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The Confounding Island: Jamaica and the Postcolonial Predicament by Orlando Patterson 9780674292246
RRP: £18.95£15.37A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceWinner of a PROSE Award"Fascinating...Eye-opening...Illuminating...Patterson carefully explores the complexity of the structural machinery behind Jamaica's dazzling successes and dismal failures."-Carrie... -
The Devil's Highway by Luis Alberto Urrea
RRP: £13.99£11.83The author of 'Across the Wire' offers brilliant investigative reporting of what went wrong when, in May 2001, a group of 26 men attempted to cross the Mexican border into the desert of southern Arizona. Only 12 men came back out. 'Superb . . . Nothing... -
China's Political System by Sebastian Heilmann 9781442277359
RRP: £42.00£37.33The Chinese government is one of the most important actors in international affairs today. To thoroughly understand how the People's Republic of China has grown in power requires a careful analysis of its political system. To what extent can China's... -
Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China by Leta Hong Fincher
RRP: £16.99£14.10On the eve of International Women's Day in 2015, the Chinese government arrested five feminist activists and jailed them for 37 days. The Feminist Five became a global cause celebre, with Hillary Clinton speaking out on their behalf, and activists... -
Russian Nuclear Orthodoxy: Religion, Politics, and Strategy by Dmitry Adamsky
RRP: £29.99£26.65A nuclear priesthood has arisen in Russia. From portable churches to the consecration of weapons systems, the Russian Orthodox Church has been integrated into every facet of the armed forces to become a vital part of Russian national security, politics,... -
State-building Interventions in Post-Conflict Liberia: Building a State without Citizens by Susanne Mulbah 9780367888442
RRP: £39.99£35.06Post-conflict Liberia has been subjected to extensive international state-building, at some point hosting the largest and one of the longest UN peacekeeping missions in the world, and inflow of aid that exceeds in multiples the GDP. In order to... -
Turks in the Indian Subcontinent, Central and West Asia: The Turkish Presence in the Islamic World by Ismail K. H. Poonawala 9780198092209
RRP: £20.99£19.07For almost a millennium until the beginning of the twentieth century, Turkish rulers and military commanders controlled vast stretches of Islamic lands. While these rulers dominated lands far and wide-from Algeria in the west to Bengal in the east,... -
The 15:17 to Paris: The True Story of a Terrorist, a Train and Three American Heroes by Anthony Sadler 9780008292294
RRP: £10.99£8.29The 15:17 to Paris is an amazing true story of friendship and bravery, of near terrorist attack averted by three young men who found the heroic unity and strength inside themselves at the moment when they, and 500 other innocent travellers, needed it... -
The New Autocracy: Information, Politics, and Policy in Putin's Russia by Daniel Treisman 9780815732433
RRP: £30.00£26.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815732433Author Daniel TreismanFormat PaperbackPage Count 332Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & Littlefield -
Palestinian Youth Activism in the Internet Age: Online and Offline Social Networks after the Arab Spring by Dr Albana S. Dwonch 9780755643769
£32.28Since the Arab uprisings of 2011, Palestinian youth movements have formed unofficial and leaderless networks of political activism, using the internet to mobilise and bring together three generations of Palestinian activists. This book focuses on three... -
After ISIS: America, Iran and the Struggle for the Middle East by Seth J Frantzman
RRP: £17.99£11.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789657023099Author Rabbi Shalom HammerFormat PaperbackPage Count 374Imprint Gefen Publishing HousePublisher Gefen Publishing HouseWeight(grams) 404g -
A Concise History of the Middle East by Arthur Goldschmidt
RRP: £49.99£44.50A Concise History of the Middle East provides a comprehensive introduction to the history of this turbulent region. Spanning from pre-Islam to the present day, it explores the evolution of Islamic institutions and culture, the influence of the West,... -
The Secret Gate: a true story of courage and sacrifice during the collapse of Afghanistan by Mitchell Zuckoff
RRP: £18.99£12.83The incredible story of a breathtaking rescue in the frenzied final hours of the US evacuation of Afghanistan — and how a brave Afghan mother and a compassionate American officer engineered a daring escape. When the US began its withdrawal from... -
