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Atatürk: Father of the Republic of Turkey by George W. Gawrych 9780755651818
RRP: $42.00$32.17Mustafa Kemal Ataturk was one of the most significant political leaders of the twentieth century. He rose from obscure origins to become the founder of the new Republic of Turkey out of the ashes of the Ottoman Empire and go on to radically transform... -
Russia's War on Everybody: And What it Means for You by Keir Giles
RRP: $52.50$35.26You may not be interested in Russia. But Russia is interested in you. Russia's 2022 attack on Ukraine saw confrontation between Moscow and the West spill over into open conflict once again. But Russia has also been waging a clandestine war against the... -
The Gratifications of Whiteness: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Enduring Rewards of Antiblackness by Ella Myers
RRP: $49.33$41.94The first book-length study of W. E. B. Du Bois's conceptualization of American whiteness. W. E. B. Du Bois famously argued that whiteness in the US in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries functioned as a "public and psychological wage,"... -
The Making of India: The Untold Story of British Enterprise by Kartar Lalvani
RRP: $56.70$41.90The first ever history of India to explore the benefits - institutional, political and civil - of British Colonial Rule on the subcontinent. The story of The Making of India begins in the seventeenth century, when a small seafaring island, one tenth... -
The Man Who Owns the News: Inside the Secret World of Rupert Murdoch by Michael Wolff
RRP: $23.08$16.32From the author of the Sunday Times Number One Bestseller Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White HouseRupert Murdoch is one of the greatest deal-makers alive. His companies possess extraordinary political and cultural power. Whether it is the Sun and the... -
Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia by John Gray
RRP: $23.08$16.32A prophetic warning against the foolishness of crusades, John Gray's Black Mass challenges our belief in human progress. Our conventional view of history is wrong. It is founded on a pernicious myth of an achievable utopia that in the last century alone... -
My Treasured Possession by Terry Virgo 9781789742978
RRP: $23.08$16.32Do you know how God sees you? Moses is a key character in the unfolding narrative of God's Kingdom. A foundational leader of God's people in the Old Testament, he's held up throughout the New Testament as a man of God, in spite of his flaws. Yet... -
The Shock of the Global: The 1970s in Perspective by Niall Ferguson
RRP: $56.60$54.85From the vantage point of the United States or Western Europe, the 1970s was a time of troubles: economic "stagflation," political scandal, and global turmoil. Yet from an international perspective it was a seminal decade, one that brought the... -
Gender – In World Perspective by R Connell
RRP: $33.58$30.26How can we understand gender in the contemporary world? What psychological differences now exist between women and men? How are masculinities and femininities made? And how is gender entwined in global politics and debates over trans issues? Raewyn... -
The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021 by Peter Baker
$47.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385546539Author Peter BakerFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Doubleday & Co Inc.Publisher Random House USA Inc -
The Butcher of Poland: Hitler's Lawyer Hans Frank by Garry O'Connor 9781803995908
RRP: $31.48$24.26The life of Bavarian Hans Frank, one of the ten war criminals hanged at Nuremburg in 1946, has not received the full attention the world has given to other Nazi leaders. In many ways, he warrants it more. His life symbolised Germany's hubristic and... -
The Colonial World: A History of European Empires, 1780s to the Present by Professor Robert Aldrich
RRP: $52.48$48.85The Colonial World: A History of European Empires, 1780s to the Present provides the most authoritative, in-depth overview on European imperialism available. It synthesizes recent developments in the study of European empires and provides new... -
Farewell the Trumpets by Jan Morris
RRP: $31.48$20.58Farewell the Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat traces the momentous decline and fall of the greatest of empires - from Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee to the death of Winston Churchill in 1965. With characteristic balance, this masterpiece of narrative... -
My Secret Brexit Diary: A Glorious Illusion Cloth by Barnier
