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Ethics: A Beginner's Guide Peter Cave 9781780745763
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.47Should we aim to maximize happiness? Are there characteristics that we should foster within ourselves? Why is it important to act morally? From the ancient Greeks to Sartre, from utilitarianism to... -
Making Sense of Place - Multidisciplinary Perspectives by Dr. Ian Convery 9781843838999
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €29.18The term "sense of place" is an important multidisciplinary concept, used to understand the complex processes through which individuals and groups define themselves and their relationship... -
Classical Literature and Learning in Medieval Irish Narrative by Ralph O'Connor
RRP: €101.15Booksplease Price: €97.93Examinations of the use of classical Latin texts, themes and techniques in medieval Irish narrative. This edited volume will make a major contribution to our appreciation of the importance of... -
Britain's Persuaders: Soft Power in a Hard World by Helen Ramscar
RRP: €27.36Booksplease Price: €26.25'Soft power' is an oft-used term and commands an instinctive understanding among journalists and casual observers, who mostly interpret it as 'diplomatic' or somehow 'persuasive'. 'Hard power' is... -
The British Origins of Nuclear Strategy 1945-1955 by Ian Clark 9780198275411
Booksplease Price: €80.84Why did Britain decide in 1947 to build an atomic bomb? What military plans were there for using it? This neglected dimension of British nuclear policy is assessed in detail for the first time, using... -
We Need to Talk About Defence: Reforming Contemporary Defence Management Dr Andrew Curtis 9781350498006
Booksplease Price: €31.80Based on a distinguished 35-year career in the RAF as an Air Commodore, Andrew R. Curtis highlights what is wrong with the way defence is managed today, and presents evidence-based proposals to fix... -
Catholic Pirates and Greek Merchants: A Maritime History of the Early Modern Mediterranean by Molly Greene
RRP: €33.32Booksplease Price: €28.00A new international maritime order was forged in the early modern age, yet until now histories of the period have dealt almost exclusively with the Atlantic and Indian oceans. Catholic Pirates and... -
Election Promises, Party Behaviour and Voter Perceptions by Elin Naurin 9780230290853
Booksplease Price: €55.62An exploration of whether politicians are perceived to keep their election promises. While scholars claim that parties act on most of their election promises, citizens hold the opposite view. This... -
What Should Armies Do?: Armed Forces and Civil Security by John L. Clarke 9781472445261
RRP: €113.04Booksplease Price: €98.82Clarke examines the role of North American and European armed forces in support of civil authorities in domestic contingencies. He seeks to answer the question of what roles are - and are not -... -
Election Promises, Party Behaviour and Voter Perceptions by Elin Naurin 9781349331666
Booksplease Price: €55.07An exploration of whether politicians are perceived to keep their election promises. While scholars claim that parties act on most of their election promises, citizens hold the opposite view. This... -
Five Armies Sir Barney White-Spunner 9781472872982
RRP: €26.18Booksplease Price: €20.13A critical study of five historical armies that offers solutions for how contemporary forces need to change to deal with modern threats.The most important task of any government remains the defence... -
The Shape of Battle: Six Campaigns from Hastings to Helmand by Allan Mallinson
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €20.75One of our most distinguished military historians tells the story of six defining battles . . .Every battle is different. Each takes place in a different context - the war, the campaign, the weapons... -
The Shape of Battle: Six Campaigns from Hastings to Helmand Allan Mallinson 9781529177015
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.70One of our most distinguished military historians tells the story of six defining battles . . .Every battle is different. Each takes place in a different context - the war, the campaign, the weapons... -
Cavalry: A Global History by Jeremy Black 9781399060899
RRP: €26.18Booksplease Price: €19.78An original and unique work that will fill a huge gap in the field of military history, and be of interest to both scholars and general readers, and it should attract reviews in academic journals... -
Pakistan's Stability Paradox: Domestic, Regional and International Dimensions by Ashutosh Misra
RRP: €55.92Booksplease Price: €50.77Pakistan, with the second largest Muslim population in the world, is a crucial country in the international system. It is an ally of the United States in the global 'war on terror' but is also... -
Losing Control: Global Security in the Twenty-first Century Paul Rogers 9780745343679
RRP: €27.36Booksplease Price: €20.54'Outstanding ... combines a glimpse behind the security screens with a sharp analysis of the real global insecurities - growing inequality and unsustainability' - New Internationalist Written in... -
China and Tibet: The Perils of Insecurity by Tsering Topgyal
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €38.59Over sixty years of violence and dialogue have brought China and the Tibetans no closer to a resolution of their conflict. Tsering Topgyal argues that it is China's sense of insecurity, its... -
Losing Control: Global Security in the Twenty-first Century Paul Rogers 9780745343686
RRP: €101.15Booksplease Price: €82.82'Outstanding ... combines a glimpse behind the security screens with a sharp analysis of the real global insecurities - growing inequality and unsustainability' - New Internationalist Written in... -
The Art Question by Nigel Warburton 9780415174909
RRP: €30.93Booksplease Price: €28.45If an artist sends a live peacock to an exhibition, is it art? 'What is art?' is a question many of us want answered but are too afraid to ask. It is the very question that Nigel Warburton... -
1,000 Practice MTF MCQs for the Primary and Final FRCA by Hozefa Ebrahim
RRP: €71.40Booksplease Price: €62.19Written for anaesthesia trainees, this comprehensive text covers all the MCQ preparation required for both the Primary and Final FRCA exams. Broken down into five sections, there are 150 questions... -
What Has Nature Ever Done For Us?: How Money Really Does Grow On Trees by Tony Juniper
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.70From Indian vultures to Chinese bees, Nature provides the 'natural services' that keep the economy going. From the recycling miracles in the soil; an army of predators ridding us of unwanted pests;... -
Genoa and the Sea: Policy and Power in an Early Modern Maritime Republic, 1559-1684 by Thomas Allison Kirk
Booksplease Price: €34.59Genoa enjoyed an important and ever-changing role in the early modern Mediterranean world. In medieval times, the city transformed itself from a tumultuous maritime republic into a stable and... -
Catholic Pirates and Greek Merchants: A Maritime History of the Early Modern Mediterranean by Molly Greene 9780691141978
RRP: €69.02Booksplease Price: €55.68A new international maritime order was forged in the early modern age, yet until now histories of the period have dealt almost exclusively with the Atlantic and Indian oceans. Catholic Pirates and... -
Goodbye Globalization: The Return of a Divided World by Elisabeth Braw 9780300272277
Booksplease Price: €30.70A bold new account of the state of globalization today-and what its collapse might mean for the world economy After the Cold War, globalization accelerated at breakneck speed. Manufacturing,... -
Goodbye Globalization: The Return of a Divided World Elisabeth Braw 9780300282634
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.64GOLD MEDALLIST IN THE 2024 AXIOM BUSINESS BOOK AWARDS A bold new account of the state of globalization today-and what its collapse might mean for the world economy After the Cold War,... -
A War of Empires: Japan, India, Burma & Britain: 1941–45 by Robert Lyman
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €16.02SHORTLISTED FOR THE RUSI DUKE OF WELLINGTON MEDAL FOR MILITARY HISTORY 2022 'This is a superb book.' - James Holland In 1941 and 1942 the British and Indian Armies were brutally defeated and... -
Geography of Human Conflict: Approaches to Survival by Neville Brown 9781845191696
Booksplease Price: €130.23This book is mindful of Geography's big dilemma. How can the subject curb the encroachments of other disciplines: environmental studies, human ecology, political science, geophysics...? The author... -
Leadership and Management Development by Jan L. Carmichael
