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Don Roberto: The Adventure of Being Cunninghame Graham by James Jauncey 9781910895764
RRP: £24.99£17.71'A combination of all that is best in memoir, biography and history.' - Caroline Moorehead 'In this remarkable book... Jauncey has performed the great service of reminding us of a wonderful figure from Scotland's recent history.' - Alexander McCall... -
A History of Cuba and its Relations with the United States, Vol 1 1492-1845: From the Conquest of Cuba to La Escalera by Phillip Sheldon Foner 9780717808601
RRP: £18.99£16.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780717808601Author Phillip Sheldon FonerFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint International Publishers Co Inc.,U.S.Publisher International Publishers Co Inc... -
Arabs and Israelis: Conflict and Peacemaking in the Middle East by Abdel Monem Said Aly
RRP: £43.99£38.89Lasting over 120 years, the Arab-Israeli conflict involves divergent narratives about history, national identities, land ownership, injustices and victimhood. Domestic forces and actors as well as international and regional dynamics have ensured the... -
NKJV, Holy Bible, Soft Touch Edition, Leathersoft, Brown, Comfort Print: Holy Bible, New King James Version by Thomas Nelson
RRP: £9.99£7.51The full NKJV text with added features is a great value for a new Christian or someone interested in learning more about God.The accuracy of the New King James Version is now available in a stylishly classic look with soft and flexible covers and the... -
British Politics by Simon Griffiths
RRP: £37.99£34.73Fully revised and updated third edition of a popular, established textbook, providing a definitive introduction to Britain's politics, political institutions and processes. Comprehensively re-worked and re-structured to better align with courses, this... -
This Whispering in Our Hearts Revisited by Henry Reynolds 9781742235622
RRP: £20.95£17.17`How is it our minds are not satisfied? What means this whispering in the bottom of our hearts?' Listening to the whispering in his own heart, Henry Reynolds was led into the lives of remarkable and largely forgotten white humanitarians who followed... -
The Rise of China's Industrial Policy, 1978 to 2020 by Barry Naughton
RRP: £21.95£17.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786078066599Author Barry NaughtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 139Imprint Union de Universidades de America Latina y El CaribePublisher Union de Universidades... -
A Passion For The Dales by David Joy 9781912101030
RRP: £19.99£14.68The author of more than 50 books, David Joy conveys the unique appeal of an area that has always aroused strong passions. His family has lived in Upper Wharfedale for more than four centuries - mainly as lead miners and farmers - and thus he is in a... -
Defcon-2: Standing on the Brink of Nuclear War During the Cuban Missile Crisis by John D. Gresham 9780471670223
RRP: £25.99£24.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780471670223Author John D. GreshamFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint John Wiley & Sons IncPublisher Turner Publishing CompanyWeight(grams)... -
DREAMS AND VISIONS: Is Jesus Awakening the Muslim World? by Tom Doyle
RRP: £10.99£7.77What would you do if Jesus appeared to you in a dream and told you to follow Him? What if these visions continued for over thirty days? And what if you were Muslim?Pastor Tom Doyle has spent eleven years as a full-time missionary in the Middle East and... -
Who Are We Now?: Stories of Modern England by Jason Cowley
RRP: £10.99£7.51A Sunday Times Paperback of the Year '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 TimesJason Cowley, editor-in-chief of the New... -
Making China Modern: From the Great Qing to Xi Jinping by Klaus Mühlhahn 9780674248311
RRP: £22.95£17.99"Thoughtful, probing...a worthy successor to the famous histories of Fairbank and Spence [that] will be read by all students and scholars of modern China."-William C. Kirby, coauthor of Can China Lead?It is tempting to attribute the rise of China to Deng... -
The Japanese Economy by Hiroaki Richard Watanabe
RRP: £22.99£21.48Although still the world's third largest economy, Japan continues to feel the effects of the collapse of a massive asset price bubble in the early 1990s. In recent years further setbacks, including both the Asian and global financial crises, and the 2011... -
Creating Local Democracy in Iran: State Building and the Politics of Decentralization by Kian Tajbakhsh
