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Oxford AQA History for A Level: The Cold War c1945-1991 by John Aldred
£33.77Please note this title is suitable for any student studying: Exam Board: AQA Level/Subject: AS and A Level History First teaching: 2015 First exams: June 2017 Retaining well-loved features from the previous editions,The Cold War has been approved... -
The Malayan Emergency: The Crucial Years: 1949-53 by Forsdike, Mark 9781399082242
RRP: £18.99£13.61From 1948 through the 1950s British and Commonwealth forces fought a ruthless communist insurgency on the Malay peninsula. Thanks to sound generalship and the dedication and resilience of the officers and men, the security forces eventually broke the... -
The Price of Democracy: How Money Shapes Politics and What to Do about It by Julia Cage
RRP: £31.95£25.57Why and how systems of political financing and representation in Europe and North America give outsized influence to the wealthy and undermine democracy, and what we can do about it.One person, one vote. In theory, everyone in a democracy has equal power... -
Belarus in Crisis: From Domestic Unrest to the Russia-Ukraine War by Paul Hansbury
RRP: £25.00£22.03In 2020, mass anti-government protests erupted across Belarus. The brutal crackdown that followed shocked the international community: the authorities arrested tens of thousands of citizens, shut down independent media and NGOs, and fomented a migrant... -
Untitled By Daily Wire by Daily Wire
RRP: £20.99£14.19A NATIONAL BESTSELLER Publishers Weekly Bestseller USA Today Bestseller Wall Street Journal Bestseller Seattle Times Bestseller Amazon Bestseller Is this even a question? What is a woman? But all of a sudden, way too many people... -
The Infodemic: Disinformation, Geopolitics and the Covid-19 Pandemic by Gabriele Cosentino 9780755640737
RRP: £21.99£19.28What caused the Covid-19 pandemic, a natural spillover event or an accident in a Wuhan laboratory? Were the mitigation measures imposed by many governments - such as lockdowns and mask-wearing mandates - based on scientific evidence, or rather aimed at... -
Good Times, Bad Times: The Welfare Myth of Them and Us by John Hills 9781447336471
RRP: £13.99£11.40Two-thirds of UK government spending now goes on the welfare state and where the money is spent - healthcare, education, pensions, benefits - is the centre of political and public debate. Much of that debate is dominated by the myth that the population... -
Derailed: How to Fix Britain's Broken Railways by Tom Haines-Doran
RRP: £12.99£9.24Why don't trains run on time? Why are fares so expensive? Why are there so many strikes? Few would disagree that Britain's railways are broken, and have been for a long time. This insightful new book calls for a radical rethink of how we view the... -
Innovation and Its Enemies: Why People Resist New Technologies by Calestous Juma 9780190051600
RRP: £25.99£19.16It is a curious situation that technologies we now take for granted have, when first introduced, so often stoked public controversy and concern for public welfare. At the root of this tension is the perception that the benefits of new technologies will... -
Killing Christians: Living the Faith Where It's Not Safe to Believe by Tom Doyle 9780718030681
RRP: £13.99£10.95Could you retain your faith even if it meant losing your life? Your family's lives?To many Christians in the Middle East today, a "momentary, light affliction" means enduring only torture instead of martyrdom. The depth of oppression Jesus followers... -
The Enchanted Glass: Britain and Its Monarchy by Tom Nairn 9781844677757
RRP: £27.99£21.25In this acclaimed study of British statehood, identity and culture, Tom Nairn deftly dispels the conviction that the Royal Family is nothing more than an amusing relic of feudalism or a mere tourist attraction. Instead, he argues that the monarchy is... -
Brexit Unfolded by Christopher Grey 9781785906923
RRP: £14.99£11.13Britain's 2016 vote to leave the EU divided the nation, unleashing years of political turmoil. The result has been a sulphurous atmosphere in which many remain unreconciled to Brexit whilst, in a tragic irony, some of those most committed to it are angry... -
Football in the Land of the Soviets by Carles Vinas
RRP: £14.99£9.80Mistrusted and derided, instrumentalised and adored - the story of football in Tsarist and early Soviet Russia is as wild and intriguing as that of the country itself. In many ways it is the same story... Football in the Land of the Soviets offers a... -
Hamas: Unwritten Chapters by Azzam Tamimi
