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Nuclear Power Is Not The Answer by Helen Caldicott
RRP: €20.17€13.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781595582133Author Helen CaldicottFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint The New PressPublisher The New PressWeight(grams) 288g -
Making the Supreme Court: The Politics of Appointments, 1930-2020 by Charles M. Cameron 9780197680544
RRP: €28.55€24.72Appointments to the United States Supreme Court are now central events in American political life. Every vacancy unleashes a bitter struggle between Republicans and Democrats over nominees; and once the seat is filled, new justices typically vote in... -
British Nuclear Weapons and the Test Ban: Squaring the Circle of Defence and Arms Control, 1974-82 John Walker (Royal United Services Institute, UK) 9781032451633
RRP: €148.75€128.35This book provides an overview of how the UK tried to maintain and modernize its strategic and tactical nuclear weapons during 1974-82, whilst also pursuing a comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty. The core question addressed in the book is how a test... -
Women Strike for Peace: Traditional Motherhood and Radical Politics in the 1960's by Amy Swerdlow 9780226786360
RRP: €33.32€32.59"Women Strike for Peace" is a historical account of this women's movement. Amy Swerdlow, a founding member of WSP, restores to the record a chapter on American politics and women's studies. She traces WSP's triumphs, its problems, and its legacy for the... -
Victory for Hire: Private Security Companies' Impact on Military Effectiveness by Molly Dunigan
RRP: €26.17€22.84At peak utilization, private security contractors (PSCs) constituted a larger occupying force in Iraq and Afghanistan than did U.S. troops. Yet, no book has so far assessed the impact of private security companies on military effectiveness. Filling that... -
The False Promise of Liberal Order: Nostalgia, Delusion and the Rise of Trump Patrick Porter 9781509538676
RRP: €59.50€51.37In an age of demagogues, hostile great powers and trade wars, foreign policy traditionalists dream of restoring liberal international order. This order, they claim, ushered in seventy years of peace and prosperity and saw post-war America domesticate the... -
Religion and Brazilian Democracy: Mobilizing the People of God by Amy Erica Smith
RRP: €36.88€27.19As Brazilian democracy faces a crisis of legitimacy, political divisions grow among Catholic, evangelical, and non-religious citizens. What has caused religious polarization in Brazilian politics? Does religious politics shore up or undermine democracy?... -
Pain Is Weakness Leaving the Body: A Marine's Unbecoming by Lyle J Rubin
RRP: €29.75€19.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645037095Author Lyle J RubinFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Bold Type BooksPublisher Bold Type BooksWeight(grams) 505gDimensions(mm) 238mm * 158mm *... -
Visions of Energy Futures: Imagining and Innovating Low-Carbon Transitions by Benjamin K. Sovacool
RRP: €47.59€41.72This book examines the visions, fantasies, frames, discourses, imaginaries, and expectations associated with six state-of-the-art energy systems-nuclear power, hydrogen fuel cells, shale gas, clean coal, smart meters, and electric vehicles-playing a key... -
Americans in China: Encounters with the People's Republic by Terry Lautz 9780197512838
RRP: €29.14€24.73Americans in China tells the dramatic stories of individual women and men who encountered the People's Republic of China as adversaries and emissaries, mediators and advocates, interpreters and reporters, soldiers, scientists, entrepreneurs, and scholars... -
Palestinian Women and Popular Resistance: Perceptions, Attitudes, and Strategies by Liyana Kayali 9780367616366
RRP: €45.21€39.72This book explores Palestinian women's views of popular resistance in the West Bank and examines factors shaping the nature and extent of their involvement. Despite the signing of the Oslo peace accords in 1993 and 1995, the Occupied Palestinian... -
Colonial West Africa: Collected Essays Michael Crowder 9780714629438
RRP: €45.21€40.20Originally published in 1978, this volume provides a selection of Michael Crowder's wrtings on the impact of colonial rule in West Africa and African reaction to it from the conquest to independence. Key themes include the impact of European culture on... -
Environmental Protest in Western Europe by Christopher Rootes 9780199218509
€50.27The rise of environmentalism has been one of the more remarkable developments in the politics of western societies in recent decades. However, as environmental awareness has become more generalized, the forms of expression of environmental concern have... -
Datafication of Public Opinion and the Public Sphere: How Extraction Replaced Opinion and Why it Matters by Slavko Splichal 9781839984501
