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The Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal: The Political Economy of Saving the Planet by Noam Chomsky
RRP: €15.46€13.29The environmental crisis under way is unique in human history. It is a true existential crisis. Those alive today will decide the fate of humanity. Meanwhile, the leaders of the most powerful state in human history are dedicating themselves with passion... -
The Myth of the Chemical Cure: A Critique of Psychiatric Drug Treatment by J. Moncrieff 9780230574328
€40.86This book overturns the idea that psychiatric drugs work by correcting chemical imbalance and analyzes the professional, commercial and political vested interests that have shaped this view. It provides a comprehensive critique of research on drugs... -
The Art of Great Speeches: And Why We Remember Them by Dennis Glover
RRP: €36.89€30.52What makes a great speech 'great'? The Art of Great Speeches uses insights from classical thinkers to reveal how great orators such as Barack Obama, Martin Luther King, the Kennedys, Al Gore and Hitler have persuaded their audiences so convincingly... -
The Prime Minister by Anthony Trollope 9780199587193
RRP: €14.27€10.31'though a great many men and not a few women knew Ferdinand Lopez very well, none of them knew whence he had come' Despite his mysterious antecedents, Ferdinand Lopez aspires to join the ranks of British society. An unscrupulous financial speculator,... -
Tacky's Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War by Vincent Brown 9780674260290
RRP: €21.36€18.47Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book AwardWinner of the Frederick Douglass Book PrizeWinner of the Elsa Goveia Book PrizeWinner of the James A. Rawley Prize in the History of Race RelationsWinner of the P. Sterling Stuckey Book PrizeWinner of the Harriet... -
Routledge Handbook of the Law of Armed Conflict by Rain Liivoja
RRP: €52.35€46.93The law of armed conflict is a key element of the global legal order yet it finds itself in a state of flux created by the changing nature of warfare and the influences of other branches of international law. The Routledge Handbook of the Law of Armed... -
Blinded by Corona: How the Pandemic Ruined Britain's Health and Wealth and What to Do about It by John Ashton
RRP: €15.46€13.29Professor Ashton has lifelong hands-on experience and a deep scholarly understanding of the science of public health, a discipline invented in Britain. In this scathing critique he notes that nothing that the UK government has done to deal with COVID-19... -
Architectures of Dismantling and Restructuring: Spaces of Danish Welfare, 1970-present Kirsten Marie Raahauge 9783037786918
RRP: €41.65€29.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783037786918Author Kirsten Marie RaahaugeFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint Lars Muller PublishersPublisher Birkhauser Verlag AG -
Overcoming Self-Harm and Suicidal Thoughts by Liz Quish 9781781610565
RRP: €19.03€14.77A practical guide for parents, teachers, youth workers and others caring for and working with teenagers/young adults who engage in self-harming and have suicidal thoughts - or even attempt suicide. Filled with tips on how to support vulnerable teenagers... -
Sidney Reilly: Master Spy by Benny Morris
RRP: €20.22€17.39A revealing biography of Sidney Reilly, the early twentieth-century virtuoso of espionage Sidney Reilly (c. 1873-1925) is one of the most colorful and best-known spies of the twentieth century. Emerging from humble beginnings in southern Russia, Reilly... -
Plotters: The UK Terrorists Who Failed by Lizzie Dearden
RRP: €29.75€26.63An eye-opening account of the British terror attacks you've never heard of-because the perpetrators were caught in time. Since 2017, the UK has seen fifteen terrible terrorist attacks. But the atrocities on our evening news are the tip of a vast... -
Freedom from Fear: And Other Writings by Aung San Suu Kyi
RRP: €19.03€13.82Freedom from Fear - collected writings from the Nobel Peace prize winner Aung San Suu KyiAung San Suu Kyi's collected writings - edited by her late husband, whom the ruling military junta prevented from visiting Burma as he was dying of cancer - reflects... -
Jawbreaker: The Attack on Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda: A Personal Account by the CIA's Key Field Commander by Gary Berntsen 9780307351067
RRP: €20.22€14.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307351067Author Gary BerntsenFormat PaperbackImprint Three Rivers PressPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 267g -
