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Beyond Terror: Islam's Slow Erosion of Western Democracy by Anne Marie Waters 9781732451100
£18.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732451100Author Anne Marie WatersFormat PaperbackPage Count 362Imprint Something or Other Publishing LLCPublisher Something or Other Publishing... -
London is the Place for Me: Black Britons, Citizenship and the Politics of Race by Kennetta Hammond Perry 9780190909949
RRP: £28.49£22.77Black 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... -
Hailing the State: Indian Democracy between Elections by Lisa Mitchell 9781478018766
RRP: £23.99£20.41In Hailing the State, Lisa Mitchell explores the methods of collective assembly that people in India use to hold elected officials and government administrators accountable, demand inclusion in decision making, and stage informal referendums. Mitchell... -
Politics and Power in the Maghreb: Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco from Independence to the Arab Spring by Michael J. Willis
RRP: £22.00£19.11The overthrow of the regime of President Ben Ali in Tunisia on 14 January 2011 took the world by surprise. The popular revolt in this small Arab country and the effect it had on the wider Arab world prompted questions as to why there had been so little... -
Digital Citizenship in Africa: Technologies of Agency and Repression by Tony Roberts
RRP: £21.99£19.28Since the so-called Arab Spring, citizens of African countries have continued to use digital tools in creative ways to ensure that marginalised voices are heard, and to demand for the rights they are entitled to in law: to freely associate, to form... -
Europe's Radical Left: From Marginality to the Mainstream? by Luke March 9781783485369
RRP: £42.00£41.09Although the most pernicious consequences of the crisis have apparently abated, the long-term political repercussions remain unclear. Whereas most attention has focused on the right-wing populist parties, the rejuvenation of the left is an unwritten... -
Illiberal Europe?: Eastern Europe from the Fall of the Berlin Wall to the War in Ukraine by Leon Marc
RRP: £18.99£12.84Eighteen years have passed since ten countries from Central & Eastern Europe joined the European Union and more than three decades since the Berlin Wall was torn down in 1989 - but ignorance about what is popularly still called Eastern Europe is as... -
The Nazi Occult by Kenneth Hite 9781780965987
RRP: £13.99£12.40In the dark dungeons beneath Nazi Germany, teams of occult experts delved into ancient and forbidden lore, searching for lost secrets of power. This book tells the complete history of the Nazi occult programs, from their quests for the Ark of the... -
Righteous Victims: A History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict, 1881-1998 by Benny Morris 9780679744757
£17.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsNominated for National Jewish Book Awards 1999.Book InformationISBN 9780679744757Author Benny MorrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 800Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random... -
Leon Battista Alberti: The Chameleon's Eye by Caspar Pearson 9781789145212
RRP: £17.95£12.92One of the most brilliant and original authors and architects of the entire Renaissance, Leon Battista Alberti's output encompassed engineering, surveying, cryptography, poetry, humour, political commentary and more. He employed irony, satire and playful... -
Aleppo: The Rise and Fall of Syria's Great Merchant City by Philip Mansel
RRP: £14.99£11.47A poignant testament to the city shattered by Syria's civil war. Aleppo lies in ruins, a casualty of Syria's brutal civil war. Its streets are cloaked in darkness, its population scattered, its memories ravaged. But this was once a vibrant world city,... -
The Dilemmas of Lenin: Terrorism, War, Empire, Love, Rebellion by Tariq Ali
RRP: £16.99£11.87"Without Lenin there would have been no socialist revolution in 1917. Of this much we can be certain."Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, leader of the October 1917 uprising, is one of the most misunderstood leaders of the twentieth century. In his own time, there... -
The Government and Politics of the European Union by Neill Nugent
RRP: £36.99£33.88The 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 Second World War: A Marxist History by Chris Bambery 9780745333014
