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Top Secret Canada: Understanding the Canadian Intelligence and National Security Community by Stephanie Carvin 9781487525279
RRP: £27.99£22.49National security in the interest of preserving the well-being of a country is arguably the first and most important responsibility of any democratic government. Motivated by some of the pressing questions and concerns of citizens, Top Secret Canada is... -
Remapping Knowledge: Intercultural Studies for a Global Age by Mihai I. Spariosu 9781800739451
RRP: £15.95£13.30The growing interdependence of the local and the global demand innovative approaches to human development. Such approaches, the author argues, ought to be based on the emerging ethics of global intelligence, defined as the ability to understand, respond... -
Evo's Bolivia: Continuity and Change by Linda C. Farthing
RRP: £19.99£17.54In this compelling and comprehensive look at the rise of Evo Morales and Bolivia's Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS), Linda Farthing and Benjamin Kohl offer a thoughtful evaluation of the transformations ushered in by the western hemisphere's first... -
Last Prime Minister: Being Honest About the U.K. Presidency by Graham Allen 9780907845416
£11.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780907845416Author Graham AllenFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 200gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 135mm... -
Neo-extractivism in Latin America: Socio-environmental Conflicts, the Territorial Turn, and New Political Narratives by Maristella Svampa
RRP: £17.00£14.72This 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... -
The Case for The Enlightenment: Scotland and Naples 1680-1760 by John Robertson
RRP: £29.99£27.80The Case for the Enlightenment is a comparative study of the emergence of Enlightenment in Scotland and in Naples. Challenging the tendency to fragment the Enlightenment in eighteenth-century Europe into multiple Enlightenments, the distinguished... -
The Vanished Imam: Musa al Sadr and the Shia of Lebanon by Fouad Ajami
RRP: £28.99£24.96In the summer of 1978, Musa al Sadr, the spiritual leader of the Muslim Shia sect in Lebanon, disappeared mysteriously while on a visit to Libya. As in the Shia myth of the "Hidden Imam," this modern-day Imam left his followers upholding his legacy and... -
Fear: The History of a Political Idea by Corey Robin
RRP: £21.49£16.08For many commentators, September 11 inaugurated a new era of fear. But as Corey Robin shows in his unsettling tour of the Western imagination--the first intellectual history of its kind--fear has shaped our politics and culture since time immemorial. ... -
The Idea of Technological Innovation: A Brief Alternative History Benoit Godin 9781839104015
RRP: £28.95£26.49This timely book explores technological innovation as a concept, dissecting its emergence, development and use. Benoit Godin offers an exciting new historiography of the subject, arguing that the study of innovation originates not from scholars but from... -
Come Hell Or High Water: A Handbook on Collective Process Gone Awry by Delfina Vannucci
RRP: £8.00£5.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849350181Author Delfina VannucciFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint AK PressPublisher AK PressWeight(grams) 125g -
Redeeming The Prince: The Meaning of Machiavelli's Masterpiece by Maurizio Viroli 9780691160016
RRP: £25.00£19.59In Redeeming "The Prince," one of the world's leading Machiavelli scholars puts forth a startling new interpretation of arguably the most influential but widely misunderstood book in the Western political tradition. Overturning popular misconceptions and... -
Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx 9780143106265
RRP: £12.99£8.15Marx and Engel's landmark treatise - in a graphic deluxe edition. One of the most important and influential political theories ever formulated, The Communist Manifesto is a revolutionary summons to the working class-an incisive account of a new theory of... -
The Final Kingdom: Horizons of the Fourth Political Theory and Geopolitics of the Apocalypse by Pyotr Volkov 9781914337147
RRP: £31.99£22.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914337147Author Pyotr VolkovFormat PaperbackPage Count 412Imprint Orthodox LogosPublisher Orthodox LogosWeight(grams) 603gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
Uncertain Future: The JCPOA and Iran's Nuclear and Missile Programmes Mark Fitzpatrick 9780367197056
RRP: £21.99£19.34In July 2015, eight parties - France, Germany and the United Kingdom, together with the European Union and China, Russia and the United States on the one side, and Iran on the other - adopted the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), better known... -
Paths of Revolution: Selected Essays by Adolfo Gilly
RRP: £30.00£22.77The Argentine-born writer Adolfo Gilly has directly observed many of Latin America's most dramatic events, from the Bolivian Revolution of the 1950s and Cuba during the Missile Crisis to the guerrilla wars of Central America and Mexico's Zapatista... -
Conventional Realism and Political Inquiry: Channeling Wittgenstein by John G Gunnell
RRP: £35.00£29.57When social scientists and social theorists turn to the work of philosophers for intellectual and practical authority, they typically assume that truth, reality, and meaning are to be found outside rather than within our conventional discursive practices... -
Trotsky's Challenge: The 'Literary Discussion' of 1924 and the Fight for the Bolshevik Revolution by Frederick C. Corney 9781608467044
RRP: £65.00£44.09Trotsky's analysis in Lessons of October ran counter to the efforts of the Bolshevik leaders to depict October as a foundational event in which the Bolshevik Party, and its clear-sighted leader Lenin, played the major role in bringing about the... -
British Weapons Acquisition Policy and the Futility of Reform Warren A. Chin 9781138356627
RRP: £39.99£35.06Originally published in 2004. This incisive work reveals the causes of escalating costs and delays in British defence procurement from 1945 to the present. Tackling a complex subject in a straightforward and readable manner, it considers how successive... -
The Last Oil Shock: A Survival Guide to the Imminent Extinction of Petroleum Man David Strahan 9780719564246
RRP: £10.99£7.40This may be the most important book you or anyone else will read in the next fifty years. Assuming humanity survives that long. Draining the lifeblood of industrial civilization, the terminal decline of oil and gas production will spark a crisis far more... -
Class Acts: Service and Inequality in Luxury Hotels by Rachel Sherman 9780520247826
RRP: £30.00£23.29In this lively study, Rachel Sherman goes behind the scenes in two urban luxury hotels to give a nuanced picture of the workers who care for and cater to wealthy guests by providing seemingly unlimited personal attention. Drawing on in-depth interviews... -
Globalizing Responsibility: The Political Rationalities of Ethical Consumption Clive Barnett (Open University, UK) 9781405145572
RRP: £24.99£21.81Globalizing Responsibility: The Political Rationalities of Ethical Consumption presents an innovative reinterpretation of the forces that have shaped the remarkable growth of ethical consumption. Develops a theoretically informed new approach to shape... -
Signal Crimes: Social Reactions to Crime, Disorder, and Control by Martin Innes 9780199684472
RRP: £37.99£37.88How do individuals, communities, and institutions react to crime, disorder, and social control events? How do such incidents shape the contours of social order and the make-up of society? Why do some crimes and disorders matter more than others in... -
Sayfo - An Account of the Assyrian Genocide by Abed Mshiho Neman Qarabash
RRP: £20.99£19.25Translates and annotates a rare eyewitness account of the 1915 Assyrian genocide during the First World War Set in the context of the failing Ottoman state and rising Young Turk regime Discusses Armenians and Greeks as well as Assyrians in one... -
Going To Extremes: Notes from a Divided Nation by Barbara Ehrenreich 9781847080653
RRP: £8.99£6.08America is a grotesquely polarized society and becoming more so all the time. In this razor-sharp, funny and terrifying collection of pieces, Barbara Ehrenreich shows how the widening gap between rich and poor over the past eight years has left the... -
Joking About Jihad: Comedy and Terror in the Arab World by Gilbert Ramsay
RRP: £25.00£22.03Can laughter really be used to undermine the appeal of terrorist groups? And should it be? Is there any truth in the stereotypical notions of fanaticism as humourless, and of humour as the antithesis of fanaticism? What is the deeper significance of the... -
The Smart Thinking Book: Over 70 bursts of business brilliance Kevin Duncan 9781911687542
RRP: £9.99£6.80Plenty of people are intelligent and have the right qualifications. But in business, to be successful, you also have to be smart and creative. This book contains 60 pieces of distilled wisdom to help you think smartly and creatively, and to enable you to... -
Political and Legal Obligation by J. Roland Pennock
RRP: £45.99£40.53At a point in history marked by dramatic challenges to the existing political and social order, the question of legal and political obligation emerges as a focal point of international concern. Amid the clamor for radical change in the established order,... -
Hindu Nationalism: A Reader by Christophe Jaffrelot 9780691130989
RRP: £35.00£27.74Hindu nationalism came to world attention in 1998, when the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won national elections in India. Although the BJP was defeated nationally in 2004, it continues to govern large Indian states, and the movement it... -
The Labour Party Since 1945 Eric R. Shaw (University of Stirling, UK.) 9780631196556
RRP: £38.95£34.20This book provides a critical overview of the changing Labour Party in postwar Britain. Adopting a thematic approach within a structured, chronological framework, the book revolves around one central question: what has the Party been about and what... -
The Chinese Party-State in the 21st Century: Adaptation and the Reinvention of Legitimacy by Andre Laliberte 9780415692182
£10.59As the Chinese Communist Party continues to move away from socialism, it faces a growing number of challenges to the claim that it represents the sole legitimate governing body in China. In order to reaffirm itself as the most effective force for keeping... -
Snowden's Box: Trust in the Age of Surveillance by Jessica Bruder
RRP: £12.99£8.94One day in the spring of 2013, a box appeared outside a fourth-floor apartment door in Brooklyn, New York. The recipient, who didn't know the sender, only knew she was supposed to bring this box to a friend, who would ferry it to another friend. This was... -
Last Mission of Lady Jane II: The Life and Death of an 8th Air Force B-17 and Her Crew by Lisa A. Vans
RRP: £22.99£14.65On March 18, 1945, the B-17G "Lady Jane II" lifted off from her base at Deenethorpe, England; she never returned. The story is one of deep tragedy and survival, of sacrifice, and of the love the crew had for each other as brothers in arms. The bomber was... -
Beyond Religious Freedom: The New Global Politics of Religion by Elizabeth Shakman Hurd 9780691176222
RRP: £22.00£17.76In recent years, North American and European nations have sought to legally remake religion in other countries through an unprecedented array of international initiatives. Policymakers have rallied around the notion that the fostering of religious... -
The Earth Brokers: Power, Politics and World Development by Pratap Chatterjee 9780415109635
RRP: £49.99£43.50After decades of failed development plans for the South and the mounting pressure of the environmental crisis all over the planet, the Earth Summit was billed as a dramatic new approach to solving the planet's problems. Recognizing that environment and... -
Britain and the Balkans: 1991 until the Present by Carole Anne Hodge 9780415586641
RRP: £43.99£38.44An incisive analysis of Britain's decision-making role in the Yugoslavian conflict of the 1990s and in the formation of its successor states. Tracing the evolution of British policy from the onset of war in Croatia and Bosnia to the NATO action in... -
Dealbreaker: Donald Trump and the Unmaking of the Iran Nuclear Deal by Scott Ritter 9780999874752
RRP: £23.50£21.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999874752Author Scott RitterFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint Clarity PressPublisher Clarity PressWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 150mm *... -
Identity/Difference: Democratic Negotiations of Political Paradox by William E. Connolly 9780816640867
RRP: £20.99£18.37In this foundational work in contemporary political theory, William Connolly makes a distinctive contribution to our understanding of the relationship between personal identity and democratic politics, particularly in the domains of religion, ethics,... -
Making Sense of the Alt-Right by George Hawley 9780231185134
RRP: £16.99£13.65During the 2016 election, a new term entered the mainstream American political lexicon: "alt-right," short for "alternative right." Despite the innocuous name, the alt-right is a white-nationalist movement. Yet it differs from earlier racist groups: it... -
Youth and the Welfare State in Weimar Germany by Elizabeth Harvey 9780198204145
£52.52This is a detailed and scholarly study of social policy in Weimar Germany. The Weimar Republic gave German youth new social rights and a pledge of generous educational and welfare provision. Public social and welfare policies would, it was hoped, banish... -
Resetting Our Future: Power Switch: How We Can Reverse Extreme Inequality Paul O'Brien 9781789047493
RRP: £7.99£7.02Is it actually possible? ...that we might emerge from this pandemic with a peaceful global power switch from those who have too much to those who don't have enough? With billionaires able to decide the fate of nations, private corporations more powerful...