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Little Budget Planner Book: Undated Budget Diary by Ivory Haus 9780645533903
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £22.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645533903Author Ivory HausFormat HardbackPage Count 266Imprint Ivory HausPublisher Ivory... -
Mitra-Varuna - An Essay on Two Indo-European Representations of Sovereignty Georges Dumezil 9781912808977
Booksplease Price: £25.08A classic text that develops one prong of Dumezil's tripartite hypothesis of Indo-European tribes: the sacred sovereign. Georges Dumezil's fascination with the myths and histories of India, Rome,... -
Could it Happen Here?: The Day a Prime Minister Refuses to Resign Peter Hennessy 9781914979187
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.02In Could It Happen Here?, Peter Hennessy and Andrew Blick pose the question of whether the UK's constitution sufficiently protects our democracy against an authoritarian takeover. Put simply, they... -
My Palestine: An Impossible Exile Mohammad Tarbush 9781914979200
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Tarbush was born in British Mandate Palestine. As an infant, he and his family are forced to evacuate their village together with its entire population, after the Zionist victory that led to the... -
Defence and the UK Constitution Nigel D. White 9781914979217
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67Defence and security policy lies at the heart of the British state, but can appear entirely untrammelled by the constitution. In fact, when political and military leaders exercise their executive... -
Tito by Neil Barnett 9781904950318
Booksplease Price: £16.83This title is about an inspirational partisan leader, doctrinaire communist and yet a thorn in Moscow's side, and a leading light in the Non Aligned Movement. The break-up of Yugoslavia, the country... -
Robert Archer and the Wizard Lightning by Hope Renee Hetterley 9781738580675
RRP: £17.00Booksplease Price: £16.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781738580675Author Hope Renee HetterleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 462Imprint Jocks HausPublisher... -
The Commons and Lords: A Short Anthropology of Parliament by Emma Crewe 9781910376072
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31The Westminster Parliament is worth closer scrutiny not just for the sake of democracy, but on intellectual grounds because the surprises it contains challenge our understanding of politics. Based on... -
Convergence by Hope Hetterley 9781738580699
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £14.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781738580699Author Hope HetterleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Jocks HausPublisher Jocks... -
Making the Weather: Six Politicians That Made Modern Britain Vernon Bogdanor 9781914979330
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Making the Weather is the story of six post-war politicians, all of whom exerted an outsized influence on the political life of the UK; an influence greater than that of most prime ministers. Vernon... -
Casement Angus Mitchell 9781914979415
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.59Since his execution for high treason in 1916, Roger Casement has been lauded for his humanitarian activism in Africa and the Amazon. His life, however, has remained obscured behind speculation about... -
Gandhi: The Man, His People and the Empire by Rajmohan Gandhi 9781906598815
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.53This monumental biography, written by Gandhi's grandson, is the first to give a complete and balanced account of his remarkable life, the development of his beliefs, his political campaigns and his... -
Ethics or the Right Thing? - Corruption and Care in the Age of Good Governance by Sylvia Tidey
Booksplease Price: £24.80A sympathetic examination of the failure of anti-corruption efforts in contemporary Indonesia. Combining ethnographic fieldwork in the city of Kupang with an acute historical sensibility, Sylvia... -
Nullius – The Anthropology of Ownership, Sovereignty, and the Law in India by Kriti Kapila
Booksplease Price: £21.05Nullius is an award-winning anthropological account of the troubled status of ownership in India and its consequences for our understanding of sovereignty and social relations. Though property rights... -
Integrity in Public Life by Vernon White
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.37Good governance is one of the UK's fundamental values, and citizens are entitled to expect that public officials, both elected and non-elected, behave according to the highest standards of ethical... -
Life is Good by Alex Capus
Booksplease Price: £14.19Max has been married to Tina for twenty-five years. She is the love of his life but now he must come to terms with the fact she is to spend weeks away on a work assignment; away, for the first time,... -
The Power of Civil Servants by Claire Foster-Gilbert
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31The Power of Whitehall provides rich and informative observations about the nature of the Civil Service, its values and effectiveness, what threatens it and how it should continue to adapt to a... -
Fiction, Fact and Future: The Essence of EU Democracy by James Elles
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.37Since its' inception, the European Union has developed to become an open and transparent system which is democratically accountable to more than five hundred million European citizens. James Elles... -
European Identity by Stephen Green
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.37Is there any such thing as a European identity? Amidst all the kaleidoscopic variety what - if anything - do 28 members of the European Union have in common? The facts of history have created shared... -
We Have Buried the Past by Abdelkrim Ghallab
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Abd Al-Karim Ghallab s postcolonial "We Buried the Past," originally published in 1966, was the first breakthrough Moroccan novel written in Arabic instead of French. Newly translated into English,... -
Breaking Point: The UK Referendum on the EU and its Aftermath by Gary Gibbon