Dirty Politics?: New Labour, British Democracy and the Invasion of Iraq by Steven Kettell
£38.75Britain's participation in the Iraq war defines one of the most tumultuous periods in its political history. Driven by a desire to enhance the influence of the British government on the world stage, the decision to support the US-led invasion has... -
Taking Control: Sovereignty and Democracy After Brexit by Philip Cunliffe
RRP: £50.00£43.51Taking Control argues that neither side in the Brexit debate really understood the European Union or what was involved in reclaiming Britain's sovereignty. The EU is neither a supranational nanny state, nor an internationalist peace project. It is the... -
ISIS: A History by Fawaz A. Gerges 9780691170008
RRP: £25.00£19.59The Islamic State has stunned the world with its savagery, destructiveness, and military and recruiting successes. What explains the rise of ISIS, and what does it portend for the future of the Middle East? In this book, one of the world's leading... -
Precarious Democracy: Ethnographies of Hope, Despair, and Resistance in Brazil by Benjamin Junge 9781978825659
RRP: £38.00£33.27Brazil changed drastically in the 21st century's second decade. In 2010, the country's outgoing president Lula left office with almost 90% approval. As the presidency passed to his Workers' Party successor, Dilma Rousseff, many across the world hailed... -
Claim No Easy Victories: The Legacy of Amilcar Cabral by Bill Fletcher Jr 9782869785557
RRP: £33.99£22.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782869785557Author Firoze ManjiFormat PaperbackPage Count 518Imprint CODESRIAPublisher CODESRIAWeight(grams) 1810g -
A Moonless, Starless Sky: Ordinary Women and Men Fighting Extremism in Africa by Alexis Okeowo
RRP: £14.99£4.71'Absolutely essential reading, period' Alexandra Fuller, bestselling author of Don't Lets Go to the Dogs TonightWINNER of the 2018 PEN Open Book AwardIn the tradition of Behind the Beautiful Forevers, this is a masterful, humane work of literary... -
Arab Fall: How the Muslim Brotherhood Won and Lost Egypt in 891 Days by Eric Trager 9781626163621
RRP: £28.00£24.94How did Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood win power so quickly after the dramatic "Arab Spring" uprising that ended President Hosni Mubarak's thirty-year reign in February 2011? And why did the Brotherhood fall from power even more quickly, culminating with the... -
What Is Russia Up To in the Middle East? by Dmitri V. Trenin 9781509522316
RRP: £14.99£10.91The eyes of the world are on the Middle East. Today, more than ever, this deeply-troubled region is the focus of power games between major global players vying for international influence. Absent from this scene for the past quarter century, Russia is... -
Pandemonium: Europe's Covid Crisis by Luuk van Middelaar
RRP: £24.99£23.26Over the past decade the European Union has faced threats to its currency, borders and unity. Covid-19, which began its inexorable spread across Europe in February 2020, is the latest crisis to test the Union's resilience. Luuk van Middelaar's... -
Pitch Battles: Protest, Prejudice and Play by Peter Hain
RRP: £25.00£17.62"There will be a black Springbok over my dead body."- Dr Danie Craven, President of the South African Rugby Board, 1969Just a year after the controversial D'Oliveira affair, the organised disruption of the all-white 1969/70 South African rugby and... -
The Children of China's Great Migration by Rachel Murphy
RRP: £29.99£27.40In 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... -
The Whitehall Effect: How Whitehall Became the Enemy of Great Public Services and What We Can Do about It by John Seddon
RRP: £25.00£20.30In The WHITEHALL Effect, John Seddon explains how and why it is that governments repeatedly fail to deliver what our public services need and exposes the devastation that three decades of political fads, fashions and bad theory have caused. Although his... -
Good Country Equation by Simon Anholt
RRP: £17.99£12.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781523089611Author Simon AnholtFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Berrett-Koehler PublishersPublisher Berrett-Koehler Publishers -
Life Worlds of Middle Eastern Oil: Histories and Ethnographies of Black Gold by Nelida Fuccaro
RRP: £85.00£69.28Studies how oil has shaped the societies and cultures of the modern and contemporary Middle East Proposes a new research agenda for the study of oil's varied lives in the modern and contemporary Middle East Includes 13 case studies, including 2 photo... -
Russia Rising: Putin's Foreign Policy in the Middle East and North Africa by Dimitar Bechev