RRP: £24.99£17.59The Second World War casts a long shadow, portrayed as a necessary and paradigmatic war that defeated fascism. During recent wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere, US presidents and British prime ministers have tried to claim they were following in the... -
The Passion by Patrick Keddie
RRP: £35.00£26.62In 1981 a young semi-professional footballer - known as `Imam Beckenbauer' for his piety and his dominant style of play - has his career cut short after a confrontation with Turkey's military junta. His name was Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and three decades... -
The Caribbean in Europe: Aspects of the West Indies Experience in Britain, France and the Netherland by Colin Brock 9780714632636
RRP: £135.00£117.28This book is the fourth in a series of volumes to emerge from the commemoration by the University of Hull of the 150th anniversary of the abolition of slavery in the British Empire, and in particular an international conference held to discuss some of... -
The Shocking History of the Eu by Zina Cohen 9781797966915
RRP: £7.99£6.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781797966915Author Zina CohenFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently Published -
The Rise and Fall of Imperial China: The Social Origins of State Development by Yuhua Wang
RRP: £30.00£22.82How social networks shaped the imperial Chinese stateChina was the world's leading superpower for almost two millennia, falling behind only in the last two centuries and now rising to dominance again. What factors led to imperial China's decline? The... -
Constructing National Interests: The United States and the Cuban Missile Crisis by Jutta Weldes 9780816631117
RRP: £21.99£18.79Not simply an "event" or merely an "incident," the 1962 standoff between the U. S. and the Soviet Union over missiles in Cuba was a crisis, which subsequently has achieved almost mythic significance in the annals of United States foreign policy. Jutta... -
Seamus Mallon: A Shared Home Place by Seamus Mallon
£18.89As one of Northern Ireland's most prominent nationalist politicians, Seamus Mallon has always sought the genuine reconciliation of conflicting traditions using only peaceful means. This is his personal testament. In A Shared Home Place, Mallon evokes... -
The Dragon Throne: China's Emperors from the Qin to the Manchu by Jonathan Fenby
RRP: £12.99£8.60They were the most powerful rulers on earth. The mighty Qin Shi Huangdu (r. 221-210 BC), who began the construction of the Great Wall. The long-lived Han emperor Wudi (r. 141-87 BC), who developed China as a centralized Confucian state. The... -
Edible Insects: A Global History by Gina Louise Hunter 9781789144468
RRP: £12.99£9.09An estimated two billion people worldwide regularly consume insects, yet bugs are rarely eaten in the West. Why are some disgusted at the thought of eating insects while others find them delicious? Edible Insects: A Global History provides a broad... -
Lenin: A Revolutionary Life by Christopher Read 9780415206495
RRP: £32.99£29.16From a highly distinguished author on the subject, this biography is an excellent scholarly introduction to one of the key figures of the Russian Revolution and post-Tsarist Russia. Not only does it make use of archive material made newly available in... -
Africa since Independence by Paul Nugent 9780230272880
£35.23An indispensable introductory textbook that provides students with a genuinely comparative study of the different trajectories and experiences of independent African states. Paul Nugent explores a range of key concerns including the impact of HIV and... -
Spain and the Early Stuarts, 1585-1655 by Albert J. Loomie
£35.06These studies focus on Spain's relations with England from the last stages of the Elizabethan war to the opening years of the Cromwellian regime. Particular attention is given to the issue of religion and to the character and conduct of peacetime... -
Pakistan: Origins, Identity and Future by Pervez Hoodbhoy 9781032270234
RRP: £125.00£107.86This book is an accessible, comprehensive, and nuanced history of Pakistan. It reflects upon state and society in Pakistan and shows they have been shaped by historical forces and personae. Hoodbhoy expertly maps the journey of the region from many... -
Corbynism: A Critical Approach by Matt Bolton
RRP: £16.99£12.55From the moment Jeremy Corbyn was elected Labour leader, Corbynism has been dismissed, derided or romanticised, but rarely taken seriously as a set of ideas on its own terms. This book critically outlines the shared understanding of capitalism and its... -