RRP: £20.00£17.84Hamas won an overwhelming electoral victory in January 2006, overturning many assumptions regionally and globally. Branded as terrorist by Israel and the West, it is the largest Palestinian militant Islamist organization, formed fifteen years ago at the... -
You Can Run: An unputdownable thriller by Karen Cleveland 9781800327016
RRP: £8.99£5.82'We have your son.'On an ordinary day, CIA analyst Jill Bailey has her life turned upside down by the voice at the end of the phone. In a split second she must decide whether to save her child, or protect her country.Years later, Jill has a new home, a... -
Never Again: Germans and Genocide after the Holocaust by Andrew I. Port
RRP: £29.95£23.64Germans remember the Nazi past so that it may never happen again. But how has the abstract vow to remember translated into concrete action to prevent new genocides abroad?As reports of mass killings in Bosnia spread in the middle of 1995, Germans faced a... -
How to Stand Up to a Dictator: By the Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize 2021 by Maria Ressa
RRP: £20.00£14.69*BBC RADIO 4 START OF THE WEEK and GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR*WINNER OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE 2021What will you sacrifice for the truth?Maria Ressa has spent decades speaking truth to power. But her work tracking disinformation networks seeded by her own... -
The Age of The Strongman: How the Cult of the Leader Threatens Democracy around the World by Gideon Rachman 9781529113556
RRP: £10.99£7.77**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... -
Transgenerational Colonialism: Reconstructing Collective and Personal Identity by Karel James Bouse 9781793623997
RRP: £77.00£70.88In Transgenerational Colonialism, Karel James Bouse offers an alternative and holistic model for the analysis of colonialism and its effects on humanity. Using the current anti-colonialist struggle in Northern Ireland as a representative case study,... -
Yes She Can: Why Women Own The Future by Ruth Davidson
RRP: £10.99£7.40'Modern, punchy and fresh' Sunday Times'A positive and fascinating read' Stylist 'A collection of unexpectedly revealing interviews with "mould-breaking women"... This optimistic volume also includes an intimate memoir from Davidson herself' Guardian... -
The Russia Conundrum: How the West Fell For Putin's Power Gambit - and How to Fix It by Mikhail Khodorkovsky
RRP: £20.00£14.69'I'm a fairly calm fellow; I don't usually get het up about things. But I was, let's say, concerned when I tuned into the Moscow Echo radio station and heard that the Kremlin had put a price on my head. The announcement didn't quite say 'dead or alive'... -
Concentrate Questions and Answers EU Law: Law Q&A Revision and Study Guide by Nigel Foster
RRP: £13.99£13.45Concentrate Q&A EU Law is part of the Concentrate Q&A series, the result of a collaboration involving hundreds of law students and lecturers from universities across the UK. The series offers you better support and a greater chance to succeed on your law... -
The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism by Gosta Esping-Andersen 9780745607962
RRP: £17.99£16.44Few discussions in modern social science have occupied as much attention as the changing nature of welfare states in western societies. Gosta Esping-Andersen, one of the most distinguished contributors to current debates on this issue, here provides a... -
Losing Earth: The Decade We Could Have Stopped Climate Change by Nathaniel Rich
RRP: £9.99£6.52'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... -
The Art of Power by Thich Nhat Hanh
RRP: £9.99£6.64Turning our conventional understanding of power on its head, world-renowned Zen master, spiritual leader, and national bestselling author Thich Nhat Hanh reveals how true power comes from within. What we seek, we already have. Whether we want it or not,... -
Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet by Mark Lynas
RRP: £10.99£7.25An eye-opening and vital account of the future of our earth, and our civilisation, if current rates of global warming persist, by the highly acclaimed author of 'High Tide'. Picture yourself a few decades from now, in a world in which average... -
The British Constitution: A Very Short Introduction by Martin Loughlin 9780192895257
RRP: £8.99£6.45Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring The British constitution is regarded as unique among the constitutions of the world. What are the main characteristics of Britain's peculiar constitutional arrangements? How has the British... -
