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Wade in the Water by Tracy K. Smith
RRP: $23.08$16.32SHORTLISTED FOR THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST COLLECTION 2018A New York Times Notable Book of 2018Even the men in black armor, the onesJangling handcuffs and keys, what elseAre they so buffered against, if not love's bladeSizing up the heart's familiar... -
Social Protection Under Authoritarianism by Huang
RRP: $59.83$55.17Why would an authoritarian regime expand social welfare provision in the absence of democratization? Yet China, the world's largest and most powerful authoritarian state, has expanded its social health insurance system at an unprecedented rate,... -
Toward a Criminology of Terrorism by Gary LaFree 9781108986632
RRP: $35.70$30.91The study of terrorism represents one of the major turning points in criminology of the twenty-first century. In the space of just two decades, research on terrorism and political extremism went from a relatively uncommon niche to a widely recognized... -
The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability by Peter Kornbluh 9781595589125
RRP: $46.18$33.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781595589125Author Peter KornbluhFormat PaperbackPage Count 606Imprint The New PressPublisher The New PressWeight(grams) 865g -
The Penguin Dictionary of International Relations by Graham Evans
RRP: $31.48$23.00The Penguin Dictionary of International Relations provides an authoritative overview of this complex and constantly shifting subject. Ranging from the Arab-Israeli conflict to weapons of mass destruction, this is an indispensable and comprehensive guide... -
The Middle East Crisis Factory: Tyranny, Resilience and Resistance by Iyad El-Baghdadi
RRP: $31.48$28.64Why is the Middle East a crisis factory, and how can it be fixed? What does the future look like for its 500 million people? And what role should the West play? Iyad El-Baghdadi and Ahmed Gatnash tell the story of the modern Middle East as a series of... -
Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepznia-Samarasinha 9781551527383
RRP: $39.88$26.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551527383Author Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-SamarasinhaFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Arsenal Pulp PressPublisher Arsenal Pulp Press -
Agent Jack: The True Story of MI5's Secret Nazi Hunter by Robert Hutton
RRP: $23.08$15.54June 1940. Britain is Europe's final bastion of freedom - and Hitler's next target. But not everyone fears a Nazi invasion. In factories, offices and suburban homes are men and women determined to do all they can to hasten it.Throughout the Second World... -
Why Governments Get It Wrong: And How They Can Get It Right by Dennis C. Grube 9781529083330
RRP: $23.08$14.95Now with new Preface.'This humane, accessible and lucid work will enlighten any voter, and remind any would-be - or currently serving - politician of the pitfalls to avoid' - TLSAs the list of U-turns grows ever longer, the cost of living crisis... -
The Making of a Dream: How a Group of Young Undocumented Immigrants Helped Change What It Means to Be American by Laura Wides-Muñoz 9780062560131
RRP: $44.08$29.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062560131Author Laura Wides-Mu ozFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm)... -
Alternative: Towards a New Progressive Politics by Lisa Nandy 9781785900495
RRP: $27.28$19.45The 2015 election result was a disaster for progressives in British politics, delivering a majority Conservative government at Westminster. And the outlook for the next election is not auspicious either, particularly amid the aftershocks of the momentous... -
We are the Change-Makers: poems supporting Drop the Disorder! by Jo Watson
RRP: $31.48$28.25This is a unique collection of poems written by and for people who have survived our mental health system and the diagnostic process that is used to categorise and treat mental and emotional distress. In October 2016, Jo Watson launched A Disorder for... -
The Old Gays’ Guide to the Good Life by Mick Peterson 9780008637262
RRP: $35.68$24.09'I've fallen in love with this fabulous foursome ... They are a phenomenon!' Drew Barrymore From @theoldgays, the internet's most beloved foursome, a book of inspirational stories and aspirational advice for living life at the... -
The Bomb in My Garden: The Secrets of Saddam's Nuclear Mastermind by Mahdi Obeidi 9780471679653
$39.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780471679653Author Mahdi ObeidiFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint John Wiley & Sons IncPublisher Turner Publishing CompanyWeight(grams) 454g -