RRP: £23.99£20.94The war in Syria has put Russia at the centre of Middle Eastern politics. Moscow's return to the region following a prolonged period of absence has enhanced its geopolitical status at a time it has emerged as a rival to the West. Yet, contrary to the... -
Does Putin Have to Die?: The Story of How Russia Becomes a Democracy after Losing to Ukraine by Ilya Ponomarev
RRP: £22.00£14.05The Story of How Russia Becomes a Democracy after Losing to Ukraine. Opposing Putin is a risky proposition; for instance, a fellow Russian Parliament member turned dissident, Denis Voronenkov, was on his way to see Ponomarev when he was shot and killed... -
Standing Guard: Protecting Foreign Capital in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries by Charles Lipson 9780520302020
RRP: £34.00£26.97Foreign investors are drawn abroad by the lure of profits, but they also face significant risks. Standing Guard examines how investors coped with these risks and protected their capital abroad in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Toward the end... -
State, Society and Markets in North Korea by Andrew Yeo
RRP: £17.00£14.72Under Kim Jong-un, North Korea has experienced growing economic markets, an emerging 'nouveau riche,' and modest levels of urban development. To what extent is North Korean politics and society changing? How has the growth of markets transformed... -
The Australian Policy Handbook: A Practical Guide to the Policymaking Process by Catherine Althaus
RRP: £35.99£31.69The seventh edition of this classic handbook on the policy process is fully updated, featuring new material on policy making amid local and global disruption, the contestable nature of modern policy advice, commissioning and contracting, public... -
Brazil Apart: 1964-2019 by Perry Anderson
RRP: £16.99£14.10What does Brazil's lurch to the hard right under Jair Bolsonaro portend for Latin America's most populous society, and how has it come about? Perry Anderson, foremost observer of the Brazilian scene in the English-speaking world, offers a matchless... -
Left Behind: Latin America and the False Promise of Populism by Sebastian Edwards 9780226004662
RRP: £17.00£16.68The political and economic history of Latin America has been marked by great hopes and even greater disappointments. Despite abundant resources - and a history of productivity and wealth - in recent decades the region has fallen further and further... -
The Islamic State in Khorasan: Afghanistan, Pakistan and the New Central Asian Jihad by Antonio Giustozzi
RRP: £20.00£17.84Selected as one of 'Five books that help explain what is happening in Afghanistan' (Financial Times) So-called Islamic State began to appear in what it calls Khorasan (Afghanistan, Pakistan, Central Asia, Iran and India) in 2014. Reports of its presence... -
The Age of Counter-Revolution: States and Revolutions in the Middle East by Jamie Allinson
RRP: £22.99£19.56The 'Arab Spring' has come to symbolise defeated hopes for democracy and social justice in the Middle East. In this book, Jamie Allinson demonstrates how these defeats were far from inevitable. Rather than conceptualising the 'Arab Spring' as a series of... -
Ukraine's Unnamed War: Before the Russian Invasion of 2022 by Dominique Arel
RRP: £26.99£21.77The Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 has its roots in the events of 2013-2014. Russia cynically termed the seditionist conflict in Crimea and Eastern Donbas a 'civil war' in order to claim non-involvement. This flies in the face of evidence, but the... -
We Will Return as Millions: A Story of Violence and Resistance in Bolivia by Linda Farthing
RRP: £16.99£11.67In three dramatic weeks in October and November 2019, the fourteen years of progressive change that Evo Morales' pink tide government had worked to implement in Bolivia and beyond came to a screeching halt. President Morales was forced to resign after... -
Iraq since the Invasion: People and Politics in a State of Conflict by Keiko Sakai
RRP: £36.99£32.53This book addresses the complex events and unexpected outcomes of military intervention by the United States and its allies in Iraq in 2003. Considering the long-term outcomes of the intervention, this volume examines economic collapse, societal... -
Blood and Belief: The PKK and the Kurdish Fight for Independence by Aliza Marcus
RRP: £25.99£20.84An in depth and scholarly report on the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), an essential actor on behalf of modern-day Kurds The Kurds, who number some 28 million people in the Middle East, have no country they can call their own. Long ignored by the West,...