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A Philanthropic Covenant with Black America by Rodney Jackson 9780470397923
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £21.85A Philanthropic Covenant will feature eight essays from several prominent African American grantmakers, scholars, activists and clergy that will examine critical elements of modern philanthropy and... -
Dangerous Doctrine: How Obama's Grand Strategy Weakened America by Robert G. Kaufman 9780813167206
Booksplease Price: £36.50Much like Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan, President Barack Obama came to office as a politician who emphasized conviction rather than consensus. During his 2008 presidential campaign, he pledged... -
Asian Designs: Governance in the Contemporary World Order by Saadia M. Pekkanen 9781501700514
RRP: £116.00Booksplease Price: £93.32Asian nations are no longer "rising" powers in the world order; they have risen. How will they conduct themselves in world politics? How will they deploy their considerable and growing power... -
Environmental Soil Chemistry by Donald L. Sparks 9780443140341
RRP: £53.99Booksplease Price: £52.31Environmental Soil Chemistry, Third Edition provides an up-to-date overview of the interdisciplinary field of environmental soil chemistry. This classic text covers the fundamental principles of soil... -
American Zeus: The Life of Alexander Pantages, Theater Mogul Taso G. Lagos 9781476668383
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.59Alexander Pantages was 13 when he arrived in the U.S. in the 1880s, after contracting malaria in Panama. He opened his first motion picture theater in 1902 and went on to build one of the... -
Borders of Equality: The NAACP and the Baltimore Civil Rights Struggle, 1914-1970 by Lee Sartain 9781617037511
RRP: £44.00Booksplease Price: £36.78As a border city Baltimore made an ideal arena to push for change during the civil rights movement. It was a city in which all forms of segregation and racism appeared vulnerable to attack by the... -
Elementary Tagalog Workbook: Tara, Mag-Tagalog Tayo! Come On, Let's Speak Tagalog! (Online Audio Download Included) Jiedson R. Domigpe 9780804845045
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.32Tara, Mag-Tagalog Tayo!Come On, Let's Speak Tagalog!Elementary Tagalog's comprehensive approach will help students master basic Tagalog (Filipino) without frustration. From learning to read Tagalog... -
Theology and the Soul of the Liberal State by Leonard V. Kaplan 9780739126189
Booksplease Price: £56.42Rising calls in both the United States and abroad for theologizing national agendas have renewed examinations about whether liberal states can accommodate such programs without either endangering... -
Paying for Progress in China: Public Finance, Human Welfare and Changing Patterns of Inequality Vivienne Shue 9780415487795
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24China's stunning record of economic development since the 1970s has been marred by an increasingly obvious gap between the country's 'haves' and its 'have-nots'. While people living in some parts of... -
Rethinking Fiscal Policy after the Crisis by Ludovit Odor 9781107160583
RRP: £110.00Booksplease Price: £107.38Before the financial crisis, fiscal policy often played a secondary role to monetary policy, with the manipulation of interest rates to hit inflation targets being the main instrument of... -
The Shape of the New: Four Big Ideas and How They Made the Modern World by Scott L. Montgomery
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £16.58This panoramic book tells the story of how revolutionary ideas from the Enlightenment about freedom, equality, evolution, and democracy have reverberated through modern history and shaped the world... -
Rethinking Fiscal Policy after the Crisis by Ludovit Odor
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £39.51Before the financial crisis, fiscal policy often played a secondary role to monetary policy, with the manipulation of interest rates to hit inflation targets being the main instrument of... -
The Shape of the New: Four Big Ideas and How They Made the Modern World by Scott L. Montgomery 9780691150642
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £26.01This panoramic book tells the story of how revolutionary ideas from the Enlightenment about freedom, equality, evolution, and democracy have reverberated through modern history and shaped the world... -
Paying for Progress in China: Public Finance, Human Welfare and Changing Patterns of Inequality by Vivienne Shue 9780415422543
RRP: £99.99Booksplease Price: £90.68China's stunning record of economic development since the 1970s has been marred by an increasingly obvious gap between the country's 'haves' and its 'have-nots'. While people living in some parts of... -
Machiavelli's Three Romes: Religion, Human Liberty, and Politics Reformed by Vickie B. Sullivan, IV 9781501747847
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.78Machiavelli's ambiguous treatment of religion has fueled a contentious and long-standing debate among scholars. Whereas some insist that Machiavelli is a Christian, others maintain he is a pagan... -
The Oxford Handbook of Electoral Systems by Erik S. Herron 9780197564714
Booksplease Price: £55.63No subject is more central to the study of politics than elections. All across the globe, elections are a focal point for citizens, the media, and politicians long before--and sometimes long... -
The Routledge International Handbook of Disability Human Rights Hierarchies Stephen Meyers 9781032530840
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £48.18Disability is defined by hierarchy. Regardless of culture or context, persons with disabilities are almost always pushed to the bottom of the social hierarchy.With the advent of the Convention on the... -
The Global Governance of Food by Sara R. Curran 9780415590853
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £54.98Food provides a particularly exciting and grounded research site for understanding the mechanisms governing global transactions in the 21st century. While food is intimately and fundamentally related... -
Managing Risk in Nonprofit Organizations: A Comprehensive Guide by Melanie L. Herman 9780471236740
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £79.10Managing Risk in Nonprofit Organizations explains and defines risk management, especially as it applies to nonprofits. It provides comprehensive guidance on such topics as identifying risk,... -
America's Mission: The United States and the Worldwide Struggle for Democracy - Expanded Edition by Tony Smith 9780691154923
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.99America's Mission argues that the global strength and prestige of democracy today are due in large part to America's impact on international affairs. Tony Smith documents the extraordinary history of... -
