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Chief of Staff: Notes from Downing Street by Gavin Barwell
RRP: $39.00$28.65BOOK 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 Pursuit of Power: Europe, 1815-1914 by Richard J. Evans
RRP: $37.03$27.32'A scintillating, encyclopaedic history, rich in detail from the arcane to the familiar... a veritable tour de force' Richard Overy, New Statesman'Transnational history at its finest ... .. social, political and cultural themes swirl together in one... -
The Muslim Brotherhood: Evolution of an Islamist Movement - Updated Edition by Carrie Rosefsky Wickham
RRP: $42.90$33.91Following the Arab Spring, the Muslim Brotherhood achieved a level of influence previously unimaginable. Yet the implications of the Brotherhood's rise and dramatic fall for the future of democratic governance, peace, and stability in the region are... -
History of the Russian Revolution by Leon Trotsky
RRP: $39.00$29.82'The greatest history of an event I know' - C.L.R. JamesRegarded by many as among the most powerful works of history ever written, The History of the Russian Revolution offers an unparalleled account of one of the most pivotal and hotly debated events in... -
Devil's Advocate by John Humphrys
RRP: $31.18$22.64________________________For decades, John Humphrys has been at the beating heart of the BBC's news division.From the 9 O'Clock News desk to his marathon 32-year stint on the Today Programme, Humphrys has had a remarkable career as a journalist, steering... -
Armies of Sand: The Past, Present, and Future of Arab Military Effectiveness by Kenneth M. Pollack
RRP: $56.53$41.50Since World War II, Arab armed forces have consistently punched below their weight--they have lost many wars that by all rights they should have won, and in their best performances only ever achieved quite modest accomplishments. Over time, soldiers,... -
The General's Son: Journey of an Israeli in Palestine by Miko Peled
RRP: $35.00$24.59A powerful account, by Israeli peace activist Miko Peled, of his transformation from a young man who'd grown up in the heart of Israel's elite and served proudly in its military into a fearless advocate of nonviolent struggle and equal rights for all... -
Untitled by John Stapleton
RRP: $19.48$12.95'The bombshell book everyone is talking about' DAILY MAIL 'A radio genius ... the maestro of the show' EVENING STANDARD As presenter of Radio 4's Today, the nation's most popular... -
After Zionism: One State for Israel and Palestine by Antony Loewenstein 9780863569418
RRP: $25.33$21.47After Zionism brings together some of the world's leading thinkers on the Middle East question. In thought-provoking essays, the contributors dissect the century-long conflict between Zionism and the Palestinians, and explore possible forms of a... -
Sacred Foundations: The Religious and Medieval Roots of the European State by Anna M. Grzymala-Busse
RRP: $48.75$37.40How the medieval church drove state formation in EuropeSacred Foundations argues that the medieval church was a fundamental force in European state formation. Existing accounts focus on early modern warfare or contracts between the rulers and the ruled... -
Hospitality, Volume II by Jacques Derrida 9780226831305
RRP: $70.20$59.22Jacques Derrida explores the ramifications of what we owe to others.Hospitality reproduces a two-year seminar series delivered by Jacques Derrida at the Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales in Paris between 1995 and 1997. In these lectures,... -
Unchecked Power?: How Recent Constitutional Reforms Are Threatening UK Democracy by Alison L. Young 9781529233001
RRP: $29.23$23.65Is the government really acting for the people? Or does this rhetoric simply justify an executive power-grab? For some, Boris Johnson's premiership epitomised how far the UK's democracy has been captured by populism and the Prime Minister seemed more... -
The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World by Peter Frankopan
RRP: $39.00$27.87From the internationally bestselling author of The Silk Roads: everything you need to know about the present and future of the world 'Masterly mapping out of a new world order' Evening Standard 'Frankopan is a brilliant guide to terra incognita' The... -
Laboratories of Terror: The Final Act of Stalin's Great Purge in Soviet Ukraine by Lynne Viola 9780197647554