Absolute Erotic, Absolute Grotesque: The Living, Dead, and Undead in Japan's Imperialism, 1895-1945 by Mark Driscoll
RRP: €28.55€25.18In this major reassessment of Japanese imperialism in Asia, Mark Driscoll foregrounds the role of human life and labor. Drawing on subaltern postcolonial studies and Marxism, he directs critical attention to the peripheries, where figures including... -
People Like Us: Margaret Thatcher and Me by Caroline Slocock 9781785904608
RRP: €11.89€8.90As a young civil servant, Caroline Slocock became the first ever female private secretary to any British Prime Minister, and was at Margaret Thatcher's side for the final eighteen months of her premiership. A left-wing feminist, Slocock was no natural... -
The Focusing-Oriented Counselling Primer (second edition): A concise introduction by Campbell Purton 9781915220004
RRP: €16.65€16.26Freshly updated, this contribution to the PCCS Books popular 'Primer' series is written by one of the UK's leading authorities on focusing-oriented counselling. Developed by Eugene Gendlin from Carl Rogers' pioneering model of person-centred counselling... -
Overdue: Birth, burnout and a blueprint for a better NHS Amity Reed 9781780664101
RRP: €11.89€8.71Amity Reed became a midwife to serve women, but the reality of working in over-stretched and underfunded NHS maternity services soon shattered her illusions. She's not alone - for every 30 midwives that train, 29 will leave the profession. Overdue is... -
The Making of Global International Relations: Origins and Evolution of IR at its Centenary by Amitav Acharya
RRP: €36.88€32.33This book presents a challenge to the discipline of international relations (IR) to rethink itself, in the light of both its own modern origins, and the two centuries of world history that have shaped it. By tracking the development of thinking about IR,... -
Margin of Victory: Five Battles that Changed the Face of Modern War by Douglas MacGregor 9781682476901
RRP: €41.59€28.43In Margin of Victory Douglas Macgregor tells the riveting stories of five military battles of the twentieth century, each one a turning point in history. Beginning with the British Expeditionary force holding the line at the Battle of Mons in 1914 and... -
Trust in Public Life by Claire Gilbert
RRP: €9.51€7.09A deep and thoughtful reflection on trust in the context of public life.Trust in Public Life is a collection of essays addressing the importance of trust in public life and how public servants can engender and sustain it. In "The Roots of Trust," Anna... -
The Sentinel State: Surveillance and the Survival of Dictatorship in China by Minxin Pei 9780674257832
RRP: €35.64€28.60Countering recent hype around technology, a leading expert argues that the endurance of dictatorship in China owes less to facial recognition AI and GPS tracking than to the human resources of the Leninist surveillance state.For decades China watchers... -
The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Italy: History, politics, society Andrea Mammone 9781138589575
RRP: €57.11€50.61The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Italy provides a comprehensive account of Italy and Italian politics in the twenty-first century. Featuring contributions from many leading scholars in the field, this Handbook is comprised of 28 chapters which are... -
Cloudmoney: Why the War on Cash Endangers Our Freedom by Brett Scott
RRP: €13.08€9.51Who really benefits from a cashless society?Many of us rarely use cash these days. And the reach of corporations into our lives via cards and apps has never been greater. But what we're told is inevitable is actually the work of powerful interests: the... -
The Story of Brexit by Jason Hazeley
RRP: €9.51€7.60As Brexit reaches its final stretch, find a way to laugh through the pain and or celebrate the end with Ladybird's hilarious and essential guide, The Story of Brexit.'Hilarious' STYLIST________'"Leaving was the will of the people" sighs Angelica's father... -
American Diplomacy Toward Lebanon: Lessons in Foreign Policy and the Middle East by David Hale 9780755652228
€26.19Lebanon's significance to the Middle East and the global arena is greater than its small size suggests - bordering Israel and Syria, it holds a geo-strategic role as the playing field for their competition as well as for their allies, America and Iran... -
Administering and Managing the U.S. Food System: Revisiting Food Policy and Politics by A. Bryce Hoflund 9781793633330
RRP: €111.86€98.37Food and the systems that produce, disrupt, prepare it are central to all human life. Yet, scholarly analysis of the food systems that support human life are highly fragmented across a variety of disciplines. Public administration, with its focus on the... -
