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Justice Is an Option: A Democratic Theory of Finance for the Twenty-First Century by Robert Meister
RRP: £26.00£24.85More than ten years after the worst crisis since the Great Depression, the financial sector is thriving. But something is deeply wrong. Taxpayers bore the burden of bailing out "too-big-to-fail" banks but got nothing in return. Inequality has soared, and... -
Gramsci is Dead: Anarchist Currents in the Newest Social Movements Richard J. F. Day 9780745321127
RRP: £27.99£21.57"Inspired to contribute to the symbiotic relationship between the academic and activist worlds, Day has decided to pick up the pen instead of the Molotov cocktail. The result is this brilliant book." Ann Hansen Ann was sentenced to life imprisonment... -
Refugees in an Age of Genocide: Global, National and Local Perspectives during the Twentieth Century Katharine Knox 9780714643410
RRP: £53.99£47.87This is a study of the history of global refugee movements over the 20th century, ranging from east European Jews fleeing Tsarist oppression at the turn of the century to asylum seekers from the former Zaire and Yugoslavia. Recognizing that the problem... -
Roch Winds: A Treacherous Guide to the State of Scotland by Cailean Gallagher 9781910745588
RRP: £8.99£6.60Did Scotland's rough wind become something more after the referendum, as so many hoped it would, or did it blow itself out? What power can pessimism have in a nation of newfound self-confidence? A generation ago, the socialist poet Hamish Henderson... -
Classes by Erik Olin Wright 9781804290484
RRP: £14.99£12.55Questions of class, power and distribution have reemerged as central concerns in the public discourse. When we talk about class, we don't always know what is meant. Is class about income or affect or the ownership of the means of production? Perhaps it... -
Countering Online Propaganda and Extremism: The Dark Side of Digital Diplomacy by Corneliu Bjola
RRP: £41.99£36.75Exploring the 'dark side' of digital diplomacy, this volume highlights some of the major problems facing democratic institutions in the West and provides concrete examples of best practice in reversing the tide of digital propaganda.Digital diplomacy is... -
Immersed: The California Houses of Feldman Architecture by Oscar Riera Ojeda 9781946226921
RRP: £70.00£48.89Immersed - The California Houses of Feldman Architecture is an indepth look at 20 years of the firm's defining residential work spanning three areas: Urban, Suburban, and Rural. Feldman Architecture, a vibrant San Francisco-based studio, aims to create... -
Radical Conduct: Politics, Sociability and Equality in London 1789-1815 by Mark Philp
RRP: £22.99£20.66While the French Revolution drew immense attention to French radicals and their ideas, London also played host to a radical intellectual culture. Drawing on both original material and a range of interdisciplinary insights, Radical Conduct transforms our... -
The Virtuous Citizen: Patriotism in a Multicultural Society by Tim Soutphommasane 9781107690516
RRP: £25.99£21.99What does it mean to be a citizen in a multicultural society? And what role must patriotism play in defining our relationship with our country and fellow citizens? In The Virtuous Citizen Tim Soutphommasane answers these questions with a critical defence... -
Slipping Loose by Martin Westlake
RRP: £75.00£70.51The 2016 Brexit referendum result has been portrayed as the consequence of various short-term phenomena: the financial crisis, austerity, migration and UKIP, to name a few. Overnight the political future of the UK took an unprecedented and unexpected... -
Assault on Democracy: Communism, Fascism, and Authoritarianism During the Interwar Years by Kurt Weyland
RRP: £36.99£31.75The interwar years saw the greatest reversal of political liberalization and democratization in modern history. Why and how did dictatorship proliferate throughout Europe and Latin America in the 1920s and 1930s? Blending perspectives from history,... -
Rethinking Neoliberalism: Resisting the Disciplinary Regime by Sanford F. Schram
RRP: £41.99£36.75Neoliberalism remains a flashpoint for political contestation around the world. For decades now, neoliberalism has been in the process of becoming a globally ascendant default logic that prioritizes using economic rationality for all major decisions, in... -
Hardware, Software, Heartware: Digital Twinning for More Sustainable Built Environments Jason Pomeroy 9781032569383
RRP: £32.99£29.56This richly illustrated book examines the full potential of Digital Twins (DTs) as a means of creating more sustainable urban habitats. It reveals how, in this digitally-enabled age, DTs are increasingly being adopted by cities as a tool for urban... -
