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Words Whispered in Water: Why the Levees Broke in Hurricane Katrina by Sandy Rosenthal
RRP: €20.17€11.45The New Orleans Flood, U.S. Corruption, and Disasters "Rosenthal employs the surgical precision of an investigative journalist and the craft of a memoirist to expose the flaws, natural and human, behind the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina." -The... -
East Coast Pacifics : The Postwar Years by Peter Waller 9780995749344
RRP: €11.89€8.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995749344Author Peter WallerFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Unique BooksPublisher Unique Publishing Services Ltd -
Small States in World Markets: Industrial Policy in Europe by Peter J. Katzenstein
RRP: €27.36€24.18By the early 1980s the average American had a lower standard of living than the average Norwegian or Dane. Standards of living in the Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden, Switzerland, and Austria also rivaled those in the United States. How have seven small... -
Change in Global Environmental Politics: Temporal Focal Points and the Reform of International Institutions by Michael W. Manulak
RRP: €101.15€91.63As wildfires rage, pollution thickens, and species disappear, the world confronts environmental crisis with a set of global institutions in urgent need of reform. Yet, these institutions have proved frustratingly resistant to change. Introducing the... -
Religion and Nationalism in Southeast Asia by Joseph Chinyong Liow
RRP: €29.74€25.20Religion and nationalism are two of the most potent and enduring forces that have shaped the modern world. Yet, there has been little systematic study of how these two forces have interacted to provide powerful impetus for mobilization in Southeast Asia,... -
Sub-Saharan Africa: Architectural Guide: Volume 2: Western Africa. From the Atlantic Ocean to the Sahel by Philipp Meuser 9783869220826
RRP: €41.65€34.30Originally part of a set, now sold separately, Volume 2 of Sub-Saharan Africa Architectural Guide is dedicated to Western Africa, from the Atlantic Ocean to the Sahel and includes Cabo Verde, The Gambia, Senegal, Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, and... -
The Hangman and His Wife: The Life and Death of Reinhard Heydrich by Nancy Dougherty
RRP: €35.70€31.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394543413Author Nancy DoughertyFormat HardbackPage Count 704Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. Knopf -
Republic of Hindutva: How the Sangh Is Reshaping Indian Democracy by Badri Narayan
€24.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780670094042Author Badri NarayanFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint PenguinPublisher Penguin Random House IndiaDimensions(mm) 200mm * 140mm * 30mm -
Scandinavian Unexceptionalism: Culture, Markets and the Failure of Third-Way Socialism by Nima Sanandaji 9780255367042
RRP: €11.90€10.91Scandinavian countries have been praised for their high levels of welfare provision and their economic and social outcomes. It is true that they are successful by most reasonable measures. However, Scandinavia's success story predated the welfare state... -
The New Totalitarian Temptation: Global Governance and the Crisis of Democracy in Europe by Todd Huizinga 9781594037894
RRP: €21.41€14.64What caused the eurozone debacle and the chaos in Greece? Why has Europe's migrant crisis spun out of control, over the heads of national governments? Why is Great Britain calling a vote on whether to leave the European Union? Why are established... -
The University and Social Justice: Struggles Across the Globe Aziz Choudry 9780745340685
RRP: €33.31€26.07Higher education has long been contested terrain. From student movements to staff unions, the fight for accessible, critical and quality public education has turned university campuses globally into sites of struggle. Whether calling for the... -
Don't Buy It: The Trouble with Talking Nonsense about the Economy by Anat Shenker Osorio
RRP: €30.94€27.64After everything that's happened, how is it possible that conservatives still win debates about the economy? Time and again the right wins over voters by claiming that their solutions are only common sense, even as their tired policies of budgetary... -
People Power: Why We Need More Migrants by Giles Merritt
RRP: €27.36€24.31Migration is one of the fundamental driving forces of change in the modern world. As regions such as the Middle East continue to experience instability, climate change is driving migration from Africa and Central Asia - these 'push factors' lead to... -
The Logic of Capital: An Introduction to Marxist Economic Theory by Deepankar Basu
RRP: €107.10€97.66This book presents the main economic argument developed by Marx in the three volumes of Capital in a coherent and comprehensive manner. It also delves into three long-standing debates in Marxist political economy: the transformation problem, the Okishio... -
The Art of Creating Power: Freedman on Strategy by Benedict Wilkinson
RRP: €41.65€38.07The Art of Creating Power explores the intellectual thought and wider impact--on military affairs, politics and the universities--of Professor Sir Lawrence Freedman, one of the world's leading authorities on strategy, conflict and international politics... -
Rivals in Arms: The Rise of UK-France Defence Relations in the Twenty-First Century by Alice Pannier
RRP: €35.69€24.44As the UK leaves the European Union and as the multilateral order is increasingly under stress, bilateral security links are more important than ever. Among such relationships, the UK-France partnership has become particularly critical in the past... -
The New Climate Activism: NGO Authority and Participation in Climate Change Governance by Jen Allan
RRP: €28.55€24.80At the 2019 UN climate change conference, activists and delegates from groups representing Indigenous, youth, women, and labour rights were among those marching through the halls chanting "Climate Justice, People Power." In The New Climate Activism, Jen... -
Gone Viral: How Covid Drove the World Insane by Justin Hart
RRP: €35.69€21.60Data and marketing consultant and statistical sage to presidential candidates, governors, businesses, and the real powers-that-be, epidemiologists, Justin Hart catalogs in a terrifying-but-sprightly manner the folly and psychosis produced by the pandemic... -
Nicaragua Must Survive: Sandinista Revolutionary Diplomacy in the Global Cold War by Eline van Ommen 9780520390768
RRP: €29.75€23.31Nicaragua Must Survive tells the story of the Sandinistas' innovative diplomatic campaign, which captured the imaginations of people around the globe and transformed Nicaraguan history at the tail end of the Cold War. The Sandinistas' diplomacy went far... -
Polarized and Demobilized: Legacies of Authoritarianism in Palestine by Dana El Kurd 9781787388246
RRP: €22.60€20.21After the 1994 Oslo Accords, Palestinians were hopeful that an end to the Israeli occupation was within reach, and that a state would be theirs by 1999. With this promise, international powers became increasingly involved in Palestinian politics, and... -
Habeas Data: Privacy vs. the Rise of Surveillance Tech by Cyrus Farivar 9781612197753
RRP: €21.41€12.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612197753Author Cyrus FarivarFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House PublishingWeight(grams)... -
Return to Cold War Robert Legvold 9781509501892
RRP: €17.84€16.16The 2014 crisis in Ukraine sent a tottering U.S.-Russian relationship over a cliff - a dangerous descent into deep mistrust, severed ties, and potential confrontation reminiscent of the Cold War period. In this incisive new analysis, leading expert on... -
The Dark Double: US Media, Russia, and the Politics of Values by Andrei P. Tsygankov 9780190919344
€25.35Although many observers argue that US-Russia relations are a simple reflection of elites' political and economic preferences in both countries, these preferences tend to arise from pre-existing belief systems that are deeply rooted in the public and... -
The Social Contract from Hobbes to Rawls by David Boucher
RRP: €65.44€56.79First published in 2004. WHAT IS THE ROLE OF THE SOCIAL CONTRACT IN MODERN POLITICAL THOUGHT? The concept of a social contract has been central to political thought since the seventeenth century. Contract theory has been used to justify political... -
The Sacredness of the Person: A New Genealogy of Human Rights by Hans Joas 9781589019690
RRP: €31.54€27.72What are the origins of the idea of human rights and universal human dignity? How can we most fully understand-and realize-these rights going into the future? In The Sacredness of the Person, internationally renowned sociologist and social theorist Hans... -
The Chaplin Machine: Slapstick, Fordism and the Communist Avant-Garde by Owen Hatherley
RRP: €29.75€4.64Could Buster Keaton have starred in Battleship Potemkin? Did Trotsky plan to write the great Soviet comedy? And why did Lenin love circus clowns? The Chaplin Machine reveals the lighter side of the Communist avant-garde and its unlikely passion... -
Under the Black Umbrella: Voices from Colonial Korea, 1910-1945 by Hildi Kang
RRP: €23.79€21.19In the rich and varied life stories in Under the Black Umbrella, elderly Koreans recall incidents that illustrate the complexities of Korea during the colonial period. Hildi Kang here reinvigorates a period of Korean history long shrouded in the silence... -
The New Prophets of Capital by Nicole Aschoff
€17.17As severe environmental degradation, breathtaking inequality, and increasing alienation push capitalism against its own contradictions, mythmaking has become as central to sustaining our economy as profitmaking. Enter the new prophets of capital:... -
Countering Cyber Sabotage: Introducing Consequence-Driven, Cyber-Informed Engineering (CCE) by Andrew A. Bochman
RRP: €79.72€68.82Countering Cyber Sabotage: Introducing Consequence-Driven, Cyber-Informed Engineering (CCE) introduces a new methodology to help critical infrastructure owners, operators and their security practitioners make demonstrable improvements in securing their... -
Purify and Destroy: The Political Uses of Massacre and Genocide by Jacques Semelin
RRP: €29.75€26.69How can we comprehend the socio-political processes that give rise to extreme violence, ethnic cleansing or genocide? A major breakthrough in comparative analysis, Purify and Destroy demonstrates that it is indeed possible to compare the Holocaust, the... -
Private Money and Public Currencies: The Sixteenth Century Challenge: The Sixteenth Century Challenge M-.T.Boyer- Xambeau 9781563245084
RRP: €52.35€45.39First Published in 1994. Writing as a unified team, the authors, three French economists-they insist they are economists, not economic historians, though they are steeped in the monetary, financial, economic, social, and political history of Europe in... -
African Foreign Policies: Selecting Signifiers to Explain Agency Paul-Henri Bischoff (Rhodes University, South Africa.) 9781032400266
RRP: €47.59€39.31This book explores, at a time when several powers have become serious players on the continent, aspects of African agency, past and present, by African writers on foreign policy, representative of geography, language and state size.In the past, African... -
Overcoming the Oppressors: White and Black in Southern Africa by Robert I. Rotberg
RRP: €32.71€27.61Overcoming the Oppressors traces southern Africa's long walk to freedom, the overturning of colonial rule in the northern territories, and the dissolution of backs-to-the-wall white settler suzerainty, first in what became Zimbabwe and then in South... -
River and the Rock, The - River Potholes of Wales by Dewi Roberts 9781845278878
RRP: €26.18€26.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845278878Author Dewi RobertsFormat HardbackPage Count 132Imprint Gwasg Carreg GwalchPublisher Gwasg Carreg GwalchDimensions(mm) 200mm * 240mm * 10mm -
The Israel/Palestine Reader Alan Dowty (Professor Emeritus at the University of Notre Dame and former Kahanoff Chair of Israel Studies at the University of Calgary) 9781509527342
RRP: €21.41€19.09Introduction to any complex international conflict is enriched when the voices of the adversaries are heard. The Israel/Palestine Reader is an innovative collection, focused on the human dimension of the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian confrontation. Its... -
Circular Economy and the Law: Bringing Justice into the Frame by Feja Lesniewska
RRP: €61.87€53.78This book explores the role of law and policy in circular economy transitions and their impacts on justice, including on distributional equity and recognition and procedural rights, especially for people already marginalised under the current dominant... -
Marx at the Margins: On Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Non-Western Societies by Professor Kevin B. Anderson
RRP: €28.56€27.41In Marx at the Margins, Kevin Anderson uncovers a variety of extensive but neglected texts by Marx that cast what we thought we knew about his work in a startlingly different light. Analyzing a variety of Marx's writings, including journalistic work... -
Public Intellectual: The Life of a Citizen Pilgrim by Richard Falk
RRP: €29.75€24.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949762327Author Richard FalkFormat PaperbackPage Count 474Imprint Clarity PressPublisher Clarity PressWeight(grams) 635gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 150mm *... -
Al-Qaida in Afghanistan by Anne Stenersen
RRP: €32.12€27.13Since 9/11, al-Qaida has become one of the most infamous and widely discussed terrorist organizations in the world, with affiliates spread across the globe. However, little-known are the group's activities within Afghanistan itself, something which Anne... -
Belief, Bias and Intelligence: Improving Analytical Efforts for National Intelligence by Martha Whitesmith
RRP: €107.10€86.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474466349Author Martha WhitesmithFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press