Political Science

Tbilisi City Guide for Design Lovers is a curated selection of Travel Colours' favourite places to 'sleep, eat, drink, shop and explore'. Enchanting courtyards, Moorish facades, churches and temples. Gothic motifs merged with Art Nouveau, stylised...

The only introduction to critical security studies to take a question-centred approach, with a unique emphasis on equipping students with the knowledge and skills to think, analyse, and debate using critical perspectives. Security Studies: Critical...

With hardly a day without a water-crisis story somewhere, Let There Be Water offers prescriptions on how countries, cities, and businesses can avoid the worst of it. With sixty percent of the country in a desert and despite a rapidly growing population,...

This book collects essays by Professor Pocock concerned principally with the history of British political thought in the eighteenth century. Several of the essays have been previously published (though they have not all been widely available), and...

It is communion Sunday at a mixed-race church. A black pastor and white head elder stand before the sanctuary as lay leaders pass out the host. An African-American woman sings a gospel song as a woman of Asian descent plays the piano. Then a black woman...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935408741Author Ivan AscherFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone Books

What if your own government deliberately creates terrorists? What if their short-term aims - deposing regimes that no longer serve Western interests, justifying invasions of sovereign nations, and expanding the security state at home - have long-term...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629638379Author Ruckus RalfFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press

"Engaging and inspiring . . . Reading this book should make you want to vote." Barack Obama In a world of sound bites, deliberate misinformation, and a political scene colored by the blue versus red partisan divide, how does the average educated...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781734648911Author Mumia Abu-JamalFormat PaperbackPage Count 423Imprint Prison RadioPublisher Prison RadioWeight(grams) 816gDimensions(mm) 251mm * 178mm *...

International Relations (IR) theorists speak with conviction, and often passion, to the global condition of human society. The result is an important, dynamic and often deeply divided field. This long-awaited new edition of International Relations Theory...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789657023310Author Josh ReinsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 265Imprint Gefen Publishing HousePublisher Gefen Publishing HouseWeight(grams) 422g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780851249056Author Jehan HelouFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint Spokesman BooksPublisher Spokesman Books

30 years after she first asked the question, "Why do women fall in love with convicted murderers?," Sheila Isenberg answers it anew in the age of the internet, smart phones, social media, mass shootings, celebrity worship of murderers, and...

Future developments in war, armed conflict and international relations are central to our collective fate in this century. This book looks forward by considering the forces that will drive changes in military organizations, sources of conflict, the power...

We Know All About You shows how bulk spying came of age in the nineteenth century, and supplies the first overarching narrative and interpretation of what has happened since, covering the agencies, programs, personalities, technology, leaks, criticisms...

This book is a major reassessment of how immigration is changing our world. The policies of multiculturalism that were implemented in the wake of post-war immigration have, especially since 9/11, come under intense scrutiny, and the continuing flow of...

Social justice and social policy in Scotland offers a critical engagement with the state of social policy in one of the devolved nations of the UK, a decade after the introduction of devolution. Promoting greater social justice has been held up as a key...

In The Wisdom of Our Ancestors, the authors mount a powerful defense of Western civilization, sketching a fresh vision of conservatism in the present age. In this book, Graham McAleer and Alexander Rosenthal-Pubul offer a renewed vision of conservatism...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789527303597Author Milo YiannopoulosFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Castalia HousePublisher Castalia HouseWeight(grams) 259gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

In February 2003, Patrick Cockburn secretly crossed the Tigris river from Syria into Iraq just before the US/British invasion, and has covered the war ever since. In The Occupation, he provides a vivid and disturbing picture of a country in turmoil, and...

"Harrowing and thought provoking, Dawton and McFarlane's images shine a light on the huge body of individuals living as refugees, who no longer occupy the front pages of newspapers, but are still without a home." - CookieBiscuit.co.uk In Edge of Hope,...

Was the extermination of the Jews part of the Nazi plan from the very start? Arno Mayer offers astartling and compelling answer to this question, which is much debated among historians today.In doing so, he provides one of the most thorough and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789633863954Author Jo HarperFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Central European University PressPublisher Central European University PressWeight(grams)...

Belgium was a small, neutral country without a colonial tradition when King Leopold II ceded the Congo, his personal property, to the state in 1908. For the next half century, Belgium not only ruled an African empire but also, through widespread,...

It is a little-known fact that during the Cold War, two U.S. Army Special Forces detachments were stationed far behind the Iron Curtain in West Berlin. The existence and missions of the two detachments were highly classified secrets.The massive armies of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815727644Author Martha CrenshawFormat PaperbackPage Count 286Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 413gDimensions(mm)...

Following an introductory chapter exploring why political argument deals in probability and plausibility across interdependent areas of social activity not certainty in individual areas, this book offers a case for independence under six main headings -...

Performance Metrics for Sustainable Cities provides an overview of measurement systems and tools to enable communities to self-assess and benchmark their progress along a continuum of smart, intelligent, and sustainable development. It begins by...

Fact-finding is at the heart of human rights advocacy, and is often at the center of international controversies about alleged government abuses. In recent years, human rights fact-finding has greatly proliferated and become more sophisticated and...

In Mortal Republic, prize-winning historian Edward J. Watts offers a new history of the fall of the Roman Republic that explains why Rome exchanged freedom for autocracy. For centuries, even as Rome grew into the Mediterranean's premier military and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781587313233Author Zbigniew JanowskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint St. Augustine's PressPublisher St. Augustine's PressWeight(grams) 152g

Before the end of the present century the population of China - currently around 1.4 billion - is forecast to drop to around half that level as a major and unprecedented demographic crisis begins to bite. Its working-age population has already stopped...

The exploding global consumption of meat is implicated in momentous but greatly underappreciated problems, and industrial livestock production is the driving force behind soaring demand. Following his previous ground-breaking book The Global Food...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593087251Author Caleb ScharfFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Riverhead Books,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc

The Roman occupation of Britain lasted over 350 years. Seventeen years after the Romans arrived in force in AD43, Queen Boudica led an uprising which resulted in the destruction of Colchester, London and St Albans. The rebellion was short lived and...

A devastating challenge to the idea of communism as a 'great leveller', this extraordinarily original, rigorous, and ambitious book debunks Marxism-inspired accounts of its equalitarian consequences. It is the first study systematically to link the...

The Self, and Other Stories is an autoethnographic reflection on the value in the act of writing, illuminating the life of the researcher-in particular the researcher as human. Shepherd explores the multitudes of the academic, feminist self through...

During the past forty years, thousands of studies have been carried out on the subject of happiness. Some have explored the levels of happiness or dissatisfaction associated with typical daily activities, such as working, seeing friends, or doing...

Billions of dollars stolen from citizens are circling the globe, enriching powerful individuals, altering political outcomes, and disadvantaging everyday people. News headlines provide glimpses of how this corruption works and why it matters: President...