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World Trade Organization (WTO): Law, Economics, and Politics Bernard M. Hoekman 9781138823150
RRP: €45.21€39.72The World Trade Organization (WTO) is one of the most important international organizations in existence today. It contains a set of disciplines that affect the ability of governments to impose trade restrictions, and has helped to support the steady... -
The Making of Murdoch: Power, Politics and What Shaped the Man Who Owns the Media by Tom Roberts
RRP: €41.65€31.56Rupert Murdoch's extraordinary career has no parallel. His control of Fox news, which so successfully supports the Trump presidency, is a key force in American politics. In the UK, his control of The Sun and The Times leaves politicians scrambling to get... -
The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social Work by Martin Davies 9780631214519
RRP: €41.59€38.45The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social Work provides a concise guide to 400 topics relevant to the practice of social work in the 21st Century. It brings together 250 top authors and covers all service user groups.About the AuthorMartin Davies has been a... -
Get What's Yours: The Secrets to Maxing Out Your Social Security by Professor of Economics Laurence J Kotlikoff 9781501144769
RRP: €23.80€15.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501144769Author Professor of Economics Laurence J KotlikoffFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams)... -
Why Bother With Elections? by Adam Przeworski 9781509526604
RRP: €17.84€16.16With the collapse of traditional parties around the world and with many pundits predicting a "crisis of democracy", the value of elections as a method for selecting by whom and how we are governed is being questioned. What are the virtues and weaknesses... -
The Myth of America's Decline: Politics, Economics, and a Half Century of False Prophecies by Josef Joffe 9780871404497
RRP: €23.79€21.60Once every decade, it is "decline time" in America. In recent years, it has been the unstoppable rise of China that has spelled "finis America." What the Chinese juggernaut is today, the Soviet Union ("We shall bury you") was in the 1950s. The Vietnam... -
Inventing the Market: Smith, Hegel, and Political Theory by Lisa Herzog
€53.26Inventing the Market: Smith, Hegel, and Political Theory analyses the constructions of the market in the thought of Adam Smith and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and discusses their relevance for contemporary political philosophy. Combining the history of... -
The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon: A Graying American Looks Back at His Suburban Boyhood and Wonders What the Hell Happened by Bill McKibben 9781250871435
RRP: €17.84€13.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250871435Author Bill McKibbenFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Henry Holt & Company IncPublisher Henry Holt & Company IncWeight(grams)... -
Dictators and their Secret Police: Coercive Institutions and State Violence by Sheena Chestnut Greitens
RRP: €27.36€22.59How do dictators stay in power? When, and how, do they use repression to do so? Dictators and their Secret Police explores the role of the coercive apparatus under authoritarian rule in Asia - how these secret organizations originated, how they operated,... -
Essays on Secularism and Multiculturalism by Tariq Modood 9781785523199
RRP: €41.65€39.06Whether the recently settled religious minorities, Muslims, in particular, can be accommodated as religious groups in European countries has become a central political question and threatens to create long-term fault lines. In this collection of essays,... -
Moscow in Movement: Power and Opposition in Putin's Russia by Samuel A. Greene
RRP: €28.55€25.18Moscow in Movement is the first exhaustive study of social movements, protest, and the state-society relationship in Vladimir Putin's Russia. Beginning in 2005 and running through the summer of 2013, the book traces the evolution of the relationship... -
Empire, Global Coloniality and African Subjectivity by Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni 9781782381938
RRP: €33.26€26.87Global imperial designs, which have been in place since conquest by western powers, did not suddenly evaporate after decolonization. Global coloniality as a leitmotif of the empire became the order of the day, with its invisible technologies of... -
Populism and the Mirror of Democracy by Francisco Panizza
