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Broken Code: Inside Facebook and the fight to expose its toxic secrets by Jeff Horwitz 9781911709022
RRP: $25.80$18.95'A penetrating portrait of one of the most significant companies in the world' Ronan Farrow, author of Catch and Kill'With the skill of an award-winning journalist, Horwitz details the inner workings of the tech giant and their outcomes...A must-read.'... -
Our Own Worst Enemy: The Assault from within on Modern Democracy by Tom Nichols
RRP: $30.30$21.13A contrarian yet highly engaging account of the spread of illiberal and anti-democratic sentiment throughout our culture that places responsibility on the citizens themselves. Over the past three decades, citizens of democracies who claim to value... -
Rise and Resist: Essays on Love, Courage, Politics and Resistance from The Dandelion Insurrection by Rivera Sun 9781948016032
$22.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948016032Author Rivera SunFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Rising Sun Media, Inc,Publisher Rising Sun Media, Inc,Weight(grams) 254gDimensions(mm)... -
The House We Live in: Virtue, Wisdom, and Pluralism by Seth Zuiho Segall 9781800503465
RRP: $27.03$25.88The values of liberalism, pluralism, and democratic governance are under sustained attack from right-wing Christian fundamentalists, white ethnonationalists, and economic populists. At the same time, liberal democracies are failing at cultivating and... -
Democracy and Difference: Contesting the Boundaries of the Political by Seyla Benhabib
RRP: $54.18$42.62The global trend toward democratization of the last two decades has been accompanied by the resurgence of various politics of "identity/difference." From nationalist and ethnic revivals in the countries of east and central Europe to the former Soviet... -
The Fight for Scottish Democracy: Rebellion and Reform in 1820 Murray Armstrong 9780745341330
RRP: $21.92$14.89Three 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... -
Democracy In America Alexis De Tocqueville 9781857151794
RRP: $25.80$18.95In what remains after more than a century the greatest study of American political life, Tocqueville describes American society and accounts for its nature and its conflicts in an historical analysis of the nation's origins among different parties of... -
The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot by Naomi Wolf 9781933392790
RRP: $19.34$12.64A New York Times Bestseller! "I hope we wake up quickly because history shows it's a small window in which people can fight back before it is too dangerous to fight back."-Naomi Wolf on Fox News Channel's Tucker Carlson Tonight In a stunning... -
How Long Will South Africa Survive?: The Looming Crisis by R. W. Johnson
RRP: $20.63$18.67In 1977, Johnson's best-selling How Long Will South Africa Survive? offered a controversial and highly original analysis of the survival prospects of apartheid. Now, after more than two decades of the ANC in government, he believes the question must be... -
A Revolution of the Mind: Radical Enlightenment and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Democracy by Jonathan Israel
RRP: $32.25$25.27Democracy, free thought and expression, religious tolerance, individual liberty, political self-determination of peoples, sexual and racial equality--these values have firmly entered the mainstream in the decades since they were enshrined in the 1948 U.N... -
Brutal Minds: Inside the Dark World of Left-Wing Brainwashing in America's Universities by Stanley K. Ridgley
RRP: $28.37$19.65"If you are scratching your head as to how radicals could have seized control in Washington, and of American media, while defaming American democracy as a 'white supremacist' nightmare, look no further than the left's transformation of American... -
When the People Speak: Deliberative Democracy and Public Consultation by James S. Fishkin 9780199604432
RRP: $32.88$32.40All over the world democratic reforms have brought power to the people - but under conditions where the people have little opportunity to think about the power that they exercise. Do we want a democracy inspired by Madison or by Madison Avenue? A... -
People Without Power: the war on populism and the fight for democracy by Thomas Frank
RRP: $12.89$8.64Everything we think we know about populism is wrong. Donald Trump. Brexit. European right-wing extremists. All have been accused of populism. But what does this often thrown about, yet generally misunderstood, term actually mean? The real story of... -