Delineating Wales: Constitutional, Legal and Administrative Aspects of National Devolution by Richard Rawlings 9780708317396
RRP: £14.99£12.66This text evaluates the legal and constitutional aspects of devolution. Drawing on interviews with those responsible for the devolutionary scheme, it considers the internal architecture and operation of the National Assembly, and Wales's relationship... -
The Muslim Brotherhood in Syria by Dara Conduit 9781108731287
RRP: £24.99£21.18Having played a role in every iteration of Syrian politics since the country gained independence in 1946, the Muslim Brotherhood were the most prominent opposition group in Syria on the eve of the 2011 uprising. But when unrest broke out in March 2011,... -
Going South: Why Britain will have a Third World Economy by 2014 by L. Elliott 9780230392540
RRP: £24.99£22.37With a second recession looming, Britain is facing a moment of truth. This book examines how the leader of the industrial revolution came to exhibit the features of a 'developing country'; chronic debt, volatile growth and vulnerability to external... -
Tyranny of Big Tech by Josh Hawley
RRP: £29.99£17.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684512393Author Josh HawleyFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Regnery PublishingPublisher Regnery PublishingWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 236mm *... -
Environment and Politics Timothy Doyle (Keele University, UK) 9780415825535
RRP: £45.99£40.13Environment and Politics 4th Edition is a concise introduction to this ever-expanding interdisciplinary field, explaining and illustrating how concepts, conflicts, movements, political systems and the practices of policy-making can be analysed in a... -
Punishment and Social Control: Essays in Honor of Sheldon L. Messinger by Lawrence T. Nichols
RRP: £45.99£40.53While crime, law, and punishment are subjects that have everyday meanings not very far from their academic representations, "social control" is one of those terms that appear in the sociological discourse without any corresponding everyday usage. This... -
A World of Regions: Asia and Europe in the American Imperium by Peter J. Katzenstein 9780801472756
RRP: £16.99£15.07Observing the dramatic shift in world politics since the end of the Cold War, Peter J. Katzenstein argues that regions have become critical to contemporary world politics. This view is in stark contrast to those who focus on the purportedly stubborn... -
The Politics of Volunteering Nina Eliasoph (University of Southern California) 9780745650043
RRP: £16.99£15.22Many of us may have participated in grassroots groups, changing the world in small and big ways, from building playgrounds and feeding the homeless, to protesting wars and ending legal segregation. Beyond the obvious fruits of these activities, what are... -
The Far Right in America Cas Mudde (University of Georgia, USA) 9781138063891
RRP: £19.99£17.69This book collects Mudde's old and new blog posts, interviews and op-eds on the topic of the US far right, ranging from right-wing populists to neo-Nazi terrorists. The main emphasis of the book is on the two most important far right developments of the... -
Great Games, Local Rules: The New Great Power Contest in Central Asia by Alexander Cooley 9780199331437
RRP: £32.49£19.99The struggle between Russia and Great Britain over Central Asia in the nineteenth century was the original "great game." But in the past quarter century, a new "great game" has emerged, pitting America against a newly aggressive Russia and a... -
Rhoi Cymru'n Gyntaf: Cyfrol 1: Syniadaeth Plaid Cymru by Richard Wyn Jones 9780708317563
RRP: £9.99£7.58This will be the first volume to discuss the development of Plaid Cymru's political ideology from the early days to the party's present position as the chief opposition party in the National Assembly for Wales. The book will give authoritative answers to... -
Who's Looking Out for You? by Bill O'Reilly 9780767913805
RRP: £20.00£13.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767913805Author Bill O'ReillyFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc)Publisher... -
Prison Letters by Antonio Gramsci
£28.38Antonio Gramsci is one of the great European Marxists, hailed by Eric Hobsbawm as 'an extraordinary philosopher ... probably the most original communist thinker of twentieth-century Europe'. Gramsci developed Marx's ideas with an emphasis on culture... -
British Politics Today: 7th Edition by Bill Jones 9780719065095
RRP: £14.99£13.64A short but comprehensive textbook for students of British politics which interprets changes over the last thirty years and analyses institutions within the context of British society and economics.About the AuthorBill Jones is the former Director of... -
