relations by David Armstrong
RRP: $65.08$58.63In this fully updated and revised edition, the authors explore the evolution, nature and function of international law in world politics and situate international law in its historical and political context. They propose three interdisciplinary 'lenses'... -
Operation George: A Gripping True Crime Story of an Audacious Undercover Sting by Mark Dickens 9781739813628
RRP: $52.48$35.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739813628Author Mark DickensFormat HardbackPage Count 318Imprint Hendry PublishingPublisher Hendry Publishing -
The Problem of Religious Diversity: European Challenges, Asian Approaches by Anna Triandafyllidou
RRP: $60.88$56.51This book questions whether the best way to deal with religious diversity is to equalise upwards or downwards, what the obstacles to a more egalitarian religious pluralism are, and what we can learn from policies and practices in the Middle East and Asia... -
Brown v. Board of Education: A Civil Rights Milestone and Its Troubled Legacy by James T. Patterson 9780195156324
RRP: $34.63$26.02Many people were elated when Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren delivered Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka in May 1954, the ruling that struck down state-sponsored racial segregation in America's public schools. Thurgood Marshall, chief... -
The Cosmopolitanism Reader Garrett W. Brown (Lecturer in the Department of Politics; University of Sheffield) 9780745648729
RRP: $83.98$74.47The world is becoming deeply interconnected, whereby actions in one part of the world can have profound repercussions elsewhere. In a world of overlapping communities of fate, there has been a renewed enthusiasm for thinking about what it is that human... -
United Nation: The case for integrating Ireland by Frank Connolly 9780717190560
RRP: $33.58$29.88One hundred years after the Anglo-Irish Treaty and partition, after 30 years of Troubles, the Good Friday Agreement and Brexit, the debate on Irish unity has intensified. But what could a united Ireland look like, and what would it mean for those both... -
The Compassionate Imagination: How the Arts Are Central to a Functioning Democracy by Max Wyman 9781770866997
RRP: $27.28$17.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781770866997Author Max WymanFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Cormorant Books,CanadaPublisher Cormorant Books,CanadaWeight(grams) 259gDimensions(mm)... -
On Microfascism: Gender, Death, and War by Jack Z. Bratich
RRP: $31.48$20.75Rooted in an understanding of how the fascist body is constructed, we can develop the collective power to dismember it. Fascist and reactionary populist forces have undeniably swelled in the US in recent years. To effectively counter fascist... -
Minerva's Owl: The Tradition of Western Political Thought by Jeffrey Abramson
RRP: $56.60$44.96Informal in tone yet serious in content, this book serves as a lively and accessible guide for readers discovering the tradition of political thought that dates back to Socrates and Plato. Because the arguments of the great philosophers are nearly... -
The Uneven Path of British Liberalism: From Jo Grimond to Brexit, Tudor Jones 9781526143006
RRP: $63.00$59.87This book charts the development of political thought within the British Liberal Party and its successor, the Liberal Democrats. Beginning with Jo Grimond's rise to the leadership in 1956, it follows the Liberal resurgence in the second half of the... -
Among Wolves: Ethnography and the Immersive Study of Power by Timothy Pachirat
RRP: $79.78$70.10Summoned by an anonymous Prosecutor, ten contemporary ethnographers gather in an aging barn to hold a trial of Alice Goffman's controversial ethnography, On the Run. But before the trial can get underway, a one-eyed wolfdog arrives with a mysterious... -
Deceiving the Sky: Inside Communist China's Drive for Global Supremacy by Bill Gertz 9781641770545
RRP: $39.88$27.15The 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 Limits of Expertise: Rethinking Pilot Error and the Causes of Airline Accidents R. Key Dismukes 9780754649656
RRP: $100.78$88.64Why would highly skilled, well-trained pilots make errors that lead to accidents when they had safely completed many thousands of previous flights? The majority of all aviation accidents are attributed primarily to human error, but this is often... -
The 'New Turkey' and its Discontents by Simon Waldman
RRP: $39.88$36.50The Turkey of today little resembles that of recent decades. Its economy has expanded hugely, new political elites have emerged, and the once powerful Kemalist military is no longer a potent and dominant political player. Meanwhile, new prosperity has... -
