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On the Governance of Globalization: Chinese views on China, Globalization, Multilateralism and Big Power Relations Henry Huiyao Wang 9789819553693
Booksplease Price: £46.28This open-access book presents a curated look into Dr. Henry Huiyao Wang's latest writings concerning the changing world order, a change widely characterized as one of "world disorder". A quarter of... -
The Iran-Iraq War: Antecedents and Conflict Escalation by Jerome Donovan 9781138788930
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89In a tradition that dates back to the time of Thucydides, and the Peloponnesian War, the systematic examination of conflict and war has long been a preoccupation of political scientists seeking to... -
The Steps to War: An Empirical Study by Paul D. Senese 9780691138923
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21The question of what causes war has concerned statesmen since the time of Thucydides. The Steps to War utilizes new data on militarized interstate disputes from 1816 to 2001 to identify the factors... -
Imperialism Past and Present by Emanuele Saccarelli 9780199397891
Booksplease Price: £29.87After a long hiatus, when it was seemingly banished to the wilderness of esoteric academic debate, imperialism is back as one of the buzzwords of the day. In the past decade in particular, scholars,... -
Ideological Possession and the Rise of the New Right: The Political Thought of Carl Jung Laurie M. Johnson 9781138082120
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Political theorist Laurie M. Johnson deals with Jung's analysis of the effects of modern scientific rationalism on the development of communism, fascism and Nazism in the 20th century and applies... -
Strategy and Defence Planning: Meeting the Challenge of Uncertainty by Colin S. Gray
Booksplease Price: £50.63Strategy and Defence Planning: Meeting the Challenge of Uncertainty explores and examines why and how security communities prepare purposefully for their future defence. The author explains that... -
Beyond Power Transitions: The Lessons of East Asian History and the Future of U.S.-China Relations David Kang 9780231205375
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21Questions about the likelihood of conflict between the United States and China have dominated international policy discussion for years. But the leading theory of power transitions between a... -
Rebooting Clausewitz: 'On War' in the Twenty-First Century by Christopher Coker
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £19.24Rebooting Clausewitz offers an entirely new take on the work of history's greatest theorist of war. Written for an undergraduate readership that often struggles with Clausewitz's master work On... -
Writing History in Renaissance Italy: Leonardo Bruni and the Uses of the Past by Gary Ianziti 9780674061521
Booksplease Price: £89.55Leonardo Bruni (1370-1444) is widely recognized as the most important humanist historian of the early Renaissance. But why this recognition came about-and what it has meant for the field of... -
The Interpretation of Dreams by Artemidorus
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.66'Dreams are products of the mind, and do not come from any external source' Artemidorus' The Interpretation of Dreams (Oneirocritica) is the richest and most vivid pre-Freudian account of dream... -
Louis MacNeice: The Classical Radio Plays by Amanda Wrigley 9780199695232
Booksplease Price: £125.33This volume presents eleven radio scripts written and produced by the poet and writer Louis MacNeice (1907-1963) over the span of his twenty-year career at the BBC, during which he wrote and produced...Qty in Cart: 0Price:Booksplease Price: £125.33Subtotal: -
The Great Transformation: China’s Road from Revolution to Reform Odd Arne Westad 9780300267082
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £24.41The first thorough account of a formative and little understood chapter in Chinese history "Almost every page contains an eye-opening detail. . . . The Great Transformation evokes the multiple... -
The Lives of the Caesars by Suetonius 9780141980386
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.69A masterful new translation of Suetonius' renowned biography of the twelve Caesars, bringing to life a portrait of the first Roman emperors in stunning detailThe ancient Roman empire was the supreme... -
Anthill: A Novel by Edward O. Wilson
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.15Winner of the 2010 Heartland Prize, Anthill follows the thrilling adventures of a modern-day Huck Finn, enthralled with the "strange, beautiful, and elegant" world of his native Nokobee County. But... -
The Birth of the Past by Zachary Sayre Schiffman
Booksplease Price: £30.55How did people learn to distinguish between past and present? How did they come to see the past as existing in its own distinctive context? In The Birth of the Past, Zachary Sayre Schiffman explores... -
The Birth of the Past by Zachary Sayre Schiffman 9781421402789
RRP: £54.50Booksplease Price: £40.08How did people learn to distinguish between past and present? How did they come to see the past as existing in its own distinctive context? In The Birth of the Past, Zachary Sayre Schiffman explores... -
Fear of Enemies and Collective Action by Ioannis D. Evrigenis 9780521177870
Booksplease Price: £29.56What makes individuals with divergent and often conflicting interests join together and act in unison? By drawing on the fear of external threats, this book develops a theory of 'negative... -
The Greek Praise of Poverty: Origins of Ancient Cynicism by 9780268025823
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £21.19William Desmond, taking issue with typical assessments of the ancient Cynics, contends that figures such as Antisthenes and Diogenes were not cultural outcasts or marginal voices in the classical... -
Morgenthau by William E. Scheuerman 9780745636351
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.05The ideas of Hans Morgenthau dominated the study of international politics in the United States for many decades. He was the leading representative of Realist international relations theory in the... -
Fear of Enemies and Collective Action by Ioannis D. Evrigenis 9780521886208
Booksplease Price: £82.70What makes individuals with divergent and often conflicting interests join together and act in unison? By drawing on the fear of external threats, this book develops a theory of 'negative... -
Historical Consciousness and the Use of the Past in the Ancient World by John Baines 9781781796566
