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Memory and Justice in Post-Genocide Rwanda by Timothy Longman
RRP: €32.12€27.61Following times of great conflict and tragedy, many countries implement programs and policies of transitional justice, none more extensive than in post-genocide Rwanda. Placing Rwanda's transitional justice initiatives in their historical and political... -
The Handbook of African Intelligence Cultures by Ryan Shaffer 9781538159972
RRP: €128.52€112.51National intelligence cultures are shaped by their country's history and environment. This book examines the national intelligence cultures of Africa. Focusing on nearly sixty countries, the volume offers a concise account of African intelligence and... -
Family Walks with Dragons: in the North East and Scottish Borders by Stuart Miller 9781910758533
RRP: €11.89€8.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910758533Author Stuart MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Stobart Davies LtdPublisher Stobart Davies Ltd -
The Pure Theory of Politics by Bertrand de Jouvenel 9780865972650
RRP: €13.03€10.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865972650Author Bertrand JouvenelFormat PaperbackPage Count 309Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 432g -
Foyez Ullah: Dhaka's Tropical Expressiv Architecture by Bryan Hawes 9781946226327
RRP: €83.30€57.70On occasion, an artist is not only from, but of, a place. Imbued with the very spirit of a locale, and thus inspired to return the favour. Such is the nature of the relationship between the legendary architect Foyez Ullah, and Bangladesh' capital city,... -
Exposing Pay: Pay Transparency and What It Means for Employees, Employers, and Public Policy by Peter Bamberger
RRP: €29.14€24.73Should employees be allowed to discuss their pay with other employees? Should managers explain the logic underlying pay structures and decisions to employees? Should companies disclose more information on pay for particular positions or even an... -
Vigilantes beyond Borders: NGOs as Enforcers of International Law by Mette Eilstrup-Sangiovanni 9780691232232
RRP: €33.32€26.35How and why NGOs are increasingly taking independent and direct action in global law enforcement, from human rights to the environment Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) have generally served as advocates and service providers, leaving enforcement to... -
Chinese Power and Artificial Intelligence: Perspectives and Challenges William C. Hannas (Georgetown University, Washington DC) 9781032081090
RRP: €44.02€39.01This book provides a comprehensive account of Chinese AI in its various facets, based on primary Chinese-language sources.China's rise as an AI power is an event of importance to the world and a potential challenge to liberal democracies. Filling a gap... -
Outsourcing Control: The Politics of International Migration Cooperation by Katherine H. Tennis 9780228004073
RRP: €83.30€72.24When the European Union signed an agreement with Turkey in 2016 to end irregular migration from Syria using extraterritorial measures, the media framed it as a radical new low in migrant protection. Similarly, when then presidential candidate Donald... -
Understanding Cyber Conflict: Fourteen Analogies by George Perkovich 9781626164987
RRP: €35.11€32.02Cyber weapons and the possibility of cyber conflict-including interference in foreign political campaigns, industrial sabotage, attacks on infrastructure, and combined military campaigns-require policymakers, scholars, and citizens to rethink... -
The Red Dream: The Chinese Communist Party and the Financial Deterioration of China by Carl E Walter
RRP: €24.99€16.86An eye-opening deep dive into the sources and consequences of how China has financed it's rise to global economic prominence In The Red Dream: The Chinese Communist Party and the Financial Deterioration of China, veteran finance executive Carl Walter... -
Honey Trapped: Sex, Betrayal, and Weaponized Love by Henry A Schlesinger
RRP: €17.84€12.07While the so-called "honey trap" is a Hollywood cliche, it is also an enduring piece of tradecraft in the real-life world of spy versus spy. Employed by virtually every intelligence service in times of war and peace, the work of femme fatales and Romeo... -
Exercise of Power: America and the Post-Cold War World by Robert M Gates
RRP: €29.75€22.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524731885Author Robert M. GatesFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 791gDimensions(mm) 240mm *... -
Transparency: The Key to Better Governance? by Christopher Hood 9780197263839
