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Republic of Wrath: How American Politics Turned Tribal, from George Washington to Donald Trump by James a Morone
RRP: £25.00£18.49American politics today is in an uproar: loud, angry, and bitter, bristling with us-versus-them. This is not exactly new. The history of our political life is teeming with nastiness, violence, intolerance, and cheating. Yet we can sense that there is... -
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx 9780300123029
£11.22Marx and Engels's Communist Manifesto has become one of the world's most influential political tracts since its original 1848 publication. Part of the Rethinking the Western Tradition series, this edition of the Manifesto features an extensive... -
Obama Power Jeffrey C. Alexander (University of California, Los Angeles) 9780745696621
RRP: £9.99£9.19What is the source of Obama's power? How is it that, after suffering a humiliating defeat in the 2010 mid-term elections, Obama was able to turn the situation around, deftly outmaneuvering his opponent and achieving a decisive victory in the November... -
Party Families in Western Europe Peter Egge Langsaether (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway) 9781138336964
RRP: £36.99£32.78This comprehensive and comparative book makes clear what party families are and, in doing so, helps categorise and make sense of parties in different countries. It describes the ideology of the families in Western Europe as well as classifying political... -
Unarmed Victory by Bertrand Russell 9780851248028
RRP: £9.95£9.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780851248028Author Bertrand RussellFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Spokesman BooksPublisher Spokesman BooksDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm * 10mm -
The Challenge of Grand Strategy: The Great Powers and the Broken Balance between the World Wars by Jeffrey W. Taliaferro
RRP: £36.99£33.55The years between the World Wars represent an era of broken balances: the retreat of the United States from global geopolitics, the weakening of Great Britain and France, Russian isolation following the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, the resurgence of German... -
The Politics of Populism in Hungary Robert Csehi 9781032075679
RRP: £39.99£35.06The book assesses the development of the Orban regime in Hungary after 2010 through analyzing the polity-politics-policy impacts from a perspective of populism as an ideology focusing on discourse and actual decisions. By closely scrutinizing political... -
Urban Political Geographies: A Global Perspective by Ugo Rossi 9780857028846
RRP: £44.99£37.27"Ugo Rossi and Alberto Vanolo take us on a journey around the ascent and crisis of urban liberalism, providing a clear and highly readable analysis of key issues and debates in the field of urban political geography." - Ola Soederstroem, Universite de... -
A Good Life on a Finite Earth: The Political Economy of Green Growth by Daniel J. Fiorino 9780190605810
RRP: £35.49£26.85The potential conflict among economic and ecological goals has formed the central fault line of environmental politics in the United States and most other countries since the 1970s. The accepted view is that efforts to protect the environment will... -
Beautiful Rising: Creative Resistance from the Global South Juman Abujbara 9781944869816
RRP: £12.99£12.57"Beautiful Rising offers insights and lessons for creative resistance from across the Global South, making it a crucial resource for change-makers."-Archbishop Desmond Tutu "Beyond a brilliantly innovative toolkit for making social change, you... -
That's Not Funny: How the Right Makes Comedy Work for Them by Nick Marx
RRP: £21.00£17.50A 2022 Best Comedy Book, VultureA rousing call for liberals and progressives to pay attention to the emergence of right-wing comedy and the political power of humor. "Why do conservatives hate comedy? Why is there no right-wing Jon Stewart?" These sorts... -
The Debt Delusion: Living Within Our Means and Other Fallacies John F. Weeks 9781509532933
RRP: £50.00£43.17'Governments should spend no more than their tax income.' Most people in Europe and North America accept this statement as simple common sense. It resonates with the deeply engrained economic metaphors that dominate public discourse, from 'living within... -
The World Has Forgotten Us: Sinjar and the Islamic State's Genocide of the Yezidis by Thomas Schmidinger
RRP: £19.99£16.00The persecution of the Yezidis, a religious community originating in Upper Mesopotamia, has been ongoing since at least the 10th century. On 3 August 2014, Islamic State attacked the Yezidi community in Sinjar, Kurdistan. Thousands were enslaved or... -
