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The Party's Over: The Rise and Fall of the Conservatives from Thatcher to Sunak by Phil Burton-Cartledge 9781839760372
RRP: £11.99£7.86Today, it is not a question of if, but when? What we are watching is the collapse of the most successful political party in Europe. Despite winning the December 2019 General Election, the parliamentary conservative and unionist party is facing its own... -
Revolting Subjects: Social Abjection and Resistance in Neoliberal Britain by Doctor Imogen Tyler 9781350360761
£20.54Revolting 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 Crisis of Modernity: Volume 64 by Noce Augusto Del 9780773544437
£37.79In his native Italy Augusto Del Noce is regarded as one of the preeminent political thinkers and philosophers of the period after the Second World War. The Crisis of Modernity makes available for the first time in English a selection of Del Noce's essays... -
European Union Politics by John McCormick
RRP: £37.99£34.73Cutting through the jargon of EU politics, the third edition of this engaging and informative textbook examines the history, institutions, processes and politics of the European Union with unprecedented clarity. The EU is a fascinating political... -
Yes We (Still) Can: Politics in the age of Obama, Twitter and Trump by Dan Pfeiffer 9781785904295
RRP: £12.99£9.09Barack Obama was the breath of fresh air the Democrats didn't even realise they needed. Running on a platform of hope, change and progress, he won his first term with a decisive landslide, completely rewriting the rules of politics. So how did we go... -
The Opinionated Middle Ground: Consensus is Possible and Polarization is Curable by John Scott Cowan 9781990823534
RRP: £18.99£12.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781990823534Author John Scott CowanFormat PaperbackPage Count 334Imprint The Sutherland House Inc.Publisher The Sutherland House Inc. -
Senseless Acts of Beauty: Cultures of Resistance by George McKay
RRP: £16.99£14.90Welcome 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... -
The Last Neoliberal: Macron and the Origins of France's Political Crisis by Stefano Palombarini
£19.99This book analyses the French political crisis, which has entered its most acute phase in more than thirty years with the break-up of traditional left and right social blocs. Governing parties have distanced themselves from the working classes, leaving... -
Northern Ireland: The Troubles: From The Provos to The Det, 1968-1998 by Kenneth Lesley-Dixon 9781526729170
RRP: £12.99£9.09It is, of course, no secret that undercover Special Forces and intelligence agencies operated in Northern Ireland and the Republic throughout the 'troubles', from 1969 to 2001 and beyond. What is less well known is how these units were recruited, how... -
Bloody Nasty People: The Rise of Britain's Far Right by Daniel Trilling
RRP: £23.99£23.80The past decade saw the rise of the British National Party, the country's most successful ever far-right political movement, and the emergence of the anti-Islamic English Defence League. Taking aim at asylum seekers, Muslims, "enforced multiculturalism"... -
First They Took Rome: How the Populist Right Conquered Italy by David Broder
RRP: £16.99£11.47It is difficult for Italians to have much faith in the future. The last Labour Minister said it was a good thing if young people emigrated, to stop them 'getting under our feet'; one recent Prime Minister said that young Italians should not invest their... -
The New Politics of Class: The Political Exclusion of the British Working Class by Geoffrey Evans 9780198755753
£50.46This book explores the new politics of class in 21st century Britain. It shows how the changing shape of the class structure since 1945 has led political parties to change, which has both reduced class voting and increased class non-voting. This... -
A National Health Service?: The Restructuring of Health Care in Britain since 1979 by John Mohan
RRP: £49.99£49.85This book contrasts the proposals of the Royal Commission of the late 1970s with the very different set of priorities enshrined in the 1989 White Paper and describes how the changes between the two documents came about. It argues that the NHS reforms... -
Fractured Continent: Europe's Crises and the Fate of the West by William Drozdiak
