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Nadia Comaneci and the Secret Police: A Cold War Escape by Dr Stejarel Olaru
RRP: €29.75€22.82Nadia Comaneci is the Romanian child prodigy and global gymnastics star who ultimately fled her homeland and the brutal oppression of a communist regime. At the age of just 14, Nadia became the first gymnast to be awarded a perfect score of 10.0 at the... -
Hitler: Volume II: Downfall 1939-45 by Volker Ullrich
RRP: €26.18€19.06'Meticulous... Probably the most disturbing portrait of Hitler I have ever read' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday TimesBy the summer of 1939 Hitler was at the zenith of his power. Yet despite initial triumphs in the early stages of war, the Fuhrer's fortunes... -
Anarchy, Geography, Modernity: Selected Writings of Elisee Reclus by Elisee Reclus
RRP: €26.17€17.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604864298Author John P. ClarkFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 338g -
Civic Ideals: Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in U.S. History by Rogers M. Smith 9780300078770
€61.25In this powerful and disturbing book, Rogers Smith traces political struggles over U.S. citizenship laws from the colonial period through the Progressive era and shows how and why throughout this time most adults were legally denied access to full... -
Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet by Matthew T. Huber
RRP: €20.22€17.04The climate crisis is not primarily a problem of 'believing science' or individual 'carbon footprints' - it is a class problem rooted in who owns, controls and profits from material production. As such, it will take a class struggle to solve. In this... -
The St Ives Branch Line: A History by Long, Richard C 9781399002004
RRP: €35.70€26.53In 1963 comic duo Flanders and Swann composed Slow Train - a lament for some of the many railway lines proposed for closure by Dr Beeching. Among the destinations listed in their song is the refrain from St Erth to St Ives . Constructed in 1877 as the... -
Filling the Void: Emotion, Capitalism and Social media Marcus Gilroy-Ware 9781910924945
RRP: €10.70€7.60Filling The Void is a book about how the cultures and psychology of social media use fit within a broader landscape of life under capitalism. It argues that social media use is often a psychological response to the need for pleasure and comfort that... -
Public Policy: A New Introduction by Christoph Knill
€44.29A comprehensive introduction to public policy and the policy cycle, the fully revised second edition of this popular textbook offers a practical guide to the topic while remaining underpinned by cutting-edge research. Bringing together analysis of... -
Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor by Virginia Eubanks 9781250215789
RRP: €23.80€14.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250215789Author Virginia EubanksFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's Press -
The Critical Qur'an: Explained from Key Islamic Commentaries and Contemporary Historical Research by Robert Spencer
RRP: €53.55€36.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781642939491Author Robert SpencerFormat HardbackPage Count 560Imprint Post Hill PressPublisher Permuted PressWeight(grams) 1270gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 183mm... -
Renewable Energy: A Primer for the Twenty-First Century by Professor Bruce Usher
RRP: €20.22€16.24From wood to coal to oil and gas, the sources of energy on which civilization depends have always changed as technology advances. Now renewables are overtaking fossil fuels, with wind and solar energy becoming cheaper and more competitive every year... -
Intellectuals and Society: Revised and Expanded Edition by Thomas Sowell
RRP: €26.18€21.37This much revised and reorganized edition of Intellectuals and Society is more than half again larger than the first edition. Four new chapters have been added on intellectuals and race, including a chapter on race and intelligence. These new chapters... -
Platform Capitalism Nick Srnicek 9781509504879
RRP: €11.89€10.94What unites Google and Facebook, Apple and Microsoft, Siemens and GE, Uber and Airbnb? Across a wide range of sectors, these firms are transforming themselves into platforms: businesses that provide the hardware and software foundation for others to... -
Utopianism: A Very Short Introduction by Lyman Tower Sargent
