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The Venture Capital State: The Silicon Valley Model in East Asia by Robyn Klingler-Vidra
RRP: €55.93€48.27Silicon Valley has become shorthand for a globally acclaimed way to unleash the creative potential of venture capital, supporting innovation and creating jobs. In The Venture Capital State Robyn Klingler-Vidra traces how and why different states have... -
A Feminist Voyage through International Relations by J. Ann Tickner 9780199951260
RRP: €48.18€30.29J. Ann Tickner is ranked among the most influential scholars of international relations. As one of the founders of the field of feminist international relations, she is also among the most pioneering. In many ways her academic career has traced the... -
How Sweet It Is: Defending the American Dream by Winsome Sears 9781546004479
RRP: €29.75€19.49Winsome Earle-Sears sent shock waves across Virginia and the country at large when she pulled off her stunning upset victory in November 2021 and became the first woman lieutenant governor of Virginia and the first Black woman, the first naturalized... -
The Globalization of International Society by Christian Reus-Smit
RRP: €56.51€56.50The Globalization of International Society re-examines the development of today's society of sovereign states, drawing on a wealth of new scholarship to challenge the landmark account presented in Bull and Watson's classic work, The Expansion of... -
The Culture of Stopping by Harald Welzer
RRP: €23.80€15.89Our culture has no concept of stopping. We continue to build motorways and airports for a future in which cars and planes may no longer exist. We're converting our planet from a natural one to an artificial one in which the quantity of man-made objects -... -
The 14th Dalai Lama: Peacekeeping and Universal Responsibility by Mario I. Aguilar 9780367442606
RRP: €33.31€18.99This book outlines the life of spiritual diplomacy of the 14th Dalai Lama and his emergence as a global peace icon. It traces his evolution as a Tibetan Buddhist monk rooted in the Geluk tradition, as a Nobel laureate, and as an internationally... -
Ruby Ridge: The Truth and Tragedy of the Randy Weaver Family by Jess Walter 9780060007942
RRP: €15.46€15.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060007942Author Jess WalterFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 488gDimensions(mm)... -
On the Nation and the Jewish People by Shlomo Sand 9781844674626
€16.26Ernest Renan was one of the intellectual giants of the second half of the nineteenth century in France, the man who first opened up the study of nationalism. In this book, Shlomo Sand, the author of the best-selling The Invention of the Jewish People,... -
Laughter as Politics: Critical Theory in an Age of Hilarity by Patrick Giamario 9781474491556
RRP: €23.79€21.87Explores the role that laughter plays in constructing, preserving and transforming contemporary social and political life Provides the first full-length study of the politics of laughter Rejects the traditional, normative question of whether laughter... -
American Secession: The Looming Threat of a National Breakup by F.H. Buckley 9781641770804
RRP: €21.41€14.64Americans have never been more divided, and we're ripe for a breakup. The bitter partisan animosities, the legislative gridlock, the growing acceptance of violence in the name of political virtue-it all invites us to think that we'd be happier were we... -
Patriotic Dissent: America in the Age of Endless War by Daniel A. Sjursen
RRP: €19.03€13.14What is patriotism in our volatile age? This incendiary work by Danny Sjursen is a personal cry from the heart by a once model U.S. Army officer and West Point graduate who became a military dissenter while still on active duty. Set against the backdrop... -
The Politics of Genocide: From the Genocide Convention to the Responsibility to Protect by Jeffrey S. Bachman
RRP: €35.69€31.54Beginning with the negotiations that concluded with the unanimous adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide on December 9, 1948, and extending to the present day, the United States, Soviet... -
Losing Pravda: Ethics and The Press in Post-Truth Russia by Natalia Roudakova
RRP: €27.36€23.28What happens when journalism is made superfluous? Combining ethnography, media analysis, moral and political theory this book examines the unravelling of professional journalism in Russia over the past twenty-five years, and its effects on society. It... -
Donald Trump v. The United States: Inside the Struggle to Stop a President by Michael S. Schmidt
RRP: €20.22€14.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984854681Author Michael S. SchmidtFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
