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When Philosophers Rule: Ficino on Plato's Republic, Laws and Epinomis by Arthur Farndell 9780856832574
RRP: €22.55€20.48Searching for a definition of good government, this commentary from Marsilio Ficino examines three Platonic dialogues that have had a profound effect on Western statesmen and jurists. A leading scholar of the Italian Renaissance-who translated all the... -
Planet of Slums by Mike Davis
RRP: €11.89€10.00According to the United Nations, more than one billion people now live in the slums of the cities of the South. In this brilliant and ambitious book, Mike Davis explores the future of a radically unequal and explosively unstable urban world. From the... -
Red Star: The First Bolshevik Utopia by Alexander Bogdanov
RRP: €19.03€17.87"[A] surprisingly moving story." -The New Yorker"Bogdanov's novels reveal a great deal about their fascinating author, about his time and, ironically, ours, and about the genre of utopia as well as his contribution to it." -Slavic Review"Bogdanov's... -
Comrades: Communism: A World History by Robert Service
RRP: €20.22€14.84Almost two decades have passed since the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the USSR. Robert Service, one of our finest historians of modern Russia, sets out to examine the history of communism throughout the world. His uncomfortable conclusion... -
Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography, Volume One: Not For Turning by Charles Moore 9780241573570
RRP: €47.60€35.69Not For Turning is the first volume of Charles Moore's authorized biography of Margaret Thatcher, the longest serving Prime Minister of the twentieth century and one of the most influential political figures of the postwar era.Charles Moore's biography... -
Politics, Poverty and Belief: A Political Memoir by The Rt Hon Frank Field
RRP: €23.80€18.42'For the past half-century Frank Field has been an outstanding parliamentarian, social reformer and champion of the disadvantaged. He joined the Labour Party at the age of 16 and was expelled from it at the age of 78.' -Brian & Rachel Griffiths 'Frank... -
The Future of Capitalism by Katrina Vanden Heuvel 9781487007430
RRP: €13.08€11.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781487007430Author Katrina Vanden HeuvelFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint House of Anansi Press Ltd ,CanadaPublisher House of Anansi Press Ltd ,Canada -
A Spy Named Orphan: The Enigma of Donald Maclean Roland Philipps 9781784703578
RRP: €15.46€10.94Donald 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... -
Network Governance and the Differentiated Polity: Selected Essays, Volume I by R. A. W. Rhodes 9780198786108
€111.59Network Governance and the Differentiated Polity is the first of two volumes featuring a selection of key writings by R. A. W. Rhodes. Volume I collects in one place for the first time the main articles written by Rhodes on policy networks and governance... -
Philip's RGS Atlas of the World Institute Of British Geographers 9781849076531
RRP: €89.25€53.04Packed with the latest statistics and filled with clear cartography, the Philip's RGS Atlas of the World gives a striking view of the Earth's surface and its many complexities and treasures."This atlas brilliantly captures what a precious and impressive... -
The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality by Kathryn Paige Harden 9780691242101
RRP: €19.03€14.84A provocative and timely case for how the science of genetics can help create a more just and equal societyIn recent years, scientists like Kathryn Paige Harden have shown that DNA makes us different, in our personalities and in our health-and in ways... -
The Histories: No. 1 by Polybius
RRP: €29.69€28.27Hellenistic history.The historian Polybius (ca. 200-118 BC) was born into a leading family of Megalopolis in the Peloponnese (Morea) and served the Achaean League in arms and diplomacy for many years, favoring alliance with Rome. From 168 to 151 he was... -
An Analysis of Francis Fukuyama's The End of History and the Last Man Ian Jackson 9781912127917
RRP: €7.74€7.49Francis Fukuyama's controversial 1992 book The End of History and the Last Man demonstrates an important aspect of creative thinking: the ability to generate hypotheses and create novel explanations for evidence. In the case of Fukuyama's work, the... -
Mary Lou McDonald Biography by Shane Ross
RRP: €20.22€13.99Mary Lou McDonald is the bookies' favourite to be Ireland's next Taoiseach. She would be the first woman to reach the office, and the first Sinn Fein leader ever to enter government in the Republic of Ireland. But how did a quintessentially bourgeois... -
