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Access to Justice for Disadvantaged Communities Marjorie Mayo (Professor in Community Development, Professional and Community Education, (PACE) Goldsmiths College, University of London) 9781447311058
RRP: £27.99£21.91EPUB and EPDF available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Access to justice for all, regardless of the ability to pay, has been a core democratic value. But this basic human right has come under threat through wider processes of restructuring, with... -
Global Minority Rights Joshua Castellino 9781138111004
RRP: £43.99£39.44This important volume brings together a range of material in different areas of law and the social sciences that address questions concerning the rights of minorities. The discipline is arguably one of the oldest branches of public international law, and... -
Born This Way: Science, Citizenship, and Inequality in the American LGBTQ+ Movement by Dr. Joanna Wuest 9780226827537
RRP: £26.00£24.85The story of how a biologically driven understanding of gender and sexuality became central to US LGBTQ+ political and legal advocacy. Across protests and courtrooms, LGBTQ+ advocates argue that sexual and gender identities are innate. Oppositely,... -
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Colorism: Beyond Black and White Ronald E. Hall (Professor, School of Social Work, Michigan State University) 9781032299389
RRP: £43.99£38.74This timely and unique book explores the concept of colorism, which is discrimination based on the color of a person's skin, in a world where arguably light skin is privileged over dark, and one's wealth, health, and opportunities are impacted by skin... -
The Handy American Government Answer Book by Gina Misiroglu
RRP: £35.99£30.39Yet few outside Washington actually understand how our government and political system should work, much less how it actually operates. This informative book traces the historic development of the government, the functions of each branch, and how they... -
The Architects of International Relations: Building a Discipline, Designing the World, 1914-1940 by Jan Stoeckmann
RRP: £85.00£77.00Based on extensive archival research, this book provides a new and stimulating history of International Relations (IR) as an academic discipline. Contrary to traditional accounts, it argues that IR was not invented by Anglo-American men after the First... -
Marxism in the United States: Remapping the History of the American Left by Paul Buhle
£24.00A crown jewel of New Left historiography, this overview of U.S. Marxism was hailed on its first publication for its nuanced storytelling, balance and incredible sweep.Brimming over with archival finds and buoyed by the recollections of witnesses and... -
International Intervention and Local Politics by Shahar Hameiri 9781108403412
RRP: £30.99£26.77International peace- and state-building interventions have become ubiquitous in international politics since the 1990s, aiming to tackle the security problems stemming from the instability afflicting many developing states. Their frequent failures have... -
Read Write Inc. Phonics: Joe's nose (Blue Set 6A Storybook 10) Liz Miles 9781382013529
RRP: £6.10£3.86These new Set 6A (Blue) Storybooks are designed to give children extra practice, and to develop their fluency and vocabulary further before moving on from the Read Write Inc. Phonics programme. The books are matched to the phonic progression of the... -
They Know Everything About You: How Data-Collecting Corporations and Snooping Government Agencies Are Destroying Democracy by Robert Scheer
RRP: £14.99£11.54In the first week of June 2013, the American people discovered that for a decade, they had abjectly traded their individual privacy for the chimera of national security. The revelation that the federal government has full access to all phone records and... -
I Feel to Believe: Collected Columns by Jarvis Deberry
RRP: £20.00£13.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608011858Author Jarvis DeberryFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint University of New Orleans PressPublisher University of New Orleans PressWeight(grams)... -
Marx's Ethics of Freedom (Routledge Library Editions: Political Science Volume 49) by George G. Brenkert 9780415649919
RRP: £41.99£36.75This book reveals Marx's moral philosophy and analyzes its nature. The author shows that there is an underlying system of ethics which runs the length and breadth of Marx's thought. The book begins by discussing the methodological side of Marx's ethics... -
Debating Civilisations: Interrogating Civilisational Analysis in a Global Age by Jeremy C. A. Smith
RRP: £25.00£17.92Debating civilisations offers an up-to-date evaluation of the re-emerging field of civilisational analysis, tracing its main currents and comparing it to rival paradigms such as Marxism, globalisation theory and postcolonial sociology. The book suggests... -
