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Inevitable Revolutions: The United States in Central America by Walter LaFeber 9780393309645
RRP: €28.56€25.80This book explains the history of US/Central American relations, explaining why these countries have remained so overpopulated, illiterate and violent; and why US government notions of economic and military security combine to keep in place a system of... -
Why Does Everything Have to Be About Race?: 25 Arguments That Won't Go Away by Keith Boykin 9781541703315
RRP: €29.75€19.49The most toxic racial arguments share one of five traits. They try to erase Black history, prioritize white victimhood, deny Black oppression, promote myths of Black inferiority, or rebrand racism as something else entirely. They're all designed to... -
Field Requiem by Sheri Benning 9781800171510
RRP: €14.27€10.14Shortlisted for the Saskatchewan Book Award (Poetry Book) 2023. Shortlisted for the Saskatchewan Book Award (City of Saskatoon) 2023. Shortlisted for the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry 2022. Shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award 2022. ... -
The Watchman Fell Asleep: The Surprise of Yom Kippur and Its Sources by Uri Bar-Joseph
€36.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791464823Author Uri Bar-JosephFormat PaperbackPage Count 326Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
Origins and Evolution of the European Union by Desmond Dinan
€54.98This well-respected text provides a lively, comprehensive, and authoritative account of the emergence and evolution of the European Union from the aftermath of the Second World War to the uncertainties of the present era. It explains the forces, events,... -
New Global Insecurity, The: How Terrorism, Environmental Collapse, Economic Inequalities, and Resource Shortages Are Changing Our World by Fathali M. Moghaddam 9780313365072
RRP: €64.26€63.99A noted conflict expert shows how accelerating globalization is causing dangerous global insecurity that must be met by new security models and policies. The New Global Insecurity: How Terrorism, Environmental Collapse, Economic Inequalities, and... -
The Lenin Scenario by Tariq Ali 9781804292914
RRP: €15.46€13.80Commissioned by Oliver Stone in 2015 to commemorate the Russian Revolution, Tariq Ali's captivating screenplay of the life and times of Vladimir Lenin puts flesh on the bones of the historical record and gets its pulse racing. From the author of The... -
The Age of Precarity: Endless Crisis as an Art of Government by Dario Gentili
€15.73Crisis dominates the present historical moment. The economy is in crisis, politics in both its past and present forms is in crisis and our own individual lives are in crisis, made vulnerable by the fluctuations of the labor market and by the undoing of... -
Cold Rivals: The New Era of US-China Strategic Competition by Evan S. Medeiros
RRP: €35.11€31.55Leading authorities analyze growing tensions in US-China relations and what this means for the future The US-China relationship is now defined by “strategic competition.” In Cold Rivals, a distinguished group of scholars from the United States and China... -
Survival February - March 2022: The Reckoning: Russia, Ukraine and NATO by The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)
RRP: €23.79€17.98Survival, the IISS's bimonthly journal, challenges conventional wisdom and brings fresh, often controversial, perspectives on strategic issues of the moment.In this issue:* The Ukraine crisis: Robert Hunter argues that the most important requirement of... -
Language & Politics by Noam Chomsky 9781902593821
RRP: €22.61€16.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781902593821Author Noam ChomskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 800Imprint AK PressPublisher AK PressWeight(grams) 1000g -
The Rise of Little Big Norway by John F. L. Ross 9781785271939
RRP: €27.36€26.12"The Rise of Little Big Norway" explores the unlikely rise of Norway from peripherality to today's global steward with an enviable work-life balance, influential oil fund and Arctic front-row seat. Drawing on wide-ranging source material, John Ross's... -
Pride and Power: A Modern History of Iraq by Johan Franzén
RRP: €89.25€78.39The story of Iraq is one of resistance. In this groundbreaking study, Johan Franzen offers a contextual modern history of the country, its creation and its struggle for sovereignty. Iraq's contemporary history is a tale of a diverse people thrown... -