RRP: €10.70€7.91There are many debates about utopia - What constitutes a utopia? Are utopias benign or dangerous? Is the idea of utopianism essential to Christianity or heretical? What is the relationship between utopia and ideology? This Very Short Introduction... -
War and State Formation in Ancient China and Early Modern Europe by Victoria Tin-Bor Hui 9780521525763
RRP: €36.88€30.29The Eurocentric conventional wisdom holds that the West is unique in having a multi-state system in international relations and liberal democracy in state-society relations. At the same time, the Sinocentric perspective believes that China is destined to... -
The Exform by Nicolas Bourriaud
€16.55Leading theorist and art curator Nicolas Bourriaud tackles the excluded, the disposable and the nature of waste by looking to the future of art-the exform.He argues that the great theoretical battles to come will be fought in the realms of ideology,... -
The Pol Pot Regime: Race, Power, and Genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-79 by Ben Kiernan 9780300144345
RRP: €23.79€20.19This edition of Ben Kiernan's definitive account of the Cambodian revolution and genocide includes a new preface that takes the story up to 2008 and the UN-sponsored Khmer Rouge tribunal. "Deeply detailed, meticulously reported. . . . Important [and]... -
Supply Chain: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review Harvard Business Review 9781647825966
RRP: €20.22€15.16Disruptions in the global supply chain put companies at a standstill.Supply and demand shocks. Labor shortages. International trade wars. As businesses and customers struggle to get the products they need from across the globe, manufacturers must... -
The Unravelling: High Hopes and Missed Opportunities in Iraq Emma Sky 9781782392606
RRP: €15.46€10.47SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2016SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 2015Emma Sky was working for the British Council during the invasion of Iraq, when the ad went around calling for volunteers. Appalled at what she saw as a wrongful war, she... -
No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age by Jane F. McAlevey
RRP: €19.03€17.70The crisis of the progressive movement is so evident that nothing less than a fundamental rethinking of its basic assumptions is required. Today's progressives now work for professional organizations more comfortable with the inside game in Washington DC... -
Foundational Economy: New Edition by The Foundational Economy Collective
RRP: €17.84€13.23The foundational economy is everywhere: from clean water to care homes, schools to hospitals, these vital services were established between 1880 and 1980 to be collectively paid for, collectively delivered and collectively consumed. This essential... -
Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy by Quinn Slobodian
RRP: €29.75€21.44'Gonzo brilliance ... unique and highly entertaining' Financial Times'Revelatory reading' Adam Tooze, author of Crashed'After reading Quinn Slobodian's new book, you are not likely to think about capitalism the same way' JacobinLook at a map of the world... -
The Treaty: The gripping story of the negotiations that brought about Irish independence and led to the Civil War by Gretchen Friemann
RRP: €17.84€15.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785374203Author Gretchen FriemannFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Merrion PressPublisher Merrion Press -
Who Really Owns Ireland?: How we became tenants in our own land - and what we can do about it by Matt Cooper 9780717196012
RRP: €22.60€22.00Leading journalist Matt Cooper examines the key players behind the scenes of Irish property ownership - who really controls the valuable land where we live, work and play and how did they acquire it? Who are the new foreign investors and why are they... -
An Inconvenient Apocalypse: Environmental Collapse, Climate Crisis, and the Fate of Humanity by Wes Jackson 9780268203665
RRP: €22.60€19.90Confronting harsh ecological realities and the multiple cascading crises facing our world today, An Inconvenient Apocalypse argues that humanity's future will be defined not by expansion but by contraction. For decades, our world has understood that we... -
The New Politics of Poland: A Case of Post-Traumatic Sovereignty by Jaroslaw Kuisz 9781526155870
RRP: €29.75€21.32The election of populist far-right party Law and Justice in 2015 marked a shocking break in Polish politics. A period of stability was brutally interrupted as Jaroslaw Kaczynski and his allies took over public media and launched a controversial 'reform'... -
Valences of the Dialectic by Fredric Jameson 9781844674633
