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Until We Are Free: My Fight For Human Rights in Iran by Shirin Ebadi
RRP: £15.99£11.61'POWERFUL AND SOMETIMES SHOCKING ...' SUNDAY TIMES In this powerful book, Dr Shirin Ebadi, Iranian human rights lawyer and activist, tells of her fight for reform inside Iran, and the devastating backlash she faced after winning the Nobel Peace Prize... -
The Roots of Radicalism: Tradition, the Public Sphere, and Early Nineteenth-Century Social Movements by Craig Calhoun
RRP: £28.00£27.79The story of the rise of radicalism in the early nineteenth century has often been simplified into a fable about progressive social change. The diverse social movements of the era - religious, political, regional, national, antislavery, and protemperance... -
Smile for the Camera: The Double Life of Cyril Smith by Simon Danczuk 9781849548755
RRP: £10.99£7.77No politician pandered to the media's appetite for personality more than Liberal MP Cyril Smith. Instantly recognisable for his colossal build, Smith was a larger-than-life character in a world of dull grey men. Yet 'Big Cyril' was anything but the... -
While Time Remains: A North Korean Defector's Search for Freedom in America by Yeonmi Park 9781668022658
RRP: £18.00£10.90NATIONAL BESTSELLER The North Korean defector, human rights advocate, and bestselling author of In Order to Live sounds the alarm on the culture wars, identity politics, and authoritarian tendencies tearing America apart.After defecting from North Korea,... -
Putin's Counterrevolution by Sergey Aleksashenko
RRP: £12.99£11.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815732761Author Sergey AleksashenkoFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams)... -
Conspiracy: Why the Rational Believe the Irrational by Michael Shermer 9781421449074
RRP: £16.50£13.40"A well-written and essential tool for those navigating today's complicated geopolitical landscape."-Library Journal Best-selling author Michael Shermer presents an overarching theory of conspiracy theories-who believes them and why, which ones are real,... -
This Land: The Story of a Movement by Owen Jones
RRP: £9.99£7.11A GUARDIAN, NEW STATESMAN AND SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A whodunnit political page-turner' Melissa Benn, New Statesman 'The best political book I have read for a long while' Rod Liddle, The Spectator From the No.1 bestselling author of The... -
Eight Days in May: How Germany's War Ended by Volker Ullrich 9780141994109
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Superb' David Aaronovitch, The Times 'A punchy account that is a proper page-turner' Financial Times 'The last days of the Third Reich have often been told, but seldom with the verve, perception and elegance of Volker Ullrich's rich narrative' Richard... -
Access to History: Indian Independence 1914-64 Second Edition by Tim Leadbeater
£25.21Exam Board: AQA, Edexcel, OCR & WJECLevel: A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst Teaching: September 2015First Exam: June 2016Give your students the best chance of success with this tried and tested series, combining in-depth analysis, engaging narrative and... -
Tip and Run: The Untold Tragedy of the First World War in Africa by Edward Paice
RRP: £15.99£11.61The story of the First World War in Africa, an almost forgotten conflict that devastated an area five times the size of Germany and killed more than two million people. 'A very well-researched account of that extraordinary and fascinating sideshow of... -
What You Should Know about Politics . . . But Don't, Fourth Edition: A Nonpartisan Guide to the Issues That Matter by Jessamyn Conrad
RRP: £16.99£11.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950691258Author Jessamyn ConradFormat PaperbackPage Count 408Imprint Arcade PublishingPublisher Arcade PublishingWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 226mm *... -
Sacred Foundations: The Religious and Medieval Roots of the European State by Anna M. Grzymala-Busse
RRP: £25.00£19.59How the medieval church drove state formation in EuropeSacred Foundations argues that the medieval church was a fundamental force in European state formation. Existing accounts focus on early modern warfare or contracts between the rulers and the ruled... -
Scotland's Democracy Trail by Stuart McHardy 9781910021675
RRP: £6.99£5.27Scotland's Democracy Trail goes from Edinburgh Castle, Greyfriars, down the High Street, across North Bridge to Calton Hill, and then on down to the Scottish Parliament at Holyrood. Apart from its historic significance, the route encompasses Edinburgh's... -
