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The Global Public Square: Religious Freedom and the Making of a World Safe for Diversity by Os Guinness
RRP: €16.65€14.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830837670Author Os GuinnessFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Inter-Varsity Press,USPublisher InterVarsity PressWeight(grams) 318g -
ABC of Communism by N. Bukharin
RRP: €26.78€24.06Two classic Russian Communist texts are presented together in this single volume. First published in 1919 and 1920 respectively, "Programme of the Russian Communist Party and "ABC of Communism were created as popular introductions, explanations, and... -
Empires, Systems and States: Great Transformations in International Politics by Michael Cox
RRP: €32.12€29.13This volume brings together a collection of leading scholars to consider various dimensions of the 'turn' to history in International Relations. The scope of this volume is broad. It includes conventional accounts of the development of the European... -
Drone Warfare by Sarah E. Kreps
€20.38Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2015One of the most significant and controversial developments in contemporary warfare is the use of unmanned aerial vehicles, commonly referred to as drones. In the last decade, US drone strikes have more than... -
Al-Haq: A Global History of the First Palestinian Human Rights Organization by Lynn Welchman
RRP: €35.70€27.72A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.The leadership and legacy of al-Haq, from its origins in Palestine to its international impact Established in Ramallah in 1979, al-Haq was the first Palestinian... -
Strathclyde Traction by Colin J. Howat
RRP: €17.84€11.85Strathclyde Traction covers the former Strathclyde Region Council area of the west of Scotland, stretching from the southern end of the Western Highlands to the Southern Uplands, which was formed by merging the city of Glasgow with the counties of Ayr,... -
Aggression, Crime and International Security: Moral, Political and Legal Dimensions of International Relations by Page Wilson
RRP: €39.26€34.70Aggression, Crime and International Security examines the concept of aggression in international relations and how it has been dealt with by international law and collective security organisations.This book analyses the evolution of the concept of... -
Economic Theories of Peace and War by Fanny Coulomb
RRP: €52.35€45.74War often comes down to one thing: money. The role of economics in the study of both peace and war is arguably then the most important single factor when it comes to the study of defence. This excellent new book from Fanny Coulomb will be of interest not... -
The Bridge in the Parks: The Five Eyes and Cold War Counter-Intelligence by Dennis G. Molinaro
RRP: €29.74€25.79Established in the 1940s, the Five Eyes intelligence network consists of Australia, Britain, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States. The alliance was integral to shaping domestic and international security decisions during the Cold War, yet much of... -
Letters from Prison by Antonio Gramsci 9780231075534
RRP: €33.32€25.94Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937) was one of the most original political thinkers in Western Marxism and an exceptional intellectual. Arrested and imprisoned by the Italian Fascist regime in 1926, Gramsci died before fully regaining his freedom, yet he wrote... -
Evil Paradises: Dreamworlds of NeoLiberalism by Mike Davis 9781595583925
RRP: €29.74€19.87Evil Paradises shows us the face of conspicuous consumption gone mad, exploring new developments that are being built from extreme global wealth. Although the case studies - which are drawn from around the world - read like science fiction, they are in... -
Preston Cotton Martyrs: The Millworkers Who Shocked a Nation by Jim S. Leigh 9781874181453
RRP: €11.89€9.28Preston was no ordinary town during the nineteenth century. While king cotton reigned supreme throughout Lancashire, the underlying ills associated with this industry were very often highlighted particularly starkly there. Child labour, shocking working... -
How We Go Home: Voices from Indigenous North America by Sara Sinclair
RRP: €23.79€16.14In myriad ways, each narrator's life has been shaped by loss, injustice, and resilience-and by the struggle of how to share space with settler nations whose essential aim is to take all that is Indigenous. Hear from Jasilyn Charger, one of the first... -
Individual Rights and the Making of the International System by Christian Reus-Smit
