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Vision or Mirage: Saudi Arabia at the Crossroads by David Rundell
RRP: £14.99£11.47'Clear-eyed and illuminating.' Henry Kissinger, former Secretary of State and National Security Advisor 'A rich, superbly researched, balanced history of the modern Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.' General David Petraeus, former Commander U.S. Central... -
Chief of Staff: An Insider's Account of Downing Street's Most Turbulent Years by Gavin Barwell
RRP: £10.99£7.32BOOK OF THE YEAR, The Times, Guardian and Prospect'Fascinating and instructive... his decency and pragmatism shine through.' The Times'Candid, valuable and insightful.' ObserverSince the EU referendum of 2016, British politics has witnessed a barrage of... -
The Parish Councillor's Guide by Paul Clayden
£38.39Although it is less than three years since the previous edition, some important changes in the law have taken place. These include new provisions relating to reviews of parishes in England in the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act... -
Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, The West and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War by Stephen R. Platt
RRP: £17.99£12.60In the early 1850s, during the twilight of the Qing dynasty, word spread of a major revolution brewing in the provinces. The leader of this movement - who called themselves the Taiping - was Hong Xiuquan, a failed civil servant who claimed to be the son... -
Our Palestine Question: Israel and American Jewish Dissent, 1948-1978 by Geoffrey Levin 9780300267853
£31.37A new history of the American Jewish relationship with Israel focused on its most urgent and sensitive issue: the question of Palestinian rights American Jews began debating Palestinian rights issues even before Israel's founding in 1948. Geoffrey... -
Marrakech Express by Peter Millar
RRP: £14.99£9.80Back in 1969 when Morocco's ancient capital was a hashish clouded happy mecca, Crosby, Stills and Nash recorded their cheesy (and hopelessly inaccurate) foot-tapping anthem 'Marrakech Express'. A generation on, award-winning journalist, author, and... -
Deception by Edward Lucas
RRP: £10.99£7.77________________________________ 'Putin [and] his friends ... are gangsters on a scale that makes Al Capone or the Corleones seem small-time ... Lucas is right to castigate our folly in treating all this so lightly.' - Max Hastings, Sunday Times ... -
Sipping Dom Pérignon Through A Straw by Eddie Ndopu 9781399803786
RRP: £20.00£13.35'Uncompromising... A masterful writer poised for even more great success' - Forest Whitaker, Academy award-winning actorA memoir, penned with one good finger, about being profoundly disabled and profoundly successful.Global humanitarian Eddie Ndopu was... -
Copper King in Central Africa: Corporate Organisation, Labour Relations, and Profitability of Zambia's Rhokana Corporation by Hyden Munene 9781538146422
RRP: £88.00£83.88Copper King in Central Africa offers a detailed account of the corporate history of the Rhokana/Rokana Corporation and its Nkana mine. Thematically and chronologically organised, it explores the discovery of viable ores on the Northern Rhodesian/Zambian... -
Politics in the Republic of Ireland by John Coakley 9781032357652
RRP: £37.99£33.38Building on the success of previous editions, Politics in the Republic of Ireland continues to provide an authoritative introduction to all aspects of government and politics in this seventh edition.Written by some of the foremost experts on Irish... -
Atatürk: Father of the Republic of Turkey by George W. Gawrych 9780755651818
RRP: £20.00£14.98Mustafa Kemal Ataturk was one of the most significant political leaders of the twentieth century. He rose from obscure origins to become the founder of the new Republic of Turkey out of the ashes of the Ottoman Empire and go on to radically transform... -
The Butcher of Poland: Hitler's Lawyer Hans Frank by Garry O'Connor 9781803995908
RRP: £14.99£11.28The life of Bavarian Hans Frank, one of the ten war criminals hanged at Nuremburg in 1946, has not received the full attention the world has given to other Nazi leaders. In many ways, he warrants it more. His life symbolised Germany's hubristic and... -
The Great Successor: The Secret Rise and Rule of Kim Jong Un by Anna Fifield
RRP: £12.99£8.60The Great Successor is an irreverent yet insightful quest to understand the life of Kim Jong Un, one of the world's most secretive dictators. Kim's life is swathed in myth and propaganda, from the plainly silly--he supposedly ate so much Swiss cheese... -