All to Play For: The Advance of Rishi Sunak by Michael Ashcroft 9781785907968
RRP: £16.99£12.47The speed of Rishi Sunak's advance to 10 Downing Street is without precedent in modern British politics. In mid-2019, he was an unknown junior minister; seven months later, he became Chancellor of the Exchequer; and by October 2022, he had secured the... -
Thomas Paine's Rights of Man: A Biography by Christopher Hitchens
RRP: £9.99£6.70Thomas Paine is one of the greatest political advocates in history. Declaration of the Rights of Man, first published in 1791, is the key to his reputation. Inspired by his outrage at Edmund Burke's attack on the uprising of the French people, Paine's... -
Tell Me How it Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions by Valeria Luiselli
RRP: £9.99£6.64A moving, eye-opening polemic about the US-Mexico border and what happens to the tens of thousands of unaccompanied Mexican and Central American children arriving in the US without papers 'We are driving across Oklahoma in early June when we... -
You Will Be Safe Here by Damian Barr 9781408886052
RRP: £8.99£6.45An Observer, Guardian, Financial Times, Sunday Times South Africa, Irish Times, Irish Independent, Big Issue and Strong Words Pick of the Year An Irish Times and The Times Summer Reading Pick Shortlisted for the Saltire Society Fiction Book of the... -
British Politics: A Very Short Introduction by Tony Wright
RRP: £8.99£6.61At a time when politics in Britain is experiencing unprecedented turmoil, this Very Short Introduction examines the past, present, and possible future of British politics. Tony Wright puts current events into a longer and larger perspective, ranging from... -
Jimmy Reid: A Clyde-built man by W.W.J. Knox
RRP: £27.45£24.50Described as "the best MP Scotland never had", Jimmy Reid was undoubtedly of the most important figures of late twentieth-century Britain. Often at the forefront of the major turning points in the history of industrial relations and politics in Britain,... -
Economics Rules: Why Economics Works, When It Fails, and How To Tell The Difference by Dani Rodrik 9780198736905
RRP: £12.99£9.09The economics profession has become a favourite punching bag in the aftermath of the global financial crisis. Economists are widely reviled and their influence derided by the general public. Yet their services have never been in greater demand. To... -
Rewriting the Troubles: War and Propaganda, Ireland and Algeria by Patrick Anderson 9783949573026
RRP: £18.00£15.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783949573026Author Patrick AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 379Imprint Greenisland PressPublisher Elsinor Verlag e.K.Weight(grams) 539g -
The Blue Pullman Story: Revised and Expanded Edition by Kevin Robertson 9780860936886
RRP: £40.00£29.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780860936886Author Kevin RobertsonFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Crecy PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing -
No One Left to Lie To: The Triangulations of William Jefferson Clinton by Christopher Hitchens 9781838952280
RRP: £9.99£6.70In No One Left to Lie To, Christopher Hitchens portrays President Bill Clinton as one of the most ideologically skewed and morally negligent politicians of recent times. In a blistering polemic which shows that Clinton was at once philanderer and... -
The Parting Years: A British Family and the End of Empire by Sheila Bevan 9781860647345
£54.87How did the end of Empire affect a family steeped in British imperial traditions for more than four generations? Shiela Bevan's story begins when the British Empire still seemed in its heyday of world dominion, when the vast increase in territorial... -
Big Boys' Rules: The SAS and the Secret Struggle Against the IRA by Mark Urban
RRP: £12.99£8.56The SAS describes its attitude to the use of lethal force as 'Big boys' games, big boys' rules'. Anyone caught with a gun or bomb can expect to be shot. In Big Boys' Rules: The SAS and the Secret Struggle Against the IRA Mark Urban meticulously explores... -
A Spy Named Orphan: The Enigma of Donald Maclean by Roland Philipps
RRP: £12.99£9.09Donald Maclean was a star diplomat, an establishment insider and a keeper of some of the West's greatest secrets. He was also a Russian spy...Codenamed 'Orphan' by his Russian recruiter, Maclean was Britain's most gifted traitor. But as he leaked huge... -
Conservatives and the Constitution: Imagining Constitutional Restoration in the Heyday of American Liberalism by Ken I. Kersch