The Making Of A Premier: Zhao Ziyang's Provincial Career by David L Shambaugh
RRP: £39.99£35.06How did Zhao Ziyang rise through the provincial apparatus of the Chinese Communist Party to become premier in 1980? How did he develop the policies of economic reform in the provinces that have now become national policy? What does Zhao Ziyang's... -
Beyond the People: Social Imaginary and Constituent Imagination by Zoran Oklopcic 9780198799092
£88.72Beyond the People develops a provocative, interdisciplinary, and meta-theoretical critique of the idea of popular sovereignty. It asks simple but far-reaching questions: Can 'imagined' communities, or 'invented' peoples, ever be theorized without, at the... -
Administrative Thinkers by D Ravindra Prasad
RRP: £14.99£9.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789386245113Author D Ravindra PrasadFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint Sterling Publishers Pvt.LtdPublisher Sterling Publishers Pvt.LtdWeight(grams) 504g -
Palestinian Politics and the Middle East Peace Process: Consensus and Competition in the Palestinian Negotiating Team by Ghassan Khatib
RRP: £43.99£38.44Eight years after the second Palestinian uprising, the Oslo accords signed in 1993 seem to have failed. The reasons for the failure continue to fascinate students, politicians, researchers and policymakers alike. This book explores one of the major... -
Julian Bond's Time to Teach: A History of the Southern Civil Rights Movement by Julian Bond
RRP: £27.00£18.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807033203Author Julian BondFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press -
An Introduction to Democracy by Eamonn Butler
RRP: £12.50£11.55What is democracy? How does it work? What are its strengths - and its shortcomings? Two-thirds of the world's population, in over 100 countries, live under governments that claim to be democratic. Yet few of those governments live up to the ideals of... -
The Politics of Evaluation in International Organizations by Vytautas Jankauskas 9780192855206
RRP: £70.00£63.74Evaluation has become a key tool in assessing the performance of international organizations, in fostering learning, and in demonstrating accountability. Within the United Nations (UN) system, thousands of evaluators and consultants produce hundreds of... -
Rethinking Political Institutions: The Art of the State by Ian Shapiro 9780814740569
RRP: £24.99£21.97Institutions shape every dimension of politics. This volume collects original essays on how such institutions are formed, operated, and changed, both in theory and in practice. Ranging across formal institutions of government such as legislatures,... -
Hyperpolitics: An Interactive Dictionary of Political Science Concepts by Mauro Calise
RRP: £58.00£55.69Fifteen years in the making, "Hyperpolitics" is an interactive dictionary offering a wholly original approach for understanding and working with the most central concepts in political science. Designed and authored by two of the discipline's most... -
Women as Sacred Custodians of the Earth?: Women, Spirituality and the Environment by Alaine Low 9781571814678
RRP: £99.00£80.47Literature on women, development and environment is abundant. The relationship between women and ecology has been analyzed by various disciplines, by specialists from the North as well as the South. This book offers a new perspective, specifically to... -
Socioeconomic Justice: International Intervention and Transition in Post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina by Daniela Lai
RRP: £79.99£72.16Does socioeconomic justice belong within transitional justice? Daniela Lai provides the first systematic analysis of experiences of socioeconomic violence during war and how they give rise to strong, but unheeded justice claims in the aftermath. She... -
In a Bad State: Responding to State and Local Budget Crises by David Schleicher 9780197629154
RRP: £19.99£17.13An authoritative review of the long history of federal responses to state and local budget crises, from Alexander Hamilton through the COVID-19 pandemic, that reveals what is at stake when a state or city can't pay its debts and provides policy solutions... -
Socio-Economic Foundations of the Russian Post-Soviet Regime: The Resource-Based Economy and Estate-Based Social Structure of Contemporary Russia by Simon Kordonsky 9783838207759
RRP: £24.90£20.23This monograph discloses the estate-based social structure of contemporary Russia by way of outlining the principles of the USSR's peculiar estate system, and explaining the new social estates of post-Soviet Russia. Simon Kordonsky distinguishes and... -
Transgenerational Colonialism: Reconstructing Collective and Personal Identity by Karel James Bouse 9781793623997
RRP: £77.00£67.08In Transgenerational Colonialism, Karel James Bouse offers an alternative and holistic model for the analysis of colonialism and its effects on humanity. Using the current anti-colonialist struggle in Northern Ireland as a representative case study,... -
