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The U.S. Constitution and Other Writings by Editors of Thunder Bay Press
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €20.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684120987Author Editors of Thunder Bay PressPage Count 544Imprint Silver Dolphin BooksPublisher Silver Dolphin BooksWeight(grams) 841gDimensions(mm)... -
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli 9780141442259
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €7.19'A gripping work, and a gripping translation' Nicholas Lezard, GuardianNiccolo Machiavelli's brutally uncompromising manual of statecraft, The Prince is translated and edited with an introduction by Tim Parks in Penguin Classics As a diplomat in... -
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €13.19Niccolo Machiavelli's brutally uncompromising manual of statecraft, The Prince is translated and edited with an introduction by Tim Parks in Penguin Classics.As a diplomat in turbulent fifteenth-century Florence, Niccolo Machiavelli knew how quickly... -
The Prince (Collins Classics) by Niccolo Machiavelli 9780008296506
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €6.74HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. 'We have declared before that it is not only expedient but necessary for a prince to take care his foundations be good, otherwise his fabric will be sure... -
The Machiavellian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition by J. G. A. Pocock
RRP: €38.08Booksplease Price: €27.16Originally published in 1975, The Machiavellian Moment remains a landmark of historical and political thought. Celebrated historian J.G.A. Pocock looks at the consequences for modern historical and social consciousness arising from the ideal of the... -
King John: Treachery, Tyranny and the Road to Magna Carta by Marc Morris
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €13.19The brilliantly compelling new biography of the treacherous and tyrannical King John, published to coincide with the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta.King John is familiar to everyone as the villain from the tales of Robin Hood - greedy, cowardly,... -
Four Chancellors and a Funeral: How to Lose a Country in Ten Days by Russell Jones 9781800183087
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €18.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800183087Author Russell JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint UnboundPublisher Unbound -
Republic by Plato 9780872201361
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €14.24The revised edition of Grube's classic translation follows and furthers Grube's noted success in combining fidelity to Plato's text with natural readability, while reflecting the fruits of new scholarship and insights into Plato's thought since... -
Northern Ireland Government and Politics for CCEA AS Level by Lesley Veronica
Booksplease Price: €16.11This well-researched text was written specifically to address Unit AS1 of the current CCEA Government and Politics AS Level specification. It covers the Government and Politics of Northern Ireland and has been through a meticulous quality assurance... -
Unspoken Politics: Implicit Attitudes and Political Thinking by Efren O. Perez
RRP: €36.88Booksplease Price: €26.16This book explains why people acquire implicit attitudes, how they affect political thinking, and where in the mass public they have their strongest - and weakest - influences. A theoretically ambitious book, Unspoken Politics establishes that implicit... -
Mao: The Unknown Story by Jon Halliday
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €15.14The most authoritative life of Mao ever written, by the bestselling author of Wild Swans, Jung Chang and her husband, historian Jon Halliday.Based on a decade of research, and on interviews with many of Mao's close circle in China who have never talked... -
Bill of Rights: The Origin of Britain's Democracy by Jonathan Sumption
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €7.82In 2017, the Government's attempt to trigger Article 50 and so leave the European Union resulted in a judgement by the Supreme Court, which stated that the Government was unentitled to do so without the consent of Parliament, directly citing the Bill of... -
The New India: The Unmaking of the World's Largest Democracy Rahul Bhatia 9781408717882
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €17.52The New India is the unforgettable account of the struggle between modern forces and ancient ideas to shape the young country's destiny. It reveals a picture of a nation on the precipice of dramatic change.'Remarkable... fascinating... brilliant'... -
Turning Points: Crisis and Change in Modern Britain Steve Richards 9781035015368
