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Scenario Planning for Cities and Regions - Managing and Envisioning Uncertain Future by Robert Goodspeed
RRP: €35.70€27.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781558444003Author Robert GoodspeedFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Lincoln Institute of Land PolicyPublisher Lincoln Institute of Land... -
The Many Not The Few: An Illustrated History of Britain Shaped by the People by Sean Michael Wilson 9781780264448
RRP: €11.89€8.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780264448Author Sean Michael WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint New Internationalist Publications LtdPublisher New Internationalist Publications... -
Simple Forms: Legend, Saga, Myth, Riddle, Saying, Case, Memorabile, Fairytale, Joke by Andre Jolles
RRP: €23.79€23.54Legend, saga, myth, riddle, saying, case, memorabile, fairy tale, joke: Andre Jolles understands each of these nine "simple forms" as the reflection in language of a distinct mode of human engagement with the world and thus as a basic structuring... -
The Infernal Machine: An Alternative History of Terrorism by Matthew Carr
RRP: €20.22€18.22Today, political violence has become the scourge of our world and terrorism is routinely described as a uniquely modern evil. Yet however unprecedented in scope the new terrorist organizations might appear, Matthew Carr argues in this definitive history... -
Planning and Participation by Paul O'Hare
RRP: €41.65€31.75Why should the public participate in planning? And who are the stakeholders who are required to participate in the planning process? This guide assesses public and stakeholder participation in the planning process, which is a statutory requirement across... -
Leadership and the Rise of Great Powers by Xuetong Yan 9780691190082
RRP: €41.65€33.74A leading foreign policy thinker uses Chinese political theory to explain why some powers rise as others decline and what this means for the international orderWhile work in international relations has closely examined the decline of great powers, not... -
China since Tiananmen: From Deng Xiaoping to Hu Jintao by Joseph Fewsmith
RRP: €32.12€26.53In this edition of his path-breaking analysis of political and social change in China since the crackdown in Tiananmen Square in 1989, Joseph Fewsmith traces developments since 2001. These include the continuing reforms during the final years of Jiang... -
The World as It Is: A Memoir of the Obama White House by Ben Rhodes
RRP: €21.42€13.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525509370Author Ben RhodesFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
Battleground Africa: Cold War in the Congo, 1960-1965 by Lise Namikas 9780804796804
RRP: €35.69€32.25Winner of the 2013 Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Title Battleground Africa traces the Congo Crisis from post-World War II decolonization efforts through Mobutu's second coup in 1965 from a radically new vantage point. Drawing on recently opened... -
Democratic Authority: A Philosophical Framework by David M. Estlund
RRP: €41.65€33.26Democracy is not naturally plausible. Why turn such important matters over to masses of people who have no expertise? Many theories of democracy answer by appealing to the intrinsic value of democratic procedure, leaving aside whether it makes good... -
On Thinking Institutionally by Hugh Heclo 9780199946006
€31.86The twenty-first-century mind deeply distrusts the authority of institutions. It has taken several centuries for advocates of critical thinking to convince western culture that to be rational, liberated, authentic, and modern means to be... -
Busted Sanctions: Explaining Why Economic Sanctions Fail by Bryan R. Early
RRP: €33.31€29.18Powerful countries like the United States regularly employ economic sanctions as a tool for promoting their foreign policy interests. Yet this foreign policy tool has an uninspiring track record of success, with economic sanctions achieving their goals... -
Mussolini Also Did a Lot of Good: The Spread of Historical Amnesia by John Irving
RRP: €23.74€21.09A 2019 Italian BestsellerSurgically, but with wit, Francesco Filippi demolishes each and every myth that has taken root about Mussolini and fascism in an uplifting handbook for political and intellectual self-defense. No stones are left unturned,... -
Inside Accounts, Volume II: The Irish Government and Peace in Northern Ireland, from the Good Friday Agreement to the Fall of Power-Sharing by Graham Spencer 9781526149176
