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Prison notebooks: Selections Antonio Gramsci 9780853152804
RRP: €29.75€28.17This volume was the first selection published from the Antonio Gramsci's "Prison Nobebooks" to be made available in Britain, and was originally published in the early 1970s. It contains most of the key writings by Gramsci, including the text of "The... -
Trading with the Enemy: Britain, France, and the 18th-Century Quest for a Peaceful World Order by John Shovlin
RRP: €32.73€27.24A groundbreaking account of British and French efforts to channel their eighteenth-century geopolitical rivalry into peaceful commercial competition Britain and France waged war eight times in the century following the Glorious Revolution, a mutual... -
The New Spaniards by John Hooper
RRP: €13.08€9.51A fully revised, expanded and updated edition of this masterly portrayal of contemporary Spain.The restoration of democracy in 1977 heralded a period of intense change that continues today. Spain has become a land of extraordinary paradoxes in which... -
Life After Death: Eighteen Years on Death Row by Damien Echols
RRP: €23.80€17.74In 1993, teenagers Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley, Jr. - who have come to be known as the West Memphis Three - were arrested for the murders of three eight-year-old boys in Arkansas. The ensuing trial was marked by tampered evidence,... -
Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty 9780674430006
RRP: €40.40€34.06A New York Times #1 BestsellerAn Amazon #1 BestsellerA Wall Street Journal #1 BestsellerA USA Today BestsellerA Sunday Times BestsellerA Guardian Best Book of the 21st CenturyWinner of the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year... -
Anarchy, State, and Utopia by Robert Nozick 9780465051007
€22.12Translated into 100 languages, winner of the National Book Award, and named one of the 100 Most Influential Books since World War II by the Times Literary Supplement , Anarchy, State and Utopia remains one of the most theoretically trenchant and... -
Race and Social Policy by Sandra Edmonds Crewe 9781032335087
RRP: €47.59€41.72Social policy is not blind. It has been at the forefront of perpetuating structural inequality in many of the systems charged with serving and protecting. The impact of race on social policy is linked to historical (intended and unintended) patterns of... -
The Western European Union: International Politics Between Alliance and Integration by Sally Rohan 9780367669416
€50.50This full-term study of the Western European Union (WEU) brings to life the history of Europe’s search for a co-operative security and defence order, from its post World War II origins to the present day. Establishing the WEU as a support organization,... -
The New Case for Gold by James Rickards
RRP: €30.94€17.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101980767Author James RickardsFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint PortfolioPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 306gDimensions(mm) 218mm * 145mm *... -
Quantum International Relations: A Human Science for World Politics by James Der Derian 9780197568217
RRP: €33.31€28.57The contributors to this volume are motivated by a common apprehension and a common hope. The apprehension was first voiced by Einstein, who lamented the inability of humanity, at the individual and social level, to keep up with the increased speed of... -
Time's Monster: History, Conscience and Britain's Empire by Priya Satia
RRP: €13.08€9.51CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NEW STATESMAN AND BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE'In this searing book, Priya Satia demonstrates, yet again, that she is one of our most brilliant and original historians' Sunil Amrith, author of Unruly WatersFor generations, the... -
An Image of Africa/ The Trouble with Nigeria by Chinua Achebe
RRP: €9.51€7.12Beautifully written yet highly controversial, An Image of Africa asserts Achebe's belief in Joseph Conrad as a 'bloody racist' and his conviction that Conrad's novel Heart of Darkness only serves to perpetuate damaging stereotypes of black people. Also... -
The Dignity of Labour Jon Cruddas 9781509540792
RRP: €17.84€11.96Does work give our lives purpose, meaning and status? Or is it a tedious necessity that will soon be abolished by automation, leaving humans free to enjoy a life of leisure and basic income? In this erudite and highly readable book, Jon Cruddas MP argues... -
The Wealth of Nations: Books IV-V by Adam Smith
RRP: €15.46€11.11Smith's THE WEALTH OF NATIONS was the first comprehensive treatment of political economy. Originally delivered in the form of lectures at Glasgow, the book's publication in 1776 co-incided with America's Declaration of Independence. These volumes... -
I Killed Scheherazade: Confessions of an Angry Arab Woman by Joumana Haddad 9780863564277
RRP: €11.89€8.33In this provocative book Joumana Haddad uses the format of the political pamphlet to describe the liberating impact of literature on her life. She tells of reading the Marquis de Sade at twelve, of her metamorphosis into an award-winning poet, and... -
Big Worlds: Politics and Elections in the Canadian Provinces and Territories by Jared J. Wesley
RRP: €41.65€36.58Based on extensive data collection, Big Worlds examines Canada's ten provinces and three territories as distinct democratic "worlds." A separate chapter is devoted to each province (and one explores the three territories), creating a cross-country survey... -
Conservatism: Ideas in Profile by Roger Scruton
RRP: €13.08€8.56Roger Scruton looks at the central ideas of conservatism over the centuries. He examines conservative thinking on civil society, the rule of law and the role of the state on the one hand; and freedom (including freedom of expression and association),... -
The Age of The Strongman: How the Cult of the Leader Threatens Democracy around the World by Gideon Rachman 9781529113556
RRP: €13.08€9.51**AN ECONOMIST AND THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR**'Essential and definitive' CATHERINE BELTON, author of PUTIN'S PEOPLEWe are in a new era.From Trump, Putin and Bolsonaro to Erdogan, Xi and Modi, self-styled strongmen have become a central feature of global... -
A Feminist Reading of Debt by Luci Cavallero
RRP: €20.22€13.73***Winner of an English PEN Award 2021*** In this sharp intervention, authors Luci Cavallero and Veronica Gago defiantly develop a feminist understanding of debt, showing its impact on women and members of the LGBTQ+ community and examining the... -
America, Inc: The 400-Year History of American Capitalism by Bhu Srinivasan