€28.36Populism raises awkward questions about modern forms of democracy. It often represents the ugly face of the people. It is neither the highest form of democracy nor its enemy. It is, rather, a mirror in which democracy may contemplate itself, warts and... -
American Grand Strategy in the Age of Trump by Hal Brands
RRP: €29.75€26.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815732785Author Hal BrandsFormat PaperbackPage Count 265Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 211mm... -
Total State: Totalitarianism and how we can resist it: 2023 Paul O'Brien 9781913934217
RRP: €17.84€14.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913934217Author Paul O'BrienFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Eastwood BooksPublisher Wordwell -
Media Bias, Perspective, and State Repression: The Black Panther Party by Christian Davenport
RRP: €29.74€25.20This book examines information reported within the media regarding the interaction between the Black Panther Party and government agents in the Bay Area of California (1967-1973). Christian Davenport argues that the geographic locale and political... -
The Routledge Handbook of British Politics and Society by Mark Garnett 9780367494810
RRP: €53.54€46.74The Routledge Handbook of British Politics and Society conducts a rigorous, innovative and distinctive analysis of the relationship between British politics and society, emphasizing that the UK is now far from a monolithic, and unshifting, entity... -
American Indian Politics and the American Political System by David E. Wilkins 9781442252653
RRP: €67.83€59.19American Indian Politics and the American Political System is the most comprehensive text written from a political science perspective. It analyzes the structures and functions of indigenous governments (including Alaskan Native communities and Hawaiian... -
Anatomy of Torture by Ron E. Hassner 9781501762031
RRP: €26.17€21.40Does torture "work?" Can controversial techniques such as waterboarding extract crucial and reliable intelligence? Since 9/11, this question has been angrily debated in the halls of power and the court of public opinion. In Anatomy of Torture, Ron E... -
The Black Agenda by Glen Ford
RRP: €19.03€13.14Black politics are key to recognizing the most important social dynamics of the United States. Over the past forty years, no commentator has been as deeply insightful about the paradoxes and personalities of Black American public life as the journalist... -
Diet of Austerity, A – Class, Food and Climate Change by Elaine Graham–leigh 9781782797401
RRP: €15.46€13.10Received wisdom is increasingly that we all have to eat less to save the planet, but received wisdom is wrong. A Diet of Austerity argues that, just as the poor are blamed for the economic crisis, Malthusian conceptions about food and ecology are being... -
The European Existential Dilemma by Guy Mettan
RRP: €29.75€27.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949762402Author Guy MettanFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Clarity PressPublisher Clarity PressWeight(grams) 399gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 152mm * 20mm -
Global Governance Futures by Thomas G Weiss
RRP: €39.26€34.70Global Governance Futures addresses the crucial importance of thinking through the future of global governance arrangements. It considers the prospects for the governance of world order approaching the middle of the twenty-first century by exploring... -
Beyond Technology: Children's Learning in the Age of Digital Culture David Buckingham 9780745638812
RRP: €21.41€19.39Beyond Technology offers a challenging new analysis of learning, young people and digital media. Disputing both utopian fantasies about the transformation of education and exaggerated fears about the corruption of childhood innocence, it offers a... -
Putin's Playbook: Russia's Secret Plan to Defeat America by Rebekah Koffler 9781684510030
RRP: €34.50€22.00Putin's Playbook is urgently essential reading. A former U.S. intelligence specialist who was born and raised in the Soviet Union explains what Vladimir Putin wants and how he plans to get it. Russia's ruler is following a carefully devised plan to... -
Gender and International Criminal Law by Indira Rosenthal 9780198871583
RRP: €130.90€118.77The last few decades have seen remarkable developments in international criminal justice, especially in relation to the pursuit of individuals responsible for sexual violence and other gender-based crimes. Historically ignored, justified, or minimised,... -
China and Tibet: The Perils of Insecurity by Tsering Topgyal
