politics
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22 Days in May: the Birth of the Lib Dem-Conservative coalition (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- 22 Days in May is the first detailed Liberal Democrat insider account of the negotiations which led to the formation of the Lib Dem/Conservative coalition government in May 2010, along with an essential desription of the early days of the government. David Laws was one of the key Lib Dem…
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A Free People’s Suicide: Sustainable Freedom And The American Future
- £12.00
- A Logos Book of the Year"If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide." Abraham Lincoln Nothing is more daring in the American experiment than the founders' belief that the American…
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A Holy Commonwealth (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought)
- £45.00
- A Holy Commonwealth was written in 1659 by the Puritan minister Richard Baxter (1615Ð91), and proved to be the most controversial of all his works. He publicly repudiated it in 1670, and in 1683 the Oxford University authorities ordered it to be part of a book-burning that included the works…
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A People Betrayed: The Role Of The West In Rwanda’s Genocide
- £15.00
- In Rwanda in 1994 one million people were killed in a planned, public and political campaign. For six years Linda Melvern has worked on the story of this horrendous crime, and this book, a classic piece of investigative journalism, is the result. Its new and startling information has the making…
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A Swim-on Part in the Goldfish Bowl (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- Carol Thatcher has one of the most famous surnames in the world. The daughter of former Prime Minister Baroness Thatcher, Carol is a national treasure with a unique story to tell. Her remarkable mixture of bravery, honesty and humour won her a place in the nation's hearts on ITV's I'm…
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America’s Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, And The Bridge To A New America
- £12.00
- America's problem with race has deep roots, with the country's foundation tied to the near extermination of one race of people and the enslavement of another. Racism is truly our nation's original sin. "It's time we right this unacceptable wrong," says bestselling author and leading Christian activist Jim Wallis. Fifty…
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Animal Farm
- £40.00
- Orwell's famous novel which is regarded in the literary field as one of the most famous satirical allegories of Soviet totalitarianism. Orwell based the book on events up to and during Joseph Stalin's regime. Orwell, a democratic socialist, and a member of the Independent Labour Party for many years, was…
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Chance Witness: An Outsider’s Life in Politics (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- In this surprising and eccentric autobiography from a former Conservative MP, Matthew Parris writes of his personal and political life with equal candour. With a First from Cambridge and the possibility of working for the Foreign Office, he decided instead to apply to be an apprentice diesel-fitter with London Transport.…
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Christianity and Power Politics
- £75.00
- Karl Paul Reinhold Niebuhr[a] (1892Ð1971) was an American Reformed theologian, ethicist, commentator on politics and public affairs, and professor at Union Theological Seminary for more than 30 years. Niebuhr was one of America's leading public intellectuals for several decades of the 20th century and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom…
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Coming Apart: The State Of White America, 1960-2010
- £15.00
- In the bestselling tradition of Hillbilly Elegy, the acclaimed bestseller than explains why white America has become fractured and divided in education and class. In Coming Apart, Charles Murray explores the formation of American classes that are different in kind from anything we have ever known, focusing on whites as…
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Diaries 1924-1932
- £25.00
- Picking up from earlier diaries, this volume begins with the formation of the first Labour Government and ends after the Labour debacles of 1931 and the Webbs' departure for their Russian tour.
