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'This is a book in the finest tradition of investigative scholarship. The research is awesome...Seale's great strength is his ability to explain the confusing kaleidoscopic nature of Middle Eastern diplomacy. He understands the game being played and also...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788793987142Author Soren Roest KorsgaardFormat PaperbackPage Count 768Imprint Korsgaard PublishingPublisher Korsgaard PublishingWeight(grams)...

This book provides a critical overview of the role of the emotions in politics. Compassion is a politically charged virtue, and yet we know surprisingly little about the uses (and abuses) of compassion in political environments.Covering sociology,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9787119130941Author Xi JinpingFormat PaperbackPage Count 658Imprint Foreign Languages PressPublisher Foreign Languages PressWeight(grams) 1250g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679746492Author Richard Ben CramerFormat PaperbackPage Count 1072Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 703gDimensions(mm)...

Only a decade ago, the notion that museums, galleries and heritage organisations might engage in activist practice, with explicit intent to act upon inequalities, injustices and environmental crises, was met with scepticism and often derision. Seeking to...

Inspiring and practical, BE THE CHANGE is the essential handbook for the budding activist.'Gina Martin is a sensation' The Secret Barrister'Gina Martin's powerful campaigning and vital activism changed the law, making our country safer for women and...

Iain Hampsher-Monk's lucid and accessible history of modern political thought is the introduction which many have been waiting for, providing a thorough guide to the ideas and writings of major political thinkers from Hobbes to Marx (including a full...

This clear, balanced book explores the dilemma of Greece, the font of European civilization. Despite its classical past and EU membership, Greece has been unable to escape the limbo of being nearly developed. Illuminating the impact of borrowed western...

People so often focus on the negative aspects of politics, like greed and corruption, but without politics we would be lost. It frames everything we do, and it has the power to bring about real and positive change. Politics, Andrew Gamble reminds us,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635573879Author Daniel SokatchFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USAWeight(grams) 596g

This paperback bestseller presents a series of case studies and thought-provoking essays arguing for a radical approach to history and providing a revisionist interpretation of the historian's role. In a new introduction written for this edition, Howard...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Pulitzer Prize (General Nonfiction) 1993.Book InformationISBN 9780743299633Author Gary WillsFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsNominated for GoodReads Choice Award 2017.Book InformationISBN 9780804138260Author Chris WhippleFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Prima GamesPublisher Prima...

No one saw it coming. No pundit, no pollster and no political leader predicted David Cameron's Conservative Party would win a majority of seats in Parliament and his three main opponents would resign as party leaders. The consequences of the coalition...

This book examines the European Union's contribution to providing security in Europe amidst an increasingly complex and challenging environment.In this new and comprehensive guide to the EU's role in security since the end of the Cold War, the authors...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781872410050Author John SeymourFormat PaperbackPage Count 235Imprint New European PublicationsPublisher New European Publications

Authoritarian populist parties have advanced in many countries, and entered government in states as diverse as Austria, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, and Switzerland. Even small parties can still shift the policy agenda, as demonstrated by UKIP's role...

This book familiarizes the English-speaking reader with the debate on the originality of Gramsci's thought and its importance for the development of Marxist theory. The contributors present the principal viewpoints regarding Gramsci's theoretical...

The turbulent reign of Stephen, King of England (1135-54), has been styled since the late 19th century as 'the Anarchy', although the extent of political breakdown during the period has since been vigorously debated. Rebellion and bitter civil war...

'The most approachable and exhilarating Latin American writer of our times.' Robert McCrum, ObserverIn the past, culture was a kind of vital consciousness that constantly rejuvenated and revivified everyday reality. Now it is largely a mechanism of...

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Politics is a complex subject, but it doesn't have to be difficult. This book, complete with exercises and answers, forms a course which will take you from beginner or intermediate level to having a firm grasp of the main topics in politics and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061236167Author Aaron CohenFormat PaperbackPage Count 273Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 236g

'The class war is over. But the struggle for true equality has only just begun,' Tony Blair has declared. The world indeed enters the 21st century heaving with poverty and inequality. Just three super-rich men have a net worth equal to the income of the...

When it comes to immigration, the population explosion, the collapse of the family, the north-south divide, devolution, or the death of the countryside, common wisdom tells us that we are in trouble; however, this is far from the truth. In his brilliant...

Though the Arab Spring has reverberated through the Middle East, largely leaving a path of destruction, the relative calm in the United Arab Emirates has offered a regional roadmap for stability. Domestic changes since 2000 have significantly altered the...

More than a century after the publication of Czech politician Tomascaron; Garrigue Masaryk's study The Czech Question, Czech politics instead of the nation's historical struggle for survival and independence has become a pragmatic question of democratic...

'Bernie Sanders has changed US politics forever' Owen Jones The Sunday Times bestseller Bernie Sanders is one of the most influential voices in a global movement fighting injustice. He has dominated two Democratic primary races, and changed the...

Museums and Social Change explores the ways museums can work in collaboration with marginalised groups to work for social change and, in so doing, rethink the museum. Drawing on the first-hand experiences of museum practitioners and their partners around...

One of the great figures of the twentieth century, Chairman Mao looms irrepressibly over the economic rise of China. Mao Zedong was the leader of a revolution, a communist who lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty, an aggressive and distrustful...

We live in a world where questions of truth and of falsehood are left increasingly unattended. Such questions are often replaced by a relativism which allows any group the right to assert their values with impunity. Should, however, stories from an event...

Value pluralism is the idea, most prominently endorsed by Isaiah Berlin, that fundamental human values are universal, plural, conflicting, and incommensurable with one another. Incommensurability is the key component of pluralism, undermining familiar...

In the words of Cornel West, Raymond Williams was 'the last of the great European male revolutionary socialist intellectuals'. A figure of international importance in the fields of cultural criticism and social theory, Williams was also preoccupied...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781963718560Author L Rowand ArcherFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Workbook PressPublisher Workbook PressWeight(grams) 290gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm...

Excellent Cadavers (a term used in Sicily to distinguish the assassination of prominent government officials from the hundreds of common criminals killed in the course of routine mafia business) tells of the remarkable investigation spearheaded by...

David Amess has been at the heart of British politics for over 37 years. He has witnessed unprecedented changes in technology, the economy, parliamentary procedure, the state of the Union and the European Union. In Ayes & Ears he reviews the major...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995635173Author Fred HarrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Land Research TrustPublisher Land Research TrustWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 198mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912475353Author Giorgio AgambenFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint ERISPublisher ERISDimensions(mm) 220mm * 138mm * 11mm

The Scottish independence debate has consequences for Scotland, British politics, the future of the UK - and internationally. In Scotland Rising, Gerry Hassan addresses the key questions in this debate with a deep dive into its history, beyond the...