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Representation by David Runciman 9780745641591
Booksplease Price: £56.13What is representation? What does it mean when a politician represents citizens in government? How can citizens be represented beyond the boundaries of the nation-state? These are just some of the... -
How Democracy Ends by David Runciman
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15'Scintillating ... thought-provoking ... one of the very best of the great crop of recent books on the subject.' Andrew Rawnsley, Observer Democracy has died hundreds of times, all over the world... -
Politics: Ideas in Profile by David Runciman
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.83Ideas in Profile: Small Introductions to Big Topics In the first title of an exciting new series one of the world's leading political scientists asks the big questions about politics: what is it,... -
Pluralism and the Personality of the State by David Runciman 9780521022637
RRP: £26.00Booksplease Price: £24.60Set against the broad context of philosophical arguments about group and state personality, Pluralism and the Personality of the State tells, for the first time, the history of political pluralism... -
Confronting Leviathan: A History of Ideas by David Runciman
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.15'Bracingly intelligent ... a wonderful read' Guardian 'Incredibly timely ... presented [with] wonderful elegance and clarity' Irish Times Based on the History Of Ideas podcast series by Talking... -
Pluralism and the Personality of the State by David Runciman 9780521551915
RRP: £104.00Booksplease Price: £94.41Set against the broad context of philosophical arguments about group and state personality, Pluralism and the Personality of the State tells, for the first time, the history of political pluralism... -
The History of Ideas: Equality, Justice and Revolution David Runciman 9781800815926
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.10'A splendid book: economical, invigorating and surprising' The Times 'He has that gift ... to illuminate abstruse and abstract ideas with human charm' Observer What can Samuel Butler's ideas... -
The History of Ideas: Equality, Justice and Revolution David Runciman 9781800815902
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £16.07'A splendid book: economical, invigorating and surprising' The Times 'He has that gift, both as a podcaster and as a writer, to illuminate abstruse and abstract ideas with human charm' Observer ... -
Where Power Stops: The Making and Unmaking of Presidents and Prime Ministers by David Runciman
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Lyndon Baines Johnson, Margaret Thatcher, Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, Barack Obama, Gordon Brown, Theresa May, and Donald Trump: each had different motivations, methods, and paths, but they all sought... -
The Handover: How We Gave Control of Our Lives to Corporations, States and AIs by David Runciman 9781631496943
Booksplease Price: £23.54Countless books, news reports, and opinion pieces have announced the impending arrival of artificial intelligence, with most claiming that it will upend our world, revolutionizing not just work but... -
The Handover: How We Gave Control of Our Lives to Corporations, States and AIs by David Runciman 9781788163675
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.75'The Singularity' is what Silicon Valley calls the idea that, eventually, we will be overrun by machines that are able to take decisions and act for themselves. What no one says is that it happened... -
The Handover: How We Gave Control of Our Lives to Corporations, States and AIs David Runciman 9781788163682
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15'The Singularity' is what Silicon Valley calls the idea that, eventually, we will be overrun by machines that are able to take decisions and act for themselves. What no one says is that it happened... -
Political Hypocrisy: The Mask of Power, from Hobbes to Orwell and Beyond, Revised Edition by David Runciman 9780691180854
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.18What kind of hypocrite should voters choose as their next leader? The question seems utterly cynical. But, as David Runciman suggests, it is actually much more cynical to pretend that politics can... -
The Handover: How We Gave Control of Our Lives to Corporations, States and AIs by David Runciman 9781324095590
Booksplease Price: £13.29Countless books, news reports, and opinion pieces have announced the impending arrival of artificial intelligence, with most claiming that it will upend our world, revolutionizing not just work but... -
The Confidence Trap: A History of Democracy in Crisis from World War I to the Present - Revised Edition by David Runciman 9780691178134
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.70Why do democracies keep lurching from success to failure? The current financial crisis is just the latest example of how things continue to go wrong, just when it looked like they were going right... -
Machiavelli: The Art of Teaching People What to Fear by Willard Wood
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23We turn to Machiavelli at every tumultuous period in history - he is the one who knows how to philosophize in dark times. In fact, since his death in 1527, we have never stopped reading him, always... -
Surviving Autocracy by Masha Gessen
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'An indispensable voice of and for this moment' Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny Many of us are consumed by news cycles reporting on Trump's latest astonishing policy or declaration, and the... -
The Silence of Animals: On Progress and Other Modern Myths by John Gray
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95The powerful, beautiful and chilling sequel to the bestselling Straw Dogs'By nature volatile and discordant, the human animal looks to silence for relief from being itself while other creatures enjoy... -
Against Elections: The Case for Democracy by David van Reybrouck
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15Democracy is in bad health. Against Elections offers a new diagnosis - and an ancient remedy.Fear-mongering populists, distrust in the establishment, personality contests instead of reasoned debate:... -
The System: Who Owns the Internet, and How It Owns Us by James Ball 9781526607232
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73'A fascinating expose of the world behind your screen. Timely, often disturbing, and so important' Caroline Criado Perez, author of Invisible Women 'Takes us beyond Zuckerberg, Bezos et al to a... -