RRP: £20.99£18.15In President Obama's effort to reshape America's image abroad, he made overtures to the Islamic world, pivoted towards China and vowed to "reset" relations with Russia. What he overlooked, argues William Drozdiak, was the imminent crisis in Europe. The... -
Brexit For Dummies by Nicholas Wallwork
RRP: £17.99£16.34Your practical and fearless guide to surviving the world's biggest break-up Whether you're a staunch Remainer, a buccaneering Brexiteer, or are wavering between the two camps, you'll want to be fully au fait with all the issues surrounding Britain's... -
Beyond Brexit: Towards a British Constitution by Vernon Bogdanor 9781788316798
RRP: £35.00£26.22Brexit means exit, but what exactly will we be leaving behind? Entry into the European Community in 1973 was a momentous event - one which had seismic effects on the politics and constitution of Britain. Brexit, while equally as momentous, has almost... -
Taking Control: Sovereignty and Democracy After Brexit by Philip Cunliffe
RRP: £50.00£43.51Taking 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... -
The Eccentric Mr Churchill: Little-Known Facts About the Greatest Briton by Jacob F. Field
£11.53This fascinating and highly entertaining book contains little-known anecdotes, facts and details from the life of Winston Churchill, the 'man of the century' who, in 2002, was voted the Greatest Briton of all time. As well as providing a new insight into... -
In or Out? The 60-Minute Plain-Speaking Guide to the EU Referendum by C James Bacon 9781523973774
RRP: £11.00£9.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781523973774Author C James BaconFormat PaperbackPage Count 286Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
The Whitehall Effect: How Whitehall Became the Enemy of Great Public Services and What We Can Do about It by John Seddon
RRP: £25.00£20.30In The WHITEHALL Effect, John Seddon explains how and why it is that governments repeatedly fail to deliver what our public services need and exposes the devastation that three decades of political fads, fashions and bad theory have caused. Although his... -
Pandemonium: Europe's Covid Crisis by Luuk van Middelaar
RRP: £24.99£23.26Over the past decade the European Union has faced threats to its currency, borders and unity. Covid-19, which began its inexorable spread across Europe in February 2020, is the latest crisis to test the Union's resilience. Luuk van Middelaar's... -
Anarchist Seeds Beneath The Snow: Left-Libertarian Thought and British Writers from William Morris to Colin Ward by David Goodway
RRP: £22.99£15.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604862218Author David GoodwayFormat PaperbackPage Count 436Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 621g -
Selected Political Writings: The Great Moving Right Show and Other Essays by Stuart Hall
RRP: £25.99£22.04Selected Political Writings gathers Stuart Hall's best-known and most important essays that directly engage with political issues. Written between 1957 and 2011 and appearing in publications such as New Left Review and Marxism Today, these twenty essays... -
The Referendum that Changed a Nation: Scottish Voting Behaviour 2014-2019 by Ailsa Henderson
RRP: £39.99£35.21Drawing on data from the Scottish Referendum Study and subsequent Scottish Election Studies, this book provides the first in depth analysis of how voters engaged with the independence referendum in 2014 and what impact this has had on vote choice,... -
And the Weak Suffer What They Must?: Europe's Crisis and America's Economic Future by Yanis Varoufakis
£28.75A #1 Sunday Times bestseller [UK] A titanic battle is being waged for Europe's integrity and soul, with the forces of reason and humanism losing out to growing irrationality, authoritarianism, and malice, promoting inequality and austerity. The whole... -
The Political System of the European Union by Simon Hix
RRP: £32.99£29.44Starting from the observation that the European Union now possesses many of the attributes of modern political systems, Hix and Hoyland take an innovative approach to analysing, researching and teaching the EU. Using the general theories of political... -
Professor Porsche's Wars: The Secret Life of Ferdinand Porsche, the Legendary Engineer Who Armed Two Belligerents Through Four Decades by Karl Ludvigsen 9781526726797
