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Contemporary West Asia: Perspectives on Change and Continuity by Sujata Ashwarya 9781032654065
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.54This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the complexities of change and continuity in West Asia, its society, religion and politics. An overview of the region's political, social and economic... -
The Soviet Bloc And The Third World: The Political Economy Of East-South Relations by Brigitte Schulz
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24This volume deals with the nature of the relationship between the countries of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union and those of the Third World, offering some background to the decline in the Soviet... -
Russia's International Relations in the Twentieth Century by Alastair Kocho-Williams
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89Russia has long been a major player in the international relations arena, but only by examining the whole century can Russian foreign policy be properly understood, and the key questions as to the... -
The Cold War: A Post-Cold War History by Ralph B. Levering 9781118848401
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £23.51Now available in a fully revised and updated third edition, The Cold War: A Post-Cold War History offers an authoritative and accessible introduction to the history and enduring legacy of the Cold... -
A Nuclear-weapon-free World: Desirable? Feasible? by Joseph Rotblat 9780367159535
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94This book provides an outline of the essential provisions of a nuclear-weapon-free world treaty and the inevitable problems of enforcement. It presents the study and debates in wide sectors of the... -
The End Of Superpower Conflict In The Third World by Melvin A Goodman
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94This book describes the efforts of the United States and the former Soviet Union to resolve regional confrontations. It examines Gorbachev's inheritance in Latin America regarding Soviet-U.S... -
Technology And Change In Eastwest Relations by F. Stephen Larrabee
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24This volume is based on a series of papers delivered at the conference by specialists from the United States and both Eastern and Western Europe. It argues that arms control must shift its focus from... -
Israel Under Rabin by Robert O Freedman
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £29.81The 1992 elections represented a watershed in Israeli politics. Returning to power for the first time in fifteen years, the Labor government, under Yitzhak Rabin, has implemented significant changes... -
Soviet/east European Survey, 19871988: Selected Research And Analysis From Radio Free Europe/radio Liberty by Vojtech Mastny
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £87.59This book presents fifty analytical reports of Soviet/East European survey by the research staff of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in Munich, focusing on the main events and trends in the Soviet... -
Critical Thinking: Learning from Mistakes and How to Prevent Them by Gerald J. Watson Jr.
RRP: £69.99Booksplease Price: £64.33Mistakes occur for many reasons. This book takes a hands-on approach to the reasons mistakes happen, analyzes the actual mistakes, and develops a strategy to reduce them. This book proposes error... -
The Soviet Union under Brezhnev by William J. Tompson 9780582327191
Booksplease Price: £42.60The Soviet Union Under Brezhnev provides an accessible post-Soviet perspective on the history of the USSR from the mid-1960's to the mid-1980's. It challenges both the 'evil empire' image of the USSR... -
Israel Under Rabin by Robert O Freedman 9780367009595
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £83.78The 1992 elections represented a watershed in Israeli politics. Returning to power for the first time in fifteen years, the Labor government, under Yitzhak Rabin, has implemented significant changes... -
Winners and Losers on the Russian Road to Capitalism by Bertram Silverman 9781563247057
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £37.99Aiming to explain many Russians' ambivalence to recent changes, this work examines the unequal distribution of the costs and benefits of reform, its impact on the socioeconomic structure of the... -
Restoration of Class Society in Russia? by Jouko Nikula
RRP: £33.99Booksplease Price: £31.19This title was first published in 2002: Advancing the understanding of a transition society, this book presents an in-depth analysis of social structures in modern Russia. Using unique survey data... -
The 20th Century: A Retrospective Choi Chatterjee 9780813326917
RRP: £76.99Booksplease Price: £71.44This book is a collage of human experiences made from overlapping pieces and woven together by themes of crises, revolution, and change, aiming to raise issues that people in the twentieth-century... -
Public Opinion in the United States: Studies of Race, Religion, Gender, and Issues That Matter by Rita J. Simon 9781138513792
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £29.49Public Opinion in the United States tracks developments in American society since World War II through the lens of public opinion. The authors assess national public opinion poll data from 1945 to... -
Public Opinion in the United States: Studies of Race, Religion, Gender, and Issues That Matter by Rita J. Simon 9781412811576
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £83.04Public Opinion in the United States tracks developments in American society since World War II through the lens of public opinion. The authors assess national public opinion poll data from 1945 to... -
Eastern Europe Since 1970: Decline of Socialism to Post-Communist Transition by Bulent Gokay 9780582328587
RRP: £51.99Booksplease Price: £51.04From the hardening grip of Soviet domination under Brezhnev to the collapse of communism and its aftermath, Bulent Gokay provides the essential introduction to Eastern Europe in the last quarter of... -
Fallen Walls: Prisoners of Conscience in South Africa and Czechoslovakia by Jan K. Coetzee 9780765802293
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £83.78This collection of prison writings straddles two continents, and compares and contrasts the political struggles that gave birth to two vibrant new democracies of the twenty-first century: South... -
Cultural Chauvinism: Intercultural Communication and Superiority by MINABERE IBELEMA
Booksplease Price: £60.08This book explores the concept of cultural chauvinism as the sense of superiority that ethnic or national groups have of themselves relative to others, particularly in the context of international... -