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.32The Times - Best Politics and Current Affairs Books of the YearAn entertaining and revealing history of modern British politics - and the pivotal moments that got us where we are now. From Steve Richards, broadcaster, journalist, and author of The Prime... -
The U.S. Constitution: A Very Short Introduction by David J. Bodenhamer
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.32Though the U.S. Constitution was ratified in 1788, its impact on our lives is as recent as today's news. Claims and counterclaims about the constitutionality of governmental actions are a habit of American politics. This document, which its framers... -
The Federalist Papers by James Madison
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.11Written at a time when furious arguments were raging about the best way to govern America, The Federalist Papers had the immediate pratical aim of persuading New Yorkers to accept the newly drafted Constitution in 1787. In this they were supremely... -
Emergency State: The Freedoms We Lost in the Pandemic and How to Get Them Back by Adam Wagner
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €11.40'Superb... authoritative, thoughtful and terrifying in equal measure', The Secret Barrister'Astonishing. Detailed, dispassionate and definitive. An urgent warning and work of major importance', James O'Brien0n 26 March 2020, a new law appeared. In eleven... -
American Kompromat: how the KGB cultivated Donald Trump and related tales of sex, greed, power, and treachery by Craig Unger
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €14.27THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. American Kompromat unravels the Russian-influenced operations that amassed the dirty little secrets of the richest and most powerful men on earth. American Kompromat is based on extended and exclusive interviews... -
The English Constitution by Walter Bagehot
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €7.97'An ancient and ever-altering constitution is like an old man who still wears with attached fondness clothes in the fashion of his youth: what you see of him is the same; what you do not see is wholly altered.' Walter Bagehot's The English... -
Utopia by Saint Thomas More 9781853264740
RRP: €5.94Booksplease Price: €4.47With an Introduction by Mishtooni Bose. More's Utopia is a complex, innovative and penetrating contribution to political thought, culminating in the famous 'description' of the Utopians, who live according to the principles of natural law, but are... -
How to be a Politician: 2,000 Years of Good (and Bad) Advice by Vince Cable 9781529149661
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.11'Always forgive your enemies - but never forget their names.' JFK'What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.' David... -
Liberal Virtues: Citizenship, Virtue, and Community in Liberal by Stephen Macedo 9780198275565
RRP: €121.98Booksplease Price: €103.01Liberal democracy is often defended because it secures freedom, order, and prosperity. Without slighting these solid achievements, Liberal Virtues responds to those who worry that the theory and practice of free self-government neglect the importance of...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:RRP: €121.98Booksplease Price: €103.01Subtotal:€0.00 -
Republic Plato 9781853264832
RRP: €5.94Booksplease Price: €4.47Translated by John Llewelyn Davies and David James Vaughan. With an Introduction by Stephen Watt. The ideas of Plato (c429-347BC) have influenced Western philosophers for over two thousand years. Such is his importance that the twentieth-century... -
The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau 9780140442014
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €8.88'Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains'These are the famous opening words of a treatise that has not ceased to stir debate since its publication in 1762. Rejecting the view that anyone has a natural right to wield authority over others,... -
The Constitution of the United States by Founding Fathers
RRP: €3.57Booksplease Price: €3.26Enshrining the fundamental rights and freedoms of its citizens in law, and curbing the power of those who rule them, the US constitution is one of the most significant documents in the history of democracy. New to Penguin's Little Black Classics series... -
Eight Days at Yalta: How Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin Shaped the Post-War World by Diana Preston
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.32Meticulously researched and vividly written, Eight Days at Yalta is a remarkable work of intense historical drama.In the last winter of the Second World War, Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin arrived in the Crimean resort of... -
India that is Bharat: Coloniality, Civilisation, Constitution by J Sai Deepak
Booksplease Price: €31.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789354352492Author Deepak J. SaiFormat HardbackPage Count 484Imprint Bloomsbury IndiaPublisher Bloomsbury IndiaDimensions(mm) 250mm * 200mm * 50mm -
