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Soundtrack of the Revolution: The Politics of Music in Iran by Nahid Siamdoust
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.14Music was one of the first casualties of the Iranian Revolution. It was banned in 1979, but it quickly crept back into Iranian culture and politics. The state made use of music for its propaganda... -
Young Criminal Lives: Life Courses and Life Chances from 1850 by Barry Godfrey 9780198788492
Booksplease Price: £78.80Young Criminal Lives is the first cradle-to-grave study of the experiences of some of the thousands of delinquent, difficult and destitute children passing through the early English juvenile... -
Bernard Shaw, W. T. Stead, and the New Journalism: Whitechapel, Parnell, Titanic, and the Great War by Nelson O'Ceallaigh Ritschel 9783319490069
Booksplease Price: £90.56This book explores Bernard Shaw's journalism from the mid-1880s through the Great War-a period in which Shaw contributed some of the most powerful and socially relevant journalism the western world... -
Overcoming: The powerful, compelling, award-winning memoir Vicky Phelan 9781529318715
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.49Sunday Times Memoir of the Year 2019An Post Irish Book of the Year 2019When Vicky Phelan delivered an emotionally charged statement from the steps of the Four Courts in April 2018 - having refused to... -
States, Banks and Crisis: Emerging Finance Capitalism in Mexico and Turkey Thomas Marois 9780857938572
Booksplease Price: £116.18Thomas Marois' groundbreaking interpretation of banking and development in Mexico and Turkey builds on a Marxian-inspired framework premised on understanding states and banks as social relationships... -
Inventing Ourselves Out of Jobs?: America's Debate over Technological Unemployment, 1929-1981 by Amy Bix
Booksplease Price: £30.06Americans today often associate scientific and technological change with progress and personal well-being. Yet underneath our confident assumptions lie serious questions. In Inventing Ourselves Out... -
In Praise of Litigation by Alexandra Lahav 9780190079062
Booksplease Price: £16.21While the right to have one's day in court is a cherished feature of the American democratic system, alarms that the United States is hopelessly litigious and awash in frivolous claims have become... -
Collected Poems by Galway Kinnell
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.72In a remarkable generation of poets, Galway Kinnell was an acknowledged, true master. From the book-length poem memorialising the grit, beauty, and swarming assertion of immigrant life along a lower... -
Being Subordinate Men: Paul's Rhetoric of Gender and Power in 1 Corinthians by Brian J Robinson 9781978703353
Booksplease Price: £37.81Being Subordinate Men offers a gender critical examination of Paul's use of gender and power in the argument of 1 Corinthians. By elevating femininity and misperforming masculinity, Paul consistently... -
In Praise of Litigation by Alexandra Lahav
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £31.50While the right to have one's day in court is a cherished feature of the American democratic system, alarms that the United States is hopelessly litigious and awash in frivolous claims have become so... -
Arbitrary Justice: The Power of the American Prosecutor by Angela J. Davis 9780195177367
RRP: £105.00Booksplease Price: £77.29Inscribed on the walls of the United States Department of Justice are the lofty words: "The United States wins its point whenever justice is done its citizens in the courts." Yet what happens when... -
Exporting Security: International Engagement, Security Cooperation, and the Changing Face of the US Military by Derek S. Reveron 9781626163324
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £26.12In this thoroughly updated second edition, Derek S. Reveron provides a comprehensive analysis of the shift in US foreign policy from coercive diplomacy to cooperative military engagement. The US... -
Exporting Security: International Engagement, Security Cooperation, and the Changing Face of the US Military by Derek S. Reveron 9781626162693
Booksplease Price: £74.78In this thoroughly updated second edition, Derek S. Reveron provides a comprehensive analysis of the shift in US foreign policy from coercive diplomacy to cooperative military engagement. The US... -
Touring and Publicizing England's Country Houses in the Long Eighteenth Century by Dr. Jocelyn Anderson
Booksplease Price: £31.31Over the course of the long 18th century, many of England's grandest country houses became known for displaying noteworthy architecture and design, large collections of sculptures and paintings, and... -
The Power of Voice: A Guide to Making Yourself Heard by Denise Woods
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.26Foreword by Academy Award-winner Mahershala Ali"A comprehensive masterpiece. . . . Throughout the course of my life, I have struggled to be heard. With Denise's insightful tutelage and easy-to-apply... -
Soldiers of God in a Secular World: Catholic Theology and Twentieth-Century French Politics by Sarah Shortall
Booksplease Price: £35.99Winner of a Catholic Media Association Book AwardA revelatory account of the nouvelle theologie, a clerical movement that revitalized the Catholic Church's role in twentieth-century French political... -
Resurgence of Nuclear Power: Challenges and Opportunities for Asia by Nandakumar Janardhanan 9789811352973
Booksplease Price: £90.72This book focuses on the issue of 'resurgence of nuclear power' and discusses the feasibility of nuclear in the energy mix of Asian economies. It discusses nuclear energy sector in detail in the... -
Resurgence of Nuclear Power: Challenges and Opportunities for Asia by Girijesh Pant 9789811050282
Booksplease Price: £90.56This book focuses on the issue of 'resurgence of nuclear power' and discusses the feasibility of nuclear in the energy mix of Asian economies. It discusses nuclear energy sector in detail in the... -
Routledge Handbook of Character Assassination and Reputation Management Sergei A. Samoilenko 9781032081779
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £44.37In modern politics as well as in historical times, character attacks abound. Words and images, like symbolic and psychological weapons, have sullied or destroyed numerous reputations. People mobilize... -
Prophecy without Contempt: Religious Discourse in the Public Square by Cathleen Kaveny
RRP: £25.95Booksplease Price: £22.33American culture warriors have plenty to argue about, but battles over such issues as abortion and torture have as much to do with rhetorical style as moral substance. Cathleen Kaveny reframes the... -
In a Bad State: Responding to State and Local Budget Crises by David Schleicher 9780197629154
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £19.56An authoritative review of the long history of federal responses to state and local budget crises, from Alexander Hamilton through the COVID-19 pandemic, that reveals what is at stake when a state or... -
Strategic Narratives: Communication Power and the New World Order by Alister Miskimmon 9780415721882
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37Communication is central to how we understand international affairs. Political leaders, diplomats, and citizens recognize that communication shapes global politics. This has only been amplified in a... -
Quiet Revolutionaries: The Married Women's Association and Family Law by Sharon Thompson 9781509929412
Booksplease Price: £105.96This book tells the untold story of the Married Women's Association. Unlike more conventional histories of family law, which focus on legal actors, it highlights the little-known yet indispensable... -
The Power and the Money: The Epic Clashes Between Commanders in Chief and Titans of Industry Tevi Troy 9781684515400
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £16.84When U.S. presidents clash with corporate titans, what tips the balance of power? In The Power and the Money, acclaimed presidential historian Tevi Troy takes readers on a riveting journey through... -
Inside the Equal Access to Justice Act: Environmental Litigation and the Crippling Battle over America's Lands, Endangered Species, and Critical Habitats by Lowell E. Baier 9781538142776
Booksplease Price: £40.10Next Generation INDIE Book Awards Grand Prize Winner, Best Non-Fiction Book in 2017; and Winner in the Science/Nature/Environment category Finalist for Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards in... -
Administrative Law and The Administrative Court in Wales David C. Gardner 9781783169320
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £67.65As we progress into the twenty-first century, Wales is acquiring a new identity and greater legislative autonomy. The National Assembly and the Welsh Government have power to create laws specifically... -
Popular Culture and Social Change: The Hidden Work of Public Relations Kate Fitch (Murdoch University, Australia) 9780367559403
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94Popular Culture and Social Change: The Hidden Work of Public Relations argues the complicated and contradictory relationship between public relations, popular culture and social change is a neglected... -
The Danger Imperative: Violence, Death, and the Soul of Policing by Michael Sierra-Arévalo 9780231198479
Booksplease Price: £23.69Winner, 2024 Distinguished Book Award, Sociology of Law Section, American Sociological AssociationPolicing is violent. And its violence is not distributed equally: stark racial disparities persist... -
New Democracy: The Creation of the Modern American State by William J. Novak
Booksplease Price: £32.59The activist state of the New Deal started forming decades before the FDR administration, demonstrating the deep roots of energetic government in America.In the period between the Civil War and the...