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The Republican Takeover of Congress by Dean McSweeney 9781349265725
Booksplease Price: €108.49An electoral earthquake hit the American political landscape in 1994. As the Republican Party won control of the House of Representatives for the first time since 1954 and control of the Senate for... -
The Nature Delusion: Why We Can’t Fix the World Without Fixing Ourselves Tom Oliver 9781529244472
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €19.92"A pathbreaking synthesis" Gus Speth "Rigorous and compelling" Michael Foley Why our current fixes for the environmental crisis are making things worse, and what we need to do about it. Does the... -
The World Beyond Your Head: How to Flourish in an Age of Distraction by Matthew Crawford
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98From 'one of the most influential thinkers of our time' (Sunday Times): how to respond to today's demands on our attentionIn this brilliant follow-up to The Case for Working with Your Hands, Matthew... -
Enigma: A New Life of Charles Stewart Parnell by Paul Bew 9780717154524
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €22.68Parnell is the most enigmatic figure in Irish history. An Anglo-Irish landlord from a distinguished and long-established Wicklow family, he became the most unlikely leader of Irish nationalism... -
Media and the Presidentialization of Parliamentary Elections by Anthony Mughan 9780333800188
Booksplease Price: €109.12In theory, parliamentary elections are a contest between political parties whose leaders do not have a separate identity from their party in the public eye. This case study of Britain shows that this... -
Cliffs Of Insanity: A Winter On Ireland’s Big Waves by Keith Duggan 9781848271302
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €14.84Surfing in Ireland was once considered little more than a fringe and slightly lunatic pursuit. The treacherous coastline and ice waters of the Atlantic did not sit comfortably with the stereotype of... -
Confessions by Edmund Augustine 9780872208162
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €16.98Like the first Hackett edition of the Augustine's Confessions, the second edition features F. J. Sheed's remarkable translation of this classic spiritual autobiography with an Introduction by noted... -
Tony 10: The astonishing story of the postman who gambled EURO10,000,000 ... and lost it all by Declan Lynch
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €10.47Tony 10 was the online betting username of Tony O'Reilly, the postman who became front-page news in 2011 after he stole EURO1.75 million from An Post while he was a branch manager in Gorey, Co... -
The Racket: On Tour with Tennis’s Golden Generation – and the other 99% Conor Niland 9780241998076
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46THE NO. 1 BESTSELLER'Well worth a read if you want the inside track on life on the lower rungs of the tennis circuit. Warts and all.' Judy Murray'As elegant and powerful as a Federer backhand ..... -
The NGO Game: Post-Conflict Peacebuilding in the Balkans and Beyond by Patrice C. McMahon
RRP: €138.04Booksplease Price: €110.69In most post-conflict countries nongovernmental organizations are everywhere, but their presence is misunderstood. In The NGO Game Patrice McMahon investigates the unintended outcomes of what she... -
The NGO Game: Post-Conflict Peacebuilding in the Balkans and Beyond by Patrice C. McMahon 9781501709241
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €19.60In most post-conflict countries nongovernmental organizations are everywhere, but their presence is misunderstood. In The NGO Game Patrice McMahon investigates the unintended outcomes of what she... -
The Universal Way of Salvation in the Thought of Augustine Thomas P. Harmon 9780567712127
Booksplease Price: €108.75This work examines Augustine's critique of his Roman predecessors to reveal key aspects of Christ's mediation of the universal way of salvation. Porphyry of Tyre had noticed that Christianity can... -
Kings for a Day: The Story of Armagh and their 2002 Journey to Sam Maguire by Niall McCoy
RRP: €21.41Booksplease Price: €16.3022 September, 2002 is a date engrained in the mind of every Armagh fan. At Croke Park for the first time ever, the Sam Maguire was lifted in front of a sea of orange and white and the celebrations... -
The Universal Way of Salvation in the Thought of Augustine Thomas P. Harmon 9780567712172
Booksplease Price: €36.74This work examines Augustine's critique of his Roman predecessors to reveal key aspects of Christ's mediation of the universal way of salvation. Porphyry of Tyre had noticed that Christianity can... -
Adventures in Democracy: The Turbulent World of People Power Erica Benner 9781802061444
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46'Sparkling . . . a page-turner full of wit, original insight and unassuming erudition' Guardian'Enjoyable vitality' The Times'Highly stimulating . . . wonderfully readable . . . her analysis of... -
Power Without Responsibility: Press, Broadcasting and the Internet in Britain James Curran 9781032112015
RRP: €49.97Booksplease Price: €46.61This book attacks the conventional history of the press as a story of progress; offers a critical defence and history of public service broadcasting; provides a myth-busting account of the internet;... -
There It Is: New and Selected Poems by Michael Casey
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €13.45In 1972, Michael Casey won the Yale Younger Poets Prize for Obscenities, a collection of poems drawn from his military experience during the Vietnam War. In his foreword to the book, judge Stanley... -
Trucking Country: The Road to America's Wal-Mart Economy by Shane Hamilton 9780691160924
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €20.09Trucking Country is a social history of long-haul trucking that explores the contentious politics of free-market capitalism in post-World War II America. Shane Hamilton paints an eye-opening portrait... -
Sport and Ireland: A History by Paul Rouse
RRP: €36.28Booksplease Price: €35.32This is the first history of sport in Ireland, locating the history of sport within Irish political, social, and cultural history, and within the global history of sport. Sport and Ireland... -
Sport and Ireland: A History by Paul Rouse 9780198745907
RRP: €65.45Booksplease Price: €44.53This is the first history of sport in Ireland, locating the history of sport within Irish political, social, and cultural history, and within the global history of sport. Sport and Ireland... -
We're Not Here to Entertain: Punk Rock, Ronald Reagan, and the Real Culture War of 1980s America by Kevin Mattson
RRP: €29.14Booksplease Price: €23.36We remember the 1980s as the era of Ronald Reagan, a conservative decade populated by preppies and yuppies dancing to a soundtrack of electronic synth pop music (the "MTV generation"). But the decade... -
Showbusiness with Blood: A Golden Age of Irish Boxing by Eamon Carr 9781843518730
RRP: €19.04Booksplease Price: €16.36In Showbusiness with Blood, Eamon Carr beguiles the reader with an insightful account of the world's greatest boxers, from Steve Collins to Mike Tyson to Tyson Fury and Katie Taylor. Boxing,... -
Why Is There No Labor Party in the United States? by Robin Archer 9780691149349
RRP: €47.60Booksplease Price: €44.39Why is the United States the only advanced capitalist country with no labor party? This question is one of the great enduring puzzles of American political development, and it lies at the heart of a...