£75.52Empirically rich and theoretically informed, this book is an innovative analysis of political decentralization under the Islamic Republic of Iran. Drawing upon Kian Tajbakhsh's twenty years of experience working with and researching local government in... -
The Queen's Agent: Francis Walsingham at the Court of Elizabeth I by John Cooper
RRP: £12.99£8.56Elizabeth I came to the throne at a time of insecurity and unrest. Rivals threatened her reign; England was a Protestant island, isolated in a sea of Catholic countries. Spain plotted an invasion, but Elizabeth's Secretary, Francis Walsingham, was... -
Falling Down: Parliamentary Conservatism and the Decline of Tory Britain by Phil Burton-Cartledge
RRP: £18.99£15.65Despite winning the December 2019 General Election, the Conservative parliamentary party is a moribund organisation. It no longer speaks for, or to, the British people. Its leadership has sacrificed the long-standing commitment to the Union to 'Get... -
The Groundings with My Brothers by Walter Rodney 9781788731157
RRP: £9.99£8.41In his short life, the Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the leading thinkers and activists of the anticolonial revolution, leading movements in North America, South America, the African continent, and the Caribbean. In each locale,... -
This Is Paradise!: My North Korean Childhood by Hyok Kang
RRP: £10.99£7.40Hyok Kang was eighteen when he escaped from North Korea, a country locked away from the outside world. This personal, illustrated account of school days in a rigidly communist institution and everyday life with his family and community provides a rare... -
Night Haunts: A Journey Through the London Night by Sukhdev Sandhu
£13.33Traditional depictions of London at night have imagined a lawless orgy of depravity and pestilence. But is Britain's capital after dark now as bland and unthreatening as an evening in any new provincial town? Sukhdev Sandhu journeys across the city to... -
The People Want: A Radical Exploration of the Arab Uprising by Gilbert Achcar 9780863564772
RRP: £16.99£12.08"The people want ...": the first half of slogans chanted by millions of Arab protesters in 2011 revealed a long-suppressed craving for democracy. But huge social and economic problems were also laid bare by their demands. In this landmark work, noted... -
The Political History of Modern Iran: Revolution, Reaction and Transformation, 1905 to the Present by Ali Rahnema 9780755643998
RRP: £23.99£21.08From the rise of constitutionalism during the rule of despotic Qajars, foreign invasions, the Pahlavi regimes' destructive politics, economic, cultural and social modernization efforts and the oil nationalization movement, to the Iranian Revolution, its... -
China and Russia: Four Centuries of Conflict and Concord by Philip Snow
RRP: £25.00£20.92A compelling, expansive history of the relationship between China and Russia, from the seventeenth century to the present Russia and China, the largest and most populous countries in the world, respectively, have maintained a delicate relationship for... -
The Utility of Force: The Art of War in the Modern World by Rupert Smith 9780141991603
RRP: £12.99£9.09UPDATED WITH TWO NEW CHAPTERS'One of the most provocative and startling books ever written by a British commander ... an update of the two great thinkers on war and peace, Clausewitz and Sun Tsu, for our time ... it is for anyone interested in the... -
We Will Return as Millions: A Story of Violence and Resistance in Bolivia by Linda Farthing
RRP: £16.99£11.67In three dramatic weeks in October and November 2019, the fourteen years of progressive change that Evo Morales' pink tide government had worked to implement in Bolivia and beyond came to a screeching halt. President Morales was forced to resign after... -
The Red Web: The Kremlin's Wars on the Internet by Andrei Soldatov
RRP: £14.99£9.80The Internet in Russia is either the most efficient totalitarian tool or the device by which totalitarianism will be overthrown. Perhaps both.On the eighth floor of an ordinary-looking building in an otherwise residential district of southwest Moscow, in... -
The Northern Question: A History of a Divided Country by Thomas Hazeldine
RRP: £20.00£13.34Britain has scarcely begun to come to terms with its recent upheavals, from the crisis over Brexit to the collapse of Labour's 'red wall'. What can explain such momentous shifts?In this essential work, Tom Hazeldine excavates the history of a divided... -
The Hazaras and the Afghan State: Rebellion, Exclusion and the Struggle for Recognition by Niamatullah Ibrahimi