€73.13'Transparency' is widely canvassed as a key to better governance, increasing trust in public-office holders. But transparency is more often preached than practised, more often referred to than defined, and more often advocated than critically analysed... -
Final Solutions: Mass Killing and Genocide in the 20th Century by Benjamin A. Valentino
RRP: €30.93€27.18Benjamin A. Valentino finds that ethnic hatreds or discrimination, undemocratic systems of government, and dysfunctions in society play a much smaller role in mass killing and genocide than is commonly assumed. He shows that the impetus for mass killing... -
The Social Psychology of Collective Victimhood by Johanna Ray Vollhardt
RRP: €72.59€65.95Throughout the world, many continue to experience collective violence and its long-lasting consequences. This book examines the social psychological processes involved in experiences of collective victimization and oppression, as well as the consequences... -
How the Establishment Lost Control Chris Nineham 9781785356315
RRP: €11.89€10.34The post-war consensus is breaking up. The 2014 Scottish referendum, the election of Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader and the turmoil of the EU referendum all testify to an insurgent mood amongst swathes of the population. This book will attempt to explain... -
Beyond the Water’s Edge: How Partisanship Corrupts U.S. Foreign Policy by Paul Pillar 9780231213165
RRP: €35.70€27.72Intense partisanship is a familiar part of the contemporary United States, but its consequences do not stop at the country's borders. The damage now extends to U.S. relations with the rest of the world. Too often, political leaders place their own... -
World on the Edge: How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse by Lester R. Brown
RRP: €27.36€23.99In this urgent time, World on the Edge calls out the pivotal environmental issues and how to solve them now. We are in a race between political and natural tipping points. Can we close coal-fired power plants fast enough to save the Greenland ice sheet... -
Theories of Distributive Justice: Who Gets What and Why by Jeppe Von Platz
RRP: €45.21€39.72How should we design our economic systems? Should we tax the rich at a higher rate than the poor? Should we have a minimum wage? Should the state provide healthcare for all? These and many related questions are the subject of distributive justice, and... -
Drawbridge Britain: Love and Hostility in Immigration Policy from Windrush to the Present by Russell Hargrave
RRP: €20.22€13.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912477791Author Russell HargraveFormat HardbackPage Count 206Imprint Eyewear PublishingPublisher Eyewear PublishingWeight(grams) 380gDimensions(mm) 220mm... -
Horsemen of the Apocalypse: The Men Who Are Destroying Life on Earth-And What It Means for Our Children by Robert F. Kennedy 9781510721753
RRP: €20.22€19.49From the New York Times bestselling author Dick Russell, edited and introduced by New York Times bestselling author Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.! "A must read for anyone concerned with climate and energy issues." -Leonardo DiCaprio, Academy Award winning actor... -
The Mystical as Political by Aristotle Papanikolaou 9780268206628
RRP: €98.77€85.81Theosis, or the principle of divine-human communion, sparks the theological imagination of Orthodox Christians and has been historically important to questions of political theology. In The Mystical as Political: Democracy and Non-Radical Orthodoxy,... -
Kitchens: The Culture of Restaurant Work by Gary Alan Fine 9780520257924
RRP: €29.75€23.31"Kitchens" takes us into the robust, overheated, backstage world of the contemporary restaurant. In this rich, often surprising portrait of the real lives of kitchen workers, Gary Alan Fine brings their experiences, challenges, and satisfactions to... -
A St Helena Who's Who: A Complete Guide to the People on St Helena During Napoleon's Captivity by Arnold Chaplin 9781781551752
RRP: €20.22€15.40A St Helena Who's Who details the island of St Helena and its administration, including military, naval and civil offices as well as the overall population in the 1820s and expenses. A must have for Napoleon historians, this comprehensive book chronicles... -
Inside Russian Politics by Edwin Bacon 9781785902314
€15.80Is there more to Russian politics than Putin? Inside Russian Politics is an intelligent, critical and engaging account of the realities of contemporary Russian politics. It is distinctive in widening our view of Russia beyond the standard account of... -
Judicializing Everything?: The Clash of Constitutionalisms in Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom by Mark S. Harding 9781487528485
