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Mandela: In Honor of an Extraordinary Life by Makaziwe Mandela 9780847872008
RRP: €68.43€48.02A tribute to her father, Makaziwe Mandela shares the most definitive portrait of Nelson Mandela to date, revealing the man behind the anti-apartheid movement that changed the world. One of Time magazine s Most Important People of the Twentieth Century,... -
How to be a Politician: 2000 Years of Good (and Bad) Advice by Vince Cable
RRP: €20.22€14.61'Always forgive your enemies - but never forget their names.' JFK'What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.' David... -
The Violence of Britishness: Racism, Borders and the Conditions of Citizenship by Nadya Ali
RRP: €20.22€13.73In post-Brexit Britain wracked by multiple crises, the entitlements of citizenship grow increasingly precarious. 'Britishness' is a way of understanding the nation shaped by white nationalism that acts as a powerful tool of racial bordering, separating... -
A Better Ambition: Confessions of a Faithful Liberal by Tim Farron
RRP: €27.36€19.85'I am passionate about my country and angry at the mendacity that has led to the appalling situation in which the UK and our people are heading for relative poverty and insignificance while our politics is offering bitter, unpalatable extremes. There has... -
Dancing on Bones: History and Power in China, Russia and North Korea by Katie Stallard
RRP: €30.93€22.23History didn't end. Democracy didn't triumph. America's leading role in the world is no longer assured. Instead, autocrats and populist strongmen are on the rise, and the global order established after 1945 is under attack. This is the phenomenon Katie... -
A Short History of Brexit: From Brentry to Backstop by Kevin O'Rourke
RRP: €11.89€8.94'Crisp, clear and quietly devastating' Guardian'Excellent, authoritative, highly readable' Irish TimesA succinct, expert guide to how we got to BrexitAfter all the debates, manoeuvrings, recriminations and exaltations, Brexit is upon us. But, as Kevin... -
Jacobs, White, and Ovey: The European Convention on Human Rights by Bernadette Rainey 9780198847137
RRP: €58.30€54.61The eighth edition of Jacobs, White and Ovey: The European Convention on Human Rights is a clear and concise companion to this increasingly important and extensive area of the law. The authors examine each of the Convention rights in turn, explore the... -
A Kick in the Belly: Women, Slavery and Resistance by Stella Dadzie 9781788738842
RRP: €17.84€14.93Enslaved West Indian women had few opportunities to record their stories for posterity. Yet from their dusty footprints and the umpteen small clues they left for us to unravel, there's no question that they earned their place in history. Pick any... -
The Tetris Effect: The Cold War Battle for the World's Most Addictive Game by Dan Ackerman 9780861547814
RRP: €13.08€10.0321 February 1989. Three men fly into Moscow, representing software giants from Britain, America, and Japan. Each of them is determined to undercut the others in order to secure a technology so powerfully addictive it has brought the government department... -
Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam by Frances FitzGerald
RRP: €21.41€21.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316159197Author Frances FitzGeraldFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Little, Brown & CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams)... -
Metternich: Strategist and Visionary by Wolfram Siemann 9780674743922
RRP: €40.40€33.19A compelling new biography that recasts the most important European statesman of the first half of the nineteenth century, famous for his alleged archconservatism, as a friend of realpolitik and reform, pursuing international peace.Metternich has a... -
The Ruble: A Political History by Ekaterina Pravilova
RRP: €36.88€31.86A groundbreaking history of Russia, from empire to the Soviet era, viewed through the lens of its money. Money seems passive, a silent witness to the deeds and misdeeds of its holders, but through its history intimate dramas and grand historical... -
Ambush at Central Park: When the IRA Came to New York by Mark Bulik 9781531502607
RRP: €26.17€19.80A compelling, action-packed account of the only officially sanctioned I.R.A attack ever conducted on American soil. In 1922, three of the Irish Republican Army's top gunmen arrived in New York City seeking vengeance. Their target: "Cruxy" O'Connor, a... -
My Hair is Pink Under This Veil by Rabina Khan 9781785906466
