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A Rich Harvest of Bitter Fruit: CIA–MI6 Covert Action in Communist Albania at the Birth of the Cold War by Stephen Long 9781837732241
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $36.98In June 1949, the US and British governments secretly agreed to mount a joint covert action operation to overthrow the communist government in Albania. The top-secret plan would use exiled dissidents... -
Policing Unrest: On the Front Lines of the Ferguson Protests by Tammy Rinehart Kochel 9781479807369
RRP: $54.58Booksplease Price: $47.67An up-close account of policing during the Ferguson protests, providing insights from both police officers and members of the community Policing Unrest presents the frontline experiences of police... -
Wolf & Parchment: New Theory Spice & Wolf, Vol. 5 (Light Novel) by Isuna Hasekura
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $18.14After defusing another flashpoint in the ongoing fracas between the Winfiel Kingdom and the Church, Col and Myuri are more than ready to take a breather. Of course, the world has other plans for... -
Time Past by Maxine McArthur 9780446609647
RRP: $44.08Booksplease Price: $35.66Picking up where Time Future - the first book in the series - left off, Halley finds herself thrown back in time to 21st-century Australia, where her only hope of returning home is to await first... -
Somali Piracy and Terrorism in the Horn of Africa by Christopher L. Daniels 9780810886940
Booksplease Price: $91.90The first contribution to Global Flashpoints: A Scarecrow Press Series, Christopher Daniels' Somali Piracy and Terrorism in the Horn of Africa provides readers with a comprehensive and in-depth... -
Patients Making Meaning: Theorizing Sources of Information and Forms of Support in Women’s Health by Bryna Siegel Finer 9781032503943
Booksplease Price: $126.17This book explores how women make meaning at various health flashpoints in their lives, overcoming fear, anxiety, and anger to draw upon self-advocacy, research, and crucial decision-making.Combining... -
Absolute Batman and Son by Grant Morrison by Grant Morrison 9781779527363
RRP: $285.60Booksplease Price: $199.48From the inspired minds of comics legend Grant Morrison (Action Comics, All-Star Superman) and artists Andy Kubert (Flashpoint), J.H. Williams III (Batwoman), and Tony S. Daniel (Detective Comics)... -
Weimar Controversies – Explorations in Popular Culture with Siegfried Kracauer by Fisher, Peter S.
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $60.23In the Weimar Republic, popular culture was the scene of heated controversies that tested the limits of national cohesion. How could marginal figures like a stigmatized villager, a grub street... -
Time Future by Maxine McArthur 9780446609630
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $34.04In this richly realised universe of enigmatic aliens and complex politics, one woman must untangle interlocking mysteries in a race against time. Halley, commander of the deep space station Jocasta,... -
Russo-ukrainian War: Implications For The Asia Pacific by Steven Rosefielde 9789811274879
RRP: $231.00Booksplease Price: $203.11Russo-Ukrainian War: Implications for the Asia Pacific explores the implications of the Russo-Ukrainian war for American and Chinese engagement in the Asia Pacific. It interprets Russia's invasion of... -
Extracting Innovations: Mining, Energy, and Technological Change in the Digital Age by Martin J. Clifford 9780367657246
RRP: $111.28Booksplease Price: $105.40This book considers the most contemporary innovations propelling the extractive industries forward while also creating new environmental and social challenges. The socio-ecological fabric of... -
International Politics in the Arctic: Contested Borders, Natural Resources and Russian Foreign Policy by Geir Honneland 9780755601110
Booksplease Price: $77.32As the ice around the Arctic landmass recedes, the territory is becoming a flashpoint in world affairs. New trade routes, cutting thousands of miles off journeys, are available, and the Arctic is... -
The Limits Of Privacy by Amitai Etzioni 9780465040902
RRP: $44.08Booksplease Price: $43.72Privacy is perhaps the most hallowed of American rights,and most people are concerned that new technologies available to governments and corporations threaten to erode this most privileged of rights... -