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Divided We Fall: America’s Secession Threat And How To Restore Our Nation
- £20.00
- David French warns of the potential dangers to the country--and the world--if we don't summon the courage to reconcile our political differences.Two decades into the 21st Century, the U.S. is less united than at any time in our history since the Civil War. We are more diverse in our beliefs…
- Add to basket
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French Cultural Politics and Music: From the Dreyfus Affair to the First World War
- £110.00
- This book draws upon both musicology and cultural history to argue that French musical meanings and values from 1898 to 1914 are best explained not in terms of contemporary artistic movements but of the political culture. During these years, France was undergoing many subtle yet profound political changes. Nationalist leagues…
- Add to basket
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God’s Politics: Why the American Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn’t Get It
- £12.00
- Jim Wallis, an evangelical, is the leading figure at the crossroads of religion and politics in America today. He is the founder of Sojourners, a US network of progressive Christians working for justice and peace. A bestselling author, his columns appear in "The New York Times", "The Washington Post" and…
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Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries (SIGNED Simon Heffer) TRILOGY
- £350.00
- Born in Chicago in 1897, 'Chips' Channon settled in England after the Great War, married into the immensely wealthy Guinness family, and served as Conservative MP for Southend-on-Sea from 1935 until his death in 1958. His career was unremarkable. His diaries are quite the opposite. Elegant, gossipy and bitchy by…
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History Has Begun: The Birth Of A New America
- £18.00
- What if America hasnÕt yet peaked? What if a new America has only just begun? Popular consensus says that the US rose over two centuries to Cold War victory and world domination, and is now in slow decline. But is this right? HistoryÕs great civilisations have always lasted much longer,…
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Inside Russian Politics (Inside Global Politics)
- £5.00
- Is there more to Russian politics than Putin? Revealing the Russia beyond Moscow and the West s sensational headlines about Putin, Edwin Bacon Reader in Comparative Politics at Birkbeck, University of London offers a succinct yet thorough exploration of power politics in and beyond the Kremlin. Inside Russian Politics is…
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Johnson at 10
- £40.00
- Excellent... first class... both fair and damning.' Daniel Finkelstein, The Times 'Authoritative, gripping and often jaw-dropping' Andrew Rawnsley, Observer 'Invaluable' New Statesman 'Explosive' Isabel Hardman, The i. After his dramatic rise to power in the summer of 2019 amid the Brexit deadlock, Boris Johnson presided over the most turbulent period…
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Land at War, The Official Story Of British Farming, 1939 – 1944
- £45.00
- An account of British agriculture during the Second World War, written by renowned writer Laurie Lee, as part of his role as Publications Editor for the UK's Ministry of Information. This was his first published book. Many b/w photographs & diagrams.
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Leaders Who Lust: Power, Money, Sex, Success, Legitimacy, Legacy
- £15.00
- Among our greatest leaders are those driven by impulses they cannot completely control - by lust. Lust is not, however, an abstraction, it has definition. Definition that, given the impact of leaders who lust, is essential to extract. This book identifies six types of lust with which leaders are linked:…
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Marx and Engels’ ‘Communist Manifesto’: A Reader’s Guide
- £20.00
- Introducing the most famous work of the nineteenth-century radical thinkers Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, this comprehensive reader's guide to the Communist Manifesto explores the key themes, ideas and issues of the revolutionary pamphlet. Beginning with a discussion of the intellectual, political and social context of the Manifesto, the Reader's…
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Marxism vs Liberalism – an Interview
- £25.00
- Interview of Stalin by Wells conducted July 23, 1934 in Moscow. Introduction by Granville Hicks.
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More Human: Designing a World Where People Come First
- £12.00
- Government, business, the lives we lead, the food we eat, the way our children are brought up, the way we relate to the natural world around us Ð it's all become too big and distant and industrialised. Inhuman. It's time to do something about it. It's time to put people…
- Add to basket
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My Apprenticeship
- £100.00
- My Apprenticeship has long been cited as an important and fascinating source for students of social attitudes and conditions in late Victorian Britain, and this new paperback edition makes it once more generally available. Beatrice Webb, the eighth of the nine daughters of the railway magnate Richard Potter, was an…
- Add to basket
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No Room for Small Dreams: Courage, Imagination and the Making of Modern Israel
- £20.00
- In 1934, eleven-year-old Shimon Peres emigrated to the land of Israel from his native Poland, leaving behind an extended family who would later be murdered in the Holocaust. Few back then would have predicted that this young man would eventually become one of the towering figures of the twentieth century.…
- Add to basket
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Notes on Thought, Preceded by a Biographical Sketch
- £80.00
- Charles Buxton (1822-1871) was an MP and son of the renowned Abolitionist MP Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton. He was a brewer and writer as well as politician. This is a posthumously published book of his commonplace book, complete with Llewellyn Davies's brief biography at the start.