The Routledge International Handbook of Criminology and Human Rights by Leanne Weber 9780367581503
RRP: $92.38$82.82The Routledge International Handbook of Criminology and Human Rights brings together a diverse body of work from around the globe and across a wide range of criminological topics and perspectives, united by its critical application of human rights law... -
CRITIQUE OF MODERN BARBARISM: Essays on fascism, anti-Semitism and the use of history by Enzo Traverso 9780902869820
RRP: $35.70$33.87Apologies 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 -
By God and Granite by Kristi Noem
RRP: $63.00$46.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538707050Author Kristi NoemFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint TwelvePublisher TwelveWeight(grams) 485gDimensions(mm) 232mm * 160mm * 27mm -
Ecology And Socialism: Capitalism and the Environment by Chris Williams
RRP: $31.48$19.57As 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... -
The Torture Machine: Racism and Police Violence in Chicago by Flint Taylor
RRP: $35.68$25.35With his colleagues at the People's Law Office (PLO), Taylor has argued landmark civil rights cases that have exposed corruption and cover-ups within the Chicago Police Department (CPD) and throughout the city's corrupt political machine. The Torture... -
The Beautiful Warriors: Technofeminist Praxis in the Twenty-First Century by Cornelia Sollfrank 9781570273650
RRP: $37.80$25.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570273650Author Cornelia SollfrankFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Minor CompositionsPublisher Autonomedia -
The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America by Naomi Murakawa 9780199892808
RRP: $76.63$57.54The 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... -
Terrorism Studies: A Reader by Angie Williams 9780415455053
RRP: $113.38$99.27This new Reader aims to guide students through some of the key readings on the subject of terrorism and political violence.In an age when there is more written about terrorism than anyone can possibly read in a lifetime, it has become increasingly... -
New Philanthropy and Social Justice: Debating the Conceptual and Policy Discourse Behrooz Morvaridi 9781447316985
RRP: $58.78$45.30There is a broad consensus that traditional philanthropy has the potential to be transformative and address inequalities and injustices, as well as provide relief to the poor. Over the last two decades individual capitalists and private corporations have... -
Machine-Guns and the Great War by Cornish, Paul 9781399014519
RRP: $31.48$23.00The machine-gun is one of the iconic weapons of the Great War indeed of the twentieth century. Yet it is also one of the most misunderstood. During a four-year war that generated unprecedented casualties, the machine-gun stood out as a key weapon. In the... -
The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: An Investigation into the Scapegoating of Canada's Grey Seal by Linda Pannozzo
RRP: $41.90$34.42In 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... -
Confronting apartheid: A personal history of South Africa, Namibia and Palestine by John Dugard
RRP: $47.25$38.56Most 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... -
Media Analysis and Public Health: Contemporary Issues in Critical Public Health by Lesley Henderson
RRP: $81.88$71.86This volume showcases new approaches to studying public health in traditional and emerging media, suggesting that we need more analyses that focus on the production of media and on power dynamics, as well as studies of audience reception of media... -
The World Imagined: Collective Beliefs and Political Order in the Sinocentric, Islamic and Southeast Asian International Societies by Hendrik Spruyt
RRP: $56.68$47.88Taking an inter-disciplinary approach, Spruyt explains the political organization of three non-European international societies from early modernity to the late nineteenth century. The Ottoman, Safavid and Mughal empires; the Sinocentric tributary... -
Routledge Handbook of Public Diplomacy by Nancy Snow
RRP: $132.28$114.37The second edition of the Routledge Handbook of Public Diplomacy, co-edited by two leading scholars in the international relations subfield of public diplomacy, includes 16 more chapters from the first. Ten years later, a new global landscape of public... -
The Asian Aspiration: Why and How Africa Should Emulate Asia--and What It Should Avoid by Greg Mills
RRP: $63.00$56.60In 1960, the GDP per capita of Southeast Asian countries was nearly half of that of Africa. By 1986 the gap had closed and today the trend is reversed, with more than half of the world's poorest now living in sub Saharan Africa. Why has Asia...