Who Really Owns Ireland?: How we became tenants in our own land - and what we can do about it by Matt Cooper 9780717196012
RRP: £18.99£17.99Leading journalist Matt Cooper examines the key players behind the scenes of Irish property ownership - who really controls the valuable land where we live, work and play and how did they acquire it? Who are the new foreign investors and why are they... -
Operation Trojan Horse: The true story behind the most shocking government cover-up of the last thirty years by Stephen Davis
RRP: £10.99£7.47'Damning' - Mail on Sunday'Utterly horrific and compelling' - The Guardian'This investigation rings true' - Publishers WeeklyOn 1 August, 1990, British Airways Flight 149 departed from Heathrow airport, destined for Kuala Lumpur. It never made it there,... -
The False Promise of Liberal Order: Nostalgia, Delusion and the Rise of Trump by Patrick Porter 9781509538683
RRP: £18.99£16.87In an age of demagogues, hostile great powers and trade wars, foreign policy traditionalists dream of restoring liberal international order. This order, they claim, ushered in seventy years of peace and prosperity and saw post-war America domesticate the... -
Research on Politeness in the Spanish-Speaking World by Maria Elena Placencia
RRP: £53.99£47.27One of the main contributions of this important book is that it offers a thorough survey of the theoretical and empirical developments that have occurred in the area of (im)politeness in the different regions of the Spanish-speaking world, gathering... -
In the Closet of the Vatican by Frederic Martel 9781472966186
RRP: £15.99£8.89The New York Times Bestseller - Revised and Expanded "[An] earth-shaking expose of clerical corruption" - National Catholic Reporter The arrival of Frederic Martel's In the Closet of the Vatican, published worldwide in eight languages, sent... -
Broken Vows: Tony Blair The Tragedy of Power by Tom Bower
RRP: £14.99£9.80The political thriller of the year - UPDATED WITH A DEVASTATING NEW CHAPTER ON THE CHILCOT INQUIRY'Excellent' Sunday Times'Devastating' Daily MailWhen Tony Blair became prime minister in 1997, he was, at forty-three, the youngest to hold that office... -
Agent Josephine: American Beauty, French Hero, British Spy by Damien Lewis 9781541700673
RRP: £21.99£17.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541700673Author Damien LewisFormat HardbackPage Count 512Imprint PublicAffairsPublisher PublicAffairs -
The Book of Change by Stephen Ellcock 9781912836833
RRP: £25.00£17.38A brilliant awakening to our vast shared potential and creative energy for change, from the beloved social media curator Stephen Ellcock. Featuring 240 reproductions of art, photography and objects, selected from cultures through history and across... -
Agent Cicero: Hitler’s Most Successful Spy by Mark Simmons 9781803995281
RRP: £12.99£9.62ELYESA BAZNA WAS THE HIGHEST-PAID SPY IN HISTORY.Working for the British ambassador in Ankara in 1943, Bazna photographed top-secret documents and sold them to the Nazis. So started his career as a 'walk-in', a freelance spy whose loyalties lay with the... -
From Black Gold to Frozen Gas: How Qatar Became an Energy Superpower by Michael D. Tusiani 9780231210867
RRP: £28.00£21.80Today, Qatar is among the world's wealthiest countries. Its rich hydrocarbon resources have transformed this small Gulf state into an energy powerhouse, funded its outsized global ambitions, and allowed it to forge an identity separate from those of its... -
Mao's China and the Cold War by Jian Chen 9780807849323
RRP: £42.95£40.17This comprehensive study of China's Cold War experience reveals the crucial role Beijing played in shaping the orientation of the global Cold War and the confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union. The success of China's Communist... -
Jihadi Culture: The Art and Social Practices of Militant Islamists by Thomas Hegghammer
RRP: £24.99£21.18Al-Qaida and Islamic State continue to captivate the world with their extreme violence. While much attention has been given to the operations and doctrines of jihadi groups, this is the first book to explore their culture. Using a wealth of primary... -
A New Era for Wolves and People: Wolf Recovery, Human Attitudes, and Policy by Marco Musiani 9781552382707
£31.54Wolves hold an almost mythical status in the cultural history of Europe and North America. For hundreds of years, they have been the subject of fairy tales and other lore, embodying mystery, cunning, and sometimes threat. People are drawn to their...