The European Union: A Very Short Introduction by John Pinder 9780198808855
RRP: €10.70€7.91The European Union (EU) stands out as a fascinatingly unique political organisation. On the one hand, it has shown the potential for developing deep and wide-ranging cooperation between member states, going far beyond that found anywhere else in the... -
The Albanians: A Modern History by Miranda Vickers
RRP: €29.74€27.19This is the first full account of a country that, following decades of isolation, has undergone unprecedented changes to its political system: the collapse of communism, the progression to multi-party elections and the upheaval that followed the March... -
A Hope More Powerful than the Sea by Melissa Fleming
RRP: €13.08€9.06Soon to be a major film produced by Steven Spielberg and J. J. Abrams.This is the story of Doaa, an ordinary girl from a village in Syria, who in 2015 became one of five hundred people crammed on to a fishing boat setting sail for Europe. The boat was... -
Harold Wilson by Ben Pimlott
RRP: €22.60€15.12Reissued with a new foreword to mark the centenary of Harold Wilson's birth, Ben Pimlott's classic biography combines scholarship and observation to illuminate the life and career of one of Britain's most controversial post-war statesmen. ... -
Memory Makers: The Politics of the Past in Putin's Russia by Jade McGlynn
RRP: €23.80€18.52Why aren't ordinary Russians more outraged by Putin's invasion of Ukraine? Inside the Kremlin's own historical propaganda narratives, Russia's invasion of Ukraine makes complete sense. From its World War II cult to anti-Western conspiracy theories, the... -
King Richard: an American tragedy by Michael Dobbs
RRP: €22.60€15.27From an acclaimed British author, a sharply focused, riveting account - told from inside the White House - of the crucial days, hours, and moments when the Watergate conspiracy consumed, and ultimately toppled, a president. In January 1973, Richard... -
Islam, Secularism and Nationalism in Modern Turkey: Who is a Turk? Soner Cagaptay 9780415567763
RRP: €64.25€55.78It is commonly believed that during the interwar period, Kemalist secularism successfully eliminated religion from the public sphere in Turkey, leaving Turkish national identity devoid of religious content. However, through its examination of the impact... -
Handmaking America: A Back-to-Basics Pathway to a Revitalized American Democracy by Bill Ivey 9781619020535
RRP: €15.46€14.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619020535Author Bill IveyFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint CounterpointPublisher CounterpointWeight(grams) 261gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 140mm * 18mm -
Making Empire: Ireland, Imperialism, and the Early Modern World by Prof Jane Ohlmeyer 9780192867681
RRP: €35.70€31.36Ireland was England's oldest colony. Making Empire revisits the history of empire in Ireland-in a time of Brexit, 'the culture wars', and the campaigns around 'Black Lives Matter' and 'Statues must fall'-to better understand how it has formed the... -
Beijing Rules: China's Quest for Global Influence Bethany Allen 9781529367799
RRP: €29.75€17.23LONGLISTED FOR FINANCIAL TIMES AND SCHRODERS BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDA FINANCIAL TIMES BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR'Excellent . . . reveals an insidious matrix of spying, deception, censorship and repression . . . compelling' Daily Telegraph'A timely... -
Disorder: Hard Times in the 21st Century by Helen Thompson 9780198865018
RRP: €15.46€10.01Getting to grips with the overlapping geopolitical, economic, and political crises faced by Western democratic societies in the 2020s. The 21st century has brought a powerful tide of geopolitical, economic, and democratic shocks. Their fallout has led... -
1974: Scenes from a Year of Crisis by Nick Rennison 9780857305824
RRP: €17.84€11.961974 WAS A YEAR OF MAJOR CHANGE AROUND THE WORLD. Presidents resigned, emperors were deposed, and new governments came to power. On both sides of the Atlantic, major political figures left the scene, either through resignation or electoral defeat... -
Speculation as a Mode of Production: Forms of Value Subjectivity in Art and Capital by Marina Vishmidt 9781642590517
RRP: €35.70€26.63In Speculation as a Mode of Production: Forms of Value Subjectivity in Art and Capital, Marina Vishmidt offers a new perspective on one of the main categories of capitalist life in the historical present. Writing not under the shadow but in the spirit of... -