RRP: €80.91Booksplease Price: €79.59This much-needed book takes a critical and reflective approach to leadership and management development. The author team draw on their strong practitioner backgrounds to combine a thorough research... -
Counter-Terrorism, Ethics and Technology: Emerging Challenges at the Frontiers of Counter-Terrorism by Adam Henschke 9783030902230
RRP: €41.64Booksplease Price: €38.25This open access book brings together a range of contributions that seek to explore the ethical issues arising from the overlap between counter-terrorism, ethics, and technologies. Terrorism and our... -
Terror Capitalism: Uyghur Dispossession and Masculinity in a Chinese City by Darren Byler 9781478015024
RRP: €97.58Booksplease Price: €79.09In Terror Capitalism anthropologist Darren Byler theorizes the contemporary Chinese colonization of the Uyghur Muslim minority group in the northwest autonomous region of Xinjiang. He shows that the... -
Terror Capitalism: Uyghur Dispossession and Masculinity in a Chinese City by Darren Byler
RRP: €24.98Booksplease Price: €21.71In Terror Capitalism anthropologist Darren Byler theorizes the contemporary Chinese colonization of the Uyghur Muslim minority group in the northwest autonomous region of Xinjiang. He shows that the... -
Unwinnable: Britain's War in Afghanistan, 2001-2014 by Theo Farrell
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.26Afghanistan was an unwinnable war. As British and American troops withdraw, discover this definitive account that explains why. It could have been a very different story. British forces could have... -
Attending to Movement: Somatic Perspectives on Living in This World by Sarah Whatley 9781909470637
Booksplease Price: €35.69This edited collection draws on the conference, Attending to Movement: Somatic Perspectives on Living in this World, run at C-DaRE, the Centre for Dance Research, Coventry University, 12 - 14 July,... -
The War on the Uyghurs: China's Campaign Against Xinjiang's Muslims by Sean R. Roberts
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €14.24The first account of one of the world's most pressing humanitarian catastrophes.This eye-opening book reveals how China has used the US-led Global War on Terror as cover for its increasingly brutal... -
The War on the Uyghurs: China's Campaign Against Xinjiang's Muslims by Sean R. Roberts 9781526147684
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €23.61The first account of one of the world's most pressing humanitarian catastrophes.This eye-opening book reveals how China has used the US-led Global War on Terror as cover for its increasingly brutal... -
Britain's Mammals Updated Edition: A Field Guide to the Mammals of Great Britain and Ireland by Dominic Couzens
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €16.27A comprehensive photographic field guide to the mammals of Great Britain and IrelandBritain's Mammals is a comprehensive and beautifully designed photographic field guide to all the mammals recorded... -
Analysis of Genuine Karate: Misconceptions, Origins, Development, and True Purpose by Hermann Bayer
RRP: €21.41Booksplease Price: €15.68Genuine karate is an Okinawan martial art for self-defense; its ongoing globalization has jeopardized its inherent effectiveness. "The changes made to karate in mainland Japan and in America have... -
Analysis of Genuine Karate: Misconceptions, Origins, Development, and True Purpose Hermann Bayer 9781594399336
RRP: €33.31Booksplease Price: €24.10Genuine karate is an Okinawan martial art for self-defense; its ongoing globalization has jeopardized its inherent effectiveness. "The changes made to karate in mainland Japan and in America have... -
Analysis of Genuine Karate 2: Sociocultural Development, Commercialization, and Loss of Essential Knowledge by Hermann Bayer 9781594399244
RRP: €21.41Booksplease Price: €20.53AWARDS FINALIST-Sports, Best Book Awards, 2023 Genuine Okinawan Karate was developed as a fighting tool. Non-Okinawan Karate are for other purposes. Karate practitioners, scholars, and... -
Western Jihadism: A Thirty Year History by Jytte Klausen
RRP: €42.83Booksplease Price: €39.16This book tells the story of how Al Qaeda grew in the West. In forensic and compelling detail, Jytte Klausen traces how Islamist revolutionaries exiled in Europe and North America in the 1990s helped...