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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788194735380Author Shashi TharoorFormat HardbackPage Count 462Imprint Aleph Book CompanyPublisher Aleph Book CompanyWeight(grams) 643gDimensions(mm) 230mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950691258Author Jessamyn ConradFormat PaperbackPage Count 408Imprint Arcade PublishingPublisher Arcade PublishingWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 226mm *...

What will planet Earth be like in twenty years? At mid-century? In the year 2100? Prescient and convincing, this book is a must-read for anyone concerned about the future. Never has the world offered more promise for the future and been more fraught with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780470120156Author Stephen KinzerFormat HardbackPage Count 349Imprint John Wiley & Sons LtdPublisher Turner Publishing Company

A study of Lenin and the Russian Revolution. It is designed to fulfil the AS and A Level specifications in place from September 2000. The AS section deals with narrative and explanation of the topic. There are extra notes, biography boxes and definitions...

The town of Longyearbyen in the high Arctic is the world's northernmost settlement. Here, climate change is happening fast. It is clearly seen and sensed by the locals; with higher temperatures, more rain and permafrost thaw. At the same time, the town...

The Road Map to Nowhere is a devastating and timely book, essential to understanding the current state of the Israel/Palestine crisis and the propaganda that infects its coverage. Based on analysis of information in the mainstream Israeli media, it...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781426300424Author Rosalyn SchanzerFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint National Geographic KidsPublisher National Geographic KidsWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593491942Author Keith PayneFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint VikingPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 442gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 157mm * 23mm

Donald Trump, Silvio Berlusconi, Marine Le Pen, Hugo Chavez-populists are on the rise across the globe. But what exactly is populism? Should everyone who criticizes Wall Street or Washington be called a populist? What precisely is the difference between...

Why have Russians chosen unlimited autocracy throughout their history? Why is democracy unable to flourish in Russia? Russian Conservatism and Its Critics provides the first account of Russia's immemorial commitment to the theory and practice of...

A compelling new picture of one of the most important, complex, and misunderstood figures of our time.The name George Soros is recognized around the world. Universally known for his decades of philanthropy, progressive politics, and investment success,...

Charting his meteoric rise in popularity, Christopher Kul-Want and Piero explore Zizek's timely analyses of today's global crises concerning ecology, mounting poverty, war, civil unrest and revolution.Covering topics from philosophy and ethics, politics...

The Oxford Handbook of the French Revolution brings together a sweeping range of expert and innovative contributions to offer engaging and thought-provoking insights into the history and historiography of this epochal event. Each chapter presents the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781630729226Author W Cleon SkousenFormat PaperbackPage Count 452Imprint Izzard InkPublisher Izzard InkWeight(grams) 658gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 26mm

This highly original book is the first to explore the political and philosophical consequences of Hannah Arendt's concept of 'the banality of evil,' a term she used to describe Adolph Eichmann, architect of the Nazi 'final solution.' According to Bernard...

Henry A. Giroux argues that education holds a crucial role in shaping politics at a time when ignorance, lies and fake news have empowered right-wing groups and created deep divisions in society. Education, with its increasingly corporate and...

Since Britain's 2016 referendum on EU membership, the nation has been profoundly split: one side fantasizing that the referendum will never be acted upon, the other entrenched in questionable assumptions about reclaimed sovereignty and independence...

In 2008 there were 149 militia groups in the United States. In 2009, that number more than tripled to 512, and now there are nearly 600. In Right-Wing Resurgence, author Daryl Johnson offers a detailed account of the growth of right-wing extremism and...

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Vladimir Ilyich Lenin visited London on six occasions at the beginning of the twentieth century and it was in this city, where Marx wrote Das Kapital, that the roots of Lenin's political thought took shape. This book, from a former curator of the Russian...

In the last few years, populism -- of the right, left, and center varieties -- has spread like wildfire throughout the world. The impulse reached its apogee in the United States with the election of Trump, but it was a force in Europe ever since the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781584351672Author The Invisible CommitteeFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Semiotext (E)Publisher AutonomediaDimensions(mm) 178mm * 114mm * 17mm

Within Argentina, Juan Domingo Peron continues to be the subject of exaggerated and diametrically opposed views. A dictator, a great leader, the hero of the working classes and Argentina's "first worker"; a weak and spineless man dependent on his...

Following the Arab Spring, the Muslim Brotherhood achieved a level of influence previously unimaginable. Yet the implications of the Brotherhood's rise and dramatic fall for the future of democratic governance, peace, and stability in the region are...

More than any other topic in social science, the study of social movements provides an opportunity to combine social theory with political action. Such study is a key to understanding the motivations, successes, and failures of thousands who aspire to...

Every day we hear that the rise of populism threatens democracy around the world, but is this really true? Did populism cause the current crisis, or is it the other way around? To understand the state of our politics right now, we must get to grips...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501183669Author Tucker CarlsonFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Free PressPublisher Free PressWeight(grams) 354gDimensions(mm) 221mm * 147mm * 23mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837156781Author James BurnhamFormat HardbackPage Count 285Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788475093291Author DeluzeFormat PaperbackImprint Ediciones Paidos IbericaPublisher Ediciones Paidos Iberica

The Crisis of Conservatism 1880-1914 offers a new interpretation of Conservative politics in the period 1880-1914 and comes to the startling conclusion that, but for the intervention of the First World War, there may well have been a 'Strange Death of...

With its radical ideology and effective tactics, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was the cutting edge of the civil rights movement during the 1960s. This sympathetic yet evenhanded book records for the first time the complete story...

Contemporary politics is dominated by a liberal creed that champions 'negative liberty' and individual happiness. This creed undergirds positions on both the right and the left - free-market capitalism, state bureaucracy and individualism in social life...

Populist forces are becoming increasingly relevant across the world, and studies on populism have entered the mainstream of the political science discipline. However, so far no book has synthesized the ongoing debate on how to study the populist...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420926972Author Jean-Jacques RousseauFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 231gDimensions(mm) 228mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262691420Author Guy OakesFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

George Orwell was one of the most significant literary figures on the left in the twentieth century. While titles such as 1984, Animal Farm and Homage to Catalonia are still rightly regarded as modern classics, his own politics are less well understood. ...

Black civil rights leaders have long supported ethnic identity politics and prioritized the integration of political institutions, and seldom has that strategy been questioned. In False Black Power?, Jason L. Riley takes an honest, factual look at why...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608465767Author Rebecca SolnitFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Haymarket BooksPublisher Haymarket Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629637105Author Abdullah OcalanFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press