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China Witness: Voices from a Silent Generation by Xinran
RRP: £16.99£12.28China Witness is the personal testimony of a generation whose stories have not yet been told. Here the grandparents and great-grandparents of today sum up in their own words - for the first and perhaps the last time - the vast changes that have overtaken... -
The Rules of Security: Staying Safe in a Risky World by Paul Martin
RRP: £22.49£15.94This book demystifies and explains a subject that affects every one of us in our private lives and at work. Security is a practical discipline concerned with safeguarding lives, property, information, wealth, reputations, and social wellbeing. It is the... -
The Iran-Iraq War by Pierre Razoux
RRP: £39.95£33.05From 1980 to 1988, Iran and Iraq fought the longest conventional war of the twentieth century. The tragedies included the slaughter of child soldiers, the use of chemical weapons, the striking of civilian shipping in the Gulf, and the destruction of... -
America, Inc: The 400-Year History of American Capitalism by Bhu Srinivasan
RRP: £20.00£13.74How and why did the US become the most successful economy in history? One of The Economist's Best Books of 2017, America, Inc explains the rise of America's economic power and how so many US businesses have succeeded. In a winning, accessible style,... -
Stop Trying to be Fantastic by Molly Naylor 9781911570844
RRP: £9.99£7.11Molly Naylor is a poet, scriptwriter, performer and director. She is the co-writer of Sky One comedy After Hours. Theatre work includes Whenever I Get Blown Up I Think of You (writer/performer), My Robot Heart (writer/performer) and LIGHTS! PLANETS!... -
What is Politics?: The Activity and its Study by Adrian Leftwich 9780745630564
RRP: £15.99£14.41What is politics? Is it a universal feature of all human societies, past and present? Is it tied to specific institutional arenas? Or is it found in all groups and organizations, large or small, formal or informal? This new textbook seeks to provide... -
Strategy: The Logic of War and Peace, Revised and Enlarged Edition by Edward N. Luttwak
RRP: £29.95£23.66"If you want peace, prepare for war." "A buildup of offensive weapons can be purely defensive." "The worst road may be the best route to battle." Strategy is made of such seemingly self-contradictory propositions, Edward Luttwak shows-they exemplify the... -
Putin's Playbook: Russia's Secret Plan to Defeat America by Rebekah Koffler 9781684510030
RRP: £28.99£18.30Putin's Playbook is urgently essential reading. A former U.S. intelligence specialist who was born and raised in the Soviet Union explains what Vladimir Putin wants and how he plans to get it. Russia's ruler is following a carefully devised plan to... -
On Politics by Alan Ryan
RRP: £18.99£14.01A magisterial, one-volume history of political thought from Herodotus to the present, Ancient Athens to modern democracy - from author and professor Alan RyanThis is a book about the answers that historians, philosophers, theologians, practising... -
Fundamental Rights: The European and International Dimension by Janneke Gerards 9781009255714
RRP: £36.99£33.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781009255714Author Janneke GerardsFormat PaperbackImprint Cambridge University PressPublisher Cambridge University Press -
The Dirty Tricks Department: The Untold Story of the Real-life Q Branch, the Masterminds of Second World War Secret Warfare by John Lisle
RRP: £22.99£17.52In the summer of 1942, Stanley Lovell, a renowned industrial chemist, received a mysterious order to report to an unfamiliar building in Washington, D.C. When he arrived, he was led to a barren room where he waited to meet the man who had summoned him... -
Killing Zone: A Life in the PARAs, the RECCEs, the SAS and the RUC by Harry McCallion 9781839013614
RRP: £10.99£9.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839013614Author Harry McCallionFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Lume BooksPublisher Lume BooksWeight(grams) 354gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 16mm -
Drug Control and Human Rights in International Law by Richard Lines 9781107171176
RRP: £62.00£55.52Human rights violations occurring as a consequence of drug control and enforcement are a growing concern, and raise questions of treaty interpretation and of the appropriate balancing of concomitant obligations within the drug control and human rights... -
Law, Liberty, and Morality by H. L. A. Hart 9780804701549