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.02As the aftermath of Brexit continues to unfold, people around the world are wondering just how Brexit happened, where post-referendum Britain is heading, and what lessons might be learned by the... -
Lion and Lamb: A Portrait of British Moral Duality by Mihir Bose
Booksplease Price: £18.45The British like to see themselves as tolerant and believers in fair play. Yet, often in thought and deed, they behave in a fashion that could not remotely be considered moral. This is the great... -
Of Humans, Pigs, and Souls - An Essay on the Yagwoia Womba (Cannibal) Complex by Jadran Mimica
Booksplease Price: £19.72For the Yagwoia-Angan people of Papua New Guinea, womba is a malignant power with the potential to afflict any soul with cravings for pig meat and human flesh. Drawing on long-term research among the... -
German Jerusalem: The Remarkable Life of a German-Jewish Neighbourhood in the Holy City by Thomas Sparr
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £15.87The fascinating history of German Jews who built a community just outside Jerusalem. In the 1920s, before the establishment of Israel, a group of German Jews settled in a garden city on the outskirts... -
Turkey Rediscovered: A Land Between Tradition and Modernity by Klaus Reichert
Booksplease Price: £14.86This book, available for the first time in English, is an exhilarating journey through Turkey s history and a perceptive look at the interactions between secularism, religion, and multiethnicity. ... -
Gutenberg by Stephan Fussel
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Named "Man of the Millennium" in 1999, Johannes Gutenberg was the creator of one of the most influential and revolutionary inventions in Europe's history: a printing press with mechanical movable... -
The Complete Reflections: Conversations with Politicians by Peter Hennessy
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23On the BBC radio show Reflections with Peter Hennessy, the preeminent historian of British political life interviewed leading figures from the UK's governing parties during the late twentieth and... -
Douglas Home by David Dutton
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Douglas-Home had a complex career between the two Houses of Parliament, disclaiming his peerage to become Prime Minister. His term in office was short elected in 1963 he lost the election of 1964... -
Balfour by Ewen Green 9781904950554
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23The British Prime Minister Arthur Balfour led an eventual premiership, but will always be remembered for the 'Balfour Declaration', in which he told Lord Rothschild that Britain 'favoured the... -
Bonar Law by Andrew Taylor 9781904950592
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Bonar Law was a prominent opponent of Home Rule for Ireland; he also served the shortest term of any of Britain's 20th century Prime Ministers. In 1922 he was responsible for ending the coalition... -
Banker, Traitor, Scapegoat, Spy?: The Troublesome Case of Sir Edgar Speyer by Antony Lentin 9781908323118
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51Sir Edgar Speyer was a conspicuous figure in the financial, cultural, social and political life of Edwardian London. Head of the syndicate which financed the construction of the deep 'tube lines' and... -
Thirst: A Novel of the Iran-Iraq War by Mahmoud Dowlatabadi 9781908323392
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.02During the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s, an Iraqi journalist is given a tour of a military prison. He is informed by the major in charge about what is expected of him: he is to write a fabricated... -
A Woman in the Crossfire: Diaries of the Syrian Revolution by Samar Yazbek 9781908323125
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.43A well-known novelist and journalist from the coastal city of Jableh, Samar Yazbek witnessed the beginning four months of the uprising first-hand and actively participated in a variety of public... -
Lloyd George by Hugh Purcell 9781904950585
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23This is a biography of the Liberal British Prime Minister, 'Who Won the War'.Book InformationISBN 9781904950585Author Hugh PurcellFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Haus PublishingPublisher Haus... -
The Colonel by Mahmoud Dowlatabadi 9781906598891
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31It's a pitch black, rainy night in a small Iranian town. Inside his house the Colonel is immersed in thought. Memories are storming in. Memories of his wife. Memories of the great patriots of the... -
Friedrich Ebert: Germany - The Peace Conferences of 1919-23 and Their Aftermath by Harry Harmer 9781905791637
Booksplease Price: £13.96This title is about Friedrich Ebert (1871-1925). Ebert was influential in securing SPD support for the war in 1914. On the eve of war he travelled to Switzerland to arrange the movement of SPD funds... -
Woodrow Wilson: United States of America - The Peace Conferences of 1919-23 and Their Aftermath by Brian Morton 9781905791620
Booksplease Price: £20.01This title is about Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924). It is September 1919 - a meeting hall in a small mid-Western city. A thin man is speaking to a sceptical audience about peace. He has already met the... -
General Smuts: South Africa by A. Lentin 9781905791828
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Jan Christian Smuts was one of the key figures behind the creation of the League of Nations; Woodrow Wilson was inspired by his ideas on the League and borrowed heavily from them, including the... -
In Byron's Footsteps by Tessa de Loo 9781906598778
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31When Tessa de Loo saw Albania for the first time, no foreigners were allowed to enter. Filled with a great curiosity, longing, and a sense of wonderment by this isolated land, de Loo gazed toward the... -
Land of Cockaigne by Jeffrey Lewis 9781913368708
Booksplease Price: £10.64A novel written as a sharp parable of American society, addressing love, purpose, discrimination, and poverty. In Jeffrey Lewis's novel, the Land of Cockaigne, once an old medieval peasants'...