South Africa In Southern Africa: Reconfiguring The Region by David Simon 9780821412640
Booksplease Price: $61.76South Africa's release of Nelson Mandela from prison in February 1990 and the subsequent independence of nearby Namibia heralded other dramatic political and economic changes in southern Africa that... -
South Africa In Southern Africa: Reconfiguring The Region by David Simon 9780821412633
Booksplease Price: $111.24South Africa's release of Nelson Mandela from prison in February 1990 and the subsequent independence of nearby Namibia heralded other dramatic political and economic changes in southern Africa that... -
The Ends of Empire: The Last Colonies Revisited by John Connell 9789811559044
RRP: $146.98Booksplease Price: $139.15This book offers a fresh analysis of constitutional, economic, demographic and cultural developments in the overseas territories of Britain, France, the Netherlands, Denmark, Spain, the United... -
Change and Continuity in Early Modern Cosmology by Patrick Bonner 9789400734371
Booksplease Price: $193.16Viewed as a flashpoint of the Scientific Revolution, early modern astronomy witnessed a virtual explosion of ideas about the nature and structure of the world. This study explores these theories in a... -
The Revolution Will Be Spotified: Music as a Rhetorical Mode of Resistance by Triauna Carey 9781666946581
Booksplease Price: $169.53The Revolution Will Be Spotified investigates the rhetorical strategies present in mainstream popular music and how those strategies are implemented to empower resistance. Case studies across the... -
The Ends of Empire: The Last Colonies Revisited by John Connell 9789811559075
RRP: $146.98Booksplease Price: $130.77This book offers a fresh analysis of constitutional, economic, demographic and cultural developments in the overseas territories of Britain, France, the Netherlands, Denmark, Spain, the United... -
Teaching a Dark Chapter: History Books and the Holocaust in Italy and the Germanys by Daniela R. P. Weiner 9781501775437
RRP: $90.30Booksplease Price: $76.21Teaching a Dark Chapter explores how textbook narratives about the Fascist/Nazi past in Italy, East Germany, and West Germany followed relatively calm, undisturbed paths of little change until... -
A History of the Balkans 1804-1945 by Stevan K. Pavlowitch 9780582045842
Booksplease Price: $132.49The Balkans have often been a flashpoint of conflict in European history. The recent civil war has torn the country apart and the region faces an uncertain future. This authoritative study provides... -
Writing to Save a Life by John Edgar Wideman
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.35When Emmett Till was murdered aged fourteen for allegedly whistling at a white woman, photographs of his destroyed face became a flashpoint in the civil rights movement. A decade earlier Emmett's... -
Paterson, 1913: A Labor Strike in the Progressive Era by Mary Jane Treacy 9780393533026
Booksplease Price: $46.83Paterson, 1913 is designed to be played during the time typically devoted to teaching the Progressive Era in the U.S. history survey course. Set in America's "Silk City", Paterson, New Jersey, the... -
Convergence Points: Climate Change and Geopolitical Futures Duraid Jalili 9781788219396
Booksplease Price: $66.19Competing visions of the future are at the heart of debates on climate change. The daunting scale and characteristics of climate risks have led to terrifying prophesies of societal breakdown and... -
Sexual History Evidence And The Rape Trial Joanne Conaghan (University of Bristol) 9781529207828
RRP: $62.98Booksplease Price: $56.78The use of a rape victim's sexual history as evidence attracted intense public attention after the acquittal of footballer Ched Evans in 2017. Set within the context of a criminal justice system... -
Sexual History Evidence And The Rape Trial Joanne Conaghan (University of Bristol) 9781529207811
RRP: $168.00Booksplease Price: $138.71The use of a rape victim's sexual history as evidence attracted intense public attention after the acquittal of footballer Ched Evans in 2017. Set within the context of a criminal justice system... -
Soviet and Post-Soviet Identities by Mark Bassin 9781107011175
Booksplease Price: $244.44Since the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, questions of identity have dominated the culture not only of Russia, but of all the countries of the former Soviet bloc. This timely collection examines the... -