Libya's Fragmentation by Wolfram Lacher
RRP: £24.99£21.78Shortlisted for the Conflict Research Society's 2021 Book of the Year Prize Shortlisted for the British-Kuwait Friendship Society 2021 Book Prize After the overthrow of the Qadhafi regime in 2011, Libya witnessed a dramatic breakdown of centralized... -
The Mahogany Pod: a memoir of endings and beginnings by Jill Hopper 9781912235933
RRP: £14.99£9.80'A work of literature: beautifully written, meticulously structured and heart-rending.' Observer; What if you knew from the beginning how your relationship was going to end? When Jill Hopper first met Arif, they were living in a shared house on the... -
Kwame Nkrumah: The Father of African Nationalism by Professor David Birmingham 9780821412428
RRP: £15.99£14.28The 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... -
The New Few: Or a Very British Oligarchy by Ferdinand Mount 9781847399359
RRP: £8.99£5.82This was supposed to be the era when democracy came into its own, but instead power and wealth in Britain have slowly been consolidated the hands of a small elite, while the rest of the country struggles financially and switches off politically. We are... -
Putin: The explosive and extraordinary new biography of Russia’s leader by Philip Short 9781847923387
RRP: £14.99£14.92'Magisterial' - Guardian'Outstanding' - Ian KershawVladimir Putin is a pariah to the West.Alone among world leaders, he has the power to reduce the United States and Europe to ashes in a nuclear firestorm and has threatened to do so. He invades his... -
China's Crony Capitalism: The Dynamics of Regime Decay by Minxin Pei
RRP: £33.95£26.89When Deng Xiaoping launched China on the path to economic reform in the late 1970s, he vowed to build "socialism with Chinese characteristics." More than three decades later, China's efforts to modernize have yielded something very different from the... -
The French Exception: Emmanuel Macron - The Extraordinary Rise and Risk by Adam Plowright
RRP: £12.99£8.56'Adam Plowright's excellent book captures the strangeness of Macron's life' Evening StandardTHE FIRST BIOGRAPHY OF EMMANUEL MACRON IN ENGLISHFrom total unknown to one of Europe's most powerful men in just a few years, at 39, France's youngest leader... -
My Country, My Life: Fighting for Israel, Searching for Peace by Ehud Barak
RRP: £25.00£18.02From the former Prime Minister and most decorated solder in Israel's history, this is essential reading to understand today's Israel-Palestine conflict and the precarious path to a two-state solution.'There is scarcely one of Israel's security or... -
Revolting Subjects: Social Abjection and Resistance in Neoliberal Britain by Imogen Tyler 9781848138513
RRP: £24.95£24.06Revolting Subjects is a groundbreaking account of social abjection in contemporary Britain, exploring how particular groups of people are figured as revolting and how they in turn revolt against their abject subjectification. The book utilizes a number... -
Theresa May: The Enigmatic Prime Minister by Rosa Prince 9781785902734
RRP: £10.99£7.77Twenty days after Britain's dramatic vote to leave the European Union, with the government still reeling from the political aftershock, a new Prime Minister captured Downing Street. Few were more surprised by this unexpected turn of events than Theresa... -
The Way Thais Lead: Face as Social Capital by Larry S. Persons 9786162151163
RRP: £29.99£25.99This fascinating study explores how face functions as social capital for leaders in Thai society. It examines the anatomy of Thai face, ways to gain, lose, and maintain face, patron-client dynamics, and the sources and paradigms of power. Ethnographic... -
The Islamic State in Africa: The Emergence, Evolution, and Future of the Next Jihadist Battlefront by Jason Warner 9781787383906
RRP: £35.00£30.65In 2019, Islamic State lost its last remaining sliver of territory in Syria, and its Caliph, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was killed. These setbacks seemed to herald the Caliphate's death knell, and many now forecast its imminent demise. Yet its affiliates... -
Assignment Moscow: Reporting on Russia from Lenin to Putin by James Rodgers 9781350356108
RRP: £16.99£12.86The story of western correspondents in Russia is the story of Russia's attitude to the west. Russia has at different times been alternately open to western ideas and contacts, cautious and distant or, for much of the twentieth century, all but closed off...