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How to Read Like a Parasite: Why the Left Got High on Nietzsche by Daniel Tutt 9781914420627
RRP: $16.76$11.09"Beautifully written and bursting with spirit, How to Read Like a Parasite is destined to be vital reading." - Matthew McManus, author of Nietzsche and the Politics of Reaction How to Read Like a Parasite overturns the whitewashed and defanged... -
The Worm in the Apple: A History of the Conservative Party and Europe from Churchill to Cameron: 2022 by Christopher Tugendhat 9781913368531
RRP: $25.80$17.72The Conservative Party have been in power for 47 of the 65 years since the end of the Second World War. During that time the division within the party over Europe has been the enduring drama of British politics - from Churchill's decision not to join the... -
Return to Diversity: A Political History of East Central Europe Since World War II by Joseph Rothschild
RRP: $110.93$104.04Highly acclaimed and thoroughly updated, Return to Diversity, Fourth Edition, provides a comprehensive political history of East Central Europe from World War II to the present. An engaging and straightforward political narrative, the book is organized... -
Advanced Introduction to European Union Law: Second Edition by Jacques Ziller 9781035323135
RRP: $23.16$21.23Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world's leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid... -
The Wit and Wisdom of Boris Johnson by Harry Mount
RRP: $11.60$8.86A return to the wit and wisdom of Boris Johnson - Brexiteer, Foreign Secretary, Prime Minister. New and updated edition. 2019 - the year that Boris took on the 'lingering gloomadon-poppers', pledged to steer the UK between the 'Scylla and Charybdis of... -
Mussolini's Grandchildren: Fascism in Contemporary Italy by David Broder
RRP: $23.21$15.66'Fascinating and trenchant, this account of contemporary Italian neo-fascism is both original and shocking' - John Foot, historian The dominant force in Italian politics is Giorgia Meloni's Fratelli d'Italia - a party with a direct genealogy from... -
First Raise a Flag: How South Sudan Won the Longest War but Lost the Peace by Peter Martell
RRP: $35.48$31.01When South Sudan's war began, the Beatles were playing their first hits and reaching the moon was an astronaut's dream. Half a century later, with millions massacred in Africa's longest war, the continent's biggest country split in two. It was an... -
The Berlin Wall by Frederick Taylor
RRP: $19.34$14.13The astonishing drama of Cold War nuclear poker that divided humanity - reissued with a new Postscript to commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of the fall of the wall. During the night of 12-13 August 1961, a barbed-wire entanglement was hastily... -
The Politics of Social Democracy: Issues, Dilemmas and Futures for the Centre-Left by Rob Manwaring 9780367135447
RRP: $47.72$41.96This book addresses the meaning of contemporary social democracy and how the centre-left is navigating through its current identity crisis, through a series of cases of social democratic and labour parties across Europe and the Anglosphere. The book... -
Radical Scotland: Uncovering Scotland's radical history - from the French Revolutionary era to the 1820 Rising by Kenny MacAskill 9781785905704
RRP: $25.80$18.78The Political Martyrs memorial in Edinburgh looms large on the city's skyline but its history is relatively unknown. And that is not by accident. As Edinburgh's New Town was constructed, a narrative of kilts and loyalty was created for Scotland, with its... -
Corbyn: The Strange Rebirth of Radical Politics by Richard Seymour
RRP: $12.89$8.57Demolishing the Blairite opposition in 2015, Jeremy Corbyn saw off an attempted coup against his leadership under the banner of the "soft left" one year on. This unassuming antiwar socialist now leads Labour with a huge mandate. For the first time in... -
Continuity and Change in Public Policy and Management by Christopher Pollitt 9780857935434
RRP: $36.06$34.17Continuity and Change in Public Policy and Management offers a major reconsideration of patterns in long-term policymaking and organizational change. Christopher Pollitt and Geert Bouckaert use international and inter-sectoral comparison to challenge... -
The Women Who Shaped Politics: Empowering stories of women who have shifted the political landscape by Sophy Ridge