RRP: £20.00£17.46The Hazaras of Afghanistan have borne the brunt of many of the destructive forces unleashed by the establishment of the Afghan monarchy in 1747. The history of their relationship with the Afghan state has been punctuated by frequent episodes of ethnic... -
Kenya: Between Hope and Despair, 1963-2012 by Daniel Branch 9780300194142
RRP: £30.00£29.25On December 12, 1963, people across Kenya joyfully celebrated independence from British colonial rule, anticipating a bright future of prosperity and social justice. As the nation approached the fiftieth anniversary of its independence, however, the... -
Whites and Democracy in South Africa by Roger Southall 9781847013743
RRP: £25.99£24.83Key book in Whiteness Studies that engages with the different ways in which the last white minority in Africa to give way to majority rule has adjusted to the arrival of democracy and the different modes of transition from "settlers" to "citizens". ... -
Inside the Mind of Xi Jinping by Francois Bougon
RRP: £17.99£15.79Xi Jinping wants to become the world's most powerful leader. To succeed, he must balance Mao's Little Red Book with the Analects of Confucius, and more. For Xi, the task ahead of China is to preserve the guiding ideology of Marxism, while challenging... -
Afghan Crucible: The Soviet Invasion and the Making of Modern Afghanistan by Elisabeth Leake 9780198846017
RRP: £30.00£20.95A new global history of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan - an invasion whose consequences are still felt in Afghanistan and across the wider world. On 24 December 1979, Soviet armed forces entered Afghanistan, beginning an occupation that would last... -
Chinese Soft Power by Maria Repnikova
RRP: £17.00£15.24This Element presents an overarching analysis of Chinese visions and practices of soft power. Maria Repnikova's analysis introduces the Chinese theorization of the idea of soft power, as well as its practical implementation across global contexts. The... -
Hitler's Last Day: Minute by Minute by Emma Craigie
RRP: £12.99£8.60On 30th April 1945 Germany is in chaos...Russian troops have reached Berlin. All over the country, people are on the move - concentration camp survivors, Allied PoWs, escaping Nazis - and the civilian population is fast running out of food. The man who... -
The Vanishing: The Twilight of Christianity in the Middle East by Janine di Giovanni 9781526625854
RRP: £10.99£7.77**Longlisted Moore Prize for Human Rights Writing** 'A tragic portrait of a disappearing world, created with passion and literary grace' SALMAN RUSHDIE 'Janine di Giovanni is a humane and persistent witness' HISHAM MATAR 'Profoundly moving' MARK... -
Sudan: The Failure and Division of an African State by Richard Cockett
RRP: £12.99£11.46Over the past two decades, the situation in Africa's largest country, Sudan, has progressively deteriorated: the country is in second position on the Failed States Index, a war in Darfur has claimed hundreds of thousands of deaths, President Bashir has... -
A Kick in the Belly: Women, Slavery and Resistance by Stella Dadzie
RRP: £9.99£6.64The forgotten history of women slaves and their struggle for liberation.Enslaved West Indian women had few opportunities to record their stories for posterity. In this riveting work of historical reclamation, Stella Dadzie recovers the lives of women who... -
It's a Continent: Unravelling Africa's history one country at a time by Astrid Madimba
RRP: £20.00£13.35'. . . we need this book. Of course Africa needs it as well, because no other huge area of the planet is treated as such a singular region, and that has to change. But the rest of the planet needs It's a Continent because we miss out by not recognising... -
Leonor: The Story of a Lost Childhood by Paula Delgado-Kling 9781682194478
RRP: £17.99£12.30Set in the author's homeland, Colombia, this is the heartbreaking story of Leonor, former child soldier of the FARC, a rural guerrilla group. Paula Delgado-Kling followed Leonor for nineteen years, from shortly after she was an active member of the FARC... -
The Glass Wall: Lives on the Baltic Frontier by Max Egremont
RRP: £12.99£12.93This journey to the edge of Europe mixes history, travelogue and oral testimony to spellbinding and revelatory effect.Few countries have suffered more from the convulsions and bloodshed of twentieth-century Europe than those in the eastern Baltic. Small... -
Churchill: A Study in Greatness by Geoffrey Best 9781852852535
£66.84This work aims to make sense of the extraordinary man - whom many people feel they know well. His career, personal life and his role in Britain's survival during World War II, including her help in the defeat of Hitler, are investigated.About the...