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The Other Government: The Unseen Power of Washington Lawyers by Mark J. Green 9780393008654
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £19.25These are the most powerful private citizens in America: the Washington lawyers whose impact is hidden-and made effective-in the halls of Congress and the hearing rooms of the regulatory agencies... -
Labor in the Age of Finance: Pensions, Politics, and Corporations from Deindustrialization to Dodd-Frank Sanford M. Jacoby 9780691217628
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.40From award-winning economic historian Sanford M. Jacoby, a fascinating and important study of the labor movement and shareholder capitalismSince the 1970s, American unions have shrunk dramatically,... -
Pursuing Happiness: American Consumers in the Twentieth Century by Stanley Lebergott 9780691607580
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £28.55Whether watching baseball or undergoing heart surgery, Americans have bought a variety of goods and services to achieve happiness. Here is a provocative look at what they have chosen to purchase... -
Lobbying America: The Politics of Business from Nixon to NAFTA by Benjamin C. Waterhouse 9780691168012
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.08Lobbying America tells the story of the political mobilization of American business in the 1970s and 1980s. Benjamin Waterhouse traces the rise and ultimate fragmentation of a broad-based effort to... -
Market Rebels: How Activists Make or Break Radical Innovations Hayagreeva Rao 9780691134567
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £19.80Great individuals are assumed to cause the success of radical innovations--thus Henry Ford is depicted as the one who established the automobile industry in America. Hayagreeva Rao tells a different... -
Lobbying America: The Politics of Business from Nixon to NAFTA by Benjamin C. Waterhouse 9780691149165
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.85Lobbying America tells the story of the political mobilization of American business in the 1970s and 1980s. Benjamin Waterhouse traces the rise and ultimate fragmentation of a broad-based effort to... -
Home Team: Professional Sports and the American Metropolis by Michael N. Danielson
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £42.20Most books that study professional sports concentrate on teams and leagues. In contrast, Home Team studies the connections between professional team sports in North America and the places where teams... -
Why We Vote: How Schools and Communities Shape Our Civic Life by David E. Campbell
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £30.30Why do more people vote--or get involved in other civic and political activities--in some communities than in others? Why We Vote demonstrates that our communities shape our civic and political... -
Taming the Bureaucracy: Muscles, Prayers, and Other Strategies by William T. Gormley 9780691635231
RRP: £110.00Booksplease Price: £99.42Americans are just emerging from one of the great reform eras in our historyan era in which we attempted to control public bureaucracies through interest representation, due process, management,... -
In Defense of the Corporation by Robert Hessen
RRP: £13.95Booksplease Price: £9.55This lively, nontechnical book offers a positive reappraisal of the giant corporation. Hessen presents an uncompromising defense of the right of corporation to exist and function freely and outlines... -
Campaign Talk: Why Elections Are Good for Us by Roderick P. Hart 9780691092829
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.55Roderick Hart may be among the few Americans who believe that what politicians say in a campaign actually matters. He also believes that campaigns work. Even as television coverage, political ads,... -
Our Army: Soldiers, Politics, and American Civil-Military Relations by Jason K. Dempsey 9780691142258
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £31.19Conventional wisdom holds that the American military is overwhelmingly conservative and Republican, and extremely political. Our Army paints a more complex picture, demonstrating that while army... -
Mathematics and Democracy: Designing Better Voting and Fair-Division Procedures by Steven J. Brams
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £42.39Voters today often desert a preferred candidate for a more viable second choice to avoid wasting their vote. Likewise, parties to a dispute often find themselves unable to agree on a fair division of... -
Free Trade Today by Jagdish N. Bhagwati
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £37.30Free trade, indeed economic globalization generally, is under siege. The conventional arguments for protectionism have been discredited but not banished. And free trade faces strong new challenges... -
The Welfare State Nobody Knows: Debunking Myths about U.S. Social Policy by Christopher Howard 9780691138336
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £28.90The Welfare State Nobody Knows challenges a number of myths and half-truths about U.S. social policy. The American welfare state is supposed to be a pale imitation of "true" welfare states in Europe... -
Unhealthy Politics: The Battle over Evidence-Based Medicine by Eric M. Patashnik 9780691158815
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £28.90How partisanship, polarization, and medical authority stand in the way of evidence-based medicine The U.S. medical system is touted as the most advanced in the world, yet many common treatments are... -
Philanthropy in America: A History by Olivier Zunz 9780691128368
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.55American philanthropy today expands knowledge, champions social movements, defines active citizenship, influences policymaking, and addresses humanitarian crises. How did philanthropy become such a... -
Skincare Hoax: How You're Being Tricked into Buying Lotions, Potions & Wrinkle Cream by Fayne L. Frey
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.15Feel Empowered and Beautiful at Any Age with This Groundbreaking Guide to Skincare We all want to have young and healthy skin, yet the beauty industry is so mixed in its messages that most consumers... -
Barry Commoner's Contribution to the Environmental Movement: Science and Social Action by Mary Lee Dunn
RRP: £86.99Booksplease Price: £76.93Few people have made greater contributions to protecting and improving the environment than the scientist, teacher, activist Dr. Barry Commoner. For half a century, Dr. Commoner has been an... -
Barry Commoner's Contribution to the Environmental Movement: Science and Social Action by Mary Lee Dunn 9780895032195