Algeria: Politics and Society from the Dark Decade to the Hirak by Michael J. Willis
RRP: €53.55€47.02When mass protests erupted in Algeria in 2019, on a scale unseen anywhere in the region since the Arab Spring, the outside world was taken by surprise. Algeria had been largely unaffected by the turmoil that engulfed its neighbours in 2011, and it was... -
Greening the Firm: The Politics of Corporate Environmentalism by Aseem Prakash 9780521664875
RRP: €36.88€33.39Over the last two decades environmental issues have become important in public and business policy. This book asks why firms sometimes voluntarily adopt environmental policies which go beyond legal requirements. It employs a new-institutionalist... -
Profiles in Corruption: Abuse of Power by America's Progressive Elite by Peter Schweizer 9780062897909
RRP: €29.75€20.36NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!Washington insiders operate by a proven credo: When a Peter Schweizer book drops, duck and brace for impact.For over a decade, the work of six-time New York Times bestselling investigative reporter Peter Schweizer has sent... -
Bad Days in Basra: My Turbulent Time as Britain's Man in Southern Iraq by Hilary Synnott
€52.57The phonecall came from out of the blue, just when Sir Hilary Synnott was looking forward to retirement after helping steer India and Pakistan back from the verge of nuclear war. "It's about Iraq. We need a King of the South..."Bad Days in... -
Democracy for Busy People by Kevin J. Elliott 9780226826325
RRP: €33.32€32.59Advances 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... -
Sudan, South Sudan, and Darfur: What Everyone Needs to Know (R) by Andrew S. Natsios 9780199764198
RRP: €13.08€10.06For thirty years Sudan has been a country in crisis, wracked by near-constant warfare between the north and the south. But on July 9, 2011, South Sudan became an independent nation. As Sudan once again finds itself the focus of international attention,... -
The Problem with Everything: My Journey Through the New Culture Wars by Meghan Daum 9781982129330
RRP: €32.13€19.93A NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2019 SELECTION "...[A]ffectingly personal, achingly earnest, and something close to necessary." -Vogue "Personal, convincing, unflinching." -Tablet From an author who's been called "one of the most emotionally... -
A Photographic Field Guide to the Amphibians of Sri Lanka by Anselm de Silva 9781913679118
RRP: €35.69€25.39A Photographic Field Guide to the Amphibians of Sri Lanka is a complete guide to the 120 species of frog, toad and caecilian found in Sri Lanka. Extinct species are also listed for completeness. With photographs from the authors, each species is... -
Punjab - From the Perspective of a Punjabi Hindu by Vinayak Dutt 9781636409061
RRP: €23.80€21.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781636409061Author Vinayak DuttFormat PaperbackPage Count 430Imprint White Falcon PublishingPublisher White Falcon PublishingWeight(grams)... -
Climate Change and Society John Urry (University of Lancaster) 9780745650371
RRP: €20.22€18.40This book explores the significance of human behaviour to understanding the causes and impacts of changing climates and to assessing varied ways of responding to such changes. So far the discipline that has represented and modelled such human behaviour... -
International Law and International Relations by David Armstrong
RRP: €36.88€33.22In 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'... -
Down and Out in the New Economy: How People Find (or Don't Find) Work Today by Ilana Gershon
RRP: €26.18€25.25Finding a job used to be simple. You'd show up at an office and ask for an application. A friend would mention a job in their department. Or you'd see an ad in a newspaper and send in your cover letter. Maybe you'd call the company a week later to check... -
Public Management as a Design-Oriented Professional Discipline Michael Barzelay 9781788119115
RRP: €28.50€25.64What, fundamentally, is public management? This question is rarely answered clearly and confidently, whether by students of public management or academics in the field. This book answers this question, as its readers come to know why and how public... -
Russia: What Everyone Needs to Know (R) by Timothy J. Colton 9780199917792
RRP: €13.08€10.06Today's Russia, also known as the Russian Federation, is often viewed as less powerful than the Soviet Union of the past. When stacked against other major nations in the present, however, the new Russia is a formidable if flawed player. Russia: What... -
