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Nightmarch: Among India's Revolutionary Guerrillas by Alpa Shah 9781849049900
RRP: $32.25$27.84In 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... -
On Suicide Bombing by Talal Asad 9780231141529
RRP: $25.80$20.05Like many people in America and around the world, Talal Asad experienced the events of September 11, 2001, largely through the media and the emotional response of others. For many non-Muslims, "the suicide bomber" quickly became the icon of "an Islamic... -
Propaganda, Power and Persuasion: From World War I to Wikileaks by David Welch 9781784533571
RRP: $30.95$28.10Propaganda 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... -
The Routledge Atlas of the Arab-Israeli Conflict by Martin Gilbert
RRP: $42.56$37.62The Routledge Atlas of the Arab-Israeli Conflict traces not only the tangled and bitter history of the Arab-Jewish struggle from the early twentieth century to the present, including the death of Yasser Arafat and recent proposals for compromise and... -
The Greek Revolution: A Critical Dictionary by Paschalis M Kitromilides
RRP: $43.80$35.20Winner of the 2022 London Hellenic PrizeOn the bicentennial of the Greek Revolution, an essential guide to the momentous war for independence of the Greeks from the Ottoman Empire.The Greek war for independence (1821-1830) often goes missing from... -
Pay No Heed to the Rockets: Palestine in the Present Tense by Marcello Di Cintio 9780863569807
RRP: $11.60$8.18Across Palestine, from the Allenby Bridge and Ramallah, to Jerusalem and Gaza, Marcello Di Cintio has met with writers, poets, librarians, booksellers and readers, finding extraordinary stories in every corner. Stories of how revolutionary writing is... -
Democracies and Authoritarian Regimes by Andrea Kendall-Taylor
RRP: $41.27$39.64Democracies 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: $14.18$10.02Ngugi 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... -
International Security Studies: Theory and Practice by Peter Hough 9780367109868
RRP: $46.43$42.17This new and updated edition of International Security Studies provides students with a comprehensive introduction to the subject of security studies, with a strong emphasis on the use of case studies to illustrate theoretical debates.In addition to... -
"As It Is The Truth": by Judge Anna von Reitz by David E Robinson 9781536863055
RRP: $16.71$14.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781536863055Author David E RobinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
Sharpeville: An Apartheid Massacre and its Consequences by Tom Lodge 9780199642441
RRP: $20.63$19.65On 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... -
Return of the Junta: Why Myanmar’s Military Must Go Back to the Barracks by Oliver Slow
RRP: $28.37$24.87On the first day of February 2021, Myanmar's military grabbed power in a coup d'etat, ending a decade of reforms that were supposed to break the shackles of military rule in Myanmar. Protests across the country were met with a brutal crackdown that... -
A Month And A Day: & Letters by Ken Saro-Wiwa 9780954702359
RRP: $12.89$8.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954702359Author Ken Saro-WiwaFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Ayebia Clarke Publishing LtdPublisher Ayebia Clarke Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 220g -
Secret War Heroes by Marcus Binney
RRP: $14.18$9.55Founded by Churchill, Special Operations Executive (SOE) was the forerunner of the SAS, and during WWII they sent many hundreds of specially-trained agents deep undercover in Nazi-occupied Europe. Here Marcus Binney explores the extraordinary stories and... -
Fair Play: The Moral Dilemmas of Spying by James M. Olson 9781597971539
RRP: $24.50$20.70Revolutionary War officer Nathan Hale, one of America's first spies, said, "Any kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary." A statue of Hale stands outside CIA headquarters, and the agency often cites his statement... -
Egyptian Earth by Abdel Rahman Al-Sharqawi 9780863569685
RRP: $12.89$9.02A twelve-year old boy returns to his village from school in Cairo to find the community torn by feud and fear. Working together, the young, old, men and women in the village discover that despite high rents, low wages, a greedy ruling-class, and... -
The Great Recoil: Politics After Populism and Pandemic by Paolo Gerbaudo
RRP: $21.92$14.80In these times of health emergency, economic collapse, populist anger and ecological threat, societies are forced to turn inward in search of protection. Neoliberalism, the ideology that presided over decades of market globalisation, is on trial, while... -
Women, Life, Freedom: Our Fight for Human Rights and Equality in Iran by Nasrin Sotoudeh 9781501776106
RRP: $9.02$7.80The Laurence and Lynne Brown Democracy Medal, presented by the McCourtney Institute for Democracy at Penn State, recognizes outstanding individuals, groups, and organizations that produce innovations to further democracy in the United States or around... -
Nightmarch: Among India's Revolutionary Guerrillas by Alpa Shah
RRP: $19.34$17.20In 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... -
Australia’s Security in China’s Shadow by Euan Graham 9781032707860
RRP: $21.92$19.63Narratives provide the storylines of conflict and in doing so become an arena of conflict themselves. When states mount information campaigns against each other, they are trying to change the narrative. The digital platforms of the new information... -
The Net Delusion: How Not to Liberate The World by Evgeny Morozov
RRP: $14.18$10.02In The Net Delusion: How Not to Liberate the World Evgeny Morozov argues that our utopian, internet-centric thinking holds devastating consequences for the future of democracy. We were promised that the internet would set us free. From the Middle East's... -
