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Children in Need: Local Authority Support for Children and Families by Ian Wise 9781908407412
RRP: €71.40€70.32Children are in need of support not due to any fault on their part but due to their circumstances. Local authorities have a duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and provide services to those 'in need'. Children in Need is a... -
The Most Human Right: Why Free Speech Is Everything by Eric Heinze 9780262547246
RRP: €24.99€16.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262547246Author Eric HeinzeFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
The Development of the Modern State: A Sociological Introduction by Gianfranco Poggi 9780804710428
RRP: €24.98€21.86The institutional features and the past and future role of the state should be a central concern of contemporary sociological and political theory, but until now they have been sadly neglected. Lately, in particular, the state's increasing involvement in... -
History of Urban Form Before the Industrial Revolution by A. E. J. Morris 9780582301542
RRP: €124.95€119.54Provides an international history of urban development, from its origins to the industrial revolution. This well established book maintains the high standard of information found in the previous two editions, describing the physical results of some 5000... -
Not Like a Native Speaker: On Languaging as a Postcolonial Experience by Rey Chow 9780231151450
RRP: €26.18€20.66Although the era of European colonialism has long passed, misgivings about the inequality of the encounters between European and non-European languages persist in many parts of the postcolonial world. This unfinished state of affairs, this lingering... -
Perpetuating Advantage: Mechanisms of Structural Injustice by Robert E. Goodin
RRP: €37.47€32.34Injustices are, in the first instance, brute acts of identifiable individuals. But they are typically perpetuated, more subtly, through seemingly innocent workings of innocuous social structures. Critics of structural injustice are quick to call out that... -
Territorial Sovereignty: A Philosophical Exploration by Anna Stilz 9780198833536
RRP: €46.40€42.78Territorial Sovereignty: A Philosophical Exploration offers a qualified defense of a territorial states-system. It argues that three core values-occupancy, basic justice, and collective self-determination-are served by an international system made up of... -
The Boundaries of International Law: A Feminist Analysis, with a New Introduction by Hilary Charlesworth
RRP: €41.65€29.39In the first book-length treatment of the application of feminist theories of international law, Charlesworth and Chinkin argue that the absence of women in the development of international law has produced a narrow and inadequate jurisprudence that has... -
The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire by Stephen Kinzer
RRP: €16.65€15.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250159687Author Stephen KinzerFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's Press -
Weibo Feminism: Expression, Activism, and Social Media in China by Dr Aviva Xue
RRP: €27.36€23.93On China's biggest social media platform, Weibo, feminists are staying one step ahead of the censors. Weibo Feminism is the first book to explore in-depth the connections and forms of resistance that feminist activists in China are making in online... -
Clan Cleansing in Somalia: The Ruinous Legacy of 1991 by Lidwien Kapteijns
RRP: €33.31€29.65In 1991, certain political and military leaders in Somalia, wishing to gain exclusive control over the state, mobilized their followers to use terror-wounding, raping, and killing-to expel a vast number of Somalis from the capital city of Mogadishu and... -
The People Vs. Barack Obama: The Criminal Case Against the Obama Administration by Ben Shapiro 9781476765150
RRP: €20.23€13.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476765150Author Ben ShapiroFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Threshold EditionsPublisher Threshold EditionsWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 231mm *... -
The Death of Democracy: Hitler's Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic by Benjamin Carter Hett 9781250210869
RRP: €22.60€16.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250210869Author Benjamin Carter HettFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm)... -
The Great Experiment: Why Diverse Democracies Fall Apart and How They Can Endure by Yascha Mounk
RRP: €21.42€12.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593296837Author Yascha MounkFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 202mm * 134mm *... -
We Know All About You: The Story of Surveillance in Britain and America by Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones 9780198749660
RRP: €26.76€19.46We 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... -
A Concise Field Guide to Post-Communist Regimes: Actors, Institutions, and Dynamics by Balint Magyar
RRP: €24.93€23.03While the literature of hybrid regimes has given up the presumption that post-communist countries must democratize, its language and concepts still mostly relate to Western democracies. Magyar and Madlovics strongly argue for a vocabulary and grammar... -
The Extreme Right in France: From Petain to Le Pen by James Shields
RRP: €70.20€61.26A comprehensive new historical study of the extreme right in France, from the Vichy regime to the present day. The Front National has for some years been France's third political party and the most significant extreme-right force in Europe; its leader,... -
The Venlo Sting: Mi6'S Deadly Fiasco by Norman Ridley
RRP: €35.64€24.89On 9 November 1939, two unsuspecting British agents of the Special Intelligence Services walked into a trap set by German Spymaster Reinhard Heydrich. Believing that they were meeting a dissident German general for talks about helping German military... -
The Voice to Parliament Handbook: All the Detail You Need by Thomas Mayo 9781741178869
RRP: €14.28€9.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781741178869Author Thomas MayoFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Hardie Grant ExplorePublisher Hardie Grant Explore -
A New Era for Mental Health Law and Policy: Supported Decision-Making and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities by Piers Gooding
RRP: €36.88€27.19The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) has generated new ideas and standards in healthcare and disability law and policy. In the mental health context, the CRPD directs governments to ensure people with mental impairments are... -
After the Postcolonial Caribbean: Memory, Imagination, Hope by Brian Meeks
RRP: €23.79€19.04'A book of rare beauty' - Bill Schwarz, Professor at Queen Mary University of London Across the Anglophone Caribbean, the great expectations of independence were never met. From Black Power and Jamaican Democratic Socialism to the Grenada Revolution,... -
Governing Global Land Deals: The Role of the State in the Rush for Land Wendy Wolford (Cornell University) 9781118688267
RRP: €24.69€21.80This collection of essays in Governing Global Land Deals provides new empirical and theoretical analyses of the relationships between global land grabs and processes of government and governance. Reframes debates on global land grabs by focusing on the... -
All Hell Breaking Loose: The Pentagon's Perspective on Climate Change by Michael Klare
RRP: €16.65€13.03Drawing on previously obscure reports and government documents, renowned security expert Michael Klare shows that the Pentagon now regards climate change as one of the top threats to American national security and is busy developing strategies to cope... -
Liberty, Right and Nature: Individual Rights in Later Scholastic Thought by Annabel S. Brett
RRP: €27.36€24.59Liberty, Right and Nature is a vibrant and powerful contribution to the recently renewed debate over natural rights and natural rights language. Annabel Brett argues persuasively that in order to understand the development of the concept we need to look... -
The City and the King: Architecture and Politics in Restoration London by Christine Stevenson
RRP: €53.55€46.68The 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... -
Homegrown: ISIS in America by Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens
RRP: €41.65€35.50How big is the threat posed by American ISIS supporters? How many Americans have joined ISIS and how many want to return to the United States? Compared to participation by Americans in other jihadist groups, the scale of American involvement in jihadist... -
Political Masculinity: How Incels, Fundamentalists and Authoritarians Mobilise for Patriarchy Susanne Kaiser 9781509550814
RRP: €19.03€13.01Men with assault rifles, balaclavas and Hawaiian shirts pulled over bulletproof vests. Horned warriors with painted faces and fur headdresses draped over their naked torsos. The storming of the Capitol brought together men who had previously come across... -
Africa Rising? - BRICS - Diversifying Dependency by Ian Taylor
RRP: €23.79€20.96Explores to what extent Africa's "rise" has impacted on development and whether the BRICS are creating a new version of dependency. Africa is said to be rising, turning a definitive page in its history, heralding new and exciting possibilities for the... -
The Blackwell Dictionary of Social Policy Pete Alcock (University of Birmingham) 9780631218470
RRP: €48.73€43.04Written by a carefully selected team of experts, this comprehensive dictionary introduces the major terms, issues and debates in British social policy.About the Author Pete Alcock is Professor of Social Policy and Administration at the University of... -
Syrian Requiem: The Civil War and Its Aftermath by Itamar Rabinovich
RRP: €29.75€23.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780691193311Author Itamar RabinovichFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Princeton University PressPublisher Princeton University PressWeight(grams) 140g -
Where COVID Came From by Nicholas Wade
RRP: €13.08€8.90Did the Covid virus jump naturally from an animal species to humans, or did it escape from a laboratory experiment? In this essay, science writer Nicholas Wade explores the two scenarios and argues that, on present evidence, lab escape is the more... -
The Art of War: A New Translation by Michael Nylan by Sun Tzu
RRP: €23.79€18.00Sun Tzu's book of strategy and psychology has as much to tell us today as when it was written 2,500 years ago. Michael Nylan, in her provocative introduction, sees new and unexpected lessons to be learned from The Art of War-in business, relationships,... -
Mussolini's Nature: An Environmental History of Italian Fascism by Marco Armiero
RRP: €34.51€26.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262544719Author Marco ArmieroFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Venezuela: What Everyone Needs to Know (R) by Miguel Tinker Salas 9780199783281
RRP: €13.08€10.06Among the top ten oil exporters in the world and a founding member of OPEC, Venezuela currently supplies 11 percent of U.S. crude oil imports. But when the country elected the fiery populist politician Hugo Chavez in 1998, tensions rose with this key... -
A Mathematics Course for Political and Social Research by Will H. Moore
RRP: €53.55€42.84Political science and sociology increasingly rely on mathematical modeling and sophisticated data analysis, and many graduate programs in these fields now require students to take a "math camp" or a semester-long or yearlong course to acquire the... -
War and an Irish Town Eamonn McCann 9780745307251
RRP: €32.12€21.25Eamonn McCann's account of what it is like to grow up a Catholic in a Northern Irish ghetto was first published in 1974. It quickly became a recognised as a classic account of the feelings generated by British rule. The author was at the centre of events... -
One Man Against the World: The Tragedy of Richard Nixon by Tim Weiner 9781250092328
RRP: €33.31€20.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250092328Author Tim WeinerFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 208mm... -
The Rise of State Capital: Transforming Markets and International Politics by Dr Milan Babic
RRP: €35.69€33.92The past two decades have seen a rapid rise in large-scale, state-led transnational investment from countries as different as China, Norway and Russia. By bundling economic resources, these countries have entered global markets through massive state-led... -
Accidental Conflict: America, China, and the Clash of False Narratives by Stephen Roach 9780300273991
RRP: €17.84€15.51The misguided forces driving conflict escalation between America and China, and the path to a new relationship"A timely, fluid, readable assessment of a testy and rapidly changing global relationship."-Kirkus Reviews (starred review) A Financial Times... -
The Plague Year: America in the Time of Covid by Lawrence Wright
RRP: €13.08€9.51'A virtuoso feat ... a book of panoramic breadth' New York Times Book Review'A devastating analysis ... Wright is a master of knitting together complex narratives' The ObserverJust as Lawrence Wright's The Looming Tower became the defining account of our...