The Demarchy Manifesto: For Better Public Policy by John Burnheim 9781845408916
$15.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845408916Author John BurnheimFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 200gDimensions(mm) 210mm *... -
Tribalism and Political Power in the Gulf: State-Building and National Identity in Kuwait, Qatar and the UAE by Courtney Freer 9780755644896
$31.10Gulf 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... -
Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville 9780226805368
RRP: $27.09$21.93When 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... -
An International Civil War: Greece, 1943-1949 by Andre Gerolymatos
RRP: $29.03$27.97An authoritative history of the Greek Civil War and its profound influence on American foreign policy and the post-Second World War period In his comprehensive history Andre Gerolymatos demonstrates how the Greek Civil War played a pivotal role in the... -
To Kill A Democracy: India's Passage to Despotism by Debasish Roy Chowdhury
RRP: $29.66$21.00India is heralded as the world's largest democracy. Yet, there is now growing alarm about its democratic health. To Kill a Democracy gets to the heart of the matter. Combining poignant life stories with sharp scholarly insight, it rejects the belief... -
50 Democracy Ideas You Really Need to Know Adam Fleming 9781529434170
RRP: $12.89$8.77In a series of 50 accessible essays, Adam Fleming introduces and explains the history, key ideas and tools of democracy developed by some of the world's greatest thinkers - spanning from the ancient Greeks to the present day.From the right to vote to the... -
Greed Is Dead: Politics After Individualism by Paul Collier
RRP: $12.89$9.17Two of the UK's leading economists call for an end to extreme individualism as the engine of prosperity 'provocative but thought-provoking and nuanced' TelegraphThroughout history, successful societies have created institutions which channel both... -
Network Propaganda: Manipulation, Disinformation, and Radicalization in American Politics by Yochai Benkler
RRP: $43.85$27.99This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Is social media... -
Is Democracy Possible Here?: Principles for a New Political Debate by Ronald Dworkin 9780691138725
RRP: $32.25$25.27Politics in America are polarized and trivialized, perhaps as never before. In Congress, the media, and academic debate, opponents from right and left, the Red and the Blue, struggle against one another as if politics were contact sports played to the... -
Sudan's Unfinished Democracy: The Promise and Betrayal of a People's Revolution by Willow Berridge
RRP: $28.38$24.88This book tells the story of the Sudanese revolution of 2019; of how it succeeded in bringing down the long-standing rule of President Omar al-Bashir; and of the troubled transitional civilian-led government that was installed in his place. It sets the... -
Democracy Against Capitalism: Renewing Historical Materialism by Ellen Meiksins Wood
RRP: $15.47$12.51Historian and political thinker Ellen Meiksins Wood argues that theories of "postmodern" fragmentation, "difference", and contingency can barely accommodate the idea of capitalism, let alone subject it to critique. In this book she sets out to renew the... -
Federalism: A Very Short Introduction by Mark J. Rozell
RRP: $11.60$8.53Early Americans were suspicious of centralized authority and executive power. Casting away the yoke of England and its king, the founding fathers shared in this distrust as they set out to pen the Constitution. Weighing a need for consolidated leadership... -
Democracy Erodes from the Top: Leaders, Citizens, and the Challenge of Populism in Europe by Larry M. Bartels
RRP: $32.25$25.27Why leaders, not citizens, are the driving force in Europe's crisis of democracyA seeming explosion of support for right-wing populist parties has triggered widespread fears that liberal democracy is facing its worst crisis since the 1930s. Democracy... -
Election Notebook: The Inside Story Of The Battle Over Britain's Future And My Personal Battle To Report It by Nick Robinson 9780593075180 [USED COPY]
RRP: $25.80$2.95Just after ten o'clock on Thursday, 7 May 2015 Nick Robinson stared down the lens of camera 5 in the BBC's Election Night Studio to explain to millions the significance of an exit poll that shocked the country and heralded an earthquake in British... -