RRP: €95.20€90.30The book, anchored in stimulating debates about the Enlightenment ideas of publicness, analyses historical changes in the core phenomena of publicness: possibilities, conditions and obstacles to developing a public sphere in which the public reflexively... -
Global Justice: Critical Perspectives Sebastiano Maffettone 9781138662568
RRP: €64.25€55.78The global justice debate has been raging for forty years. Not merely the terms and conditions, but, more deeply, the epistemic, existential and ethical grounds of the international relations of persons, states and institutions are being determined,... -
The Dynamics of Political Communication: Media and Politics in a Digital Age by Richard M. Perloff
RRP: €91.62€79.79The third edition of The Dynamics of Political Communication continues its comprehensive coverage of communication and politics, focusing on problematic issues that bear on the functioning of democracy in an age of partisanship, social media, and... -
To Build a Better World: Choices to End the Cold War and Create a Global Commonwealth by Philip Zelikow
RRP: €21.41€14.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538764688Author Philip ZelikowFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint TwelvePublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 137mm... -
The Anglosphere Challenge: Why the English-Speaking Nations Will Lead the Way in the Twenty-First Century by James C. Bennett 9780742533325
€90.61Despite repeated predictions of the demise of America and the English-speaking nations as the world's predominant culture, James C. Bennett believes that this gap will widen in the coming decades. Coining the term anglosphere to describe a loose... -
The Anti-Pelagian Imagination in Political Theory and International Relations: Dealing in Darkness by Nicholas Rengger
RRP: €45.21€39.72This volume draws together some of the key works of Nicholas Rengger, focusing on the theme of the 'anti-Pelagian imagination' in political theory and international relations. Rengger frames the collection with a detailed introduction that sketches out... -
Rights, Bodies and Recognition: New Essays on Fichte's Foundations of Natural Right Tom Rockmore 9781138252257
RRP: €47.59€41.72The German philosopher, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, has long been recognized as an important and original figure in the history of philosophy and Western thought and as a seminal influence upon the Romantic tradition. This book focuses on Fichte's... -
Tenement Nation: Working-Class Cosmopolitanism in Edinburgh by Christa Ballard Tooley 9780253066008
RRP: €29.74€25.79Around the world, blue-collar politics have become associated with resistance to the multicultural. While this may also be true in Edinburgh, Scotland, a closer look reveals the growth of liberal democratic ideals in the working-class population, which... -
Neoliberal Nationalism: Immigration and the Rise of the Populist Right by Christian Joppke
RRP: €36.88€22.66The Brexit and Trump shocks of 2016 mark a deep caesura in the history of liberal societies. It is no longer sufficient, if it ever was, to look at Western states' immigration and citizenship policies through the single lens of advancing liberalism... -
Star Wars: Jedi Artifacts: Star Wars: Jedi Artifacts by Titan Books 9781789099447
RRP: €23.79€11.53Discover artifacts from a thousand generations of Jedi history in this must-have guide to the galaxy's greatest heroes! A collection of treasures inspired by the galaxy's most legendary warriors, Star Wars: Jedi Ephemera Kit will take readers on a... -
Modern Political Ideologies by Andrew Vincent 9781119981640
RRP: €41.64€37.47MODERN POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES Modern Political Ideologies provides a broad overview of the origins, development, and core principles of the major political ideologies of the past two centuries. With an accessible, student-friendly format, this bestselling... -
The Identitarians: The Movement against Globalism and Islam in Europe by Jose Pedro Zuquete 9780268104221
RRP: €29.74€26.26The Identitarians are a quickly growing ethnocultural transnational movement that, in diverse forms, originated in France and Italy and has spread into southern, central, and northern Europe. This timely and important study presents the first book-length... -
Secrets and Leaks: The Dilemma of State Secrecy by Rahul Sagar 9780691168180
RRP: €23.80€18.91Secrets and Leaks examines the complex relationships among executive power, national security, and secrecy. State secrecy is vital for national security, but it can also be used to conceal wrongdoing. How then can we ensure that this power is used... -
God Is Red: The Secret Story of How Christianity Survived and Flourishedin Communist China by Liao Yiwu 9780062078476
RRP: €17.84€11.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062078476Author Liao YiwuFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint HarperOnePublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 196gDimensions(mm) 208mm *... -
