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Contested Britain: Brexit, Austerity and Agency Paul Carmichael 9781529205022
RRP: £26.99£20.84A distinctive and original analysis of how the politics of the UK and the lives of British citizens have evolved in the first decades of the twenty-first century, this book provides an interdisciplinary critical examination of the roots, ideology and... -
Global Slump: The Economics and Politics of Crisis and Resistance by David McNally
RRP: £16.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604863321Author David McNallyFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 207g -
The Death Of Captain Marvel Gallery Edition by Jim Starlin 9781302931322
RRP: £42.99£30.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781302931322Author Jim StarlinFormat HardbackPage Count 184Imprint Marvel ComicsPublisher Marvel Comics -
Prosperity & Violence: The Political Economy of Development by Robert H. Bates 9780393933833
£21.58As power and politics play a role in every society, rich or poor, Bates argues it is the reorganization of coercion--not its extinction--that underpins the security needed for investment. Although history makes clear that political structures can be used... -
The Least Dangerous Branch: The Supreme Court at the Bar of Politics by Alexander M. Bickel
RRP: £28.00£27.39This classic book on the role of the Supreme Court in our democracy traces the history of the Court, assessing the merits of various decisions along the way. Eminent law professor Alexander Bickel begins with Marbury vs. Madison, which he says gives... -
Four Years in the Cauldron: The Gripping Story of an Irishman Making Sense of America by Brian O'Donovan
RRP: £9.99£7.11SHORTLISTED FOR THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS 2021The riveting story of a nation at a crucial crossroadsFrom the start of his stint as RTE's Washington Correspondent Brian O'Donovan's lively and authoritative reporting of a tumultuous period in American life has... -
The Power of Nonviolent Resistance: Selected Writings by Mohandas Gandhi
RRP: £17.00£10.06The Power of Nonviolent Resistance is a comprehensive selection of writings from one of the twentieth century's greatest figures. Bringing together excerpts, letters and essays from some of his most celebrated texts including Hind Swaraj, Satyagraha in... -
The Coming Good Society: Why New Realities Demand New Rights by William F. Schulz
RRP: £24.95£19.89Two authors with decades of experience promoting human rights argue that, as the world changes around us, rights hardly imaginable today will come into being.A rights revolution is under way. Today the range of nonhuman entities thought to deserve rights... -
Aesthetic Thinking: Essays on Intention, Painting, Action, and Ideology by Fred Orton
RRP: £30.00£19.88Fred Orton's teaching and writing has always combined theoretical and formal-which is to say structural-analysis with historical research and reflection. This collection of essays brings together some of his most decisive contributions to thinking about... -
Many Rivers, One Sea: Bangladesh and the Challenge of Islamist Militancy by Joseph Allchin
RRP: £17.99£16.14A perennial frontier for Islamic orthodoxy, Bangladesh is witnessing an alarming rise in Islamist-inspired assassinations and terrorist attacks. In July 2016, the world's attention fell upon a cafe in a leafy Dhaka neighbourhood as the barbarity of a... -
The Argumentative Turn in Policy Analysis and Planning by Frank Fischer
RRP: £23.99£20.84Public policy is made of language. Whether in written or oral form, argument is central to all parts of the policy process. As simple as this insight appears, its implications for policy analysis and planning are profound. Drawing from recent work on... -
The Theoretical Evolution of International Political Economy, Third Edition: A Reader by Darel E. Paul 9780199862917
RRP: £55.00£46.07This collection of seminal readings in international political economy charts the historical and theoretical evolution of the field from the seventeenth century to the present day. Bringing together classic works and leading contemporary arguments, this... -
Courageous Citizens: How Culture Contributes To Social Change by B. Lafleur 9789492095510
RRP: £20.00£19.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789492095510Author B. LafleurFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint ValizPublisher Valiz -
American Orientalism: The United States and the Middle East Since 1945 by Douglas Little 9781860648892
