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The Conundrum of Corruption: Reform for Social Justice by Michael Johnston
RRP: $77.68$68.31This book argues that it is time to step back and reassess the anti-corruption movement, which despite its many opportunities and great resources has ended up with a track record that is indifferent at best. Drawing on many years of experience and... -
Protecting the Ballot: How First-Wave Democracies Ended Electoral Corruption by Isabela Mares
RRP: $63.00$47.92How reforms limiting electoral misconduct completed the process of democratizationBetween 1850 and 1918, many first-wave democracies in Europe adopted electoral reforms that reduced the incidence of electoral malfeasance. Drawing on analysis of... -
Chasing Shadows: A true story of drugs, war and the secret world of international crime by Miles Johnson 9780349128641
RRP: $52.50$35.24LONGLISTED FOR THE CRIME WRITERS' ASSOCIATION 2024 ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTIONSHORTLISTED FOR BEST NEW AUTHOR AT THE 2024 TRUE CRIME AWARDS'Read this powerful book by Miles Johnson right now. It will make you realise that what we call terrorism is... -
The Panama Papers: Breaking the Story of How the Rich and Powerful Hide Their Money by Frederik Obermaier
RRP: $23.08$16.32From the winners of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting 11.5 million documents sent through encrypted channels. The secret records of 214,000 offshore companies. The largest data leak in history. In early 2015, an anonymous... -
The Fire of the Dragon: China’s New Cold War by Ian Williams 9781780278759
RRP: $27.28$17.98Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize 2023 As seen in The Times, Sunday Times, Spectator, and on Tonight with Andrew Marr (LBC) Under President Xi Jinping, China's global ambitions have taken a dangerous new turn. Bullying and intimidation have replaced... -
Political Corruption in Africa: Extraction and Power Preservation by Inge Amundsen
$209.18Analysing political corruption as a distinct but separate entity from bureaucratic corruption, this timely book separates these two very different social phenomena in a way that is often overlooked in contemporary studies. Chapters argue that political... -
Shadow State: Murder, Mayhem and Russia's Remaking of the West by Luke Harding
RRP: $27.28$17.98**Pre-order INVASION: RUSSIA'S BLOODY WAR AND UKRAINE'S FIGHT FOR SURVIVAL now**FROM THE AWARD-WINNING JOURNALIST and #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF COLLUSION A gripping investigative account of how Russia's spies helped elect Donald Trump,... -
A Very English Scandal: Now a Major BBC Series Starring Hugh Grant by John Preston
RRP: $23.08$16.32The bestselling book that inspired the Bafta-winning BBC dramaCorruption. Blackmail. Conspiracy to murder. A Very English Scandal has all the hallmarks of a classic thriller with one difference. It's all true.In the late 1960s Jeremy Thorp, the... -
Understanding Corruption by Dan Hough
RRP: $48.28$45.11Corruption takes many different forms and the systems that enable it are complex and challenging. To best understand corruption, one needs to examine how it operates in practice. Understanding Corruption tells the story of how corruption happens in the... -
Truth to Power: My Three Years Inside Eskom by Andre de Ruyter 9781776390625
RRP: $35.68$25.79When Andre de Ruyter took over as Eskom CEO in January 2020, he quickly realised why it was considered the toughest job in South Africa. Aside from neglected equipment, ageing power stations and an eroded skills base, he discovered that... -
The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War by Craig Whitlock
RRP: $27.28$17.18A Washington Post Best Book of 2021 The #1 New York Times bestselling investigative story of how three successive presidents and their military commanders deceived the public year after year about America's longest war, foreshadowing the Taliban's... -
Presstitutes Embedded in the Pay of the CIA: A Confession from the Profession by Dr. Udo Ulfkotte
RRP: $58.78$37.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781615770175Author Dr. Udo UlfkotteFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Progressive PressPublisher Progressive PressWeight(grams) 456g -
Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth by Rachel Maddow
RRP: $27.28$19.09**THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**A ground-breaking investigation into the oil and gas industry, international corruption and world politics. Oil. Corrupt? Yes. Unimaginably lucrative? Of course. But, the enemy of democracy? Blowout is the oil and gas... -