Booksplease Price: £53.14Few people have made greater contributions to protecting and improving the environment than the scientist, teacher, activist Dr. Barry Commoner. For half a century, Dr. Commoner has been an... -
The Ritalin Fact Book: What Your Doctor Won't Tell You About ADHD And Stimulant Drugs by Peter Breggin 9780738204505
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.52Known as the "Ralph Nader of psychiatry," Peter Breggin has been the medical expert in countless civil and criminal cases involving the use or misuse of psychoactive medications. This... -
A Seat at the Table: The Making of Busboys and Poets by Andy Shallal 9781682196380
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.04A Seat at the Table is the story of the founding of Busboys and Poets, a Washington, D.C.-based restaurant that has become a celebrated hub for political activism. Named in honor of Langston Hughes,... -
Global Intellectual Property Rights: Knowledge, Access and Development by Professor Peter Drahos 9780333990278
Booksplease Price: £46.28Intellectual property rights such as patents can reduce access to knowledge in genetics, health, agriculture, education and information technology, particularly for people in developing countries... -
SLAPPs: Getting Sued for Speaking Out by George Pring 9781566393690
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £24.26The first book to explain, document, and offer solutions to SLAPPS, by the lawyers who identified the trend and lead the battle cry against itThe first book to explain, document, and offer solutions... -
Global Intellectual Property Rights: Knowledge, Access and Development by Professor Peter Drahos 9780333990285
Booksplease Price: £46.74Intellectual property rights such as patents can reduce access to knowledge in genetics, health, agriculture, education and information technology, particularly for people in developing countries... -
Everyday Law for Consumers by Michael L. Rustad 9781594514531
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £29.49"Your toolkit for prevention, redemption, and occasionally retribution." -Ralph Nader Whenever you purchase goods or services in a personal, household, or family capacity, you are entitled to the... -
Independent Politics: The Green Party Strategy Debate by Howie Hawkins 9781931859301
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.53Ralph Nader, Peter Camejo, David Cobb, Sharon Smith, Norman Solomon and other Green Party members and allies ask: can we break the two-party stranglehold on US politics? and debate strategy for how... -
North Star: A Memoir by Peter Camejo 9781931859929
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £15.79A first-generation US citizen of Venezuelan descent, Peter Camejo traversed the liberal American political landscape, from the Socialist Workers to the Green Party, running for Governor of California... -
When the Senate Worked for Us: The Invisible Role of Staffers in Countering Corporate Lobbies by Michael Pertschuk 9780826521668
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £16.44Every politically sentient American knows that Congress has been dominated by special interests, and many people do not remember a time when Congress legislated in the public interest. In the 1960s... -
The Antidepressant Fact Book: What Your Doctor Won't Tell You About Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, Celexa, And Luvox by Peter Breggin 9780738204512
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.52Known as "the Ralph Nader of psychiatry," Dr. Peter Breggin has been the medical expert in countless court cases involving the use or misuse of psychoactive medications. This unusual position has... -
Ethics, Politics, and Whistleblowing in Engineering by Nicholas Sakellariou
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £53.29The aim of this book is to generate a strong operational ethic in the work of engineers from all disciplines. It provides numerous examples of engineers who sought to meet the highest ethical... -
White Collar Crime: The Uncut Version by Edwin H. Sutherland 9780300033182
Booksplease Price: £34.12A classic study of corporate crime in America, now available for the first time the way Sutherland originally wrote it-with names and case studies of the offenders included."Now that corporate crime... -
Consumer Culture: A Reference Handbook by Douglas Goodman 9781576079751
Booksplease Price: £51.71An engrossing review of the development of global consumerism and its impact on sociological issues. The phrase "shop till you drop" has become as American as apple pie and the trend does... -
The Militarization of Indian Country by Winona LaDuke 9781938065002
RRP: £18.95Booksplease Price: £18.34When it became public that Osama bin Laden's death was announced with the phrase "Geronimo, EKIA!" many Native people, including Geronimo's descendants, were insulted to discover that the name of a... -
Newsfail: Climate Change, Feminism, Gun Control, and Other Fun Stuff We Talk About Because Nobody Else Will by Jamie Kilstein 9781476783413
Booksplease Price: £10.72#Newsfailis definitely not your grandmother's comedic-memoir-slash-political-manifesto. From page one (in a preface titled, "In Which the Authors Interview Ralph Nader in the Bathtub"),... -
Spoiling for a Fight: Third-Party Politics in America by Micah L. Sifry 9780415931434
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £42.66More Americans now identify as political independents than as either Democrats or Republicans. Tired of the two-party gridlock, the pandering, and the lack of vision, they've turned in increasing... -
American Voices: An Encyclopedia of Contemporary Orators by Bernard K. Duffy 9780313327902
Booksplease Price: £77.31Contemporary public speaking remains an important part of our national life and a substantial force in shaping current events. Many of America's most important moments and issues, such as wars,... -
After the Sands: Energy and Ecological Security for Canadians by Gordon Laxer
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.18Hailed as "a myth-destroying blockbuster book" by Ralph Nader, After the Sands outlines a vision and road map to transition Canada to a low-carbon society: a plan lacking within all of Canada's major... -
The 1960s by Edward J. Rielly 9780313312618
Booksplease Price: £66.89This book describes the important changes in American society during the 60s, from feminism and civil rights to the Cuban Missile Crisis. Individual chapters explore various aspects of popular... -
Not Invited to the Party: How the Demopublicans Have Rigged the System and Left Independents Out in the Cold by James T. Bennett 9781493900886
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £16.19Not Invited to the Party demonstrates how the dominant political parties--the Democrats and Republicans--have co-opted the system to their advantage. James Bennett examines the history and array of...