Tom Paine's Iron Bridge: Building a United States by Edward G. Gray 9780393241785
RRP: £17.99£17.44In a letter to his wife Abigail, John Adams judged the author of Common Sense as having "a better hand at pulling down than building." Adams's dismissive remark has helped shape the prevailing view of Tom Paine ever since. But, as Edward G. Gray shows in... -
The Paleoconservatives: New Voices of the Old Right Joseph A. Scotchie 9781138516595
RRP: £53.99£47.23"Paleoconservatism" as a concept came into circulation during the 1980s as a rejoinder to the rise of neoconservatism. It signifies a brand of conservatism that rose up in opposition to the New Deal, setting itself against the centralizing trends that... -
International Politics of the Arctic: Coming in from the Cold Peter Hough 9781138909212
RRP: £36.99£32.53This book offers a wide-ranging account of the emerging issues of international politics in the Artic, and the emerging Geopolitical debates that surround the region.In this thorough but accessible book covering environmental issues, the author examines... -
Japanese Women Writers: Twentieth Century Short Fiction: Twentieth Century Short Fiction by Noriko Mizuta Lippit
RRP: £44.99£39.59This collection includes translated works by Japanese women writers that deal with the experiences of modern women. The work of these women represents current feminist perception, imagination and thought. "Here are Japanese women in infinite and... -
Understanding New Security Threats Michel Gueldry (Middlebury Institute of International Studies, USA) 9781138104747
RRP: £36.99£32.78This textbook examines non-traditional forms of security and expands the notion of security to include non-state actors and non-human actors. Proposing an expansive view of non-traditional forms of security that go beyond traditionally recognized issues... -
The Anti-Capitalist Dictionary: Movements, Histories and Motivations by David E. Lowes
£30.98This dictionary is an alternative and a counter-balance to the many political dictionaries that ignore or marginalize the history and influence of anti-capitalist movements. It paints a rich picture of the ideas and issues that inform today's... -
Russia and the Arctic: Environment, Identity and Foreign Policy by Geir Honneland 9781838601232
£30.43The world is currently witnessing an Arctic Scramble as the major powers compete to demarcate and occupy Arctic territory. The region is known to be home to large gas and oil reserves, and its position at the top of the globe holds significant trading... -
Media and Power in Southeast Asia by Cherian George
RRP: £17.00£14.72This study of Southeast Asian media and politics explores issues of global relevance pertaining to journalism's relationship with political power. It argues that the development of free, independent, and plural media has been complicated by trends... -
The Coming Woke Catastrophe: A Critical Examination of Woke Culture by Chris Heitzman
RRP: £54.00£45.24Widespread popular belief holds that woke culture, increasingly known as "wokeism," is the great progressive awakening of our time. Its followers and proponents believe that their awakening is one of seeing a better world without discrimination,... -
Peacebuilding and Reconciliation: Contemporary Themes and Challenges Marwan Darweish 9780745332871
RRP: £29.99£23.38Peacebuilding and Reconciliation brings together a number of critical essays from members of the renowned Centre for Peace & Reconciliation Studies. This highly topical book covers the latest developments and issues in the discipline of peacebuilding... -
The World as Idea: A Conceptual History Charles P. Webel (University of New York in Prague) 9781032115665
RRP: £39.99£35.06In The World as Idea Charles P. Webel presents an intellectual history of one of the most influential concepts known to humanity-that of "the world."Webel traces the development of "the world" through the past, depicting the history of the world as an... -
Women and Jihad: Debating Palestinian Female Suicide Bombings in the American, Israeli & Arab Media by Rachel Avraham 9789652299031
RRP: £25.99£16.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789652299031Author Rachel AvrahamFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Gefen Publishing HousePublisher Gefen Publishing HouseWeight(grams) 550g -
Research Methods in International Relations by Christopher Lamont 9781529724684
RRP: £102.00£83.27The only guide to conducting research in International Relations. Covering the full breadth of methods in IR with unrivalled clarity, this best-selling textbook takes you through the entire process of doing research, from honing your question to writing... -
Labour exploitation and work-based harm Sam Scott 9781447322047