What Is Populism? by Jan-Werner Muller
RRP: $20.98$14.93'This lucid guide is essential reading' GuardianFrom Donald Trump to Recep Erdogan, populists are on the rise across the globe. But what exactly is populism? Should everyone who criticizes Wall Street or Washington be called a populist? What precisely is... -
The Laundromat: Inside the Panama Papers Investigation of Illicit Money Networks and the Global Elite by Jake Bernstein
RRP: $35.68$25.79Now a Major Motion Picture The Laundromat from Director Steven Soderbergh, starring Meryl Streep, Gary Oldman, and Antonio Banderas.The two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jake Bernstein takes us inside the world revealed by the Panama Papers,... -
Stiff Upper Lip: Secrets, Crimes and the Schooling of a Ruling Class by Alex Renton
RRP: $23.08$15.54'A brave and necessary book' GUARDIAN'Shocking, gripping and sobering' SUNDAY TELEGRAPHNo other society sends its young boys and girls away to school to prepare them for a role in the ruling class.Beating, bullying, fagging, cold baths, vile food and... -
Kitson's Irish War: Mastermind of the Dirty War in Ireland by David Burke 9781781177983
RRP: $44.08$24.38Only a few now bother to deny that a 'dirty war' took place in Northern Ireland during the 'Troubles'. It began with the arrival of Brigadier Frank Kitson in Belfast in September 1970. He adapted many of the counter-insurgency tactics he had developed in... -
Putin's Counterrevolution by Sergey Aleksashenko
$25.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815732761Author Sergey AleksashenkoFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams)... -
What You Should Know about Politics . . . But Don't, Fourth Edition: A Nonpartisan Guide to the Issues That Matter by Jessamyn Conrad
RRP: $35.68$24.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950691258Author Jessamyn ConradFormat PaperbackPage Count 408Imprint Arcade PublishingPublisher Arcade PublishingWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 226mm *... -
American Exception: Empire and the Deep State by Aaron Good 9781510769137
RRP: $62.98$52.50American Exception seeks to explain the breakdown of US democracy. In particular, how we can understand the uncanny continuity of American foreign policy, the breakdown of the rule of law, and the extreme concentration of wealth and power into an... -
It's Our Turn to Eat by Michela Wrong
RRP: $27.28$17.81A gripping account of both an individual caught on the horns of an excruciating moral dilemma and a continent at a turning point. When Michela Wrong's Kenyan friend John Githongo appeared one cold February morning on the doorstep of her London... -
The January 6 Report by The January 6th Committee
RRP: $31.48$21.21The instant #1 New York Times bestsellerThe official report and findings of the bipartisan Congressional investigation into the January 6 attack on the Capitol, and Donald Trump's related coup conspiracies to overthrow the election, with an original... -
The Wikileaks Files: The World According to US Empire by WikiLeaks
$74.78WikiLeaks came to prominence in 2010 with the release of 251,287 top-secret State Department cables, which revealed to the world what the US government really thinks about national leaders, friendly dictators, and supposed allies. It brought to the... -
Revenge: How Donald Trump Weaponized the US Department of Justice Against His Critics by Michael Cohen
RRP: $52.50$34.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781685890544Author Michael CohenFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House Publishing -
In the Closet of the Vatican by Frederic Martel 9781472966186
RRP: $33.58$18.04The New York Times Bestseller - Revised and Expanded "[An] earth-shaking expose of clerical corruption" - National Catholic Reporter The arrival of Frederic Martel's In the Closet of the Vatican, published worldwide in eight languages, sent... -
Plunder of the Commons: A Manifesto for Sharing Public Wealth by Guy Standing
RRP: $23.08$16.32'One of the most important books I've read in years' Brian EnoWe are losing the commons. Austerity and neoliberal policies have depleted our shared wealth; our national utilities have been sold off to foreign conglomerates, social housing is almost... -
Architects of Terror: Paranoia, Conspiracy and Anti-Semitism in Franco’s Spain by Paul Preston 9780008522155
RRP: $27.28$17.81A TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR From the preeminent historian of 20th century Spain Paul Preston, Architects of Terror is a new history of how paranoia, conspiracy and anti-Semitism was used to justify the military coup of 1936 and enabled the... -
