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A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
RRP: €27.36€15.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062397348Author Howard ZinnFormat PaperbackPage Count 784Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)... -
Led by Donkeys: How four friends with a ladder took on Brexit by LedByDonkeys
RRP: €11.90€7.98The official account - complete with full-colour illustrations - of how four ordinary people managed to expose the government's hypocrisies through a nationwide guerrilla advertising campaign.Seeking to highlight the hypocrisy of our politicians on... -
United States of Distraction: Media Manipulation in Post-Truth America (And What We Can Do About It) by Mickey Huff 9780872867673
RRP: €15.46€10.27A powerful critique of how manipulation of media gives rise to disinformation, intolerance, and divisiveness, and what can be done to change direction."Mickey Huff and Nolan Higdon emphasize what we can do today to restore the power of facts, truth, and... -
A Purposeful Life: What I’ve Learned About Breaking Barriers and Inspiring Change by Dawn Butler 9781911709329
RRP: €22.60€14.85'Dawn Butler is a history-making, game-changing, ceiling-smashing politician.This powerful book offers a fascinating insight into both the personal and political sides of her journey.'Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London'When I was younger my parents taught me to... -
The Price of Democracy: How Money Shapes Politics and What to Do about It by Julia Cage
RRP: €38.02€29.83Why and how systems of political financing and representation in Europe and North America give outsized influence to the wealthy and undermine democracy, and what we can do about it.One person, one vote. In theory, everyone in a democracy has equal power... -
How to Stand Up to a Dictator: By the Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize 2021 by Maria Ressa
RRP: €23.80€17.48*BBC RADIO 4 START OF THE WEEK and GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR*WINNER OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE 2021What will you sacrifice for the truth?Maria Ressa has spent decades speaking truth to power. But her work tracking disinformation networks seeded by her own... -
The Age of The Strongman: How the Cult of the Leader Threatens Democracy around the World by Gideon Rachman 9781529113556
RRP: €13.08€9.25**AN ECONOMIST AND THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR**'Essential and definitive' CATHERINE BELTON, author of PUTIN'S PEOPLEWe are in a new era.From Trump, Putin and Bolsonaro to Erdogan, Xi and Modi, self-styled strongmen have become a central feature of global... -
How Will Capitalism End?: Essays on a Failing System by Wolfgang Streeck
€24.73After years of ill health, capitalism is now in a critical condition. Growth has given way to stagnation; inequality is leading to instability; and confidence in the money economy has all but evaporated.In How Will Capitalism End?, the acclaimed analyst... -
The Penguin Book of Historic Speeches by Brian MacArthur
RRP: €17.84€13.03From Moses to Nelson Mandela, speeches have changed the way we see the world and the way the world is shaped.The Penguin Book of Historic Speeches gathers together the world's greatest speeches, bringing together the words of over one hundred men and... -
Profits Over People: Neoliberalism and the New Order by Noam Chomsky
RRP: €16.65€10.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781888363821Author Noam ChomskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 167g -
WTF?: A Times top 10 bestseller by Robert Peston 9781473661318
RRP: €11.89€8.09THE TOP 10 BESTSELLER'Richly argued and brilliantly written... a deeply thoughtful analysis that should be mandatory reading for anyone seeking to understand where we have gone wrong.' Vernon Bogdanor, Financial TimesIn WTF? Robert Peston draws on his... -
Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America by Heather Cox Richardson 9780753560846
RRP: €20.22€14.61** #4 New York Times bestseller **In Democracy Awakening, American historian Heather Cox Richardson examines how, over the decades, an elite minority have made war on American ideals. By weaponising language and promoting false history, they are leading... -
The Populist Moment: The Left After the Great Recession by Anton Jäger 9781804292488
RRP: €13.08€10.64After thirty years of retreat, the last decade has witnessed a resurgent left in the United States and Western Europe. This upsurge of anti-establishment candidates was not only left-wing but also populist. Though in most cases these movements ran out of... -
