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Worldly Philosopher: The Odyssey of Albert O. Hirschman by Jeremy Adelman 9780691163499
RRP: £25.00£20.59Worldly Philosopher chronicles the times and writings of Albert O. Hirschman, one of the twentieth century's most original and provocative thinkers. In this gripping biography, Jeremy Adelman tells the story of a man shaped by modern horrors and hopes, a... -
Hero of the Empire: The Making of Winston Churchill by Candice Millard
RRP: £12.99£9.34'Thrilling, tremendously enjoyable' The New York Times'A nail-biting escape story' Financial TimesAt the age of twenty-four, Winston Churchill already believed he was destined for greatness. This is the incredible story of how one incredible year in... -
Be Like the Fox: Machiavelli's Lifelong Quest for Freedom by Erica Benner
RRP: £10.99£7.99'A ripping read ... fascinating, charming, enjoyably unorthodox' Daily TelegraphWas Niccolo Machiavelli really the cynical schemer of legend - or was he a profound ethical thinker, who tried to save the democratic freedom of Renaissance Florence as it... -
A Socialist Defector: From Harvard to Karl-Marx-Allee by Victor Grossman
RRP: £17.99£14.89Circumstances impelled Victor Grossman, a U.S. Army draftee stationed in Europe, to flee a military prison sentence: especially the icy pressures of the McCarthy Era. Grossman - a.k.a. Steve Wechsler, a committed leftist since his years at Harvard and,... -
American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant by Ronald C White
RRP: £19.99£14.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812981254Author Ronald C. White, Jr.Format PaperbackPage Count 864Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
Are You With Me?: Kevin Boyle and the Rise of The Human Rights Movement by Mike Chinoy
RRP: £18.00£15.52Kevin Boyle (1943-2010) was one of the world's great human rights lawyers. In a career that lasted decades and spanned continents, he tackled issues ranging from freedom of the press to terrorism to minority rights. This compelling account of Kevin... -
In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir by Dick Cheney 9781439176221
£15.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439176221Format PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & Schuster -
Ernie O'Malley: A Life by Harry Martin
RRP: £16.99£14.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785373909Author Harry MartinFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Merrion PressPublisher Merrion Press -
Carl Schmitt: A Biography Reinhard Mehring (Heidelberg University of Education (Padagogische Hochschule Heidelberg)) 9780745652252
RRP: £18.99£18.13Carl Schmitt is one of the most widely read and influential German thinkers of the twentieth century. His fundamental works on friend and enemy, legality and legitimacy, dictatorship, political theology and the concept of the political are read today... -
A Man of Good Hope: One Man's Extraordinary Journey from Mogadishu to Tin Can Town by Jonny Steinberg
RRP: £12.99£9.34When Asad was eight years old, his mother was shot in front of him. With his father in hiding, he was swept alone into the great wartime migration that has scattered the Somali people throughout the world.This extraordinary book tells Asad's story... -
The Devil and Karl Marx: Communism's Long March of Death, Deception, and Infiltration by Paul Kengor
RRP: £32.95£22.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781505114447Author Paul KengorFormat HardbackPage Count 552Imprint Saint Benedict PressPublisher Saint Benedict PressWeight(grams) 771gDimensions(mm) 231mm... -
Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator by Oleg V. Khlevniuk
RRP: £16.99£15.01The most authoritative and engrossing biography of the notorious dictator ever written, winner of the 2016 PROSE Award for Biography & Autobiography"Enthralling, brilliant, and groundbreaking, this book confirms Khlevniuk as probably the greatest living... -
Prisoner Of Love by Jean Genet 9781590170281
RRP: £23.00£15.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590170281Author Jean GenetFormat PaperbackPage Count 430Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams) 480gDimensions(mm)... -
Kennedy Curse by Klein 9780312312930
RRP: £21.99£14.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312312930Author KleinFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's Press -
