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Uniting Nations: Britons and Internationalism, 1945-1970 by Daniel Gorman
RRP: £29.99£25.94Uniting Nations is a comparative study of Britons who worked in the United Nations and international non-governmental and civil society organizations from 1945 to 1970 and their role in forging the postwar international system. Daniel Gorman interweaves... -
Imperial Spain 1469-1716 by J. H. Elliott
RRP: £12.99£9.09The story of Spain's rise to greatness from its humble beginnings as one of the poorest and most marginal of European countries is a remarkable and dramatic one. With the marriage of Ferdinand & Isabella, the final expulsion of the Moslems and the... -
Romney: A Reckoning by McKay Coppins 9781982196202
RRP: £20.00£14.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982196202Author McKay CoppinsFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Free PressPublisher Simon & Schuster LtdWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 224mm * 163mm... -
Washington Bullets by Vijay Prashad 9781583679067
RRP: £14.99£12.58Washington Bullets is written in the best traditions of Marxist journalism and history-writing. It is a book of fluent and readable stories, full of detail about U.S. imperialism, but never letting the minutiae obscure the larger political point. It is a... -
Romanland: Ethnicity and Empire in Byzantium by Anthony Kaldellis
RRP: £41.95£34.00A leading historian argues that in the empire we know as Byzantium, the Greek-speaking population was actually Roman, and scholars have deliberately mislabeled their ethnicity for the past two centuries for political reasons.Was there ever such a thing... -
Long Shot: My Life As a Sniper in the Fight Against ISIS by Azad Cudi 9781474609791
RRP: £9.99£6.80In September 2014, Azad Cudi became one of seventeen snipers deployed when ISIS, trying to shatter the Kurds in a decisive battle, besieged the northern city of Kobani. In LONG SHOT, he tells the inside story of how a group of activists and idealists... -
Distant Melodies: Music in Search of Home by Edward Dusinberre 9780571366545
RRP: £18.99£12.83How does music heard and played over many years inform one's sense of home? In Distant Melodies, Edward Dusinberre, the English first violinist of the Takacs Quartet, explores changing ideas of home, exile and return in the lives and particular chamber... -
Conspiracy Theories by Quassim Cassam 9781509535835
RRP: £9.99£6.809/11 was an inside job. The Holocaust is a myth promoted to serve Jewish interests. The shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School were a false flag operation. Climate change is a hoax perpetrated by the Chinese government. These are all conspiracy... -
Trust in Public Life by Claire Gilbert
RRP: £7.99£5.78A deep and thoughtful reflection on trust in the context of public life.Trust in Public Life is a collection of essays addressing the importance of trust in public life and how public servants can engender and sustain it. In "The Roots of Trust," Anna... -
Enduring Alliance: A History of NATO and the Postwar Global Order by Timothy Andrews Sayle
RRP: £27.99£23.08Born from necessity, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has always seemed on the verge of collapse. Even now, some seventy years after its inception, some consider its foundation uncertain and its structure weak. At this moment of incipient... -
Factfulness (Illustrated) by Hans Rosling
RRP: £25.00£17.38The international best-selling phenomenon loved by BARACK OBAMA and BILL GATES in a new and updated illustrated edition'A hopeful book about the potential for human progress when we work off facts rather than our inherent biases.' BARACK OBAMA'One of the... -
The Secret History of Mac Gaming: Expanded Edition by Bitmap Books 9781838458515
RRP: £24.99£24.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838458515Author Bitmap BooksFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint Bitmap BooksPublisher Bitmap Books -
Homes Fit For Heroes: The Aftermath of the First World War 1918-1939 by Trevor Yorke 9781846743498
£8.54After the trauma of the war, those returning home required jobs, and with them clean and modern homes for their families. The slums and tenements of the pre-war years were not going to enable a healthy workforce that was fit to tackle the challenges of... -
Resources of Hope: Culture, Democracy, Socialism by Raymond Williams 9780860919438