Resistance to Tyranny: A Primer by Joseph P Martino 9781450574280
RRP: $23.22$21.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781450574280Author Joseph P MartinoFormat PaperbackPage Count 438Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
Hannah Arendt and Isaiah Berlin: Freedom, Politics and Humanity by Kei Hiruta 9780691226125
RRP: $25.80$20.05For 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... -
32 Counties: The Failure of Partition and the Case for a United Ireland by Kieran Allen
RRP: $21.92$14.89'This is Irish history seen anew, from below, bristling with practical lessons for working-class struggle today' - Eamonn McCann The 32 counties of Ireland were divided through imperial terror and gerrymandering. Partition was borne from a Tory... -
The Struggle Against the State and Other Essays by Nestor Makhno 9781873176788
$12.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781873176788Author Nestor MakhnoFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint AK PressPublisher AK PressWeight(grams) 200g -
The Transparent Traveler: The Performance and Culture of Airport Security by Rachel Hall
RRP: $29.66$25.28At the airport we line up, remove our shoes, empty our pockets, and hold still for three seconds in the body scanner. Deemed safe, we put ourselves back together and are free to buy the beverage we were prohibited from taking through security. In The... -
Nestor Makhno and Rural Anarchism in Ukraine, 1917-1921 by Colin Darch
RRP: $25.79$20.73Histories 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... -
Bread and Roses: Gender and Class Under Capitalism by Andrea D'Atri
RRP: $24.50$16.45Is it possible to develop a radical socialist feminism that fights for the emancipation of women and of all humankind? This book is a journey through the history of feminism. Using the concrete struggles of women, the Marxist feminist Andrea D'Atri... -
William Godwin: A Political Life by Richard Gough Thomas 9780745338354
RRP: $21.92$14.89'Government by its very nature counteracts the improvement of original mind' - William Godwin William Godwin was the first major anarchist thinker in the Anglophone world, who rocked the establishment at the beginning of the nineteenth century... -
Disintegrating Indonesia?: Implications for Regional Security by Tim Huxley
RRP: $32.24$28.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780198516682Author Tim HuxleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Oxford University Press IncPublisher Thomson WestWeight(grams) 210g -
The Occupation: War and Resistance in Iraq by Patrick Cockburn 9781844671649
$26.47In February 2003, Patrick Cockburn secretly crossed the Tigris river from Syria into Iraq just before the US/British invasion, and has covered the war ever since. In The Occupation, he provides a vivid and disturbing picture of a country in turmoil, and... -
Immigration and Freedom by Chandran Kukathas
RRP: $38.70$29.44A compelling account of the threat immigration control poses to the citizens of free societies Immigration is often seen as a danger to western liberal democracies because it threatens to undermine their fundamental values, most notably freedom and... -
The Digital Silk Road: China’s Technological Rise and the Geopolitics of Cyberspace by David Gordon
RRP: $34.82$30.26Concerns about China's ambitions to return to global centre stage as a great power have recently begun to focus on the Digital Silk Road (DSR), an umbrella term for various activities - commercial and diplomatic - of interest to the Chinese government in... -
The Situationist International: A Critical Handbook by Alastair Hemmens 9780745338897
RRP: $36.11$27.83From its foundation in 1957 to its self-dissolution in 1972, the Situationist International established itself as one of the most radical revolutionary organisations of the twentieth century. This book brings together leading researchers on the SI to... -
Mad Men & Bad Men: What Happened When British Politics Met Advertising by Sam Delaney 9780571312382
$7.68How 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... -
One Nation Under Guns: How Gun Culture Distorts Our History and Threatens Our Democracy by Dominic Erdozain 9780593594315
RRP: $36.12$21.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593594315Author Dominic ErdozainFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Crown Publishing Group, Division of Random House IncPublisher Random House USA... -
One State: The Only Democratic Future for Palestine-Israel by Ghada Karmi
RRP: $19.34$12.64'An intelligent, sensitive writer' - Financial Times Palestine has been under attack for three quarters of a century. The 'peace process' that has favoured the two-state solution for more than forty years has now been internationally exposed as... -
Into Siberia: George Kennan's Epic Journey Through the Brutal, Frozen Heart of Russia by Gregory J. Wallance 9781250280053
RRP: $32.24$21.13In the late nineteenth century, close diplomatic relations existed between the United States and Russia. All that changed when George Kennan went to Siberia in 1885 to investigate the exile system and his eyes were opened to the brutality Russia was... -
Advanced Land Warfare: Tactics and Operations by Mikael Weissmann 9780192857422
RRP: $107.07$97.19International politics have become ever more volatile over the last decade, increasing the risk of large-scale military violence. Yet the precise character of future war will depend on a range of factors that relate to adversaries, allies, technology,... -
The Force of Reason by Oriana Fallaci 9780847827534
RRP: $19.29$18.24Throughout her intense career, Oriana Fallaci, one of Italy's most notorious recorders of history, has ignited passionate debate amongst politicians, intellectuals, and ordinary citizens both European and American. The genesis for "The Force of Reason"...