Gender Politics and Post-Communism: Reflections from Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union by Nanette Funk
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £34.89In the wake of communism's decline, women's concerns had become increasingly important in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Yet most discussions of post-communism changes had neglected... -
INSDE ISO 14000: The Competitive Advantage of Environmental Management by Donald Alford Sayre 9781574440287
RRP: £73.99Booksplease Price: £67.74The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has a master scheme in mind for the protection and preservation of the environment, for sustainable development of life and improving the... -
US Imperialism: The Changing Dynamics of Global Power by James Petras
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69This book offers a broad and deep examination of the dynamics of US imperialism. Petras analyzes imperialism not only as economic domination, showing that its impact in the world takes many forms,... -
The Challenge of Abolishing Nuclear Weapons by David Krieger
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £43.94In the more than sixty years since the advent of nuclear weapons, there has been little meaningful progress toward nuclear disarmament. Some countries have nuclear weapons, while other states are... -
AIDS in Soviet Russia: A Story of Deception, Despair and Hope Rustam Alexander 9781526185327
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £15.28The first book to tell the shocking story of the AIDS crisis in Soviet Russia.Throughout the 1980s, as the world was grappling with the escalating crisis of AIDS, Soviet Russia continued to deny... -
Challenges Of Verification: Smaller States And Arms Control by Heinz Gaertner 9780367163334
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £48.18This book explores the possibilities for the smaller nations of Europe to make positive contributions to the verification of reductions in conventional forces and arms, a chemical weapons convention... -
The Post Cold War World: Turbulence and Change in World Politics Since the Fall Michael Cox (London School of Economics & Political Science, London, UK) 9780815351719
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69This book by a leading scholar of international relations examines the origins of the new world disorder - the resurgence of Russia, the rise of populism in the West, deep tensions in the Atlantic... -
Retreating from the Cold War: Germany, Russia and the Withdrawal of the Western Group of Forces by D. Cox 9781349395989
Booksplease Price: £46.28Retreating from the Cold War looks at the Soviet, and later Russian, military withdrawal from what was East Germany. It focuses on the central role of these Soviet troops in the historic events that... -
Central Asia: A New History from the Imperial Conquests to the Present by Adeeb Khalid 9780691161396
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £27.90A major history of Central Asia and how it has been shaped by modern world eventsCentral Asia is often seen as a remote and inaccessible land on the peripheries of modern history. Encompassing... -
Central Asia: A New History from the Imperial Conquests to the Present by Adeeb Khalid 9780691235196
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.61A major history of Central Asia and how it has been shaped by modern world eventsCentral Asia is often seen as a remote and inaccessible land on the peripheries of modern history. Encompassing... -
Thatcher Graham Goodlad (St John's College Southsea, UK) 9781138015685
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Thatcher provides an accessible and scholarly introduction to the personality and career of Britain's first female political leader and the twentieth century's longest serving Prime Minister... -
In the Soviet House of Culture: A Century of Perestroikas by Bruce Grant
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £38.93At the outset of the twentieth century, the Nivkhi of Sakhalin Island were a small population of fishermen under Russian dominion and an Asian cultural sway. The turbulence of the decades that... -
A Memoir of the Missile Age: One Man's Journey by Vitaly Leonidovich Katayev 9780817914752
Booksplease Price: £20.07Vitaly Leonidovich Katayev was an eyewitness to history as he saw the arms race accelerating at an absurd and inexplicable pace, and he understood why. His perspective was from inside the Soviet... -
Soviet Socialism: Social and Political Essays by L.G. Churchward 9781032675848
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £29.49Soviet Socialism (1987) is based on the author’s specialized knowledge of many aspects of Soviet politics, including local government, the Communist Party and the Soviet intelligentsia. Written... -
So Far Out That He's in: Opinions from an Opinionated Journalist by Robert Winthrop, Sr. Curley 9781591025931
Booksplease Price: £15.44For thirty-three years Robert Curley worked as a reporter and photographer for newspapers in Rome, Oneida, and Syracuse, New York. In this colorful memoir he vividly recounts the many remarkable... -
A Carnival of Revolution: Central Europe 1989 by Padraic Kenney
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £38.93This is the first history of the revolutions that toppled communism in Europe to look behind the scenes at the grassroots movements that made those revolutions happen. It looks for answers not in the... -
Expert Political Judgment: How Good Is It? How Can We Know? - New Edition by Philip E. Tetlock 9780691175973
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.27Since its original publication, Expert Political Judgment by New York Times bestselling author Philip Tetlock has established itself as a contemporary classic in the literature on evaluating expert... -
Soviet Rock on Screen: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of a Film Genre Rita Safariants 9780299354800
RRP: £72.00Booksplease Price: £58.10As the Iron Curtain fell and Cold War suspicions thickened in the second half of the twentieth century, the quintessentially American genre of rock and roll, seen as a potent symbol and product of an... -
Religion in the Soviet Union: An Archival Reader by Felix Corley 9781349999750
Booksplease Price: £90.56The Soviet government's attitude to religion in theory and practice is shown in this wide-ranging collection of annotated texts from the newly-opened archives. Included are documents from the KGB,... -
Education for Young Adults: International Perspectives by Karen Evans
Booksplease Price: £110.08Originally published in 1991, this book gives international coverage of opportunities in youth development and education from a unique comparative angle. The book is split into two parts: the first...