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The New Snobbery by David Skelton 9781785906572
RRP: £16.99£12.28An insidious snobbery has taken root in parts of progressive Britain. Working-class voters have flexed their political muscles and helped to change the direction of the country, but in doing so they have been met with disdain and even abuse from elites... -
Innovation in Social Care: New Approaches for Young People Affected by Extra-Familial Risks and Harms by Michelle Lefevre 9781447371236
RRP: £14.99£12.13Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-BD licence. Based on the findings of the Innovate Project, a four year pan-UK study to identify the processes of innovation in care, this book asks: how can services be re-envisioned and transformed through... -
Nazi Germany by Alan F. Wilt 9780882959108
RRP: £18.95£16.85Begins with a brief sketch of Hitler before turning to the political, economic, social, and cultural aspects of the Third Reich. A conclusion gives an historiographical assessment of Hitlerian Germany and its place in the 20th century.About the... -
A History of Argentina: From the Spanish Conquest to the Present by Ezequiel Adamovsky 9781478025436
RRP: £25.99£22.04In A History of Argentina, originally published in Spanish in 2020, Ezequiel Adamovsky presents over five hundred years of Argentine economic, political, social, and cultural history. Adamovsky highlights the experiences of women, Indigenous communities,... -
The Iran-Iraq War by Pierre Razoux
RRP: £39.95£32.45From 1980 to 1988, Iran and Iraq fought the longest conventional war of the twentieth century. The tragedies included the slaughter of child soldiers, the use of chemical weapons, the striking of civilian shipping in the Gulf, and the destruction of... -
The Burning Shores: Inside the Battle for the New Libya by Frederic Wehrey
RRP: £11.99£11.69The death of Colonel Muammar Qadhafi freed Libya from forty-two years of despotic rule, raising hopes for a new era. But in the aftermath, the country descended into bitter rivalries and civil war, paving the way for the Islamic State and a catastrophic... -
Alice in Brexitland by Lucien Young
RRP: £8.99£6.45Lying on a riverbank on a lazy summer's afternoon - 23rd June 2016, to be precise - Alice spots a flustered-looking white rabbit called Dave calling for a referendum. Following him down a rabbit-hole, she emerges into a strange new land, where up is... -
Yemen in Crisis: Autocracy, Neo-Liberalism and the Disintegration of a State by Helen Lackner 9780863561931
RRP: £25.00£20.30Yemen is in the grip of its most severe crisis in years. The civil war between the Huthi rebels and the Western and Arab supporters of the regime has resulted in thousands killed and three million displaced. Those who remain suffer severe food shortages... -
Putin's Playbook: Russia's Secret Plan to Defeat America by Rebekah Koffler 9781684510030
RRP: £28.99£18.87Putin's Playbook is urgently essential reading. A former U.S. intelligence specialist who was born and raised in the Soviet Union explains what Vladimir Putin wants and how he plans to get it. Russia's ruler is following a carefully devised plan to... -
Riot Days by Maria Alyokhina
RRP: £10.99£7.77From activist, Pussy Riot member and freedom fighter Maria Alyokhina, a raw, hallucinatory, passionate account of her arrest, trial and imprisonment in Siberian jail for standing up for what she believed in.'One of the most brilliant and inspiring things... -
The British Constitution: A Very Short Introduction by Martin Loughlin 9780192895257
RRP: £8.99£6.45Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring The British constitution is regarded as unique among the constitutions of the world. What are the main characteristics of Britain's peculiar constitutional arrangements? How has the British... -
Guest House for Young Widows: among the women of ISIS by Azadeh Moaveni
RRP: £9.99£6.70SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON FICTION AND THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE. A GUARDIAN AND OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR. An intimate, deeply reported account of the women who made a shocking decision: to leave their ordinary lives behind... -
China's Leaders: From Mao to Now by David Shambaugh
RRP: £25.00£16.78Since the founding of the People's Republic of China over 70 years ago, five paramount leaders have shaped the fates and fortunes of the nation and the ruling Chinese Communist Party: Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao, and Xi Jinping... -
