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Fear No Evil by Natan Sharansky
€17.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781891620027Author Natan SharanskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Penguin Putnam IncPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 586gDimensions(mm) 217mm... -
Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China by Leta Hong Fincher 9781786633651
RRP: €11.89€7.90On the eve of International Women's Day in 2015, the Chinese government arrested five feminist activists and jailed them for 37 days. The Feminist Five became a global cause celebre, with Hillary Clinton speaking out on their behalf, and activists... -
Corbyn: The Strange Rebirth of Radical Politics by Richard Seymour
RRP: €11.89€7.90Demolishing the Blairite opposition in 2015, Jeremy Corbyn saw off an attempted coup against his leadership under the banner of the "soft left" one year on. This unassuming antiwar socialist now leads Labour with a huge mandate. For the first time in... -
Red Flags: Why Xi's China Is in Jeopardy by George Magnus
RRP: €14.27€12.08A trusted economic commentator provides a penetrating account of the threats to China's continued economic rise Under President Xi Jinping, China has become a large and confident power both at home and abroad, but the country also faces serious... -
Lights In The Distance: Exile and Refuge at the Borders of Europe by Daniel Trilling
RRP: €11.89€8.40Shortlisted for the Stanford Travel Book of the Year'This powerful study looks behind the statistics and political slogans to reveal the human face of the refugee crisis.' GuardianA mother who puts her children into a refrigerated lorry and asks 'what... -
Border Nation: A Story of Migration by Leah Cowan
RRP: €11.89€8.09'A must-read manifesto for border abolition' - gal-dem Borders are more than geographical lines - they impact all our lives, whether it's the inhumanity of deportations, or a rise in racist attacks in the wake of the EU referendum. Border Nation shows... -
Different Perspectives on the Syrian Reality: Research in the Diverse Fields of Syrian Culture by Alina Oueishek
RRP: €35.70€29.24This unique collection from Syria presents research papers focusing on topics in cultural research that are relevant to the current Syrian situation, especially with regard to the fundamental changes in the relationship of Syrians to the society they... -
The Northern Question: A History of a Divided Country by Thomas Hazeldine 9781786634092
RRP: €14.27€9.35Britain 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 Long Honduran Night: Resistance, Terror, and the United States in the Aftermath of the Coup by Dana Frank
RRP: €29.74€18.03This powerful narrative recounts the tumultuous time in Honduras that witnessed then-President Manuel Zelaya deposed by a coup in June 2009, told through first-person experiences and layered with deeper political analysis. It weaves together two... -
The Return of the Taliban: Afghanistan after the Americans Left by Hassan Abbas
RRP: €20.22€17.39The first account of the new Taliban-showing who they are, what they want, and how they differ from their predecessors A Newsweek Staffers' Favorite Book of 2023 Since the fall of Kabul in 2021, the Taliban have effective control of Afghanistan-a... -
Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula by Laleh Khalili 9781786634818
RRP: €23.80€16.35On the map of global trade, China is now the factory of the world. A parade of ships full of raw commodities-iron ore, coal, oil-arrive in its ports, and fleets of container ships leave with manufactured goods in all directions. The oil that fuels... -
The Impossible City: A Hong Kong Memoir by Karen Cheung
RRP: €28.56€18.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593241431Author Karen CheungFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Freedom Undone: The Assault on Liberal Values and Institutions in Hong Kong by Michael C. Davis 9781952636448
RRP: €17.84€14.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952636448Author Michael C. DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Association for Asian StudiesPublisher Association for Asian Studies -
War in the Age of Trump: The Defeat of Isis, the Fall of the Kurds, the Conflict with Iran by Patrick Cockburn
RRP: €22.60€18.62In this urgent and timely book, Patrick Cockburn writes the first draft of the history of the current crisis in the Middle East.Here he charts the period from the recapture of Mosul in 2017 to Turkey's attack on Kurdish territory in November 2019, and... -