RRP: £16.99£14.61**Endorsements: ** 'Fascinating and meticulously researched.' The Spectator 'The connection between weapons and industrial design is strong at Porsche. This is the subject of an engrossing new book, Professor Porsche's Wars.' Stephen Bayley, Octane ... -
The Dumbing Down of Britain by Duncan Barkes 9781783960941
RRP: £8.99£6.03If they could see us today, our forefathers would be spluttering into their pint glasses, wondering where it all went wrong. Happy to be spoon-fed on a diet of blandness, buzzwords and uniformity, in the last 20 years our society has become more insular,... -
The Foreign Policy of the European Union by Stephan Keukeleire
RRP: £33.99£30.23Keukeleire and Delreux demonstrate the scope and diversity of the European Union's foreign policy, showing that EU foreign policy is broader than the Common Foreign and Security Policy and the Common Security and Defence Policy, and that areas such as... -
Establishment and Meritocracy by Peter Hennessy
RRP: £7.99£5.59Like so many of the postwar generation in Britain, Peter Hennessy climbed the ladders of opportunity set up by the 1944 Education Act designed to encourage a more meritocratic society. In this highly personal book, Hennessy examines the rise of... -
The Great Brexit Swindle: Why the Mega-Rich and Free Market Fanatics Conspired to Force Britain from the European Union by T. J. Coles 9781905570812
RRP: £10.99£7.77'If you voted to Leave the European Union, the chances are you've been swindled...' In his urgent new book, T. J. Coles uncovers the forces seeking to uncouple Britain from the European Union. Allied to an expanding core of free market fanatics in the... -
The Strange Death of Labour Scotland by Gerry Hassan 9780748640027
RRP: £24.99£20.25The Scottish Labour Party is in an unprecedented position. Having been the leading party in Scotland for fifty years it lost an election and office to the SNP in 2007. This book addresses, examines and analyses the last thirty years of Scottish Labour,... -
Ukraine in the Crossfire by Chris de Ploegg 9780997287080
RRP: £19.99£16.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997287080Author Chris de PloeggFormat PaperbackPage Count 269Imprint Clarity PressPublisher Clarity Press -
Brexit and the British: Who Do We Think We are? by Stephen Green
RRP: £7.99£5.99Whatever the eventual outcome of the Brexit negotiations, the critical questions remain: what does the Referendum vote tell us about the sort of society we are? Why was the result a shock to so many? Did we not understand how divided we were? Old against... -
The Spanish Anarchists by Murray Bookchin 9781873176047
RRP: £13.95£9.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781873176047Author Murray BookchinFormat PaperbackPage Count 318Imprint AK PressPublisher AK PressWeight(grams) 426g -
Inside the Mind of Marine Le Pen by Michel Eltchaninoff
RRP: £15.99£14.15What drives Marine Le Pen and France's Front National? Has her party really changed its ways, or is she merely rebranding its old ideas and policies for a new era? In the age of Brexit and Trump, France too has seen a growing audience for... -
Whatever it Takes by George Papaconstantinou
RRP: £22.99£11.67For generations, Europeans have become accustomed to rising prosperity, an increasingly supportive social safety net and the expectation that each generation will fare better than the last. Europe has built a social model that is second to none, and... -
Scottish Independence: Yes or No by Alan Cochrane
RRP: £7.99£5.96In September 2014, a referendum will be held in Scotland to decide whether or not Scotland should become independent and cease to be part of the United Kingdom. In this book, two of the nation's leading political commentators will address both sides of... -
The Failure of Remain: Anti-Brexit Activism in the United Kingdom by Adam Fagan
RRP: £34.99£27.52Studies of the United Kingdom's decision to leave the European Union ("Brexit") have largely focused on the role of politicians and political parties, on the one hand, and the characteristics of Leave and Remain voters on the other. The Failure of Remain... -
A People's History of the French Revolution by Eric Hazan
RRP: £25.99£21.68The assault on the Bastille, the Reign of Terror, Danton mocking his executioner, Robespierre dispensing a fearful justice, and the archetypal gadfly Marat - the events and figures of the French Revolution have exercised a hold on the historical...