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The Apprentice: Trump, Russia and the Subversion of American Democracy by Greg Miller
RRP: €11.89€8.14It has been called the political crime of the century: This book from Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter Greg Miller uncovers for the first time the truth behind the Kremlin's attempt to put Trump in the White House, how they... -
Localization: A Global Manifesto Colin Hines 9781853836121
RRP: €45.21€39.72Localization is a manifesto to unite all those who recognize the importance of cultural, social and ecological diversity for our future - and who do not aspire to a monolithic global consumer culture. It is a passionate and persuasive polemic,... -
History Has Begun: The Birth of a New America by Bruno Macaes
RRP: €15.46€14.22Popular consensus says that the US rose over two centuries to Cold War victory and world domination, and is now in slow decline. But is this right? History's great civilisations have always lasted much longer, and for all its colossal power, the US was... -
Keys to the City: How Economics, Institutions, Social Interaction, and Politics Shape Development by Michael Storper 9780691202952
RRP: €41.65€33.26Why do some cities grow economically while others decline? Why do some show sustained economic performance while others cycle up and down? In Keys to the City, Michael Storper, one of the world's leading economic geographers, looks at why we should... -
Labour's Grass Roots: The Politics of Party Membership by Patrick Seyd 9780198273585
€23.37Who belongs to the Labour Party and why? What are their opinions about politics and society, or about the 'new model' party of Neil Kinnock? After the electoral debacle of 1983 the Labour leadership embarked on a strategy of modernization in order to... -
Text Analysis in Python for Social Scientists: Discovery and Exploration by Dirk Hovy
RRP: €20.23€17.52Text is everywhere, and it is a fantastic resource for social scientists. However, because it is so abundant, and because language is so variable, it is often difficult to extract the information we want. There is a whole subfield of AI concerned with... -
The Imperial Discipline: Race and the Founding of International Relations Alexander E Davis 9780745340623
RRP: €29.74€23.43This book questions the accepted origins of the field of International Relations (IR). Commonly understood to have emerged from the horrors of WW1 with the goal of bringing about world peace, the authors argue that on the contrary, IR came from a... -
Licensed Larceny: Infrastructure, Financial Extraction and the Global South Nicholas Hildyard 9781784994273
RRP: €17.84€13.23Inequality is not just a problem of poverty and the poor; it is as much a problem of wealth and the wealthy. The provision of public services is one area which is increasingly being reconfigured to extract wealth upward to the 1%, notably through... -
Democracy and Distrust: A Theory of Judicial Review by John Hart Ely 9780674196377
RRP: €36.83€29.52This powerfully argued appraisal of judicial review may change the face of American law. Written for layman and scholar alike, the book addresses one of the most important issues facing Americans today: within what guidelines shall the Supreme Court... -
Secure the Base: Making Africa Visible in the Globe Ngugi wa Thiong'o 9780857423139
RRP: €22.61€19.64For more than sixty years, Ngugi wa Thiong'o has been writing fearlessly the questions, challenges, histories, and futures of Africans, particularly those of his homeland, Kenya. In his work, which has included plays, novels, and essays, Ngugi narrates... -
Rastafarianism: A Beginner's Guide by Nicholas Mwangi 9781990263873
RRP: €17.84€11.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781990263873Author Nicholas MwangiFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint Daraja PressPublisher Daraja Press -
The Jewish Question: History of a Marxist Debate by Enzo Traverso
RRP: €35.70€23.66For figures ranging from Karl Marx to the luminaries of the Frankfurt School, the 'Jewish Question' - a set of problems related to emancipation and anti-Semitism, cultural assimilation and Zionism - raised significant controversies within Marxist theory... -
The End of the Second Reconstruction Richard Johnson 9781509538348
RRP: €17.84€16.16Democracy in the United States is under threat. The Trump administration's attack on the legacy of the civil rights movement is undermining America's claims to be a multi-racial democracy. This moment of peril has worrying parallels with a previous... -
