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The Back Channel: American Diplomacy in a Disordered World by Ambassador William J. Burns
RRP: €17.84€16.47Over the course of more than three decades as an American diplomat, William J. Burns played a central role in the most consequential diplomatic episodes of his time-from the bloodless end of the Cold War to the collapse of relations with Putin's Russia,... -
Marrakech Express by Peter Millar
RRP: €17.84€10.44Back in 1969 when Morocco's ancient capital was a hashish clouded happy mecca, Crosby, Stills and Nash recorded their cheesy (and hopelessly inaccurate) foot-tapping anthem 'Marrakech Express'. A generation on, award-winning journalist, author, and... -
The Umbrella Murder: The Hunt for the Cold War's Most Notorious Killer by Ulrik Skotte 9780753560167
RRP: €29.75€21.44London, September 1978: exiled Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov is murdered in broad daylight on Waterloo Bridge with what appears to be a poison-tipped umbrella. It would become the most infamous unsolved killing of the Cold War.Many years later, young... -
True Believer by Jack Carr
RRP: €10.70€7.15**NOW AN AMAZON PRIME TV SERIES STARRING CHRIS PRATT** 'This is seriously good... the suspense is unrelenting, and the tradecraft is so authentic the government will probably ban it - so read it while you can!' Lee ChildA high-intensity roller-coaster... -
Philosophy in the Boudoir by Marquis de Sade
RRP: €15.46€11.11Philosophy in the Bedroom accounts the lascivious education of a privileged young lady at the dawn of womanhood.About the AuthorDonatien Alphonse Francois de Sade, better known as the Marquis de Sade (1740 - 1814), was a French aristocrat and writer of... -
Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West by Blaine Harden
RRP: €13.08€9.70This is the incredible story of Shin Dong-hyuk - the only person born in a North Korean gulag ever to escape. A gripping, terrifying biography, Escape from Camp 14 by journalist Blaine Harden uncovers a dark and secret nation.Now a major documentary film... -
Fit by Sammy Wright
RRP: €11.90€8.58This is the first novel by Sammy Wright, a secondary-school teacher with first-hand experience of a contemporary Britain in which children starve and the gulf between rich and poor is vast and growing. Charting the impact on a small community of a girl... -
Bust?: Saving the Economy, Democracy and Our Sanity by Robert Peston 9781399700757
RRP: €29.75€17.23'A brilliantly candid, timely and perceptive account.' Andy Haldane'Asks all the right questions.' Mark CarneyHas the West gone bust? Or is there another way?In their new book, Robert Peston and Kishan Koria explain how the country is almost bust -... -
The Overworked Consumer: Self-Checkouts, Supermarkets, and the Do-It-Yourself Economy by Christopher K Andrews 9781498543804
RRP: €44.03€38.87The Overworked Consumer examines how the growing use of self-service technology in the U.S. economy has contributed to Americans' feelings of busyness and overwork by asking them to perform a variety of tasks in work-like settings for free. Focusing on... -
Shadows At Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century by Joya Chatterji 9781847925497
RRP: €35.70€25.34**LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024**'A classic ... wonderfully enjoyable' WILLIAM DALRYMPLEThis is the authoritative history of South Asia in the 20th century.Shadows at Noon tells the subcontinent's story from the British Raj... -
Why Politics Fails: The Five Traps of the Modern World & How to Escape Them by Ben Ansell 9780241992753
RRP: €13.08€9.51From the 2023 Reith lecturer Politics is failing us. This is why. 'Brilliant . . . a must-read' Daron Acemoglu, co-author of Why Nations FailWhen it comes to politics, there are five goals that voters generally agree upon. We all want a say in how we're... -
Anita Bean's Sports Nutrition for Young Athletes by Anita Bean
RRP: €22.60€17.62A healthy diet can help the young sports stars of tomorrow fulfil their potential. Around 85% of children regularly take part in sports activities outside lessons. Swimming is the most common activity for girls, with football for boys. 43% of... -
The Prime Ministers We Never Had: Success and Failure from Butler to Corbyn by Steve Richards
RRP: €13.08€8.97BOOK OF THE YEAR, The Times, Guardian and ProspectWas Harold Wilson a bigger figure than Denis Healey? Was John Major more 'prime ministerial' than Michael Heseltine? Would David Miliband have become prime minister if it were not for his brother Ed?... -