£66.79Terror, wars and the deepest mistrust have defined US relations with the Middle East. Since World War II, no region has proved more vital to US interests, nor more difficult to bend to those interests. Why have relations between these two regions been so... -
The Subject of Human Rights by Danielle Celermajer
RRP: £24.99£21.67The Subject of Human Rights is the first book to systematically address the "human" part of "human rights." Drawing on the finest thinking in political theory, cultural studies, history, law, anthropology, and literary studies, this volume examines how... -
Water and Society: Changing Perceptions of Societal and Historical Development Terje Tvedt (University of Bergen, Norway) 9780755606481
RRP: £23.99£20.94This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Despite the central importance that water has held for civilizations both ancient and modern, its social... -
Against the Troika: Crisis and Austerity in the Eurozone by Heiner Flassbeck
RRP: £9.99£6.99On the 25th January 2015 the Greek people voted in an election of historic importance - not just for Greece but potentially all of Europe. The radical party Syriza was elected and austerity and the neoliberal agenda is being challenged. Suddenly it seems... -
Routledge Handbook of Character Assassination and Reputation Management Sergei A. Samoilenko 9781032081779
RRP: £43.99£38.44In modern politics as well as in historical times, character attacks abound. Words and images, like symbolic and psychological weapons, have sullied or destroyed numerous reputations. People mobilize significant material and psychological resources to... -
A Soldier's Story: Revolutionary Writings by a New Afrikan Anarchist by Kuwasi Balagoon 9781629633770
RRP: £19.99£14.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629633770Author Kuwasi BalagoonFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press -
Beyond the Ruins: The Meanings of Deindustrialization by Jefferson Cowie
RRP: £29.99£26.90The immediate impact of deindustrialization-the suffering inflicted upon workers, their families, and their communities-has been widely reported by scholars and journalists. In this important volume, the authors seek to move discussion of America's... -
A Womb of Her Own: Women's Struggle for Sexual and Reproductive Autonomy Ellen L.K. Toronto 9781138194977
RRP: £51.99£45.19Gender and body-based distinctions continue to be a defining component of women's identities, both in psychoanalytic treatment and in life. Although females have made progress in many areas, their status within the human community has remained unstable... -
Power and Choice: An Introduction to Political Science by W. Phillips Shively 9781538151860
RRP: £72.00£58.56Power & Choice offers an in-depth look into the nuances of politics through the analysis of collective choices for a group or state through the use of power. Organized topically and using extended case examples from around the world, Power & Choice... -
Abraham (Lifebuilder Study Guides): Hearing God's Call by Jack Kuhatschek 9781783598885
RRP: £6.99£5.47It sounded implausible. God promised an old, childless man that his descendants would be as numerous as the stars. Yet Abraham chose to believe God, embarking on a transforming, lifelong journey of faith and obedience. As Jack Kuhatschek leads us... -
Handbook of Warning Intelligence by Cynthia M. Grabo 9781442248137
RRP: £58.00£50.59This new and final edition is a follow-up to the author's first book, Anticipating Surprise (University Press of America, 2002) and the Handbook of Warning Intelligence (Scarecrow Press, 2010). The first book was an abridged version of Grabo's 1972... -
Routledge Handbook of NGOs and International Relations by Thomas Davies 9780367783860
RRP: £37.99£33.38Offering insights from pioneering new perspectives in addition to well-established traditions of research, this Handbook considers the activities not only of advocacy groups in the environmental, feminist, human rights, humanitarian, and peace sectors,... -
Performance and Politics in Tanzania: The Nation on Stage by Laura Edmondson
RRP: £19.99£17.54In Performance and Politics in Tanzania, Laura Edmondson examines how politics, social values, and gender are expressed on stage. Now a disappearing tradition, Tanzanian popular theatre integrates comic sketches, acrobatics, melodrama, song, and dance to... -
The Rise of the Dutch New Right: An Intellectual History of the Rightward Shift in Dutch Politics by Merijn Oudenampsen 9780367547592
