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Blood on the Page by Thomas Harding
RRP: €13.08€9.51***WINNER OF THE CRIME WRITERS' ASSOCIATION ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION***'Meticulous and gripping - a thriller that disturbs for revelations about a singular act of murder, and the national security state which we call home' Philippe Sands, author... -
The Struggle for India's Soul: Nationalism and the Fate of Democracy by Shashi Tharoor 9781787385887
RRP: €17.84€16.47Dissects how competing, increasingly strident visions of India will shape its destiny for decades to come. Over a billion Indians are alive today. But are some more Indian than others? To answer this question, central to the identity of all who belong... -
In Praise of Risk by Anne Dufourmantelle
RRP: €33.31€29.18When Anne Dufourmantelle drowned in a heroic attempt to save two children caught in rough seas, obituaries around the world rarely failed to recall that she was the author of a book entitled In Praise of Risk, implying that her death confirmed the... -
The Gate and the Wall: A History of China and Hong Kong by Michael Sheridan
RRP: €29.75€7.91'Impressive ... Fascinating' Sunday Times 'An authoritative history' Financial Times 'Gripping and richly researched' Rana Mitter ... -
Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Michael B. Oren 9780195151749
RRP: €37.47€26.53In 1967 the future of the state of Israel was far from certain. But with its swift and stunning military victory against an Arab coalition led by Egypt in the Six Day War, Israel not only preserved its existence but redrew the map of the region, with... -
Freedoms Delayed: Political Legacies of Islamic Law in the Middle East by Timur Kuran 9781009320016
RRP: €35.70€31.36According to diverse indices of political performance, the Middle East is the world's least free region. Some believe that it is Islam that hinders liberalization. Others retort that Islam cannot be a factor because the region is no longer governed under... -
The Berlin Wall: 13 August 1961 - 9 November 1989 by Frederick Taylor 9781408802564
RRP: €20.22€14.61The appearance of a hastily-constructed barbed wire entanglement through the heart of Berlin during the night of 12-13 August 1961 was both dramatic and unexpected. Within days, it had started to metamorphose into a structure that would come to symbolise... -
Blair's Britain, 1997-2007 by Anthony Seldon 9780521709460
RRP: €41.64€37.00Tony Blair has dominated British political life for more than a decade. Like Margaret Thatcher before him, he has changed the terms of political debate and provoked as much condemnation as admiration. At the end of his era in power, this book presents a... -
Ideas and Foreign Policy: Beliefs, Institutions, and Political Change by Judith Goldstein
RRP: €30.93€27.18Do people's beliefs help to explain foreign policy decisions, or is political activity better understood as the self-interested behavior of key actors? The collaborative effort of a group of distinguished scholars, this volume breaks new ground in... -
Karl Marx: Selected Writings by Karl Marx 9780198782650
RRP: €66.63€57.32This second edition of McLellan's comprehensive selection of Marx's writings includes carefully selected extracts from the whole range of Marx's political, philosophical and economic thought. Each section of the book deals with a different period of... -
The Emotional Life of Populism: How Fear, Disgust, Resentment, and Love Undermine Democracy Eva Illouz (The Hebrew University of Jersalem) 9781509558193
RRP: €19.03€17.40Throughout the world, democracy is under assault from various populist movements and ideologies. And, throughout the world, the same enigma: why is it that political figures or governments, who have no qualms about aggravating social inequalities, enjoy... -
Rivers of Power: How a Natural Force Raised Kingdoms, Destroyed Civilizations, and Shapes Our World by Laurence C. Smith
RRP: €15.46€11.11'As fascinating as it is beautifully written' JARED DIAMOND, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Guns, Germs and SteelRivers, more than any road, technology or political event, have shaped the course of civilization. Rivers have opened frontiers, defined... -
Breathe: Tackling the Climate Emergency by Sadiq Khan
RRP: €20.22€13.41'A breath of fresh air' Observer'Passionate and authentic' GQ'Refreshing and galvanising' Vogue'Rousing and thoughtful' Independent'Quite the page-turner' Evening StandardTo win the climate war, you first need to win the climate argument.For many years,... -
Rational Choice and British Politics: An Analysis of Rhetoric and Manipulation from Peel to Blair by Iain McLean 9780198295297