RRP: £29.99£26.34Since the 1980s, a ritualized opposition in legal thought between a conservative 'originalism' and a liberal 'living constitutionalism' has obscured the aggressively contested tradition committed to, and mobilization of arguments for, constitutional... -
Black Garden: Armenia and Azerbaijan through Peace and War by Thomas De Waal
RRP: £23.99£21.24"Brilliant."-Time "Admirable, rigorous. De Waal [is] a wise and patient reporter."-The New York Review of Books "Never have all the twists and turns, sad carnage, and bullheadedness on all side been better described-or indeed, better explained..... -
The Care Manifesto: The Politics of Interdependence by The Care Collective
RRP: £8.99£8.96The Care Manifesto puts care at the heart of the debates of our current crisis: from intimate care-childcare, healthcare, elder care-to care for the natural world. We live in a world where carelessness reigns, but it does not have to be this way.The Care... -
An Introduction to the English School of International Relations: The Societal Approach by Barry Buzan 9780745653150
RRP: £17.99£16.04This outstanding book is the first comprehensive introduction to the English School of International Relations. Written by leading ES scholar Barry Buzan, it expertly guides readers through the English School s formative ideas, intellectual and... -
Between Past and Future by Hannah Arendt
RRP: £19.00£10.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143104810Author Hannah ArendtFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Penguin ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 210gDimensions(mm) 196mm *... -
My First Book of Relativity by Eduard Altarriba 9781787080324
RRP: £12.99£8.60It's never too early to start exploring big ideas. This companion volume to 'My First Book of Quantum Physics' introduces complex science to children through bright illustrations and amusing text. Einstein's theory of relativity is one of the... -
Boris Johnson: The Neverending Tory: The Adventure Where You Take Back Control by Iain Hollingshead 9781787636927
RRP: £9.99£7.11Now that Boris Johnson has left Downing Street to spend more time with his families, you can celebrate/lament his departure with this multiple-choice adventure where you take back control. Packed with 350 million* endings, this is the perfect stocking... -
The Case for Trump by Victor Davis Hanson
RRP: £25.00£19.21In The Case for Trump, acclaimed historian and political commentator Victor Davis Hanson explains how a celebrity businessman with no political or military experience triumphed over sixteen well-qualified Republican rivals, a Democrat with a... -
How To Stage A Coup: And Ten Other Lessons from the World of Secret Statecraft by Rory Cormac 9781838955618
RRP: £20.00£13.86'A compelling history of the dark arts of statecraft... Fascinating' Jonathan Rugman'Rich in anecdote and detail.' The TimesToday's world is in flux. Competition between the great powers is back on the agenda and governments around the world are turning... -
The Little Book of Activism: A Pocket Guide to Making a Difference by Karen Edwards 9781787836662
RRP: £6.99£5.13Everyone has the power to make a difference in the world, as long as they know where to start. Drawing inspiration from celebrated activists and their groundbreaking work, this empowering little book will introduce you to the key forms of contemporary... -
The Asian 21st Century by Kishore Mahbubani 9789811668135
RRP: £34.99£31.79This open access book consists of essays written by Kishore Mahbubani to explore the challenges and dilemmas faced by the West and Asia in an increasingly interdependent world village and intensifying geopolitical competition. The contents cover four... -
Yugoslavia: Peace, War, and Dissolution by Noam Chomsky 9781629634425
RRP: £17.99£12.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629634425Author Noam ChomskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press -
Beyond Britannia: Reshaping UK Foreign Policy: 2023 by Simon McDonald 9781913368906
RRP: £22.00£15.37What should the future of British foreign policy look like? For too long successive governments have shied away from acknowledging uncomfortable truths about the decline of Britain's military capabilities. As we approach the middle years of the... -
Royal Audience: 70 Years, 13 Presidents--One Queen's Special Relationship with America by David Charter 9780593712870
RRP: £24.99£16.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593712870Author David CharterFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Penguin Putnam IncPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc