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Ten Top Tips for Making Introductions by Lindsey Dunbar 9781905664665
RRP: €9.46€6.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905664665Author Lindsey DunbarFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint British Association for Adoption and Fostering (BAAF)Publisher CoramBAAFWeight(grams)... -
Negotiating Peace by Mr Sven M.G. Koopmans 9780198894582
RRP: €35.70€32.84This book is the first and only practical guide to negotiating peace. In this ground-breaking book Sven Koopmans, who is both a peace negotiator and a scholar, discusses the practice, politics, and law of international mediation. With both depth and a... -
War, Peace, and Populist Discourse in Ukraine Olga Baysha (National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia) 9781032455358
RRP: €59.49€52.17This book explores the detrimental effects on global peace of populism's tendency to present complex social issues in simplistic "good versus evil" terms. Analyzing the civilizational discourse of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky with respect to... -
The International Monetary Fund (IMF): Politics of Conditional Lending by James Raymond Vreeland
RRP: €44.02€38.71This is a clear and concise introduction to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and an overview of its debates and controversies. Where did the IMF come from? What does it do? Why do so many governments participate in its programs and what are their... -
A Research Agenda for Public-Private Partnerships and the Governance of Infrastructure Graeme A. Hodge 9781035327416
RRP: €48.73€43.91This timely Research Agenda examines the ways in which public-private partnerships (PPPs) in infrastructure continue to excite policy makers, governments, research scholars and critics around the world. It analyzes the PPP research journey to date and... -
The Political Economy of Cooperatives and Socialism by Bruno Jossa 9781032087924
RRP: €47.59€42.04This book argues that capitalism cannot be said to be truly democratic and that a system of producer cooperatives, or democratically managed enterprises, is needed to give rise to a new mode of production that is genuinely socialist and fully consistent... -
Mountain R by Jacques Jouet
RRP: €11.89€10.01In an unnamed country, the President of the Republican Council, wanting to "do something big," strikes upon the idea of building a 1,500-meter high mountain as an inspirational monument to national greatness. Construction of the mountain will reduce... -
Common Sense by Thomas Paine 9780140390162
RRP: €11.89€8.71Published anonymously in 1776, the year of the American Declaration of Independence, Paine's Common Sense became an immediate best-seller, with fifty-six editions printed in that year alone. It was this pamphlet, more than any other factor, which helped... -
The Politics of Migration and Immigration in Europe by Andrew Geddes
RRP: €46.40€37.63Migration and immigration are high on any nation's agenda but have particular resonance in Europe in light of recent events. The new edition of this book has been fully updated in this respect and explores: Immigration policy in individual EU nations The... -
The Origins of Informality: Why the Legal Foundations of Global Governance are Shifting, and Why It Matters by Charles B. Roger
RRP: €101.15€70.52The legal foundations of global governance are shifting. In addition to traditional instruments for resolving cross-border problems, such as treaties and formal international organizations, policy-makers are turning increasingly to informal agreements... -
The March to the Majority: The Real Story of the Republican Revolution by Joe Gaylord
RRP: €29.75€19.49A NATIONAL BESTSELLER!The story of Gingrich's rise from college professor, to architect of the Contract with America, to Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives is historic. There were many adventures, personalities, missteps, and victories on the... -
Marx's Capital: An Unfinishable Project? by Marcel van der Linden
RRP: €35.70€23.66For almost 150 years, scholars have been debating how to interpret Marx's seminal work Capital while they had access to just some of Marx's economic manuscripts. This changed in 2013 with the publication of all the known economic writings of Marx and... -
NATO's Enlargement and Russia - A Strategic Challenge in the Past and Future by Oxana Schmies
RRP: €42.84€38.02The Kremlin has sought to establish an exclusive Russian sphere of influence in the nations lying between Russia and the EU, from Georgia in 2008 to Ukraine in 2014 and Belarus in 2020. It has extended its control by means of military intervention,... -
Syria and the Chemical Weapons Taboo: Exploiting the Forbidden by Michelle Bentley 9781526104724