The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Political Geography John A. Agnew (The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)) 9781119107651
RRP: €48.73€43.52The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Political Geography aims to account for the intellectual and worldly developments that have taken place in and around political geography in the last 10 years. Bringing together established names in the field as well as... -
Dynamic Partisanship: How and Why Voter Loyalties Change by Ken Kollman
RRP: €36.89€35.93Why do people identify with political parties? How stable are those identifications? Stable party systems, with a limited number of parties and mostly stable voter identification with a party, are normally considered significant signals of a steady... -
Forging Diasporic Citizenship: Narratives from German-Born Turkish Ausländer by Gül Çalışkan
RRP: €35.69€31.77Around the world, a new kind of diasporic citizenship is appearing, especially among diasporic people such as German-born Berliners of Turkish origin. Drawing on interviews conducted over a fifteen-year period, Forging Diasporic Citizenship explores the... -
Impact Evaluation of Development Interventions: A Practical Guide by Asian Development Bank 9789292610586
RRP: €27.31€24.93This book offers guidance on the principles, methods, and practice of impact evaluation. It contains material for a range of audiences, from those who may use or manage impact evaluations to applied researchers.Impact evaluation is an empirical approach... -
Voicing Identity: Cultural Appropriation and Indigenous Issues by John Borrows
RRP: €28.55€24.80Written by leading Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars, Voicing Identity examines the issue of cultural appropriation in the contexts of researching, writing, and teaching about Indigenous peoples. This book grapples with the questions of who is... -
Evolution, Politics and Charisma: Why do Populists Win? by Elesa Zehndorfer
RRP: €49.97€44.55Evolution, Politics and Charisma: Why do Populists Win? shines compelling new light on the way in which the systematic targeting and manipulation of human physiology remain a cornerstone of all populist political campaigns. Readers wishing to make sense... -
Forging Europe's Leadership: Global Trends, Russian Aggression and the Risk of a Regressive World by Giovanni Grevi 9781913019976
RRP: €23.79€21.21The world has been splintered by geopolitics and yet is still bound by inter dependence. As competition between the world's great powers surges, multiple trends point towards the collapse of the international order. Russia's aggression against Ukraine... -
An Appeal to the Ladies of Hyderabad: Scandal in the Raj by Benjamin B. Cohen
RRP: €30.88€24.94The dramatic story of Mehdi Hasan and Ellen Donnelly, whose marriage convulsed high society in nineteenth-century India and whose notorious trial and fall reverberated throughout the British Empire, setting the benchmark for Victorian scandals.In April... -
Critical Theory and World Politics: Citizenship, Sovereignty and Humanity by Andrew Linklater
RRP: €54.73€47.75Andrew Linklater has been one of the most innovative thinkers in international relations, introducing critical and ethical elements into the discipline which has forced it to rethink many of its basic assumptions. This book builds on this body of work to... -
Coercive Confinement in Ireland: Patients, Prisoners and Penitents by Eoin O'Sullivan 9780719086489
RRP: €107.10€77.14This book provides an overview of the incarceration of tens of thousands of men, women and children during the first fifty years of Irish independence. Psychiatric hospitals, mother and baby homes, Magdalen homes, Reformatory and Industrial schools,... -
Disciples of the State?: Religion and State-Building in the Former Ottoman World by Kristin Fabbe 9781108409452
RRP: €36.88€31.86As the Ottoman Empire crumbled, the Middle East and Balkans became the site of contestation and cooperation between the traditional forces of religion and the emergent machine of the sovereign state. Yet such strategic interaction rarely yielded a... -
The Obama Syndrome: Surrender at Home, War Abroad by Tariq Ali 9781844677573
€23.90Written early in 2010 and initially published in September 2010, The Obama Syndrome predicted the Obama administration's historic midterm defeat. But unlike myriad commentators who have since pinned responsibility for that Democratic Party collapse on... -
Turkish-Greek Relations: Foreign Policy in a Securitisation Framework by Cihan Dizdaro?lu 9781474492102
RRP: €101.15€81.79A critical perspective on the vicious cycle of improvement and deterioration in Greek-Turkish relations Provides trends of securitisation and desecuritisation to present the political nature of securitisation by either the military bureaucrats or...