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Crimes in Archival Form: Human Rights, Fact Production, and Myanmar by Prof. Dr. Ken MacLean
RRP: £25.00£19.99Crimes in Archival Form explores the many ways in which human rights "facts" are produced rather than found. Using Myanmar as his case study, Ken MacLean examines the fact-finding practices of a human rights group, two cross-border humanitarian agencies,... -
Machiavelli`s Gospel - The Critique of Christianity in "The Prince" by William B. Parsons
RRP: £80.00£77.61A new reading of The Prince, arguing that the classic text is neither a scientific treatise on politics nor a patriotic tract but rather an artful, elaborated critique of the dominant religion of his time The leading interpretations of The Prince... -
Revolution & War in Contemporary Ukraine: The Challenge of Change by Olga Bertelsen
RRP: £34.00£28.02What are the reasons behind, and trajectories of, the rapid cultural changes in Ukraine since 2013? This volume highlights: the role of the Revolution of Dignity and the Russian-Ukrainian war in the formation of Ukrainian civil society; the forms of... -
On Edward Said: Remembrance of Things Past Hamid Dabashi 9781642594096
RRP: £48.00£32.10Edward Said (1935-2003) was a towering figure in post-colonial studies and the struggle for justice in his native Palestine, best known for his critique of orientalism in western portrayals of the Middle East. As a public intellectual, activist, and... -
Africa's International Relations: Balancing Domestic and Global Interests by Beth Elise Whitaker 9781626377370
£30.11Comprehensive and engaging, this timely introduction to Africa's international relations explores how power, interests, and ideas influence interactions both among the continent's states and between African states and other actors in the global arena. ... -
Broken News: Why the Media Rage Machine Divides America and How to Fight Back by Chris Stirewalt
RRP: £25.00£16.38Rage revenue-addicted news companies are plagued by shoddy reporting, sensationalism, groupthink, and brain-dead partisan tribalism. Newsrooms rely on emotion-driven blabber to entrance conflict-addled super users.In Broken News, Chris Stirewalt,... -
Canada and Ireland: A Political and Diplomatic History by Philip J. Currie
RRP: £31.00£24.14Canadians have been involved in, intrigued by, and frustrated with Irish politics, from the Fenian Raids of the 1860s to the present day. Yet, until now, scholarly interest in Canada's relationship with Ireland has focused largely on the years leading to... -
The Ripple Effect: The Fate of Freshwater in the Twenty-First Century by Alex Prud'homme 9781416535461
£17.01From the bestselling coauthor with Julia Child of My Life in France "a balanced and insightful assessment of what could emerge as the dominant issue in decades ahead" (Associated Press)-the fate of fresh water in the twenty-first century.Will there be... -
A Haunt of Fears: The Strange History of the British Horror Comics Campaign by Martin Barker 9780878055944
RRP: £34.95£22.45Between 1949 and 1955 Britain was swept by a rising tide of panic about ""American-style"" or ""horror"" comics. The British press cried out in alarm: ""Now Ban This Filth That Poisons Our Children,"" ""Drive Out the Horror Comics."" As one frenzied... -
Pakistan's Pathway to the Bomb: Ambitions, Politics, and Rivalries by Mansoor Ahmed
RRP: £36.00£32.10A groundbreaking account of Pakistan's rise as a nuclear power draws on elite interviews and primary sources to challenge long-held misconceptions Pakistan's pathway to developing nuclear weapons remains shrouded in mystery and surrounded by... -
What Unites Us by Dan Rather 9781616207823
RRP: £17.99£15.79Now, in a collection of wholly original essays, the venerated television journalist celebrates our shared values and what matters most in his great country, and shows us what patriotism looks like. Writing about the institutions that sustain America,... -
Government Transparency: State of the Art and New Perspectives by Gregory Porumbescu
RRP: £17.00£14.72This Element argues that to understand why transparency "works" in one context, but fails in another, we have to take into account how institutional (macro), organizational (meso) contexts interact with individual behavior (micro). A review of research... -
Rousseau, Nietzsche, and the Image of the Human by Paul Franco
RRP: £31.00£26.73In Rousseau, Nietzsche, and the Image of the Human, Paul Franco examines the relationship between Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Friedrich Nietzsche, arguably the two most influential shapers and explorers of the moral and cultural imagination of late... -
Persist by Elizabeth Warren