€66.99This engaging and original study, by one of Britain's leading scholars of rational choice theory, explores the course of British parliamentary politics over the last 150 years. McLean marries an appealing combination of social science and analytical... -
The Forever War: Dispatches from the War on Terror by Dexter Filkins
RRP: €17.84€13.03There are already many books on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and about the War on Terror - but this is something very different. In The Forever War, award-winning New York Times correspondent Dexter Filkins does not analyse how these wars happened... -
Dictators Without Borders: Power and Money in Central Asia by Alexander A. Cooley
RRP: €16.65€14.58A penetrating look into the unrecognized and unregulated links between autocratic regimes in Central Asia and centers of power and wealth throughout the West Weak, corrupt, and politically unstable, the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan,... -
The Carnation Revolution: The Day Portugal's Dictatorship Fell by Alex Fernandes 9780861547548
RRP: €26.18€19.0625 April 1974, Lisbon. Over the course of a single day, Europe's oldest fascist regime falls. On its 50th anniversary, this is the story of the revolution that changed Portugal forever. 'A thrilling and inspiring page-turner.' Richard Zimler, author... -
The Story of Propaganda in 50 Images by David Welch 9780295751283
RRP: €26.17€18.73From ancient Greek coinage to the sound bites of modern-day political spin doctors, propaganda has existed for thousands of years. But it was in the twentieth century that the art of persuasively communicating ideas truly came of age-when mass media... -
Paint Your Town Red: How Preston Took Back Control and Your Town Can Too by Matt Brown
RRP: €13.08€9.06Across the world, there is a growing recognition that a new kind of economy is needed: more democratic, less exploitative, less destructive of society and the planet. Paint Your Town Red looks at how wealth can be generated and shared at a local level... -
Disloyal: A Memoir: The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to President Donald J. Trump by Michael Cohen
RRP: €26.18€17.20A #1 New York Times Bestseller! "I read it cover-to-cover. I did not intend to, but I started at the beginning and didn't put it down until it was over."-Rachel Maddow, MSNBCThis book almost didn't see the light of day as government officials tried to... -
Borderland: A Journey Through the History of Ukraine Anna Reid 9781399608824
RRP: €13.08€9.06FULLY UPDATED'A fascinating and often violent odyssey, spanning more than 1,000 years of conflict and culture'INDEPENDENTFlat, fertile, and fatally tempting to invaders, for centuries Ukraine was fought over by more powerful neighbours. Though its modern... -
Hunting Eichmann: Chasing down the world's most notorious Nazi Neal Bascomb 9781849162340
RRP: €13.08€9.06Adolf Eichmann was the operational manager of the genocide that dispatched six million European Jews to the gas chambers. Escaping US custody in 1946, he hid in various locations in Germany before absconding in 1950 via a 'ratline' escape route to... -
Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography, Volume Two: Everything She Wants by Charles Moore 9780241573587
RRP: €47.60€35.69The sensational second volume of Charles Moore's bestselling authorized biography of the Iron LadyIn June 1983 Margaret Thatcher won the biggest increase in a government's Parliamentary majority in British electoral history. Over the next four years, as... -
Re-sisters: The Lives and Recordings of Delia Derbyshire, Margery Kempe and Cosey Fanni Tutti by Cosey Fanni Tutti 9780571362189
RRP: €22.60€15.74From the acclaimed author of Art Sex Music comes a vital meditation on womanhood, creativity and self-expression, and a revelatory exploration into the lives of three visionary artists.'A fascinating tale of the interlinking lives of three legendary... -
Money in One Lesson: And Why it Doesn't Work the Way We Think it Does by Gavin Jackson
RRP: €13.08€9.20'Superb' - Tim Harford, author of How to Make the World Add Up Money is essential to the economy and how we live our lives, yet is inherently worthless. We can use it to build a home or send us to space, and it can lead to the rise and fall of empires... -
Class Struggle: A Political and Philosophical History by Domenico Losurdo 9781349706624
€30.52Available for the first time in English, this book examines and reinterprets class struggle within Marx and Engels' thought. As Losurdo argues, class struggle is often misunderstood as exclusively the struggle of the poor against the rich, of the humble... -
