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The New Nationalism in America and Beyond by Schertzer/Woods
RRP: €27.95€25.26A careful analysis of the social media campaigns of Donald Trump, Marine Le Pen, and the Brexit campaigners, which shows how today's new nationalists are cultivating support from white majorities by tapping into their history and culture. Across the... -
Smugglers and States: Negotiating the Maghreb at Its Margins by Max Gallien 9780231212892
RRP: €35.70€27.72Smuggling is typically thought of as furtive and hidden, taking place under the radar and beyond the reach of the state. But in many cases, governments tacitly permit illicit cross-border commerce, or even devise informal arrangements to regulate it... -
The Russian Way of Deterrence: Strategic Culture, Coercion, and War by Dmitry (Dima) Adamsky 9781503637825
RRP: €24.98€22.21From a globally renowned expert on Russian military strategy and national security, The Russian Way of Deterrence investigates Russia's approach to coercion (both deterrence and compellence), comparing and contrasting it with the Western... -
Bring Me the Arse of Saddam: A True Story of an SAS Man at War with the British Establishment by Nigel Ely 9780995660502
RRP: €11.89€10.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995660502Author Nigel ElyFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint TrebletapPublisher TrebletapWeight(grams) 376gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 15mm -
Jewish Space Lasers: The Rothschilds and 200 Years of Conspiracy Theories by Mike Rothschild 9781685890643
RRP: €35.70€23.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781685890643Author Mike RothschildFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House Publishing -
The Hungry Empire: How Britain's Quest for Food Shaped the Modern World by Lizzie Collingham
RRP: €15.46€11.11'A wholly pleasing book, which offers a tasty side dish to anyone exploring the narrative history of the British Empire' Max Hastings, Sunday TimesWINNER OF THE GUILD OF FOOD WRITERS BOOK AWARD 2018The glamorous daughter of an African chief shares a... -
The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan by Yasmin Khan
RRP: €16.65€14.58A reappraisal of the tumultuous Partition and how it ignited long-standing animosities between India and Pakistan"Eloquently discusses the making of India and Pakistan after British rule on the subcontinent was dismantled in 1947. . . . A new look at... -
Estates: An Intimate History by Lynsey Hanley 9781783788651
RRP: €13.08€8.97Lynsey Hanley was born and raised just outside of Birmingham on what was then the largest council estate in Europe, and she has lived for years on an estate in London's East End. Writing with passion, humour and a sense of history, she recounts the rise... -
Prisoners of Time: Prussians, Germans and Other Humans by Christopher Clark
RRP: €13.08€9.51An intellectual tour de force: the major essays of the esteemed author of international bestseller The Sleepwalkers Christopher Clark's The Sleepwalkers has become one of the most influential history books of our century: a remarkable rethinking of the... -
Truth to Power: How to Call Time on Bullsh*t, Speak Up & Make A Difference (The Sunday Times Bestseller) Jess Phillips 9781913183097
RRP: €15.46€10.51THE SUNDAY TIMES BEST SELLER'Will ruffle some feathers.' Stylist'There's nobody else at Westminster quite like Jess Phillips. She is fearless and funny, riotous and rebellious, maverick and mischievous.' The Times'Jess Phillips is a heroine' J.K. Rowling... -
On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal by Naomi Klein
RRP: €15.46€11.11'Naomi Klein's work has always moved and guided me. She is the great chronicler of our age of climate emergency, an inspirer of generations' - Greta Thunberg For more than twenty years Naomi Klein's books have defined our era, chronicling the... -
The History of Political Thought: A Very Short Introduction by Richard Whatmore
RRP: €10.70€7.91Thinking about politics has tended to be historical in nature because of the comparisons and contrasts that can be drawn between past and present. Different periods in politics have used the past differently. At times political thought can be said to... -
Cyber War: The Next Threat to National Security and What to Do About It by Richard A. Clarke 9780061962240
RRP: €13.08€8.88They have accessed the office of the Secretary of Defense, the control systems for U.S. electric power grids, and the plans to protect America's latest fighter aircraft. They can shut down our most vital systems, from transportation to finance, using... -
