Political Science

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416569664Author Raja ShehadehFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 195gDimensions(mm)...

'Every voice raised against racism chips away at its power. We can't afford to stay silent. This book is an attempt to speak' The book that sparked a national conversation. Exploring everything from eradicated black history to the inextricable link...

'A training manual for our troubled times ... It makes sense of our world, but is also capable of beautifully crafted pithy historical judgements. ... It is a book that cares about liberty, choice and a moral compass, that warns against hubris' Roger...

Our revision resources are the smart choice for those revising for externally assessed Component 3 in the Health and Social Care BTEC Tech Award. This book contains four full-length practice assessments, helping you to: Prepare by familiarising...

Thousands of innocent people are behind bars in the United States. But proving their innocence and winning their release is nearly impossible. In Barred, legal scholar Daniel S. Medwed argues that our justice system's stringent procedural rules are...

International Human Rights is the definitive work on the subject area providing its reader with a comprehensive analysis of this wide and diverse subject area. A successor to the widely acclaimed International Human Rights in Context, this book is...

Blackstone's Police Manuals 2025, endorsed by the College of Policing, are the only official study guides for the NPPF Step Two Legal Examination. Straightforward and accessible, Blackstone's Police Manuals are the only resource used by question writers...

Mapping the New Left Antisemitism: The Fathom Essays provides a comprehensive guide to contemporary Left antisemitism.The rise of a new and largely left-wing form of antisemitism in the era of the Jewish state and the distinction between it and...

'Damning' - Mail on Sunday'Gripping and shocking [...] an unputdownable read' - Stephen Grey, award-winning investigate journalist and author of GHOST PLANE and THE NEW SPYMASTERS'This investigation rings true' - Publishers WeeklyOn 1 August, 1990,...

Why 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,...

'A remarkable and important guide to effecting change in our individual lives, businesses, societies - and beyond' JONAH BERGER, bestselling author of ContagiousHow did movements like the Arab Spring and Black Lives Matter take off when they did? How did...

The 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...

Between 1942 and 1944 a very small, very secret, very successful clandestine unit of the Royal Navy, operated between Dartmouth in Devon, and the Brittany Coast in France. It was a crossing of about 100 miles, every yard of it dangerous. The unit was...

Apologies 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

'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...

In 1946 many Jewish soldiers returned to their homes in England imagining that they had fought and defeated the forces of fascism in Europe. Yet in London they found a revived fascist movement inspired by Sir Oswald Mosley and stirring up agitation...

'The bombshell book everyone is talking about' DAILY MAIL 'A radio genius ... the maestro of the show' EVENING STANDARD As presenter of Radio 4's Today, the nation's most popular...

Ben Bradlee first came to know John Kennedy well when they were Washington neighbors in 1958. They remained good friends and off-the-record confidants until President Kennedy's death. They also had a more professional relationship governed by Bradlee's...

June 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...

Apologies 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)...

The Johnson era will be remembered for a series of scandals that severely eroded trust in the British government. From questionable PPE tenders and public appointments to the ‘partygate’ fiasco, every aspect of public life seemed tainted. How did this...

Walkley Award-winning journalist, Sharri Markson is the Investigations Editor at The Australian and host of prime-time show Sharri on Sky News Australia. The origins of Covid-19 are shrouded in mystery. Scientists and government officials insisted, for a...

Through a comprehensive analysis of legislative and organisational changes and interviews with all the key players, The Honest Politician's Guide to Prisons and Probation provides an authoritative account of the crisis which has gradually engulfed the...

The 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...

'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...

Apologies 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

Why 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...

Between 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...

Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulnesstells the story of the author's mother, Nicola Fuller. Nicola Fuller and her husband were a glamorous and optimistic couple and East Africa lay before them with the promise of all its perfect light, even as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780883445501Author Leonardo; Boff BoffFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Orbis Books (USA)Publisher Orbis Books (USA)

'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...

Available now for the first time in English, the most important work of one of the great moderate political leaders of the Muslim world Rached Ghannouchi has long been known as a reformist or moderate Islamist thinker. In Public Freedoms in the Islamic...

'Shocking, heartfelt and well-researched' New Statesman'A ground-shaping book that defines the edge of so many vital contemporary debates. Hers is a voice simultaneously behind and beyond the veil' Colum McCann'A fascinating, can't-look-away,...

This title includes a new Foreword by WM. Roger Louis. On 26 July 1956, the British Empire received a blow from which it would never recover. On this day, Egypt's President Gamal Abdul Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal Company, one of the gems of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583676400Author Kohei SaitoFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U.S.Weight(grams)...

'A wonderful showcase of the most exciting work happening in Black British History and a rousing call to action' Christienna Fryar, historian of Britain and the Caribbean The history of African and Caribbean people in Britain is centuries long...

Apologies 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 *...

Can the Euro be saved? Should it be?Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz dismantles the prevailing consensus around what ails Europe - arguing that economic stagnation is a direct result of the Euro's flawed birth, demolishing the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780991796694Author Susan J CrockfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Library and Archives of CanadaPublisher Library and Archives of...

For 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'...