RRP: €41.65€36.88Over sixty years of violence and dialogue have brought China and the Tibetans no closer to a resolution of their conflict. Tsering Topgyal argues that it is China's sense of insecurity, its perception of itself as a socio-politically weak state, which... -
The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy by John Mersheimer 9780374531508
RRP: €23.80€15.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374531508Author John MersheimerFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)... -
The Japanese Destroyer Suzutsuki by Mariusz Motyka 9788367294010
RRP: €20.22€14.61Suzutsuki (Japanese large World War II destroyer) Akizuki type, in service from 1943 to the end of the war. "Suzutsuki" was the third ship in a series of large Akizuki-type destroyers specifically designed as anti-aircraft defense ships, whose main... -
#Republic: Divided Democracy in the Age of Social Media by Cass R. Sunstein 9780691180908
RRP: €20.22€14.90From the New York Times bestselling author of Nudge and The World According to Star Wars, a revealing account of how today's Internet threatens democracy-and what can be done about itAs the Internet grows more sophisticated, it is creating new threats to... -
Hong Kong: Global China's Restive Frontier by Ching Kwan Lee
RRP: €20.23€17.52How did Hong Kong transform itself from a 'shoppers' and capitalists' paradise' into a 'city of protests' at the frontline of a global anti-China backlash? CK Lee situates the post-1997 China-Hong Kong contestation in the broader context of 'global China... -
Capitalism and Modernity: The Great Debate by Jack Goody 9780745631912
€19.25This important new book investigates how the West attained its current position of economic and social advantage. In an incisive historical analysis, Jack Goody examines when and why Europe (and Anglo-America) started to outstrip all other continents in... -
Megaphone Bureaucracy: Speaking Truth to Power in the Age of the New Normal by Dennis C. Grube 9780691179674
RRP: €33.32€26.35A revealing look at how today's bureaucrats are finding their public voice in the era of 24-hour mediaOnce relegated to the anonymous back rooms of democratic debate, our bureaucratic leaders are increasingly having to govern under the scrutiny of a... -
The New Left, National Identity, And The Break-up Of Britain: Historical Materialism, Volume 51 by Wade Matthews
RRP: €35.70€23.66In this key title, Wade Matthews charts the nexus between socialism and national identity in the work of key New Left intellectuals such as E.P. Thompson, Raymond Williams, Stuart Hall, Perry Anderson and Tom Nairn. Matthews considers these New Left... -
Climate Crisis Economics Stuart P. M. Mackintosh (Group of Thirty, USA) 9780367478698
RRP: €44.02€36.16Climate Crisis Economics draws on economics, political economy, scientific literature, and data to gauge the extent to which our various communities - political, economic, business - are making the essential leap to a new narrative and policy approach... -
Sustainable Energy Transitions: Socio-Ecological Dimensions of Decarbonization by Dustin Mulvaney
RRP: €65.44€59.32This textbook introduces the key concepts that underpin sustainable energy transitions. Starting with the basic biophysical principles, current sources and environmental consequences of existing energy resource use, the book takes readers through the key... -
Project Censored's State of the Free Press 2022 by Andy Lee Roth
RRP: €16.65€11.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644211175Author Mickey HuffFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S. -
Crises and Challenges for the European Union Mark Rhinard (Stockholm University, Sweden) 9781350342903
RRP: €39.26€34.76The crises of the European Union extend beyond the challenges of Covid-19, Brexit, the Eurozone, and mass migration, cutting to the core of the EU itself. Taking a structural rather than event-based approach, this text unpacks all aspects of the EU in... -
Globalization: Capitalism and its Alternatives by Leslie Sklair
€67.33Capitalist globalization has been instrumental in globalizing civil and political rights all over the world as a condition of 'free' markets and trade, but capitalist globalizers have no answer to the rapidly accelerating demands for universal economics... -
Plato: Laws 1 and 2 by Susan Sauvé Meyer 9780199604098
€40.29Susan Sauve Meyer presents a new translation of Plato's Laws, 1 and 2. In these opening books of Plato's last work, a Cretan, a Spartan, and an Athenian discuss legislative theory, moral psychology, and the criteria for evaluating art. The interlocutors...