RRP: €20.22€14.61"In 1977, one of the girls at my infant school in Kent asked me if I was a golliwog. I said I wasn't sure. In 2015, when I ran to be mayor in Tower Hamlets, a smartly dressed middle-class man saw me wearing a headscarf and asked me what colour my hair... -
The European Union: A Citizen's Guide by Chris Bickerton
RRP: €13.08€9.25'An indispensable book for these times' - Big Issue'A lucid, helpful guide to the EU's structures and operating methods' - Financial TimesFor most of us today, 'Europe' refers to the European Union. At the centre of a seemingly never-ending crisis, the... -
The ISIS Hostage: One Man's True Story of 13 Months in Captivity by Puk Damsgard
RRP: €17.84€13.03The Number One International BestsellerThe dramatic story of freelance photographer Daniel Rye, who was held hostage for 13 months by ISIS, as told by an award-winning writer.In May 2013, freelance photographer Daniel Rye was captured in Syria and held... -
Sovereign Funds: How the Communist Party of China Finances Its Global Ambitions by Zongyuan Zoe Liu
RRP: €45.16€35.63The first in-depth account of the sudden growth of China's sovereign wealth funds and their transformative impact on global markets, domestic and multinational businesses, and international politics.One of the keys to China's global rise has been its... -
Lenin Walked on the Moon: The Mad History of Russian Cosmism by Michel Eltchaninoff
RRP: €17.84€13.03How a Soviet cosmic dream is becoming a modern reality Cheating death and raising the dead. Creating life. Freeing the spirit. Colonising space. These projects, of which some have been achieved and some will soon, have a shared Russian history,... -
The Return of the Russian Leviathan by Sergei Medvedev 9781509536054
RRP: €21.41€19.09Winner of the 2020 Pushkin House Book Prize Russia's relationship with its neighbours and with the West has worsened dramatically in recent years. Under Vladimir Putin's leadership, the country has annexed Crimea, begun a war in Eastern Ukraine, used... -
How to Hustle and Win: A Survival Guide for the Ghetto by Supreme Understanding 9780981617008
RRP: €29.69€20.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981617008Author Supreme UnderstandingFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Supreme Design PublishingPublisher Supreme Design PublishingWeight(grams)... -
Dugin Against Dugin: A Traditionalist Critique of the Fourth Political Theory by Charles Upton 9781597312196
€28.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781597312196Author Charles UptonFormat PaperbackPage Count 536Imprint ReviviscimusPublisher ReviviscimusWeight(grams) 812gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 30mm -
Islamic Gunpowder Empires: Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals by Douglas E. Streusand 9780813313597
RRP: €59.49€51.77Islamic Gunpowder Empires provides readers with a history of Islamic civilization in the early modern world through a comparative examination of Islam's three greatest empires: the Ottomans (centered in what is now Turkey), the Safavids (in modern Iran),... -
The Long Hangover: Putin's New Russia and the Ghosts of the Past by Shaun Walker
RRP: €20.22€14.61In The Long Hangover, Shaun Walker presents a deeply reported, bottom-up explanation of Russia's resurgence under Putin. By cleverly exploiting the memory of the Soviet victory over fascism in World War II, Putin's regime has made ordinary Russians feel... -
1809 Thunder on the Danube: Napoleon's Defeat of the Hapsburgs, Volume I by John H. Gill 9781848327573
RRP: €22.60€16.67The Franco-Austrian War of 1809 was Napoleon's last victorious war. He would win many battles in his future campaigns, but never again would one of Europe's great powers lie broken at his feet. In this respect 1809 represents a high point of the First... -
Too Important for the Generals: Losing and Winning the First World War by Allan Mallinson
RRP: €15.46€10.82'War is too important to be left to the generals' snapped future French prime minister Georges Clemenceau on learning of yet another bloody and futile offensive on the Western Front. One of the great questions in the ongoing discussions and debate about... -
The Way of the Knife: The Cia, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth by Mark Mazzetti 9780143125013
RRP: €26.17€17.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143125013Author Mark MazzettiFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Kosovo: a Short History by Noel Malcolm 9781509893591
RRP: €23.80€17.48By the early-1980s Kosovo had reached a state of permanent crisis and military occupation, and it became the main focus for the revival of Serbian nationalism. This book traces the history of Kosovo, examining the Yugoslavian conflict, and the part... -