RRP: €30.93€26.76Nearly every common law jurisdiction in the world has adopted a charter or bill of rights. Yet adopting a new rights document creates, rather than resolves, many fundamental constitutional questions. Should constitutional rights be relevant in private... -
Counterinsurgency: Theory and Reality by Daniel Whittingham
RRP: €23.80€22.90Counterinsurgency is defined as efforts to defeat and confine a rebellion against a constituted authority. While it has become a buzz-word in the last twenty years, it is as old as society itself. This concise history discusses the development of modern... -
Oblivion by Sergei Lebedev
RRP: €10.70€8.41One of the first twenty-first century Russian novels to probe the legacy of the Soviet prison camp system by one of Russia's finest young writers. A young man travels to the vast wastelands of the Far North to uncover the truth about a shadowy... -
Recognition of Governments in International Law: With Particular Reference to Governments in Exile by Stefan Talmon 9780199248391
€91.15Based on an analysis of the diplomatic practice of States, and decisions by national and international courts, this book explores the two central questions of the recognition of governments. These are namely: what are the meanings of the term... -
Climate Change Denial: Heads in the Sand Haydn Washington 9781849713368
RRP: €30.93€26.93Humans have always used denial. When we are afraid, guilty, confused, or when something interferes with our self-image, we tend to deny it. Yet denial is a delusion. When it impacts on the health of oneself, or society, or the world it becomes a... -
An Hour Before Daylight: Memoirs of a Rural Boyhood by Jimmy Carter 9780743211994
€13.46In this powerful memoir, former President and bestselling author Jimmy Carter writes about the powerful rhythms of countryside and community in a sharecropping economy. He offers an unforgettable portrait of his father, a brilliant farmer and strict... -
American Bonds: How Credit Markets Shaped a Nation by Sarah L. Quinn
RRP: €41.65€33.11How the American government has long used financial credit programs to create economic opportunitiesFederal housing finance policy and mortgage-backed securities have gained widespread attention in recent years because of the 2008 financial crisis, but... -
Pussy Riot: Speaking Punk to Power by Professor Eliot Borenstein 9781350113534
RRP: €16.65€15.01Both more and less than a band, Pussy Riot is continually misunderstood by the Western media. This book sets the record straight. After their scandalous performance of an anti-Putin protest song in Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Savior and the... -
War and Peace in the Caucasus: Russia's Troubled Frontier by Vicken Cheterian
RRP: €23.80€21.23After the collapse of the Soviet Union the Caucasus was wracked by ethnic and separatist violence as the peoples of the region struggled for self-determination. Vicken Cheterian, who spent many years as a reporter and analyst covering the region's... -
How Party Activism Survives: Uruguay's Frente Amplio by Veronica Perez Bentancur
RRP: €36.88€23.01Political parties with activists are in decline due to various external shocks. Societal changes, like the emergence of new technologies of communication have diminished the role and number of activists, while party elites increasingly can make do... -
The Perilous Road to Rome & Beyond: The Memoirs of a Gordon Highlander Edward Grace MC 9781399074537
RRP: €17.84€13.03The author fought with the 6th Battalion of the Gordon Highlanders during the campaigns of 1st Army in Tunisia and in Italy thereafter. As a young platoon commander he and his men were in the thick of the fighting. Wounded during the desperate action at... -
Wise Words from Bookish Women: Smart and sassy life advice by Harper by Design 9781460760628
RRP: €11.89€8.14This uplifting collection celebrates inspiring bookish women the world over and their thoughts on life, love, politics, education and beyond. This uplifting collection celebrates inspiring bookish women the world over and their thoughts on life, love,... -
The Africans by David Lamb 9780394753089
€18.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394753089Author David LambFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 335gDimensions(mm) 202mm... -
William Ellis: Eighteenth-century farmer, journalist and entrepreneur by Malcolm Thick 9781912260492
RRP: €20.22€18.22William Ellis, who lived and farmed at Little Gaddesden in Hertfordshire in the first half of the eighteenth century (d. 1759), is an important figure in English agricultural history. In his time the most prolific writer on agriculture in England, his...