The New Nobility: The Restoration of Russia's Security State and the Enduring Legacy of the KGB by Andrei Soldatov
RRP: €16.65€10.95The security services have played a central,and often mysterious,role at key turning points in Russia during the tumultuous years following the Soviet collapse: from the Moscow apartment house bombings and theatre siege, to the war in Chechnya and the... -
Moldova: A History by Rebecca Haynes
RRP: €27.36€26.00Moldova is a new nation-state with a long history. Despite only recently gaining independence, following the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, Moldova's roots stretch all the way back to the Principality of Moldavia, established in 1359. After centuries... -
Freedom and Despair: Notes from the South Hebron Hills by David Shulman
RRP: €21.42€18.33Lately, it seems as if we wake up to a new atrocity each day. Every morning is now a ritual of scrolling through our Twitter feeds or scanning our newspapers for the latest updates on fresh horrors around the globe. Despite the countless protests we... -
The People's Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited by Louisa Lim 9780190227913
RRP: €15.46€10.82"One of the best analyses of the impact of Tiananmen throughout China in the years since 1989." --The New York Times Book Review On June 4, 1989, People's Liberation Army soldiers opened fire on unarmed civilians in Beijing, killing untold hundreds of... -
The Letters of Margaret of Anjou by Helen E Maurer 9781783276820
RRP: €32.12€31.94New study and edition of the remarkable letter collection of Margaret of Anjou, bringing all her correspondence together in one volume for the first time. 2020 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award Winner Margaret of Anjou remains a figure of... -
Encountering China: Michael Sandel and Chinese Philosophy by Michael J. Sandel
RRP: €29.69€23.18In the West, Harvard philosopher Michael Sandel is a thinker of unusual prominence. In China, he's a phenomenon, greeted by vast crowds. China Daily reports that he has acquired a popularity "usually reserved for Hollywood movie stars." China Newsweek... -
Seven Absolute Rights: Recovering the Historical Foundations of Canada's Rule of Law by Ryan Alford 9780228000785
RRP: €29.69€27.41For 150 years, Canada's constitutional order has been both flexible and durable, ensuring peace, order, and good government while protecting the absolute rights at the core of the rule of law. In this era of transnational terrorism and proliferating... -
The Real North Korea: Life and Politics in the Failed Stalinist Utopia by Andrei Lankov
RRP: €15.46€10.82Andrei Lankov has gone where few outsiders have ever been. A native of the former Soviet Union, he lived as an exchange student in North Korea in the 1980s. He has studied it for his entire career, using his fluency in Korean and personal contacts to... -
The Mint: Lawrence After Arabia by T E Lawrence
RRP: €15.46€11.35Lawrence's own account of his experience after the Arab Revolt - when he joined the RAF under a new name. In 1922, his dreams of an independent Arabia shattered, T.E. Lawrence enlisted in the RAF under the assumed name John Hume Ross. Though... -
The Lebanon Uprising of 2019: Voices from the Revolution by Jeffrey G. Karam
RRP: €30.93€26.91In October 2019, hundreds of thousands took to the streets of Lebanon to protest austerity measures in what became known as the "thawra." These were the largest mass protests seen in the country's modern history. The Lebanon Uprising of 2019 puts... -
Russian Grand Strategy in the Era of Global Power Competition by Andrew Monaghan
RRP: €35.70€25.36This book offers a nuanced and detailed examination of two of the most important current debates about contemporary Russia's international activity: is Moscow acting strategically or opportunistically, and should this be understood in regional or global... -
Tryweryn: A New Dawn? by Dr Wyn Thomas 9781912631483
€23.79Definitive account of the cultural and political impact on Wales of the flooding of the Tryweryn Valley. The failure of the nation to block the move politically led to increased Welsh national consciousness and to a period of militant activism which... -
Money, Markets, and Monarchies: The Gulf Cooperation Council and the Political Economy of the Contemporary Middle East by Adam Hanieh 9781108453158
