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Water: A Biography by Giulio Boccaletti 9780525566007
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525566007Author Giulio BoccalettiFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA Inc -
The Changing of the Guard: the British army since 9/11 by Simon Akam 9781913348489
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.07A TLS and a Prospect Book of the Year A revelatory, explosive new analysis of the military today. Over the first two decades of the twenty-first century, Britain has changed enormously. During this time, the British Army fought two campaigns, in Iraq... -
Follow the Pipelines: Uncovering the Mystery of a Lost Spy and the Deadly Politics of the Great Game for Oil by Charlotte Dennett
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £9.99'Charlotte Dennett has written an excellent book summarizing the geopolitics of the Middle East historically through to current events. . . . This is an amazing piece of historical writing. . . . Students, foreign affairs "experts" and officials should... -
Suharto's Cold War: Indonesia, Southeast Asia, and the World by Mattias Fibiger 9780197667224
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £28.20After the murder of senior generals in the Indonesian army by elements of the country's communist party in 1965, General Suharto orchestrated the mass killing of some half a million leftists and fellow travelers. But his ambitions spanned far beyond... -
Z Generation: Into the Heart of Russia's Fascist Youth by Ian Garner
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.56How did Vladimir Putin win Russians' support for his genocidal war in Ukraine and why are so many of them willing to embrace fascism? This vivid, bottom-up narrative reveals the dark realities of youth fascism in Russia-and the darker future awaiting the... -
PostCapitalism: A Guide to Our Future by Paul Mason 9780141975290 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.69'The most important book about our economy and society to be published in my lifetime' Irvine WelshFrom Paul Mason, the award-winning Channel 4 presenter, Postcapitalism is a guide to our era of seismic economic change, and how we can build a more equal... -
PostCapitalism: A Guide to Our Future by Paul Mason
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'The most important book about our economy and society to be published in my lifetime' Irvine WelshFrom Paul Mason, the award-winning Channel 4 presenter, Postcapitalism is a guide to our era of seismic economic change, and how we can build a more equal... -
Policy of Deceit: Britain and Palestine, 1914-1939 by Peter Shambrook 9780861546329
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £24.11'Policy of Deceit is the work of a lifetime, a forensic, fair-minded examination of the Hussein-McMahon correspondence that exposes how the British government broke its promises to the people of Palestine.' The Times Literary Supplement, Books of the... -
The Last Days of the Ottoman Empire by Ryan Gingeras 9780241444320
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £23.60'Impressive ... It is a complicated story that still reverberates, and Gingeras narrates it with lucid authority' New StatesmanThe story of the fall of the Ottoman Empire, published to coincide with the centenary of its dissolutionThe Ottoman Empire had... -
Shadows At Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century by Joya Chatterji 9781847925497
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.99**LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024**'A classic ... wonderfully enjoyable' WILLIAM DALRYMPLEThis is the authoritative history of South Asia in the 20th century.Shadows at Noon tells the subcontinent's story from the British Raj... -
The Naked Diplomat: Understanding Power and Politics in the Digital Age by Tom Fletcher
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.25Previously published as Naked Diplomacy. Who will be in power in the 21st century? Governments? Big business? Internet titans? And how do we influence the future? Digital technology is changing power at a... -
Never Give an Inch: Fighting for the America I Love by Mike Pompeo
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £13.60A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFormer Secretary of State Mike Pompeo spearheaded the Trump Administration's most significant foreign policy breakthroughs. Now, he reveals how he did it, and how it could happen again.As the only four-year national security... -
Britain's Europe: A Thousand Years of Conflict and Cooperation by Brendan Simms
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'Dazzling ... a trenchant, provocative account of the intimate relations of Britain and Europe and how each shaped the other' Prospect Magazine'Elegant, refreshing and wide-ranging ... this is essentially a brief history of the UK but a deliciously... -
Pinochet in Piccadilly by Andy Beckett
