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Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot: The Great Mistake of Scottish Independence John Lloyd (Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union) 9781509542673
RRP: $25.33$16.77The Scottish nationalists seek to end the United Kingdom after 300 years of a successful union. Their drive for an independent Scotland is now nearer to success than it has ever been. Success would mean a diminished Britain and a perilously insecure... -
Gwangju Uprising: The Rebellion for Democracy in South Korea by Hwang Sok-yong
RRP: $58.50$47.13On 18th May 1980, student activists gathered in the South Korean city of Gwangju to protest the coup d'etat and martial law government of General Chun Doo-hwan. The security forces responded with unmitigated violence, and over the next ten days hundreds... -
London is the Place for Me: Black Britons, Citizenship and the Politics of Race by Kennetta Hammond Perry 9780190909949
RRP: $59.46$44.40Black people in the British Empire have long challenged the notion that "there ain't no black in the Union Jack." For the post-World War II wave of Afro-Caribbean migrants, many of whom had long been subjects of the Empire, claims to a British identity... -
A History of the Modern Middle East William L. Cleveland 9780813349800
RRP: $115.03$100.39A History of the Modern Middle East examines the profound and often dramatic transformations of the region in the past two centuries, from the Ottoman and Egyptian reforms, through the challenge of Western imperialism, to the impact of US foreign... -
Shell-shocked: On the Ground Under Israel's Gaza Assault by Omer Mohammed 9781608465132
RRP: $33.13$22.76For 51 days during the summer of 2014, the Israel military reduced much of Gaza to rubble. More than 2000 Palestinians lost their lives during the assault. Mohammad Omer, the only Palestinian journalist reporting in English about the assault, details the... -
How To Change It: Make a Difference by Joshua Virasami
RRP: $13.63$10.00Introducing the new 'How To...' series from #Merky Books: unlock your potential with our short, practical pocket-sized guides._______________________________________________________How to Change It: your indispensable guide to activismIs it possible to... -
Kings, Barons and Justices: The Making and Enforcement of Legislation in Thirteenth-Century England by Paul Brand 9780521025850
RRP: $74.08$67.92This book is a study of two important and related pieces of thirteenth-century English legislation - the Provisions of Westminster of 1259 and the Statute of Marlborough of 1267 - and is the first on any of the statutes of this period of major... -
Nationalism, Colonialism, and Literature by Terry Eagleton 9780816618637
RRP: $37.03$32.60The three essays in this volume were originally published as individual pamphlets by the Field Day Theatre Company in Derry, Nothern Ireland. Founded in 1980 as a theatre cmpany, Field Day has eveolved as a publisher concerned with the typically Irish... -
The Government and Politics of the European Union Neill Nugent (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK) 9781137454089
RRP: $72.13$66.07The definitive textbook on EU politics and governance, now in its 8th edition, has been thoroughly updated to take into account the ongoing developments and evolution of the EU. Major changes, recent developments, and the crises that have befallen the... -
The Two-state Delusion: Israel and Palestine - A Tale of Two Narratives by Padraig O'Malley
RRP: $35.08$23.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143129172Author Padraig O'MalleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu's Congo by Michela Wrong 9780060934439
RRP: $38.98$27.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060934439Author Michela WrongFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 313g -
United Kingdom Adrian Bingham (University of Sheffield) 9781509537563
RRP: $25.33$16.77The United Kingdom has been at the heart of global history for centuries - as a conqueror, an engine of international trade, and a symbol of modernity. It was the first industrial nation, the centre of the world's biggest empire, and the home of an... -
Backstop Land Glenn Patterson 9781838932022
RRP: $27.28$24.59'Funny, wise, entertaining and illuminating, this book is one of the best things to come out of the Brexit saga' FINTAN O'TOOLE. 'Read this absorbing book to understand why, since 2016, we have been playing with fire. There is no longer any excuse for... -
Outside In by Peter Hain 9781849544108