The future of sustainable cities: Critical reflections John Flint (Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research, Sheffield Hallam University) 9781847426666
RRP: €35.69€27.39This book investigates how the meanings and politics of urban sustainability are being radically rethought in response to the economic downturn and the credit crunch. In this ground-breaking contribution, prominent scholars provide up to date coverage of... -
Against Demagogues: What Aristophanes Can Teach Us about the Perils of Populism and the Fate of Democracy, New Translations of the Acharnians and the Knights by Prof. Robert C. Bartlett
RRP: €20.22€16.24Timeless comedies on resisting tyranny from one of history's greatest comic playwrights.Against Demagogues presents Robert C. Bartlett's new translations of Aristophanes' most overtly political works, the Acharnians and the Knights. In these... -
Rebel Rulers: Insurgent Governance and Civilian Life during War by Zachariah Cherian Mampilly 9781501700682
RRP: €30.93€26.76Rebel groups are often portrayed as predators, their leaders little more than warlords. In conflicts large and small, however, insurgents frequently take and hold territory, establishing sophisticated systems of governance that deliver extensive public... -
Economic Statecraft: New Edition by Ethan B. Kapstein 9780691204437
RRP: €124.95€112.60A new edition of the classic work on the economic tools of foreign policyToday's complex and dangerous world demands a complete understanding of all the techniques of statecraft, not just military ones. David Baldwin's Economic Statecraft presents an... -
Potentia: Hobbes and Spinoza on Power and Popular Politics by Sandra Leonie Field
RRP: €32.12€23.79We live in an age of growing dissatisfaction with the standard operations of representative democracy. The solution, according to a long radical democratic tradition, is the unmediated power of the people. Mass plebiscites and mass protest movements are... -
A Full Life: James Connolly The Irish Rebel by Paul Buhle
RRP: €5.94€5.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629633725Author Paul BuhleFormat PaperbackPage Count 42Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 62g -
Bigger Than Bernie: How We Go from the Sanders Campaign to Democratic Socialism by Micah Uetricht 9781788738385
RRP: €20.22€14.38The political ambitions of the movement behind Bernie Sanders have never been limited to winning the White House. Since Bernie first entered the presidential primaries in 2016, his supporters have worked to organize a revolution intended to encourage the... -
Marxism And Social Movements: Historical Materialism, Volume 46 by John Krinsky 9781608463725
RRP: €47.60€36.58Marxism and Social Movements is the first sustained engagement between social movement theory and Marxist approaches to collective action. The chapters collected here, by leading figures in both fields, discuss the potential for a Marxist theory of... -
The Arab-Israeli Conflict: An Introduction and Documentary Reader Gregory S. Mahler (Earlham College, USA) 9781032392363
RRP: €42.83€38.01This textbook examines the diplomatic and historical setting within which the Arab-Israeli conflict has developed and gives students the opportunity to study the Middle East peace process through a presentation of primary documents that have been... -
Fifty Million Rising: The New Generation of Working Women Transforming the Muslim World by Saadia Zahidi
RRP: €32.13€20.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781568585901Author Saadia ZahidiFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Bold Type BooksPublisher Bold Type BooksWeight(grams) 488gDimensions(mm) 245mm * 171mm... -
The Smart Thinking Book: Over 70 bursts of business brilliance Kevin Duncan 9781911687542
RRP: €11.89€8.21Plenty of people are intelligent and have the right qualifications. But in business, to be successful, you also have to be smart and creative. This book contains 60 pieces of distilled wisdom to help you think smartly and creatively, and to enable you to... -
The Anthem Companion to David Ricardo by J.E. King 9781839982910
RRP: €142.80€136.74With contributions from authorities on four continents, this edited volume provides a comprehensive survey of the life and work of David Ricardo (1772-1823), a major contributor to the British classical school of political economy. After an editorial... -
The Promise and Limits of Private Power: Promoting Labor Standards in a Global Economy by Richard M. Locke
RRP: €29.74€24.92This book examines and evaluates various private initiatives to enforce fair labor standards within global supply chains. Using unique data (internal audit reports and access to more than 120 supply chain factories and 700 interviews in 14 countries)... -
