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I Love Russia: Reporting from a Lost Country by Elena Kostyuchenko 9781847927705
€15.78To be a journalist is to tell the truth. I Love Russia is Elena Kostyuchenko's fearless attempt to document Russia as experienced by those whom it systematically and brutally erases: village girls recruited into sex work, queer people in the outer... -
Thatcher's Trial: Six Months That Defined a Leader by Kwasi Kwarteng
€13.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.A fascinating examination of the leadership of Britain's most controversial post-war Prime Minister from politician and historian Kwasi KwartengAbout the AuthorKwasi Kwarteng was... -
Africa's First Democrats: Somalia's Aden A. Osman and Abdirazak H. Hussen by Abdi Ismail Samatar
€31.54Abdi 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... -
Is Socialism Possible in Britain?: Reflections on the Corbyn Years by Andrew Murray
RRP: €17.84€14.93Selected as one of the 15 best political and current affairs books of 2022 by The TimesIs Socialism Possible in Britain? analyses Jeremy Corbyn's tenure as Labour leader and the prospects for parliamentary socialism in a post-Corbyn Britain. Lively and... -
The Road to Ukraine: How the West Lost its Way by Frank Furedi
RRP: €26.78€20.61Russia's invasion of Ukraine is the latest chapter in a series of events that have their origins in World War One. The difficult existential questions that emerged before and during this conflict still remain unresolved. Contrary to the claim that wars... -
Cinematic Guerrillas: Propaganda, Projectionists, and Audiences in Socialist China by Jie Li 9780231206273
€29.10How might cinema make revolution and mobilize the masses? In socialist China, the film exhibition network expanded from fewer than six hundred movie theaters to more than a hundred thousand mobile film projectionist teams. Holding screenings in... -
Russia-Lost in Transition: The Yeltsin and Putin Legacies by Lilia Shevtsova 9780870032363
RRP: €23.74€17.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870032363Author Lilia ShevtsovaFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Carnegie Endowment for International PeacePublisher Brookings Institution -
The Spectre of Comparison: Politics, Culture and the Nation by Benedict Anderson
RRP: €35.64€27.32"'Come, let us build a Third Kingdom, and in this Third Reich, hey, sisters, you will live happily; hey, brothers, you will live happily; hey, kids, you will live happily; hey, you German patriots, you will see Germany sitting enthroned above all the... -
The Irish Diaries (1994-2003): Alastair Campbell by Kathy Gilfillan
RRP: €29.69€21.78The four volumes of spokesman and strategist Alastair Campbell's diaries were a publishing sensation.As British Prime Minister Tony Blair's right-hand man, former journalist and political analyst Campbell played a critical role in every aspect of New... -
Minority Rights, Feminism and International Law: Voices of Amazigh Women in Morocco by Silvia Gagliardi
RRP: €47.59€41.72Investigating minority and indigenous women's rights in Muslim-majority states, this book critically examines the human rights regime within international law.Based on extensive and diverse ethnographic research on Amazigh women in Morocco, the book... -
Plato Goes to China: The Greek Classics and Chinese Nationalism by Shadi Bartsch
€25.94The surprising story of how Greek classics are being pressed into use in contemporary China to support the regime's political agendaAs improbable as it may sound, an illuminating way to understand today's China and how it views the West is to look at the... -
What Was Socialism, and What Comes Next? by Katherine Verdery
€42.03Among the first anthropologists to work in Eastern Europe, Katherine Verdery had built up a significant base of ethnographic and historical expertise when the major political transformations in the region began to take place. In this collection of essays... -
Night Haunts: A Journey Through the London Night by Sukhdev Sandhu
RRP: €29.69€20.65Traditional 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: €27.31€18.65"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... -
Petticoat Rebellion: The Anna Parnell Story by Patricia Groves 9781856356480
€21.53In the late nineteenth century, before women had the vote, a group of respectable ladies operated outside the law to fight for the rights of the landless poor in Ireland. These women were feared by both the British government and Irish Republicans. They... -
The Less You Know, the Better You Sleep: Russia's Road to Terror and Dictatorship under Yeltsin and Putin by David Satter
RRP: €19.03€16.45Once you accept that the impossible is really possible, what happens in Russia makes perfect sense "A few pages into David Satter's truly terrifying book, one realizes that his title is smack-on accurate: modern Russia is a frightening member of the... -
Pay No Heed to the Rockets: Palestine in the Present Tense by Marcello Di Cintio 9780863569807
RRP: €10.70€8.18Across Palestine, from the Allenby Bridge and Ramallah, to Jerusalem and Gaza, Marcello Di Cintio has met with writers, poets, librarians, booksellers and readers, finding extraordinary stories in every corner. Stories of how revolutionary writing is... -
The Chinese Economy by Stephen L. Morgan
RRP: €27.36€25.56China's transformation over the past four decades has been unprecedented. The vision of its leaders for the next three decades is unprecedented too, as China seeks to fashion an advanced economy without significant political and social liberalization. ... -
The Venezuela case: An story to how 21st Century Socialism destroyed a country. by Fernando German M 9781091678798
RRP: €19.03€17.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781091678798Author Fernando German MFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams)... -
A History of West Africa by Toyin Falola 9781032055947
RRP: €42.83€38.19This book introduces readers to the rich and fascinating history of West Africa, stretching all the way back to the stone age, and right up to the modern day.Over the course of twenty seven short and engaging chapters, the book delves into the social,... -
From Commune to Capitalism: How Chinaas Peasants Lost Collective Farming and Gained Urban Poverty by Zhun Xu
€19.56"Zhun Xu's careful analysis debunks the conventional wisdom about the supposed failure of agricultural collectives in China. Xu's reassessment of the path of agrarian change in China since 1949, which relies on interviews with peasants as well as... -