In Defense of Civilization: How Our Past Can Renew Our Present by Michael R.J. Bonner
RRP: €21.41€14.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781990823060Author Michael RJ BonnerFormat HardbackPage Count 230Imprint The Sutherland House Inc.Publisher The Sutherland House Inc. -
Genocide: Key Themes by Donald Bloxham 9780192865267
€22.94The growth of scholarship on the pressing problem of genocide shows no sign of abating. This volume takes stock of Genocide Studies in all its multi-disciplinary diversity by adopting a thematic rather than case-study approach. Each chapter is by an... -
A Brief History of Neoliberalism by David Harvey
RRP: €21.41€18.47Neoliberalism - the doctrine that market exchange is an ethic in itself, capable of acting as a guide for all human action - has become dominant in both thought and practice throughout much of the world since 1970 or so. Its spread has depended upon a... -
Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire by Rebecca Henderson
RRP: €22.60€13.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541730144Author Rebecca HendersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint PublicAffairsPublisher PublicAffairsWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm... -
Crisis by Nicky Perfect 9780008561161
RRP: €11.89€7.15We had been there for over 12 hours. The man was still 30 feet up a tree, balancing on a branch directly over one of the main railway lines out of one of the busiest train stations in the country. He refused to talk to us, threatening to... -
The Year That Broke Politics: Collusion and Chaos in the Presidential Election of 1968 Luke A. Nichter 9780300280135
RRP: €17.84€17.67The unknown story of the election that set the tone for today’s fractured politics A Wall Street Journal Best Book of 2023: Politics “The book is a delightful demolition of the many political myths that continue to muddy our understanding of that... -
The Grassling by Elizabeth-Jane Burnett
RRP: €13.08€9.51'Deliciously tactile and meditative . . . to read this is to luxuriate in the land, and to connect to it and oneself' Bernardine Evaristo What fills my lungs is wider than breath could be. It is a place and a language torn, matted and melded; flowered... -
The Bonds of Family: Slavery, Commerce and Culture in the British Atlantic World by Katie Donington 9781526157515
RRP: €35.70€31.75Moving between Britain and Jamaica The bonds of family reconstructs the world of commerce, consumption and cultivation sustained through an extended engagement with the business of slavery. Transatlantic slavery was both shaping of and shaped by the... -
The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy by Mariana Mazzucato
RRP: €13.08€9.51WINNER OF THE 2019 MADAME DE STAEL PRIZE AND THE 2018 LEONTIEF PRIZE FOR ADVANCING THE FRONTIERS OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT SHORTLISTED FOR THE FT & MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018Who really creates wealth in our world? And how do we decide the value of... -
Unfinished Business: The Fight for Women's Rights by Polly Russell 9780712353953
RRP: €29.75€5.05In the midst of today's highly politicised debates on gender equality, one thing is clear: the fight for women's rights is unfinished business. This book, which accompanies a bold and forward-facing British Library exhibition, presents the history of... -
The New Age of Catastrophe by A Callinicos
RRP: €21.41€19.39The world is entering a new age of catastrophe. The exceptional is becoming normal. The last such crisis, between 1914 and 1945, witnessed two world wars, the Great Depression, and the Holocaust. Now humankind faces fresh existential threats - the... -
Intersectionality Patricia Hill Collins 9781509539680
RRP: €21.41€19.39The concept of intersectionality has become a central topic in academic and activist circles alike. But what exactly does it mean, and why has it emerged as such a vital lens through which to explore how social inequalities of race, class, gender,... -
Metropolis: A History of Humankind's Greatest Invention by Ben Wilson
RRP: €15.46€11.11From the Sunday Times bestselling author, a dazzling, globe-spanning history of humankind's greatest invention: the city.'Brilliant...enchanting' Evening Standard 'Exhilarating' New York TimesThe story of the city is the story of civilisation. From Uruk... -
Madam Secretary: A Memoir by Madeleine Albright
