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US Power in Latin America: Renewing Hegemony by Rubrick Biegon 9780367264888
RRP: $54.17$47.41An original account of contemporary US-Latin American relations, this book utilises neo-Gramscian and historical materialist approaches to build a novel conceptual framework for analysing US hegemony, extending critical theory in new and exciting... -
Jihadists of North Africa and the Sahel: Local Politics and Rebel Groups by Alexander Thurston
RRP: $39.98$29.99Jihadist movements have claimed that they are merely vehicles for the application of God's word, distancing themselves from politics, which they call dirty and manmade. Yet on closer examination, jihadist movements are immersed in politics, negotiating... -
Conspiracies of Conspiracies: How Delusions Have Overrun America by Thomas Milan Konda
RRP: $33.54$32.06Between Pizzagate, QAnon, and the now ubiquitous cries of "fake news," it's tempting to think that we're living in an unprecedentedly fertile age for conspiracy theories. But the sad fact is that these narratives of suspicion-and the delusional... -
Neither Liberal nor Conservative: Ideological Innocence in the American Public by Donald R. Kinder
RRP: $29.67$28.55Congress is crippled by ideological conflict. The political parties are more polarized today than at any time since the Civil War. Americans disagree, fiercely, about just about everything, from terrorism and national security, to taxes and government... -
What's Left Unsaid: My Life at the Center of Power, Politics & Crisis Melissa DeRosa 9781454952336
RRP: $32.25$21.13From the frontlines of the COVID crisis to the real events behind the meteoric rise and unfathomable fall of Governor Andrew Cuomo, one of the most powerful women in New York State government history shares her gripping and candid story for the first... -
Liberty and Coercion: The Paradox of American Government from the Founding to the Present by Gary Gerstle 9780691162942
RRP: $38.70$30.56American governance is burdened by a paradox. On the one hand, Americans don't want "big government" meddling in their lives; on the other hand, they have repeatedly enlisted governmental help to impose their views regarding marriage, abortion, religion,... -
Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty by Dorothy Roberts
RRP: $24.51$14.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679758693Author Dorothy RobertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 283gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
The Plot to Destroy Democracy: How Putin and His Spies Are Undermining America and Dismantling the West by Malcolm Nance
RRP: $21.92$14.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316484831Author Malcolm NanceFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Little, Brown & CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams)... -
The Case Against the Global Economy: And for a Turn Towards Localization Jerry Mander 9781853837425
RRP: $49.01$43.06The greatest political debate of our time is about the blind rush towards a single global economy, its consequences for jobs, democracy, human well-being and cultural diversity, and its impact on the natural world that sustains us. Its effects will be... -
Umbrella Of U.s. Power, The - 2nd Edition: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Contradict by Noam Chomsky 9781583225479
RRP: $6.44$4.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583225479Author Noam ChomskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 77g -
The Hollow Parties: The Many Pasts and Disordered Present of American Party Politics by Daniel Schlozman 9780691248554
RRP: $38.70$26.51A major history of America's political parties from the Founding to our embittered presentAmerica’s political parties are hollow shells of what they could be, locked in a polarized struggle for power and unrooted as civic organizations. The Hollow... -
Class Notes: Posing as Politics and Other Thoughts on the American Scene by Adolph L Reed 9781565846753
RRP: $16.76$11.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781565846753Author Adolph L. Reed, Jr.Format PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint The New PressPublisher The New PressWeight(grams) 269g -
Information Feudalism: Who Owns the Knowledge Economy Peter Drahos 9781853839177
RRP: $49.01$43.06New intellectual property regimes are entrenching new inequalities. Access to information is fundamental to the exercise of human rights and marketplace competition, but patents are being used to lock up vital educational, software, genetic and other... -
Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville 9780553214642
RRP: $9.02$6.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553214642Author Alexis De TocquevilleFormat PaperbackPage Count 976Imprint Bantam Doubleday DellPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group... -
Black Grief/White Grievance: The Politics of Loss by Juliet Hooker 9780691243030
RRP: $36.12$28.12How race shapes expectations about whose losses matterIn democracies, citizens must accept loss; we can't always be on the winning side. But in the United States, the fundamental civic capacity of being able to lose is not distributed equally. Propped up... -
Up from Conservatism: Where the American Right Must Go by Arthur Milikh 9781641772907
RRP: $30.95$20.76The Conservative Establishment's consensus of the past two generations has almost totally broken down. Conservatism was unable to stop or even slow the Left's rolling revolutions in nearly every sector of American society-from classrooms to boardrooms,... -
The Authorised History of British Defence Economic Intelligence: A Cold War in Whitehall, 1929-90 by Peter Davies
RRP: $54.17$47.41This book is the first history of UK economic intelligence and offers a new perspective on the evolution of Britain's national intelligence machinery and how it worked during the Cold War.British economic intelligence has a longer pedigree than the Joint... -
Polarization: What Everyone Needs to Know (R) by Nolan McCarty
RRP: $14.18$10.02The 2016 election of Donald J. Trump invoked a time for reflection about the state of American politics and its deep ideological, cultural, racial, regional, and economic divisions. But one aspect that the contemporary discussions often miss is that... -
The American Political Economy: Politics, Markets, and Power by Jacob S. Hacker
RRP: $32.24$26.69This volume brings together leading political scientists to explore the distinctive features of the American political economy. The introductory chapter provides a comparatively informed framework for analyzing the interplay of markets and politics in... -
Thrown Under the Omnibus by P. J. O'Rourke
RRP: $25.80$18.65'Whether you agree with him or not, P.J. writes a helluva piece.' Richard Nixon P.J. O'Rourke has had a prolific career as one of America's most celebrated humourists. But that career almost didn't happen. As he tells it, 'I began to write for pay in the... -