RRP: £27.99£21.57Labour exploitation is a highly topical though complex issue that has international resonance for those concerned with social justice and social welfare, but there is a lack of research available about it. This book, part of the Studies in Social Harm... -
Out of Africa: Post-Structuralism's Colonial Roots by Pal Ahluwalia
RRP: £58.99£51.08At the heart of this book is the argument that the fact that so many post-structuralist French intellectuals have a strong 'colonial' connection, usually with Algeria, cannot be a coincidence. The 'biographical' fact that so many French intellectuals... -
Organized Money: Powering the Next Progressive Era Mark A. Pinksy 9781620975046
RRP: £23.99£7.69The U.S. financial system is a source of enormous conservative power. Yet most progressive people and organisations trust it with their money and so help fund their conservative opposition. Until progressives achieve a financial system that works for... -
Rethinking Asia's Economic Miracle: The Political Economy of War, Prosperity and Crisis by Richard Stubbs
£43.38In the new edition of this important contribution to understanding both the Asian economic miracle and the 1997-8 crisis, Richard Stubbs assesses the main explanations to date and updates the analysis to take account of globalization and the remarkable... -
Slipping Loose by Martin Westlake
RRP: £75.00£70.51The 2016 Brexit referendum result has been portrayed as the consequence of various short-term phenomena: the financial crisis, austerity, migration and UKIP, to name a few. Overnight the political future of the UK took an unprecedented and unexpected... -
War, Police and Assemblages of Intervention by Jan Bachmann
RRP: £41.99£36.75This book reflects on the way in which war and police/policing intersect in contemporary Western-led interventions in the global South. The volume combines empirically oriented work with ground-breaking theoretical insights and aims to collect, for the... -
Ravished Armenia and the Story of Aurora Mardiganian by Anthony Slide 9781617038488
RRP: £36.95£33.62""Ravished Armenia"" and the Story of Aurora Mardiganian is the real-life tale of a teenage Armenian girl who was caught up in the 1915 Armenian genocide, the first genocide in modern history. Mardiganian (1901-1994) witnessed the murder of her family... -
Zoned Out!: Race, Displacement, and City Planning in New York City, Revised Edition by Tom Angotti 9781613322079
RRP: £17.99£15.90Gentrification and displacement of low-income communities of color are major issues in New York City and the city's zoning policies are a major cause. Race matters but the city ignores it when shaping land use and housing policies. The city promises... -
You Back The Attack!: Remixed War Propaganda by Micah Ian Wright 9781583225844
RRP: £10.99£7.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583225844Author Micah Ian WrightFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 228g -
We Got Him!: A Memoir of the Hunt and Capture of Saddam Hussein by Steve Russell 9781451665123
RRP: £10.99£7.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451665123Author Steve RussellFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Threshold EditionsPublisher Threshold EditionsWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 168mm *... -
Nazi Germany by Alan F. Wilt 9780882959108
RRP: £18.95£16.85Begins with a brief sketch of Hitler before turning to the political, economic, social, and cultural aspects of the Third Reich. A conclusion gives an historiographical assessment of Hitlerian Germany and its place in the 20th century.About the... -
Globalization and Belonging: The Politics of Identity in a Changing World by Sheila Croucher
RRP: £35.00£29.04In the decades since the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States forces of cultural, economic, and political integration appear locked in battle with equally powerful forces of fragmentation. Globalization is facilitating unprecedented... -
Behind the Veil of Vice: The Business and Culture of Sex in the Middle East by John R. Bradley 9780230114272
£14.61The Middle East has long been something of a mystery to Westerners, and in particular, the sexual mores of the region continue to fascinate. Arabs are often described as being in a state of Islam-induced sexual anxiety and young Muslims' frustrations are... -
The Institutions Curse: Natural Resources, Politics, and Development by Victor Menaldo 9781316503362
RRP: £30.99£26.96The 'resource curse' is the view that countries with extensive natural resources tend to suffer from a host of undesirable outcomes, including the weakening of state capacity, authoritarianism, fewer public goods, war, and economic stagnation. This book...