RRP: €15.46€10.84A national bestseller on its first publication in 2003, "Madam Secretary" is the riveting personal story of former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. For eight years, during Bill Clinton's two presidential terms, Albright was an active participant in... -
The Citizens at Risk: From Urban Sanitation to Sustainable Cities by Gordon McGranahan
RRP: €49.97€43.73Local environments such as cities and neighbourhoods are becoming a focal point for those concerned with environmental justice and sustainability. The Citizens at Risk takes up this emerging agenda and analyses the key issues in a refreshingly simple yet... -
The Essential Writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
RRP: €15.46€11.11Translated by Peter ConstantineEdited and with a new introduction by Leo Damrosch'Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains' is the dramatic opening line of The Social Contract, published in 1762. Quoted by politicians and philosophers alike, the... -
The Secret Prison Governor by The Secret Prison Governor
RRP: €10.70€6.69An eye-opening, thought-provoking and mind-blowing account from a genuine prison governor of what it's really like behind bars.How do you bring order to the lawless?The Secret Prison Governor has spent decades surrounded by every type of prisoner known... -
Guerrilla Warfare by Ernesto 'Che' Guevara
RRP: €11.89€8.71'Guerrilla warfare is a war of the masses, a war of the people'First published in 1961, following the successful Cuban Revolution, this is Che Guevara's handbook for guerrilla war.It covers strategy, tactics, terrain, organization of an army, logistics,... -
In China's Wake: How the Commodity Boom Transformed Development Strategies in the Global South by Nicholas Jepson 9780231187978
RRP: €29.75€23.31In the early 2000s, Chinese demand for imported commodities ballooned as the country continued its breakneck economic growth. Simultaneously, global markets in metals and fuels experienced a boom of unprecedented extent and duration. Meanwhile,... -
Working Class History: Everyday Acts of Resistance and Rebellion by Working Class Histor
RRP: €22.60€15.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629638232Author Working Class HistorFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press -
Westlessness: The Great Global Rebalancing Samir Puri 9781399722636
RRP: €29.75€19.49What if the sun truly is setting on the Western world's outsized influence over the rest of the planet? In Westlessness, former UK diplomat Dr Samir Puri vividly demonstrates how in demographic, economic, military and cultural terms, we are hurtling into... -
The Scramble for China: Foreign Devils in the Qing Empire, 1832-1914 by Robert Bickers
RRP: €20.22€14.61In the early nineteenth century China remained almost untouched by British and European powers - but as new technology started to change this balance, foreigners gathered like wolves around the weakening Qing Empire. Would the Chinese suffer the fate of... -
Out Of Place: A Memoir by Edward W. Said
RRP: €13.08€8.97Edward Said experienced both British and American imperialism as the old Arab order crumbled in the late 1940s and early 1950s. This account of his early life reveals how it influenced his books Orientalism and Culture and Imperialism. Edward Said was... -
Adenauer: The Father of the New Germany by Charles Williams 9780349113692
€32.62After the Second World War Germany lay in ruins. To Konrad Adenauer (1876-1967) belongs much of the credit for raising West Germany to a position of economic prosperity and making it a respected free-world ally. Adenauer was born in 1876, in Cologne,... -
The New Cold War: Putin's Threat to Russia and the West by Edward Lucas
RRP: €15.46€11.11Revised and updated with a new preface on the Crimean crisis ______________________________________ 'An impressive polemic arguing that the West still underestimates the danger that Putin's Russia poses ... A useful appeal for vigilance' - Sunday... -
History of Political Theory: An Introduction: Volume II: Modern by George Klosko
RRP: €52.94€41.58History of Political Theory: An Introduction not only explores the great works of Western political theory but demonstrates their continuing relevance. Volume II traces the origin and development of liberal political theory, and so the foundations for... -
Never Again: Britain 1945-1951 by Peter Hennessy
RRP: €17.84€13.03Winner of the Duff Cooper PrizeWinner of the NCR Award for Non-Fiction From the high politics of Court and Cabinet room to the kitchen or the queue, Peter Hennessy's Never Again: Britain 1945-51, the first part of his Post-War Trilogy, recreates life in...