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One Minute to Ten: Cameron, Miliband and Clegg. Three Men, One Ambition and the Price of Power
- £8.00
- 10 PM, on the 7 May. The exit poll predicting the result of the 2015 General Election is announced. In that instant three lives are changed for ever. David Cameron, Ed Miliband and Nick Clegg were three very different men, from very different backgrounds. But they shared one ambition. To…
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Our Partnership
- £50.00
- The Sequel to Webb's 'My Apprenticeship', 'Our Partnership' contains details on the wealth of topics that Beatrice and her husband, Sidney, worked on together. She was born in Gloucester in 1858, educated at home by a governess, she also travelled widely and, due to this, gained a keen interest in…
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Out of the Ordinary, How Everyday Life Inspired a Nation and How It Can Again
- £30.00
- From the 1920s to the 1950s, in a world transformed by revolution and war, extreme ideologies of left and right fueled utopian hopes and dystopian fears. In response, Marc Stears writes, a group of British writers, artists, photographers, and filmmakers showed a way out. These men and women, including J.…
- Add to basket
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Robert Peel: a Biography
- £20.00
- Robert Peel, as much as any man in the nineteenth century, transformed Great Britain into a modern nation. He invented our police force, which became a model for the world. He steered through the Bill which allowed Catholics to sit in Parliament. He reorganised the criminal justice system. He put…
- Add to basket
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22 Days in May: the Birth of the Lib Dem-Conservative coalition (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- 22 Days in May is the first detailed Liberal Democrat insider account of the negotiations which led to the formation of the Lib Dem/Conservative coalition government in May 2010, along with an essential desription of the early days of the government. David Laws was one of the key Lib Dem…
- Add to basket
-
A Free People’s Suicide: Sustainable Freedom And The American Future
- £12.00
- A Logos Book of the Year"If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide." Abraham Lincoln Nothing is more daring in the American experiment than the founders' belief that the American…
- Add to basket
-
A Holy Commonwealth (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought)
- £45.00
- A Holy Commonwealth was written in 1659 by the Puritan minister Richard Baxter (1615Ð91), and proved to be the most controversial of all his works. He publicly repudiated it in 1670, and in 1683 the Oxford University authorities ordered it to be part of a book-burning that included the works…
- Add to basket
-
A People Betrayed: The Role Of The West In Rwanda’s Genocide
- £15.00
- In Rwanda in 1994 one million people were killed in a planned, public and political campaign. For six years Linda Melvern has worked on the story of this horrendous crime, and this book, a classic piece of investigative journalism, is the result. Its new and startling information has the making…
- Add to basket
-
A Swim-on Part in the Goldfish Bowl (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- Carol Thatcher has one of the most famous surnames in the world. The daughter of former Prime Minister Baroness Thatcher, Carol is a national treasure with a unique story to tell. Her remarkable mixture of bravery, honesty and humour won her a place in the nation's hearts on ITV's I'm…
- Add to basket
-
America’s Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, And The Bridge To A New America
- £12.00
- America's problem with race has deep roots, with the country's foundation tied to the near extermination of one race of people and the enslavement of another. Racism is truly our nation's original sin. "It's time we right this unacceptable wrong," says bestselling author and leading Christian activist Jim Wallis. Fifty…
- Add to basket
-
Animal Farm
- £40.00
- Orwell's famous novel which is regarded in the literary field as one of the most famous satirical allegories of Soviet totalitarianism. Orwell based the book on events up to and during Joseph Stalin's regime. Orwell, a democratic socialist, and a member of the Independent Labour Party for many years, was…
- Add to basket
-