RRP: £16.99£13.90This incisive book deals with the use of the criminal law to enforce morality, in particular sexual morality, a subject of particular interest and importance since the publication of the Wolfenden Report in 1957. Professor Hart first considers John... -
How Parliament Works by Nicolas Besly 9781032015019
RRP: £35.99£32.09Written by expert insiders, How Parliament Works is a straightforward and readable analysis of one of the country’s most complex – and often misunderstood – institutions. Covering every aspect of the work, membership and structures of both Houses, this... -
The Invention of Capitalism: Classical Political Economy and the Secret History of Primitive Accumulation by Michael Perelman
RRP: £24.99£22.07The originators of classical political economy-Adam Smith, David Ricardo, James Steuart, and others-created a discourse that explained the logic, the origin, and, in many respects, the essential rightness of capitalism. But, in the great texts of that... -
Mobilising Hate: The Story of Hitler's Final Solution by Martin Davidson
RRP: £22.00£14.96'Finally, eight decades on, there comes a convincing reason as to how an entire nation was able to swallow and then endorse the warped ideology of Hitler and the Nazis. Not only a brilliantly argued book, Mobilising Hate is also a grimly compelling and... -
The God Species: How Humans Really Can Save the Planet... by Mark Lynas
RRP: £10.99£8.29The green movement has got it very wrong. Nature no longer controls our planet - it is humanity, 'the god species', that must save the environment we have inflicted unprecedented damage upon. And the tools we must use are the very technologies... -
Reflections On Exile: And Other Literary And Cultural Essays by Edward W. Said
RRP: £16.99£11.98With their powerful blend of political and aesthetic concerns, Edward W. Said's writings have transformed the field of literary studies. As in the title essay, the widely admired "Reflections on Exile," the fact of his own exile and the fate of the... -
Mary Lou McDonald Biography by Shane Ross
RRP: £16.99£11.58Mary 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 Daughters of Yalta: The Churchills, Roosevelts and Harrimans - A Story of Love and War by Catherine Grace Katz
RRP: £12.99£8.48The brilliant untold story of three daughters of diplomacy: Anna Roosevelt, Sarah Churchill, and Kathleen Harriman, glamorous, fascinating young women who accompanied their famous fathers to the Yalta Conference with Stalin in the waning... -
Alice in Brexitland by Lucien Young
RRP: £8.99£6.45Lying on a riverbank on a lazy summer's afternoon - 23rd June 2016, to be precise - Alice spots a flustered-looking white rabbit called Dave calling for a referendum. Following him down a rabbit-hole, she emerges into a strange new land, where up is... -
The Politics of Global Supply Chains by Kate Macdonald 9780745661711
RRP: £17.99£16.04The Politics of Global Supply Chains analyses the changing politics of power and distribution within contemporary global supply chains. Drawing on over 300 interviews with farmers, workers, activists, businesses and government officials in garment and... -
A Pin to See the Peepshow by F. Tennyson Jesse 9780712353595
RRP: £9.99£6.80Julia Almond believes she is special and dreams of a more exciting and glamorous life away from the drab suburbia of her upbringing. Her work in a fashionable boutique in the West End gives her the personal freedom that she craves but escape from her... -
Freedom: Volume I: Freedom In The Making Of Western Culture by Orlando Patterson 9780465025329
£26.30This magisterial work traces the history of our most cherished value. Patterson links the birth of freedom in primitive societies with the institution of slavery, and traces the evolution of three forms of freedom in the West from antiquity through the... -
What if Women Designed the City?: 33 leverage points to make your city work better for women and girls by May East 9781913743871
RRP: £15.00£12.56Dr. May East here explores the set of symbiotic relationships between women and the cities they live and work in. She considers how cities would look if they were designed by women, and how that design (or redesign) could help to achieve the dream of... -
Zero Fail: the rise and fall of the Secret Service by Carol Leonnig
RRP: £18.99£12.83The first definitive account of the rise and fall of the Secret Service, from the Kennedy assassination to the alarming mismanagement of the Obama and Trump years, right up to the insurrection at the Capitol on 6 January 2021 - by the Pulitzer Prize... -