RRP: €36.88€28.32We live today in the first global system of sovereign states in history, encompassing all of the world's polities, peoples, religions and civilizations. Christian Reus-Smit presents a new account of how this system came to be, one in which struggles for... -
The Global Village Myth: Distance, War, and the Limits of Power by Patrick Porter
RRP: €23.79€21.21Does technology kill distance? Does the 'globalisation' of the world make the US and its allies vulnerable to violence, terrorism or cyber-assault? 'Globalism'-- the belief that changes in information, transport and communications are dangerously... -
The Assault on Reason: Our Information Ecosystem, from the Age of Print to the Age of Trump by Al Gore
RRP: €17.84€13.03Now with a New Preface and Conclusion: 'Post-Truth: On Donald Trump and the 2016 Election' The United States of America is in the midst of a deepening crisis for their democracy. After the strangest election cycle in modern American history it is... -
Prison Letters by Antonio Gramsci
RRP: €33.31€21.98Antonio 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... -
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein 9780312427993
RRP: €26.18€18.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312427993Author Naomi KleinFormat PaperbackPage Count 720Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm) 211mm *... -
Rattling the Cages: Oral Histories of North American Political Prisoners by Josh Davidson 9781849355216
RRP: €27.37€18.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849355216Author Josh DavidsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 440Imprint AK PressPublisher AK Press -
Terrorism: An International Perspective by Gus Martin
RRP: €51.16€42.54A comprehensive investigation of modern terrorism and the global terrorist environment. The book uses a multidisciplinary approach and discusses an array of global case studies from the ideology of ISIS, to the Orlando Mass Shooting, and State-Sponsored... -
Towards a more equal society?: Poverty, inequality and policy since 1997 John Hills 9781847422019
RRP: €33.31€26.14When New Labour came to power in 1997, its leaders asked for it to be judged after ten years on its success in making Britain 'a more equal society'. As it approaches the end of an unprecedented third term in office, this book asks whether Britain has... -
Administrative Traditions: Understanding the Roots of Contemporary Administrative Behavior by B. Guy Peters
RRP: €115.43€104.52Contemporary public administration reflects its historical roots, as well as contemporary ideas about how the public bureaucracy should be organized and function. This book argues that there are administrative traditions that have their roots centuries... -
Towards a World War III Scenario: The Dangers of Nuclear War by Michel Chossudovsky 9780973714753
RRP: €16.65€10.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780973714753Author Michel ChossudovskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 103Imprint Global Research, Centre for Research on GlobalizationPublisher Global Research,... -
Cape Verde: Crioulo Colony To Independent Nation Richard A Lobban 9780813335629
RRP: €59.49€52.17The Cape Verde Islands, an Atlantic archipelago off the coast of Senegal, were first settled during the Portuguese Age of Discovery in the fifteenth century. A "Crioula" population quickly evolved from a small group of Portuguese settlers and large... -
Towards the Abolition of Surrogate Motherhood by Marie-Josephe Devillers
RRP: €23.74€15.28In this eloquent and blistering rejection of surrogacy, a range of international activists and experts in the field outline the fundamental human rights abuses that occur when surrogacy is legalised and reject neoliberal notions that the commodification... -
Reciprocity and the Art of Behavioural Public Policy by Adam Oliver 9781108727143
RRP: €32.12€27.13What motivates human behaviour? Drawing on literatures from anthropology to zoology, Oliver examines how we are motivated to give and take, rather than give or take. This book reviews the evolution of reciprocity as a motivator of behaviour, in terms of... -
Power to the People: The World of the Black Panthers by Stephen Shames
€36.26In words and photographs, here is the story of the controversial Black Panther Party, founded in 1966 by Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton. The words are Seale's, with contributions from Kathleen Cleaver and many others; the photographs, which capture range... -
Dreaming in Dark Times: Six Exercises in Political Thought by Sharon Sliwinski
