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The Elusive Dream: The Power of Race in Interracial Churches by Korie Little Edwards 9780197604403
RRP: $45.13$38.54It 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... -
Portfolio Society: On the Capitalist Mode of Prediction by Ivan Ascher
RRP: $52.50$38.75Apologies 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 -
Manufacturing Terrorism: When Governments Use Fear to Justify Foreign Wars and Control Society by T. J. Coles 9781905570973
RRP: $31.48$26.36What 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... -
The Communist Road To Capitalism: How Social Unrest and Containment Have Pushed Chinas (R)evolution since 1949 by Ruckus Ralf
RRP: $44.08$29.32Apologies 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 -
What You Should Know About Politics . . . But Don't: A Nonpartisan Guide to the Issues That Matter by Jessamyn Conrad
RRP: $35.68$25.60"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... -
Murder Incorporated - Perfecting Tyranny: Book Three by Mumia Abu-Jamal
RRP: $42.00$31.56Apologies 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 Theory Today Ken Booth 9780745671215
RRP: $69.28$62.08International 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... -
Titus, Trump and the Triumph of Israel: The Power of Faith Based Diplomacy by Josh Reinstein 9789657023310
RRP: $41.98$27.01Apologies 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 -
Making Palestine's History: Women's Testimonies by Jehan Helou
RRP: $33.58$31.98Apologies 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 -
Women Who Love Men Who Kill: 35 True Stories of Prison Passion (Updated Edition) by Sheila Isenberg
RRP: $33.58$23.5830 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... -
War and Power in the Twenty-First Century: The State, Military Power and the International System Paul Hirst (Birkbeck College, University of London) 9780745625218
RRP: $33.58$30.26Future 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: The Story of Surveillance in Britain and America by Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones 9780198749660
RRP: $47.23$34.34We 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... -
Immigrant Nations Paul Scheffer (University of Amsterdam) 9780745649627
RRP: $41.98$37.99This 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 Gerry Mooney (The Open University (Scotland)) 9781847427021
RRP: $79.78$62.18Social 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... -
The Wisdom of Our Ancestors: Conservative Humanism and the Western Tradition by Graham James McAleer 9780268207427
RRP: $94.50$82.28In 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... -
The Trial of Roger Stone by Milo Yiannopoulos
RRP: $37.78$23.98Apologies 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 *... -
The Occupation: War and Resistance in Iraq by Patrick Cockburn 9781844671649
$41.69In 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... -
Edge of Hope: The Rohingya Refugee Camp at Cox's Bazar by Anthony Dawton 9781843682509
RRP: $62.98$41.58"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,... -
Why Did the Heavens Not Darken?: The "Final Solution" in History by Arno J. Mayer
$80.39Was 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... -
Our Man in Warszawa: How the West Misread Poland by Jo Harper 9789633863954
RRP: $44.00$40.64Apologies 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)... -
Selling the Congo: A History of European Pro-Empire Propaganda and the Making of Belgian Imperialism by Matthew G. Stanard
RRP: $50.38$44.60Belgium 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,... -
Special Forces Berlin: Clandestine Cold War Operations of the Us Army's Elite, 1956-1990 by James Stejskal 9781612008431
RRP: $35.68$31.71It 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... -
Countering Terrorism: No Simple Solutions by Martha Crenshaw
RRP: $63.00$56.03Apologies 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)... -
Arguing for Independence: Evidence, Risk and the Wicked Issues by Stephen Maxwell 9781908373335
RRP: $20.98$15.27Following 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 by Sylvie Albert 9780367561338
RRP: $83.98$73.63Performance 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... -
The Transformation of Human Rights Fact-Finding by Philip Alston
RRP: $172.20$149.02Fact-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... -
Mortal Republic: How Rome Fell into Tyranny by Edward J. Watts
RRP: $31.48$21.42In 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... -
Homo Americanus by Zbigniew Janowski 9781587313233
RRP: $42.00$35.66Apologies 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 -
Ageing Giant: China's Looming Population Collapse by Timothy Beardson 9781909930988
RRP: $39.88$35.66Before 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 Ecological Hoofprint: The Global Burden of Industrial Livestock by Anthony Weis
RRP: $39.88$37.61The 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... -
The Ascent Of Information by Caleb Scharf 9780593087251
RRP: $33.58$22.95Apologies 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 Riddle of Boudica by Andrew Summers 9780993108334
RRP: $18.88$13.55The 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... -
The Estate Origins of Democracy in Russia: From Imperial Bourgeoisie to Post-Communist Middle-Class by Tomila V. Lankina
RRP: $73.48$64.03A 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: Being, Knowing, Writing by Laura J. Shepherd 9781538169643
RRP: $63.00$56.03The 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... -
The Politics of Happiness: What Government Can Learn from the New Research on Well-Being by Derek Bok 9780691152561
RRP: $35.68$28.67During 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... -
Crude Intentions: How Oil Corruption Contaminates the World by Alexandra Gillies
RRP: $79.78$69.24Billions 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... -
American Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the Covid-19 Pandemic by Andrew Cuomo
RRP: $41.98$35.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593239261Author Andrew CuomoFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Inequality in Britain by Alan Ware
RRP: $88.18$77.18This book provides a thorough and engaging analysis of inequality in Britain, including its long-term development and transformation since the beginning of the 20th century.The author argues that inequality is not what it used to be - no longer can... -
The City and the King: Architecture and Politics in Restoration London by Christine Stevenson
RRP: $94.50$82.38The City of London is a jurisdiction whose relationship with the English monarchy has sometimes been turbulent. This fascinating book explores how architecture was used to renew and redefine a relationship essential to both parties in the wake of two... -
The Dictator's Army: Battlefield Effectiveness in Authoritarian Regimes by Caitlin Talmadge
RRP: $58.78$50.69In The Dictator's Army, Caitlin Talmadge presents a compelling new argument to help us understand why authoritarian militaries sometimes fight very well-and sometimes very poorly. Talmadge's framework for understanding battlefield effectiveness focuses...