RRP: €42.83€29.17After half a century exploring dialectical thought, renowned cultural critic Fredric Jameson presents a comprehensive study of a misunderstood yet vital strain in Western philosophy. The dialectic, the concept of the evolution of an idea through... -
The Presidential Difference: Leadership Style from FDR to Barack Obama - Third Edition by Fred I. Greenstein
RRP: €38.08€34.66Fred I. Greenstein has long been one of our keenest observers of the modern presidency. In The Presidential Difference, he provides a fascinating and instructive account of the presidential qualities that have served well and poorly in the Oval Office,... -
Lectures on the Philosophy of World History by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 9780521281454
RRP: €36.88€32.61An English translation of Hegel's introduction to his lectures on the philosophy of history, based directly on the standard German edition by Johannes Hoffmeister, first published in 1955. The previous English translation, by J. Sibree, first appeared in... -
The Ethics of Influence: Government in the Age of Behavioral Science by Cass R. Sunstein
RRP: €27.37€21.49In recent years, 'nudge units' or 'behavioral insights teams' have been created in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and other nations. All over the world, public officials are using the behavioral sciences to protect the environment,... -
KJV, Life in the Spirit Study Bible, Bonded Leather, Burgundy, Indexed, Red Letter Edition: Formerly Full Life Study by Thomas Nelson 9780310927570
RRP: €53.55€37.14Discover the Biblical Foundations of living a spirit-led lifestyle. The KJV Life in the Spirit Study Bible will help guide you into a Christ-centered, righteous and Spirit-led lifestyle. In a culture that requires believers to depend strongly on God and... -
Burn It Down!: Feminist Manifestos for the Revolution by Breanne Fahs 9781788735391
RRP: €17.84€15.41Burn It Down! is a testament to what is possible when women are driven to the edge. Collecting over seventy-five manifestos from around the world, Burn It Down! is a rallying cry and a call to action. Among this quarrel- some sisterhood, you'll find ACT... -
The Fate of Food: What We'll Eat in a Bigger, Hotter, Smarter World Amanda Little 9781786077875
RRP: €13.08€8.58Is the future of food looking bleak - or better than ever? At a time when every day brings news of drought and famine, Amanda Little investigates what it will take to feed a hotter, hungrier, more crowded world. She explores the past along with the... -
Orwell and Politics by George Orwell
RRP: €15.46€11.11Including Animal Farm'Orwell is the most influential political writer of the twentieth century' New York Review of BooksThroughout his life George Orwell aimed, in his words, to make 'political writing into an art'. This collection brings together the... -
West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum Through Time by Mark Davis
RRP: €19.03€12.91During the eighteenth century the plight of those considered insane was dismal. Many were locked up in madhouses or chained in the workhouse, their illnesses ignored. It was only with the advent of the Industrial Revolution that reform came into place... -
Making Globalization Work: The Next Steps to Global Justice by Joseph Stiglitz
RRP: €13.08€9.51From Nobel Prize winner Joseph Stiglitz, Making Globalization Work gives real, concrete ways to deal with third world debt, make trade fair and tackle global warming. In Globalization and its Discontents Joseph Stiglitz changed the views of the public... -
Subversion: The Strategic Weaponization of Narratives by Andreas Krieg
RRP: €33.32€29.67A penetrating analysis of weaponized information-one of the most pressing dangers to open societies Now more than ever, communities across the world are integrated into a complex, global information ecosystem that shapes the nature of social,... -
Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism by Scott Horton 9781733647342
RRP: €23.79€18.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781733647342Author Scott HortonFormat PaperbackPage Count 332Imprint Libertarian InstitutePublisher Libertarian InstituteWeight(grams) 445gDimensions(mm)... -
Anarchy In Action by Colin Ward 9781629632384
RRP: €19.03€13.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629632384Author Colin WardFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press -
For Britain See Wales: A Possible Future? by Joe England 9781917140287
RRP: €11.90€8.72Sorry no description is available for this book at this time.