The Phantom Plague: How Tuberculosis Shaped History by Vidya Krishnan
RRP: £22.00£14.56It killed novelist George Orwell, Eleanor Roosevelt, and millions of others - rich and poor. Desmond Tutu, Amitabh Bachchan, and Nelson Mandela survived it, just. For centuries, tuberculosis has ravaged cities and plagued the human body. In Phantom... -
Mary Lou McDonald Biography by Shane Ross
RRP: £16.99£11.58Mary Lou McDonald is the bookies' favourite to be Ireland's next Taoiseach. She would be the first woman to reach the office, and the first Sinn Fein leader ever to enter government in the Republic of Ireland. But how did a quintessentially bourgeois... -
Who Are We Now?: Stories of Modern England by Jason Cowley 9781529017786
RRP: £20.00£17.62A Daily Telegraph Book of the Year 2022'I can't tell you how refreshing it is in these polarised times to read a book on politics that doesn't have an axe to grind . . . an essential read.' The Sunday Times'Subtle, sophisticated . . . compellingly told ... -
Armed Struggle and the Search for State: The Palestinian National Movement, 1949-1993 by Yezid Sayigh 9780198292654
£80.66This masterly new work spans an entire epoch in the history of the contemporary Palestinian national movement, from the establishment of Israel in mandate Palestine in 1948, to the PLO-Israel accord of 1993. Contrary to the conventional view that... -
Barracoon: The Story of the Last Slave by Zora Neale Hurston
RRP: £9.99£5.82Abducted from Africa, sold in America. "A deeply affecting record of an extraordinary life"- Daily Telegraph A major literary event: a newly published... -
The Making and Unmaking of a Zionist: A Personal and Political Journey by Antony Lerman 9780745332765
RRP: £22.99£15.17Antony Lerman traces his five-decade personal and political journey from idealistic socialist Zionist to controversial critic of Israel's aggression towards the Palestinians. As head of an influential UK Jewish think tank, he operated at the highest... -
Syria After the Uprisings: The Political Economy of State Resilience by Joseph Daher 9781608469246
RRP: £20.99£17.86Syria has been at the center of world news since 2011, following the beginnings of a popular uprising in the country and its subsequent violent and murderous repression by the Assad regime. Eight years on, Joseph Daher analyzes the resilience of the... -
Ukraine Diaries by Andrey Kurkov
RRP: £12.99£9.09Acclaimed author Andrey Kurkov gives powerful insight into life in Kyiv following the 2013 protests and before the 2022 Russian invasion.-16 DegreesC, sunlight, silence. I drove the children to school, then went to see the revolution. I walked between... -
Born in Blackness: Africa and the Making of the Modern World by Howard W. French
RRP: £15.99£13.41In a sweeping narrative that traverses 600 years, one that eloquently weaves precise historical detail with poignant personal reportage, Pulitzer Prize finalist Howard W. French retells the story of medieval and emerging Africa, demonstrating how the... -
Putin & Russia: The Rise of a Dictator by Darryl Cunningham 9781912408917
RRP: £16.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912408917Author Darryl CunninghamFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Myriad EditionsPublisher Myriad Editions -
The Palestine-Israeli Conflict: A Beginner's Guide by Dan Cohn-Sherbok
RRP: £10.99£7.00The essential guide that allows both sides to be heard Rabbi Professor Dan Cohn-Sherbok presents the Israeli perspective, while Dr Dawoud El-Alami presents the Palestinian perspective Updated to cover the most recent events, including the US... -
Making a Success of Brexit and Reforming the EU: The Brexit edition of The Trouble with Europe: 'Bootle is right on every count' - Guardian by Roger Bootle
RRP: £12.99£8.60"I recommend our diplomats and ministers read this book: it will provide them with an intellectual backbone. On the big calls [Bootle] has a spectacularly good record." Dominic Lawson, The Sunday Times "Bootle is right on every count." The Guardian HOW... -
Remembering Leningrad: The Story of a Generation by Mary McAuley 9780299322502
RRP: £39.95£32.63Englishwoman Mary McAuley first arrived in Leningrad in the early 1960s, eager to study labor relations for her thesis. Staying at a hostel, she met a number of Soviet students, many born under the rule of Joseph Stalin. Over the half-century that... -
Mr. Putin: Operative in the Kremlin by Fiona Hill
RRP: £25.00£18.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815726173Author Fiona HillFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 753gDimensions(mm) 223mm... -