RRP: $25.33$18.06Peter Hain has lived an extraordinary life. Formerly an 'outsider' he became an 'insider', one of the last Labour government's most effective ministers. He held an array of glittering posts in the British political establishment, from key roles in the... -
Brexit and British Politics Geoffrey Evans (University of Oxford) 9781509523863
RRP: $31.18$28.10Brexit has changed everything - from our government, to our economy and principal trading relationship, to the organization of our state. This watershed moment, which surprised most observers and mobilized previously apathetic sections of the electorate,... -
A Child in Palestine: The Cartoons of Naji Al-Ali by Naji al-Ali 9781844673650
$35.72Naji al-Ali grew up in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ain al-Hilweh in the south Lebanese city of Sidon, where his gift for drawing was discovered by the Palestinian poet Ghassan Kanafani in the late 1950s. Early the following decade he left for Kuwait,... -
Dinner with Mugabe: The Untold Story of a Freedom Fighter Who Became a Tyrant by Heidi Holland
RRP: $23.38$16.44This penetrating, timely portrait of Robert Mugabe is the psychobiography of a man whose once brilliant career has ruined Zimbabwe and cast shame on the African continent. Heidi Holland's tireless investigation begins with her having dinner with Mugabe,... -
1809 Thunder on the Danube: Napoleon's Defeat of the Hapsburgs, Volume III by John H. Gill
RRP: $33.13$28.63With this third volume John Gill brings to a close his magisterial study of the war between Napoleonic France and Habsburg Austria. The account begins with both armies recuperating on the banks of the Danube. As they rest, important action was taking... -
Putin and the Return of History: How the Kremlin Rekindled the Cold War by Martin Sixsmith 9781399409872
RRP: $29.23$23.07An original history of Russia's thousand-year past, tracing the forces and the myths that have shaped Putin's politics and rekindled the Cold War. Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine has reshaped history. In the decades after the collapse of Soviet... -
Franco and the Condor Legion: The Spanish Civil War in the Air by Michael Alpert 9781788311182
RRP: $68.25$61.13The Spanish Civil War was fought on land and at sea but also in an age of great interest in air warfare and the rapid development of warplanes. The war in Spain came a turning point in the development of military aircraft and was the arena in which new... -
Cameron's Coup: How the Tories took Britain to the Brink Polly Toynbee 9781783350438
RRP: $19.48$13.07*Includes updated post-election material.*The NHS devastated without so much as a by-your-leave; Gen Y hung out to dry; legal aid cut for the vulnerable; social housing on the brink of collapse . . .Cameron has been busy.Margaret Thatcher sold off the... -
Fighting Churchill, Appeasing Hitler: How a British Civil Servant Helped Cause the Second World War by Adrian Phillips 9781785904752
RRP: $39.00$29.02In Fighting Churchill, Appeasing Hitler Adrian Phillips presents a radical new view of the British policy of appeasement in the late 1930s. No one doubts that appeasement failed, but Phillips shows that it caused active harm - even sabotaging Britain's... -
Defying Hitler: The White Rose Pamphlets by Alexandra Lloyd
RRP: $29.25$23.15'Long Live Freedom!' - Hans Scholl's last words before his execution The White Rose (die Weisse Rose) resistance circle was a group of students and a professor at the University of Munich who in the early 1940s secretly wrote and distributed anti-Nazi... -
Words Will Break Cement: The Passion of Pussy Riot by Masha Gessen 9781847089342
RRP: $19.48$13.07On February 21st 2012, five members of an obscure feminist post-punk collective called Pussy Riot staged a performance in Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Saviour. Dressed in their trademark brightly coloured dresses and balaclavas, the women performed... -
The Long Hangover: Putin's New Russia and the Ghosts of the Past by Shaun Walker 9780190659240
RRP: $48.73$35.22In The Long Hangover, Shaun Walker provides 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... -
The Dragon Roars Back: Transformational Leaders and Dynamics of Chinese Foreign Policy by Suisheng (Sam) Zhao
RRP: $48.73$42.26China is unique in modern world history. No other rising power has experienced China's turbulent history in its relations with neighbors and Western countries. Its sheer size dominates the region. With leader Xi Jinping's political authority unmatched,... -
Freedom Is A Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Davis 9781608465644
