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The Anarchic Sea: Maritime Security in the Twenty-First Century by Dave Sloggett 9781849041003
RRP: €77.35€68.32Maritime security covers many issues including disputes over ownership of the continental shelf and of the boundaries of Exclusive Economic Zones, as well as protecting citizens from ballistic missile attacks using sea-based platforms and the... -
Self Defense: A Philosophy of Violence by Elsa Dorlin 9781839761058
RRP: €21.41€17.70Is violent self-defense ethical? In the history of colonialism, racism, sexism, capitalism, there has long been a dividing line between bodies "worthy of defending" and those who have been disarmed and rendered defenseless. In 1685, for example, ... -
Dangerous Ideas: A Brief History of Censorship in the West, from the Ancients to Fake News by Eric Berkowitz 9781908906427
RRP: €23.80€16.36The urge to censor is as old as the urge to speak. From the first Chinese emperor's wholesale elimination of books to the Vatican's suppression of pornography from its own collection, and on to the attack on Charlie Hebdo and the advent of Internet troll... -
Pakistan's Nuclear Bomb: A Story of Defiance, Deterrence, and Deviance by Hassan Abbas
RRP: €29.75€26.22This book provides a comprehensive account of the mysterious story of Pakistan's attempt to develop nuclear weapons in the face of severe odds. Hassan Abbas profiles the politicians and scientists involved, and the role of China and Saudi Arabia in... -
I Want to Believe: Posadism, UFOs and Apocalypse Communism A.M. Gittlitz 9780745340777
RRP: €23.79€15.89Advocating nuclear war, attempting communication with dolphins and taking an interest in the paranormal and UFOs, there is perhaps no greater (or stranger) cautionary tale for the Left than that of Posadism. Named after the Argentine Trotskyist J... -
Gerrard Winstanley: The Digger's Life and Legacy John Gurney (Newcastle University) 9780745331836
RRP: €29.74€19.49Christian Communist, leader of the Diggers movement and bete noire of the landed aristocracy, Gerard Winstanley (1609-1676) was one of the founders of a movement which fought for the redistribution of land and the abolition of wages and property under... -
Political Visions & Illusions: A Survey & Christian Critique of Contemporary Ideologies by David T. Koyzis
RRP: €33.31€23.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830852420Author David T. KoyzisFormat PaperbackPage Count 330Imprint IVP AcademicPublisher IVP AcademicWeight(grams) 462gDimensions(mm) 227mm * 153mm *... -
China Witness: Voices from a Silent Generation by Xinran
RRP: €20.22€14.61China Witness is the personal testimony of a generation whose stories have not yet been told. Here the grandparents and great-grandparents of today sum up in their own words - for the first and perhaps the last time - the vast changes that have overtaken... -
This Is an Uprising: How Nonviolent Revolt Is Shaping the Twenty-First Century Mark Engler 9781568585703
RRP: €17.84€11.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781568585703Author Mark EnglerFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Avalon Publishing GroupPublisher Avalon Publishing GroupWeight(grams) 330gDimensions(mm)... -
The War That Doesn't Say Its Name: The Unending Conflict in the Congo by Jason K. Stearns
RRP: €33.32€25.94Why violence in the Congo has continued despite decades of international intervention Well into its third decade, the military conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been dubbed a "forever war"-a perpetual cycle of war, civil unrest, and... -
A Rebel's Guide To James Connolly by Sean Mitchell 9781910885086
RRP: €3.57€3.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910885086Author Sean MitchellFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Bookmarks PublicationsPublisher Bookmarks PublicationsWeight(grams) 51g -
Science, Strategy and War: The Strategic Theory of John Boyd by Frans P. B. Osinga
RRP: €53.54€46.74John Boyd is often known exclusively for the so-called 'OODA' loop model he developed. This model refers to a decision-making process and to the idea that military victory goes to the side that can complete the cycle from observation to action the... -
Hannah Arendt and Isaiah Berlin: Freedom, Politics, and Humanity by Kei Hiruta
RRP: €45.22€36.19For the first time, the full story of the conflict between two of the twentieth century's most important thinkers-and the lessons their disagreements continue to offerTwo of the most iconic thinkers of the twentieth century, Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) and... -
