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Representation by David Runciman 9780745641591
Booksplease Price: $72.41What 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: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.15'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... -
Confronting Leviathan: A History of Ideas by David Runciman
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $11.15'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 9780521022637
RRP: $33.54Booksplease Price: $31.73Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The History of Ideas: Equality, Justice and Revolution David Runciman 9781800815926
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $11.15'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... -
Where Power Stops: The Making and Unmaking of Presidents and Prime Ministers by David Runciman
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55Lyndon 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... -
Political Hypocrisy: The Mask of Power, from Hobbes to Orwell and Beyond, Revised Edition by David Runciman 9780691180854
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $14.68What 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 Confidence Trap: A History of Democracy in Crisis from World War I to the Present - Revised Edition by David Runciman 9780691178134
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $15.09Why 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: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91We 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... -
The Silence of Animals: On Progress and Other Modern Myths by John Gray
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.91The 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... -
Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World by Fareed Zakaria
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.18From 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,... -
From Global To Local: The making of things and the end of globalisation by Finbarr Livesey
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.55For 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... -
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From Global To Local: The making of things and the end of globalisation by Finbarr Livesey 9781781256596 [USED COPY]
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $2.58For 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 Government of No One: The Theory and Practice of Anarchism by Ruth Kinna
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $8.51'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... -
Against Elections: The Case for Democracy by David van Reybrouck
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.51Democracy 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 Internationalists: And Their Plan to Outlaw War by Oona Hathaway
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.03'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 9781526607232
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.97'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 New Breed: How to Think About Robots by Kate Darling
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26'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... -
The Responsible Globalist: What Citizens of the World Can Learn from Nationalism by Hassan Damluji
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $19.66'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... -
It's OK To Be Angry About Capitalism by Bernie Sanders 9781802063110
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $9.98THE 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... -
Tyranny of the Minority: How to Reverse an Authoritarian Turn, and Forge a Democracy for All Steven Levitsky 9780241996584
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26THE 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... -
Values, Voice and Virtue: The New British Politics by Matthew Goodwin
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91*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 -... -
The Responsible Globalist: What Citizens of the World Can Learn from Nationalism by Hassan Damluji 9780141988856
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.18'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... -
Nervous States: How Feeling Took Over the World by William Davies
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.98A 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... -
Democracy Rules by Jan-Werner Muller
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.91'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'... -
Free: Coming of Age at the End of History by Lea Ypi
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $9.98THE 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... -
If Then: How Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future by Jill Lepore
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $15.20The Simulmatics Corporation, founded in 1959, mined data, targeted voters, accelerated news, manipulated consumers, destabilized politics, and disordered knowledge-decades before Facebook, Amazon,... -
The Science of Fate: The New Science of Who We Are - And How to Shape our Best Future Hannah Critchlow 9781473659285
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $18.64The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller'A truly fascinating - if unnerving - read'The Telegraph'We can all benefit from Critchlow's book'New Scientist'Acute, mind-opening, highly accessible - this book... -
JFK's Last Hundred Days: An Intimate Portrait of a Great President by Thurston Clarke 9780141048079
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.98'Poignant, fascinating, entertaining and informative ... reminds us exactly how much did happen in that time span and of how many tantalising hints he left behind' Financial Times'Brilliantly... -
Gray's Anatomy: Selected Writings by John Gray
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.03'The most prescient of British public intellectuals' Pankaj Mishra, Financial TimesUpdated with a new foreword and two new chapters of John Gray's writing.Why is progress a pernicious myth? Why do... -
If Then: How One Data Company Invented the Future Jill Lepore 9781529386172
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.55Radio 4's Book of the WeekA Financial Times Book of the YearShortlisted for the 2020 Financial Times / McKinsey Business Book of the YearLonglisted for the National Book Award 'The story of the... -
If Then: How One Data Company Invented the Future Jill Lepore 9781529386158
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $18.77Radio 4's Book of the WeekA Financial Times Book of the YearShortlisted for the 2020 Financial Times / McKinsey Business Book of the YearLonglisted for the National Book Award 'The story of the... -
The Games: A Global History of the Olympics by David Goldblatt 9780393355512
Booksplease Price: $34.64A Boston Globe Best Book of the Year A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year The Games is best-selling sportswriter David Goldblatt's sweeping, definitive history of the modern Olympics... -
The Science of Fate: The New Science of Who We Are - And How to Shape our Best Future Hannah Critchlow 9781473659315
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.23**THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**'A truly fascinating - if unnerving - read'DAILY TELEGRAPH'Acute, mind-opening, highly accessible - this book doesn't just explain how our lives might pan out, it helps... -
How Democracies Die: The International Bestseller: What History Reveals About Our Future by Steven Levitsky
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26'The most important book of the Trump era' The EconomistHow does a democracy die? What can we do to save our own? What lessons does history teach us? In the 21st century democracy is threatened like... -
Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalisation of Democracy by Francis Fukuyama
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.55In The Origins of Political Order, Francis Fukuyama took us from the dawn of mankind to the French and American Revolutions. Here, he picks up the thread again in the second instalment of his... -
Democracy Hacked: How Technology is Destabilising Global Politics by Martin Moore
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.18Technology has fractured democracy, and now there's no going back. All around the world, the fringes have stormed the palace of the elites and unleashed data miners, dark ads and bots on an... -
The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power by Max Chafkin 9781526619570
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $11.49A biography of venture capitalist and entrepreneur Peter Thiel, the enigmatic, controversial and hugely influential power broker who sits at the dynamic intersection of tech, business and politics ... -
Together: The Rituals, Pleasures and Politics of Cooperation by Richard Sennett
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.91Living with people who differ - racially, ethnically, religiously or economically - is one of the most urgent challenges facing civil society today. Together argues that co-operation needs more than... -
The Age of Football: The Global Game in the Twenty-first Century by David Goldblatt 9781509854271
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $17.58The epic exploration of football in the twenty-first century through the prism of sociology, politics, and economics, by David Goldblatt, the critically acclaimed author of The Ball is Round.'David...