Digital Citizenship in a Datafied Society Arne Hintz 9781509527168
RRP: €20.22€18.11Digitization has transformed the way we interact with our social, political and economic environments. While it has enhanced the potential for citizen agency, it has also enabled the collection and analysis of unprecedented amounts of personal data. This... -
Syria after the Uprisings: The Political Economy of State Resilience Joseph Daher 9780745339382
RRP: €33.31€26.07Syria has been at the centre of world news since 2011, following the beginnings of a popular uprising in the country and its subsequent violent repression. Eight years on, Joseph Daher analyses the resilience of the regime and the failings of the... -
Roman Law in the State of Nature: The Classical Foundations of Hugo Grotius' Natural Law by Benjamin Straumann
RRP: €29.74€23.79Roman 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... -
Why Did They Kill?: Cambodia in the Shadow of Genocide by Alexander Laban Hinton 9780520241794
RRP: €35.70€27.72Of all the horrors human beings perpetrate, genocide stands near the top of the list. Its toll is staggering: well over 100 million dead worldwide. Why Did They Kill? is one of the first anthropological attempts to analyze the origins of genocide. In it,... -
If You Want Something Done: Leadership Lessons from Bold Women Nikki R. Haley 9781250284976
RRP: €14.27€9.35In the spirit of Thatcher's quote, Ambassador Nikki R. Haley offers inspiring examples of women who worked against obstacles and opposition to get things done - including Haley herself. As a brown girl growing up in Bamberg, South Carolina, no one would... -
International Relations Theory: The Game-Theoretic Approach by Andrew H. Kydd
RRP: €42.83€36.09Written for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, this is the first textbook on international relations theory to take a specifically game-theoretic approach to the subject, and provide the material needed for students to understand the subject... -
Citizens of Nowhere: How Europe Can Be Saved from Itself by Lorenzo Marsili
RRP: €15.46€14.02Europe might appear like a continent pulling itself apart. Ten years of economic and political crises have pitted North versus South, East versus West, citizens versus institutions. And yet, these years have also shown a hidden vitality of Europeans... -
Culture of Terrorism Noam Chomsky (Massachusetts Institute Of Technology) 9780745335438
RRP: €23.79€16.12Chomsky ends his preface to Culture of Terrorism with the words, 'As the latest inheritors of a grim tradition, we should at least have the integrity to look in the mirror without evasion'. The tradition to which he is referring is none other than the... -
The Little Book of United States Presidents: In Their Own Words by Orange Hippo!
RRP: €7.13€5.36Inspirational leadership quotes from every President of the United States of America. The Little Book of United States Presidents is a fascinating collection of over 170 quotes from each person who has held the office, from George Washington to Donald... -
Do Not Comply: Taking Power Back from America’s Corrupt Elite by William Witt 9781546005582
RRP: €29.75€19.49The America you grew up in is no longer here. Our country is in sharp decline. Yet we often fail to truly call out the culprits responsible for it. Who are the corrupters of our great country? They are politicians (both Democrat and Republican), they are... -
If Mayors Ruled the World: Dysfunctional Nations, Rising Cities by Benjamin R. Barber
RRP: €17.84€15.98Can cities solve the biggest problems of the twenty-first century better than nations? Is the city democracy's best hope? In the face of the most perilous challenges of our time-climate change, terrorism, poverty, and trafficking of drugs, guns, and... -
The Case for Kosova: Passage to Independence by Anna di Lellio 9781843312451
RRP: €17.84€17.47This book makes the case for the independence of Kosova - the former province of 'old-Yugoslavia' and now temporarily a United Nations-led International protectorate - at a time in which international diplomacy is deeply involved in solving the contested... -
The Permanent Coup: How Enemies Foreign and Domestic Targeted the American President by Lee Smith
RRP: €26.18€19.49The impeachment of Donald Trump-and the unsuccessful attempt to remove him from office-is a continuation of the four-year-long plot against the president. Beginning in late 2015, political operatives, intelligence officials, and the press pushed a...