RRP: £22.99£21.38Raymond Williams possessed unique authority as Britain's foremost cultural theorist and public intellectual. Informed by an unparalleled range of reference and the resources of deep personal experience, his life's work represents a patient, exemplary... -
Adriatic: A Concert of Civilizations at the End of the Modern Age by Robert D. Kaplan 9780399591044
RRP: £24.00£17.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399591044Author Robert D. KaplanFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Fractured Union: Politics, Sovereignty and the Fight to Save the UK by Michael Kenny 9781805260523
RRP: £20.00£17.84The question of the United Kingdom's survival, once taken for granted, looms large in British politics. This book uncovers the roots of today's crisis, revealing MPs' and civil servants' assumptions in their understanding of the Union, and profound... -
Randalls Round: Nine Nightmares by Eleanor Scott by Eleanor Scott 9780712354059
RRP: £9.99£6.80'These stories have all had their origins in dreams... Terrifying enough to the dreamer... I hope that some readers will experience an agreeable shudder or two in the reading of them.' A malignant entity answers the call of an ancient curse on the... -
Political Philosophy: A Beginners' Guide for Students and Politicians by Adam Swift 9781509533350
RRP: £17.99£16.04Politicians invoke grand ideas: social justice, democracy, community, liberty, equality. But what do these ideas really mean? How can politicians across the political spectrum appeal to the same values? This fourth edition of Adam Swift's highly readable... -
Adventures in Democracy: The Turbulent World of People Power by Erica Benner 9780241609750
RRP: £25.00£17.62'A sparkling page-turner full of wit, original insight and unassuming erudition.' Katja Hoyer, GuardianDemocracy is a living, breathing thing and Erica Benner has spent a lifetime thinking about the role ordinary citizens play in keeping it alive: from... -
From the Treaty of Versailles to the Treaty of Maastricht: Conflict, carnage and cooperation in Europe, 1918 - 1993 by Martin Holmes
RRP: £36.99£32.53This book examines European history and politics between two very well-known but flawed treaties: The Treaty of Versailles and the Treaty of Maastricht.Taking the Treaty of Versailles, signed following World War I, as a starting point, the volume argues... -
The Gunpowder Plot: Terror And Faith In 1605 by Lady Antonia Fraser
RRP: £14.99£9.80Remember, remember, the Fifth of November ... With a narrative that grips the reader like a detective story, Antonia Fraser brings the characters and events of the Gunpowder Plot to life. Dramatically recreating the conditions and motives that surrounded... -
Joseph Plunkett: 16Lives by Honor O Brolchain
RRP: £15.99£12.37Joseph Mary Plunkett (1887-1916) from Dublin was one of the leaders of the 1916 Rising, the designer of the military plan and the youngest signatory of the Proclamation. A recognised poet, he was already dying of TB when, aged 28, he married Grace... -
Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom by Thomas E. Ricks 9780715652374
RRP: £25.00£18.02As liberty and truth are increasingly challenged, the figures of Churchill and Orwell loom large. Exemplars of Britishness, they preserved individual freedom and democracy for the world through their far-sighted vision and inspired action, and cast a... -
The Vanquished: Why the First World War Failed to End, 1917-1923 by Robert Gerwarth
RRP: £14.99£10.95'A breathtaking, magisterial panorama, telling the epic story of post-war anarchy, dying empires and rising nation states. It makes us rethink our understanding of Europe's twentieth century' David Motadel, The Times Literary SupplementFor the Western... -
Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire by Caroline Elkins
RRP: £30.00£22.55**Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2022**A searing, landmark study of the British Empire that lays bare its pervasive use of violence throughout the twentieth century.'This book is dynamite' ROBERT GILDEA, author of Empires of the MindSprawling... -
Putin's Prisoner: My Time as a Prisoner of War in Ukraine by Aiden Aslin 9780857505293
RRP: £20.00£14.29Aiden Aslin joined the Ukrainian marines in 2018, compelled to defend his adopted homeland from the growing threat of Russian invasion. In February 2022, as Russia mounted a full-scale offensive, Aiden and his unit were stationed at the frontline at... -
