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Ripe for Revolution: Building Socialism in the Third World by Jeremy Friedman 9780674244313
RRP: £30.95Booksplease Price: £26.68A historical account of ideology in the Global South as the postwar laboratory of socialism, its legacy following the Cold War, and the continuing influence of socialist ideas worldwide.In the first... -
The Dragon Roars Back: Transformational Leaders and Dynamics of Chinese Foreign Policy by Suisheng (Sam) Zhao 9781503630888
RRP: £76.00Booksplease Price: £61.77Selected among Foreign Affairs's "Best of Books 2024" China is unique in modern world history. No other rising power has experienced China's turbulent history in its relations with neighbors and... -
The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past by John Lewis Gaddis 9780195171570
RRP: £14.49Booksplease Price: £11.78What is history and why should we study it? Is there such a thing as historical truth? Is history a science? One of the most accomplished historians at work today, John Lewis Gaddis, answers these... -
Political Meritocracy in Renaissance Italy: The Virtuous Republic of Francesco Patrizi of Siena by James Hankins
RRP: £45.95Booksplease Price: £38.01The first full-length study of Francesco Patrizi-the most important political philosopher of the Italian Renaissance before Machiavelli-who sought to reconcile conflicting claims of liberty and... -
From a Realist Point of View Brian Leiter 9780197749821
RRP: £110.00Booksplease Price: £100.10From A Realist Point of View combines new essays with revised versions of the most important recent work of preeminent legal realist Brian Leiter. This collection offers a systematic and... -
Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind by Tom Holland
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.80'If great books encourage you to look at the world in an entirely new way, then Dominion is a very great book indeed . . . Written with terrific learning, enthusiasm and good humour, Holland's book... -
And the Weak Suffer What They Must?: Europe, Austerity and the Threat to Global Stability Yanis Varoufakis 9781784704117
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.69**THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER** ... -
The Mirage: Misunderstanding the Middle East by Omer Taspinar
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £31.67The West's actions in the Middle East are based on a fundamental misunderstanding: political Islam is repeatedly assumed to be the main cause of conflict and unrest in the region. The idea that we... -
Greek Thought: A Guide to Classical Knowledge by Jacques Brunschwig
RRP: £81.95Booksplease Price: £67.55Ancient Greek thought is the essential wellspring from which the intellectual, ethical, and political civilization of the West draws and to which, even today, we repeatedly return. In more than sixty... -
Adults In The Room: My Battle With Europe's Deep Establishment by Yanis Varoufakis
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46** The Sunday Times #1 Bestseller**'One of the greatest political memoirs of all time' GuardianWhat happens when you take on the European establishment? Read as world-famous, provocative economist,... -
What the West is Getting Wrong about the Middle East: Why Islam is Not the Problem Ömer Taspinar 9780755655069
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.81The West's actions in the Middle East are based on a fundamental misunderstanding: political Islam is repeatedly assumed to be the main cause of conflict and unrest in the region. The idea that we... -
War Transformed: The Future of Twenty-First-Century Great Power Competition and Conflict by Mick Ryan 9781682477410
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £20.91War Transformed: The Future of Twenty-First-Century Great Power Competition and Conflict provides insights for those involved in the design of military strategy, and the forces that must execute that... -
Resolved: Uniting Nations in a Divided World by Ban Ki-moon
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.70Born just one year before the United Nations itself, Ban Ki-moon came of age with the world body. His earliest memories are haunted by the sound of bombs dropping on his Korean village and the sight... -
Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar by Tom Holland
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £8.92'A masterly account of this first wicked century of the Roman Empire' Sunday Times'Holland does not just tell the story of the reign of the Julio-Claudian family. He knits the history of ancient Rome... -
Terrorism: An International Perspective by Gus Martin
Booksplease Price: £50.01A comprehensive investigation of modern terrorism and the global terrorist environment. The book uses a multidisciplinary approach and discusses an array of global case studies from the ideology of... -