The Finance Curse: How global finance is making us all poorer by Nicholas Shaxson
RRP: $20.98$14.93This is a book that none of us can afford to ignore - an agenda-setting, campaigning investigation that shows how global finance works for the few and not the many.** A Financial Times Book of the Year **'Essential reading' YANIS VAROUFAKISWe need... -
The The Trap: What it is, how is works, and how we escape its illusions by David Icke 9781838415327
RRP: $31.50$26.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838415327Author David IckeFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint David Icke BooksPublisher David Icke Books -
I Didn't Do It For You: How the World Used and Abused a Small African Nation by Michela Wrong
RRP: $35.68$24.09One small East African country embodies the battered history of the continent: patronised by colonialists, riven by civil war, confused by Cold War manoeuvring, proud, colorful, with Africa's best espresso and worst rail service. Michela Wrong... -
Watergate: The Hidden History: Nixon, The Mafia, and The CIA by Lamar Waldron
RRP: $52.48$36.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619021624Author Lamar WaldronFormat PaperbackPage Count 816Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint -
The Button: The New Nuclear Arms Race and Presidential Power from Truman to Trump by William J. Perry 9781948836999
RRP: $41.98$35.76The President has the power to end the world in minutes. Right now, no one can stop him. Since the Truman administration, America has been one "push of a button" away from nuclear war-a decision that rests solely in the hands of the President. Without... -
Servants of the Damned: giant law firms and the corruption of justice by David Enrich
RRP: $42.00$28.27A long-overdue expose of the astonishing yet shadowy power wielded by the world's largest law firms. Though not a household name, Jones Day is well known in the halls of power, and serves as a powerful encapsulation of the changes that have swept the... -
Trust the Plan: The Rise of QAnon and the Conspiracy That Reshaped the World by Will Sommer
RRP: $42.00$28.01'Detailed and impeccably researched. Eye-opening' GUARDIAN 'Punchy and well-reported. Sommer is the perfect person to tell this story' NEW YORK TIMES How did a conspiracy theory reshape global politics? How did it tear... -
Pegasus: The Story of the World's Most Dangerous Spyware by Laurent Richard
RRP: $42.00$30.01'A must-read' - New ScientistThe gripping, behind-the scenes story of one of the most sophisticated surveillance weapons ever created - and an existential threat to democracy and human rights.'Absorbing . . . a celebration of journalism' - The... -
Democracy for Sale: Dark Money and Dirty Politics by Peter Geoghegan 9781789546033
RRP: $31.48$28.25The Sunday Times bestseller. 'A compulsively readable, carefully researched account of how a malignant combination of rightwing ideology, secretive money (much of it from the US) and weaponisation of social media have shaped contemporary British (and... -
Laptop from Hell: Hunter Biden, Big Tech, and the Dirty Secrets the President Tried to Hide by Miranda Devine
RRP: $42.00$27.01As seen on Tucker Carlson Tonight! USA Today and Wall Street Journal Bestseller! The inside story of the laptop that exposed the president's dirtiest secret.When a drug-addled Hunter Biden abandoned his waterlogged computer at a Mac repair shop in... -
Parliament Ltd: A journey to the dark heart of British politics by Martin Williams
RRP: $23.08$9.64'Eye-popping analysis of politicians' finances... a ground-breaking study... a fascinating and important work.' Sunday Times'Immaculately researched... A powerful reminder that reporters can serve the public good... Should make journalists proud - and... -
Bean Counters: The Triumph of the Accountants and How They Broke Capitalism by Richard Brooks
RRP: $27.28$17.98'A devastating expose.' Mail on SundayThey helped cause the 2008 financial crash.They created a global tax avoidance industry.They lurk behind the scenes at every level of government...The world's 'Big Four' accountancy firms - PwC, Deloitte, Ernst &... -
Riot Days by Maria Alyokhina
RRP: $23.08$16.32From activist, Pussy Riot member and freedom fighter Maria Alyokhina, a raw, hallucinatory, passionate account of her arrest, trial and imprisonment in Siberian jail for standing up for what she believed in.'One of the most brilliant and inspiring things...