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The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s by William I. Hitchcock
RRP: £21.99£15.15A New York Times bestseller, this is the "outstanding" (The Atlantic), insightful, and authoritative account of Dwight Eisenhower's presidency.Drawing on newly declassified documents and thousands of pages of unpublished material, The Age of Eisenhower... -
Catching Fire: Women's Health Activism in Ireland and the Global Movement for Reproductive Justice by Beth Sundstrom 9780197625101
RRP: £25.99£25.63For more than a generation, activists and advocacy organizations have been instrumental in agitating for women's health reforms in Ireland. Over the last decade, Irish activists have experienced a number of victories to improve women's health, most... -
Five Rules for Rebellion: Let's Change the World Ourselves by Sophie Walker 9781785786037
RRP: £12.99£8.56'Rousing, hopeful and important reading' - Caroline Criado Perez, author of Invisible WomenHad enough? Feeling hopeless? Don't give up - join the rebellion.Activist, journalist, founding leader of the Women's Equality Party and 'modern-day suffragette'... -
Unfinished Business: The Fight for Women's Rights by Polly Russell 9780712353953
RRP: £25.00£3.92In the midst of today's highly politicised debates on gender equality, one thing is clear: the fight for women's rights is unfinished business. This book, which accompanies a bold and forward-facing British Library exhibition, presents the history of... -
Why Social Media is Ruining Your Life by Katherine Ormerod
RRP: £12.99£8.60'Enter Ormerod's vital manual' - Pandora Sykes'A statistic-packed investigation into a worldwide phenomenon... It is no exaggeration to say this book is essential reading for anyone' -METRO'Who better to help us wade through the muddy waters of the great... -
Boris: The Adventures of Boris Johnson by Andrew Gimson 9781471162343
RRP: £10.99£7.00THE MAKING OF A PRIME MINISTER 'My biography of the year' Michael Crick 'The scariest thing I've read since Silence of the Lambs' Ken Livingstone A brilliant and definitive biography of Boris Johnson, the politician who risked his career to lead the... -
My Name is Bridget: The Untold Story of Bridget Dolan and the Tuam Mother and Baby Home by Alison O'Reilly 9780717180424
£20.00In 1946, twenty-six-year-old Bridget Dolan walked up the path to the front door of the Tuam Mother and Baby Home. Alone and pregnant, she was following in the footsteps of more than a century's worth of lost souls. Bridget gave birth to a boy, John, who... -
Jeremy Thorpe by Michael Bloch
RRP: £14.99£9.80'A revealing, insightful and gripping biography of one of the most extraordinary people ever to lead a British political party' ObserverThe story of Jeremy Thorpe's rapid rise and spectacular fall from grace is one of the most remarkable in British... -
Africa: A Beginner's Guide by Tom Young 9781851687534
RRP: £9.99£6.41Vast, diverse, dynamic, and turbulent, the true nature of Africa is often obscured by its poverty-stricken image. In this controversial and gripping guide, Tom Young cuts through the emotional hype to critically analyse the continent's political history... -
Black Coffee Blues by Henry Rollins
RRP: £14.99£10.95'If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light, If I lose paper and ink, I will write in blood on forgotten walls. I will write always. I will capture nights all over the world and bring them to you.'Henry Rollins,... -
Insurgency: How Republicans Lost Their Party and Got Everything They Ever Wanted by Jeremy Peters
RRP: £24.00£17.36Apologies 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 -
Clem Attlee: Labour's Great Reformer by Francis Beckett
RRP: £12.99£8.75Far from Winston Churchill's jibe that he was a "modest little man with plenty to be modest about," in this acclaimed biography, comprehensively revised in this new edition, Francis Beckett makes the case that Clement Attlee's reputation as Britain's... -
Change: How to Make Big Things Happen by Damon Centola
RRP: £12.99£8.60'A remarkable and important guide to effecting change in our individual lives, businesses, societies - and beyond' JONAH BERGER, bestselling author of ContagiousHow did movements like the Arab Spring and Black Lives Matter take off when they did? How did... -
De Valera: Rule (1932-1975) by David McCullagh
RRP: £33.99£23.61The concluding volume of David McCullagh's new life of Eamon De Valera. In this, the concluding volume of David McCullagh's monumental new biography of the revolutionary and statesman, we join de Valera in 1932 as he takes the reins of power in the... -
Servants of the People: The Inside Story of New Labour by Andrew Rawnsley
RRP: £17.99£12.95Andrew Rawnsley's Servants of the People is a timely and fascinating look at New Labour.Every new government promises to represent a new dawn, but for New Labour it was the Covenant that Tony Blair made with Britain. The party that won a landslide... -
The Nazi Dictatorship: Problems and Perspectives of Interpretation by Ian Kershaw
RRP: £25.99£24.16'Unquestionably the most authoritative, balanced, readable, and meticulously documented introduction to the Third Reich.' - International History Review Sir Ian Kershaw is regarded by many as the world's leading authority on Hitler and the Third... -
Demagogue for President: The Rhetorical Genius of Donald Trump by Jennifer R. Mercieca
RRP: £27.95£22.66Historic levels of polarization, a disaffected and frustrated electorate, and widespread distrust of government, the news media, and traditional political leadership set the stage in 2016 for an unexpected, unlikely, and unprecedented presidential... -
Militant by Michael Crick 9781785900297
RRP: £12.99£9.02When it was originally published in 1984, Militant was widely acclaimed as a masterly work of investigative journalism. Although the rise of Jeremy Corbyn is to be attributed to more than hard-left entrism, to some within the party, Crick's book must... -
What is Islamophobia?: Racism, Social Movements and the State by Narzanin Massoumi 9780745399577
RRP: £16.99£11.54As racist undercurrents in many western societies become manifestly entrenched, the prevalence of Islamophobia - and the need to understand what perpetuates it - has never been greater. Critiquing the arguments found in notionally left accounts and... -
No Ordinary Women: Irish Female Activists in the Revolutionary Years 1900-1923 by Sinead McCoole
RRP: £22.99£17.77Updated edition with many more biographies and a new introduction by the author. Spies, snipers, couriers, gun-runners, medics, women played a major role in the fight for Ireland's freedom, risking loss of life and family for a cause to which they... -
How to Be an Activist: A practical guide to organising, campaigning and making change happen by Vanessa Holburn
RRP: £13.99£9.20From experienced campaigner Vanessa Holburn and with a foreword by award-winning animal welfare campaigner Lorraine Platt, this is the essential guide to activism. 'Essential reading for anyone looking to start a grassroots campaign - and useful bedtime... -
Camera Girl: The Coming of Age of Jackie Bouvier Kennedy by Carl Sferrazza Anthony
RRP: £20.00£12.86An illuminating new biography of the young Jackie Bouvier Kennedy that covers her formative adventures abroad in Paris; her life as a writer and photographer at a Washington, DC, newspaper; and her romance with a dashing, charismatic Massachusetts... -
A Party with Socialists in It: A History of the Labour Left by Simon Hannah
RRP: £14.99£9.80*A Guardian Book of the Day* The defeat of socialist firebrand Jeremy Corbyn as Labour Leader in 2019 confirmed Tony Benn's famous retort 'the Labour party has never been a socialist party, although there have always been socialists in it.' For... -
No. 10 - The Geography of Power at Dowing Street by Jack Brown
RRP: £18.99£13.10Fronted by one of the world's most iconic doors, 10 Downing Street is the home and office of the British Prime Minister and the heart of British politics. This is the story of the intimately entwined relationships between the house and its post-war... -
A Taste of Power by Elaine Brown
RRP: £10.99£7.12The incredible memoir of Elaine Brown - the first woman leader of the Black Panthers'Here I was, a woman, proclaiming supreme power over the most militant organization in America'In 1974 Elaine Brown became the first woman leader of the Black Panther... -
Capitalism: A Ghost Story by Arundhati Roy
RRP: £9.99£6.64In Capitalism: A Ghost Story, best-selling writer Arundhati Roy examines the dark side of Indian democracy--a nation of 1.2 billion, where the country's 100 richest people own assets worth one quarter of India's gross domestic product. Ferocious and... -
Right or Wrong: The Memoirs of Lord Bell by Tim Bell
RRP: £25.00£18.49SHORTLISTED FOR THE POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR IN THE POLITICAL BOOK AWARDS 2015 Tim Bell was the original 'spin doctor'; the Chairman of Bell Pottinger public relations, and one of the best known figures in UK media communications. Right or... -