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £81.09Historical Consciousness and the Use of the Past in the Ancient World offers linked essays on uses of the past in prominent and diverse cultures in ancient civilizations across the world. The... -
The Azure Cloister: Thirty-Five Poems by Carlos German Belli
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £12.53New translations of poems by prominent Peruvian poet Carlos German Belli. This selection of poems by internationally renowned Peruvian poet Carlos German Belli tempers a dark, ironic vision of... -
Morgenthau William E. Scheuerman (Professor of Political Science at Indiana University, IN) 9780745636368
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £17.03The ideas of Hans Morgenthau dominated the study of international politics in the United States for many decades. He was the leading representative of Realist international relations theory in the... -
Athenian Democracy: A Sourcebook by Luca Asmonti 9781441113719
Booksplease Price: £35.46This volume presents a wide range of literary and epigraphic sources on the history of the world's first democracy, offering a comprehensive survey of the key themes and principles of Athenian... -
International Monetary Power by David M. Andrews 9780801444562
Booksplease Price: £35.62Most economists and political scientists assume that efficiency, the invisible hand, is the preeminent factor in monetary decisions; questions of power and the role it plays in monetary policy are... -
Twelve Voices from Greece and Rome: Ancient Ideas for Modern Times by Christopher Pelling 9780199597369
RRP: £23.49Booksplease Price: £19.60Twelve Voices from Greece and Rome is a book for all readers who want to know more about the literature that underpins Western civilization. Chistopher Pelling and Maria Wyke provide a vibrant and... -
Straussophobia: Defending Leo Strauss and Straussians against Shadia Drury and Other Accusers by Peter Minowitz 9780739119525
Booksplease Price: £51.20Leo Strauss and his students have long been accused of mendacity, elitism, and militarism, but the Iraq War has prompted unprecedented levels of caustic and inaccurate denunciations. Inappropriate... -
Global Development and Cooperation with China: New Ideas, Policies and Initiatives for a Changing World Henry Huiyao Wang 9789819624515
Booksplease Price: £46.28This open access book draws on the insights and wisdom of representatives from a wide range of international organizations with a presence in China, leveraging their rich experience in their... -
Notions of Neutralities by Pascal Lottaz 9781498582261
Booksplease Price: £112.43Neutrality serves different purposes during times of war and peace. 'Notions of Neutralities' portrays those historical challenges that neutrals faced, and are still facing, to maintain some form of... -
How the Idea of Religious Toleration Came to the West by Perez Zagorin 9780691121420
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £34.35Religious intolerance, so terrible and deadly in its recent manifestations, is nothing new. In fact, until after the eighteenth century, Christianity was perhaps the most intolerant of all the great... -
The Great Transformation: China's Road from Revolution to Reform Odd Arne Westad 9780300285604
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78The first thorough account of a formative and little understood chapter in Chinese history "A superb history of China's transition into and out of the Cultural Revolution. . . . Chen and Westad-two... -
Derrida/Searle: Deconstruction and Ordinary Language by Raoul Moati 9780231166713
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £17.05Raoul Moati intervenes in the critical debate that divided two prominent philosophers in the mid-twentieth century. In the 1950s, the British philosopher J. L. Austin advanced a theory of speech... -
Emperors in the Jungle: The Hidden History of the U.S. in Panama by John Lindsay-Poland 9780822330981
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48Emperors in the Jungle is an expose of key episodes in the military involvement of the United States in Panama. Investigative journalism at its best, this book reveals how U.S. ideas about taming... -
Derrida/Searle: Deconstruction and Ordinary Language by Raoul Moati 9780231166706
RRP: £84.00Booksplease Price: £66.34Raoul Moati intervenes in the critical debate that divided two prominent philosophers in the mid-twentieth century. In the 1950s, the British philosopher J. L. Austin advanced a theory of speech... -
A Savage War: A Military History of the Civil War by Williamson Murray 9780691181097
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.75How the Civil War changed the face of warThe Civil War represented a momentous change in the character of war. It combined the projection of military might across a continent on a scale never before... -
Shakespeare and the Body Politic by Bernard J. Dobski 9781498510981
Booksplease Price: £51.70Metaphors animate Shakespeare's corpus, and one of the most prominent is the image of the body. Sketched out in the eternal lines of his plays and poetry, and often drawn in exquisite detail,... -
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Emperors in the Jungle: The Hidden History of the U.S. in Panama by John Lindsay-Poland 9780822331001 [USED COPY]
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £33.70Emperors in the Jungle is an expose of key episodes in the military involvement of the United States in Panama. Investigative journalism at its best, this book reveals how U.S. ideas about taming... -
A Savage War: A Military History of the Civil War by Williamson Murray 9780691169408
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £26.01The Civil War represented a momentous change in the character of war. It combined the projection of military might across a continent on a scale never before seen with an unprecedented mass... -
What Kinship is - and is Not by Marshall Sahlins
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.30In this pithy two-part essay, Marshall Sahlins reinvigorates the debates on what constitutes kinship, building on some of the best scholarship in the field to produce an original outlook on the... -
Making History: The Storytellers Who Shaped the Past by Richard Cohen 9781474615792
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £12.18'A huge, fizzing omnium-gatherum of a book . . . marvellous' Daily Telegraph'Witty, wise and elegant . . . a classic of history itself' The Spectator'Grave and witty, suave yet pointed . . . full of...