National Geographic Ultimate Visual History of the World: The Story of Humankind from Prehistory to Modern Times by Jean-Pierre Isbouts
RRP: £41.99£29.79Follow the fascinating threads of human history in this monumental volume, amply illustrated with maps, archival imagery, and revealing photographs. History comes to life in this comprehensive overview of humankind, from earliest times to the present day... -
Oil Leaders: An Insider's Account of Four Decades of Saudi Arabia and OPEC's Global Energy Policy by Ibrahim AlMuhanna
RRP: £30.00£23.22Oil is an unusual commodity in that individual decisions can have an outsized effect on the market. OPEC+'s choice to increase production, for instance, might send prices falling, affecting both oil producers and consumers worldwide. What do the leading... -
Robin Cook: Principles and Power by John Williams 9781908041241
RRP: £16.00£13.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908041241Author John WilliamsFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint IndieBooksPublisher IndieBooks -
The Subplot: What China Is Reading and Why It Matters by Megan Walsh
RRP: £11.99£8.00What does contemporary China's diverse and exciting fiction tell us about its culture, and the relationship between art and politics? The Subplot takes us on a lively journey through a literary landscape like you've never seen before: a vast... -
Beauty Sleep by Kathryn Evans 9781474954877
RRP: £7.99£7.45Winner of the CrimeFest award for Best Crime Novel for Young AdultsWho am I? What am I? When am I?Laura can't remember who she is. But the rest of the world knows. Because Laura is famous - a dying girl who was frozen until she could be cured. A... -
A Thief's Justice: A completely gripping historical mystery by Douglas Skelton
RRP: £16.99£11.20London, 1716. Revenge is a dish best served ice-cold...'An immersive, action-packed thriller with intrigue in the air and threats around every corner' The Herald'Great fun ... the language is colourful and the action never stops' Laura... -
The Negritude Movement: W.E.B. Du Bois, Leon Damas, Aime Cesaire, Leopold Senghor, Frantz Fanon, and the Evolution of an Insurgent Idea by Reiland Rabaka 9781498511377
RRP: £59.00£54.41The Negritude Movement provides readers with not only an intellectual history of the Negritude Movement but also its prehistory (W.E.B. Du Bois, the New Negro Movement, and the Harlem Renaissance) and its posthistory (Frantz Fanon and the evolution of... -
Manifesto for a Democratic Civilization: Civilization: the Age of Masked Gods and Disguised Kings: Volume 1 by Abdullah Ocalan 9788293064428
£15.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788293064428Author Abdullah OcalanFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Compass PressPublisher Communalism PressWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 226mm *... -
My Traitor's Heart: Blood and Bad Dreams: A South African Explores the Madness in His Country, His Tribe and Himself by Rian Malan
RRP: £12.99£9.09WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHORIn '70s' South Africa, Rian Malan - descendant of the architects of apartheid, middle-class white boy, friend to blacks - went to work as a crime reporter for a local Johannesburg rag. There he encountered first-hand... -
Tolerance Is a Wasteland: Palestine and the Culture of Denial by Saree Makdisi
RRP: £25.00£19.18How denial sustains the liberal imagination of a progressive and democratic Israel. The question that this book aims to answer might seem simple: how can a violent project of dispossession and discrimination be imagined, felt, and profoundly believed in... -
Syria: A Modern History by David W. Lesch 9781509527526
RRP: £16.99£11.54Today Syria is a country known for all the wrong reasons: civil war, vicious sectarianism, and major humanitarian crisis. But how did this once rich, multi-cultural society end up as the site of one of the twenty-first century's most devastating and... -
Savarkar: Echoes from a Forgotten Past, 1883-1924 by Vikram Sampath 9780670090303
RRP: £28.95£21.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780670090303Author Vikram SampathFormat HardbackPage Count 624Imprint Penguin VikingPublisher Penguin Random House India -
Africa: A Modern History by Guy Arnold
RRP: £40.00£29.08A magisterial and sweeping history of modern Africa.The end of the Second World War signalled the rapid end of the European African empires. In 1945, only four African countries were independent; by 1963, thirty African states created the Organization of...