Jacob's Ladder by Michael Ashcroft 9781785904875
RRP: £20.00£14.56Jacob Rees-Mogg is one of the most prominent and controversial figures in contemporary British politics. He is a man who divides opinion in his own party, in Parliament and across the country. An arch-Brexiteer with significant business interests and... -
In Europe's Shadow by Robert D. Kaplan
RRP: £14.99£9.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812986624Author Robert D. KaplanFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 289gDimensions(mm)... -
Reinventing Theology in Post-Genocide Rwanda: Challenges and Hopes by Marcel Uwineza
RRP: £100.00£86.55The first comprehensive examination of the Catholic Church's role in the genocide against the Tutsi and its attempts at reconciliation From April to July 1994, more than a million people were killed during the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda... -
Eight Days at Yalta: How Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin Shaped the Post-War World by Diana Preston
RRP: £12.99£9.02Meticulously researched and vividly written, Eight Days at Yalta is a remarkable work of intense historical drama.In the last winter of the Second World War, Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin arrived in the Crimean resort of... -
The War Came To Us: Life and Death in Ukraine by Christopher Miller
RRP: £20.00£14.69A WATERSTONES AND IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR A breathtaking exploration of Ukraine's past, present, and future, and a heartbreaking account of the war against Russia, written by a leading journalist who has lived and worked in Ukraine for over a... -
Southeast Asia: A Very Short Introduction by James R. Rush 9780190248765
RRP: £8.99£6.45Straddling the equator, Southeast Asia comprises Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Singapore, and the Philippines, as well as Laos, Cambodia, Brunei, and East Timor. Despite its extraordinary diversity of ethnicities, religions, and... -
The Politics of Northern Ireland by Joanne McEvoy
RRP: £16.99£15.43The political scene in Northern Ireland is constantly evolving. This book reflects the most recent changes and synthesises some of the best thinking on the subject. It provides an overview of the politics of Northern Ireland, including detailed coverage... -
The End of the Revolution: China and the Limits of Modernity by Wang Hui 9781844673797
RRP: £18.99£16.10Challenging both the bureaucratic one-party regime and the Western neoliberal paradigm, China's leading critic shatters the myth of progress and reflects upon the inheritance of a revolutionary past. In this original and wide-ranging study, Wang Hui... -
Age of Coexistence: The Ecumenical Frame and the Making of the Modern Arab World by Ussama Makdisi 9780520258884
RRP: £25.00£19.58"Flawless . . . [Makdisi] reminds us of the critical declarations of secularism which existed in the history of the Middle East."-Robert Fisk, The Independent Today's headlines paint the Middle East as a collection of war-torn countries and extremist... -
The Rise and Fall of the EAST: How Exams, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology Brought China Success, and Why They Might Lead to Its Decline by Yasheng Huang 9780300266368
RRP: £25.00£20.92The long history of China's relationship between stability, diversity, and prosperity, and how its current leadership threatens this delicate balance A Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2023 Chinese society has been shaped by the interplay of the... -
Lawfare by Geoffrey Robertson 9780008607890
RRP: £10.99£7.25How Russians, the Rich and the Government Try to Prevent Free Speech and How to Stop Them. 'ESSENTIAL' Amal Clooney'AUTHORITATIVE' Sir Geoffrey Bindman KC'IMPORTANT 'Baroness Helena Kennedy KC'COULD HARDLY BE MORE... -
Philip's RGS Atlas of the World by Philip's Maps 9781849076531
RRP: £75.00£50.75Packed with the latest statistics and filled with clear cartography, the Philip's RGS Atlas of the World gives a striking view of the Earth's surface and its many complexities and treasures."This atlas brilliantly captures what a precious and impressive... -
The Accidental Spy by Sean O'Driscoll
RRP: £8.99£6.45The astonishing, gripping and long-awaited inside story of an ordinary man who became an extraordinary spy.After years of living in semi-isolation, David Rupert speaks for the first time about how a trucker from New York ended up being recruited to the... -
Without the State: Self-Organization and Political Activism in Ukraine by Emily Channell-Justice