India's Wars: A Military History, 1947-1971 by Arjun Subramaniam 9781682472415
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £23.73India's armed forces play a key role in protecting the country and occupy a special place in the Indian people's hearts, yet standard accounts of contemporary Indian history rarely have a military... -
In The Shadow Of The Sword: The Battle for Global Empire and the End of the Ancient World by Tom Holland
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £9.45A SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER'A stunning blockbuster' Robert Fisk'A brilliant tour de force of revisionist scholarship and thrilling storytelling' Simon Sebag Montefiore'A compelling detective... -
Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age - THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Tom Holland 9780349141213
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Holland, who co-hosts the podcast The Rest Is History, is at his best when having fun with Rome's bloody history' The Times 'A book for lovers of traditional,... -
Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age by Tom Holland
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.35THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Holland, who co-hosts the podcast The Rest Is History, is at his best when having fun with Rome's bloody history' The Times 'A book for lovers of traditional,... -
Asia's Reckoning: The Struggle for Global Dominance by Richard McGregor
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42'Stunningly good' Michael Burleigh, Evening Standard, Books of the Year 2017 A Financial Times Best Book of 2017'A shrewd and knowing book.' Robert D. Kaplan, The Wall Street Journal'A compelling and... -
Rebellion, Rascals, and Revenue: Tax Follies and Wisdom through the Ages by Michael Keen
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.75An engaging and enlightening account of taxation told through lively, dramatic, and sometimes ludicrous stories drawn from around the world and across the agesGovernments have always struggled to tax... -
Rebellion, Rascals, and Revenue: Tax Follies and Wisdom through the Ages by Michael Keen 9780691199542
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.18An engaging and enlightening account of taxation told through lively, dramatic, and sometimes ludicrous stories drawn from around the world and across the agesGovernments have always struggled to tax... -
THE TRAGEDY OF PATTON A Soldier's Date With Destiny: Could World War II's Greatest General Have Stopped the Cold War? Robert Orlando 9781630061753
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.25"Better to fight for something than live for nothing." - General George S. PattonIt is 75 years since the end of WW II and the strange, mysterious death of General George S. Patton, but as in life,... -
Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate by M. E. Sarotte
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £16.46A leading expert on foreign policy reveals how tensions between America, NATO, and Russia transformed geopolitics A Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2021 and winner of the Pushkin House Book Prize ... -
Protecting China's Interests Overseas: Securitization and Foreign Policy by Andrea Ghiselli
RRP: £102.50Booksplease Price: £97.88Protecting China's Interests Overseas provides a fascinating and new window into Chinese foreign and security policymaking. In particular, it shows how the management of non-traditional security... -
Birds in the Ancient World: Winged Words by Jeremy Mynott
Booksplease Price: £52.03Birds pervaded the ancient world. They impressed their physical presence on the daily experience and imaginations of ordinary people in town and country alike, and figured prominently in literature... -
Virtue Politics: Soulcraft and Statecraft in Renaissance Italy by James Hankins
RRP: £23.95Booksplease Price: £20.95Winner of the Helen and Howard Marraro PrizeA Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year"Perhaps the greatest study ever written of Renaissance political thought."-Jeffrey Collins, Times Literary... -
America's Great-Power Opportunity: Revitalizing U.S. Foreign Policy to Meet the Challenges of Strategic Competition Ali Wyne 9781509545544
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £17.33It has become axiomatic to contend that U.S. foreign policy must adapt to an era of renewed "great-power competition." The United States went on a quarter-century strategic detour after the Cold War,... -
America's Great-Power Opportunity: Revitalizing U.S. Foreign Policy to Meet the Challenges of Strategic Competition Ali Wyne 9781509545537
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.05It has become axiomatic to contend that U.S. foreign policy must adapt to an era of renewed "great-power competition." The United States went on a quarter-century strategic detour after the Cold War,...