Globalization Theory: Approaches and Controversies Anthony McGrew (University of Southampton) 9780745632117
RRP: £26.99£23.46This is the fourth volume in the highly acclaimed Global Transformations series. It follows in the footsteps of Global Transformations, The Global Transformations Reader and Governing Globalization. All these volumes have been widely adopted in courses... -
How Soon is Now?: The Handbook for Global Change Daniel Pinchbeck 9781786780867
RRP: £9.99£6.80"How Soon is Now? will challenge most conventionally held assumptions about the global environment" MobyThe World Needs to ChangeWe have unleashed a mega-crisis threatening the future of life on Earth. The actions we take over the next decade are... -
Wars of Position?: Marxism Today, Cultural Politics and the Remaking of the Left Press, 1979-90 by H.F. Pimlott
RRP: £45.00£30.56Originally founded as the theoretical journal of the Communist Party of Great Britain, during the 1980's Marxism Today was transformed into a 'glossy' left magazine of immense influence on the British Left. Inspired by Raymond Williams' cultural... -
The Poverty Industry: The Exploitation of America's Most Vulnerable Citizens by Daniel L. Hatcher 9781479874729
RRP: £74.00£64.85The shocking truth about how state governments and their private industry partners are profiting from the social programs meant to support disadvantaged Americans Government aid doesn't always go where it's supposed to. Foster care agencies team up... -
The Myth of International Order: Why Weak States Persist and Alternatives to the State Fade Away by Arjun Chowdhury 9780190686727
RRP: £23.99£17.55In February of 2011, Libyan citizens rebelled against Muammar Qaddafi and quickly unseated him. The speed of the regime's collapse confounded many observers, and the ensuing civil war showed Foreign Policy's index of failed states to be deeply flawed--FP... -
Defense of the West: Transatlantic Security from Truman to Trump, by Stanley R. Sloan
RRP: £25.00£17.92Written in a lively and readable style by the world's leading authority on the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and US-European relations, Defense of the West is the history of a transatlantic security relationship that has endured for over seventy... -
Rethinking Political Islam by Shadi Hamid 9780190649203
RRP: £25.99£21.70For years, scholars hypothesized about what Islamists might do if they ever obtained power. Now, academics and Islamists alike finally have answers. And they are confusing. In the Sunni hinterland between Syria and Iraq, ISIS established a government by... -
Making a Marque: Rolls-Royce Motor Car Promotion 1904-1940 by Peter Moss 9781854433107
RRP: £95.00£83.12The promotional history of Rolls-Royce motor cars from the company's beginnings in 1904 to the outbreak of World War II has been exhaustively researched and documented in these pages. When Charles Rolls met Henry Royce in May 1904 and drove the Royce... -
Your Sons Are at Your Service: Tunisia's Missionaries of Jihad by Aaron Y. Zelin 9780231193771
RRP: £35.00£28.14Tunisia became one of the largest sources of foreign fighters for the Islamic State-even though the country stands out as a democratic bright spot of the Arab uprisings and despite the fact that it had very little history of terrorist violence within its... -
The Power of Our Supreme Court by Matt Beat
RRP: £20.99£13.81Mr. Beat Connects the Supreme Court History Right to You!Mr. Beat’s The Power of Our Supreme Court is the Supreme Court book of decisions that affect the everyday lives of Americans everywhere. The real democracy of America unveiled. What does the... -
Policing Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow: The View from South Wales by Martin Innes 9781837720842
RRP: £24.99£18.80Through the lens of South Wales Police, this volume reflects upon the changing role of the police in society. Conceptually, by connecting the pasts, presents and futures of policing, each chapter individually and collectively demonstrates how some of... -
The Coalition Government and Social Policy: Restructuring the Welfare State Hugh Bochel 9781447324577
RRP: £29.99£23.42Responding to the political and social policy changes made between 2010-2015 a wide-range of experts consider the relationship between the two coalition parties to provide a critical assessment of how their policies affected the British welfare state,... -
Crossing the Line: Vagrancy, Homelessness and Social Displacement in Russia Svetlana Stephenson 9780754618133
RRP: £135.00£117.28This pioneering book is the first to explore the experiences of homeless people in Russia in the late Soviet period and during post-socialist transition. Through their own stories, it introduces us to the hidden world of vagrants, itinerant workers and...