The Book of Secrets: A Personal History of Betrayal in Red China by Xinran Xue 9781399406680
RRP: £25.00£17.62The story of a family in modern China with a history of deceit, betrayal and political intrigue, and the communist party's long shadow over them, from the Cultural Revolution to today. Following the lives of military intelligence officer Jie and his... -
Gladstone by Roy Jenkins
RRP: £16.99£12.47Winner of the Whitbread Biography of the Year.William Gladstone was, with Tennyson, Newman, Dickens, Carlyle, and Darwin, one of the stars of nineteenth-century British life. He spent sixty-three of his eighty-nine years in the House of Commons and was... -
Dictionary of Corruption by Professor Robert Barrington 9781788216593
RRP: £19.99£18.80Written by an expert team, the Dictionary of Corruption is a comprehensive resource for students, academics, practitioners and professionals. It establishes a common interpretation of the language and terminology in the field of corruption and... -
Wealth, Poverty and Politics by Thomas Sowell
RRP: £35.00£22.83In Wealth, Poverty, and Politics , Dr. Thomas Sowell of the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, examines the reasons for large differences in income and wealth between nations and among groups within nations. A wide range of geographic,... -
Voices from History: East London Suffragettes by Rosemary Taylor
RRP: £9.99£7.55In 1914, the East London Federation of Suffragettes, led by Sylvia Pankhurst, split from the WSPU. Sylvia's mother and sister, Emmeline and Christabel, had encouraged her to give up her work with the poor women of East London - but Sylvia refused... -
Lewis Man by Peter May 9781529416817
RRP: £10.99£7.40THE 12 MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE ENZO FILES AND THE CHINA THRILLERSAWARD WINNING AUTHOR OF THE CWA DAGGER IN THE LIBRARY 2021'One of the best regarded crime series of recent years.' Independent'No one can create a more eloquently written... -
Modern Political Thought: Readings from Machiavelli to Nietzsche by David Wootton 9780872208971
RRP: £57.99£47.85The second edition of David Wootton's Modern Political Thought: Readings from Machiavelli to Nietzsche offers a new unit on modern constitutionalism with selections from Hume, Montesquieu, the Federalist, and Constant. In addition to a new essay by... -
Gambling with Violence: State Outsourcing of War in Pakistan and India by Yelena Biberman 9780190929978
RRP: £30.49£22.37In Gambling with Violence, Yelena Biberman tackles a global problem that is particularly consequential for Pakistan and India: state outsourcing of violence to ordinary civilians, criminals, and ex-insurgents. Why would these countries gamble with their... -
No Is Not Enough: Defeating the New Shock Politics by Naomi Klein
RRP: £9.99£7.11**The New York Times and Sunday Times Bestseller**'An ordinary person's guide to hope. Read this book' Arundhati Roy'As accessible as it is brilliant' Owen Jones'A genuine page turner' Michelle Alexander Naomi Klein - award-winning journalist,... -
Beating Goliath: Why Insurgencies Win by Jeffrey Record 9781597970914
RRP: £15.99£13.08Beating Goliath examines the phenomenon of victories by the weak over the strong-more specifically, insurgencies that succeeded against great powers. Jeffrey Record reviews eleven insurgent wars from 1775 to the present and determines why the seemingly... -
Trillion Dollar Triage: How Jay Powell and the Fed Battled the White House and Saved the Economy by Nick Timiraos
RRP: £25.00£18.71By February 2020, the U.S. economic expansion had become the longest on record. Unemployment was plumbing half-century lows. Stock markets soared to new highs. One month later, the public health battle against a deadly virus had pushed the economy into... -
Democracy When the People Are Thinking P: Revitalizing Our Politics Through Public Deliberation by James S. Fishkin 9780198865186
RRP: £13.49£11.87Democracy requires a connection to the 'will of the people'. What does that mean in a world of 'fake news', relentless advocacy, dialogue mostly among the like-minded, and massive spending to manipulate public opinion? What kind of opinion can the public... -
We Will Not Be Silenced: Responding Courageously to Our Culture's Assault on Christianity by Erwin W. Lutzer
RRP: £15.99£11.25"If I could, I would put this book into the hands of every Christian in America."-Dr. David Jeremiah"Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go" (Joshua 1:9).Each day, you...