The Laws by Plato
RRP: €17.84€13.03In the Laws, Plato describes in fascinating detail a comprehensive system of legislation in a small agricultural utopia he named Magnesia. His laws not only govern crime and punishment, but also form a code of conduct for all aspects of life in his ideal... -
Keats's Odes: A Lover' Discourse by Anahid Nersessian 9781804290347
RRP: €15.46€13.10"When I say this book is a love story, I mean it is about things that cannot be gotten over-like this world, and some of the people in it."In 1819, the poet John Keats wrote six poems that would become known as the Great Odes. Some of them-"Ode to a... -
Global Politics: Myths and Mysteries by Aggie Hirst
RRP: €42.83€40.45- How does politics affect you in everyday life? - What is power and who has it? - Has the age of empire come to an end? - Is capitalism the only viable economic system? Politics is all around us. Global Politics: Myths and Mysteries teaches... -
A Very English Scandal: Now a Major BBC Series Starring Hugh Grant by John Preston
RRP: €13.08€9.51The bestselling book that inspired the Bafta-winning BBC dramaCorruption. Blackmail. Conspiracy to murder. A Very English Scandal has all the hallmarks of a classic thriller with one difference. It's all true.In the late 1960s Jeremy Thorp, the... -
The Lion House: The Rise of Suleyman the Magnificent by Christopher de Bellaigue
RRP: €13.08€9.51An immersive reconstruction of the life of the most feared and powerful man of the sixteenth century.'Wolf Hall for the Ottoman Empire ... History at its most gripping' Telegraph'A formidable book ... incredible' Rory StewartVenice, 1522. Intelligence... -
Deep Fakes and the Infocalypse: What You Urgently Need To Know Nina Schick 9781913183523
RRP: €15.46€10.51It will soon be impossible to tell what is real and what is fake. Recent advances in AI mean that by scanning images of a person (for example using Facebook), a powerful machine learning system can create new video images and place them in scenarios and... -
Russia and the Russians: From Earliest Times to the Present by Geoffrey Hosking
RRP: €22.60€16.92Geoffrey Hosking is one of the foremost historians of Russia and its people. The result of a lifetime's knowledge, this monumental and authoritative work has been acclaimed as the definitive single-volume history of Russia, tracing its story from the... -
Fear: Trump in the White House Bob Woodward 9781471181320
RRP: €11.89€7.87THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLERTHE OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR THE INSIDE STORY ON PRESIDENT TRUMP, AS ONLY BOB WOODWARD CAN TELL IT. 'Fear is a meticulously researched account of a White House and a president in financial, legal and personal... -
The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution by Francis Fukuyama
RRP: €15.46€11.11Nations are not trapped by their pasts, but events that happened hundreds or even thousands of years ago continue to exert huge influence on present-day politics. If we are to understand the politics that we now take for granted, we need to understand... -
The Law of Accumulation and Breakdown of the Capitalist System by Henryk Grossmann 9780745304595
€36.09Henryk Grossmann's influential work provides the key to a fuller understanding of Marx's theory of crisis.About the AuthorHenryk Grossman (1881-1950) was born in Cracow and studied law and economics in Cracow and Vienna. In 1925 he joined the Institute... -
Fossil Future: Why Global Human Flourishing Requires More Oil, Coal, and Natural Gas--Not Less by Alex Epstein
RRP: €32.12€21.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593420416Author Alex EpsteinFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint PortfolioPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
King: The Life of Martin Luther King Jonathan Eig 9781471181030
RRP: €17.84€11.44A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER *SELECTED AS ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF 2023*Vividly written and exhaustively researched, Jonathan Eig's King is the first major biography in decades of the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. - and the... -
Pearson Edexcel A-level Politics Workbook 3: Political Ideas Jessica Hardy 9781398332461
€11.51* Develop and consolidate understanding using practice questions targeting each Assessment Objective* Build key skills with worked examples* Prepare for assessment using exam-style questions* Study independently with answers available onlineBook... -