Drive to Succeed by Mohamed Mansour 9781529911282
RRP: £25.00£17.62Mohamed Mansour has spent his life fighting adversity. Born in Egypt in the post-war period, his childhood was halted abruptly when, aged ten, he almost lost a leg in a devastating car accident. At 18, he had to support himself through college in the US... -
Fire Under The Snow: Testimony of a Tibetan Prisoner by Palden Gyatso
RRP: £15.99£11.79In 1992 the Venerable Palden Gyatso was released after thirty-three years of imprisonment by Chinese forces in Tibet. He fled across the Himalayas to India, smuggling with him the instruments of his torture. This powerful text is the story of his life... -
David I: King of Scots, 1124-1153 by Richard D. Oram 9781910900291
RRP: £80.00£56.18David I was never expected to become king, but on succeeding to the Scottish throne in 1124 he quickly demonstrated that he had the skills, ruthlessness and ambition to become one of the kingdom's greatest rulers. Drawing on the experiences and... -
Mad Dog: They Shot Me in the Head, They Gave Me Cyanide and They Stabbed Me, But I'm Still Standing by Johnny Adair 9781844548194
£9.84Johnny Adair placed himself at the heart of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. To some he was a criminal and a terrorist. To others he was an integral part of Belfast's bloody history and in it he reveals its roots in his own uncompromising and compelling... -
Hell and Other Destinations: A 21st-Century Memoir by Madeleine Albright
RRP: £25.00£17.51"Richly detailed. . . an intimate portrait of a diplomat." -New YorkerFrom the seven-time New York Times bestselling author and former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright-among history's most admired and tireless public servants-a revealing, funny, and... -
Sledgehammer: How Breaking with the Past Brought Peace to the Middle East by David Friedman
RRP: £20.00£13.34The Trump administration's peace agreements in the Middle East were the greatest foreign policy accomplishment in decades. Now, for the first time, his ambassador to Israel explains how they pulled it off.Doing the same thing over and over and expecting... -
Macmillan by Francis Beckett 9781904950660
RRP: £9.99£7.27Paradoxically his success with the USA jeopardised his efforts to get Britain into the European Economic Community, for it was one of the reasons why the French President Charles de Gaulle vetoed Britain's application to join in 1963.Book InformationISBN... -
The Dissident: Alexey Navalny: Profile of a Political Prisoner by David Herszenhorn 9781538709450
RRP: £25.00£17.20THE DISSIDENT is the story of how one fearless man, offended by the dishonesty and criminality of the Russian political system, mounted a relentless opposition movement and became President Vladimir Putin's most formidable rival-so despised that the... -
Remembering The Armed Struggle: My Time With the Red Army Faction by Margrit Schiller 9781629638737
RRP: £18.99£12.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629638737Author Margrit SchillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press -
CLR James: A Life Beyond the Boundaries by John L Williams
RRP: £14.99£10.05Historian, revolutionary and cricket writer, CLR James was one of the truly radical voices of the twentieth century. Born in Trinidad in the final days of the Victorian era, he debated with Trotsky, played cricket with Constantine, was published by... -
Caligula: A Biography by Aloys Winterling 9780520287594
RRP: £21.00£16.63The infamous emperor Caligula ruled Rome from A.D. 37 to 41 as a tyrant who ultimately became a monster. An exceptionally smart and cruelly witty man, Caligula made his contemporaries worship him as a god. He drank pearls dissolved in vinegar and ate... -
Climbing The Bookshelves: The autobiography of Shirley Williams by Shirley Williams 9780349016313
RRP: £10.99£3.01'That politics was the most exciting of all the exciting things in the world I never doubted'Shirley Williams was born to politics. As well as being influenced by her mother, Vera Brittan, her father George Catlin, a leading political scientist,... -
Lenin: Responding to Catastrophe, Forging Revolution Paul Le Blanc 9780745348346
RRP: £16.99£11.71'Brings out the practical activism, principled politics, and revolutionary patience crucial to organizing the oppressed on a rapidly over-heating planet' - Jodi Dean 'Crackling with intellectual life' - Lars T. Lih Vladimir Lenin lies in a tomb in... -