The Magna Carta of Humanity: Sinai's Revolutionary Faith and the Future of Freedom by Os Guinness
RRP: €24.98€17.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830847150Author Os GuinnessFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Inter-Varsity Press,USPublisher InterVarsity PressWeight(grams) 558gDimensions(mm) 236mm... -
What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance by Carolyn Forche
RRP: €13.08€9.25'Astonishing, powerful, so important at this time' - Margaret Atwood (on Twitter) 'Riveting . . . intricate and surprising' - The New York Times 'Reading it will change you, perhaps forever' - San Francisco Chronicle An electrifying memoir set in the... -
War Against the People: Israel, the Palestinians and Global Pacification Jeff Halper 9780745334301
RRP: €23.79€15.89* Shortlisted for the Palestine Book Awards 2016* Modern warfare has a new form. The days of international combat are fading. So how do major world powers maintain control over their people today? This book is a disturbing insight into the new ways... -
Now: Volume 23 by The Invisible Committee
RRP: €16.65€10.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635900071Author The Invisible CommitteeFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Semiotext (E)Publisher AutonomediaDimensions(mm) 178mm * 114mm * 11mm -
Freedom Without Violence by Dustin Ells Howes
RRP: €49.97€44.36There is a long tradition in western political thought suggesting that violence is necessary to defend freedom. But nonviolence and civil disobedience have played an equally long and critical role in establishing democratic institutions. Freedom... -
My Life with the Taliban by Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef
RRP: €20.22€18.22Abdul Zaeef describes growing up in poverty in rural Kandahar province, which he fled for Pakistan after the Russian invasion of 1979. Zaeef joined the jihad in 1983, was seriously wounded in several encounters and met many leading figures of the... -
Post-Truth: The New War on Truth and How to Fight Back by Matthew D'Ancona
RRP: €17.84€8.93Welcome to the Post-Truth era- a time in which the art of the lie is shaking the very foundations of democracy and the world as we know it. The Brexit vote; Donald Trump's victory; the rejection of climate change science; the vilification of immigrants;... -
Vigil: Hong Kong on the Brink by Wasserstrom Jeffrey
RRP: €14.27€9.52On the frontlines of the battle for democracy in ChinaThe rise of Hong Kong is the story of a miraculous post-War boom, when Chinese refugees flocked to a small British colony, and, in less than fifty years, transformed it into one of the great financial... -
Japan's Effectiveness as a Geo-Economic Actor: Navigating Great-Power Competition by Yuka Koshino
RRP: €22.60€20.08Geo-economic strategy - deploying economic instruments to secure foreign-policy aims and to project power - has long been a key element of statecraft. In recent years, it has acquired even greater salience given China's growing antagonism with the United... -
The Provisional IRA: From Insurrection to Parliament Tommy McKearney 9780745330747
RRP: €29.74€19.49This book analyses the underlying reasons behind the formation of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), its development, where this current in Irish republicanism is at present and its prospects for the future. Tommy McKearney, a former IRA... -
A People's History of the Russian Revolution Neil Faulkner 9780745399034
RRP: €20.22€13.73The Russian Revolution may well be the most misunderstood event in modern history. In this fast-paced introduction, Neil Faulkner debunks the myths that continue to shroud it, showing how a mass movement of millions, organised in democratic assemblies,... -
The Fight for Scottish Democracy: Rebellion and Reform in 1820 Murray Armstrong 9780745341330
RRP: €20.22€13.73Three Scottish weavers, James Wilson, Andrew Hardie and John Baird, were hanged and beheaded for high treason in the summer of 1820. Nineteen more men were transported to the penal colony of Botany Bay. Their crime? To have taken up arms against a... -
Understanding Land Warfare by Christopher Tuck
RRP: €42.83€37.71This textbook provides a thorough grounding in the vocabulary, concepts, issues and debates associated with modern land warfare. The second edition has been updated and revised, and includes new chapters on non-western perspectives and hybrid warfare... -
Global Sociology and the Struggles for a Better World: Towards the Futures We Want by Markus S. Schulz