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02In October 1998, the erstwhile Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet was arrested in London, charged with crimes against humanity by a Spanish magistrate. But over the 16 months that Pinochet was detained, intriguing questions went unanswered about... -
After the Flying Saucers Came: A Global History of the UFO Phenomenon by Greg Eghigian 9780190869878
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £21.15Roswell, 1947. Washington, DC, 1952. Quarouble, 1954. New Hampshire, 1961. Pascagoula, 1973. Petrozavodsk, 1977. Copley Woods, 1983. Explore how sightings of UFOs and aliens seized the world's attention and discover what the fascination with flying... -
The Struggle for Taiwan: A History by Sulmaan Wasif Khan 9780241674857
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.60A gripping account of the past and future of TaiwanIn the overwhelming chaos across Asia at the end of the Second World War, one relatively minor issue was the future of the Japanese colony of Taiwan, a large island some one hundred miles off the coast... -
The Ledger: Accounting for Failure in Afghanistan by David Kilcullen
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.98'These things happened. They were glorious and they changed the world,' said Charlie Wilson, of America's role backing the anti-Soviet mujahideen. 'And then we fucked up the endgame.' With no support for Afghanistan after that war, the vacuum was filled... -
The Revenge Of Geography by Robert D. Kaplan
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812982220Author Robert D. KaplanFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 312gDimensions(mm)... -
The Weaponization of Trade: The Great Unbalancing of Politics and Economics by Rebecca Harding 9781907994722
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.92Trade is being weaponized - and this isn't good. As politicians on both sides of the Atlantic raise the stakes, trade is increasingly a tool of coercion to achieve strategic influence. Although trade, wars and foreign policy have been interwoven... -
City on Fire: the fight for Hong Kong by Antony Dapiran
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.57A long-term resident and expert observer of dissent in Hong Kong takes readers to the frontlines of Hong Kong's revolution. Through the long, hot summer of 2019, Hong Kong burned. Anti-government protests, sparked by a government proposal to introduce a... -
War and Chance: Assessing Uncertainty in International Politics by Jeffrey A. Friedman 9780197619131
RRP: £18.49Booksplease Price: £17.20Uncertainty surrounds every major decision in international politics. Yet there is almost always room for reasonable people to disagree about what that uncertainty entails. No one can reliably predict the outbreak of armed conflict, forecast economic... -
Mad World: War, Movies, Sex by Slavoj Žižek 9781682194492
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.88In a characteristically explosive barrage, Ljubljana's most famous philosopher takes a passionate stance on the war in Ukraine, surveys the latest Hollywood blockbusters, and delivers detonations into a range of contemporary issues, from sexual politics... -
The Status and Recognition of Post-1992 Transnistria: An Investigation of the Case for de jure Independence by Richard Colbey
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £12.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915054302Author Richard ColbeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint The University of Buckingham PressPublisher Legend Press LtdWeight(grams) 500g -
The Russia Conundrum: How the West Fell For Putin's Power Gambit - and How to Fix It by Mikhail Khodorkovsky
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £13.51'I'm a fairly calm fellow; I don't usually get het up about things. But I was, let's say, concerned when I tuned into the Moscow Echo radio station and heard that the Kremlin had put a price on my head. The announcement didn't quite say 'dead or alive'... -
Open: The Story of Human Progress by Johan Norberg
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.34AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEARHumanity's embrace of openness is the key to our success. The freedom to explore and exchange - whether it's goods, ideas or people - has led to stunning achievements in science, technology and culture. As a result, we live... -
Outsourcing Repression: Everyday State Power in Contemporary China by Lynette H Ong
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £22.99A compelling examination of China's engagement of nonstate actors as a counterintuitive solution to coerce citizens while minimizing backlash against the state. How do states coerce citizens into compliance while simultaneously minimizing backlash?... -
Hard Choices: Britain and the New Geometry of Global Power by Peter Ricketts
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £9.03SHORTLISTED FOR THE PARLIAMENTARY BOOK AWARDS'Thought-provoking and well worth reading' Times Literary SupplementAfter decades of peace and prosperity, the international order put in place after World War II is rapidly coming to an end. Disastrous... -
The Geopolitics of Emotion: How Cultures of Fear, Humiliation and Hope are Reshaping the World by Dominique Moisi 9781847924230
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.08Samuel Huntington's landmark book, The Clash of Civilizations, presented a vision of a world divided by cultural differences, national interests, and political ideologies. In The Geopolitics of Emotion, Dominique Moisi brilliantly demonstrates that the... -
Tell Me How it Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions by Valeria Luiselli
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.29A moving, eye-opening polemic about the US-Mexico border and what happens to the tens of thousands of unaccompanied Mexican and Central American children arriving in the US without papers 'We are driving across Oklahoma in early June when we... -
The Globalists & the Islamists: Fomenting the "Clash of Civilizations" for a New World Order by Peter Goodgame
Booksplease Price: £17.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910220122Author Peter GoodgameFormat PaperbackPage Count 181Imprint Omnia Veritas LtdPublisher Omnia Veritas Ltd -
Disunited Nations: The Scramble for Power in an Ungoverned World by Peter Zeihan 9780062913685
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £20.00Should we stop caring about fading regional powers like China, Russia, Germany, and Iran? Will the collapse of international cooperation push France, Turkey, Japan, and Saudi Arabia to the top of international concerns?Most countries and companies are... -
Oil, Power, and War: A Dark History by Matthieu Auzanneau
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.30Catholic Herald Book Awards 2019 Finalist, Current Affairs "Auzanneau has created a towering telling of a dark and dangerous addiction."-Nature The story of oil is one of hubris, fortune, betrayal, and destruction. It is the story of a resource... -
Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy, 1453 to the Present by Brendan Simms
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.42Brendan Simms's formidable, game-changing history of EuropeIn this marvelously ambitious and exciting book, Brendan Simms tells the story of Europe's constantly shifting geopolitics and the peculiar circumstances that have made it both so impossible to... -
Economic War: Ukraine and the Global Conflict between Russia and the West by Maximilian Hess
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £27.34Vladimir Putin's first invasion of Ukraine, in 2014, set off a global economic clash, as the West used its clout with international markets to deter and penalise the Kremlin. The battlelines of this 'war by other means' traversed a series of deep... -
Losing Earth: The Decade We Could Have Stopped Climate Change by Nathaniel Rich
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.77'Nathaniel Rich's account starts in Washington in the 1990s and tells the story of how climate change could have been stopped back then, if only the powerful had acted. But they didn't want to.' - Observer By 1979, we knew all that we know now about the... -
Beware of Small States: Lebanon, Battleground of the Middle East by David Hirst 9780571237425
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.05'Beware of Small States' wrote Mikhail Bukanin in 1870. He could have meant Lebanon: a sectarian state no bigger than Wales that has become battleground for one of the defining conflicts of twentieth-century history. Throughout its short existence, it... -
Things That Can and Cannot Be Said by John Cusack
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.70From the bestselling author of The Ministry of Utmost HappinessAn extraordinary secret meeting between four brilliant political activists: Booker Prize-winner Arundhati Roy, NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden, Pentagon Papers insider Daniel Ellsberg and... -
Megathreats: Our Ten Biggest Threats, and How to Survive Them by Nouriel Roubini 9781529373806
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.85A Financial Times Economics Book of the YearA Times Business Book of the YearA Sunday Independent (Ireland) Book of the Year'People who like horror films will love this book' Financial Times'Forewarned is forearmed. Read and pay attention' Martin... -
Us vs. Them: The Failure of Globalism by Ian Bremmer
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.08IAN BREMMER WAS NAMED LINKEDIN'S #1 TOP INFLUENCER in 2017--------------'Required reading to help repair a world in pieces and build a world at peace' - Antonio Guterres, United Nations Secretary General --------------'Ian Bremmer is provocative,... -
The Three Secret Cities by Matthew Reilly 9781409167181
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.12'More action and hair-raising stunts than you'll find in four Bond movies' EVENING TELEGRAPH'Thrilling, action-packed adventure' GUARDIANDISCOVER THIS WILDLY-ENTERTAINING, GLOBE-TROTTING ADVENTURE FROM INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER MATTHEW REILLY* * * * *What...