The Shortest History of China: From the Ancient Dynasties to a Modern Superpower--A Retelling for Our Times by Linda Jaivin
RRP: €20.17€13.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781615198207Author Linda JaivinFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint ExperimentPublisher ExperimentWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 196mm * 130mm * 22mm -
Klimat: Russia in the Age of Climate Change by Thane Gustafson
€33.55A discerning analysis of the future effects of climate change on Russia, the major power most dependent on the fossil fuel economy.Russia will be one of the countries most affected by climate change. No major power is more economically dependent on the... -
Zen Terror in Prewar Japan: Portrait of an Assassin by Brian Daizen Victoria 9781538131664
€29.20Can Buddhism, widely regarded as a religion of peace, also contribute to acts of terrorism? Through an insider's view of right-wing ultranationalism in prewar Japan, this powerful book follows a band of Zen Buddhist-trained adherents who ardently... -
America and the China Threat: From the End of History to the End of Empire by Paolo Urio
RRP: €26.17€23.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949762501Author Paolo UrioFormat PaperbackPage Count 476Imprint Clarity PressPublisher Clarity Press -
English Questions by Perry Anderson 9780860915911
RRP: €26.18€20.58A set of reflections on British society and culture, this volume falls into two principal parts. The first consists of a pair of essays published in New Left Review in the sixties; "Origins of the Present Crisis," which suggested a general schema for the... -
The Shanghai Free Taxi: Journeys with the Hustlers and Rebels of the New China by Frank Langfitt 9781474612333
RRP: €11.89€8.09As any traveller knows, the best and most honest conversations take place during car rides. So when journalist Frank Langfitt wanted to learn more about the real China, he started driving a cab - and discovered a country amid seismic political and... -
Chartist Revolution by Rob Sewell 9781913026189
RRP: €21.41€18.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913026189Author Rob SewellFormat PaperbackPage Count 482Imprint Wellred BooksPublisher Wellred BooksWeight(grams) 576gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 30mm -
Dissidents among Dissidents: Ideology, Politics and the Left in Post-Soviet Russia by Ilya Budraitskis
€23.79Ilya Budraitskis, one of the country's most prominent leftist political commentators, explores the strange fusion of free-market ideology and postmodern nationalism that now prevails in Russia, and describes the post-Soviet evolution of its left. He... -
A Small Key Can Open a Large Door: The Rojava Revolution by Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness 9781938660177
€12.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938660177Author Strangers in a Tangled WildernessFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Strangers in a Tangled WildernessPublisher Strangers in a Tangled... -
Behind Enemy Lies: War, News and Chaos in the Middle East by Patrick Cockburn
RRP: €13.08€10.64In 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... -
Israel's Black Panthers: The Radicals Who Punctured a Nation's Founding Myth by Asaf Elia-Shalev 9780520294318
RRP: €32.07€22.19The powerful story of an activist movement that challenged the racial inequities of Israel. Israel's Black Panthers tells the story of the young and impoverished Moroccan Israeli Jews who challenged their country's political status quo and rebelled... -
Afterlives of Revolution: Everyday Counterhistories in Southern Oman by Alice Wilson 9781503635784
€26.76The Dhufar Revolution was fought between 1965-1976, in an attempt to depose Oman's British-backed Sultan and advance social ideals of egalitarianism and gender equality. Dhufar, the southernmost governorate in today's Sultanate, captured global attention... -
Challenging the Narrative: Documentary Film as Participatory Practice in Conflict Situations by Cahal McLaughlin
€25.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839988691Author Cahal McLaughlinFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 153mm *... -
Shadows of Empire: The Anglosphere in British Politics by Michael Kenny 9781509516612
RRP: €17.84€16.16The idea of an alliance between Britain and its old Commonwealth colonies has recently made a remarkable comeback in the context of Brexit. Based on belief in a special bond between the English-speaking peoples of the UK, the USA, Canada, Australia and... -
Civilization: The Age of Masked Gods and Disguised Kings by Abdullah Ocalan 9788293064374
€19.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788293064374Author Abdullah OEcalanFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Communalism PressPublisher Communalism PressWeight(grams) 445gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
From Sheikhs to Sultanism: Statecraft and Authority in Saudi Arabia and the UAE by Christopher M. Davidson 9781787383937
€37.18Muhammad bin Salman Al-Saud and Muhammad bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, the respective princely strongmen of Saudi Arabia and the UAE, have torn up the old rules. They have spurred game-changing economic master plans, presided over vast anti-corruption crackdowns,... -
Clean Living Under Difficult Circumstances: Finding a Home in the Ruins of Modernism by Owen Hatherley
RRP: €22.60€18.62From the grandiose histories of grand state building projects to the minutiae of street signs and corner pubs, from the rebuilding of capital cities to the provision of the humble public toilet, Clean Living in Difficult Circumstances argues for the city... -
Thatcher's Children?: Politics, Childhood And Society In The 1980s And 1990s by Jane Pilcher
RRP: €58.30€50.77That childhood is a social construction is understood both by social scientists and in society generally. The authors of this book examine the political issues surrounding childhood, including law making, social policy, government provisions and... -
Memories in the Service of the Hindu Nation: The Afterlife of the Partition of India by Pranav Kohli 9781009318686
RRP: €119.00€107.43This book is based on fourteen months of ethnographic fieldwork with Partition survivors from west Punjab and the North-West Frontier Province, in Delhi and its surroundings between 2017-18. It locates the global rise of far-right nationalism within...