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Joseph Chamberlain: A Most Radical Imperialist by Travis L. Crosby
$46.22Joseph Chamberlain was a dynamic orator, notable reformer and superb parliamentary tactician of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In his early political career Chamberlain was a radically minded Liberal Party member and a supporter of political... -
Destroying Libya and World Order: The Three-decade U.S. Campaign to Reverse the Qaddafi Revolution by Francis A. Boyle 9780985335373
$32.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985335373Author Francis A. BoyleFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Clarity PressPublisher Clarity Press -
The New Nobility: The Restoration of Russia's Security State and the Enduring Legacy of the KGB by Andrei Soldatov
RRP: $29.38$26.02The 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... -
Let There be Water: Israel'S Solution for a Water-Starved World by Seth M. Siegel
$29.15With hardly a day without a water-crisis story somewhere, Let There Be Water offers prescriptions on how countries, cities, and businesses can avoid the worst of it. With sixty percent of the country in a desert and despite a rapidly growing population,... -
The Social and Political Thought of Archie Mafeje by Bongani Nyoka 9781776145942
RRP: $50.38$43.76Social scientist Archie Mafeje, who was born in the Eastern Cape but lived most of his scholarly life in exile, was one of Africa's most prominent intellectuals. This ground-breaking book is the first to consider the entire body of Mafeje's oeuvre and... -
Mussolini and his Generals: The Armed Forces and Fascist Foreign Policy, 1922-1940 by John Gooch 9780521856027
RRP: $107.08$98.39This is the first authoritative study of the Italian armed forces and the relationship between the military and foreign policies of Fascist Italy from Mussolini's rise to power in 1922 to the catastrophic defeat of 1940. Using extensive new research,... -
Deep Collusion: Bain and the Capture of South Africa by Athol Williams 9780624091998
RRP: $35.68$29.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780624091998Author Athol WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Tafelberg Publishers LtdPublisher Tafelberg Publishers LtdWeight(grams) 500g -
European Integration: A Political History by Mark Gilbert 9781538106815
RRP: $73.50$68.23Now in a fully revised and updated edition, this book remains the standard for concise histories of the European Union. Mark Gilbert offers a clear and balanced narrative of European integration since its inception to the present, set in the wider... -
Hitler at Home by Despina Stratigakos 9780300222920
$95.30A revelatory look at the residences of Adolf Hitler, illuminating their powerful role in constructing and promoting the dictator’s private persona both within Germany and abroad Adolf Hitler’s makeover from rabble-rouser to statesman coincided with a... -
Old World, New World: The Story of Britain and America by Kathleen Burk 9780349119199
$47.82In OLD WORLD, NEW WORLD Kathleen Burk sets out to tell the story of Britain and America across four hundred years, from colonisation to Iraq. There are two strands to this story. The first is the grand narrative that takes in the British colonisation of... -
Handbook of South American Governance Pia Riggirozzi 9780367580957
RRP: $90.28$79.78Governance in South America is signified by strategies pursued by state and non-state actors directed to enhancing (some aspect of) their capabilities and powers of agency. It is about the spaces and the practices available, demanded or created to 'make... -
Opium Nation: Child Brides, Drug Lords, and One Woman's Journey Through Afghanistan by Fariba Nawa 9780061934704
$23.00In this title, an Afghan-American journalist offers a revealing look inside a country torn apart - from corrupt officials to warlords and child brides - while revisiting her own family's deep roots to the land.Book InformationISBN 9780061934704Author... -
Magical Thinking in Public Policy: Why Naive Ideals about Better Policymaking Persist in Cynical Times by John Boswell 9780192848789
RRP: $172.20$156.35This book explores why naive ideals about better policymaking persist even in cynical times, revealing the careful reflection at the heart of what appears to be 'magical thinking' in public policy. Contemporary policy scholarship tends to be cynical... -
British Politics by Dennis Kavanagh