The Danger of Disparate Impact: How the Pursuit of Equity Is Undermining Our Institutions by Heather Mac Donald 9781956007169
RRP: €24.98€16.89Does your workplace have too few black people in top jobs? It's racist. Does the advanced math and science high school in your city have too many Asians? It's racist. Does your local museum employ too many white women? It's racist, too. After the... -
Spider-man/deadpool Omnibus by Joe Kelly 9781804910313
RRP: €35.69€25.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804910313Author Joe KellyFormat PaperbackPage Count 396Imprint Panini BooksPublisher Panini Publishing Ltd -
Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, 2001-2016 by Steve Coll
RRP: €22.60€16.45Winner of the the National Book Critics Circle Award for Non-Fiction'Spellbinding ... a magisterial account of the great tragedy of our age ... it is a classic' Evening Standard'In the finest traditions of American investigative journalism' The... -
Left Out: The Inside Story of Labour Under Corbyn by Gabriel Pogrund
RRP: €11.89€8.71'THE POLITICAL BOOK OF THE YEAR' Tim ShipmanA blistering narrative expose of infighting, skulduggery and chaos in Corbyn's Labour party, now revised and updated.* A Times, Guardian, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Times and i Newspaper Book of the Year *Left Out... -
UVF: Behind the Mask by Aaron Edwards 9781785370878
RRP: €21.41€18.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785370878Author Aaron EdwardsFormat PaperbackPage Count 420Imprint Merrion PressPublisher Merrion Press -
My Life, Our Times Gordon Brown 9781784707460
RRP: €17.84€13.22Former Prime Minister and the country's longest-serving Chancellor, Gordon Brown has been a guiding force for Britain and the world over three decades. This is his candid, poignant and deeply relevant story.In describing his upbringing in Scotland as the... -
Burma Sahib by Paul Theroux 9780241633342
RRP: €23.80€17.48'This novel is one of his finest in a long and redoubtable oeuvre' William Boyd, New York Times From renowned author Paul Theroux comes a fascinating, atmospheric novel inspired by George Orwell's years in Burma There is a short period in everyone's life... -
Misfits & Hybrids: Architectural Artifacts for the 21st-Century City Ferda Kolatan 9781032396118
RRP: €39.26€34.70Contemporary cities are shaped by the unlikely adjacencies of objects that are vastly different in kind, origin, and scale: buildings, infrastructure, and other urban components that over time accumulate into mismatched configurations. However, despite... -
Ecology of Wisdom by Arne Naess
RRP: €13.08€9.51'The smaller we come to feel ourselves compared with the mountain, the nearer we come to participating in its greatness.'Philosopher, mountaineer, activist and visionary, Arne Naess's belief that all living things have value made him one of the most... -
UnPresidented: Politics, pandemics and the race that Trumped all others Jon Sopel 9781785944420
RRP: €15.46€11.11Fear and loathing on the 2020 campaign trail...'26 February, White House Briefing RoomThe coronavirus feels like it is changing everything. Suddenly it's not just a public health emergency; it has the potential to upend this whole election...'In... -
Haughey by Gary Murphy
RRP: €33.31€25.61With exclusive access to the Haughey archives, Gary Murphy presents a reassessment of Charles Haughey's life and legacy. Saint or sinner? He was the most talented and influential politician of his generation, and his presence still looms over the... -
Global Politics Dr Ben Whitham 9781350328419
RRP: €44.02€39.44In turbulent global times, your study of this subject is increasingly necessary and urgent. Featuring a new chapter on critical theories, and revised to take a less Eurocentric approach to concepts and case studies, this new edition allows you to tackle... -
Political Philosophy: A Beginners' Guide for Students and Politicians Adam Swift (Balliol College, Oxford) 9781509533350
RRP: €21.41€19.39Politicians invoke grand ideas: social justice, democracy, community, liberty, equality. But what do these ideas really mean? How can politicians across the political spectrum appeal to the same values? This fourth edition of Adam Swift's highly readable... -
Nazi germany 1933 - 1945 Faith and annihilation by Jost Dulffer 9780340613931
€41.90Sorry no description is available for this book at this time.