The Bonfire of the Decencies: Repairing and Restoring the British Constitution by Peter Hennessy 9781913368715
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.58The British constitution matters. Its observance is crucial to the well-being of all our people, to every state activity and deployment of government power. It is crucial to the face our society presents to itself as well as to those who observe us from... -
Clash of Empires: From 'Chimerica' to the 'New Cold War' by Ho-fung Hung
RRP: €20.23Booksplease Price: €17.71Many believe the recent deterioration in US-China relations represents a 'New Cold War' rooted in ideological differences. However, such differences did not prevent the two countries from pursuing economic integration and geopolitical cooperation in the... -
King James VI and I: Political Writings by James VI and I,King
RRP: €35.69Booksplease Price: €32.20James VI and I united the crowns of England and Scotland. His books are fundamental sources of the principles which underlay the union. In particular, his Basilikon Doron was a best-seller in England and circulated widely on the Continent. Among the most... -
Rational Choice and British Politics: An Analysis of Rhetoric and Manipulation from Peel to Blair by Iain McLean 9780198295297
Booksplease Price: €65.45This engaging and original study, by one of Britain's leading scholars of rational choice theory, explores the course of British parliamentary politics over the last 150 years. McLean marries an appealing combination of social science and analytical... -
Against Empire by Michael Parenti 9780872862982
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.05Richly informed and written in an engaging style, Against Empire exposes the ruthless agenda and hidden costs of the U.S. empire today. Documenting the pretexts and lies used to justify violent intervention and maldevelopment abroad, Parenti shows how... -
Common Law & Natural Rights by Ruben Alvarado 9789076660073
Booksplease Price: €11.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789076660073Author Ruben AlvaradoFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint Wordbridge PubPublisher Wordbridge PubWeight(grams) 227g -
Magna Carta: A Very Short Introduction by Nicholas Vincent
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.32The Magna Carta has long been considered the foundation stone of the British Constitution, yet few people today understand either its contents or its context. This Very Short Introduction introduces the document to a modern audience, explaining its... -
The Political Economy of Dictatorship by Ronald Wintrobe
RRP: €47.59Booksplease Price: €40.33Although much of the world still lives today, as always, under dictatorship, the behaviour of these regimes and of their leaders often appears irrational and mysterious. In The Political Economy of Dictatorship, Ronald Wintrobe uses rational choice... -
States and Citizens: History, Theory, Prospects by Quentin Skinner
RRP: €34.50Booksplease Price: €29.61The imminent demise of the nation-state in the face of global capitalism and supra-national agencies like the United Nations has often been predicted, yet in practice the death of the state seems unimaginable: indeed terrorist activity and corporate... -
Turning Points: Crisis and Change in Modern Britain, from 1945 to Truss by Steve Richards Media Limited 9781035015351
RRP: €26.18Booksplease Price: €17.39The Times Best Politics and Current Affairs Books of the YearAn entertaining and revealing history of modern British politics from Steve Richards, broadcaster, journalist, and author of The Prime Ministers We Never Had.'Through wonderful vignettes,... -
Coercion, Capital and European States, A.D. 990 - 1992 Charles Tilly (New School for Social Research) 9781557863683
RRP: €38.02Booksplease Price: €34.12In this pathbreaking work, now available in paperback, Charles Tilly challenges all previous formulations of state development in Europe. Specifically, Tilly charges that most available explanations fail because they do not account for the great variety... -
The Republic by Plato 9781857150988
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €13.74Although Plato's celebrated work of philosophy describes a society which to some seems the ideal human community and to others like a totalitarian nightmare, it also raises enduring questions about politics, art, education and the general conduct of life... -
Capitalism, Jacobinism and International Relations: Revisiting Turkish Modernity by Eren Duzgun 9781009158350
RRP: €30.93Booksplease Price: €28.92This book offers a radical reinterpretation of the development of the modern world through the concept of Jacobinism. It argues that the French Revolution was not just another step in the construction of capitalist modernity, but produced an alternative...