RRP: £14.99£11.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250839336Author Elizabeth WarrenFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 334gDimensions(mm) 144mm... -
The Sheffield Workers' Committee: Rank and file trade unionism during the First World War by Edd Mustill
£6.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780851248714Author Edd MustillFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Spokesman BooksPublisher Spokesman Books -
Ethnopolitical Entrepreneurs: Outsiders inside Armenian Los Angeles by Daniel Fittante 9781501771477
RRP: £20.99£18.66Ethnopolitical Entrepreneurs presents the story of the Armenians of Glendale, California. Coming from Argentina, Armenia, Egypt, Iran, Jordan, Lebanon, Russia, Syria, and many other countries, this group is internally fragmented and often has limited... -
Governing the Police: Experience in Six Democracies David Bayley 9781412863384
RRP: £45.99£40.13Every modern democracy in our increasingly complex world must confront a fundamental problem: how should politicians manage police, ensuring that they act in the public interest while avoiding the temptation to utilize them in a partisan manner? Drawing... -
Political Fraternity: Democracy beyond Freedom and Equality by Angel Puyol
RRP: £39.99£35.06Fraternity is a feeling, and a moral virtue, but fraternity is also a political concept. The French Revolution proclaimed an ethical and political ideal with its three principles: liberty, equality and fraternity. Since then, western political philosophy... -
Liberty and the Ecological Crisis: Freedom on a Finite Planet by Christopher J. Orr 9780367346775
RRP: £43.99£38.44This book examines the concept of liberty in relation to civilization's ability to live within ecological limits.Freedom, in all its renditions - choice, thought, action - has become inextricably linked to our understanding of what it means to be modern... -
No Miracles: The Failure of Soviet Decision-Making in the Afghan War by Michael R. Fenzel
RRP: £58.00£50.17The Soviet experience in Afghanistan provides a compelling perspective on the far-reaching hazards of military intervention. In 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev decided that a withdrawal from Afghanistan should occur as soon as possible. The Soviet Union's senior... -
Hot, Flat, and Crowded 2.0: Why We Need a Green Revolution--And How It Can Renew America by Thomas L Friedman
RRP: £20.00£12.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312428921Author Thomas L FriedmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 422gDimensions(mm) 209mm... -
Breaking Through Power: It's Easier Than We Think by Ralph Nader 9780872867055
£10.04"Nader's assessment of how concentrated wealth and power undermine democracy is clear and compelling, but it's his substantive vision of how we ought to respond that makes Breaking Through Power essential reading. Written just before Donald Trump's... -
The Politics and Ethics of Contemporary Work: Whither Work? by Keith Breen
RRP: £32.99£29.16Bringing together leading international scholars within the fields of social and political theory and philosophy, this book explores how we should understand work and its role(s) in our lives and wider society. What challenges are posed by work in our... -
US Imperialism: The Changing Dynamics of Global Power by James Petras
RRP: £37.99£33.38This book offers a broad and deep examination of the dynamics of US imperialism. Petras analyzes imperialism not only as economic domination, showing that its impact in the world takes many forms, including cultural, political and historical. He points... -
Political Vocabularies: Word Change and the Nature of Politics Conal Condren 9781580465823
RRP: £115.00£108.57Considers how political language has changed through time, looking at concrete examples from English and other languages. Conal Condren's fifth and final volume in a decades-long examination of political language, Political Vocabularies: Word Change... -
The Mediation Dilemma by Kyle Beardsley
RRP: £39.00£34.79Mediation has become a common technique for terminating violent conflicts both within and between states; while mediation has a strong record in reducing hostilities, it is not without its own problems. In The Mediation Dilemma, Kyle Beardsley highlights... -
Neopatrimonialism in Africa and Beyond by Daniel C. Bach 9780415640107
RRP: £43.99£38.44Neopatrimonialism, a system whereby rulers use state resources for personal benefit and to secure the loyalty of clients in the general population, is central to any teaching or conceptualisation of contemporary African politics. This book is a... -
Studies in the Growth of Nineteenth Century Government (Routledge Library Editions: Political Science Volume 33) by Gillian Sutherland 9780415652117