RRP: $25.33$17.98In these essays, interviews and speeches, Angela Y. Davis illuminates connections between struggles against state violence and oppression throughout history and around the world. Reflecting on the importance of black feminism, intersectionality and... -
Mad Dog: They Shot Me in the Head, They Gave Me Cyanide and They Stabbed Me, But I'm Still Standing by Johnny Adair 9781844548194
$18.70Johnny Adair placed himself at the heart of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. To some he was a criminal and a terrorist. To others he was an integral part of Belfast's bloody history and in it he reveals its roots in his own uncompromising and compelling... -
Sledgehammer: How Breaking with the Past Brought Peace to the Middle East by David Friedman
RRP: $39.00$26.01The Trump administration's peace agreements in the Middle East were the greatest foreign policy accomplishment in decades. Now, for the first time, his ambassador to Israel explains how they pulled it off.Doing the same thing over and over and expecting... -
God and Churchill: How the Great Leader's Sense of Divine Destiny Changed His Troubled World and Offers Hope for Ours by Jonathan Sandys
RRP: $23.38$16.44When Winston Churchill was a boy of sixteen, he already had a vision for his purpose in life. "This country will be subjected somehow to a tremendous invasion . . . I shall be in command of the defences of London . . . it will fall to me to save the... -
Tolerance Is a Wasteland: Palestine and the Culture of Denial by Saree Makdisi
RRP: $48.75$38.20How 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... -
Red Arctic: Russian Strategy Under Putin by Elizabeth Buchanan
RRP: $58.50$52.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815738886Author Elizabeth BuchananFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams)... -
Russian Grand Strategy in the Era of Global Power Competition by Andrew Monaghan
RRP: $58.50$41.55This 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... -
Vision or Mirage: Saudi Arabia at the Crossroads by David Rundell 9781838605933
RRP: $68.25$59.63'Clear-eyed and illuminating.' Henry Kissinger, former Secretary of State and National Security Advisor 'A rich, superbly researched, balanced history of the modern Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.' General David Petraeus, former Commander U.S. Central... -
Plowshares into Swords: From Zionism to Israel by Arno Mayer
RRP: $38.90$27.34In this authoritative text, Arno J. Mayer traces the thinkers, leaders and shifting geopolitical contexts that shaped the founding and onward development of the Israeli state. He recovers for posterity internal critics such as the philosopher Martin... -
Algiers, Third World Capital: Freedom Fighters, Revolutionaries, Black Panthers by Elaine Mokhtefi
$38.03Mokhtefi (nee Klein), a Jewish American from Long Island, has had an exhilarating life. In the 1960s, she served as a press adviser to the National Liberation Front in postwar Algiers, before going to work with Eldridge Cleaver, who was wanted in the US... -
The Real Politics of the Horn of Africa: Money, War and the Business of Power Alex de Waal 9780745695587
RRP: $33.13$29.68The Real Politics of the Horn of Africa delves into the business of politics in the turbulent, war-torn countries of north-east Africa. It is a contemporary history of how politicians, generals and insurgents bargain over money and power, and use of war... -
Kwame Nkrumah: The Father of African Nationalism by Professor David Birmingham 9780821412428
RRP: $29.23$27.85The first African statesman to achieve world recognition was Kwame Nkrumah (1909-1972), who became president of the new Republic of Ghana in 1960. He campaigned ceaselessly for African solidarity and for the liberation of southern Africa from white... -
Revolution Francaise: Emmanuel Macron and the quest to reinvent a nation Sophie Pedder 9781472966308
RRP: $33.13$23.95The extraordinary story of how an outsider candidate - an unknown technocrat and economics minister on the fringes of French politics - made his way to the Elysee palace, with new material and expert analysis of recent events including the gilets jaunes... -
Amazing Women of the Middle East: 25 Stories to Inspire Girls Everywhere by Wafa Tarnowska 9781838365165
RRP: $21.43$14.43Discover the Amazing Queen of Sheba, dive into the musical world of singer Fairuz, and meet Nadia Murad, an outstanding Nobel Peace Prize winner. This collection of 25 short biographies, illustrated in different styles by five talented artists, reveals...