Camera Power: Proof, Policing, Privacy, and Audiovisual Big Data by Mary D. Fan 9781108407540
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £22.92Camera Power is the first book to tackle the policy questions raised by two ongoing revolutions in recording the police: copwatching and police-worn body cameras. Drawing on original research from... -
The Everyday Life of the State: A State-in-Society Approach by Adam White 9780295992556
RRP: £107.95Booksplease Price: £102.69Today there are more states controlling more people than at any other point in history. We live in a world shaped by the authority of the state. Yet the complexion of state authority is patchy and... -
Political Development and the New Realism in Sub-Saharan Africa by David E. Apter 9780813914794
Booksplease Price: £43.83Since the 1950s David Apter and Carl Rosberg have been among the leading American scholars in African studies. In this volume they, along with other specialists in the field, explore the new... -
Weapons of the Wealthy: Predatory Regimes and Elite-Led Protests in Central Asia by Scott Radnitz
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £23.99Mass mobilization is among the most dramatic and inspiring forces for political change. When ordinary citizens take to the streets in large numbers, they can undermine and even topple undemocratic... -
Reprogramming Japan: The High Tech Crisis under Communitarian Capitalism by Marie Anchordoguy
RRP: £33.00Booksplease Price: £27.10How have state policies influenced the development of Japan's telecommunications, computer hardware, computer software, and semiconductor industries and their stagnation since the 1990s? Marie... -
The End of the West?: Crisis and Change in the Atlantic Order by Jeffrey J. Anderson 9780801474002
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £17.24The past several years have seen strong disagreements between the U.S. government and many of its European allies. News accounts of these challenges focus on isolated incidents and points of... -
Expect Us: Online Communities and Political Mobilization by Jessica L. Beyer 9780199330768
Booksplease Price: £39.56People use online social forums for all sorts of reasons, including political conversations, regardless of the site's main purpose. But what leads some of these people to take their online political... -
Derrida, Deleuze, Psychoanalysis by Gabriele Schwab 9780231143080
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £89.80Derrida, Deleuze, Psychoanalysis explores the critical relationship between psychoanalysis and the work of Derrida (Speech and Phenomena, Of Grammatology, and his later writing on autoimmunity,... -
The End of the West?: Crisis and Change in the Atlantic Order by Jeffrey J. Anderson 9780801446399
RRP: £116.00Booksplease Price: £56.85The past several years have seen strong disagreements between the U.S. government and many of its European allies, largely due to the deployment of NATO forces in Afghanistan and the commitment of... -
Derrida, Deleuze, Psychoanalysis by Gabriele Schwab 9780231143097
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £24.18Derrida, Deleuze, Psychoanalysis explores the critical relationship between psychoanalysis and the work of Derrida (Speech and Phenomena, Of Grammatology, and his later writing on autoimmunity,... -
Carl Maxey: A Fighting Life by Jim Kershner 9780295992310
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £23.78Carl Maxey was, in his own words, "a guy who started from scratch - black scratch." He was sent, at age five, to the scandal-ridden Spokane Children's Home and then kicked out at age eleven with the... -
Leading from Behind: Gender Equality in Germany During the Merkel Era Petra Ahrens 9781032408675
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69This book takes stock of German gender equality in several policy fields after 16 years of governments led by Angela Merkel and her conservative Christian Democratic Party (CDU). While maintaining... -
Asian Designs: Governance in the Contemporary World Order by Saadia M. Pekkanen
Booksplease Price: £27.10Asian nations are no longer "rising" powers in the world order; they have risen. How will they conduct themselves in world politics? How will they deploy their considerable and growing power... -
Network Sovereignty: Building the Internet across Indian Country by Marisa Elena Duarte
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £27.85In 2012, the United Nations General Assembly determined that affordable Internet access is a human right, critical to citizen participation in democratic governments. Given the significance of... -
Leading from Behind: Gender Equality in Germany During the Merkel Era by Petra Ahrens
RRP: £140.00Booksplease Price: £128.38This book takes stock of German gender equality in several policy fields after 16 years of governments led by Angela Merkel and her conservative Christian Democratic Party (CDU). While maintaining... -
Popular Opposition to Irish Home Rule in Edwardian Britain by Daniel Jackson 9781846311987
Booksplease Price: £47.59This book is a salutary reminder that the realities of British politics before 1914 were more complex and rather different from the 'whiggish' stereotypes about New Liberalism, and the rise of Labour... -
The Everyday Life of the State: A State-in-Society Approach by Adam White 9780295992563
RRP: £34.95Booksplease Price: £31.71Today there are more states controlling more people than at any other point in history. We live in a world shaped by the authority of the state. Yet the complexion of state authority is patchy and... -
Probability and Statistics for Engineering and the Sciences with Modeling using R by William P Fox
Booksplease Price: £110.39Probability and statistics courses are more popular than ever. Regardless of your major or your profession, you will most likely use concepts from probability and statistics often in your career. The... -
Why Wilson Matters: The Origin of American Liberal Internationalism and Its Crisis Today by Tony Smith 9780691171678
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £21.68The liberal internationalist tradition is credited with America's greatest triumphs as a world power--and also its biggest failures. Beginning in the 1940s, imbued with the spirit of Woodrow Wilson's... -
Last One Walking: The Life of Cherokee Community Leader Charlie Soap Greg Shaw 9780806194721
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.14You probably know the story of the late Wilma Mankiller, the first woman to serve as principal chief of the Cherokee Nation. You might not recognize the name of her husband, Charlie Soap, yet his...