RRP: €23.80€16.35How and why did the US become the most successful economy in history? One of The Economist's Best Books of 2017, America, Inc explains the rise of America's economic power and how so many US businesses have succeeded. In a winning, accessible style,... -
Jerusalem: Chronicles from the Holy City by Guy Delisle
RRP: €23.80€18.35Guy Delisle expertly lays the groundwork for a cultural road map of contemporary Jerusalem, utilizing the classic stranger-in-a-strange-land point of view that made his other books, Pyongyang, Shenzhen, and Burma Chronicles, required reading for... -
Palestine in Israeli School Books: Ideology and Propaganda in Education by Nurit Peled-Elhanan
€31.45Each year, Israel's young men and women are drafted into compulsory military service and are required to engage directly in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This conflict is by its nature intensely complex and is played out under the full glare of... -
The Athenian Constitution by Aristotle 9780140444315
RRP: €13.08€9.51Probably written by a student of Aristotle, The Athenian Constitution is both a history and an analysis of Athens' political machinery between the seventh and fourth centuries BC, which stands as a model of democracy at a time when city-states lived... -
The Flame of Resistance: American Hero. French Hero. British Spy. by Damien Lewis
RRP: €23.80€21.44'I have always been fascinated by that charismatic hero of the Resistance, Josephine Baker, but it turns out I didn't know the half of it. Lewis' story-telling blew my mind. Again.' Dan SnowDuring WW2, Josephine Baker, the world's richest and most... -
A World Safe for Commerce: American Foreign Policy from the Revolution to the Rise of China by Dale C. Copeland 9780691172552
RRP: €38.08€29.46An Economist Biggest Book of the YearHow commerce determines whether America preserves the peace or goes to warWhen the Cold War ended, many believed that expanding trade would usher in an era of peace. Yet today the United States finds itself... -
Diplomatic History: A Very Short Introduction by Joseph M. Siracusa 9780192893918
RRP: €10.70€7.91Diplomatic history explores the management of relations between nation-states by the process of negotiations. From the diplomacy of the American Revolution, the diplomatic origins of the Great War and its aftermath, Versailles, and the personal summitry... -
England Your England by George Orwell 9781913724689
RRP: €5.95€5.46George Orwell set out 'to make political writing into an art', and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature - his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding... -
Unrestricted Warfare: China's Master Plan to Destroy America by Qiao Liang 9781946963420
RRP: €23.50€20.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781946963420Author Qiao LiangFormat HardbackPage Count 206Imprint Albatross PublishersPublisher Albatross PublishersWeight(grams) 494gDimensions(mm) 234mm *... -
From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia by Pankaj Mishra 9780241954669
RRP: €13.08€9.51Pankaj Mishra's provocative account of how China, India and the Muslim World are remaking the world in their own image - shortlisted for the Orwell Prize 2013SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2013Viewed in the West as a time of self-confident progress,... -
The Liberty Reader by David Miller
RRP: €33.31€27.33The quest for liberty has driven political movements across the globe, inspiring revolutions in America, France, China and many other countries over the centuries. Even today, Western governments justify their military interventions in the name of... -
The Social Order of the Underworld: How Prison Gangs Govern the American Penal System by David Skarbek 9780199328505
RRP: €43.42€26.05This book challenges the widely held view that inmates create prison gangs to promote racism and violence. On the contrary, gangs form to create order. Most people assume that violent inmates left to themselves will descend into a chaotic anarchy, but... -
24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep by Jonathan Crary
RRP: €13.08€10.9224/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep explores some of the ruinous consequences of the expanding non-stop processes of twenty-first-century capitalism. The marketplace now operates through every hour of the clock, pushing us into constant activity... -
Winner-take-all Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer-and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class by Jacob S Hacker 9781416588702
RRP: €21.42€13.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416588702Author Jacob S HackerPage Count 357Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & Schuster -
Continuity and Change in Contemporary Capitalism by Herbert Kitschelt 9780521634960
RRP: €41.64€36.28In the early 1980s, many observers, argued that powerful organized economic interests and social democratic parties created successful mixed economies promoting economic growth, full employment, and a modicum of social equality. The present book... -
Beyond Britannia: Reshaping UK Foreign Policy: 2023 by Simon McDonald 9781913368906
RRP: €26.18€18.56What 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... -
Intellectuals and Race by Thomas Sowell
RRP: €23.80€20.18Intellectuals and Race is a radical book in the original sense of one that goes to the root of the problem. The role of intellectuals in racial strife is explored in an international context that puts the American experience in a wholly new light. The... -
The Battle of Grangemouth: A Worker's Story by Mark Lyon 9781912064007
RRP: €16.66€16.40An account of the assault on the Union at Grangemouth in 2013, when workers were forced to accept cuts in their pay andconditions by the owner's threat of closure. Written by the Grangemouth convenor, The Battle of Grangemouth is a vital storyin trying... -
Islam, Authoritarianism, and Underdevelopment: A Global and Historical Comparison by Ahmet T. Kuru
RRP: €36.88€29.55Why do Muslim-majority countries exhibit high levels of authoritarianism and low levels of socio-economic development in comparison to world averages? Ahmet T. Kuru criticizes explanations which point to Islam as the cause of this disparity, because... -
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell
RRP: €17.84€12.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612198552Author Jenny OdellFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House PublishingWeight(grams) 266g -
Untitled Nf by To Be Confirmed Threshold
RRP: €22.60€14.60#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The seven-time #1 New York Times bestselling author, Fox News star, and radio host Mark R. Levin explains how the dangers he warned against in the "timely yet timeless" (David Limbaugh, author of Jesus Is Risen) bestseller...