RRP: €23.79€17.28This book analyses the Syria crisis and the role of chemical weapons in relation to US foreign policy. The Syrian government's use of such weapons and their subsequent elimination has dominated the US response to the conflict, where these are viewed as... -
Commercialising Security in Europe: Political Consequences for Peace Operations by Anna Leander
RRP: €35.69€31.70This book examines the political consequences of European security commercialisation through increased reliance on private military and security companies (PMSCs).The role of commercial security in the domestic setting in Europe is widely acknowledged;... -
Memes to Movements: How the World's Most Viral Media Is Changing Social Protest and Power by An Xiao Mina 9780807056585
RRP: €27.37€18.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807056585Author An Xiao MinaFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press -
The Chinese Must Go: Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America by Beth Lew-Williams
RRP: €30.88€24.94Winner of the Ray Allen Billington PrizeWinner of the Ellis W. Hawley PrizeWinner of the Sally and Ken Owens AwardWinner of the Vincent P. DeSantis Book PrizeWinner of the Caroline Bancroft History Prize"A powerful argument about racial violence that... -
Intelligence and National Security Policymaking on Iraq: British and American Perspectives by James P. Pfiffner 9780719077470
RRP: €23.79€21.54The decision to go to war in Iraq has had historic repercussions throughout the world. The editors of this volume bring together scholarly analysis of the decision-making in the U.S and U.K. that led to the war, inside accounts of CIA decision-making,... -
The Politics of Poverty in Contemporary Russia Ann-Mari Satre 9781032094144
RRP: €47.59€42.04This book provides an overview of poverty and well-being in Russia. Increasing poverty rates during the 1990s were followed by greater attention to social policies in the 2000s and increased efforts to engage people in socially oriented NGOs and... -
Border Thinking: Latinx Youth Decolonizing Citizenship by Andrea Dyrness 9781517906306
RRP: €24.98€21.86Rich accounts of how Latinx migrant youth experience belonging across borders As anti-immigrant nationalist discourses escalate globally, Border Thinking offers critical insights into how young people in the Latinx diaspora experience belonging, make... -
Internet Memes and Society: Social, Cultural, and Political Contexts by Anastasia Denisova
RRP: €46.40€40.72This book provides a solid, encompassing definition of Internet memes, exploring both the common features of memes around the globe and their particular regional traits. It identifies and explains the roles that these viral texts play in Internet... -
A Sense of Power: The Roots of America's Global Role by John A. Thompson 9780801447891
RRP: €28.55€25.66Why has the United States assumed so extensive and costly a role in world affairs over the last hundred years? The two most common answers to this question are "because it could" and "because it had to." Neither answer will do, according to this... -
Contemporary Italian Politics by Paolo Natale 9780415325998
RRP: €42.83€37.71This book presents a comprehensive and incisive exploration of the intricacies of the Italian political system.Written in a lucid and informative style, the work features:an examination of Italian political history from 1943 to the present dayan analysis... -
Presidentialism, Parliamentarism, and Democracy by Jose Antonio Cheibub
RRP: €27.36€23.28This book addresses the following question: why are presidential democracies more likely to break down than parliamentary ones? Conventional wisdom among political scientists pointS to the incentives generated by the form of government itself; the... -
Society Under Siege by Zygmunt Bauman 9780745629858
€22.66Society is under siege - under attack on two fronts: from the global frontier-land where old structures and rules do not hold and new ones are slow to take shape, and from the fluid, undefined domain of life politics. The space between these two fronts,... -
The Far Right in America Cas Mudde (University of Georgia, USA) 9781138063891
RRP: €23.79€21.37This book collects Mudde's old and new blog posts, interviews and op-eds on the topic of the US far right, ranging from right-wing populists to neo-Nazi terrorists. The main emphasis of the book is on the two most important far right developments of the... -
Growth and Welfare in Advanced Capitalist Economies: How Have Growth Regimes Evolved? by Anke Hassel
RRP: €139.83€126.75Growth and Welfare in Advanced Capitalist Economies takes stock of the major economic challenges that advanced industrial democracies have faced since the early 1990s and the responses by governments to them. It has three goals: firstly, to further our... -
The Ethics of Liberty by Murray N. Rothbard 9780814775066
€107.43The authoritative text on the libertarian political position In recent years, libertarian impulses have increasingly influenced national and economic debates, from welfare reform to efforts to curtail affirmative action. Murray N. Rothbard's classic The... -
Strategies for Distributed and Collective Action: Connecting the Dots by Martin Kornberger 9780198864301
€101.51How do we organize ourselves to accomplish shared goals? Our well-worn modes of collective action--from markets to hierarchies, from institutions to movements--have so far provided a limited vocabulary to investigate, let alone invent, new forms of open,... -
How Do You Feel?: Feeling by Chiara Piroddi 9788854419049
RRP: €10.70€7.60The story of this book, through its interactive flaps, was inspired by the studies of Paul Ekman, thanks to which we can recognize 6 fundamental activities: Recognizing the emotions, Feeling empathy, Trusting, Socializing, Pondering & Identifying. A... -
The Routledge International Handbook of Criminology and Human Rights by Leanne Weber 9780367581503
RRP: €52.35€46.93The Routledge International Handbook of Criminology and Human Rights brings together a diverse body of work from around the globe and across a wide range of criminological topics and perspectives, united by its critical application of human rights law... -
NHS Reform and Health Politics in the UK: Revolution, Counter-Revolution and Covid Crisis by Calum Paton
RRP: €130.89€118.65This book provides an original analysis of the trajectory of health policy reform in the United Kingdom from the beginning of the 'Thatcher reforms' in the 1980s right up to the latest changes in England in 2022. Rooted in political science and health... -
Gossip Men: J. Edgar Hoover, Joe McCarthy, Roy Cohn, and the Politics of Insinuation by Christopher M Elias
RRP: €36.89€35.93J. Edgar Hoover, Joseph McCarthy, and Roy Cohn were titanic figures in midcentury America, wielding national power in government and the legal system through intimidation and insinuation. Hoover's FBI thrived on secrecy, threats, and illegal... -
Political Terrorism: A New Guide to Actors, Authors, Concepts, Data Bases, Theories, and Literature A.J. Jongman 9781412804691
RRP: €59.49€52.55While there is no easy way to define terrorism, it may generally be viewed as a method of violence in which civilians are targeted with the objective of forcing a perceived enemy into submission by creating fear, demoralization, and political friction in... -
Climate Governance across the Globe: Pioneers, Leaders and Followers by Rudiger K.W. Wurzel 9780367650476
RRP: €45.21€39.72This book takes an innovative approach to studying international climate governance by providing a critical analysis of climate leadership, pioneership and followership across the globe. The volume assesses the interactions between climate leaders,... -
Of Privacy and Power: The Transatlantic Struggle over Freedom and Security by Henry Farrell 9780691216904
RRP: €23.80€18.91How disputes over privacy and security have shaped the relationship between the European Union and the United States and what this means for the futureWe live in an interconnected world, where security problems like terrorism are spilling across borders,... -
Shattered Voices: Language, Violence, and the Work of Truth Commissions by Teresa Godwin Phelps
RRP: €28.55€24.80Following periods of mass atrocity and oppression, states are faced with a question of critical importance in the transition to democracy: how to offer redress to victims of the old regime without perpetuating cycles of revenge. Traditionally, balance... -
Who Is James K. Polk?: The Presidential Election of 1844 by Mark R. Cheathem 9780700635733
RRP: €58.25€49.60The question Americans asked in 1844 was, “Who the hell is James K. Polk?”Polk, of course, was not unknown, but was a highly unlikely presidential candidate given the availability of better-known options. Among the Democrats, this included Martin Van... -
Russia's Ideology of Authenticity: Varieties of Conservatism in Russian History from the Late Nineteenth Century to the Present by Mikhail Suslov
RRP: €36.89€30.52In his timely book, Mikhail Suslov discusses contemporary Russian geopolitical culture and argues that a better knowledge of geopolitical concepts and fantasies is instrumental for understanding Russias policies. Specifically, he analyzes such concepts... -
Why the New Deal Matters by Eric Rauchway 9780300252002
€23.80A look at how the New Deal fundamentally changed American life, and why it remains relevant today"A must-read for those who've read nothing about the New Deal before, those who've read everything about it, and anyone in between. With timeless prose and...