RRP: €23.79€20.87What do dreams manage to say-or indeed, show-about human experience that is not legible otherwise? Can the disclosure of our dream-life be understood as a form of political avowal? To what does a dream attest? And to whom? Blending psychoanalytic theory... -
African Intelligence Services: Early Postcolonial and Contemporary Challenges by Ryan Shaffer 9781538150825
RRP: €116.62€102.46The continent has diverse histories, politics, government systems and people. Each of the countries under analysis face similar challenges, such as with governance, rule of law, economics and development. Yet, different historical periods also produce... -
Everyday Life in British Government by R. A. W. Rhodes 9780198735793
€37.76As citizens, why do we care about the everyday life of ministers and civil servants? We care because the decisions of the great and the good affect all our lives, for good or ill. For all their personal, political, and policy failings and foibles, they... -
The American Senate: An Insider's History by Neil MacNeil 9780195367614
€34.06This book explores highly charged topics that give special meaning to the U.S. Senate's life and culture. They include the decades-long struggles between the Senate and the President for control in shaping legislation; the origins and substance of the... -
Queer and Trans African Mobilities: Migration, Asylum and Diaspora B Camminga (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa) 9780755638994
RRP: €27.36€22.82Winner, ASR Best Africa-Focused Edited Collection by the African Studies Review Recent years have seen increased scholarly and media interest in the cross-border movements of LGBT persons, particularly those seeking protection in the Global North ... -
Philosophy Unchained: Developments in Post-Soviet Philosophical Thought by Mykhailo Minakov 9783838217680
€36.31The East European nations' common past in the Soviet Union connects them in terms of both their political histories and the evolution of their philosophical thought. The USSR's dissolution created new opportunities, domestic and international, in... -
Improving Intelligence Analysis: Bridging the Gap between Scholarship and Practice Stephen Marrin 9780415834292
RRP: €54.73€47.75This book on intelligence analysis written by intelligence expert Dr. Stephen Marrin argues that scholarship can play a valuable role in improving intelligence analysis. Improving intelligence analysis requires bridging the gap between scholarship and... -
Human Rights in China: A Social Practice in the Shadows of Authoritarianism Eva Pils (King's College London) 9781509500703
RRP: €19.03€17.15How can we make sense of human rights in China's authoritarian Party-State system? Eva Pils offers a nuanced account of this contentious area, examining human rights as a set of social practices. Drawing on a wide range of resources including years of... -
Acholi Intellectuals: Knowledge, Power, and the Making of Colonial Northern Uganda, 1850–1960 by Patrick William Otim 9780821411469
RRP: €33.31€29.18Acholi Intellectuals draws on the writings of homespun historians, interviews with elderly men and women who remember the last days of colonial rule, and government and missionary archives to illuminate the intellectual and political history of the... -
Protests as Events: Politics, Activism and Leisure by Ian R. Lamond 9781783480777
RRP: €53.55€46.62Can activism be considered a leisure activity? Can the Occupy movement, local campaigns for change and lone acts of personal resistance be understood as events? Within the field of Events Management the content of events is generally analyzed within... -
Pursuing Sustainability: A Guide to the Science and Practice by Pamela Matson 9780691157610
RRP: €45.22€35.71Sustainability is a global imperative and a scientific challenge like no other. This concise guide provides students and practitioners with a strategic framework for linking knowledge with action in the pursuit of sustainable development, and serves as... -
Shadow Courts: The Tribunals that Rule Global Trade by Haley Sweetland Edwards 9780997126402
RRP: €11.89€8.28International trade deals have become vastly complex documents, seeking to govern everything from labor rights to environmental protections. This evolution has drawn alarm from American voters, but their suspicions are often vague. In this book,... -
Trump Alain Badiou (l'Ecole normale superieure) 9781509536085
RRP: €11.89€10.77The election of Donald Trump as president of the United States sent shockwaves across the globe. How was such an outcome even possible? In two lectures given at American universities in the immediate aftermath of the election, the leading French...