The Government of No One: The Theory and Practice of Anarchism by Ruth Kinna
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'The standard book on anarchism for the twenty-first century. Written with brio, quiet insight and clarity' Carl LevyA magisterial study of the history and theory of one of the most controversial... -
From Global To Local: The making of things and the end of globalisation by Finbarr Livesey
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.37For the past thirty years or more, the global economy has been run based on three big assumptions: globalisation will continue to increase; trade is the route to growth and development; and economic... -
The Internationalists: And Their Plan to Outlaw War by Oona Hathaway
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.43'It will change the way you remember the 20th century and read the news in the 21st' Steven Pinker'A clarion call to preserve law and order across our planet' Philippe Sands'A fascinating and... -
The System: Who Owns the Internet, and How It Owns Us by James Ball
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £19.23'A fascinating expose of the world behind your screen. Timely, often disturbing, and so important' Caroline Criado Perez, author of Invisible Women 'Takes us beyond Zuckerberg, Bezos et al to a... -
On Tyranny (Graphic Edition) by Nora Krug
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.59A captivating graphic edition of Timothy Snyder's bestselling book of lessons for surviving and resisting the arc toward authoritarianism. Timothy Snyder's On Tyranny is one of the essential... -
The Responsible Globalist: What Citizens of the World Can Learn from Nationalism by Hassan Damluji
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.24'Thought provoking and well-written... a good read for people who care about solving global problems. Damluji puts forth ideas that can help make global systems more successful' - Bill Gates An... -
Values, Voice and Virtue: The New British Politics by Matthew Goodwin
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23*THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**A Financial Times 2023 book to watch*'Forceful ... The fundamental thrust of Goodwin's argument is right ... a new centre ground of British politics is being formed -... -
Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World by Fareed Zakaria
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.12From the international bestselling author of The Post-American World 'An intelligent, learned and judicious guide for a world already in the making' The New York TimesSince the end of the Cold War,... -
How to Stand Up to a Dictator: Radio 4 Book of the Week by Maria Ressa 9780753559215
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41WINNER OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE 2021 What will you sacrifice for the truth? Maria Ressa has spent decades speaking truth to power. But her work tracking disinformation networks seeded by her own... -
Adventures in Democracy: The Turbulent World of People Power by Erica Benner 9780241609750
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.47'A sparkling page-turner full of wit, original insight and unassuming erudition.' Katja Hoyer, GuardianDemocracy is a living, breathing thing and Erica Benner has spent a lifetime thinking about the... -
Adventures in Democracy: The Turbulent World of People Power Erica Benner 9781802061444
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'Sparkling . . . a page-turner full of wit, original insight and unassuming erudition' Guardian'Enjoyable vitality' The Times'Highly stimulating . . . wonderfully readable . . . her analysis of... -
It's OK To Be Angry About Capitalism by Bernie Sanders 9781802063110
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.74THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Galvanizing and uplifting' The Guardian'Bernie Sanders has changed US politics forever' Owen JonesIt's OK to be angry about capitalism. It's OK to want... -
Democracy Rules by Jan-Werner Muller
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'Lively. . . This is one of those rare books about a pressing subject that reads less like a forced march than an inviting stroll . . . A book that encourages thinking, observation and discernment'... -
Tyranny of the Minority: How to Reverse an Authoritarian Turn, and Forge a Democracy for All Steven Levitsky 9780241996584
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95THE MUCH-ANTICIPATED FOLLOW-UP TO INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER HOW DEMOCRACIES DIE - essential reading ahead of the 2024 US election'Tyranny of the Minority is an exceptional book, one of the best guides... -
The New Breed: How to Think About Robots by Kate Darling
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'A must read for anyone interested in the emerging ethics of robotics' Irene M. PepperbergA bold, optimistic exploration of the relationship between robots and humans based on our history with... -
Nervous States: How Feeling Took Over the World by William Davies
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16A dazzlingly original analysis of how emotions shape the times we are living in by one of Britain's most exciting thinkers'A masterpiece' New York Times'Insightful and well-written' Yuval Noah... -
Free: Coming of Age at the End of History by Lea Ypi
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £8.88THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE ONDAATJE PRIZE'The best book I read last year by a mile. . . so beautifully written that anyone would be hooked' Laura Hackett, Sunday Times, Best Summer... -
The Opinion of Mankind: Sociability and the Theory of the State from Hobbes to Smith by Paul Sagar 9780691191515
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21How David Hume and Adam Smith forged a new way of thinking about the modern stateWhat is the modern state? Conspicuously undertheorized in recent political theory, this question persistently animated... -
The Opinion of Mankind: Sociability and the Theory of the State from Hobbes to Smith by Paul Sagar 9780691178882
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £40.43How David Hume and Adam Smith forged a new way of thinking about the modern stateWhat is the modern state? Conspicuously undertheorized in recent political theory, this question persistently animated... -
Uncivil Mirth: Ridicule in Enlightenment Britain by Ross Carroll
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £34.35How the philosophers and polemicists of eighteenth-century Britain used ridicule in the service of religious toleration, abolition, and political justiceThe relaxing of censorship in Britain at the...