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The Prince (Collins Classics) by Niccolo Machiavelli 9780008296506
RRP: $19.02Booksplease Price: $15.09HarperCollins 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... -
The Machiavellian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition by J. G. A. Pocock
RRP: $83.30Booksplease Price: $66.19Originally 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... -
More: Utopia by Saint Thomas More
Booksplease Price: $38.08This is a fully revised edition of one of the most successful volumes in the Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought series. Incorporating extensive updates to the editorial apparatus,... -
Mao: The Unknown Story by Jon Halliday
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $31.04The 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... -
Bill of Rights: The Origin of Britain's Democracy by Jonathan Sumption
RRP: $19.02Booksplease Price: $16.97In 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 Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli 9780486272740
RRP: $7.12Booksplease Price: $6.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486272740Author Niccolo MachiavelliFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Impri -
The U.S. Constitution: A Very Short Introduction by David J. Bodenhamer
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.26Though 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... -
The Federalist Papers by James Madison
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $25.01Written 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... -
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $30.11Niccolo 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... -
The English Constitution by Walter Bagehot
RRP: $21.40Booksplease Price: $15.99'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... -
Utopia by Saint Thomas More 9781853264740
RRP: $14.26Booksplease Price: $11.54With 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... -
How to be a Politician: 2,000 Years of Good (and Bad) Advice by Vince Cable 9781529149661
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $22.51'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... -
Republic Plato 9781853264832
RRP: $14.26Booksplease Price: $11.54Translated 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... -
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed by James C. Scott
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $32.44"One of the most profound and illuminating studies of this century to have been published in recent decades."-John Gray, New York Times Book Review "A powerful, and in many insightful, explanation... -
The Constitution of the United States by Founding Fathers 9780241318492 [USED COPY]
RRP: $9.52Booksplease Price: $4.45Enshrining 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... -
The Constitution of the United States by Founding Fathers
RRP: $9.52Booksplease Price: $8.26Enshrining 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... -
Eight Days at Yalta: How Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin Shaped the Post-War World by Diana Preston
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $24.99Meticulously 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... -
Fascism: 100 Questions Asked and Answered by Oswald Mosley 9781913176341
Booksplease Price: $38.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913176341Author Oswald MosleyFormat HardbackPage Count 58Imprint < -
The Bonfire of the Decencies: Repairing and Restoring the British Constitution by Peter Hennessy 9781913368715
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $29.58The 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... -
Anarchy, State, and Utopia by Robert Nozick 9780465051007
Booksplease Price: $62.90Translated into 100 languages, winner of the National Book Award, and named one of the 100 Most Influential Books since World War II by the Times Literary Supplement , Anarchy, State and Utopia ... -
Common Law & Natural Rights by Ruben Alvarado 9789076660073
Booksplease Price: $23.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789076660073Author Ruben AlvaradoFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint -
Magna Carta: A Very Short Introduction by Nicholas Vincent
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $14.80The 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... -
Plato Respublica by S. R. Slings
Booksplease Price: $71.38This is the first edition of Plato's Republic to be based on an exhaustive examination of all the textual evidence - manuscripts, including papyri; quotations and allusions in ancient authors;... -
Turning Points: Crisis and Change in Modern Britain, from 1945 to Truss by Steve Richards Media Limited 9781035015351
RRP: $52.36Booksplease Price: $37.27The 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... -
The Republic by Plato 9781857150988
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $30.32Although 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... -
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli 9781857150797
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $25.23Born in Florence in 1469, Niccolo Machiavelli was one of the principal secretaries to the Signoria at Florence and undertook diplomatic missions to various courts, before his imprisonment and exile... -
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: $35.70Booksplease Price: $21.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143118107Author Richard BeemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint -
The Prime Minister: The Office And Its Holders Since 1945 by Peter Hennessy
RRP: $47.58Booksplease Price: $34.22In The Prime Minister: the Office and its Holders since 1945, Peter Hennessy explores the formal powers of the Prime Minister and how each incumbent has made the job his or her own. Drawing on... -
The Faber Book of Utopias by John Carey
RRP: $47.60Booksplease Price: $35.41Every age has its utopias, from Plato's Republic to contemporary sci-fi visions. In this spellbinding anthology John Carey charts the course of every conceivable dream world - whether communist,... -
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli 9781853267758
RRP: $14.26Booksplease Price: $9.54Translated by C.E.Detmold. With an Introduction by Lucille Margaret Kekewich.Written in 1513 for the Medici, following their return to power in Florence, The Prince is a handbook on ruling and the... -
The Athenian Constitution by Aristotle 9780140444315
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $20.04Probably written by a student of Aristotle, The Athenian Constitution is both a history and an analysis of Athens' political machinery between the seventh and fourth centuries BC, which stands as a... -
The State: Past, Present, Future Bob Jessop 9780745633053
RRP: $47.58Booksplease Price: $44.60Debates about the role and nature of the state are at the heart of modern politics. However, the state itself remains notoriously difficult to define, and the term is subject to a range of... -
Utopia: A Norton Critical Edition by Thomas More 9780393932461
Booksplease Price: $30.92Based on Thomas More's penetrating analysis of the folly and tragedy of the politics of his time and all times, Utopia (1516) is a seedbed of alternative political institutions and a perennially... -
Chimpanzee Politics: Power and Sex among Apes Frans de Waal (Emory University) 9780801886560
Booksplease Price: $74.95The first edition of Frans de Waal's Chimpanzee Politics was acclaimed not only by primatologists for its scientific achievement but also by politicians, business leaders, and social psychologists... -
Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia by John Gray
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $18.92A prophetic warning against the foolishness of crusades, John Gray's Black Mass challenges our belief in human progress. Our conventional view of history is wrong. It is founded on a pernicious myth... -
The Laws by Plato
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $25.01In the Laws, Plato describes in fascinating detail a comprehensive system of legislation in a small agricultural utopia he named Magnesia. His laws not only govern crime and punishment, but also form... -
The Politicos Guide to the New House of Commons 2015: Profiles of the New MPS and Analysis of the 2015 General Election by Tim Carr 9781849549233
RRP: $47.58Booksplease Price: $37.18In the wake of the most unprecedented election result in recent memory, the question on everyone's lips is: what just happened to the UK's political landscape - and why? And who are the 182 new faces... -
Fears of a Setting Sun: The Disillusionment of America's Founders by Dennis C. Rasmussen 9780691241418
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $36.75The surprising story of how George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson came to despair for the future of the nation they had createdAmericans seldom deify their Founding... -
The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood by Rashid Khalidi 9781851685820
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $21.40At a time when a lasting peace between Palestinians and Israelis seems virtually unattainable, understanding the roots of the longest-running conflict in the Middle East is an essential step in... -
Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism by Perry Anderson
RRP: $49.96Booksplease Price: $32.25Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism is a sustained exercise in historical sociology that shows how the slave-based societies of Ancient Greece and Rome eventually became the feudal societies of the...