Nazi Germany And The Jews: The Years Of Persecution: 1933-1939 by Saul Friedlander
RRP: €17.84€11.66A magisterial history of the Jews in Nazi Germany and the regime's policies towards them in the years prior to World War II and the Holocaust. Written by arguably the world's leading scholar on the subject.Himself a survivor, Friedlander has been a... -
The Rwanda Crisis: History of a Genocide by Gerard Prunier
RRP: €23.79€20.75Offering an up-to-date historical perspective which should enable readers to fathom how the brutal massacres of 800,000 Rwandese came to pass in 1994, this volume includes a new chapter that brings the analysis up to the end of 1996. Gerard Prunier... -
How to Read Like a Parasite: Why the Left Got High on Nietzsche by Daniel Tutt 9781914420627
RRP: €15.46€10.23"Beautifully written and bursting with spirit, How to Read Like a Parasite is destined to be vital reading." - Matthew McManus, author of Nietzsche and the Politics of Reaction How to Read Like a Parasite overturns the whitewashed and defanged... -
Gastronativism: Food, Identity, Politics by Fabio Parasecoli 9780231202077
RRP: €23.80€18.49Winner, Gourmand World Cookbook Awards - Food - Food Heritage - USANominee, Book Award in Food Issues and Advocacy, James Beard FoundationThe Italian political right is outraged by halal tortellini and a pork-free lasagna served at the Vatican. In India,... -
Advanced Introduction to European Union Law: Second Edition by Jacques Ziller 9781035323135
RRP: €21.36€19.59Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world's leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid... -
The Fourth Man: The Race to Reveal the KGB Spy at the Top of the CIA by Robert Baer
RRP: €23.80€15.89***'Reads like Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy' -James Risen, The Intercept'A compelling account of the ongoing search for the Fourth Man... a gripping and mind-bending read' - Dr. Mark Stout, The Daily Beast For the first time ever, New York Times bestselling... -
Lenin: Responding to Catastrophe, Forging Revolution by Paul Le Blanc 9780745348346
RRP: €20.22€13.73'Brings out the practical activism, principled politics, and revolutionary patience crucial to organizing the oppressed on a rapidly over-heating planet' - Jodi Dean 'Crackling with intellectual life' - Lars T. Lih Vladimir Lenin lies in a tomb in... -
Putin v. the People: The Perilous Politics of a Divided Russia by Samuel A. Greene
RRP: €15.46€13.64A fascinating, bottom-up exploration of contemporary Russian politics that sheds new light on why Putin's grip on power is more fragile than we think "Putin v. the People wrestles with perhaps the central conundrum of contemporary Russia: the endurance... -
The Heartbeat of Iran: Real Voices of a Country and Its People by Tara Kangarlou
RRP: €22.60€16.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632462053Author Tara KangarlouFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Ig PublishingPublisher Ig Publishing -
First Raise a Flag: How South Sudan Won the Longest War but Lost the Peace by Peter Martell
RRP: €32.73€28.61When South Sudan's war began, the Beatles were playing their first hits and reaching the moon was an astronaut's dream. Half a century later, with millions massacred in Africa's longest war, the continent's biggest country split in two. It was an... -
Africa's First Democrats: Somalia's Aden A. Osman and Abdirazak H. Hussen by Abdi Ismail Samatar 9780253022226
RRP: €96.39€82.36Abdi Ismail Samatar provides a clear and foundational history of Somalia at the dawn of the country's independence when Africa's first democrats appeared. While many African countries were dominated by authoritarian rulers when they entered the... -
Radical Scotland: Uncovering Scotland's radical history - from the French Revolutionary era to the 1820 Rising by Kenny MacAskill 9781785905704
RRP: €23.80€17.33The Political Martyrs memorial in Edinburgh looms large on the city's skyline but its history is relatively unknown. And that is not by accident. As Edinburgh's New Town was constructed, a narrative of kilts and loyalty was created for Scotland, with its... -
Love in a Time of War: My Years with Robert Fisk by Lara Marlowe
RRP: €13.08€9.25The Irish Times bestseller 'A gripping tale of savagery and courage' Noam Chomsky 'Fascinating and captivating' Irish Times 'A beautiful book... Full of pain and longing but also joy, adventure, and excitement' Janine di Giovanni 'A superb...