Lumumba: Africa's Lost Leader by Leo Zeilig
RRP: £12.99£8.75Patrice Lumumba (1925-61) is perhaps the most famous leader of the African independence movement. After his execution in 1961, when he had been prime minister of the newly-liberated Congo for only seven months, he became an icon of anti-imperialist... -
Heroes by John Pilger
RRP: £17.99£12.95The heroes of John Pilger's narrative are the many ordinary people he has witnessed coping with their lives in difficult and often brutal conditions: dissidents in the Soviet Union; victims of conflicts in Vietnam, Cambodia, Africa, India, the Middle... -
A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness by S. Nassir Ghaemi
RRP: £14.99£10.95This New York Times bestseller is a myth-shattering exploration of the powerful connections between mental illness and leadership.Historians have long puzzled over the apparent mental instability of great and terrible leaders alike: Napoleon, Lincoln,... -
Mitterrand: A Study in Ambiguity by Philip Short
RRP: £16.99£12.28Aesthete, sensualist, bookworm, politician of Machiavellian cunning: Francois Mitterrand was a man of exceptional gifts and exceptional flaws who, during his fourteen years as President, strove to drag his tradition-bound and change-averse country into... -
The Tribe: The Liberal-Left and the System of Diversity by Ben Cobley 9781845409753
£17.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845409753Author Ben CobleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint SocietasPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 330gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 36mm -
On Being Unreasonable: Breaking the Rules and Making Things Better by Kirsty Sedgman
RRP: £16.99£11.27We're living in an age of division. From abortion rights to immigration, gun control to climate change, civil debate has gone out the window. Manners, order, and respect are being eroded. Why can't we all be reasonable? The trouble is, what's... -
Financing the 2016 Election by David B. Magleby 9780815736592
RRP: £35.00£11.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815736592Author David B. MaglebyFormat PaperbackPage Count 391Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 540gDimensions(mm)... -
Gujarat Under Modi: Laboratory of Today's India by Christophe Jaffrelot 9781849044295
RRP: £30.00£26.43In 2012 Narendra Modi became the first Hindu nationalist politician thrice elected to lead a state of the Indian Union, his stewardship as Chief Minister of Gujarat being the longest in that state's history. Modi and his BJP supporters explained his... -
Three Years in Hell: The Brexit Chronicles by Fintan O'Toole
RRP: £9.99£7.11Three years in the troubled British Isles from the bestselling author of Heroic Failure. In 2011 Queen Elizabeth made her first ever state visit to the Irish Republic. It was a great, moving occasion. In settling once and for all its relationship with... -
Brutal Campaign: How the 1988 Election Set the Stage for Twenty-First-Century American Politics by Robert L. Fleegler 9781469673370
RRP: £34.95£28.78At 8:00 p.m. eastern standard time on election night 1988, NBC news anchor Tom Brokaw informed the country that they would soon know more about the outcome of "one of the longest, bloodiest presidential campaigns that anyone can remember." It was a... -
Metrical Claims and Poetic Experience: Klopstock, Nietzsche, Grunbein by Hannah V. Eldridge 9780192859211
RRP: £71.00£64.64This volume contributes to the fields of lyric poetry and poetics (especially poetic form), aesthetics, and German literature by intervening in debates on the social functions, cognitive and emotional effects, and the value of poetry. It builds on, and... -
Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life by Adam Greenfield
RRP: £10.99£8.94Everywhere we turn, a startling new device promises to transfigure our lives. But at what cost? In this urgent and revelatory excavation of our Information Age, leading technology thinker Adam Greenfield forces us to reconsider our relationship with the... -
Feminist International: How to Change Everything by Verónica Gago
RRP: £16.99£14.50Recent years have seen massive feminist mobilizations in virtually every continent, overturning social mores and repressive legislation. In this brilliant and original look at the emerging feminist international, Veronica Gago explores how the women's...