RRP: $44.83$40.56Laboratories of Terror explores the final chapter of Stalin's Great Terror in Soviet Ukraine. When the Communist Party Central Committee and the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR halted mass operations in repression in November 1938, large... -
Until We Are Free: My Fight For Human Rights in Iran by Shirin Ebadi
RRP: $31.18$22.64'POWERFUL AND SOMETIMES SHOCKING ...' SUNDAY TIMES In this powerful book, Dr Shirin Ebadi, Iranian human rights lawyer and activist, tells of her fight for reform inside Iran, and the devastating backlash she faced after winning the Nobel Peace Prize... -
Smile for the Camera: The Double Life of Cyril Smith by Simon Danczuk 9781849548755
RRP: $21.43$15.15No politician pandered to the media's appetite for personality more than Liberal MP Cyril Smith. Instantly recognisable for his colossal build, Smith was a larger-than-life character in a world of dull grey men. Yet 'Big Cyril' was anything but the... -
Putin's Counterrevolution by Sergey Aleksashenko
$23.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815732761Author Sergey AleksashenkoFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams)... -
The Last Shah: America, Iran, and the Fall of the Pahlavi Dynasty by Ray Takeyh
RRP: $29.23$25.41The surprising story of Iran's transformation from America's ally in the Middle East into one of its staunchest adversaries"An original interpretation that puts Iranian actors where they belong: at center stage."-Michael Doran, Wall Street Journal"An... -
Fortress Russia: Conspiracy Theories in the Post-Soviet World by Ilya Yablokov 9781509522668
RRP: $35.08$31.28Allegations of Russian conspiracies meddling in the affairs of Western countries have been a persistent feature of Western politics since the Cold War - allegations of Russian interference in the US presidential election are only the most recent in a... -
The Asian 21st Century by Kishore Mahbubani 9789811668135
RRP: $68.23$64.55This open access book consists of essays written by Kishore Mahbubani to explore the challenges and dilemmas faced by the West and Asia in an increasingly interdependent world village and intensifying geopolitical competition. The contents cover four... -
The New Tsar: The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin by Steven Lee Myers
RRP: $19.48$12.50The epic tale of Vladimir Putin's path to power, as he emerged from obscurity to become one of the world's most important and dangerous leaders.Former New York Times Moscow Bureau Chief Steven Lee Myers has followed Putin since well before the recent... -
One Man's Terrorist: A Political History of the IRA by Daniel Finn 9781786636881
RRP: $33.13$22.37The conflict in Northern Ireland was one of the most devastating in post-war Europe, claiming the lives of 3,500 people and injuring many more. This book is a riveting new history of the radical politics that drove a unique insurgency that emerged from... -
The Twilight of Unionism: Ulster and the Future of Northern Ireland by Geoffrey Bell
RRP: $29.23$18.92The fissures that have split the United Kingdom in the last decades have run through Northern Ireland. Since the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, the fragile peace has been threatened by Brexit, the rise and fall of the D U P and the failure of power-sharing... -
Accidental Czar: The Life and Lies of Vladimir Putin by Andrew S Weiss
RRP: $42.88$29.39In the West's collective imagination, Vladimir Putin is a devious cartoon villain, constantly plotting and scheming to destroy his enemies around the globe. But how did an undistinguished mid-level KGB officer become one of the most powerful leaders in... -
Mobilizing for Elections: Patronage and Political Machines in Southeast Asia by Edward Aspinall
$147.26Politicians in Southeast Asia, as in many other regions, win elections by distributing cash, goods, jobs, projects, and other benefits to supporters, but the ways in which they do this vary tremendously, both across and within countries. Mobilizing for... -
The A-Z of Business Bullshit: The world's most comprehensive dictionary of nonsense by Kevin Duncan 9781911687504
RRP: $17.53$12.09Wherever you work, the chances are you have fallen under the poisonous spell of business bullshit and jargon. Very few of us seem able to avoid "reaching out", or "walk the talk", or "pivoting", or "think outside the box". No longer solely the province... -
The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers by Richard McGregor 9780061708763
RRP: $35.08$22.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061708763Author Richard McGregorFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)... -
Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine by Lara Sheehi 9781032078694
RRP: $74.08$65.09Heavily influenced by Frantz Fanon and critically engaging the theories of decoloniality and liberatory psychoanalysis, Lara Sheehi and Stephen Sheehi platform the lives, perspectives, and insights of psychoanalytically inflected Palestinian... -
All She Lost: The Explosion in Lebanon, the Collapse of a Nation and the Women who Survive by Dalal Mawad 9781399406253
RRP: $39.00$28.57'Poignant and compelling... will resonate with anyone who cares about justice and the abuse of power' - Lindsey Hilsum, Channel 4 News International Editor and author of Sandstorm 'Essential and urgent' - Kim Ghattas, journalist and author of Black... -
Winston Churchill: His Times, His Crimes by Tariq Ali
RRP: $48.75$40.37The subject of numerous biographies and history books, Winston Churchill has been repeatedly voted as one of the greatest of Englishmen. Even today, Boris Johnson in his failing attempts to be magisterial, has adopted many of his hero's mannerism! And,... -
Chief of Station, Congo: Fighting the Cold War in a Hot Zone by Lawrence Devlin
RRP: $27.28$17.94Larry Devlin arrived as the new chief of station for the CIA in the Congo five days after the country had declared its independence, the army had mutinied, and governmental authority had collapsed. As he crossed the Congo River in an almost empty ferry... -
The Chancellors: Managing the British Economy in Crisis Times by Howard Davies 9781509549542
RRP: $31.18$21.31When the Treasury lost control of interest rates to the Bank of England in 1997, its status looked under threat. However, it quickly reasserted its power by dominating policymaking across Whitehall and diminishing other ministries in the process. It also... -
Across an Angry Sea: The SAS in the Falklands War: The SAS in the Falklands War by Cedric Delves
RRP: $27.28$24.36In early summer 1982--winter in the South Atlantic--Argentina's military junta invades the Falklands. Within days, a Royal Navy Task Force is assembled and dispatched. This is the story of D Squadron, 22 SAS, commanded by Cedric Delves. The relentless... -
Big Worlds: Politics and Elections in the Canadian Provinces and Territories by Jared J. Wesley
RRP: $72.15$62.05Based on extensive data collection, Big Worlds examines Canada's ten provinces and three territories as distinct democratic "worlds." A separate chapter is devoted to each province (and one explores the three territories), creating a cross-country survey... -
The The Slow Downfall of Margaret Thatcher: The Diaries of Bernard Ingham by Bernard Ingham 9781785904783
RRP: $39.00$24.08Branded `the rough-spoken Yorkshire Rasputin', Bernard Ingham served as Margaret Thatcher's press secretary for virtually all of her eleven-year premiership, adroitly steering the government's relationship with the media - and the Prime Minister's... -
Che Guevara And The Cuban Revolution by Mike Gonzalez 9781898876458
RRP: $15.60$11.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781898876458Author Mike GonzalezFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Bookmarks PublicationsPublisher Bookmarks PublicationsWeight(grams) 229g -
The New Crusades: Islamophobia and the Global War on Muslims by Khaled A. Beydoun 9780520402690
RRP: $39.00$30.17"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... -
The Oligarchs: Wealth And Power In The New Russia by David E. Hoffman
RRP: $33.13$26.31In this saga of brilliant triumphs and magnificent failures, David E. Hoffman, the former Moscow bureau chief for the Washington Post, sheds light on the hidden lives of Russia's most feared power brokers: the oligarchs. Focusing on six of these ruthless... -
We Need to Talk About Putin: Why the West gets him wrong, and how to get him right by Mark Galeotti
RRP: $19.48$13.86'Galeotti sketches a bleak, but convincing picture of the man in the Kremlin and the political system that he dominates' - The TimesMeet the world's most dangerous man. Who is the real Vladimir Putin? What does he want? And what will he do next? Despite... -
Two Weeks in November: The astonishing untold story of the operation that toppled Mugabe by Douglas Rogers 9781780723853
RRP: $25.33$16.77Two Weeks in Novemberis the thrilling, surreal, unbelievable and often very funny true story of four would-be enemies - a high ranking politician, an exiled human rights lawyer, a dangerous spy and a low-key white businessman turned political fixer - who...