The Nationalization of the Masses: Political Symbolism and Mass Movements in Germany from the Napoleonic Wars Through the Third Reich by George L Mosse
RRP: £21.95£21.86First published in 1975, The Nationalization of the Masses is George L. Mosse's major statement about political symbols and the means of their diffusion. Focusing on Germany and, to a lesser degree, France and Italy, Mosse analyzes the role of symbols in... -
Crossing the Line: Vagrancy, Homelessness and Social Displacement in Russia Svetlana Stephenson 9780754618133
RRP: £135.00£117.28This pioneering book is the first to explore the experiences of homeless people in Russia in the late Soviet period and during post-socialist transition. Through their own stories, it introduces us to the hidden world of vagrants, itinerant workers and... -
Global Institutions and Development: Framing the World? by Morten Boas 9780415312905
RRP: £58.99£51.08This unique book explores a very broad range of ideas and institutions and provides thorough and detailed case studies in the context of broader theoretical analysis. Key topics such as poverty, global governance, sustainable development and the... -
Asian Americans and the Spirit of Racial Capitalism by Jonathan Tran
RRP: £27.99£23.61Any serious consideration of Asian American life forces us to reframe the way we talk about racism and antiracism. There are two contemporary approaches to antiracist theory and practice. The first emphasizes racial identity to the exclusion of political... -
From Hitler to Codreanu: The Ideology of Fascist Leaders by Carlos Manuel Martins 9780367616908
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book examines fascist ideology in seven leaders of parties and movements in the interwar period.It makes use of the conceptual morphological approach, focused on core and adjacent concepts, as well as on the interlinkages between them. With such an... -
Nuclear Command, Control, and Communications: A Primer on US Systems and Future Challenges by James J. Wirtz
RRP: £32.00£28.44A unique overview of the United States' current nuclear command, control, and communications system and its modernization for the digital age Concerns about the security of nuclear command, control, and communications (NC3) systems are not new, but... -
Pathways of Autocratization: The Tumultuous Journey of Bangladeshi Politics Ali Riaz (Illinois State University, USA) 9781032711997
RRP: £49.99£43.50Pathways of Autocratization addresses contemporary global politics' one of the most important questions: how does a country regress from a democracy to an autocracy?This book offers a novel framework for understanding the processes that erode democracy... -
Exodus by Walid Nabhan 9780720620504
£17.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780720620504Author Walid NabhanFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Peter Owen PublishersPublisher Peter Owen Publishers -
Gender Verification and the Making of the Female Body in Sport: A History of the Present Sonja Erikainen (University of Edinburgh, UK) 9781032085197
RRP: £39.99£35.33This book critically explores the history of gender verification in international sport, to show how culture, politics, and science come together to produce "femaleness" and, consequently, the female body as we know it. Tracing gender verification... -
Montesquieu: Selected Political Writings by Charles de Secondat,Baron de Montesquieu
RRP: £17.99£14.91The essential political writings of Montesquieu--a substantial abridgment of The Spirit of the Laws, plus judicious selections from The Persian Letters and Considerations of the Romans' Greatness and Decline--are masterfully translated by Melvin Richter... -
Africa's Big Men: Predatory State-Society Relations in Africa Kenneth Kalu (University of Texas at Austin, USA) 9781138559349
RRP: £36.99£32.78This book spotlights, analyzes and explains varying forms and patterns of state-society relations on the African continent, taking as point of departure the complexities created by the emergence, proliferation and complicated interactions of so-called... -
LGBTI Rights in Turkey: Sexuality and the State in the Middle East by Fait Muedini
RRP: £23.99£20.70The LGBTI community in Turkey face real dangers. In 2015, the Turkish police interrupted the LGBTI Pride march in Istanbul, using tear gas and rubber bullets against the marchers. This marked the first attempt by the authorities to stop the parade by... -
Aid Effectiveness in Africa: Developing Trust between Donors and Governments by Phyllis R. Pomerantz 9780739110034
RRP: £40.00£34.94A significant contribution to the ongoing debate on aid effectiveness, Aid Effectiveness in Africa starts from the premise that money alone will not bring sustained development to Africa. With grounding in years of experience and fieldwork, Phyllis R...