Chance Witness: An Outsider’s Life in Politics (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- In this surprising and eccentric autobiography from a former Conservative MP, Matthew Parris writes of his personal and political life with equal candour. With a First from Cambridge and the possibility of working for the Foreign Office, he decided instead to apply to be an apprentice diesel-fitter with London Transport.…
- Add to basket
-
Christianity and Power Politics
- £75.00
- Karl Paul Reinhold Niebuhr[a] (1892Ð1971) was an American Reformed theologian, ethicist, commentator on politics and public affairs, and professor at Union Theological Seminary for more than 30 years. Niebuhr was one of America's leading public intellectuals for several decades of the 20th century and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom…
- Add to basket
-
Coming Apart: The State Of White America, 1960-2010
- £15.00
- In the bestselling tradition of Hillbilly Elegy, the acclaimed bestseller than explains why white America has become fractured and divided in education and class. In Coming Apart, Charles Murray explores the formation of American classes that are different in kind from anything we have ever known, focusing on whites as…
- Add to basket
-
Diaries 1924-1932
- £25.00
- Picking up from earlier diaries, this volume begins with the formation of the first Labour Government and ends after the Labour debacles of 1931 and the Webbs' departure for their Russian tour.
- Add to basket
-
Divided We Fall: America’s Secession Threat And How To Restore Our Nation
- £20.00
- David French warns of the potential dangers to the country--and the world--if we don't summon the courage to reconcile our political differences.Two decades into the 21st Century, the U.S. is less united than at any time in our history since the Civil War. We are more diverse in our beliefs…
- Add to basket
-
French Cultural Politics and Music: From the Dreyfus Affair to the First World War
- £110.00
- This book draws upon both musicology and cultural history to argue that French musical meanings and values from 1898 to 1914 are best explained not in terms of contemporary artistic movements but of the political culture. During these years, France was undergoing many subtle yet profound political changes. Nationalist leagues…
- Add to basket
-
God’s Politics: Why the American Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn’t Get It
- £12.00
- Jim Wallis, an evangelical, is the leading figure at the crossroads of religion and politics in America today. He is the founder of Sojourners, a US network of progressive Christians working for justice and peace. A bestselling author, his columns appear in "The New York Times", "The Washington Post" and…
- Add to basket
-
Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries (SIGNED Simon Heffer) TRILOGY
- £350.00
- Born in Chicago in 1897, 'Chips' Channon settled in England after the Great War, married into the immensely wealthy Guinness family, and served as Conservative MP for Southend-on-Sea from 1935 until his death in 1958. His career was unremarkable. His diaries are quite the opposite. Elegant, gossipy and bitchy by…
- Add to basket
-
History Has Begun: The Birth Of A New America
- £18.00
- What if America hasnÕt yet peaked? What if a new America has only just begun? Popular consensus says that the US rose over two centuries to Cold War victory and world domination, and is now in slow decline. But is this right? HistoryÕs great civilisations have always lasted much longer,…
- Add to basket
-
Inside Russian Politics (Inside Global Politics)
- £5.00
- Is there more to Russian politics than Putin? Revealing the Russia beyond Moscow and the West s sensational headlines about Putin, Edwin Bacon Reader in Comparative Politics at Birkbeck, University of London offers a succinct yet thorough exploration of power politics in and beyond the Kremlin. Inside Russian Politics is…
- Add to basket
-
Johnson at 10
- £40.00
- Excellent... first class... both fair and damning.' Daniel Finkelstein, The Times 'Authoritative, gripping and often jaw-dropping' Andrew Rawnsley, Observer 'Invaluable' New Statesman 'Explosive' Isabel Hardman, The i. After his dramatic rise to power in the summer of 2019 amid the Brexit deadlock, Boris Johnson presided over the most turbulent period…
- Add to basket
-
Land at War, The Official Story Of British Farming, 1939 – 1944
- £45.00
- An account of British agriculture during the Second World War, written by renowned writer Laurie Lee, as part of his role as Publications Editor for the UK's Ministry of Information. This was his first published book. Many b/w photographs & diagrams.