RRP: $52.50$35.24In June 2016, the people of the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union. As the EU's chief negotiator, for four years Michel Barnier had a seat at the table as the two sides thrashed out what 'Brexit' would really mean. The result would change... -
Believing in Me by Deborah Somorin
RRP: $37.78$27.20Homeless at 13, pregnant at 14: life was not working out the way young Deborah Somorin had hoped. And yet, Deborah is now a chartered accountant at Ernst & Young, founder of housing body Empower the Family and mother of a 13-year-old. How was... -
Women of Westminster: The MPs who Changed Politics by Rachel Reeves
RRP: $20.98$16.11Foreword by Dame Winifred Mary Beard. -------- This updated edition is a complete account of the first 100 years of women in Parliament. In 1919 Nancy Astor was elected as the Member of Parliament for Plymouth Sutton, becoming the first woman MP... -
Who Owns the Moon?: In Defence of Humanity’s Common Interests in Space by A. C. Grayling 9780861547258
RRP: $35.68$24.51As the world's superpowers and corporations jostle for control in space, A. C. Grayling asks: who really owns our planet? 'Grayling brings satisfying order to daunting subjects.' STEVEN PINKER Silicon for microchips; manganese for batteries;... -
Maneuver Warfare Handbook by William S. Lind
RRP: $123.88$107.27Maneuver warfare, often controversial and requiring operational and tactical innovation, poses perhaps the most important doctrinal questions currently facing the conventional military forces of the U.S. Its purpose is to defeat the enemy by disrupting... -
How Churchill Waged War: The Most Challenging Decisions of the Second World War by Allen Packwood 9781526771094
RRP: $31.48$23.00When Winston Churchill accepted the position of Prime Minister in May 1940, he insisted in also becoming Minister of Defence. He was not going to play the chairman's role, adjudicating between the competing claims of the ministers below him. He was going... -
The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy by David Nasaw
RRP: $23.08$17.16In this pioneering new work, celebrated historian David Nasaw examines the life of Joseph P. Kennedy, the founder of the twentieth century's most famous political dynasty. Drawing on never-before-published materials from archives on three continents and... -
Nationalism: A Very Short Introduction by Steven Grosby
RRP: $18.88$13.55This book examines the political and moral challenges that face the vast majority of human beings who consider themselves to be members of various nations. It explores nationality through the difficulties and conflicts that have arisen throughout... -
Truth to Power: My Three Years Inside Eskom by Andre de Ruyter 9781776390625
RRP: $35.68$24.23When Andre de Ruyter took over as Eskom CEO in January 2020, he quickly realised why it was considered the toughest job in South Africa. Aside from neglected equipment, ageing power stations and an eroded skills base, he discovered that... -
Inside American Education by Thomas Sowell 9780743254083
RRP: $52.40$32.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743254083Author Thomas SowellFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Free PressPublisher Free PressWeight(grams) 572gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 155mm * 25mm -
Thomas Holcroft's Revolutionary Drama: Reception and Afterlives by Amy Garnai
RRP: $65.10$57.46A key figure in British literary circles following the French Revolution, novelist and playwright Thomas Holcroft promoted ideas of reform and equality informed by the philosophy of his close friend William Godwin. Arrested for treason in 1794 and... -
In Pursuit Of Revolutionary Love by Joy James
RRP: $27.28$18.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739843106Author Joy JamesFormat PaperbackPage Count 364Imprint Divided PublishingPublisher Divided Publishing -
UK Government and Politics for A-level Sixth Edition by Philip Lynch
RRP: $60.90$51.95- Comprehensive coverage and analysis of relevant political developments helps develop students' knowledge and key skills-Up-to-date examples, case studies and debate feature will improve students' grasp of contemporary developments in UK... -
What to Do About the U.N. by Claudia Rosett 9781594039720
$12.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594039720Author Claudia RosettFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Encounter Books,USAPublisher Encounter Books,USA -
The Fall and Rise of the British Left by Andrew Murray