RRP: €15.46€13.15The contemporary world has reached a pivotal moment of escalating injustices and apocalyptic risks, but also of unprecedented opportunities. Mounting pressures of social and ecological problems are met by a confluence of intellectual trends that allow... -
I Love Russia: Reporting from a Lost Country by Elena Kostyuchenko 9781847927705
RRP: €20.22€15.83To be a journalist is to tell the truth. I Love Russia is Elena Kostyuchenko's fearless attempt to document Russia as experienced by those whom it systematically and brutally erases: village girls recruited into sex work, queer people in the outer... -
Social Warming: The Dangerous and Polarising Effects of Social Media by Charles Arthur
RRP: €20.22€13.89'Witty, rigorous, and as urgent as a fire alarm' Dorian Lynskey 'Cooly prosecutorial' Guardian Nobody meant for this to happen. Facebook didn't mean to facilitate a genocide. Twitter didn't want to be used to harass women. YouTube never... -
Mad Men & Bad Men: What Happened When British Politics Met Advertising by Sam Delaney 9780571312382
€7.31How did a bunch of unelected, unaccountable admen end up running British politics? Sam Delaney wanted to find out more about the strange relationship between British politics and advertising. What happened when a rag-tag band of scruffs and... -
Nightmarch: Among India's Revolutionary Guerrillas by Alpa Shah 9781849049900
RRP: €29.75€26.22In one of the world's most intractable and under-reported rebellions, the Naxalites have been engaged in a decades-long battle with the Indian state. Presented in the media as a deadly terrorist group, the movement is made up of Marxist ideologues and... -
Propaganda, Power and Persuasion: From World War I to Wikileaks by David Welch 9781784533571
RRP: €28.55€28.32Propaganda came of age in the Twentieth Century. The development of mass- and multi-media offered a fertile ground for propaganda while global conflict provided the impetus needed for its growth. Propaganda has however become a portmanteau word, which... -
Humanity by Weiwei Ai 9780691181523
RRP: €13.08€10.33Writings on human life and the refugee crisis by the most important political artist of our timeAi Weiwei (b. 1957) is widely known as an artist across media: sculpture, installation, photography, performance, and architecture. He is also one of the... -
Nestor Makhno and Rural Anarchism in Ukraine, 1917-1921 by Colin Darch
RRP: €23.79€18.75Histories of the Russian Revolution often present the Bolshevik seizure of power in 1917 as the central event, neglecting the diverse struggles of urban and rural revolutionaries across the heartlands of the Russian Empire. This book takes as its subject... -
The Choice by Claire Wade
RRP: €11.89€8.52'Electrifying' Christina Dalcher, Sunday Times Bestselling author of VOX'A cleverly woven tale' The Times*WINNER OF THE EAST ANGLIAN BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION 2020*Imagine a world where...Everything you ate was monitored by the government.Every step you... -
Chain of Command by Seymour M Hersh 9780060955373
RRP: €14.27€13.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060955373Author Seymour M HershFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
Democracies and Authoritarian Regimes by Andrea Kendall-Taylor
RRP: €38.07€34.39Democracies and Authoritarian Regimes provides a broad, accessible overview of the key institutions and political dynamics in democracies and dictatorships, enabling students to assess the benefits and risks associated with democracy, and the growing... -
Wrestling with the Devil: A Prison Memoir by Ngugi wa Thiong'o
RRP: €13.08€9.25Ngugi wa Thiong'o's powerful prison memoir begins half an hour before his release on 12 December 1978. A year earlier, he recalls, armed police arrived at his home and took him to Kenya's Kamiti Maximum Security Prison. There, Ngugi lives in a block... -
Sharpeville: An Apartheid Massacre and its Consequences by Tom Lodge 9780199642441
RRP: €20.22€15.40On 21 March 1960 several hundred black Africans were injured and 69 killed when South African police opened fire on demonstrators in the township of Sharpeville, protesting against the Apartheid regime's racist 'pass' laws. The Sharpeville Massacre, as... -
Are Cops Racist? by Heather MacDonald 9781566638678
RRP: €17.84€13.88False charges of racial profiling threaten to obliterate the crime-fighting gains of the last decade, especially in America's inner cities. This is the message of Heather Mac Donald's new book, in which she brings her special brand of tough and honest...