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A Rebel's Guide To Martin Luther King by Yuri Prasad 9781910885758
RRP: £4.00£3.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910885758Author Yuri PrasadFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Bookmarks PublicationsPublisher Bookmarks Publications -
Protest and the Politics of Space and Place, 1789-1848 by Katrina Navickas 9781526116703
RRP: £25.00£21.79This book is a wide-ranging survey of the rise of mass movements for democracy and workers' rights in northern England from 1789 to 1848. It is a provocative narrative of the closing down of public space and dispossession from place. It offers historical... -
Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy by Robert D. Putnam
£27.74Why do some democratic governments succeed and others fail? In a book that has received attention from policymakers and civic activists in America and around the world, Robert Putnam and his collaborators offer empirical evidence for the importance of... -
Nightmarch: Among India's Revolutionary Guerrillas by Alpa Shah
£13.64In one of the world's most intractable and under-reported rebellions, the Naxalites have been engaged in a decades-long battle with the Indian state. Presented in the media as a deadly terrorist group, the movement is made up of Marxist ideologues and... -
Now We Have Your Attention: The New Politics of the People by Jack Shenker 9781847925404
£17.67"One of the most important and compelling books I've ever read, by one of Britain's most gifted writers. If you want to understand why we are in this crisis, listen to the voices all too often airbrushed from the political conversation" OWEN JONESNow We... -
Parliament in British Politics by Philip Norton 9780230291935 [USED COPY]
RRP: £37.99£3.22Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
UK Politics by Andrew Blick 9780198825555
RRP: £42.99£40.80One of the first introductory UK politics textbooks to publish since Brexit and the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, this book combines foundational understanding and critical perspectives to provide a clear overview of the UK political system. UK... -
Muslims and the Making of Modern Europe by Emily Greble
RRP: £30.49£26.75Muslims and the Making of Modern Europe shows that Muslims were citizens of modern Europe from its beginning and, in the process, rethinks Europe itself. Muslims are neither newcomers nor outsiders in Europe. In the twentieth century, they have been... -
32 Counties: The Failure of Partition and the Case for a United Ireland by Kieran Allen
RRP: £16.99£11.54'This is Irish history seen anew, from below, bristling with practical lessons for working-class struggle today' - Eamonn McCann The 32 counties of Ireland were divided through imperial terror and gerrymandering. Partition was borne from a Tory... -
Ten Thousand Eyes: The amazing story of the spy network that cracked Hitler’s Atlantic Wall before D-Day by Richard Collier 9781804366660
RRP: £12.99£8.18'Without the networks of the French Resistance, the invasion would not have been possible' Major General Walter Bedell Smith, Chief of Staff, Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary ForceDays after France fell in June 1940, Charles de Gaulle appointed... -
On Europe by Margaret Thatcher 9780008257361
RRP: £6.99£5.13First published in her pioneering treatise Statecraft, the opinions and projections of the former Prime Minister on Europe remain potent and resoundingly prophetic. Margaret Thatcher foresaw the European Union as a swelling superstate,... -
British Defence Since 1945 by Michael Dockrill 9780631160557
RRP: £40.95£35.89At the end of World War II, Britain faced enormous financial and economic problems, made more intractable by the heavy defence expenditure demanded by colonial presence in Asia, Africa and the Middle East and the decision to go ahead with producing a... -
The Regulation of Standards in British Public Life: Doing the Right Thing? by David Hine 9781784992675
RRP: £25.00£17.92One of the most profound changes in British public life over the last twenty years has been the increasing concern with probity and standards. Some of that concern has been the product of scandals such as the cash for questions affair and the expenses... -
Caledonian Dreaming: The Quest for a Different Scotland by Gerry Hassan 9781910021323
£8.60Caledonian Dreaming examines the state of contemporary Scotland, the independence referendum, and its wider consequences. In this short, accessible book, Hassan challenges the myths that define modern Scotland and its place in the United Kingdom. He... -