RRP: €29.74€28.32Framed by a critical analysis of global capitalism, this book examines how the six states of the Gulf Cooperation Council are powerfully shaping the political economy of the wider Middle East. Through unprecedented and fine-grained empirical research -... -
A Russian Diary: With a Foreword by Jon Snow by Anna Politkovskaya 9780099523451
RRP: €19.03€13.82A Russian Diary is the book that Anna Politkovskaya had recently completed when she was murdered in a contract killing in Moscow. Covering the period from the Russian parliamentary elections of December 2003 to the tragic aftermath of the Beslan school... -
Israel's Counterterrorism Strategy: Origins to the Present by Boaz Ganor
RRP: €41.65€32.38Since declaring independence in 1948, Israel has been involved in an intractable conflict with the Palestinians and its neighbors. While violence has ebbed and flowed over the years, the threat of terrorism has remained a constant factor, shaping Israeli... -
The Sea in Russian Strategy by Andrew Monaghan
RRP: €17.84€13.23For the first two decades after the Cold War, Russian naval power hardly featured in the Euro-Atlantic community's strategic thinking. This began to change in the mid-2010s, as the idea that the Russian navy poses a threat to NATO began to gain ground... -
On Practice and Contradiction by Mao Tse-Tung
RRP: €14.27€9.35These early philosophical writings underpinned the Chinese revolutions, and their clarion calls to insurrection remain some of the most stirring of all time. Drawing on a dizzying array of references from contemporary culture and politics, Zizek's... -
An Uprooted Community: A history of Epynt by Herbert Hughes 9781800994027
€12.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800994027Author Herbert HughesFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y Lolfa -
The Making of Modern British Politics: 1867 - 1945 by Martin Pugh 9780631225904
RRP: €39.21€34.68The third edition of this successful text has been revised to include a new chapter on the politics of the Second World War, and to reflect recent developments in research into the period. Third edition of this insightful survey of changes in British... -
The World According to Xi: Everything You Need to Know About the New China by Kerry Brown 9781788313285
RRP: €15.46€11.35China is now the most powerful country on earth. Its manufacturing underpins the world's economy; its military is growing at the fastest rate of any nation and its leader - Xi Jinping - is to set the pace and tone of world affairs for decades. In 2017... -
Senseless Acts of Beauty: Cultures of Resistance by George McKay
€30.56Welcome to the social and environmental devastation that is Britain in 1996. Welcome to interchangeable political parties and their chattering media jesters pulling together to make Johnny Rotten's dream come true: no future. But despite their best... -
An Image of Africa/ The Trouble with Nigeria by Chinua Achebe
RRP: €8.32€6.10Beautifully written yet highly controversial, An Image of Africa asserts Achebe's belief in Joseph Conrad as a 'bloody racist' and his conviction that Conrad's novel Heart of Darkness only serves to perpetuate damaging stereotypes of black people. Also... -
The Fall of Heaven: The Pahlavis and the Final Days of Imperial Iran by Andrew Scott Cooper
€21.31In this remarkably human portrait of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last Emperor of Iran, Andrew Scott Cooper examines the life of an infamously complex personality in a bold new light. The recent wave of instability in the Middle East has led Iranians and... -
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017 by Rashid Khalidi 9781250787651
RRP: €21.42€14.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250787651Author Rashid KhalidiFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 290gDimensions(mm) 208mm *... -
John Bercow: Call To Order by Sebastian Whale 9781785905582
RRP: €23.80€17.48Polarising, combative, unconventional: few embody the fraught nature of British politics today quite like John Bercow. A man who is revered by his one-time opponents and condemned by his former bedfellows, he has traversed the deep chasm between the... -
Into the Whirlwind by Eugenia Ginzburg 9781903155967
RRP: €19.04€18.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903155967Author Eugenia GinzburgFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint Persephone Books LtdPublisher Persephone Books Ltd