RRP: $14.18$9.55Sophy Ridge, presenter for Sky News, has uncovered the extraordinary stories of the women who have shaped British politics. Never has the role of women in the political world ever been more on the news agenda, and Sophy has interviewed current and former... -
Lights In The Distance: Exile and Refuge at the Borders of Europe by Daniel Trilling
RRP: $12.89$9.11Shortlisted for the Stanford Travel Book of the Year'This powerful study looks behind the statistics and political slogans to reveal the human face of the refugee crisis.' GuardianA mother who puts her children into a refrigerated lorry and asks 'what... -
Border Nation: A Story of Migration by Leah Cowan
RRP: $12.89$8.77'A must-read manifesto for border abolition' - gal-dem Borders are more than geographical lines - they impact all our lives, whether it's the inhumanity of deportations, or a rise in racist attacks in the wake of the EU referendum. Border Nation shows... -
The Northern Question: A History of a Divided Country by Thomas Hazeldine 9781786634092
RRP: $15.47$10.14Britain has scarcely begun to come to terms with its recent upheavals, from the crisis over Brexit to the collapse of Labour's 'red wall'. What can explain such momentous shifts?In this essential work, Tom Hazeldine excavates the history of a divided... -
No Tradesmen and No Women: The Origins of the British Civil Service by Michael Coolican 9781785904523
RRP: $25.80$18.43Is our civil service fit for purpose? Michael Coolican takes John Reid's damning statement about the Home Office as his point of departure for a comprehensive overview and evaluation of the machinery behind the government and the people who make public... -
Amartya Sen by Lawrence Hamilton 9781509519859
RRP: $23.21$20.69Amartya Sen is one of the world's best-known voices for the poor, the destitute and the downtrodden and an inspiration for policy makers and activists across the globe. He has also contributed almost without peer to the study of economics, philosophy and... -
Moldova: A History by Rebecca Haynes
RRP: $29.66$28.19Moldova is a new nation-state with a long history. Despite only recently gaining independence, following the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, Moldova's roots stretch all the way back to the Principality of Moldavia, established in 1359. After centuries... -
Our Flag Stays Red by Phil Piratin 9781905007288
RRP: $18.06$17.38Our Flag Stays Red is a unique account of communist and anti-fascist activity in London's East End in the 1930s and 1940s. Its author was Communist MP for Stepney from 1945 to 1950, and played a leading role in the events described in the book - which... -
Landmark Speeches of National Socialism by Randall L. Bytwerk 9781603440158
RRP: $25.74$16.90The power which has always started the greatest religious and political avalanches in history rolling has from time immemorial been the magic power of the spoken word, and that alone."" Adolf Hitler, Mein KampfAs historians have long noted, public... -
Tryweryn: A New Dawn? by Dr Wyn Thomas 9781912631483
$25.79Definitive 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... -
Great Deception, The: Can the European Union Survive? by Mr Christopher Booker
RRP: $32.25$25.14Since its publication in 2003, The Great Deception has taken on the role of the Eurosceptics' bible, with the third edition helping to fuel the debate during the 2016 EU Referendum. This fourth edition celebrates the moment when the UK broke away... -
Reconstructing Democracy: How Citizens Are Building from the Ground Up by Charles Taylor
RRP: $16.71$13.65"An urgent manifesto for the reconstruction of democratic belonging in our troubled times." -Davide PanagiaAcross the world, democracies are suffering from a disconnect between the people and political elites. In communities where jobs and industry are... -
The English Job: Understanding Iran and Why It Distrusts Britain by Jack Straw
RRP: $25.80$18.95Amongst British diplomats, there's a poignant joke that `Iran is the only country in the world which still regards the United Kingdom as a superpower'. For many Iranians, it's not a joke at all. The past two centuries are littered with examples of... -
Unfinished Business: The Politics of 'Dissident' Irish Republicanism by Marisa McGlinchey
RRP: $32.25$27.84This book discusses the development of 'dissident' Irish republicanism and considers its impact on politics throughout Ireland since the 1980s. Based on a series of interviews with over ninety radical republican activists from the wide range of groups... -
An Uprooted Community: A history of Epynt by Herbert Hughes 9781800994027
