Political Science

'More action and hair-raising stunts than you'll find in four Bond movies' EVENING TELEGRAPH'Thrilling, action-packed adventure' GUARDIANDISCOVER THIS WILDLY-ENTERTAINING, GLOBE-TROTTING ADVENTURE FROM INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER MATTHEW REILLY* * * * *What...

A pioneering treatise on cooperation and reciprocity, from the great anarchist thinker'Don't compete! - competition is always injurious to the species, and you have plenty of resources to avoid it!'In his pioneering 1902 treatise on human cooperation,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909639263Author Sean MatgamnaFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Phoenix PressPublisher Phoenix PressWeight(grams) 384g

Recent events such as the Brexit vote and the 2017 general election result highlight the erosion of traditional class identities and the decoupling of class from political identity. The majority of people in the UK still identify as working class, yet no...

**THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**We're living on the wrong clock. And it's destroying us.'To read it is ... to experience how freedom might feel' Oliver Burkeman, author of Four Thousand WeeksOur life is dominated by the corporate clock that so many of...

15-minute city, noun: 'a city that is designed so that everyone who lives there can reach everything they need within 15 minutes on foot or by bike' Cities define the lives of all those who call them home: where they go, how they get there, how they...

Imagine waking up to the gentle noises of the city, and moving through your day with complete confidence that you will get where you need to go quickly and efficiently. Soft City is about ease and comfort, where density has a human dimension, adapting to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853454762Author Zillah R. EisensteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 394Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U.S.

Water is central to all life, but we use it to destroy. Water can nourish, but we use it to starve. It can cleanse and unify, but we ensure it contaminates and divides. The consequences of continuing to desecrate or beginning to restore water's inner...

** PRE-ORDER LENNY HENRY'S NEW AUTOBIOGRAPHY RISING TO THE SURFACE NOW ** Sir Lenny Henry rang up the Office for National Statistics to confirm something he'd been thinking about for a long time. They told him that only 29.5% of the United Kingdom's...

Shortlisted for the 2014 Samuel Johnson PrizeShortlisted for the 2014 Costa Biography AwardLonglisted for the 2015 Orwell PrizeWinner of the 2014 Political Book Awards Political Biography of the YearRoy Jenkins was probably the best Prime Minister...

Blackstone's Police Operational Handbook: Practice and Procedure is a companion volume to the successful Blackstone's Police Operational Handbook: Law. Offering guidance on good practice in core policing areas, it draws together practical advice across a...

As a concept, deterrence has launched a thousand books and articles. It has dominated Western strategic thinking for more than four decades. In this important and groundbreaking new book, Lawrence Freedman develops a distinctive approach to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911187899Author Claire ShawFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint CONNELL PUBLISHING LTDPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD

A confrontation with the destruction of the Amazon by a writer who moved her life into the heart of the forest. In lyrical, impassioned prose, Eliane Brum recounts her move from Sao Paulo to Altamira, a city along the Xingu River that has been...

A journey through Europe's old towns, exploring why we treasure them-but also what they hide about a continent's fraught history "[A] fascinating chronicle."-Benjamin Balint, Wall Street Journal Historic quarters in cities and towns across the middle...

Religion, Media and Conversion in Iran studies the reception of Farsi Christian television channels by Muslim audiences in Iran: their motivations in viewing the Christian message, their methods of interpretation and negotiation with different media...

Beginning with President Trump's first impeachment and ending with his second, FRANKLY, WE DID WIN THIS ELECTION chronicles the inside-the-room deliberations between Trump and his campaign team as they opened 2020 with a sleek political operation built...

Ilan Pappe has long been a controversial figure in Israel, here; he gives a full account of his break with mainstream Israeli scholarship and its consequences. Growing up in a conventional Israeli community and influenced by the utopian visions of...

Dogs detect scent from a source that is carried to them in a plume by the wind. The most important tool for a detector dog handler to have on searches is a knowledge of scent plume movement or "scent dynamics" (the science of scent movement). Such...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948647731Author Ronald BaileyFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Cato Institute,U.S.Publisher Cato Institute,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644135402Author Bishop Athanasius SchneiderFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Sophia Institute PressPublisher Sophia Institute PressWeight(grams)...

At the age of only 36, Sir Mark Sykes was signatory to the Sykes-Picot agreement, one of the most reviled treaties of modern times. A century later, Christopher Sykes' lively biography of his grandfather reassesses his life and work, and...

Movements that take issue with conventional understandings of autism spectrum disorder, a developmental disability, have become increasingly visible. Drawing on more than three years of ethnographic fieldwork and interviews with participants, Catherine...

A law professor and author teaches non-attorneys how to think like a lawyer to gain advantage in their lives-whether buying a house, negotiating a salary, or choosing the right healthcare. Lawyers aren't like other people. They often argue points that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957655386Author Ingvar RondeFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint MagDig Media LtdPublisher MagDig Media Ltd

'No true Democracy has ever existed, nor ever will exist.'In this selection from The Social Contract, Rousseau asserts that a state's only legitimate political authority comes from its people.One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics...

The subject of international security is never out of the headlines. The subjects of war and peace, military strategy, the proliferation of nuclear weapons and revisionist states remain central to the discussion, but burgeoning concerns such as climate...

Since the start of the Trump era, the United States and the Western world has finally begun to wake up to the threat of online warfare and the attacks from Russia, who flood social media with disinformation, and circulate false and misleading information...

This book describes the theory structure underlying contests, in which players expend effort and/or spend money in trying to get ahead of one another. Uniquely, this effort is sunk and cannot be recovered, regardless of whether a player wins or loses in...

Four separate papers from ABRSM's 2021 Music Theory exams for Grade 8 - Essential practice material for all ABRSM Music Theory exam candidates - Model answers also availableBook InformationISBN 9781786014740Author ABRSMPage Count 36Imprint Associated...

*Winner of the 2020 Lionel Gelber Prize*FINANCIAL TIMES, ECONOMIST, PROSPECT and EVENING STANDARD BOOK OF THE YEAR PICKA landmark book that completely transforms our understanding of the crisis of liberalism, from two pre-eminent intellectualsWhy did the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743244596Author James B. StewartFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 428gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

' Charles Dunst's deeply researched, timely and powerful book offers a blueprint for how democracies should fight back.' - Sir Kim Darroch'Remarkable. A thoughtful and perceptive book.' - Rt. Hon. Jeremy Hunt, MPThe world is currently experiencing the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060088613Author Sebastian JungerFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

The Making of British Socialism provides a new interpretation of the emergence of British socialism in the late nineteenth century, demonstrating that it was not a working-class movement demanding state action, but a creative campaign of political hope...

During the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, while key decisions were debated by the victorious Allied powers, a multitude of smaller nations and colonies held their breath, waiting to see how their fates would be decided. President Woodrow Wilson, in his...

America has already spent close to a trillion dollars on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but there are hundreds of billions of bills still due-including staggering costs to take care of the thousands of injured veterans, providing them with disability...

A New York Times bestseller, "The Dying Citizen is essential reading for any American who cares about the fate of our nation" (Mark R. Levin)Human history is full of the stories of peasants, subjects, and tribes. Yet the concept of the "citizen" is...

The kids are not alright. The Left is waging an all-out battle on the American family, particularly the youngest members. If they can make our children miserable, lead them to question every building block of society, and rebuild their entire concept of...