All to Play For: The Advance of Rishi Sunak by Michael Ashcroft 9781785907968
RRP: €20.22€15.07The 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... -
The Wills Eye Manual: Office and Emergency Room Diagnosis and Treatment of Eye Disease by Gervasio & Peck 9781975160753
RRP: €95.20€84.81Selected as a Doody's Core Title for 2022 and 2023! A best-selling source of compact, authoritative guidance on the treatment of ocular disorders in a variety of settings, The Wills Eye Manual, 8th Edition, is the comprehensive, high-yield reference of... -
The Saboteur: The Aristocrat Who Became France's Most Daring Anti-Nazi Commando by Paul Kix 9780062322531
RRP: €24.98€17.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062322531Author Paul KixFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 227g -
Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy: Ernest Hemingway's Secret Adventures, 1935-1961 by Nicholas Reynolds
RRP: €15.46€14.02The extraordinary untold story of Ernest Hemingway's dangerous secret life in espionageA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A finalist for the William E. Colby Military Writers' Award"IMPORTANT" (Wall Street Journal) * "FASCINATING" (New York Review of Books) *... -
The Great Defiance: How the world took on the British Empire by David Veevers
RRP: €29.75€21.78'Veevers brilliantly retells the story we thought we knew...Important and thrilling' Dan SnowThe story of the British Empire is a familiar one: Britain came, it saw, it conquered, forging a glorious world empire upon which the sun never set. In fact, far... -
Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion by Gareth Stedman Jones
RRP: €22.60€16.67SHORTLISTED FOR THE ELIZABETH LONGFORD PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL BIOGRAPHY 2017'A deeply original and illuminating account of Marx's journey through the intellectual history of the nineteenth century... a profound reappraisal and a gripping read'... -
<i>Anyone</i>: The Cosmopolitan Subject of Anthropology by Nigel Rapport 9781782385264
RRP: €33.26€26.87The significance that people grant to their affiliations as members of nations, religions, classes, races, ethnicities and genders is evidence of the vital need for a cosmopolitan project that originates in the figure of Anyone - the universal and yet... -
This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen by Tadeusz Borowski
RRP: €15.46€11.11Tadeusz Borowski's concentration camp stories were based on his own experiences surviving Auschwitz and Dachau. In spare, brutal prose he describes a world where where the will to survive overrides compassion and prisoners eat, work and sleep a few yards... -
Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence by Judith Butler
RRP: €11.89€10.00In her most impassioned and personal book to date, Judith Butler responds in this profound appraisal of post-9/11 America to the current US policies to wage perpetual war, and calls for a deeper understanding of how mourning and violence might instead... -
Blaming the Victims: Spurious Scholarship and the Palestinian Question by Edward W. Said
€25.06Since the 1948 war which drove them from their heartland, the Palestinian people have consistently been denied the most basic democratic rights. Blaming the Victims shows how the historical fate of the Palestinians has been justified by spurious academic... -
The Dragons and the Snakes: How the Rest Learned to Fight the West by David Kilcullen
RRP: €15.46€14.43In 1993, a newly-appointed CIA director warned that Western powers might have 'slain a large dragon' with the fall of the USSR, but now faced a 'bewildering variety of poisonous snakes'. Since then, both dragons (state enemies like Russia and China) and... -
Peace Meals: Candy-Wrapped Kalashnikovs and Other War Stories (Includes Waiting for the Taliban, Previously Available Only as an Ebook) by Anna Badkhen 9781439166505
RRP: €19.04€11.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439166505Author Anna BadkhenFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Free PressPublisher Free PressWeight(grams) 322gDimensions(mm) 212mm * 139mm * 28mm -
Fire in the Minds of Men: Origins of the Revolutionary Faith by James H. Billington
RRP: €53.54€48.30This book traces the origins of a faith--perhaps the faith of the century. Modern revolutionaries are believers, no less committed and intense than were Christians or Muslims of an earlier era. What is new is the belief that a perfect secular order will...