- Add to basket
-
Leaders Who Lust: Power, Money, Sex, Success, Legitimacy, Legacy
- £15.00
- Among our greatest leaders are those driven by impulses they cannot completely control - by lust. Lust is not, however, an abstraction, it has definition. Definition that, given the impact of leaders who lust, is essential to extract. This book identifies six types of lust with which leaders are linked:…
- Add to basket
-
Marx and Engels’ ‘Communist Manifesto’: A Reader’s Guide
- £20.00
- Introducing the most famous work of the nineteenth-century radical thinkers Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, this comprehensive reader's guide to the Communist Manifesto explores the key themes, ideas and issues of the revolutionary pamphlet. Beginning with a discussion of the intellectual, political and social context of the Manifesto, the Reader's…
- Add to basket
-
Marxism vs Liberalism – an Interview
- £25.00
- Interview of Stalin by Wells conducted July 23, 1934 in Moscow. Introduction by Granville Hicks.
- Add to basket
-
More Human: Designing a World Where People Come First
- £12.00
- Government, business, the lives we lead, the food we eat, the way our children are brought up, the way we relate to the natural world around us Ð it's all become too big and distant and industrialised. Inhuman. It's time to do something about it. It's time to put people…
- Add to basket
-
My Apprenticeship
- £100.00
- My Apprenticeship has long been cited as an important and fascinating source for students of social attitudes and conditions in late Victorian Britain, and this new paperback edition makes it once more generally available. Beatrice Webb, the eighth of the nine daughters of the railway magnate Richard Potter, was an…
- Add to basket
-
No Room for Small Dreams: Courage, Imagination and the Making of Modern Israel
- £20.00
- In 1934, eleven-year-old Shimon Peres emigrated to the land of Israel from his native Poland, leaving behind an extended family who would later be murdered in the Holocaust. Few back then would have predicted that this young man would eventually become one of the towering figures of the twentieth century.…
- Add to basket
-
Notes on Thought, Preceded by a Biographical Sketch
- £80.00
- Charles Buxton (1822-1871) was an MP and son of the renowned Abolitionist MP Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton. He was a brewer and writer as well as politician. This is a posthumously published book of his commonplace book, complete with Llewellyn Davies's brief biography at the start.
- Add to basket
-
One Minute to Ten: Cameron, Miliband and Clegg. Three Men, One Ambition and the Price of Power
- £8.00
- 10 PM, on the 7 May. The exit poll predicting the result of the 2015 General Election is announced. In that instant three lives are changed for ever. David Cameron, Ed Miliband and Nick Clegg were three very different men, from very different backgrounds. But they shared one ambition. To…
- Add to basket
-
Our Partnership
- £50.00
- The Sequel to Webb's 'My Apprenticeship', 'Our Partnership' contains details on the wealth of topics that Beatrice and her husband, Sidney, worked on together. She was born in Gloucester in 1858, educated at home by a governess, she also travelled widely and, due to this, gained a keen interest in…
- Add to basket
-
Out of the Ordinary, How Everyday Life Inspired a Nation and How It Can Again
- £30.00
- From the 1920s to the 1950s, in a world transformed by revolution and war, extreme ideologies of left and right fueled utopian hopes and dystopian fears. In response, Marc Stears writes, a group of British writers, artists, photographers, and filmmakers showed a way out. These men and women, including J.…
- Add to basket
-
Robert Peel: a Biography
- £20.00
- Robert Peel, as much as any man in the nineteenth century, transformed Great Britain into a modern nation. He invented our police force, which became a model for the world. He steered through the Bill which allowed Catholics to sit in Parliament. He reorganised the criminal justice system. He put…
- Add to basket