Democracy When the People Are Thinking P: Revitalizing Our Politics Through Public Deliberation by James S. Fishkin 9780198865186
RRP: €14.86€13.17Democracy requires a connection to the 'will of the people'. What does that mean in a world of 'fake news', relentless advocacy, dialogue mostly among the like-minded, and massive spending to manipulate public opinion? What kind of opinion can the public... -
Democracy for Sale: Dark Money and Dirty Politics by Peter Geoghegan 9781789546033
RRP: €17.84€16.01The 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... -
Democracy in America: And Two Essays on America by Alexis Tocqueville
RRP: €17.84€13.51One of the most influential political texts ever written on America, and an indispensable authority on the nature of democracy In 1831 Alexis de Tocqueville, a young French aristocrat and civil servant, made a nine-month journey through eastern America... -
Who Runs Britain?: ...and who's to blame for the economic mess we're in by Robert Peston
RRP: €13.08€8.81'A compelling portrait of early 21st-century casino capitalism ... essential reading.' - The Times On 13 September 2007, Robert Peston broke the news that Northern Rock had become a victim of the global credit crunch and was seeking an emergency loan... -
No Is Not Enough: Defeating the New Shock Politics by Naomi Klein
RRP: €11.89€8.46**The New York Times and Sunday Times Bestseller**'An ordinary person's guide to hope. Read this book' Arundhati Roy'As accessible as it is brilliant' Owen Jones'A genuine page turner' Michelle Alexander Naomi Klein - award-winning journalist,... -
Global Discord: Values and Power in a Fractured World Order by Paul Tucker
RRP: €41.65€32.38How to sustain an international system of cooperation in the midst of geopolitical struggleCan the international economic and legal system survive today's fractured geopolitics? Democracies are facing a drawn-out contest with authoritarian states that is... -
Reactionary Democracy: Racism, Populism, the Far Right and 'the People' by Aurelien Mondon
RRP: €20.22€17.26Democracy is not necessarily progressive, and will only be if we make it so. What Mondon and Winter call 'reactionary democracy' is the use of the concept of democracy and its associated understanding of the power to the people (demos cratos) for... -
The Global Gamble: Washington's Faustian Bid for World Dominance by Peter Gowan 9781859842713
RRP: €26.17€22.00The collapse of the Soviet Bloc presented policy makers in Washington with a temptation reminiscent of Faust's, opening up vistas of hitherto unimaginable global power; but the cold breath of Mephistopheles is already blowing across devastated... -
Western Europe's Democratic Age: 1945-1968 by Professor Martin Conway 9780691203485
RRP: €47.60€37.29A major new history of how democracy became the dominant political force in Europe in the second half of the twentieth centuryWhat happened in the years following World War II to create a democratic revolution in the western half of Europe? In Western... -
The Buried: Life, Death and Revolution in Egypt by Peter Hessler
RRP: €15.46€10.82'Tenacious, revelatory, and humane.' - Paul Theroux 'The Buried is the kind of book that you don't want to end and won't forget. With the eye of a great storyteller Peter Hessler weaves together history, reporting, memoir, and above all the lives of... -
Freedom: How we lose it and how we get it back by Nathan Law
RRP: €17.84€13.03'Nathan Law's agonising account of China's ruthless takeover of Hong Kong provides a terrible insight into Beijing's ambitions - the world needs to read this.' - Jon Snow 'In Freedom, Nathan Law paints a deeply personal portrait of sheer courage... An... -
From Dictatorship to Democracy by Gene Sharp
RRP: €9.51€6.89From Dictatorship to Democracy was a pamphlet, printed and distributed by Dr Gene Sharp and based on his study, over a period of forty years, on non-violent methods of demonstration. Now in its fourth edition, it was originally handed out by the Albert... -
Conservatism: A Rediscovery by Yoram Hazony 9781684511099
RRP: €26.18€23.79The idea that American conservatism is identical to "classical" liberalism-widely held since the 1960s-is seriously mistaken. The award-winning political theorist Yoram Hazony argues that the best hope for Western democracy is a return to the... -
The Dream of Europe: Travels in a Troubled Continent by Geert Mak
RRP: €15.46€10.57'Mak is the history teacher everyone should have had' Financial TimesFrom the author of the internationally acclaimed In Europe, a stunning history of our present, examining the first two decades of this most fragile and fraught new millennium.How did... -
Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville 9780226805368
€19.86When it was first published in 2000, Harvey Mansfield and Delba Winthrop's new translation of Democracy in America was lauded in all quarters as the finest and most definitive edition of Tocqueville's classic - complete with the most faithful and... -
Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government by Christopher H. Achen
RRP: €29.75€23.30Democracy for Realists assails the romantic folk-theory at the heart of contemporary thinking about democratic politics and government, and offers a provocative alternative view grounded in the actual human nature of democratic citizens. Christopher... -
Ruling the Void: The Hollowing of Western Democracy by Peter Mair 9781844673247
RRP: €16.65€14.41Throughout the long-established democracies of Western Europe, electoral turnouts are in decline, party membership is shrinking in the major parties, and those who remain loyal partisans are being sapped of enthusiasm. Peter Mair's new book weighs the... -
On Politics by Alan Ryan
RRP: €22.60€16.67A magisterial, one-volume history of political thought from Herodotus to the present, Ancient Athens to modern democracy - from author and professor Alan RyanThis is a book about the answers that historians, philosophers, theologians, practising... -
Tribalism and Political Power in the Gulf: State-Building and National Identity in Kuwait, Qatar and the UAE by Courtney Freer 9780755644896
€28.12Gulf societies are often described as being intensely tribal. However, in discussions of state building and national identity, the role of tribalism and tribal identity is often overlooked. This book analyses the political role of tribes in Kuwait, Qatar... -
A Warning by Anonymous
RRP: €23.80€13.86An unprecedented behind-the-scenes portrait of the Trump presidency from the anonymous senior official whose first words of warning about the president rocked the nation's capital.On September 5, 2018, the New York Times published a bombshell essay and... -
Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life by Barbara J Fields
RRP: €13.08€8.63Praised by a wide variety of people from Ta-Nehisi Coates to Zadie Smith, Racecraft "ought to be positioned," as Bookforum put it, "at the center of any discussion of race in American life." Most people assume racism grows from a perception of human ... -
Democracy and Its Crisis by A. C. Grayling
RRP: €13.08€9.25The EU referendum in the UK and Trump's victory in the USA sent shockwaves through our democratic systems. In Democracy and Its Crisis A. C. Grayling investigates why the institutions of representative democracy seem unable to hold up against forces they... -
Manifesto for a Democratic Civilization: Civilization: the Age of Masked Gods and Disguised Kings: Volume 1 by Abdullah Ocalan 9788293064428
€18.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788293064428Author Abdullah OcalanFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Compass PressPublisher Communalism PressWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 226mm *... -
The Athenian Constitution by Aristotle 9780140444315
RRP: €13.08€9.25Probably written by a student of Aristotle, The Athenian Constitution is both a history and an analysis of Athens' political machinery between the seventh and fourth centuries BC, which stands as a model of democracy at a time when city-states lived... -
The Persuaders: Winning Hearts and Minds in a Divided Age by Anand Giridharadas
RRP: €23.80€17.01CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE GUARDIAN, NEW STATESMAN AND THE IRISH TIMES 'Illuminating and entertaining . . . while the world seems to counsel despair, The Persuaders is animated by a sense of possibility' The New York TimesA riveting insider... -
War with Russia?: From Putin & Ukraine to Trump & Russiagate by Stephen F. Cohen 9781510755468
RRP: €15.46€9.73Prescient and even more relevant than when originally released in 2019, this Memorial Edition of War With Russia ? provides keen perspective to help readers understand the current Ukraine crisis. Are we in a new Cold War with Russia? Does Vladimir Putin... -
Defeating the Dictators: How Democracy Can Prevail in the Age of the Strongman by Charles Dunst
RRP: €29.75€19.49' Charles Dunst's deeply researched, timely and powerful book offers a blueprint for how democracies should fight back.' - Sir Kim Darroch'Remarkable. A thoughtful and perceptive book.' - Rt. Hon. Jeremy Hunt, MPThe world is currently experiencing the...