London is the Place for Me: Black Britons, Citizenship and the Politics of Race by Kennetta Hammond Perry 9780190909949
£22.77Black people in the British Empire have long challenged the notion that "there ain't no black in the Union Jack." For the post-World War II wave of Afro-Caribbean migrants, many of whom had long been subjects of the Empire, claims to a British identity... -
Alt-Right: From 4chan to the White House by Mike Wendling 9780745337456
RRP: £14.99£9.80This book is a vital guide to understanding the Alt-Right - the white nationalist, anti-feminist, far-right movement that rose to prominence during Donald Trump's successful election campaign in the United States. It looks at the support for this... -
Illiberal Europe?: Eastern Europe from the Fall of the Berlin Wall to the War in Ukraine by Leon Marc
RRP: £18.99£12.84Eighteen years have passed since ten countries from Central & Eastern Europe joined the European Union and more than three decades since the Berlin Wall was torn down in 1989 - but ignorance about what is popularly still called Eastern Europe is as... -
Scotland's Future History by McHardy Stuart
£5.94McHardy presents a new approach to history, changing our mindset to look at Scotland as the centre of our story. Rather than starting from the Mediterranean, from the classical/Christian bias we have been taught for centuries. Rather than being a remote... -
The Nazi Occult by Kenneth Hite 9781780965987
RRP: £13.99£12.40In the dark dungeons beneath Nazi Germany, teams of occult experts delved into ancient and forbidden lore, searching for lost secrets of power. This book tells the complete history of the Nazi occult programs, from their quests for the Ark of the... -
The Spark that Lit the Revolution: Lenin in London and the Politics that Changed the World by Robert Henderson
£30.38Vladimir Ilyich Lenin visited London on six occasions at the beginning of the twentieth century and it was in this city, where Marx wrote Das Kapital, that the roots of Lenin's political thought took shape. This book, from a former curator of the Russian... -
The Government and Politics of the European Union by Neill Nugent
RRP: £36.99£33.88The definitive textbook on EU politics and governance, now in its 8th edition, has been thoroughly updated to take into account the ongoing developments and evolution of the EU. Major changes, recent developments, and the crises that have befallen the... -
How to Steal a Country: State Capture and Hopes for the Future in South Africa by Robin Renwick 9781785903618
£13.81The vertiginous decline in political leadership from Nelson Mandela to Jacob Zuma has engulfed South Africa in a serious crisis over the past `lost decade'. Based on his personal experience of the key protagonists, former British ambassador to South... -
The Second World War: A Marxist History by Chris Bambery 9780745333014
RRP: £26.99£17.59The Second World War casts a long shadow, portrayed as a necessary and paradigmatic war that defeated fascism. During recent wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere, US presidents and British prime ministers have tried to claim they were following in the... -
The Shocking History of the Eu by Zina Cohen 9781797966915
RRP: £7.99£7.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781797966915Author Zina CohenFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently Published -
Multilateralism Past, Present and Future: A European Perspective by Mario Telò 9781032245430
RRP: £36.99£32.53This book offers an important chronological perspective on the evolution of multilateralism within Europe and beyond.It provides a critical reconstruction of the history of the idea and praxis of peaceful global governance, a comparative analysis of... -
The Digital Silk Road: China’s Technological Rise and the Geopolitics of Cyberspace by David Gordon
RRP: £26.99£23.46Concerns about China's ambitions to return to global centre stage as a great power have recently begun to focus on the Digital Silk Road (DSR), an umbrella term for various activities - commercial and diplomatic - of interest to the Chinese government in... -
Seamus Mallon: A Shared Home Place by Seamus Mallon
RRP: £28.95£19.11As one of Northern Ireland's most prominent nationalist politicians, Seamus Mallon has always sought the genuine reconciliation of conflicting traditions using only peaceful means. This is his personal testament. In A Shared Home Place, Mallon evokes... -