Churchill's German Spy: Revelations on Appeasement, Operation Torch and Nazi Intelligence from Double Agent Harlequin by David Tremain 9781399053846
€36.50Compared to many of MI5's other double agents, HARLEQUIN’s career was very short-lived, lasting only for a few months in 1943. However, during that time he provided insights into the various parties involved in the Appeasement process in 1938; the Czech... -
Global Terrorism Brenda Lutz 9780815357353
RRP: €47.59€42.04Global Terrorism, 4th edition continues to provide students with the most comprehensive introduction to terrorism as a global phenomenon. It introduces students to history, politics, ideologies, and strategies of both contemporary and earlier terrorist... -
Wood: A History Joachim Radkau (University of Bielefeld) 9780745646886
RRP: €15.46€14.57OEtzi the iceman could not do without wood when he was climbing his Alpine glacier, nor could medieval cathedral-builders or today's construction companies. From time immemorial, the skill of the human hand has developed by working wood, so much so that... -
State, Society and Markets in North Korea by Andrew Yeo
RRP: €20.23€17.52Under Kim Jong-un, North Korea has experienced growing economic markets, an emerging 'nouveau riche,' and modest levels of urban development. To what extent is North Korean politics and society changing? How has the growth of markets transformed... -
Rigged: How the Media, Big Tech, and the Democrats Seized Our Elections by Mollie Hemingway 9781684513369
RRP: €20.22€13.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684513369Author Mollie HemingwayFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Regnery PublishingPublisher Regnery PublishingWeight(grams) 140g -
A Philosophical Introduction to Human Rights by Thomas Mertens
RRP: €35.69€30.87While almost everyone has heard of human rights, few will have reflected in depth on what human rights are, where they originate from and what they mean. A Philosophical Introduction to Human Rights - accessibly written without being superficial -... -
The Conceit of Humanitarian Intervention by Rajan Menon 9780190692186
€29.19With the end of the Cold War has come an upsurge in humanitarian interventions-military campaigns aimed at ending mass atrocities. These wars of rescue, waged in the name of ostensibly universal norms of human rights and legal principles, rest on the... -
The Political Potential of Sortition: A study of the random selection of citizens for public office by Oliver Dowlen 9781845401795
€21.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845401795Author Oliver DowlenFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 450gDimensions(mm) 234mm *... -
Russia's Military Modernisation, An Assessment by The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)
RRP: €113.04€98.00This new IISS Strategic Dossier examines the recent development of Moscow's armed forces and military capabilities. It analyses the aspirations underpinning Russia's military reform programme and its successes as well as its failures. The book also... -
Ukraine: voices of resistance and solidarity by John-Paul Himka 9780902869257
RRP: €11.90€11.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780902869257Author John-Paul HimkaFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Resistance BooksPublisher Resistance Books -
Small Change: About the Art of Practice and the Limits of Planning in Cities by Nabeel Hamdi
RRP: €44.02€39.41What exactly is 'small change'? Build a bus stop in an urban slum and a vibrant community sprouts and grows around it - that is the power of small changes that have huge positive effects. This book is an argument for the wisdom of the street, the... -
Which Country Has the World's Best Health Care? by Ezekiel J Emanuel
RRP: €26.17€14.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541797758Author Ezekiel J EmanuelFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint PublicAffairsPublisher PublicAffairsWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm... -
Why Hope?: The Stand Against Civilization by John Zerzan
RRP: €15.46€10.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627310192Author John ZerzanFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Feral House,U.S.Publisher Feral House,U.S.Weight(grams) 202g -
The Arab Uprisings: What Everyone Needs to Know (R) by James L. Gelvin 9780190222758
RRP: €13.08€10.06Beginning in December 2010 popular revolt swept through the Middle East, shocking the world and ushering in a period of unprecedented unrest. Protestors took to the streets to demand greater freedom, democracy, human rights, social justice, and regime... -