RRP: $31.48$26.36The remarkable advance of "Corbynism" did not emerge from nowhere. It is the product of developments in socialist and working-class politics over the past forty years and more. The Thatcher era witnessed a wholesale attack on the postwar consensus and... -
The New Counterinsurgency Era: Transforming the U.S. Military for Modern Wars by David H. Ucko 9781589014886
RRP: $100.80$89.06Confronting insurgent violence in Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S. military has recognized the need to "re-learn" counterinsurgency. But how has the Department of Defense with its mixed efforts responded to this new strategic environment? Has it learned... -
Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse, 1970-2000 by Stephen Kotkin
RRP: $31.48$27.49Featuring extensive revisions to the text as well as a new introduction and epilogue-bringing the book completely up to date on the tumultuous politics of the previous decade and the long-term implications of the Soviet collapse-this compact, original,... -
Trinity: The Treachery and Pursuit of the Most Dangerous Spy in History by Frank Close
RRP: $31.48$23.00'Everything about this story is astounding' Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times"Trinity" was the codename for the test explosion of the atomic bomb in New Mexico on 16 July 1945. Trinity is now also the extraordinary story of the bomb's metaphorical father,... -
Eight Days at Yalta: How Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin Shaped the Post-War World by Diana Preston
RRP: $27.28$19.45Meticulously researched and vividly written, Eight Days at Yalta is a remarkable work of intense historical drama.In the last winter of the Second World War, Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin arrived in the Crimean resort of... -
Harold Wilson by Ben Pimlott
RRP: $39.88$26.69Reissued with a new foreword to mark the centenary of Harold Wilson's birth, Ben Pimlott's classic biography combines scholarship and observation to illuminate the life and career of one of Britain's most controversial post-war statesmen. ... -
The Contest for the Indian Ocean: And the Making of a New World Order Darshana M Baruah 9780300270914
RRP: $42.00$35.66A major new examination of the Indian Ocean, revealing how the region has become a hotly contested geopolitical flashpoint Throughout history, the Indian Ocean has been an essential space for trade, commerce, and culture. Every European power has sought... -
The Art of Protest: Political Art and Activism by Gestalten
RRP: $84.00$59.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783967040111Author GestaltenFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint gestaltenPublisher Die Gestalten Verlag -
The Evolution of Co-Operation by Robert Axelrod
RRP: $27.28$19.09How can co-operation emerge in a world of self-seeking egoists - whether superpowers, businesses, or individuals - when there is no central authority to police their actions? The author explores this central question, and its implications in this age of... -
Contrary Notions: The Michael Parenti Reader by Michael Parenti 9780872864825
RRP: $52.48$45.86Internationally acclaimed, award-winning author Michael Parenti is one of America's most astute and engaging political analysts. Parenti's work has enlightened and enlivened readers for many years, covering a wide range of subjects. Here is a rich... -
Ghosts of Honolulu: A Japanese Spy, A Japanese American Spy Hunter, and the Untold Story of Pearl Harbor by Mark Harmon 9781400337019
RRP: $42.00$28.01NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"A fast-paced debut...Espionage buffs will savor this vibrant account." - Publishers WeeklyA U.S. naval counterintelligence officer working to safeguard Pearl Harbor; a Japanese spy ordered to Hawaii to gather information on the... -
A Daughter's Tale: The Memoir of Winston and Clementine Churchill's youngest child by Mary Soames
RRP: $27.28$19.09At ninety years old, Mary Soames is the only surviving child of Winston and Clementine Churchill. A Daughter's Tale follows her early life from an idyllic childhood in her own 'Garden of Eden' at Chartwell to her ATS service in mixed anti-aircraft... -
Reinventing Theology in Post-Genocide Rwanda: Challenges and Hopes by Marcel Uwineza
RRP: $210.00$184.88The first comprehensive examination of the Catholic Church's role in the genocide against the Tutsi and its attempts at reconciliation From April to July 1994, more than a million people were killed during the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda...