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Can't Sell Won't Sell: Advertising, politics and culture wars. Why adland has stopped selling and started saving the world by Steve Harrison 9780957151529
RRP: £10.95£9.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957151529Author Steve HarrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Adworld PressPublisher Adworld PressWeight(grams) 127g -
Sorry Not Sorry by Alyssa Milano
RRP: £23.99£15.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593183298Author Alyssa MilanoFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Dutton / SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Demagogue for President: The Rhetorical Genius of Donald Trump by Jennifer R. Mercieca
RRP: £27.95£22.17Historic 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... -
Make Bosses Pay: Why We Need Unions Eve Livingston 9780745341620
RRP: £9.99£6.80With the world changing at breakneck speed and workers at the whim of apps, bad bosses and zero-hours contracts, why should we care about unions? Aren't they just for white-haired, middle-aged miners anyway? The government constantly attacks unions,... -
Militant by Michael Crick 9781785900297
RRP: £12.99£9.26When 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: £19.99£13.35As 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... -
The Candidate: What it Takes to Win - and Hold - the White House by Samuel L. Popkin 9780199325214
RRP: £18.49£13.33There are two winners in every presidential election campaign: The inevitable winner when it begins--such as Rudy Giuliani or Hillary Clinton in 2008--and the inevitable victor after it ends. In The Candidate, Samuel Popkin explains the difference... -
The Unspoken Kennedy Truth by Laurent Guyenot
RRP: £10.28£9.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782957170418Author Laurent GuyenotFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint AfnilPublisher AfnilWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 13mm -
How to Be an Activist: A practical guide to organising, campaigning and making change happen Vanessa Holburn 9781472143846
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... -
Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography, Volume Two: Everything She Wants by Charles Moore 9780241573587
RRP: £40.00£29.99The sensational second volume of Charles Moore's bestselling authorized biography of the Iron LadyIn June 1983 Margaret Thatcher won the biggest increase in a government's Parliamentary majority in British electoral history. Over the next four years, as... -
Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography, Volume One: Not For Turning by Charles Moore 9780241573570
RRP: £40.00£29.99Not For Turning is the first volume of Charles Moore's authorized biography of Margaret Thatcher, the longest serving Prime Minister of the twentieth century and one of the most influential political figures of the postwar era.Charles Moore's biography... -
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,... -
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,... -
From Dictatorship to Democracy: A Conceptual Framework for Liberation by Gene Sharp 9781854251046
RRP: £7.99£6.69A seminal work on the power of nonviolent action, this classic book outlines, in a systematic way, the elements involved in successfully opposing military dictatorships by passive means. This work shows how nonviolent action grows from the fact that all... -
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... -
A History of Modern Uganda by Richard J. Reid
RRP: £26.99£20.39This book is the first major study in several decades to consider Uganda as a nation, from its precolonial roots to the present day. Here, Richard J. Reid examines the political, economic, and social history of Uganda, providing a unique and wide-ranging... -
A Party with Socialists in It: A History of the Labour Left Simon Hannah 9780745345574
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... -
Making Sense of a United Ireland: Should it happen? How might it happen? by Brendan O'Leary 9780241995778
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Should be required reading for everyone - including unionists - who are interested in and concerned about the fate of this island' Dublin Review of Books'Compelling' Financial TimesWill Ireland really reunite?A century ago the resolution to Ireland’s... -
Right or Wrong: The Memoirs of Lord Bell by Tim Bell
RRP: £25.00£18.88SHORTLISTED 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... -
No. 10 - The Geography of Power at Dowing Street by Jack Brown
RRP: £18.99£13.40Fronted 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... -
The Myth of the Strong Leader: Political Leadership in the Modern Age by Archie Brown
