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The Green New Deal and Beyond: Ending the Climate Emergency While We Still Can by Stan Cox 9780872868069
RRP: €15.46€10.56A clear and urgent call for the national, social, and individual changes required to prevent catastrophic climate change."An iconoclast of the best kind, Stan Cox has an all-too-rare commitment to following arguments wherever they lead, however... -
Critical Perspectives on Counter-terrorism by Lee Jarvis
RRP: €49.97€44.08This volume examines the rationale, effectiveness and consequences of counter terrorism practices from a range of perspectives and cases.The book critically interrogates contemporary counter-terrorism powers from military campaigns and repression through... -
Freedom of the Border Paul Scheffer (University of Amsterdam) 9781509540914
RRP: €19.03€17.15There are few issues more contentious today than the nature and purpose of borders. Migration flows and the refugee crisis have propelled the issue of borders into the centre of political debate and revealed our moral unease more clearly than ever. Who... -
Elections Matter: Ten Federal Elections that Shaped Australia by Frank Bongiorno
RRP: €23.79€19.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925523157Author Frank BongiornoFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Monash University PublishingPublisher Monash University Publishing -
Sustainist Design Guide: "How Sharing, Localism, Connectedness and Proportionality are Creating a New Agenda for Social Design" by Michiel Schwarz 9789063692834
RRP: €20.22€13.73Social innovation is experiencing a resurgence at a time when cultural boundaries are shifting. A wave of new social initiatives is coming into view worldwide, where millions of dedicated people are beginning to "design" different kinds of living... -
Dragons Love Ice Cream - Lift-the-Flap by Georgina Wren 9781789586688
RRP: €7.13€4.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789586688Author Georgina WrenPage Count 10Imprint Imagine That Publishing LtdPublisher Imagine That Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 178g -
Social Media and Politics in Africa: Democracy, Censorship and Security by Maggie Dwyer
RRP: €28.55€24.92The smartphone and social media have transformed Africa, allowing people across the continent to share ideas, organise, and participate in politics like never before. While both activists and governments alike have turned to social media as a new form of... -
Constructing China: Clashing Views of the People's Republic by Mobo Gao
RRP: €33.31€26.07From fear and anxiety, to celebration, China's rise has provoked a variety of responses across the world. In light of this phenomenon, how are our understandings of China produced? From West to East, Mobo Gao interrogates knowledge production;... -
The Black and the Blue: A Cop Reveals the Crimes, Racism, and Injustice in America's Law Enforcement by Matthew Horace 9780316440097
RRP: €16.65€11.07Longlisted for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for NonfictionMatthew Horace was an officer at the federal, state, and local level for 28 years working in every state in the country. Yet it was after seven years of service when Horace found himself... -
Kashmir in the Aftermath of Partition by Shahla Hussain 9781108490467
RRP: €89.25€81.09Kashmir remains one of the world's most militarized areas of dispute, having been in the grips of an armed insurgency against India since the late 1980s. In existing scholarship, ideas of territoriality, state sovereignty, and national security have... -
Is Voting for Young People? by Martin P. Wattenberg
RRP: €44.02€38.71In 2016, Hillary Clinton managed to win the Democratic nomination despite losing young voters to Bernie Sanders by a margin of 73 to 26 percent. The fact that senior citizens were four times more likely to vote in the primaries than young people enabled... -
Disabled people and housing: Choices, opportunities and barriers Laura Hemingway (School of Sociology and Social Policy: University of Leeds) 9781847428059
RRP: €35.69€27.39This book provides a comprehensive investigation of housing issues for disabled people from a social model perspective. Documenting historical and current trends, it looks at policy, barriers to housing options and meanings of 'home'. Such a review is... -
Russia and America: The Asymmetric Rivalry Andrei P. Tsygankov 9781509531141
RRP: €20.22€18.11In recent times, US-Russia relations have deteriorated to what both sides acknowledge is an "all time low." Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election and Putin's continued support for the Assad regime in Syria have placed enormous strain... -
Neo-extractivism in Latin America: Socio-environmental Conflicts, the Territorial Turn, and New Political Narratives by Maristella Svampa