Kitty's Salon: Sex, Spying and Surveillance in the Third Reich by Nigel Jones 9781789466133
£10.08There is no book in English about the wartime Berlin 'salon' run by Kitty Schmidt under the secret control of Reinhard Heydrich, one of the architects of the Final SolutionSalon Kitty was the most notorious brothel in the decadent Berlin of the Weimar... -
Mad Men & Bad Men: What Happened When British Politics Met Advertising by Sam Delaney 9780571312382
£6.14How did a bunch of unelected, unaccountable admen end up running British politics? Sam Delaney wanted to find out more about the strange relationship between British politics and advertising. What happened when a rag-tag band of scruffs and... -
Citizenship and Immigration in Postwar Britain: The Institutional Origins of a Multicultural Nation by Randall Hansen 9780199240548
£84.35In this ground-breaking book, the author draws extensively on archival material and theortical advances in the social sciences literature on citizenship and migration. Citizenship and Immigration in Postwar Britain examines the transformation since 1945... -
Spain and the Early Stuarts, 1585-1655 by Albert J. Loomie
£35.06These studies focus on Spain's relations with England from the last stages of the Elizabethan war to the opening years of the Cromwellian regime. Particular attention is given to the issue of religion and to the character and conduct of peacetime... -
Corbynism: A Critical Approach by Matt Bolton
RRP: £16.99£12.55From the moment Jeremy Corbyn was elected Labour leader, Corbynism has been dismissed, derided or romanticised, but rarely taken seriously as a set of ideas on its own terms. This book critically outlines the shared understanding of capitalism and its... -
The French Exception: Emmanuel Macron - The Extraordinary Rise and Risk by Adam Plowright
RRP: £12.99£8.56'Adam Plowright's excellent book captures the strangeness of Macron's life' Evening StandardTHE FIRST BIOGRAPHY OF EMMANUEL MACRON IN ENGLISHFrom total unknown to one of Europe's most powerful men in just a few years, at 39, France's youngest leader... -
The Banality of Evil: Hannah Arendt and 'The Final Solution' by Bernard J. Bergen 9780847692101
£38.76This highly original book is the first to explore the political and philosophical consequences of Hannah Arendt's concept of 'the banality of evil,' a term she used to describe Adolph Eichmann, architect of the Nazi 'final solution.' According to Bernard... -
Revolting Subjects: Social Abjection and Resistance in Neoliberal Britain by Imogen Tyler 9781848138513
RRP: £24.95£24.64Revolting Subjects is a groundbreaking account of social abjection in contemporary Britain, exploring how particular groups of people are figured as revolting and how they in turn revolt against their abject subjectification. The book utilizes a number... -
The New Few: Or a Very British Oligarchy by Ferdinand Mount 9781847399359
RRP: £8.99£5.82This was supposed to be the era when democracy came into its own, but instead power and wealth in Britain have slowly been consolidated the hands of a small elite, while the rest of the country struggles financially and switches off politically. We are... -
Now We Have Your Attention: The New Politics of the People by Jack Shenker
RRP: £9.99£7.11'One of the most important and compelling books I've ever read...If you want to understand why we are in this crisis, listen to the voices all too often airbrushed from the political conversation' Owen JonesNow We Have Your Attention makes sense of what... -
Theresa May: The Enigmatic Prime Minister by Rosa Prince 9781785902734
£7.93Twenty days after Britain's dramatic vote to leave the European Union, with the government still reeling from the political aftershock, a new Prime Minister captured Downing Street. Few were more surprised by this unexpected turn of events than Theresa... -
Hope & Despair by Neil Findlay 9781804250723
£11.13Is Scottish politics mired in a constitutional dogfight with no end in sight?Why has Scottish Labour failed to develop a radical and credible alternative to independence?Is it possible for a campaigning politician to make a difference?Can people power... -
Negotiating a Settlement in Northern Ireland, 1969-2019 by Prof John Coakley 9780198882824
RRP: £40.00£36.44The Good Friday Agreement of 1998 ended a protracted violent conflict in Northern Ireland and became an international reference point for peace-building. Negotiating a Settlement in Northern Ireland, 1969-2019 traces the roots and out-workings of the...