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Brand: Birlinn Ltd
The destruction of Pan Am Flight 103 over the Scottish town of Lockerbie in December 1988 was the largest attack on Britain since World War Two. 259 passengers and 11 townsfolk of Lockerbie were murdered. Libyan Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was convicted o..
20.94£
Brand: Princeton University Press
How political protests and activism influence voters and candidatesThe "silent majority"-a phrase coined by Richard Nixon in 1969 in response to Vietnam War protests and later used by Donald Trump as a campaign slogan-refers to the supposed wedge th..
17.05£
Brand: Manchester University Press
How has corruption shaped - and undermined - the history of public life in modern Britain? This collection begins the task of piecing together this history over the past two and a half centuries, from the first assaults on Old Corruption and aristoc..
101.10£
Brand: Columbia University Press
This book offers an accessible and compelling guide to the American presidency by exploring a series of key questions. How powerful is the American presidency, and to what extent is presidential power dependent on persuasion? Do the personal qualiti..
79.60£
Brand: Charles Scribner's Sons
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Written and designed by the staff of The Washington Post and illustrated by artist Jan Feindt, The Mueller Report Illustrated: The Obstruction Investigation brings to life the findings of special counsel Robert S. Mueller..
24.14£
Brand: Columbia University Press
Conventional wisdom positions the Bedouins in southern Palestine and under Israeli military rule as victims or passive recipients. In The Naqab Bedouins, Mansour Nasasra rewrites this narrative, presenting them as active agents who, in defending the..
31.58£
Turkey's enthusiastic embrace of the Arab Spring set in motion a dynamic that fundamentally altered its relations with the United States, Russia, Qatar, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Iran, and transformed Turkey from a soft powe..
135.28£
Brand: North Atlantic Books
An Evening Standard's Book of the Year 'A tour de force.' David Goodhart All over the West, party systems have shattered and governments have been thrown into turmoil. The embattled establishment claims that these populist insurgencies seek to overt..
12.53£
Brand: Harvard University Press
We are in the midst of an energy revolution, led by the United States. As the world's greatest producer of natural gas moves aggressively to expand its exports of liquefied natural gas (LNG), America stands poised to become an energy superpower-an u..
35.20£
Brand: Manchester University Press
For many western commentators, the electoral success of Poland's populist right-wing party Law and Justice (PiS) in 2015 came as a surprise. But even more shocking was what happened next. Without self-restraint, Jaroslaw Kaczynski's party started ta..
22.74£
Brand: Little Brown and Company
'A sober but devastating skewering of cancel culture and the moral certainties it shares with religious fundamentalism' Sunday TimesEngaging, incisive and acute, The New Puritans is a deeply necessary exploration of our current cultural climate and ..
23.64£
Brand: Taylor and Francis
Originally published in 1985, this book explores the nuclear confrontation between East and West in Europe: where we stand, how we got there and what the future may hold. Its concluding chapter outlines the prospects for nuclear arms control in Euro..
37.75£
Brand: Taylor and Francis
Ideological debate is one component of the intellectual background to Soviet policy-making. Originally published in 1987, this paper explores how Soviet writers wrestle with the challenge to their ideology that is posed by the threat of nuclear war...
36.50£
Brand: University of Chicago Press
Many argue that "civic duty" explains why Americans engage in politics, but what does civic duty mean, and does it mean the same thing across communities? Why are people from marginalized social groups often more likely than their more privileged co..
99.49£
Brand: Harvard Common Press
Winner of the Zócalo Book PrizeA New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice"Combines powerful moral arguments with superb storytelling."-New StatesmanWhat moral values do we hold in common? As globalization draws us together economically, are the th..
22.15£
Brand: Hachette Book Group USA
Imperialism has resurfaced as an area of scholarly study in recent years, particularly among those concerned with political economy and international relations. Do countries engage in foreign intervention and "just war" because they feel a responsib..
141.90£
Brand: Hachette Book Group USA
Water is a basic human need and a scarce commodity with increasing value to farmers, industries, and cities in an urbanizing world. It is unpredictable in supply and quality, difficult to contain or direct, and notoriously difficult to manage well. ..
78.79£
Brand: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
The rolls of parliament were the official records of the meetings of the English parliament from the reign of Edward I (1272-1307) until the reign of Henry VII (1485-1509), after which they were superseded by the journals of the lords, and, somewhat..
140.47£
Brand: The History Press
In July 1964, the Sunday Mirror ran a front-page story headlined: PEER AND A GANGSTER: YARD ENQUIRY. While the article withheld the names of the subjects, the newspaper reported that the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police had ordered an investi..
26.91£
Brand: Hachette Book Group USA
Since the colonization of the Philippines by Spain in the sixteenth century, the island chain has been at the center of global trade flows, imperial rivalries, and the globalization process. From its role as the main base of Spain's Pacific Galleon ..
15.72£
Brand: Summersdale Publishers Ltd
There's a veritable cornucopia of words that can be used to describe President Donald J. Trump. Sadly they can't all fit inside this book. Born and raised in the New York borough of Queens, he took over the family business in 1971. After several hi..
12.07£
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing
The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) is infamous for its violence. The struggle it has waged for Kurdish independence in southeastern Turkey has cost in excess of 40,000 lives since 1984. A less-known fact, however, is that the PKK now embraces a non-..
21.43£
Brand: Taylor and Francis
This book examines the operational and political challenges facing UN peace operations deployed in countries where civil war and protracted violence have given rise to the complex and distinctive political economies of conflict. The volume explores ..
136.46£
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices R..
35.67£