Shostakovich by Brian Morton 9781913368432
RRP: €13.08€9.42Dmitri Shostakovich was the most popular Soviet composer of his generation. Internationally esteemed, he is widely considered to have been the last great classical symphonist, and his reputation has continued to increase since his death in 1975... -
Bankruptcy, Bubbles and Bailouts: The Inside History of the Treasury Since 1976 Aeron Davis 9781526159779
RRP: €20.22€15.08The Treasury is one of Britain's oldest, most powerful and secretive institutions, one that has played a central role in shaping the country's economic system. But all too often it has escaped public scrutiny when it comes to investigating the ups and... -
The Conservative Party in Wales, 1945-1997 by Sam Blaxland 9781837720811
RRP: €29.74€22.73Wales is often considered to be one of the most anti-Conservative parts of Britain, with the party unable to connect with voters. The Conservative Party in Wales, 1945–1997 offers a more nuanced perspective as the first book-length study of Wales’s... -
How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship by Ece Temelkuran
RRP: €11.89€10.71'This is essential' Margaret Atwood on Twitter 'She's one of the most acute and perceptive analysts of the furtive growth of fascism. Everyone should know about this' Philip Pullman 'Vibrates with outrage' The Times ... -
The Last Shah: America, Iran, and the Fall of the Pahlavi Dynasty by Ray Takeyh
RRP: €17.84€15.51The surprising story of Iran's transformation from America's ally in the Middle East into one of its staunchest adversaries"An original interpretation that puts Iranian actors where they belong: at center stage."-Michael Doran, Wall Street Journal"An... -
How to Be a Patriot: Why love of country can end our very British culture war by Sunder Katwala
RRP: €20.22€13.65How do we define patriotism in a diverse society? What divides us and what brings us together? Why do we feel uncomfortable celebrating our country's history? How to be a Patriot offers a new way of understanding our... -
The Churchill Myths by Steven Fielding 9780198851967
RRP: €30.93€26.17This is not a book about Winston Churchill. It is not principally about his politics, nor his rhetorical imagination, nor even about the man himself. Instead, it addresses the varied afterlives of the man and the persistent, deeply located compulsion to... -
Extremism by J. M. Berger
RRP: €19.03€13.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262535878Author J. M. BergerFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
The Assassination of JFK: Minute by Minute by Jonathan Mayo 9781780726274
RRP: €13.08€9.06The acclaimed book by Jonathan Mayo, now available in paperback"Reads like a pacey, page-turning, cold war political thriller." Dermot O'Leary This is the story of JFK's assassination as told from the frontline: it is about the people - from the highest... -
Target Tehran: How Israel Is Using Sabotage, Cyberwarfare, Assassination – and Secret Diplomacy – to Stop a Nuclear Iran and Create a New Middle East by Yonah Jeremy Bob 9781668014561
RRP: €22.60€14.60The remarkable story of how Israel used sabotage, assassination, cyberwar-and diplomacy-to thwart Iran's development of nuclear weapons and, in the process, reshaped the Middle East.Yonah Bob and Ilan Evyatar describe how Israel has used cyberwarfare,... -
The Twittering Machine by Richard Seymour
RRP: €15.46€10.51In surrealist artist Paul Klee's The Twittering Machine, the bird-song of a diabolical machine acts as bait to lure humankind into a pit of damnation. Leading political writer and broadcaster Richard Seymour argues that this is a chilling metaphor for... -
BTEC Tech Award Health and Social Care Student Book Brenda Baker 9781292200927
RRP: €27.48€25.61full coverage of all three components, structured to match the speccontent broken down into 1 hour lessons to help with your planning and deliveryplenty of case studies and examples that students can relate toadditional features including key terms, 'did... -
The Shadow War: Michael Collins and the Politics of Violence by Joseph E.A. Connell, Jnr 9781916137509
RRP: €22.60€18.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916137509Author Joseph E.A. Connell, JnrFormat PaperbackPage Count 440Imprint Eastwood BooksPublisher Wordwell -
The Forging of a Rebel by Arturo Barea
RRP: €17.84€12.45The Forging of a Rebel is an unsurpassed account of Spanish history and society from early in the twentieth century through the cataclysmic events of the Spanish Civil War. Arturo Barea's masterpiece charts the author's coming-of-age in a bruised and...