Political Process

Opening in the reign of Kaiser Wilhelm II and continuing to the eve of the second Gulf War, Postcards of Political Icons tells the story of the twentieth century through images of its most recognizable leaders. The politicians who presided over the...

Though the SNP has existed since 1934, no full-length history of the Scottish National Party was written until the first edition of this book in 2002. With the SNP having governed Scotland since 2007, and with an outright majority since 2011, the...

The UK Independence Party (Ukip) is the most significant new force in British politics for a generation. Under the leadership of Nigel Farage, the party has enjoyed a remarkable rise, winning the 2014 European Parliament elections as well as two...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912926398Author Darcus HoweFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Bookmarks PublicationsPublisher Bookmarks Publications

***"One of the marvels of this furious book is how insolent and funny Lavin is; she refuses to soft-pedal the monstrous views she encounters." - The New York Times"Shocking, angry, funny and wise... Talia Lavin takes no prisoners." - Danny Wallace,...

We are living in a golden age of self-expression. The explosion of user-created content on blogs and social networking sites moved Time magazine to name You" their 2006 person of the year. But while we may be spending a lot more time in virtual worlds,...

One hundred years after the Anglo-Irish Treaty and partition, after 30 years of Troubles, the Good Friday Agreement and Brexit, the debate on Irish unity has intensified. But what could a united Ireland look like, and what would it mean for those both...

Harold Wilson held out the promise of technology and of 'the Britain that is going to be forged in the white heat of this revolution'. A balance of payment crisis, leading to devaluation in 1967, frustrated the fulfilment of his prime ministerial...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629635729Author Gabriel KuhnFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307279972Author Hisham AidiFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 357gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

The definitive inside account of the 2016-20 coalition government.Cabinet minister Shane Ross reveals the bitter internal battles fought with the old Blueshirts, the crises when the coalition came close to collapse and the sometimes fraught personal...

In this definitive account of the momentous In/Out referendum on Britain's membership of the European Union, Sky News Senior Political Correspondent Jason Farrell teams up with blogger and Economics and Politics teacher Paul Goldsmith to provide the...

The book, anchored in stimulating debates about the Enlightenment ideas of publicness, analyses historical changes in the core phenomena of publicness: possibilities, conditions and obstacles to developing a public sphere in which the public reflexively...

The new biography of President Joe Biden by National Book Award winner and New Yorker staff writer Evan Osnos - A Financial Times, Guardian and Daily Express Book of the Year 'A thoroughly readable primer' Guardian 'Biden has overcome unimaginable...

Asquith's administration laid the foundation of Britain's welfare state, but he was plunged into a major power struggle with the House of Lords. The budget of 1909 was vetoed by the hereditary upper chamber, and in 1910 Asquith called and won two...

Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon's political partnership changed the face of Scotland, bringing the country to within 200,000 votes of independence and holding sway at Holyrood for more than a decade. So how and why has their thirty-year alliance...

The "magisterial" (The New York Times Book Review) second volume of Sidney Blumenthal's acclaimed, landmark biography, The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln, reveals the future president's genius during the most decisive period of his political life when...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807093429Author Landon Y. JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815740506Author Elaine C. KamarckFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams)...

Chris Rennard's long relationship with the Liberals, and later the Liberal Democrats, began when a compassionate Liberal candidate helped his disabled mother receive her widowed mother allowance. By his 20s Rennard was the most successful election...

'A brilliant expose' - Danny Dorling Covid-19 has exposed the limits of a neoliberal public health orthodoxy. But instead of imagining radical change, the left is stuck in a rearguard action focused on defending the NHS from the wrecking ball of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143110767Author David S. ReynoldsFormat PaperbackPage Count 1088Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 958gDimensions(mm) 231mm *...

This monograph discloses the estate-based social structure of contemporary Russia by way of outlining the principles of the USSR's peculiar estate system, and explaining the new social estates of post-Soviet Russia. Simon Kordonsky distinguishes and...

'Outstanding ... This book is a must-read for scholars and activists interested in the impact of grassroots knowledge-making on individuals, institutions and society' Rebecca Tarlau, author of Occupying Schools, Occupying Land 'In social movements,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062439000Author Steve KornackiFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 381gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

'Outstanding . . . thought-provoking, readable and informative' SoldierOne hundred years on...On 18 July 1917, a heavy artillery barrage was unleashed by the Allied forces against an entrenched German army outside the town of Ypres. it was to be the...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | From "the FBI agent who started it all" (David Martin, CBS Sunday Morning), an epic, behind-the-scenes account of the biggest counterintelligence story of our time: Russia's war on American democracy, and the effort to...

Roy Hattersley brings the politician's to this concise history of the life of Henry Campbell-Bannerman, widely considered to be an ineffective Prime Minister; he was in fact the liberal of the 20th century to occupy the post.Book InformationISBN...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805069594Author Roy JenkinsFormat HardbackPage Count 186Imprint St. Martin's PressPublisher St. Martin's PressWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 213mm *...

This is the story of how a small island on the edge of Europe became one of the world's major tax havens. From global corporations such as Apple and Google, to investment bankers and mainstream politicians, those taking advantage of Ireland's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982172480Author Jonathan MartinFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 635gDimensions(mm) 230mm *...

Everyone thinks they know what it means to be 'woke' - whether they're proudly declaring it, or angrily attacking it. But writer, political entrepreneur and psychosocial therapist Indra Adnan has written a comprehensive and necessary account of 'waking...

One of the most important voices in contemporary American journalism - Independent Matt Taibbi is one of the few journalists in America who speaks truth to power - Bernie Sanders Matt Taibbi is the best polemic journalist in America - Felix Salmon NEW...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780851248967Author Helen JacksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 338Imprint Spokesman BooksPublisher Spokesman Books

Warriors and Scribes opens and closes using the prism of biography to question the framing of Latin American political life from both a northern, Cold War perspective and from the trivializations of postmodernism. An investigation of Jorge Castaneda's...

This 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400069712Author Ronen BergmanFormat HardbackPage Count 784Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 1128gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679746492Author Richard Ben CramerFormat PaperbackPage Count 1072Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 703gDimensions(mm)...

Histories 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062278791Author Lecturer in Chemistry John F KennedyFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...