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The Accidental President of Brazil: A Memoir by Fernando Henrique Cardoso 9781586484293
RRP: €21.41€18.72Fernando 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: €15.46€15.30The 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... -
For Tibet, with Love: A Beginner's Guide to Changing the World by Isabel Losada 9780747572855
RRP: €15.46€10.82'Sometimes you just have to do something, don't you? Sometimes an injustice comes along and you think 'No, this cannot be', and rather than just turn off the TV, you know it's time to act' So begins Isabel Losada's extraordinary FOR TIBET WITH LOVE in... -
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... -
The Freedom Convoy: Three Weeks That Shook the World by Andrew Lawton
RRP: €16.65€11.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781989555934Author Andrew LawtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint The Sutherland House Inc.Publisher The Sutherland House Inc. -
Behind the Kingdom's Veil: Inside the New Saudi Arabia Under Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman by Susanne Koelbl
RRP: €29.69€22.02A First-Hand Look at Saudi Arabian Life as Few Outsiders Have Seen It"It's like watching a movie - just better," Dr. Elisabeth Kendall, Oxford University, Arabic and Islamic Studies.2020 Finalist Sarton Women's Literary Award for Nonfiction#1 Bestseller... -
Crossing the Congo: Over Land and Water in a Hard Place by Mike Martin
RRP: €21.41€19.21In 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: €49.98€43.95This 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... -
Eagle Down: The Last Special Forces Fighting the Forever War by Jessica Donati
RRP: €26.18€19.84In 2013, President Obama began the drawdown of troops in Afghanistan. But only a year into the withdrawal, Obama began allowing the U.S. military to resume combat operations, relying almost entirely on U.S. Special Operations forces. It was the beginning... -
The hounds of Actaeon: the magical origins of public relations and modern media by Mauricio Loza 9781680531275
RRP: €35.64€23.45Apologies 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: 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
RRP: €22.61€22.24Apologies 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€13.88The 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 Intimate Rembrandt by Christopher White 9781838395322
RRP: €47.60€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... -
Struggling to be seen by Anandi Ramamurthy
RRP: €20.22€13.73Apologies 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 -
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
€30.29Europe 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 -
Tryweryn: A New Dawn? by Dr Wyn Thomas 9781912631483
RRP: €23.79€22.68Definitive 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: €26.18€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... -
India and Asian Geopolitics: The Past, Present by Shivshankar Menon
RRP: €41.65€37.31Apologies 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)... -
Putin's Propaganda Machine: Soft Power and Russian Foreign Policy by Marcel H. Van Herpen 9781442253612
RRP: €44.03€38.87Putin'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 Conservative Party and the Extreme Right 1945-1975 by Mark Pitchford 9780719083631
RRP: €101.15€71.60This book reveals the Conservative Party's relationship with the extreme right between 1945 and 1975. For the first time, this book shows how the Conservative Party, realising that its well known pre-Second World War connections with the extreme right... -
The Crisis of Modernity: Volume 64 by Noce Augusto Del 9780773544437
RRP: €44.03€33.57In his native Italy Augusto Del Noce is regarded as one of the preeminent political thinkers and philosophers of the period after the Second World War. The Crisis of Modernity makes available for the first time in English a selection of Del Noce's essays... -
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
RRP: €30.93€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... -
Two Sides of One River: Nationalism and Ethnography in Galicia and Portugal by Antonio Medeiros 9780857457240
RRP: €127.33€103.85Galicia, the region in the northwest corner of Spain contiguous with Portugal, is officially known as the Autonomous Community of Galicia. It is recognized as one of the historical nationalities making up the Spanish state, as legitimized by the Spanish... -
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
€29.69Welcome 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 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,... -
22 Days in May: The Birth of the Lib Dem-Conservative Coalition by David Laws 9781849540803
RRP: €11.89€8.65David Laws was one of the key Lib Dem MPs who negotiated the coalition deal, and the book includes his in-depth, behind the scenes, account of the talks with the Conservative and Labour teams after the General Election, as well as the debates within his... -
The Two-state Delusion: Israel and Palestine - A Tale of Two Narratives by Padraig O'Malley
RRP: €21.41€14.86Apologies 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 -
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: €29.75€21.84The 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...