RRP: £39.99£35.06In the past 20 years, a wave of right-wing populist movements has swept over Europe, changing the face of European politics. The Netherlands has been one of the more iconic countries to partake in this shift. Known internationally as an emblem of... -
The Plot to Scapegoat Russia: How the CIA and the Deep State Have Conspired to Vilify Putin by Dan Kovalik
RRP: £12.99£11.89An in-depth look at the decades-long effort to escalate hostilities with Russia and what it portends for the future.Since 1945, the US has justified numerous wars, interventions, and military build-ups based on the pretext of the Russian Red Menace, even... -
Integral Urbanism by Nan Ellin
RRP: £37.99£33.38Integral Urbanism is an ambitious and forward-looking theory of urbanism that offers a new model of urban life. Nan Ellin's model stands as an antidote to the pervasive problems engendered by modern and postmodern urban planning and architecture: sprawl,... -
Longshot: The Inside Story of the Race for a Covid-19 Vaccine by David Heath
RRP: £22.99£17.14In Longshot, investigative journalist David Heath takes readers inside the small group of scientists whose groundbreaking work was once largely dismissed but whose feat will now eclipse the importance of Jonas Salk's polio vaccine in medical history... -
God's Century: Resurgent Religion and Global Politics by Monica Duffy Toft 9780393932737
£26.15Is religion a force for good or evil in world politics? How much influence does it have? Despite predictions of its decline, religion has resurged in political influence across the globe, helped by the very forces that were supposed to bury it:... -
Building the Good Society: The Power and Limits of Markets, Democracy and Freedom in an Increasingly Polarized World by Lloyd J. Dumas
RRP: £20.99£12.21In many countries, society seems to be going off the rails. Economies are mired in widening and deepening inequality while the polity has deteriorated into a state of permanent hyper-partisan confrontation. Compromise and pragmatism seem a thing of the... -
Beirut 1958: How America's Wars in the Middle East Began by Bruce Riedel
RRP: £19.99£17.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815737292Author Bruce RiedelFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 299gDimensions(mm)... -
Yiddish Revolutionaries in Migration: The Transnational History of the Jewish Labour Bund by Frank Wolff
RRP: £40.00£30.74This ground-breaking history of the General Jewish Labour Bund in migration investigates how the organisation transformed itself from a revolutionary protagonist in early twentieth-century Russia to a socialist institution of secular Jewish life and... -
The League of Nations: Enduring Legacies of the First Experiment at World Organization by M. Cottrell
RRP: £39.99£35.06The League of Nations occupies a fascinating yet paradoxical place in human history. Over time, it's come to symbolize both a path to peace and to war, a promising vision of world order and a utopian illusion, an artifact of a bygone era and a beacon for... -
Apartheid Studies: A Manifesto by Nyasha Mboti
RRP: £39.95£25.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781569027776Author Nyasha MbotiFormat PaperbackPage Count 752Imprint Africa World PressPublisher Africa World Press -
The Isis Reader: Milestone Texts of the Islamic State Movement by Haroro J Ingram 9780197501436
£45.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780197501436Author Haroro J IngramFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint OUP IndiaPublisher OUP IndiaWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 221mm * 140mm * 38mm -
The Senkaku Paradox: Risking Great Power War Over Small Stakes by Michael E. O'Hanlon
RRP: £25.00£21.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815736899Author Michael E. O'HanlonFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams)... -
Cannabis: Global Histories by Lucas Richert
RRP: £52.00£44.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262045209Author Lucas RichertFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
The Two Faces of Democracy: Decentering Agonism and Deliberation by Mary F. Scudder 9780197623893
RRP: £18.99£16.32The democratic imagination is facing significant challenges. These challenges involve not only philosophical questions about the core values of democratic life, but also pressing practical issues related to how we should understand and confront current...