RRP: £41.99£36.75The main theme of this book is the complex relationship between government servants and the world around them and this is explored in a number of ways. The essays include studies of the people who played an important part in the development of 19th... -
Rethinking Social Movements: Structure, Meaning, and Emotion by Jeff Goodwin 9780742525962
RRP: £48.00£42.05This landmark volume brings together some of the titans of social movement theory in a grand reassessment of its status. For some time, the field has been divided between a dominant structural approach and a cultural or constructivist tradition. The gaps... -
The Rise of Global Islamophobia in the War on Terror: Coloniality, Race, and Islam by Naved Bakali 9781526161758
RRP: £90.00£78.81Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
A Political History of Child Protection: Lessons for Reform from Aotearoa New Zealand Ian Kelvin Hyslop (The University of Auckland) 9781447353188
RRP: £24.99£19.39Exploring the current and historical tensions between liberal capitalism and indigenous models of family life, Ian Kelvin Hyslop argues for a new model of child protection in Aotearoa New Zealand and other parts of the Anglophone world. He puts forward... -
Performance and Politics in a Digital Populist Age: Imagining Alternatives Cami Rowe (Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts, Lancaster University, UK) 9781032419589
RRP: £35.99£31.94This book re-evaluates the role of performance in global politics in the face of populism and the digital mediatisation of political interactions. As political communications are increasingly conducted in online environments,'post-truth' performances... -
Democracy Promotion as US Foreign Policy: Bill Clinton and Democratic Enlargement by Nicolas Bouchet
RRP: £39.99£35.06The role of democracy promotion in US foreign policy has increased considerably in the last three decades, booming especially in the immediate years after the end of the Cold War. The rise of democracy promotion originated in a long historical tradition... -
Routledge Handbook on Middle East Security by Anders Jägerskog
RRP: £43.99£38.84Routledge Handbook on Middle East Security provides the first comprehensive look at Middle East security issues that includes both traditional and emerging security threats. Taking a broad perspective on security, the volume offers both analysis grounded... -
The Year of Voting Dangerously: The Derangement of American Politics by Maureen Dowd
RRP: £14.99£10.93NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERTrapped between two candidates with the highest recorded unfavorables, Americans were plunged into The Year of Voting Dangerously. In this perilous and shocking 2016 campaign, New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd traced the... -
Rosewood: Endangered Species Conservation and the Rise of Global China by Annah Lake Zhu
RRP: £34.95£28.19A riveting study of the booming rosewood trade between China and Madagascar uncovers an alternative approach to environmentalism that disrupts Western models.Rosewood is the world's most trafficked endangered species by value, accounting for larger... -
Frankly, We Did Win This Election: The Inside Story of How Trump Lost by Michael Bender
RRP: £14.99£9.90THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!Michael C. Bender, senior White House reporter for the Wall Street Journal, presents a deeply reported account of the 2020 presidential campaign that details how Donald J. Trump became the first incumbent in three... -
Necessary Secrets: National Security, the Media, and the Rule of Law by Gabriel Schoenfeld 9780393339932
RRP: £20.99£18.02Gabriel Schoenfeld "brilliantly illuminates" (Wall Street Journal) a growing rift between a press that sees itself as the heroic force promoting the public's "right to know" and a government that needs to safeguard information vital to the effective... -
The Undiscovered Dewey: Religion, Morality, and the Ethos of Democracy by Professor Melvin L. Rogers 9780231144872
RRP: £28.00£21.80The Undiscovered Dewey explores the profound influence of evolution and its corresponding ideas of contingency and uncertainty on John Dewey's philosophy of action, particularly its argument that inquiry proceeds from the uncertainty of human activity... -
The Tribalization of Europe: A Defence of our Liberal Values by Marlene Wind
RRP: £12.99£10.91Tribalization is a global megatrend in today's world. The election of Donald Trump, the Brexit vote, populist movements like Catalan separatism - together with democratic backsliding in Central and Eastern Europe - are all examples of tribalization...