The Damascus Document by Steven D. Fraade 9780198734338
RRP: €98.77€89.65Steve D. Fraade offers a new translation, with notes, and detailed commentary to the Dead Sea Scroll most commonly called the Damascus Document, based on both ancient manuscripts from caves along the western shore of the Dead Sea, and medieval... -
United States Of Jihad: Who Are America's Homegrown Terrorists, and How Do We Stop Them? by Peter Bergen
RRP: €17.84€13.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804139564Author Peter BergenFormat PaperbackPage Count 424Imprint Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc)Publisher... -
British Government in Crisis by Christopher Foster
€45.86Why are we badly governed? Why has a system of government - the envy of the world as recently as the 1970s - developed so many defects? Why is there such a gulf between political classes, who seem to believe the position satisfactory or inevitable, and... -
Prisoners, Lovers, and Spies: The Story of Invisible Ink from Herodotus to al-Qaeda by Kristie Macrakis 9780300212600
€44.39The first history of invisible ink revealed through thrilling stories about scoundrels and heroes and their ingenious methods for concealing messages. Prisoners, Lovers, and Spies is a book about concealing and revealing secret communications. It is the... -
Welfare for Autocrats by Jennifer Pan
RRP: €32.12€23.79What are the costs of the Chinese regime's fixation on quelling dissent in the name of political order, or "stability?" In Welfare for Autocrats, Jennifer Pan shows that China has reshaped its major social assistance program, Dibao, around this... -
An Introduction to Political Geography: Space, Place and Politics by Rhys Jones
RRP: €61.87€54.25An Introduction to Political Geography continues to provide a broad-based introduction to contemporary political geography for students following undergraduate degree courses in geography and related subjects. The text explores the full breadth of... -
Structuring Politics: Historical Institutionalism in Comparative Analysis by Sven Steinmo
RRP: €36.88€33.39This volume brings together original essays by scholars working on a diverse range of empirical issues, but whose work is in each case informed by a 'historical institutional' approach to the study of politics. By bringing these pieces together, the... -
Psychoanalysis, Class and Politics: Encounters in the Clinical Setting by Lynne Layton
RRP: €51.16€44.73Do political concerns belong in psychodynamic treatment?How do class and politics shape the unconscious?The effects of an increasingly polarized, insecure and threatening world mean that the ideologically enforced split between the political order and... -
Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics by Rebecca Solnit 9780520256569
RRP: €27.37€21.54Rebecca Solnit has made a vocation of journeying into difficult territory and reporting back, as an environmentalist, antiglobalization activist, and public intellectual. "Storming the Gates of Paradise", an anthology of her essential essays from the... -
Whatever it Takes by George Papaconstantinou
RRP: €27.36€13.89For generations, Europeans have become accustomed to rising prosperity, an increasingly supportive social safety net and the expectation that each generation will fare better than the last. Europe has built a social model that is second to none, and... -
Conservatism by Dr Mark Garnett
RRP: €22.60€21.31The nature of conservative ideology is and will continue to be warmly contested. In this short history, Mark Garnett contends that the disagreements have been particularly strong in the instance of British conservatism because the ideological label... -
A History of Russian Thought from the Enlightenment to Marxism: From the Enlightenment to Marxism by Andrzej Walicki 9780804711326
RRP: €38.08€34.31A Stanford University Press classic.Reviews"In any circumstances Andrzej Walicki's book would be interesting and very useful, for it covers virtually all the significant Russian thinkers from the age of Catherine the Great down to the eve of the 1905... -
Winning the Next War: Innovation and the Modern Military by Stephen Peter Rosen
RRP: €29.74€26.19How and when do military innovations take place? Do they proceed differently during times of peace and times of war? In Winning the Next War, Stephen Peter Rosen argues that armies and navies are not forever doomed to "fight the last war." Rather, they...