United States of Distraction: Media Manipulation in Post-Truth America (And What We Can Do About It) by Mickey Huff 9780872867673
RRP: $16.76$11.13A 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... -
This is My Truth: Aneurin Bevan in Tribune by Nye Davies 9781786839671
RRP: $32.24$22.72Aneurin Bevan is a revered figure in Welsh and British politics, celebrated for his role as the founder of one of the country's most cherished institutions, the National Health Service. As a result, he is continuously invoked, quoted widely, and is... -
Fire and Ashes: Success and Failure in Politics by Michael Ignatieff
RRP: $46.38$37.36In 2005 Michael Ignatieff left his life as a writer and professor at Harvard University to enter the combative world of politics back home in Canada. By 2008, he was leader of the country's Liberal Party and poised-should the governing Conservatives... -
Searching for Socialism: The Project of the Labour New Left from Benn to Corbyn by Leo, Colin Panitch, Leys
RRP: $19.34$16.19Jeremy Corbyn's rapid ascent to the leadership of the Labour Party, driven by a groundswell of popular support particularly among the young, was met at the time by a baffled media. Just where did Jeremy Corbyn come from? In Searching for Socialism, Leo... -
The Rules of Democracy Marcial Bragadini Boo (Chief Executive of UKPHR (UK Public Health Register)) 9781447364146
RRP: $16.76$13.09The world can be run better. Democracy is the most effective way to take back control over decisions that impact on people's lives. But democracy must evolve following a Global Technological Revolution which has increased fears that global trade and... -
Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop: The Case for Multiparty Democracy in America by Lee Drutman
RRP: $20.63$17.93A compelling case for large-scale electoral reform. American democracy is at an impasse. After years of zero-sum partisan trench warfare, our political institutions are deteriorating. Our norms are collapsing. Democrats and Republicans no longer... -
Contesting Democracy: Political Ideas in Twentieth-Century Europe by Jan-Werner Muller
RRP: $21.92$21.49In this brilliant guide to modern European political ideas and thinkers spans the twentieth century, the author illuminates both the twentieth-century's ideological extremes and how Europeans built lasting liberal democracies in the second half of the... -
Insurgency: How Republicans Lost Their Party and Got Everything They Ever Wanted by Jeremy Peters
RRP: $30.96$22.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525576587Author Jeremy W. PetersFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Crown Publishing Group, Division of Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Reclaiming the State: A Progressive Vision of Sovereignty for a Post-Neoliberal World by William Mitchell
RRP: $33.53$25.94The crisis of the neoliberal order has resuscitated a political idea widely believed to be consigned to the dustbin of history. Brexit, the election of Donald Trump, and the neo-nationalist, anti-globalisation and anti-establishment backlash engulfing... -
The Democratic Paradox by Chantal Mouffe
RRP: $14.18$11.53From the theory of 'deliberative democracy' to the politics of the 'third way', the present Zeitgeist is characterized by attempts to deny what Chantal Mouffe contends is the inherently conflictual nature of democratic politics. Far from being signs of... -
Fugitive Democracy: And Other Essays by Sheldon S. Wolin 9780691133645
RRP: $45.15$36.30Sheldon Wolin was one of the most influential and original political thinkers of the past fifty years. Fugitive Democracy brings together his most important writings, from classic essays such as "Political Theory as a Vocation," written amid the Cold War... -
Doing Democracy: The MAP Model for Organizing Social Movements by Bill Moyer 9780865714182
RRP: $38.70$16.13Citizen activism has achieved many positive results. But the road to success for social movements is often complex, usually lasting many years, with few guides for evaluating the precise stage of a movement's evolution to determine the best way forward... -
Unelected Power: The Quest for Legitimacy in Central Banking and the Regulatory State by Paul Tucker 9780691176734
RRP: $38.70$30.04Guiding principles for ensuring that central bankers and other unelected policymakers remain stewards of the common goodCentral bankers have emerged from the financial crisis as the third great pillar of unelected power alongside the judiciary and the...