The Agenda: Inside the Clinton White House by Bob Woodward 9780743274074
$21.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743274074Author Bob WoodwardFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint ScribnerPublisher Simon & Schuster -
Radical American Partisanship: Mapping Violent Hostility, Its Causes, and the Consequences for Democracy by Nathan P. Kalmoe
RRP: $23.22$19.87Radical partisanship among ordinary Americans is rising, and it poses grave risks for the prospects of American democracy. Political violence is rising in the United States, with Republicans and Democrats divided along racial and ethnic lines that... -
Becoming Babasaheb: The Life and Times of Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (Volume 1): Birth to Mahad (1891-1929) by Aakash Singh-Rathore 9789356991217
RRP: $28.37$19.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789356991217Author Aakash Singh-RathoreFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint HarperCollins IndiaPublisher HarperCollins India -
The Penguin Guide to the United States Constitution: A Fully Annotated Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution and Amendments, and Selections from The Federalist Papers by Richard Beeman 9780143118107
RRP: $19.35$11.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143118107Author Richard BeemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 147gDimensions(mm) 188mm * 109mm... -
The Honest Politician's Guide to Prisons and Probation by Roy D. King
RRP: $51.59$45.23Through 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 Natural: The Misunderstood Presidency of Bill Clinton by Joe Klein 9780767914123
RRP: $23.22$16.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767914123Author Joe KleinFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 191gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Why Government Is the Problem by Milton Friedman
RRP: $7.10$6.51The major social problems of the United States-deteriorating education, lawlessness and crime, homelessness, the collapse of family values, the crisis in medical care-have been produced by well-intended actions of government. That is easy to document... -
No, They Can't: Why Government Fails-But Individuals Succeed by John Stossel 9781451640953
RRP: $23.21$15.67New York Times bestselling journalist John Stossel shows how the expansion of government control is destructive for American society.Politicians-and we voters-can dream of guaranteed incomes or green energy. But the mature response to cries of "Yes, we... -
The Letters of John and Abigail Adams by John Adams 9780142437117
RRP: $30.65$23.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142437117Author John AdamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Penguin Random House AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House AustraliaWeight(grams) 397g -
Crimes Against Nature: How George W. Bush and His Corporate Pals are Plundering the Country and Hijacking Our Democracy by Robert F. Kennedy 9780060746889
RRP: $23.21$16.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060746889Author Robert F. KennedyFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
British General Elections Since 1964: Diversity, Dealignment, and Disillusion by David Denver 9780198844969
$39.64This book reviews the history of British general elections since 1964, charting the changes in voters and parties at every step. In parallel, it shows how electoral analysts have responded to these developments. This fully revised and updated edition... -
America's Secret Aristocracy: The Families that Built the United States by Stephen Birmingham 9781493024766
RRP: $18.05$13.98America has always been a constitutionally classless society, yet an American aristocracy emerged anyway-a private club whose members run in the same circles and observe the same unwritten rules. Renowned social historian Stephen Birmingham reveals the... -
Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power by Rachel Maddow 9780307460998
RRP: $20.63$15.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307460998Author Rachel MaddowFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc)Publisher... -
The Brainwashing of My Dad: How the Rise of the Right-Wing Media Changed a Father and Divided Our Nation-And How We Can Fight Back by Jen Senko
RRP: $16.76$14.60After her beloved dad got addicted to right-wing talk radio and Fox News, Jen Senko feared he would never be the same again...Frank Senko had always known how to have a good time. Despite growing up in a poverty-stricken family during the Depression and... -
The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism: The Political Economy of Human Rights: Volume I by Noam Chomsky 9780745335490
$24.56The Political Economy of Human Rights is an important two volume work, co-authored with Edward Herman - also co-author of the classic Manufacturing Consent - which provides a complete dissection of American foreign policy during the 1960s and '70s,... -
The Coming of the American Behemoth: The Origins of Fascism in the United States, 1920 -1940 by Michael Joseph Roberto 9781583677315
RRP: $24.50$20.19Most people in the United States have been trained to recognize fascism in movements such as Germany's Third Reich or Italy's National Fascist Party, where charismatic demagogues manipulate incensed, vengeful masses. We rarely think of fascism as... -
Cooperation and Social Justice by Joseph Heath
RRP: $29.66$25.81In six new essays, philosopher and award-winning author Joseph Heath explores the connection between principles of justice and the institutional arrangements required to achieve them. Topics include the significance of status inequality, the question of... -
The Political Economy of Decentralization in Sub-Saharan Africa: A New Implementation Model in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Kenya, and Senegal by Bernard Dafflon 9780821396131
$40.34For two decades now, experiences in decentralization and federalization have been in progress in many countries, particularly in Sub Saharan Africa. How can these processes be understood and improved? Focusing on four Sub-Saharan countries (Burkina Faso,... -
Interstate: Hitch Hiking Through the State of a Nation Julian Sayarer 9781910050934
RRP: $12.89$8.77Winner of the STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR"This book seems prophetic in the wake of Donald Trump and the current controversy over 'fake news'" Daily Telegraph"One can't help thinking that the future of travel writing lies in this adventurous,... -
The Supreme Court: An Analytic History of Constitutional Decision Making by Tom S. Clark 9781108436939
RRP: $39.98$35.05This book presents a quantitative history of constitutional law in the United States and brings together humanistic and social-scientific approaches to studying law. Using theoretical models of adjudication, Tom S. Clark presents a statistical model of...