$130.05The fifth edition of British Politics is a significantly expanded work that draws on the contribution of three new political scientists and redresses the balance between the historical context of British Politics and key theoretical debates. British... -
Sunnis and Shi'a: A Political History by Laurence Louer 9780691186610
RRP: $52.50$41.14A compelling history of the ancient schism that continues to divide the Islamic worldWhen Muhammad died in 632 without a male heir, Sunnis contended that the choice of a successor should fall to his closest companions, but Shi'a believed that God had... -
The Accidental President of Brazil: A Memoir by Fernando Henrique Cardoso 9781586484293
RRP: $37.78$32.38Fernando Henrique Cardoso received a phone call in the middle of the night asking him to be the new Finance Minister of Brazil. As he put the phone down and stared into the darkness of his hotel room, he feared he'd been handed a political death sentence... -
The News Machine: Hacking: The Untold Story by James Hanning 9781908096951
RRP: $27.28$27.01The first book on the tabloid news machine and its phone-hacking scandals in the mould of bestselling Flat Earth News.About the AuthorJames Hanning is Deputy Editor of the Independent on Sunday.Book InformationISBN 9781908096951Author James HanningFormat... -
The Problem of Democracy: America, the Middle East, and the Rise and Fall of an Idea by Shadi Hamid 9780197579466
RRP: $53.53$45.32Shadi Hamid reimagines the ongoing debate on democracy's merits and proposes an ambitious agenda for reviving the lost art of democracy promotion in the world's most undemocratic regions. What happens when democracy produces "bad" outcomes? Is... -
Crossing the Congo: Over Land and Water in a Hard Place by Mike Martin
RRP: $37.78$33.89In 2013, three friends set off on a journey that they had been told was impossible: the north-south crossing of the Congo River Basin, from Kinshasa, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, to Juba, in South Sudan.Traversing two and a half thousand miles of... -
Reconsidering Stagnation in the Brezhnev Era: Ideology and Exchange by Dina Fainberg 9781498529952
RRP: $88.20$77.55This volume contributes to a growing reevaluation of the Brezhnev era, helping to shape a new historiography that gives us a much richer and more nuanced picture of the time period than the stagnation paradigm usually assigned to the era. The essays... -
The People Want: A Radical Exploration of the Arab Uprising by Gilbert Achcar 9780863564772
RRP: $35.68$24.23"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... -
The hounds of Actaeon: the magical origins of public relations and modern media by Mauricio Loza 9781680531275
RRP: $62.90$41.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781680531275Author Mauricio LozaFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Academica PressPublisher Academica PressWeight(grams) 576gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm... -
Senior Mind Gym K Mcgowan 9781781454473
RRP: $20.98$14.28Senior Mind Gym will give anyone suffering from the memory glitches and fuzzy thinking that comes with age a fun brain-boosting workout. Do you keep forgetting where you put things and, even, what those things are called? Has 'thingy' become one of... -
Nehru's India: A History in Seven Myths by Taylor C. Sherman
RRP: $73.50$58.25An iconoclastic history of the first two decades after independence in IndiaNehru's India brings a provocative but nuanced set of new interpretations to the history of early independent India. Drawing from her extensive research over the past two... -
Romanias Strategic Culture 19902014: Continuity and Change in a Post-Communist Countrys Evolution of National Interests and Security Policies by Iulia-Sabina Joja
RRP: $54.60$44.25Analysis of strategic culture facilitates a comprehensive understanding of a nations security identity and patterns of policy conduct. Though strategic culture changes over time, why and how these mutations take place has not been researched much so far... -
Great American Gamble: Deterrence Theory and Practice from the Cold War to the Twenty-First Century by Keith B Payne 9780977622177
RRP: $39.90$38.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780977622177Author Keith B PayneFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint National Institute for Public PolicyPublisher National Institute for Public... -
The Intimate Rembrandt by Christopher White 9781838395322