Zero: Eliminating unnecessary deaths in a post-pandemic NHS by Jeremy Hunt
RRP: £12.99£8.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800751255Author Jeremy HuntFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Swift PressPublisher Swift Press -
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design by Charles Montgomery
RRP: £10.99£7.77Happy City is the story of how the solutions to this century's problems lie in unlocking the secrets to great city livingThis is going to be the century of the city. But what actually makes a good city? Why are some cities a joy to live in?As Charles... -
Economic Rationality by Engelmann
RRP: £14.99£13.58Economics used to be called political economy, and the loss of the "political" tracks the ascendance of the idea of rational choice within the discipline. Where does this idea of economic rationality - choosing to maximize benefits and minimize costs -... -
The Lion House: The Rise of Suleyman the Magnificent by Christopher de Bellaigue
RRP: £10.99£7.77An immersive reconstruction of the life of the most feared and powerful man of the sixteenth century.'Wolf Hall for the Ottoman Empire ... History at its most gripping' Telegraph'A formidable book ... incredible' Rory StewartVenice, 1522. Intelligence... -
An Honourable Exit by Eric Vuillard
RRP: £14.99£10.59From the International Booker Prize shortlisted author of The Order of the Day and The War of the Poor comes a searing account of a conflict that dealt a fatal blow to French colonialism.A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2023'Excoriating and profound . . . A... -
Smart Cities by Germaine Halegoua
RRP: £15.99£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262538053Author Germaine HalegouaFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 178mm * 127mm * 16mm -
The Life and Adventures of William Cobbett by Richard Ingrams 9780006388258
RRP: £14.99£11.66A remarkably perceptive and vivid life of one of England's greatest radicals. The early years of the 19th-century were ones of misery and oppression. The common people were forced into conditions of extreme poverty by enclosures and the... -
Scandal at Dolphin Square: A Notorious History by Simon Danczuk 9781803993607
RRP: £15.99£12.25'Compelling, authoritative and as readable as the best airport thriller. It fizzes with crime, fame, power and illicit sex.' Jeremy Vine'A timely and important book. It's quite remarkable how one building has played host to such debauchery. If only the... -
BTEC Level 3 National Public Services Student Book 2 by Debra Gray
RRP: £36.29£33.25Combined with Student Book 1, these resources cover all mandatory and optional units for the extended diploma in uniformed Public Services, and all mandatory and optional units for the diploma in non-uniformed Public Services. ... -
The New Politics of Russia: Interpreting Change, Revised and Updated Edition by Andrew Monaghan 9781526155610
RRP: £14.99£11.12This illuminating book explains how and why Russia's relations with the west have deteriorated to the point of initiating a new era of 'great power competition'. An updated version of the bestselling 2016 edition, it explores the decline in relations... -
The British General Election of 2019 by Robert Ford 9783030742560
RRP: £24.99£21.46The British General Election of 2019 is the definitive account of one of the most consequential and controversial general elections in recent times, when Boris Johnson gambled everything calling an early election to 'Get Brexit Done', and emerged... -
Hybrid Warfare: Security and Asymmetric Conflict in International Relations by Mikael Weissmann 9781350429093
RRP: £21.99£20.16This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Hybrid Warfare refers to a military strategy that blends conventional warfare, so-called 'irregular warfare' and... -
China in Oceania: Reshaping the Pacific? by Terence Wesley-Smith 9781845456320
RRP: £27.95£22.58"[This volume] is not just timely, but it resides in a field where interest is growing strongly. For any University course teaching China's foreign relations, it would comprise a highly recommended source - in particular for any component dealing... -
A Child's Journey Through Placement by Vera I. Fahlberg 9781873868133
RRP: £23.50£15.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781873868133Author Vera I. FahlbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint British Association for Adoption and Fostering (BAAF)Publisher...