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Blue Labour: The Politics of the Common Good Maurice Glasman (Blue Labour) 9781509528868
RRP: €20.22€13.93Labour has been on a wild ride over the past thirty years. New Labour argued that we had no choice but to accept a globalized free market economy in which the race was to the swift, the open and the flexible. Corbynism reacted against this with a jumble... -
Backbone of the Nation: Mining Communities and the Great Strike of 1984-85 by Robert Gildea 9780300277906
RRP: €14.27€12.39"An admirably compassionate testament"-Max Hastings, Sunday Times "A vivid and evocative panorama"-James Graham, The Observer "Superb"-John Harris, The GuardianA powerful new history of the Great Strike in the miners' own voices, based on more than 140... -
One State, Two States: Resolving the Israel/Palestine Conflict by Benny Morris
RRP: €20.22€19.83A renowned historian eludes the pitfalls of partisanship and tackles one of the world's most perplexing and divisive issues "What is so striking about Morris's work as a historian is that it does not flatter anyone's prejudices, least of all his own,"... -
Britannia Unchained: Global Lessons for Growth and Prosperity by Kwasi Kwarteng 9781137032232
RRP: €33.31€28.88Britain is at a cross-roads; from the economy, to the education system, to social mobility, Britain must learn the rules of the 21st century, or face a slide into mediocrity. Brittania Unchained travels around the world, exploring the nations that are... -
The Penguin Book of Historic Speeches by Brian MacArthur
RRP: €17.84€13.03From Moses to Nelson Mandela, speeches have changed the way we see the world and the way the world is shaped.The Penguin Book of Historic Speeches gathers together the world's greatest speeches, bringing together the words of over one hundred men and... -
The Moral Status of Combatants: A New Theory of Just War by Michael Skerker 9780367521080
RRP: €47.59€41.72This book develops a new contractualist foundation for just war theory, which defends the traditional view of the moral equality of combatants and associated egalitarian moral norms.Traditionally it has been viewed that combatants on both sides of a war... -
Overcoming Zionism: Creating a Single Democratic State in Israel/Palestine Joel Kovel 9780745325699
RRP: €29.74€19.79Israel is an incorrigible human rights offender because, by discriminating against Arabs, it is guilty of 'state-sponsored racism' argues Joel Kovel. Like apartheid South Africa, the best hope for peace in Israel is to return to the idea of a one-state... -
William Wilberforce: The Life of the Great Anti-Slave Trade Campaigner by William Hague
RRP: €20.22€13.65William Hague has written the life of William Wilberforce who was both a staunch conservative and a tireless campaigner against the slave trade. Hague shows how Wilberforce, after his agonising conversion to evangelical Christianity, was able... -
The Lost Peace: How the West Failed to Prevent a Second Cold War by Richard Sakwa 9780300255010
RRP: €29.75€24.89The end of the Cold War was an opportunity - our inability to seize it has led to today's renewed era of great power competition 1989 heralded a unique prospect for an enduring global peace, as harsh ideological divisions and conflicts began to be... -
Cultures of Empire: A Reader : Colonisers in Britain and the Empire in Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries by Catherine Hall 9780719058585
RRP: €23.79€21.43Collects together the best articles by key historians, literary critics, and anthropologists on the cultures of colonialism in the British Empire in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.. A substantial introduction by the distinguished historian,... -
Everyone Loses: The Ukraine Crisis and the Ruinous Contest for Post-Soviet Eurasia by Samuel Charap
RRP: €20.22€18.40Disorder erupted in Ukraine in 2014, involving the overthrow of a sitting government, the Russian annexation of the Crimean peninsula, and a violent insurrection, supported by Moscow, in the east of the country.This Adelphi book argues that the crisis... -
The British in India: Three Centuries of Ambition and Experience by David Gilmour
RRP: €20.22€14.84A SUNDAY TIMES, THE TIMES, SPECTATOR, NEW STATESMAN, TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR'A richly panoramic exploration of the British experience of India ... hugely researched and elegantly written, sensitive to the ironies of the past and brimming with colourful... -
Idi Amin: The Story of Africa's Icon of Evil Mark Leopold 9780300260885
RRP: €15.46€13.64The first serious full-length biography of former Ugandan president Idi Amin, modern Africa's most famous dictator"A nuanced and sophisticated examination of one of the most misunderstood, and caricatured, figures in modern African history. . . ... -
Loyalists by Peter Taylor 9780747545194
RRP: €20.22€14.84The second part of the landmark trilogy documenting modern-day Northern Ireland, by the author Provos and Brits Based on a three-part BBC TV series, this is an inside account of the thinking, strategies and ruthless violence of the paramilitaries in... -
Oneness vs The 1%: Shattering Illusions, Seeding Freedom by Vandana Shiva 9781780265131
RRP: €11.89€8.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780265131Author Vandana ShivaFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint New Internationalist Publications LtdPublisher New Internationalist Publications Ltd -
The Hacker and the State: Cyber Attacks and the New Normal of Geopolitics by Ben Buchanan
RRP: €21.36€17.64"A must-read...It reveals important truths."-Vint Cerf, Internet pioneer"One of the finest books on information security published so far in this century-easily accessible, tightly argued, superbly well-sourced, intimidatingly perceptive."-Thomas Rid,... -
My Seditious Heart by Arundhati Roy
RRP: €35.70€25.41Twenty years, a thousand pages, and now a single beautiful edition of Arundhati Roy's complete non-fiction.'Arundhati Roy is one of the most confident and original thinkers of our time' Naomi Klein 'The world has never had to face such global confusion... -
The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule by Angela Saini
RRP: €23.80€15.59SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2023 A WATERSTONES BOOK OF YEAR FOR POLITICS 2023 'I learned something new on every page of this totally essential book'... -
Confronting Inequality: How Societies Can Choose Inclusive Growth by Jonathan D. Ostry 9780231174695
RRP: €33.32€25.94Inequality has drastically increased in many countries around the globe over the past three decades. The widening gap between the very rich and everyone else is often portrayed as an unexpected outcome or as the tradeoff we must accept to achieve... -
How to Feed a Dictator: Saddam Hussein, Idi Amin, Enver Hoxha, Fidel Castro, and Pol Pot Through the Eyes of Their Cooks Witold Szablowski 9781785788352
RRP: €13.08€8.97Mixing bold journalism with bolder allegories, Mr Szablowski teaches us with witty persistence that we must desire freedom rather than simply expect itTimothy Snyder, New York Times bestselling author of ON TYRANNYA devastatingly original look at the... -
Asking for a Friend by Kate Mallinder 9781913102296
RRP: €9.51€6.44A feel-good YA story from the author of Summer of No Regrets about valuing the friends that value you. Agnes, Hattie and Jake travel on the school bus together but don't know each other well. They plan a week in Weston as a 'study break' before exams... -
Stealth Democracy: Americans' Beliefs About How Government Should Work by John R. Hibbing 9780521009867
RRP: €29.74€25.20Americans often complain about the operation of their government, but scholars have never developed a complete picture of people's preferred type of government. In this provocative and timely book, Hibbing and Theiss-Morse, employing an original national... -
A Tough Mind and a Tender Heart by Martin Luther King, Jr.
RRP: €7.13€5.51'Far from being the pious injunction of a Utopian dreamer, the command to love one's enemy is an absolute necessity for our survival'Advocating love as strength and non-violence as the most powerful weapon there is, these sermons and writings from the... -
Permanent Record by Edward Snowden 9781529035650
RRP: €23.80€17.74THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLEREdward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government's system of mass surveillance, reveals for the first time the story of his life, including how he helped to build that system and what motivated... -
Social Policy: Theory and Practice Paul Spicker (Robert Gordon University) 9781447316107
RRP: €34.50€27.42Social Policy: Theory and practice is a fully revised, updated and extended edition of a bestselling social policy textbook, extensively reworked and adapted to meet the needs of its international readership. The book lays out the architecture of social... -
The Secret World: A History of Intelligence by Christopher Andrew
RRP: €22.60€16.67'The most comprehensive narrative of intelligence compiled ... unrivalled' Max Hastings, Sunday Times'Captivating, insightful and masterly' Edward Lucas, The TimesThe history of espionage is far older than any of today's intelligence agencies, yet the... -
What is Critical Environmental Justice? David Naguib Pellow 9780745679389
RRP: €19.03€17.40Human societies have always been deeply interconnected with our ecosystems, but today those relationships are witnessing greater frictions, tensions, and harms than ever before. These harms mirror those experienced by marginalized groups across the... -
The International Politics of the Asia-Pacific: Fourth and Revised Edition Michael Yahuda (London School of Economics & Political Science, London, UK) 9781138647077
RRP: €44.02€39.48This fully revised fourth edition of Michael Yahuda's successful textbook brings the subject up-to-date, introducing students to the international politics of the Asia-Pacific region since 1945. Following an evaluation of the legacy of the Cold War the... -
River of Time by Jon Swain
RRP: €13.08€9.51Between 1970 and 1975 Jon Swain, the English journalist portrayed in David Puttnam's film, The Killing Fields, lived in the lands of the Mekong river. This is his account of those years, and the way in which the tumultuous events affected his perceptions... -
Origins of the Civil Rights Movements by Aldon D. Morris 9780029221303
€20.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780029221303Author Aldon D. MorrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Macmillan USAPublisher Prentice Hall (a Pearson Education company)Weight(grams)... -
And Then What?: Inside Stories of 21st Century Diplomacy by Baroness Catherine Ashton
RRP: €23.80€16.49Financial Times - BEST BOOKS OF 2023 'And Then What? is breathless and conversational - and all the more readable for that. But while her tone is down-to-earth, the events that Ashton played a part in were dramatic and often historic.' Gideon... -
The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia by Masha Gessen 9781783784028
RRP: €13.08€8.97In The Future is History Masha Gessen follows the lives of four Russians, born as the Soviet Union crumbled, at what promised to be the dawn of democracy. Each came of age with unprecedented expectations, some as the children or grandchildren of the very... -
The Pinch: How the Baby Boomers Took Their Children's Future - And Why They Should Give It Back by David Willetts
RRP: €13.08€8.97In this fascinating and provocative book, David Willetts shows how the baby boomer generation has amassed unprecedented wealth and power at the expense of its children. Today's young people will pay heavier taxes, work longer hours for less money and... -
Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World's First Empire by Eckart Frahm 9781526623812
RRP: €35.70€32.94The first comprehensive account of the rise and fall of what historians consider to be the world's very first empire: Assyria 'A work of remarkable synthesis. The range of its sources is truly extraordinary . . . Frahm punctures a fair share of myths... -
Conquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire by Roger Crowley
RRP: €15.46€10.47As remarkable as Columbus and the conquistador expeditions, the history of Portuguese exploration is now almost forgotten. But Portugal's navigators cracked the code of the Atlantic winds, launched the expedition of Vasco da Gama to India and beat... -
Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism: The Origins and Afterlife of James Mason’s Siege by Spencer Sunshine 9780367190606
RRP: €32.12€28.39A new wave of aspiring neo-Nazi terrorists has arisen—including the infamous Atomwaffen Division. And they have a bible: James Mason’s Siege, which praises terrorism, serial killers, and Charles Manson. Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism,... -
Uncharitable - How Restraints on Nonprofits Undermine Their Potential by Dan Pallotta 9781684581245
RRP: €28.56€21.54Uncharitable investigates how for-profit strategies could and should be used by nonprofits. Uncharitable goes where no other book on the nonprofit sector has dared to tread. Where other texts suggest ways to optimize performance inside the existing... -
The Essential Words and Writings of Clarence Darrow by Clarence Darrow 9780812966770
RRP: €20.83€14.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812966770Author Clarence DarrowFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 244g -
Radical Solutions to the Housing Supply Crisis Duncan Bowie 9781447328490
RRP: €14.27€11.51As housing supply in England reaches crisis point, Duncan Bowie provides a critical review of housing policy under successive UK Governments. Exploring the inter-relationship between housing, planning and land policies, Bowie puts forward a reform... -
Global Political Economy: Evolution and Dynamics by Robert O'Brien
RRP: €44.02€40.63Offering an accessible introduction to both the historical roots and the contemporary dynamics of today's world economy, the extensively revised sixth edition of this bestselling textbook continues to lead the way in equipping students with the knowledge...