The Impacts of Welfare Conditionality: Sanctions Support and Behaviour Change Peter Dwyer (University of York) 9781447343738
RRP: €32.12€24.80Should a citizen’s right to social welfare be contingent on their personal behaviour? Welfare conditionality, linking citizens’ eligibility for social benefits and services to prescribed compulsory responsibilities or behaviours, has become a key... -
The Breakdown of Democratic Regimes: Crisis, Breakdown and Reequilibration. An Introduction by Juan J. Linz
RRP: €32.73€29.16'About the AuthorAlfred Stepan is the Wallace Sayre Professor of Government at Columbia University, coauthor, with Juan J. Linz, of Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation: Southern Europe, South America, and Post-Communist Europe, and... -
Clandestine Political Violence by Donatella Della Porta
RRP: €32.12€27.13Clandestine Political Violence compares four types of clandestine political violence: left-wing (in Italy and Germany), right-wing (in Italy), ethnonationalist (in Spain) and religious fundamentalist (in Islamist clandestine organizations). Oriented... -
Democratic Capitalism at the Crossroads: Technological Change and the Future of Politics by Carles Boix 9780691190983
RRP: €41.65€33.26An incisive history of the changing relationship between democracy and capitalismThe twentieth century witnessed the triumph of democratic capitalism in the industrialized West, with widespread popular support for both free markets and representative... -
Indebted Societies: Credit and Welfare in Rich Democracies by Andreas Wiedemann
RRP: €36.88€31.86In many rich democracies, access to financial markets is now a prerequisite for fully participating in labor and housing markets and pursuing educational opportunities. Indebted Societies introduces a new social policy theory of everyday borrowing to... -
Political Participation in Britain: The Decline and Revival of Civic Culture by Paul Whiteley
€47.71This broad-ranging text examines the big issues about political attitudes, behaviour and participation in contemporary Britain. Written by a leading expert and drawing on extensive research, this will be essential reading for all students of British... -
The British Constitution in the Twentieth Century by Vernon Bogdanor 9780197263198
€70.72This is the first scholarly survey of the British constitution in the twentieth century. Indeed, it fills a very real gap in the history of Britain during the last hundred years. The book is a product of interdisciplinary collaboration by a... -
The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines by Michael E. Mann
RRP: €26.18€16.72The ongoing assault on climate science in the United States has never been more aggressive, more blatant, or more widely publicized than in the case of the Hockey Stick graph-a clear and compelling visual presentation of scientific data, put together by... -
The Chagos Betrayal: How Britain Robbed an Island and Made Its People Disappear by Florian Grosset 9781912408672
RRP: €20.22€13.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912408672Author Florian GrossetFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Myriad EditionsPublisher Myriad Editions -
Moral Triumph: The Public Face of Christianity in China by Zhibin Xie
RRP: €23.79€21.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506486802Author Zhibin XieFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint Fortress Press,U.S.Publisher 1517 MediaWeight(grams) 318g -
Great Britain: Identities, Institutions and the Idea of Britishness since 1500 by Keith Robbins 9780582031197
RRP: €65.44€62.93This is a timely exploration of national identity in Great Britain over nine hundred years of history. Our attitudes to the nation state are changing - national assemblies in Scotland and Wales and growing pressures for regional assemblies. In his... -
Turkey between Democracy and Authoritarianism by Yesim Arat 9780521138505
RRP: €29.74€25.20Since the 1980 military coup in Turkey, much of the history and politics of the country can be described as a struggle between democracy and authoritarianism. In this accessible account of the country's politics, society and economics, the authors delve... -
Taliban Narratives: The Use and Power of Stories in the Afghanistan Conflict by Thomas Johnson
RRP: €41.65€36.88Why has the Taliban been so much more effective in presenting messages that resonate with the Afghan population than the United States, the Afghan Government and their allies? This book, based on years of field research and the assessment of hundreds of...