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Senior Mind Gym: Puzzles to Exercise the Brain by Kristy McGowan 9781781454473
RRP: €11.89€8.09Senior 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... -
China Shakes The World: The Rise of a Hungry Nation by James Kynge
RRP: €11.89€7.09Authoritative and fully up-to-date account by leading China expert on China's economic rise and how it will affect the worldThe new China, the nation that in 25 years has changed beyond all recognition is becoming an industrial powerhouse for the world... -
Romanias Strategic Culture 19902014: Continuity and Change in a Post-Communist Countrys Evolution of National Interests and Security Policies by Iulia-Sabina Joja
RRP: €30.94€25.07Analysis 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
€22.69Apologies 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... -
Has China Won?: The Chinese Challenge to American Primacy by Kishore Mahbubani
RRP: €17.84€11.66The twenty-first century's great geopolitical contest has begun. A major trade war has broken out. American and Chinese naval vessels are having close encounters in the South China Sea. American congressmen and businessmen are cheering their government's... -
Cracking the China Conundrum: Why Conventional Economic Wisdom Is Wrong by Yukon Huang
RRP: €42.23€38.62China's rise is altering global power relations, reshaping economic debates, and commanding tremendous public attention. Despite extensive media and academic scrutiny, the conventional wisdom about China's economy is often wrong. Cracking the China... -
The Intimate Rembrandt by Christopher White 9781838395322
€33.08Christopher 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: €35.70€31.75This 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... -
The Children of China's Great Migration by Rachel Murphy
RRP: €35.69€32.61In China in 2018 over 200 million rural migrants worked away from their home villages, fuelling the country's rapid economic boom. In the 2010s over sixty-one million rural children had at least one parent who had migrated without them, while nearly half... -
Likewar: The Weaponization of Social Media by P W Singer
RRP: €20.22€14.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780358108474Author P.W. SingerFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing CompanyPublisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt... -
Europe's Last Chance: Why the European States Must Form a More Perfect Union by Guy Verhofstadt
€31.65Europe 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 International Significance of the Levellers and the English Democratic Tradition by Tony Benn 9780851246338
€3.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780851246338Author Tony BennFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint Spokesman BooksPublisher Spokesman Books -
The Impossible Revolution: Making Sense of the Syrian Tragedy by Yassin al-Haj Saleh
€23.23Yassin 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... -
Putin's Propaganda Machine: Soft Power and Russian Foreign Policy by Marcel H. Van Herpen 9781442253612
€40.78Putin's Propaganda Machine examines Russia's "information war," one of the most striking features of its intervention in Ukraine. Marcel H. Van Herpen argues that the Kremlin's propaganda offensive is a carefully prepared strategy, implemented and tested... -
The British General Election of 2017 by Philip Cowley 9783030043018
RRP: €59.49€40.45The British General Election of 2017 is the definitive and authoritative account of one of the most dramatic elections in British history. Throwing aside her natural caution, Theresa May called a snap election and was widely expected to crush Jeremy... -
Another Fine Mess: America, Uganda, and the War on Terror by Helen Epstein
RRP: €13.08€8.78Is the West to blame for the agony of Uganda and its neighbors?In this powerful account of Ugandan dictator Yoweri Museveni's 30 year reign, Helen Epstein chronicles how Western leaders' single-minded focus on the War on Terror and their naive dealings... -
Revolting Subjects: Social Abjection and Resistance in Neoliberal Britain by Doctor Imogen Tyler 9781350360761
€24.95Revolting 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... -
China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know (R) by Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom
€13.59In this fully revised and updated third edition of China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know (R) , Jeffrey Wasserstrom and Maura Elizabeth Cunningham provide cogent answers to the most urgent questions regarding the newest superpower, and... -
European Union Politics by John McCormick
RRP: €45.21€41.33Cutting through the jargon of EU politics, the third edition of this engaging and informative textbook examines the history, institutions, processes and politics of the European Union with unprecedented clarity. The EU is a fascinating political... -
A Critical Political Economy of the Middle East and North Africa by Joel Beinin
€26.76This 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... -
Yes We (Still) Can: Politics in the age of Obama, Twitter and Trump by Dan Pfeiffer 9781785904295
RRP: €15.46€10.82Barack Obama was the breath of fresh air the Democrats didn't even realise they needed. Running on a platform of hope, change and progress, he won his first term with a decisive landslide, completely rewriting the rules of politics. So how did we go... -
The Opinionated Middle Ground: Consensus is Possible and Polarization is Curable by John Scott Cowan 9781990823534
RRP: €22.60€15.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781990823534Author John Scott CowanFormat PaperbackPage Count 334Imprint The Sutherland House Inc.Publisher The Sutherland House Inc. -
Senseless Acts of Beauty: Cultures of Resistance by George McKay
RRP: €41.59€30.90Welcome 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... -
The Paradox of Parliament by Jonathan Malloy 9781487550882
€80.46The Paradox of Parliament provides a comprehensive analysis of all aspects of Parliament in order to explain the paradoxical expectations placed on the institution. The book argues that Parliament labours under two different "logics" of its purpose and... -
The Story of Russia: 'An excellent short study' by Orlando Figes 9781526631763
€14.21A 2022 BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR: Sunday Times * Irish Times * Spectator * Financial Times * Telegraph * Aspects of History 'The history book you need if you want to understand modern Russia' ANNE APPLEBAUM 'A magnificent, magisterial thousand year... -
The Last Neoliberal: Macron and the Origins of France's Political Crisis by Stefano Palombarini
€23.79This book analyses the French political crisis, which has entered its most acute phase in more than thirty years with the break-up of traditional left and right social blocs. Governing parties have distanced themselves from the working classes, leaving... -
A Kingdom in Crisis: Thailand's Struggle for Democracy in the Twenty-First Century by Andrew MacGregor Marshall
RRP: €19.03€16.99'Perhaps the best introduction yet to the roots of Thailand's present political impasse. A brilliant book.' Simon Long, The Economist Struggling to emerge from a despotic past, and convulsed by an intractable conflict that will determine its future,... -
China's New Red Guards: The Return of Radicalism and the Rebirth of Mao Zedong by Jude Blanchette
RRP: €27.95€20.28Ever since Deng Xiaoping effectively de-radicalized China in the 1980s, there have been many debates about which path China would follow. Would it democratize? Would it embrace capitalism? Would the Communist Party's rule be able to withstand the... -
Imitation Democracy: The Development of Russia's Post-Soviet Political System by Dmitri Furman
€18.12After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia under Yeltsin and Putin implemented a political system of "imitation democracy," marked by "a huge disparity between formal constitutional principles and the reality of authoritarian rule." How did this... -
Has China Won?: The Chinese Challenge to American Primacy by Kishore Mahbubani 9781541768130
RRP: €35.70€22.46The twenty-first century's great geopolitical contest has begun. A major trade war has broken out. American and Chinese naval vessels are having close encounters in the South China Sea. American congressmen and businessmen are cheering their government's... -
The New Russia by Mikhail Gorbachev 9781509503872
RRP: €29.75€19.97After years of rapprochement, the relationship between Russia and the West is more strained now than it has been in the past 25 years. Putin's motives, his reasons for seeking confrontation with the West, remain for many a mystery. Not for Mikhail... -
Bloody Nasty People: The Rise of Britain's Far Right by Daniel Trilling
RRP: €28.55€28.32The past decade saw the rise of the British National Party, the country's most successful ever far-right political movement, and the emergence of the anti-Islamic English Defence League. Taking aim at asylum seekers, Muslims, "enforced multiculturalism"... -
The Code of Putinism by Brian Taylor 9780190867324
RRP: €34.50€24.92What is Vladimir Putin up to? This book shows how the mentality of Putin and his team - the code of Putinism - has shaped Russian politics over the past two decades. It explains not only the thoughts and ideas that motivate Putin's decisions, but also... -
Jihad & Co.: Black Markets and Islamist Power by Aisha Ahmad 9780190656775
€33.74The rise of militant jihadist groups is one of the greatest international security crises in the world today. In civil wars across the modern Muslim world, Islamist groups have emerged out of the ashes, surged dramatically to power, and routed their... -
Politics and Governance in the Middle East by Vincent Durac
RRP: €40.45€36.05This textbook offers a systematic and up-to-date introduction to politics and society in the Middle East. Taking a thematic approach that engages with core theory as well as a wide range of research, it examines postcolonial political, social and... -
First They Took Rome: How the Populist Right Conquered Italy by David Broder
RRP: €20.22€16.78It is difficult for Italians to have much faith in the future. The last Labour Minister said it was a good thing if young people emigrated, to stop them 'getting under our feet'; one recent Prime Minister said that young Italians should not invest their... -
The New Politics of Class: The Political Exclusion of the British Working Class by Geoffrey Evans 9780198755753
€60.05This book explores the new politics of class in 21st century Britain. It shows how the changing shape of the class structure since 1945 has led political parties to change, which has both reduced class voting and increased class non-voting. This... -
A National Health Service?: The Restructuring of Health Care in Britain since 1979 by John Mohan
RRP: €59.49€59.32This book contrasts the proposals of the Royal Commission of the late 1970s with the very different set of priorities enshrined in the 1989 White Paper and describes how the changes between the two documents came about. It argues that the NHS reforms... -
The British General Election of 2019 by Robert Ford 9783030742539
RRP: €53.54€32.46The British General Election of 2019 is the definitive account of one of the most consequential and controversial general elections in recent times, when Boris Johnson gambled everything calling an early election to 'Get Brexit Done', and emerged... -
Fractured Continent: Europe's Crises and the Fate of the West by William Drozdiak
RRP: €24.98€21.60In President Obama's effort to reshape America's image abroad, he made overtures to the Islamic world, pivoted towards China and vowed to "reset" relations with Russia. What he overlooked, argues William Drozdiak, was the imminent crisis in Europe. The...