RRP: €20.23€17.52This Element analyses the political dynamics of neo-extractivism in Latin America. It discusses the critical concepts of neo-extractivism and the commodity consensus and the various phases of socio-environmental conflict, proposing an eco-territorial... -
Fighting from the Heavens: Tactics and Training of Usaaf Bomber Crews, 1941–45 by Chris McNab 9781636243825
RRP: €29.75€20.97During World War II, the US Army Air Forces (USAAF) projected American military might across distances and with destructive force unimaginable just a decade previously. The B-17s and B-24s of the US Eighth Air Force turned much of Germany's... -
Harold Laski: A Political Biography by Michael Newman 9780850366969
RRP: €23.74€21.54Harold Laski (1893-1950) was perhaps the best known socialist intellectual of his era, influential in the USA, India and mainland Europe as well as Britain. A controversial figure, he was attacked in the Cold War years for his continued defence of... -
Social Policy, Political Economy and the Social Contract Jonathan Wistow (Durham University) 9781447352617
RRP: €29.74€23.07In this challenging and original study, Jonathan Wistow positions social policy within political economy and social contract debates. Focusing on individual, intergenerational and societal outcomes related to health, place and social mobility in... -
Right-Wing Populism and Gender: European Perspectives and Beyond by Gabriele Dietze
€47.49While research in right-wing populism has recently been blossoming, a systematic study of the intersection of right-wing populism and gender is still missing, even though gender issues are ubiquitous in discourses of the radical right ranging from... -
Overheated: How Capitalism Broke the Planet--And How We Fight Back by Kate Aronoff 9781568589473
RRP: €35.70€23.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781568589473Author Kate AronoffFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint Bold Type BooksPublisher Bold Type BooksWeight(grams) 640gDimensions(mm) 243mm * 164mm *... -
Producers, Parasites, Patriots: Race and the New Right-Wing Politics of Precarity by Daniel Martinez HoSang 9781517903596
RRP: €19.03€16.95The shifting meaning of race and class in the age of Trump The profound concentration of economic power in the United States in recent decades has produced surprising new forms of racialization. In Producers, Parasites, Patriots, Daniel Martinez HoSang... -
Benghazi!: A New History of the Fiasco That Pushed America and Its World to the Brink by Ethan Chorin
RRP: €29.75€19.85Ten years after an attack on the US diplomatic mission in Benghazi killed Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans, cries of "Benghazi!" still echo across America. But instead of a landmark event to be taken seriously, it has become a... -
Marx in Paris, 1871 by Michael Loewy
RRP: €15.46€10.56In celebration of the 150th anniversary of the Paris Commune, leftist writers Olivier Besancenot and Michael Loewy offer a deeply informed, and eminently enjoyable, imagined history of what might have been if Karl Marx and his eldest daughter, Jenny, had... -
Trouble in the Tribe: The American Jewish Conflict over Israel by Dov Waxman 9780691181158
RRP: €20.22€16.49How Israel is dividing American JewsTrouble in the Tribe explores the increasingly contentious place of Israel in the American Jewish community. In a fundamental shift, growing numbers of American Jews have become less willing to unquestioningly support... -
The Transit of Empire: Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism by Jodi A. Byrd
RRP: €26.17€23.31In 1761 and again in 1768, European scientists raced around the world to observe the transit of Venus, a rare astronomical event in which the planet Venus passes in front of the sun. In The Transit of Empire, Jodi A. Byrd explores how indigeneity... -
Austerity from the Left: Social Democratic Parties in the Shadow of the Great Recession by Björn Bremer
RRP: €98.77€89.65Austerity became the predominant fiscal policy response to the Great Recession in Europe. After a brief period of 'emergency Keynesianism' from 2008 to 2010, even the centre-left abandoned plans for deficit spending and accepted austerity as the dogma of... -
The Capitalism Papers: Fatal Flaws of an Obsolete System Jerry Mander 9781619021587
RRP: €19.03€13.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619021587Author Jerry ManderFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint -
Public Man, Private Woman: Women in Social and Political Thought - Second Edition by Jean Bethke Elshtain
RRP: €65.45€51.47Focusing on the Western philosophical tradition and the work of contemporary feminists, Jean Elshtain explores the general tendency to assert the primacy of the public world--the political sphere dominated by men--and to denigrate the private world--the... -
Democracy under Attack: How the Media Distort Policy and Politics Malcolm Dean (Nuffield College, Oxford) 9781847428493
RRP: €15.46€12.67Malcolm Dean, The Guardian newspaper's longstanding chief monitor of social affairs, expertly indicts his own trade through a series of seven case studies on the influence of media on social policy. Drawing on four decades of top-level Whitehall... -
Women, Peace and Security: An Introduction Joan Johnson-Freese (US Naval War College, USA) 9781138344051
RRP: €44.02€36.45This book offers an accessible overview of the multiple, interdependent issues related to the Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) global agenda.The first introductory overview of the WPS agenda as articulated in multiple national and international... -
Would the World Be Better Without the UN? Thomas G. Weiss (City University of New York) 9781509517268
RRP: €21.12€18.86Do we need the United Nations? Where would the contemporary world be without its largest intergovernmental organization? And where could it be had the UN's member states and staff performed better?These fundamental questions are explored by the leading... -
Brussels, the Gentle Monster: or the Disenfranchisement of Europe Hans Magnus Enzensberger 9780857420237
RRP: €8.33€7.68The inner workings of the European Union are as much a mystery to those living within its confines as they are to those of us who reside elsewhere. The Brussels bureaucracy that sets many of the EU's policies feels remote to its citizens, yet the... -
Epicentre to Aftermath: Rebuilding and Remembering in the Wake of Nepal's Earthquakes by Michael Hutt
RRP: €107.10€96.90Epicentre to Aftermath makes both empirical and conceptual contributions to the growing body of disaster studies literature by providing an analysis of a disaster aftermath that is steeped in the political and cultural complexities of its social and... -
Routledge Handbook of the South China Sea by Zou Keyuan
RRP: €49.97€44.08The Routledge Handbook of the South China Sea presents a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of South China Sea issues. It evaluates the dynamics of the latest developments and identifies factors that contribute to dispute settlement and a cooperative... -
The Friends of Durruti Group 1937-39 by Augustin Guillamon 9781873176542
RRP: €9.46€6.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781873176542Author Agustin GuillamonFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint AK PressPublisher AK PressWeight(grams) 191g -
Medieval Damascus: Plurality and Diversity in an Arabic Library: The Ashrafiya Library Catalogue Konrad Hirschler 9781474426398
RRP: €39.26€32.61This book discusses the largest and earliest medieval library of the Middle East for which we have documentation the Ashrafiya library in the very centre of Damascus and edits its catalogue.About the AuthorKonrad Hirschler is Professor of History of... -
The Rise and Fall of Intelligence: An International Security History by Michael Warner
RRP: €31.54€28.19This sweeping history of the development of professional, institutionalized intelligence examines the implications of the fall of the state monopoly on espionage today and beyond. During the Cold War, only the alliances clustered around the two... -
Rising Titans, Falling Giants: How Great Powers Exploit Power Shifts by Joshua R. Itzkowitz Shifrinson
RRP: €128.52€110.74As a rising great power flexes its muscles on the political-military scene it must examine how to manage its relationships with states suffering from decline; and it has to do so in a careful and strategic manner. In Rising Titans, Falling Giants Joshua... -
The Ebb of the Pink Tide: The Decline of the Left in Latin America by Mike Gonzalez
RRP: €29.74€19.79Following the election of Hugo Chavez to the Venezuelan presidency, and the Cochabamba water wars, Latin American politics were radicalised and their governments populated with former activists and trade union leaders. In this book, renowned Latin... -
Subversive citizens: Power, agency and resistance in public services Marian Barnes 9781847422071
RRP: €38.07€29.12Many of the recent reforms in public services in the UK have been driven by the image of the 'responsible citizen' - the service user who does not only have rights to receive services but also has responsibilities for the delivery of policy outcomes. In... -
Exploring British Politics by Mark Garnett
€47.89Exploring British Politics is a concise, comprehensive, and accessible guide to the subject. Fully updated and revised, the new edition covers developments since 2016 in the role of the executive, Parliament, the civil service, political parties, general...