RRP: €35.70€25.36Volume two of the most authoritative and revealing account yet of how the Irish Government managed the Northern Ireland peace process and helped broker a political settlement to end the conflict there. Based on nine extended interviews with key officials... -
Fighting Deindustrialisation: Scottish Women's Factory Occupations, 1981-1982 Andy Clark 9781802077124
€32.11In Fighting Deindustrialisation, Andy Clark outlines and examines one of the most significant and under-researched periods in modern Scottish labour history. Over a fourteen month period in 1981 and 1982, as Scotland suffered the effects of the... -
Leap of Faith: Hubris, Negligence, and America's Greatest Foreign Policy Tragedy by Michael J. Mazarr
RRP: €29.75€19.85Leap of Faith is the first comprehensive and objective history of the decision to invade Iraq. Based on nine years of research, over 100 interviews with participants in the drama, and information from hundreds of U.S. and British declassified documents,... -
Politics and Ideology in Marxist Theory by Ernesto Laclau
€20.31Ernesto Laclau is best known for co-authoring Hegemony and Socialist Strategy, with Chantal Mouffe. Politically active in the social and student movements of the 1960s, and a member of PSIN (Socialist Party of the National Left), Laclau's oeuvre links... -
Social Policy: An Anarchist Response by Colin Ward 9780900384981
€7.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780900384981Author Colin WardFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Freedom PressPublisher Freedom Press -
The Class Strikes Back: Self-Organised Workers' Struggles in the Twenty-First Centu ry by Michael G. Kraft
RRP: €35.70€23.66The Class Strikes Back examines a number of radical, twenty-first-century workers' struggles. These struggles are characterised by a different kind of unionism and solidarity, arising out of new kinds of labour conditions and responsive to new kinds of... -
One-Way Ticket from Westerbork by Jonathan Gardiner 9789493056756
RRP: €23.74€19.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789493056756Author Jonathan GardinerFormat PaperbackPage Count 390Imprint Amsterdam PublishersPublisher Amsterdam PublishersWeight(grams) 572gDimensions(mm)... -
Brain Computations: What and How by Edmund Rolls 9780198871101
€140.41In order to understand how the brain works, it is essential to know what is computed by different brain systems, and how those computations are performed. Brain Computations: What and How elucidates what is computed in different brain systems and... -
Oil in Putin's Russia: The Contests over Rents and Economic Policy by Adrian Vatansever 9781487522810
RRP: €38.08€33.31No sector has been as vital as oil to the Russian economy since Vladimir Putin came to power. The longest serving leader since Stalin, Putin has presided during a period of relative economic prosperity driven largely by booming oil windfalls. Oil in... -
A Perilous Path: Talking Race, Inequality, and the Law by Sherrilyn Ifill
RRP: €14.27€9.64A frank and enlightening discussion on race and the law in America today, from some of our leading legal minds-including the bestselling author of Just Mercy This blisteringly candid discussion of the American racial dilemma in the age of Black Lives... -
Bread and Freedom: Egypt's Revolutionary Situation by Mona El-Ghobashy 9781503628151
RRP: €28.55€25.28A multivocal account of why Egypt's defeated revolution remains a watershed in the country's political history. Bread and Freedom offers a new account of Egypt's 2011 revolutionary mobilization, based on a documentary record hidden in plain sight-party... -
How to Prepare for Climate Change: A Practical Guide to Surviving the Chaos by Pogue, David
RRP: €28.56€19.92A practical and comprehensive guide to surviving the greatest disaster of our time, from New York Times bestselling self-help author and beloved CBS Sunday Morning science and technology correspondent David Pogue. You might not realize it, but we're... -
Defensive Killing by Helen Frowe 9780198822455
RRP: €33.31€30.73Most people believe that it is sometimes morally permissible for a person to use force to defend herself or others against harm. In Defensive Killing, Helen Frowe offers a detailed exploration of when and why the use of such force is permissible. She... -
The Economics of Arms by Keith Hartley
RRP: €27.36€25.56It is estimated that today some 2.7% of world GDP ($1.5 trillion) is spent on arms. In 2014 Lockheed Martin, the US defence contractor, had revenues of $45 billion the equivalent of the GDP of Tunisia. This book explores the business behind these... -
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson 9781632864123