RRP: £23.99£21.57Without the State explores the 2013-14 Euromaidan protests - a wave of demonstrations and civil unrest in Ukraine - through in-depth ethnographic research with leftist, feminist, and student activists in Kyiv. The book discusses the concept of... -
The British General Election of 2019 by Robert Ford 9783030742560
RRP: £24.99£21.98The 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... -
The Quest: Energy, Security and the Remaking of the Modern World by Daniel Yergin
RRP: £18.99£14.01In The Quest, master storyteller, leading energy expert and Pulitzer prize-winner for The Prize, Daniel Yergin shows us how energy is the ultimate engine of global political and economic change, in a gripping story that spans the old energies on which... -
Scandal at Dolphin Square: A Notorious History by Simon Danczuk 9781803993607
RRP: £15.99£11.96'Compelling, authoritative and as readable as the best airport thriller. It fizzes with crime, fame, power and illicit sex.' Jeremy Vine'A timely and important book. It's quite remarkable how one building has played host to such debauchery. If only the... -
The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War by Craig Whitlock
RRP: £12.99£8.18A Washington Post Best Book of 2021 The #1 New York Times bestselling investigative story of how three successive presidents and their military commanders deceived the public year after year about America's longest war, foreshadowing the Taliban's... -
Putin's Prisoner: My Time as a Prisoner of War in Ukraine by Aiden Aslin 9780857505293
RRP: £20.00£14.29Aiden Aslin joined the Ukrainian marines in 2018, compelled to defend his adopted homeland from the growing threat of Russian invasion. In February 2022, as Russia mounted a full-scale offensive, Aiden and his unit were stationed at the frontline at... -
Crowfall by Vashti Hardy 9781407197272
RRP: £7.99£5.76A rip-roaring, island-hopping adventure - and unforgettable ecological fable - from the award-winning author of Wildspark and Brightstorm. 'Hardy has drunk from the same cup as Philip Reeve and Philip Pullman.' -... -
Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain by Fintan O'Toole
RRP: £9.99£7.11'A wildly entertaining but uncomfortable read... Pitilessly brilliant' JONATHAN COE. 'There will not be much political writing in this or any other year that is carried off with such style' The Times. A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR. 'A quite... -
Long Shot: My Life As a Sniper in the Fight Against ISIS by Azad Cudi 9781474609791
RRP: £9.99£6.80In September 2014, Azad Cudi became one of seventeen snipers deployed when ISIS, trying to shatter the Kurds in a decisive battle, besieged the northern city of Kobani. In LONG SHOT, he tells the inside story of how a group of activists and idealists... -
Dictators Without Borders: Power and Money in Central Asia by Alexander A. Cooley
RRP: £13.99£12.25A penetrating look into the unrecognized and unregulated links between autocratic regimes in Central Asia and centers of power and wealth throughout the West Weak, corrupt, and politically unstable, the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan,... -
The American Duchess: The Real Wallis Simpson by Anna Pasternak
RRP: £12.99£8.48'Draws startling parallels with Meghan ... Both were 34 when they met their princes, both are adored children of strong, single mothers, both have a pared-down style and an electric presence and both are evidently worshipped by their Royal partners.' S... -
Blowing up Russia: The Book that Got Litvinenko Assassinated by Alexander Litvinenko
RRP: £10.99£8.94Updated edition of the book that got former FSB Colonel Alexander Litvinenko killed according to MI6. It unveils the first-ever fake news campaign that the FSB created to have former FSB head Vladimir Putin elected as President of Russia.About the... -
Kretek Capitalism: Making, Marketing, and Consuming Clove Cigarettes in Indonesia by Marina Welker 9780520399679
RRP: £30.00£25.95A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Indonesia is the world's second-largest cigarette market: two out of three men smoke,... -
From the Treaty of Versailles to the Treaty of Maastricht: Conflict, carnage and cooperation in Europe, 1918 - 1993 by Martin Holmes
RRP: £36.99£32.53This book examines European history and politics between two very well-known but flawed treaties: The Treaty of Versailles and the Treaty of Maastricht.Taking the Treaty of Versailles, signed following World War I, as a starting point, the volume argues...