A Spectrum of Modern Warfare by Ajay Singh 9788182747180
Booksplease Price: $51.45Traces the evolution of warfare over the past two centuries. It covers the momentous changes in warfare, both conventional and unconventional, and evaluates how unconventional warfare-which is the... -
Ascending China and the Hegemonic United States: Economically Based Cooperation or Strategic Power Politics? by Jörg Vogelmann 9783658316594
Booksplease Price: $236.08Jörg Vogelmann looks into one of the central political and economic relationships of the 21st century. The author finds Sino-U.S. ties marked by strong, slightly asymmetric (economic)... -
British Empire and the Literature of Rebellion: Revolting Bodies, Laboring Subjects by Sheshalatha Reddy 9783319576626
Booksplease Price: $169.51This book examines imperial and nationalist discourses surrounding three contemporaneous and unsuccessful mid-nineteenth-century colonial uprisings against the British Empire: the Sepoy Rebellion... -
Crowd Actions in Britain and France from the Middle Ages to the Modern World by Dr. Michael T. Davis 9780230203983
Booksplease Price: $97.82Crowd Actions in Britain and France from the Middle Ages to the Modern World explores the lively and often violent world of the crowd, examining some of the key flashpoints in the history of popular... -
The End of the Ottoman Empire, 1908-1923 by Alexander Lyon Macfie 9780582287631
Booksplease Price: $113.72The collapse of the Ottoman Empire is a key event in the shaping of our own times. From its ruins rose a whole map of new countries including Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and... -
New Suicide Squad Volume 3 Freedom by Sean Ryan 9781401262648 [USED COPY]
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $12.01Harley Quinn. Deadshot. Captain Boomerang. Some of the most dangerous villains in the DC Universe are now... our greatest hope for survival? Given the chance to repay for their sins, the members of... -
The China-Japan Conflict over the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands: Useful Rivalry by Anna Costa 9780367890582
RRP: $94.48Booksplease Price: $88.70This book examines the foreign and security policies adopted by China and Japan since the 1970s in their competition over the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands in the East China Sea. It charts the development... -
Green Lantern Vol. 1: Back in Action by Jeremy Adams 9781779525093
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $29.13Spinning out of the events of Dark Crisis, the Guardians of Oa at the heart of the Green Lantern Corps have quarantined Sector 2814, home of the planet Earth-and its champion along with it!A... -
Riots: An International Comparison by Matthew Moran 9781137571304
Booksplease Price: $117.85The past ten years have been marked by a series of high profile and heavily mediatised riots across the globe. From the overspill of racial tensions in Sydney to anti-police riots in London,... -
Raising the Eleventh Pillar: The Ratification Debate of 1788 by John Patrick Coby 9780393533033
Booksplease Price: $46.83Raising the Eleventh Pillar brings to life the debates surrounding ratification of the U.S. Constitution. Delegates to the New York State Ratifying Convention first debate the nature of... -
An American Phoenix: A History of Storer College from Slavery to Desegregation 1865-1955 by Dawne Raines Burke 9781940425771
RRP: $50.38Booksplease Price: $48.64In the first book-length study of Storer College, Dawne Raines Burke tells the story of the historically black institution from its Reconstruction origins to its demise in 1955. Established by... -
Matters of Principle: Legitimate Legal Argument and Constitutional Interpretation by Richard S. Markovits 9780814755136
Booksplease Price: $190.83The United States is generally believed to be a liberal, rights-based culture. In such a society, according to Richard S. Markovits, arguments of moral principle dominate legal discourse. Markovits... -
Embers of Empire in Brexit Britain by Professor Stuart Ward 9781350113800
Booksplease Price: $179.87While the British Empire is long gone, it survives as a recurring flashpoint in heated debates about the present and future of Britain and the nations over which Britain once ruled. Embers of Empire...