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The Story of Russia by Orlando Figes
RRP: £25.00£18.02A 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 Lost Peace: How the West Failed to Prevent a Second Cold War by Richard Sakwa 9780300255010
RRP: £25.00£20.92The end of the Cold War was an opportunity - our inability to seize it has led to today's renewed era of great power competition 1989 heralded a unique prospect for an enduring global peace, as harsh ideological divisions and conflicts began to be... -
Urban Governance: Britain and Beyond Since 1750 by Professor Robert J. Morris
RRP: £135.00£117.28This is a coherent and integrated set of essays around the theme of governance addressing a wide range of questions on the organisation and legitimation of authority. At the heart of the book is a set of topics which have long attracted the attention of... -
Shadows At Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century by Joya Chatterji 9781847925497
RRP: £30.00£20.95**LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024**'A classic ... wonderfully enjoyable' WILLIAM DALRYMPLEThis is the authoritative history of South Asia in the 20th century.Shadows at Noon tells the subcontinent's story from the British Raj... -
Wuhan: How the COVID-19 Outbreak in China Spiraled Out of Control by Dali L. Yang 9780197756263
RRP: £26.99£23.20The definitive account of the Chinese government's response to the initial Covid-19 outbreak in Wuhan. The Covid-19 pandemic, which began as an outbreak in Wuhan in late 2019, has claimed millions of lives and caused unprecedented disruptions. Despite... -
The Invention of Russia: The Journey from Gorbachev's Freedom to Putin's War by Arkady Ostrovsky 9780857891600
RRP: £10.99£7.32The definitive and award-winning history of Vladimir Putin's rise to power following the collapse of the Soviet Union, by The Economist's Russia editor.'Fast-paced and excellently written' New York Times'A real insiders' story of Russia's post-Soviet... -
Once Upon a Time in Russia: The Rise of the Oligarchs and the Greatest Wealth in History by Ben Mezrich
RRP: £8.99£6.45A gripping and shocking insight into Russia's most influential oligarchs, including Roman Abramovich and Boris Berezovsky, from New York Times bestselling author of The Accidental Billionaires.To understand the state of Russia today, one must understand... -
A Small, Stubborn Town: Life, death and defiance in Ukraine by Andrew Harding 9781804183793
RRP: £12.99£8.49A Telegraph Book of the Year, soon to be a BBC Radio 4 dramatisation.'Extraordinary.' Philippe Sands'We are touched by the courage and dignity of Andrew Harding's characters - qualities that the author must surely possess in equal measure.' - Andrey... -
The Conservative Party After Brexit – Turmoil and Transformation by T Bale
RRP: £25.00£16.78The Conservative Party can lay convincing claim to being the world's most successful political party, not least because it is also one of the most adaptable, often appearing to do and say pretty much whatever it takes to win. But has it now taken things... -
Free For All: Why The NHS Is Worth Saving by Gavin Francis 9781800819252
RRP: £7.99£5.79'Needle-sharp analysis from the front line' Ian Rankin 'Utterly compelling' Henry Marsh 'Wonderful ... A heartbreaking chronicle of the NHS's near-demise, and a call to action' Leah Hazard 'A reminder of what is important, what we hold dear, and... -
The Land Reform Deception: Political Opportunism in Zimbabwe's Land Seizure Era by Charles Laurie 9780190680527
RRP: £35.49£32.85The Land Reform Deception looks at a particularly contentious period in Zimbabwe's recent history, from 2000-2008, when the government seized commercial farms using illegal and violent methods against a largely unarmed population of farmers and farm... -
The Lion and the Mouse by Lesley Sims 9781474999649
RRP: £4.99£3.65Lion thinks Little Mouse is too small to do anything... but will Little Mouse surprise him? A wonderful retelling of a much-loved fable by Aesop, with charming illustrations by John Joven.Little Mouse astonishes Lion in this lively retelling for little... -
Love in a Time of Hate: Art and Passion in the Shadow of War, 1929-39 by Florian Illies 9781800811164
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Strikingly original, utterly absorbing' Julia Boyd, author of Travellers in the Third Reich A Financial Times 'Book to Read in 2023' 1930s Europe - as the Roaring Twenties wind down and the world rumbles towards war, the great minds of the time have... -
European Union Law by Steve Peers