RRP: $84.00$58.38Christopher White explains why he chose this title for his new book: 'The often intimate, reflective and personal side to Rembrandt's work in treating subjects from history or the Bible reveals an increasingly more introspective interpretation than his... -
North Korea in a Nutshell: A Contemporary Overview by Kongdan Oh 9781538151389
RRP: $63.00$56.03This deeply knowledgeable book provides a concise introduction to North Korea. Two leading experts, Kongdan Oh and Ralph Hassig, trace the country's history from its founding in 1948 and describe the many facets of its political, economic, social, and... -
Struggling to be seen by Anandi Ramamurthy
RRP: $35.68$24.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781988832807Author Anandi RamamurthyFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint Daraja PressPublisher Daraja PressWeight(grams) 375g -
Europe's Last Chance: Why the European States Must Form a More Perfect Union by Guy Verhofstadt
RRP: $52.50$39.50Europe is caught in its greatest crisis since the Second World War. The catalogue of ills seems endless: an economic crisis spread through most of Europe's Mediterranean tier that has crippled Greece and driven a wedge between northern and southern... -
The Lebanese Connection: Corruption, Civil War, and the International Drug Traffic by Jonathan Marshall
RRP: $62.98$56.49Long before Mexico, Colombia, and Afghanistan became notorious for their contributions to the global drug traffic, Lebanon was a special target of U.S. drug agents for harboring the world's greatest single transit port in the international traffic in... -
Tryweryn: A New Dawn? by Dr Wyn Thomas 9781912631483
RRP: $41.98$40.03Definitive 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... -
The Impossible Revolution: Making Sense of the Syrian Tragedy by Yassin al-Haj Saleh
RRP: $46.20$40.99Yassin al-Haj Saleh is a leftist dissident who spent sixteen years as a political prisoner and now lives in exile. He describes with precision and fervour the events that led to Syria's 2011 uprising, the metamorphosis of the popular revolution into a... -
India and Asian Geopolitics: The Past, Present by Shivshankar Menon
RRP: $73.50$65.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815737230Author Shivshankar MenonFormat PaperbackPage Count 418Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams)... -
The Party's Over: The Rise and Fall of the Conservatives from Thatcher to Sunak by Phil Burton-Cartledge 9781839760372
RRP: $25.18$20.37Today, it is not a question of if, but when? What we are watching is the collapse of the most successful political party in Europe. Despite winning the December 2019 General Election, the parliamentary conservative and unionist party is facing its own... -
Ireland: Republicanism and Revolution by Alan Woods 9781913026769
$25.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913026769Author Alan WoodsFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Wellred BooksPublisher Wellred BooksWeight(grams) 218gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 13mm -
Inside the Middle East: Entering a New Era by Avi Melamed
RRP: $63.00$40.34Why Is the Middle East Entering a "New Era?" Is It a New Dawn? Is It a Setting Sun? In the third decade of the twenty-first century, the Middle East is entering a new era. A multifaceted and intricate equilibrium will write the next chapter of this... -
A Critical Political Economy of the Middle East and North Africa by Joel Beinin
RRP: $50.38$43.76This book offers the first critical engagement with the political economy of the Middle East and North Africa. Challenging conventional wisdom on the origins and contemporary dynamics of capitalism in the region, these cutting-edge essays demonstrate how... -
What Next for Britain in the Middle East?: Security, Trade and Foreign Policy after Brexit by Michael Stephens 9780755617166
RRP: $52.48$45.74As the UK enters a period of intense public introspection in the wake of Brexit, this book takes on one of the key questions emerging from the divisive process: what is Britain's place in the world? The Middle East is one of the regions the UK has been... -
The Burden of Memory, the Muse of Forgiveness by Wole Soyinka 9780195134285
RRP: $41.98$27.99When Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka's The Open Sore of a Continent appeared in 1996, it received rave reviews in the national media. Now comes Soyinka's powerful sequel to that fearless and passionate book, The Burden of Memory. Where Open Sore offered a...