RRP: €22.60€20.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632864123Author Carol AndersonFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Bloomsbury USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PlcWeight(grams) 523g -
Critical Theory and New Materialisms Hartmut Rosa (Institut fur Soziologie, Friedrich-Schiller-Universitat-Jena, Germany) 9781032020518
RRP: €45.21€40.03Bringing together authors from two intellectual traditions that have, so far, generally developed independently of one another - critical theory and new materialism - this book addresses the fundamental differences and potential connections that exist... -
The Good European: Arguments, Excursions and Disquisitions on the Theme of Europe by Iain Bamforth 9781857547658
RRP: €20.17€14.34Nietzsche, warning his countrymen in the Bismarck era against the nationalism that sought to promote all that was anti-rational in the German tradition, exhorted them to be "good Europeans", avatars of the enlightened economic man of the... -
The Political Theory of Political Thinking: The Anatomy of a Practice by Michael Freeden 9780198746737
€56.24What does it mean to say that human beings think politically, and what is distinctive about that kind of thinking? That question is all-too infrequently asked by political theorists, or is dealt with through generalizations, abstractions, and dichotomies... -
The Ethics of Liberty by Murray N. Rothbard
RRP: €27.36€24.17The authoritative text on the libertarian political position In recent years, libertarian impulses have increasingly influenced national and economic debates, from welfare reform to efforts to curtail affirmative action. Murray N. Rothbard's classic The... -
Cyber Security and the Politics of Time by Tim Stevens
RRP: €36.88€27.19'Cyber security' is a recent addition to the global security agenda, concerned with protecting states and citizens from the misuse of computer networks for war, terrorism, economic espionage and criminal gain. Many argue that the ubiquity of computer... -
Freedom's Dominion (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize): A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power by Jefferson Cowie 9781541605121
RRP: €22.60€15.17WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY! An "important, deeply affecting-and regrettably relevant" (New York Times Book Review) chronicle of a sinister idea of freedom: white Americans' freedom to oppress others and their fight against the government... -
American Bonds: How Credit Markets Shaped a Nation by Sarah L. Quinn 9780691227078
RRP: €26.18€20.98How the American government has long used financial credit programs to create economic opportunitiesFederal housing finance policy and mortgage-backed securities have gained widespread attention in recent years because of the 2008 financial crisis, but... -
Preventing and Countering Extremism and Terrorist Recruitment: A Best Practice Guide by Hanif Qadir
RRP: €29.75€26.69Hanif Qadir is recognised as one of the world's leading specialists in positively transforming violent extremists. He has worked with hundreds of high-risk terrorist and violent extremist cases and has challenged many known figureheads who lead violently... -
The State of Democratic Theory by Ian Shapiro
RRP: €33.32€26.35What should we expect from democracy, and how likely is it that democracies will live up to those expectations? In The State of Democratic Theory, Ian Shapiro offers a critical assessment of contemporary answers to these questions, lays out his... -
The Chinese Communist Party as Organizational Emperor: Culture, reproduction, and transformation by Zheng Yongnian 9780415559652
RRP: €59.49€51.77The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is the largest and one of the most powerful, political organizations in the world today, which has played a crucial role in initiating most of the major reforms of the past three decades in China. China's rapid rise has... -
Love And Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution by Mary Gabriel
RRP: €23.80€17.68Brilliantly researched and wonderfully written, LOVE AND CAPITAL is a heartbreaking and dramatic saga of the family side of the man whose works would redefine the world after his death. Drawing upon years of research, acclaimed biographer Mary Gabriel... -
Key Concepts in Political Geography by Carolyn Gallaher 9781412946728
RRP: €47.59€38.57"A comprehensive reader for my political geography course. Good summaries at the end, and articles include effective case study examples." - Rachel Paul, Western Washington University "A very useful and comprehensive introduction to key...