Chief of Staff: Notes from Downing Street by Gavin Barwell
RRP: €23.80€17.74BOOK OF THE YEAR, The Times, Guardian and Prospect'Fascinating and instructive... his decency and pragmatism shine through.' The Times'Candid, valuable and insightful.' ObserverSince the EU referendum of 2016, British politics has witnessed a barrage of... -
Our Revolution: A Future to Believe in by Bernie Sanders
RRP: €15.46€11.11'Bernie Sanders has changed US politics forever' Owen Jones The Sunday Times bestseller Bernie Sanders is one of the most influential voices in a global movement fighting injustice. He has dominated two Democratic primary races, and changed the... -
Field Days: An Anthology of Poetry by Angela King
RRP: €10.65€7.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781870098731Author Angela KingFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Green BooksPublisher Green Books -
High Minds: The Victorians and the Birth of Modern Britain by Simon Heffer
RRP: €23.80€17.48Simon Heffer's new book forms an ambitious exploration of the making of the Victorian age and the Victorian mind.Britain in the 1840s was a country wracked by poverty, unrest and uncertainty, where there were attempts to assassinate the Queen and her... -
Black Enlightenment by Surya Parekh 9781478025191
RRP: €23.79€21.19In Black Enlightenment Surya Parekh reimagines the Enlightenment from the position of the Black subject. Parekh examines the works of such Black writers as the free Jamaican Francis Williams (1697-1762), Afro-British thinker Ignatius Sancho (1729?-1780),... -
Grade Booster for CfE SQA Exam Revision - Higher Modern Studies Grade Booster for SQA Exam Revision: Maximise Marks and Minimise Mistakes to Achieve Your Best Possible Mark by Pamela Farr
RRP: €14.27€13.88Exam Board: SQALevel: HigherSubject: Modern StudiesFirst Teaching: 2014, First Exam: 2015 This book is the essential guide to exam skills. It includes detailed advice on how to approach and answer the different types of question you will find... -
Losing Earth: The Decade We Could Have Stopped Climate Change by Nathaniel Rich
RRP: €11.89€8.00'Nathaniel Rich's account starts in Washington in the 1990s and tells the story of how climate change could have been stopped back then, if only the powerful had acted. But they didn't want to.' - Observer By 1979, we knew all that we know now about the... -
Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century by Brad de Long 9781399803434
RRP: €17.84€11.96AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLERLONGLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEARA FINANCIAL TIMES BEST ECONOMICS BOOK OF THE YEAR AND THE ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEARFrom one of the world's leading economists, a... -
Camera Girl: The Coming of Age of Jackie Bouvier Kennedy by Carl Sferrazza Anthony
RRP: €23.80€20.97An illuminating new biography of the young Jackie Bouvier Kennedy that covers her formative adventures abroad in Paris; her life as a writer and photographer at a Washington, DC, newspaper; and her romance with a dashing, charismatic Massachusetts... -
Smile for the Camera: The Double Life of Cyril Smith Simon Danczuk 9781849548755
RRP: €13.08€9.51No 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... -
Two Cheers for Anarchism: Six Easy Pieces on Autonomy, Dignity, and Meaningful Work and Play by James C. Scott 9780691161037
RRP: €17.84€13.58James Scott taught us what's wrong with seeing like a state. Now, in his most accessible and personal book to date, the acclaimed social scientist makes the case for seeing like an anarchist. Inspired by the core anarchist faith in the possibilities of... -
A Woman of Firsts: The midwife who built a hospital and changed the world by Edna Adan Ismail
RRP: €11.89€7.15'The Muslim Mother Teresa' Huffington Post Winner of the 2023 Templeton Prize Imprisonment. Mutilation. Persecution. Edna Adan Ismail endured it all - for the women of Africa. ... -
The System: Who Owns the Internet, and How It Owns Us by James Ball 9781526607232
RRP: €11.89€8.71'A fascinating expose of the world behind your screen. Timely, often disturbing, and so important' Caroline Criado Perez, author of Invisible Women 'Takes us beyond Zuckerberg, Bezos et al to a murkier world where we discover how everything online... -
The Lion House by Christopher de Bellaigue
RRP: €23.80€21.30**A SUNDAY TIMES, SPECTATOR and iNEWS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022**'Wolf Hall for the Ottoman Empire ... History at its most gripping' Telegraph'The most daring history book of the year. Unforgettable' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times___Venice, 1522...