RRP: £42.99£42.00Edited by Catherine Barnard and Steve Peers, European Union Law draws together a range of perspectives from experienced academics, teachers and practitioners to provide a comprehensive introduction. Each chapter has been written and updated by an expert... -
The Russo-Ukrainian War: From the bestselling author of Chernobyl by Serhii Plokhy 9781802061789
RRP: £10.99£7.77CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE FINANCIAL TIMES * TELEGRAPH * PROSPECT'The best account of the ongoing conflict - its preconditions and its present-day horrors' Prospect Do you know what is at stake in Ukraine? Urgent, compelling reading from the... -
Strongmen: How They Rise, Why They Succeed, How They Fall by Ruth Ben-Ghiat
RRP: £11.99£8.43'A gripping and illuminating picture of how strongmen have deployed violence, seduction, and corruption' Daniel Ziblatt, co-author of How Democracies Die 'A timely analysis of how a certain kind of charisma delivers political disaster' Timothy Snyder,... -
Palestine Hijacked: How Zionism Forged an Apartheid State from River to Sea by Thomas Suarez
RRP: £23.99£16.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623718190Author Thomas SuarezFormat PaperbackPage Count 424Imprint Olive Branch PressPublisher Interlink Publishing Group, Inc -
We Are Your Soldiers: How Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser Remade the Arab World by Alex Rowell 9781398514218
RRP: £25.00£17.62'A gripping account. Essential reading to understand the roots of the 2011 Arab Spring and the conflicts that have devastated so much of the region' EUGENE ROGAN, author of The Arabs: A History ______________________________________________ President... -
Abolish the Monarchy: Why we should and how we will by Graham Smith
RRP: £16.99£12.28'A crucial, riveting polemic in support of one of the most precious things humanity has built - democracy itself' OWEN JONES'Graham Smith shows what fools our rotten constitution makes of us, with a monarch as emblem of a country beset by nepotism,... -
The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination by Stuart A. Reid 9781524748814
RRP: £30.00£20.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524748814Author Stuart A. ReidFormat HardbackPage Count 624Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 992gDimensions(mm) 242mm * 168mm... -
The Shadow of the Sun: My African Life by Ryszard Kapuscinski
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Only with the greatest of simplifications, for the sake of convenience, can we say Africa. In reality, except as a geographical term, Africa doesn't exist'. Ryszard Kapuscinski has been writing about the people of Africa throughout his career. In astudy... -
Narcoland: The Mexican Drug Lords and Their Godfathers by Anabel Hernandez
RRP: £10.99£7.25The product of five years of investigative reporting, the subject of intense national controversy, and the source of death threats that forced the National Human Rights Commission to assign two full-time bodyguards to Anabel Hernandez, The Lords of el... -
The Strange Survival of Liberal Britain: Politics and Power Before the First World War by Vernon Bogdanor 9781785907623
RRP: £35.00£25.05The turbulent years of 1895 to 1914 changed Britain's political landscape for ever. They saw a transition from aristocratic rule to mass politics and heralded a new agenda which still dominates today. The issues of the period - economic modernisation,... -
Inside the Deal: How the EU Got Brexit Done by Dr Stefaan De Rynck
RRP: £25.00£23.67As a close aide to Michel Barnier, Stefaan De Rynck had a front row seat in the Brexit negotiations. In this frank and uncompromising account, De Rynck tells the EU's side of the story and seeks to dispel some of the myths and spin that have become... -
Dictatorland: The Men Who Stole Africa by Paul Kenyon
£11.32A Financial Times Book of the Year 'Jaw-dropping' Daily Express 'Grimly fascinating' Financial Times 'Humane, timely, accessible and well-researched' Irish Times The dictator who grew so rich on his country's cocoa crop that he built a... -
The Rodchenkov Affair: How I Brought Down Russia's Secret Doping Empire - Winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2020 by Grigory Rodchenkov
RRP: £14.99£8.80***Winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year, 2020 - the inside story of the Russian doping programme by the man behind it all***One of the Financial Times's 'Fifty people who shaped the decade' 'The biggest sports scandal the world has ever... -
The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World by Vijay Prashad