State-Directed Development: Political Power and Industrialization in the Global Periphery by Atul Kohli 9780521545259
RRP: $65.08$56.34Why have some developing country states been more successful at facilitating industrialization than others? An answer to this question is developed by focusing both on patterns of state construction and intervention aimed at promoting industrialization... -
Time, History, and Political Thought by John Robertson 9781009289368
RRP: $178.50$161.70Between the cliche that 'a week is a long time in politics' and the aspiration of many political philosophers to give their ideas universal, timeless validity lies a gulf which the history of political thought is uniquely qualified to bridge. For that... -
Burning Down The Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution and the Fall of the Berlin Wall by Tim Mohr
RRP: $23.08$15.54LONGLISTED FOR THE CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE LONGLISTED FOR THE HWA NON-FICTION CROWN 'A moving, powerful and highly innovative sidelight on the fall of Communism in East Germany through punk style and music. This is a complete original' HWA... -
Absolute Recoil: Towards A New Foundation of Dialectical Materialism by Slavoj Zizek 9781784781996
RRP: $56.68$53.70At the outset of the twentieth century, Lenin argued that materialism has to change its form with each new scientific discovery. Today, argues Slavoj Zizek in this major new work, we should apply this stricture to Lenin himself. Philosophical materialism... -
Familiar Stranger: A Life between Two Islands by Stuart Hall 9780141984759
RRP: $23.08$16.32'This is a miracle of a book' George Lamming'Compelling. Stuart Hall's story is the story of an age' Owen Jones 'Sometimes I feel I was the last colonial'This is the story, in his own words, of the extraordinary life of Stuart Hall: writer, thinker and... -
How to Become a MI5 Intelligence Officer: The Ultimate Career Guide to Working for MI5 by How2Become 9781910602300
RRP: $27.30$19.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910602300Author How2BecomeFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint How2become LtdPublisher How2become Ltd -
Mussolini's Italy: Life Under the Dictatorship, 1915-1945 by Richard J. B. Bosworth
RRP: $39.88$28.58For almost all nations the First World War was an unparalleled disaster, but the Italian experience especially was to have catastrophic consequences. Weakened and embittered, trying and failing to come to terms with 600,000 dead and with an entire... -
A Discourse on Inequality by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
RRP: $20.98$14.93In A Discourse on Inequality Rousseau sets out to demonstrate how the growth of civilization corrupts man's natural happiness and freedom by creating artificial inequalities of wealth, power and social privilege. Contending that primitive man was equal... -
Hegemony Now: How Big Tech and Wall Street Won the World (And How We Win it Back) by Alex Williams
RRP: $35.68$29.61Today power is in the hands of Wall Street and Silicon Valley. How do we understand this transformation in power? And what can we do about it?We cannot change anything until we have a better understanding of how power works, who holds it, and why that... -
Anthony Blunt: His Lives by Miranda Carter
RRP: $42.00$30.41When Anthony Blunt died in 1983, he was a man about whom almost anything could be - and was - said. As Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures and Director of the Courtauld Institute, Blunt's position was assured until his exposure in 1979 left his reputation... -
Cairo 1921: Ten Days that Made the Middle East by C. Brad Faught
RRP: $42.00$35.66The first comprehensive history of the 1921 Cairo Conference which reveals its enduring impact on the modern Middle East Called by Winston Churchill in 1921, the Cairo Conference set out to redraw the map of the Middle East in the wake of the First... -
Moynihan Report: The Negro Family: The Case for National Action by U S Department of Labor 9781945934520
RRP: $62.98$52.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945934520Author U S Department of LaborFormat HardbackPage Count 90Imprint Cosimo ReportsPublisher Cosimo ReportsWeight(grams) 290gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Jeremy Hutchinson's Case Histories: From Lady Chatterley's Lover to Howard Marks by Thomas Grant
RRP: $27.28$18.06THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA NON-FICTION DAGGER'Thomas Grant has brought together Hutchinson's greatest legal hits, producing a fascinating episodic cultural history of post-war Britain that chronicles the end of deference and... -