$13.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800994027Author Herbert HughesFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y Lolfa -
The Making of Modern British Politics: 1867 - 1945 by Martin Pugh 9780631225904
RRP: $42.51$37.59The third edition of this successful text has been revised to include a new chapter on the politics of the Second World War, and to reflect recent developments in research into the period. Third edition of this insightful survey of changes in British... -
Senseless Acts of Beauty: Cultures of Resistance by George McKay
$33.13Welcome 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... -
BTEC First in Public Services Student Book by Debra Gray
RRP: $35.46$31.64* The Student Book covers 5 units providing enough support for the Award. * Covers all the underpinning knowledge and understanding needed at level 2 to ensure that learners are fully prepared for the course. * The attractive, accessible layout is packed... -
John Bercow: Call To Order by Sebastian Whale 9781785905582
RRP: $25.80$18.95Polarising, combative, unconventional: few embody the fraught nature of British politics today quite like John Bercow. A man who is revered by his one-time opponents and condemned by his former bedfellows, he has traversed the deep chasm between the... -
A History of British Prime Ministers (Omnibus Edition): Walpole to Cameron by Dick Leonard 9781137574381
RRP: $257.99$92.05Fifty-two men and one woman have held the post of Prime Minister during the past three centuries - from Sir Robert Walpole to David Cameron. In this omnibus edition, which includes Eighteenth-Century British Premiers, Nineteenth-Century British Premiers,... -
James Baldwin. Steve Schapiro. The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
RRP: $51.60$34.06First published in 1963, James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time stabbed at the heart of America's so-called "Negro problem." As remarkable for its masterful prose as for its frank and personal account of the black experience in the United States, it is... -
The Migrant's Paradox, Volume 31: Street Livelihoods and Marginal Citizenship in Britain by Suzanne M Hall
RRP: $29.66$25.28Connects global migration with urban marginalization, exploring how "race" maps onto place across the globe, state, and streetIn this richly observed account of migrant shopkeepers in five cities in the United Kingdom, Suzanne Hall examines the brutal... -
Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot: The Great Mistake of Scottish Independence by John Lloyd
RRP: $25.80$17.22The Scottish nationalists seek to end the United Kingdom after 300 years of a successful union. Their drive for an independent Scotland is now nearer to success than it has ever been. Success would mean a diminished Britain and a perilously insecure... -
The Saboteur: The Aristocrat Who Became France's Most Daring Anti-Nazi Commando by Paul Kix 9780062322531
RRP: $27.08$18.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062322531Author Paul KixFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 227g -
Miners Against Fascism: Wales and the Spanish Civil War by Hywel Francis 9781907103513
RRP: $25.80$24.78Welsh miners made up one of the largest contingents within the British Battalion of the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War. Coming from the valleys all across South Wales, they brought with them a political tradition unique in Britain in its... -
The Sex Factor: How Women Made the West Rich by Victoria Bateman
RRP: $21.92$19.63Why did the West become so rich? Why is inequality rising? How 'free' should markets be? And what does sex have to do with it? In this passionate and skilfully argued book, leading feminist Victoria Bateman shows how we can only understand the burning... -
Roger Casement in Death: Or Haunting the Free State by W.J. Mc Cormack 9781900621779
RRP: $28.38$26.60Roger Casement, the retired British consular official tried for treason and executed for securing German rifles to help the 1916 Rising in Ireland, has been a focus of controversy since the 1930s, with specific reference to the so-called Black diaries... -
The Man Who Built the Berlin Wall: The Rise and Fall of Erich Honecker by Nathan Morley 9781399088824
RRP: $25.80$22.73In The Man Who Built the Berlin Wall, Nathan Morley brings to life the story of the longtime leader of the German Democratic Republic. Drawing from a wealth of untapped archival sources - and firsthand interviews with Honecker's lawyers, journalists, and...