RRP: £14.99£10.28The landmark alternative history of the Cold War from the perspective of the Global South, reissued in paperback with a new introduction by the authorIn this award-winning investigation into the overlooked history of the Third World-with a new preface by... -
Taking Control – Sovereignty and Democracy After B rexit by P Cunliffe
RRP: £15.99£14.41Taking 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... -
Big Boys' Rules: The SAS and the Secret Struggle Against the IRA by Mark Urban
RRP: £12.99£8.56The SAS describes its attitude to the use of lethal force as 'Big boys' games, big boys' rules'. Anyone caught with a gun or bomb can expect to be shot. In Big Boys' Rules: The SAS and the Secret Struggle Against the IRA Mark Urban meticulously explores... -
Christians in the City of Hong Kong: Chinese Christianity in Asia's World City by Tobias Brandner 9781350269088
RRP: £19.99£17.61Christians in the City of Hong Kong tells the story of a multi-faceted, constantly evolving Christianity in a vibrant metropolis that has always been China's gateway to the wider world. Having served in Hong Kong for over 25 years in contexts from prison... -
Dead Aid: Why aid is not working and how there is another way for Africa by Dambisa Moyo
RRP: £10.99£7.77Dambisa Moyo's Dead Aid reveals why millions are actually poorer because of aid, unable to escape corruption and reduced, in the West's eyes, to a childlike state of beggary. We all want to help. Over the past fifty years $1 trillion of development aid... -
All the Kremlin's Men: Inside the Court of Vladimir Putin by Mikhail Zygar
RRP: £15.99£10.93All the Kremlin's Men is a gripping narrative of an accidental king and a court out of control. Based on an unprecedented series of interviews with Vladimir Putin's inner circle, this book presents a radically different view of power and politics in... -
City on Fire: the fight for Hong Kong by Antony Dapiran
RRP: £10.99£7.32A long-term resident and expert observer of dissent in Hong Kong takes readers to the frontlines of Hong Kong's revolution. Through the long, hot summer of 2019, Hong Kong burned. Anti-government protests, sparked by a government proposal to introduce a... -
The Balkans by Mark Mazower
RRP: £9.99£6.80A dazzling short history of the Balkans from the Romans to the present, which provides vital historical and cultural background to contemporary Balkan politics.At the end of the twentieth century people spoke as if the Balkans had plagued Europe for ever... -
Usborne Workbooks Fractions 7-8 by Holly Bathie 9781474994491
RRP: £3.99£2.64Helped by the friendly animals of Paradise Park, children can explore fractions in a variety of interesting contexts. Topics include identifying fractions, finding equivalent fractions, adding and subtracting fractions, and finding fractions of amounts... -
A Love Letter to Europe: An outpouring of sadness and hope - Mary Beard, Shami Chakrabati, Sebastian Faulks, Neil Gaiman, Ruth Jones, J.K. Rowling, Sandi Toksvig and others by Frank Cottrell Boyce
RRP: £10.99£7.78How are great turning points in history experienced by individuals?As Britain pulls away from Europe great British writers come together to give voice to their innermost feelings. These writers include novelists, writers of books for children, of comic... -
An Army Like No Other: How the Israel Defense Force Made a Nation by Haim Bresheeth-Zabner
RRP: £25.00£16.83The Israeli army, officially named the Israel Defence Forces (IDF), was established in 1948 by David Ben-Gurion, Israel's first prime minister, who believed that 'the whole nation is the army'. In his mind, the IDF was to be an army like no other. It was... -
Rifqa by Mohammed El-Kurd
RRP: £12.99£8.63Each day after school, Mohammed El-Kurd's grandmother welcomed him at the door of his home with a bouquet of jasmine. Her name was Rifqa-she was older than Israel itself and an icon of Palestinian resilience. With razor-sharp wit and glistening moral... -
Putin: The explosive and extraordinary new biography of Russia’s leader by Philip Short
RRP: £16.99£12.68'A perfect mirror to its subject... should be compulsory reading' ObserverVladimir Putin is a pariah to the West.He has the power to reduce the West to nuclear ashes. He invades his neighbours, meddles in western elections and orders assassinations. His... -
The New Crusades: Islamophobia and the Global War on Muslims by Khaled A. Beydoun
RRP: £23.00£17.36"The New Crusades is an intersectional milestone. It lucidly illustrates how converging systems of subordination, power, and violence related to Islamophobia are experienced across the globe."-Kimberle Crenshaw, from the foreword "A profound wake-up call...