Thicker Than Oil: America's Uneasy Partnership with Saudi Arabia by Rachel Bronson 9780195367058
RRP: $31.48$24.21For fifty-five years, the United States and Saudi Arabia were solid partners. Then came the 9/11 attacks, which sorely tested that relationship. In Thicker than Oil, Rachel Bronson reveals why the partnership became so intimate and how the countries'... -
Social Mobility: And Its Enemies by Lee Elliot Major
RRP: $23.08$16.32What are the effects of decreasing social mobility?How does education help - and hinder - us in improving our life chances?Why are so many of us stuck on the same social rung as our parents? Apart from the USA, Britain has the lowest social mobility in... -
The Way to the Spring: Life and Death in Palestine by Ben Ehrenreich 9781783783113
RRP: $27.28$17.98'Profoundly powerful not only in observations and stories, but in how courageously and carefully it speaks to our present moment' Madeleine Thien, Guardian Over three years, journalist and novelist Ben Ehrenreich travelled to the West Bank's largest... -
The Secret Life of Special Advisers by Peter Cardwell
RRP: $42.00$30.41Shadowy geniuses whispering, Rasputinlike, into the ears of our elected politicians under a cloak of secrecy, or a crucial but undervalued cog in the machinery of government? ...Or just a rag-tag band of weirdos and misfits? Despite the acres of... -
Yemen in Crisis: Autocracy, Neo-Liberalism and the Disintegration of a State by Helen Lackner 9780863561931
$52.94Yemen is in the grip of its most severe crisis in years. The civil war between the Huthi rebels and the Western and Arab supporters of the regime has resulted in thousands killed and three million displaced. Those who remain suffer severe food shortages... -
Hospitality, Volume II by Jacques Derrida 9780226831305
RRP: $75.60$63.78Jacques Derrida explores the ramifications of what we owe to others.Hospitality reproduces a two-year seminar series delivered by Jacques Derrida at the Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales in Paris between 1995 and 1997. In these lectures,... -
The Democrat Party Hates America by Mark R. Levin 9781501183157
RRP: $63.00$36.88INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The eight-time #1 New York Times bestselling author, radio host, and Fox News star returns to the page to reveal the radically dangerous Democrat agenda that is upending American life. In American Marxism, Mark Levin... -
How To Read Marx by Peter Osborne 9781862077713
RRP: $18.88$12.77Emphasizing the Romantic heritage and modernist legacy of Karl Marx's writings, Peter Osborne presents Marx's thought as a developing investigation into what it means, concretely, for humans to be practical historical beings. Drawing upon passages from a... -
A History of Argentina: From the Spanish Conquest to the Present by Ezequiel Adamovsky 9781478025436
RRP: $50.38$43.76In A History of Argentina, originally published in Spanish in 2020, Ezequiel Adamovsky presents over five hundred years of Argentine economic, political, social, and cultural history. Adamovsky highlights the experiences of women, Indigenous communities,... -
Bad News: How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy by Batya Ungar-Sargon
RRP: $44.08$29.80Something is wrong with American journalism. Long before "fake news" became the calling card of the Right, Americans had lost faith in their news media. But lately, the feeling that something is off has become impossible to ignore. That's because the... -
Higher National Certificate in Social Care Student Book by Aileen Connor
RRP: $98.47$89.15This Student Book is written specifically for the HNC in Social Care! The six mandatory units and three SVQ units are covered, giving students all they require in one book. Written by an experienced Scottish author team with knowledge in delivering the... -
The Dean of Shandong: Confessions of a Minor Bureaucrat at a Chinese University by Daniel A. Bell
RRP: $46.20$36.46An inside view of Chinese academia and what it reveals about China's political systemOn January 1, 2017, Daniel Bell was appointed dean of the School of Political Science and Public Administration at Shandong University-the first foreign dean of a... -
Laws by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: $52.40$49.96The statesman on statecraft.Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BC), Roman lawyer, orator, politician, and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era that saw the rise, dictatorship, and death of Julius ...