Guy Fawkes & The Gunpowder Plot by Peter Brimacombe
RRP: £6.00£4.60Branded one of the greatest villains of all time, the name Guy Fawkes is synonymous with a spectacular crime that never was - the Gunpowder Plot. But who was this young man, caught up in a world of intrigue, treachery, betrayal, spies, double agents and... -
Edward Daly: 16Lives by Helen Litton
RRP: £15.99£12.37Born in Limerick in 1891, John Edward or 'Ned' Daly was the only son in a family of nine. Ned's father, Edward, an ardent Fenian, died before his son was born, but Ned's Uncle John, also a radical Fenian, was a formative influence. John Daly was prepared... -
The struggle continues: 50 Years of tyranny in Zimbabwe by David Coltart 9781431423187
RRP: £30.00£24.96David Coltart is one of the most prominent political and human rights figures in Zimbabwe. In 2000, he was elected to Parliament and, following the creation of a 'coalition' government in September 2008, he was appointed Minister of Education, Sport,... -
Full Disclosure by Stormy Daniels
RRP: £10.99£9.18THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Make no mistake, Full Disclosure is a story for our times' - Guardian'Funny, candid, mischievous . . . and unapologetic' - TelegraphOn 6 March 2018 Stormy Daniels filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump over a... -
My Crazy Century by Ivan Klima
RRP: £16.99£12.16More than a memoir, My Crazy Century explores the ways in which the epoch and its dominating totalitarian ideologies impacted the lives, character, and morality of Klima's generation. Klima's story begins in the 1930s, in the Terezin concentration camp... -
The Winding Stair: Francis Bacon, His Rise and Fall Daphne Du Maurier 9781844080748
RRP: £10.99£7.61FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF REBECCA' ... a writer of fearless originality' GUARDIAN 'Unlike many authors of popular historical biographies, du Maurier resembled Antonia Fraser in being an indefatigable researcher' FRANCIS KING'du Maurier has no equal'... -
Clashing Agendas: Inside the Welfare Trap by David Freud 9781910533529
RRP: £20.00£14.45The introduction of Universal Credit arguably stands as the most far-reaching reform so far this century. Clashing Agendas is the traumatic inside story of how this simple concept became unimaginably complicated in execution, and then nearly... -
Capability Brown by Peter Brimacombe
RRP: £6.00£4.60Capability Brown was a man made for his time. Read about his life and work in this absorbing biography.About the AuthorPeter Brimacombe is an experienced Pitkin author and photographer with numerous titles on history and heritage. His titles and guides... -
Meir Kahane: The Public Life and Political Thought of an American Jewish Radical by Shaul Magid 9780691254692
RRP: £20.00£16.13The life and politics of an American Jewish activist who preached radical and violent means to Jewish survivalMeir Kahane came of age amid the radical politics of the counterculture, becoming a militant voice of protest against Jewish liberalism. Kahane... -
Never Better: My Life in Our Times by Tommie Gorman
RRP: £10.99£7.54The warm, rich and fascinating memoir of beloved broadcaster Tommie Gorman.When Tommie Gorman was growing up in Sligo in the 1960s, struggle was never far away but his household had a surplus of love and warmth. From modest beginnings as a local reporter... -
Revolt on the Clyde: The Classic Autobiography of Red Clydeside by William Gallacher
RRP: £13.00£12.76Tanks on the streets, local regiments confined to barracks and the imposition of martial law.This was not Petrograd, but Glasgow in 1919.Revolt on the Clyde is William Gallacher's eye witness account of these tumultuous events - and more - in an era that... -
John Major: An Unsuccessful Prime Minister?: Reappraising John Major by Kevin Hickson 9781785900679
RRP: £25.00£18.30John Major's prime ministership was an eventful one. Between 1990 and 1997 he presided over Britain's participations in the Gulf War, the start of the Northern Ireland peace process, the Maastricht Treaty negotiations and, of course, Black Wednesday and... -
The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street by Helene Hanff 9780062442185
RRP: £14.99£12.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062442185Author Helene HanffFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 211mm *...