RRP: £12.99£9.09* UPDATED WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY THE AUTHOR *CHOSEN BY BILL GATES AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016Archie Brown challenges the widespread belief that 'strong leaders', dominant individual wielders of power, are the most successful and admirable. Within... -
Lumumba: Africa's Lost Leader by Leo Zeilig
RRP: £12.99£8.99Patrice 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... -
Financing the 2016 Election 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)... -
The Tribe: The Liberal-Left and the System of Diversity by Ben Cobley 9781845409753
£17.79Apologies 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 -
Voices from History: East London Suffragettes by Rosemary Taylor
RRP: £9.99£7.55In 1914, the East London Federation of Suffragettes, led by Sylvia Pankhurst, split from the WSPU. Sylvia's mother and sister, Emmeline and Christabel, had encouraged her to give up her work with the poor women of East London - but Sylvia refused... -
Metrical Claims and Poetic Experience: Klopstock, Nietzsche, Grunbein by Hannah V. Eldridge 9780192859211
RRP: £86.00£78.01This 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... -
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... -
The Path to Power by Margaret Thatcher
RRP: £19.99£14.28The extraordinary account of Margaret Thatcher's life up to her dramatic election as the first woman Prime Minister of England in 1979. Margaret Thatcher was the towering figure of late-twentieth-century British politics. This is the story of... -
The Good Friday Agreement by Siobhan Fenton
RRP: £12.99£9.26In April 1998, the Good Friday Agreement brought an end to the bloodshed that had engulfed Northern Ireland for thirty years. It was lauded worldwide as an example of an iconic peace process to which other divided societies should aspire. Today, the... -
Gujarat Under Modi: Laboratory of Today's India by Christophe Jaffrelot 9781849044295
RRP: £30.00£26.95In 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... -
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... -
Little Platoons: How a revived One Nation can empower England's forgotten towns and redraw the political map by David Skelton 9781785905124
RRP: £12.99£9.26Brexit - a revolutionary moment in British politics. Voters in long-forgotten English towns made their disenchantment clear, overwhelmingly voting to `take back control' from a remote and defective economic system. Despite this decisive message in 2016,... -
The Entangled Activist: Learning to recognise the master's tools by Anthea Lawson
RRP: £15.00£12.56"I'd been an activist for years. I'd marched, protested, blocked the road, been arrested. I'd exposed how banks and tax havens fuel corruption, poverty and environmental destruction. I'd launched a campaign that rewrote the laws on secret company... -
Kitchener: Hero and Anti-Hero by C. Brad Faught
£54.87Horatio Herbert Kitchener, Earl Kitchener of Khartoum (1850-1916) is one of the most important figures in the history of the British Empire. Beginning as Royal Engineer in the 1870s he would end his career over forty years later as Secretary of State for... -
The #MeToo Effect: What Happens When We Believe Women by Leigh Gilmore
RRP: £25.00£19.59The #MeToo movement inspired millions to testify to the widespread experience of sexual violence. More broadly, it shifted the deeply ingrained response to women's accounts of sexual violence from doubting all of them to believing some of them. What... -
A Thousand Hills: Rwanda's Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It by Stephen Kinzer 9780470120156
RRP: £26.99£22.95Apologies 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 -
The Changing Electoral Map of England and Wales by Jamie Furlong 9780198927082
RRP: £30.00£27.60The 2019 British general election saw a dramatic redrawing of the electoral map, with the Labour Party losing seats to the Conservatives in former heartlands in the North of England and Midlands. Yet this had been a long-term shift, with the opposite... -
Common Sense for the 21st Century: Only Nonviolent Rebellion Can Now Stop Climate Breakdown And Social Collapse Roger Hallam 9781527246744
RRP: £6.00£4.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781527246744Author Roger HallamFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Common Sense for the 21st CenturyPublisher Common Sense for the 21st Century -
Franklin Delano Roosevelt by Roy Jenkins 9780805069594
RRP: £35.00£21.24Apologies 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 *... -
The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made by Walter Isaacson 9781476728827
RRP: £23.00£16.01The Wise Men introduces the original brightest and best, leaders whose outsized personalities and actions brought order to postwar chaos: Averell Harriman, freewheeling diplomat and Roosevelt's special envoy to Churchill and Stalin; Dean Acheson, the...