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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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.…
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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…
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Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (Veritas)
- £14.00
- ÒOne of the most profound and illuminating studies of this century to have been published in recent decades.Ó_John Gray, New York Times Book Review ÒA powerful, and in many [ways] insightful, explanation as to why grandiose programs of social reform, not to mention revolution, so often end in tragedy. .…
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Sowing the Mustard Seed: The Struggle for Freedom and Democracy in Uganda
- £75.00
- The autobiography of Yoweni Kaguta Museveni. Museveni led a guerilla war to liberate his country from tyranny and, as President of Uganda, has established a reputation as one of the most widely respected African leaders of his generation.
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Stalin-Wells Talk.: The Verbatim Record And A Discussion By G. Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, J. M. Keynes, Ernst Toller And Others
- £200.00
- "The discussions [Wells] had with Stalin were recorded by a secretary and Wells later published an edited version as Stalin-Wells Talk: The Verbatim Record. It became clear to Wells that Stalin's vision of the machinery required to power a socialist system was not the same as his, and that Stalin's…
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Superior: The Return of Race Science
- £14.00
- When you see how power has shaped the idea of race, then you can start to understand its meaning. For millennia, dominant societies have had the habit of believing their own people to be the best, deep down: the more powerful they become, the more power begins to be framed…
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The Beautiful Teetotaller
- £30.00
- A satirical work of poet and journalist T. W. H. Crosland (1865-1924), this is a condemnation of the impudence and intolerance of teetotallers.
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The Caxton Edition of Raemaekers’ Cartoons
- £50.00
- Louis Raemaekers (1869Ð1956) was a Dutch painter, caricaturist and editorial cartoonist for the Amsterdam newspaper De Telegraaf during World War I, noted for his anti-German stance. Full colour page illustrations with commentary by a range of writers.
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The Coup: a novel
- £25.00
- Nothing in his previous life could have prepared Colonel Hakim Felix Ellellou for his new role as the President of Kush. Neither the French army nor his American university provided a grounding in the subtle skills of revolutionary dictatorship. Still less did they expect him to acquire four wives...
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The Creevey Papers
- £15.00
- A selection from the correspondence & diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M. P. (1768-1838)
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The Future of Geography (SIGNED)
- £65.00
- Spy satellites orbiting the Moon. Space metals worth billions. Humans on Mars within our lifetimes. This isnÕt science fiction. ItÕs astropolitics. WeÕre entering a new space race Ð and it could revolutionise life on Earth. Space: the new frontier, a wild and lawless place. It is already central to communication,…
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The Intelligent Woman’s Guide to Socialism and Capitalism
- £20.00
- Published in 1928 when Shaw was seventy-two, this book draws on decades of political activity and remains one of his brilliant exercises in propaganda. Ramsay MacDonald, Labour leader, hailed the work as the world's most important book since the Bible. As a Fabian and lifelong socialist, Shaw believed that economic…
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The Lion and the Unicorn, Socialism and the English Genius
- £140.00
- George Orwell's moving reflections on the English character and his passionate belief in the need for political change. The Lion and the Unicorn was written in London during the worst period of the blitz. It is vintage Orwell, a dynamic outline of his belief in socialism, patriotism, and an English…
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The New Russia
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- After years of rapprochement, the relationship between Russia and the West is more strained now than it has been in the past 25 years. PutinÕs motives, his reasons for seeking confrontation with the West, remain for many a mystery. Not for Mikhail Gorbachev. In this new work, RussiaÕs elder statesman…
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The Origin of the Family, Private Propety and the State
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- In this 1884 work, Engels argues that the family is an ever-changing institution that has been shaped by capitalism. It contains a historical view of the family in relation to issues of class, female subjugation and private property.
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The Point of Departure (SIGNED)
- £30.00
- Robin Cook's unvarnished account of the build-up to and the consequences of the second gulf war, as well as a broader look at the Blair government since its re-election in 2001: its increased alliance to right-wing figures such as George W Bush; its erosion of Cabinet government; its failure to…
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The Political Samaritan: How Power Hijacked A Parable
- £10.00
- Nick Spencer sets out to rescue an innocent parable, mugged for political ends, ignored by passers-by, and then left for half-dead at the edge of the English language. The parable of the Good Samaritan has been used by almost every major British politician over recent years - from Theresa May…
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The Private Eye Annual 2001
- £35.00
- The annual round up of photographs, cartoons and drawings from the satirical Private Eye fortnightly magazine of 2001. "Voted Best Private Annual This Year!"
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The Revenge of Power: How Autocrats Are Reinventing Politics for the 21st Century
- £30.00
- Moiss Nam's The Revenge of Power is an urgent, thrilling, and original look at the future of democracy. It illuminates one of the most important battles of our time: the future of freedom and how to contain and defeat the autocrats mushrooming around the world. In his bestselling book The…
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The Road to Wigan Pier
- £300.00
- George Orwell's searing account of working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire in the 1930s, The Road to Wigan Pier is a brilliant and bitter polemic that has lost none of its political impact over time. Orwell's graphically unforgettable descriptions of social injustice, cramped slum housing,…
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The sad, sad tail of Normas the Tebbit
- £20.00
- What the hell is a Tebbit? What does it look like? Does it really fill a whole house? Why does the poor creature want to be loved? At last the truth is revealed in this book, the heart-rendering story of an outsized crossbreed - half terrier, half rabbit - who…
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The Short Reign of Pippin IV, a fabrication
- £25.00
- Steinbeck's only work of political satire turns the French Revolution on its head, as amateur astronomer Pippin Heristal is drafted in to rule the unruly French. Enchanting comedy ensues as Steinbeck creates the most hilarious royal court ever around the brief, bold reign of the corduroy-clad Pippin, his social-climbing wife…
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The Short Reign of Pippin IV, a fabrication
- £30.00
- Steinbeck's only work of political satire turns the French Revolution on its head, as amateur astronomer Pippin Heristal is drafted in to rule the unruly French. Enchanting comedy ensues as Steinbeck creates the most hilarious royal court ever around the brief, bold reign of the corduroy-clad Pippin, his social-climbing wife…
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The State of Us (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- A fascinating call to arms full of insight' Independent. After four decades broadcasting to the nation each night, Jon Snow gives vent to his opinions on the state of our nation . . . the good news and the bad news. It is rare in history that so many nations…
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The West Wing: The American Presidency As Television Drama
- £20.00
- Informed by historical scholarship and media analysis, this book takes a critical look at the award-winning show from a wide range of perspectives. Media scholars Peter C. Rollins and John E. OÕConnor make an important contribution to the field with an eclectic mix of essays, which translate the visual language…
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The World Ahead: Our Future In The Making
- £25.00
- Will humanity survive the coming century? Are we threatened by a demographic time-bomb? Will there be food for all? Can we eliminate poverty? Are we, in our cities, heading for a kind of apartheid between the affluent and the socially excluded? Will new information technologies increase the gap between rich…
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Theories of International Politics and Zombies: Revived Edition
- £20.00
- What would happen to international politics if the dead rose from the grave and started to eat the living? Daniel Drezner's groundbreaking book answers the question that other international relations scholars have been too scared to ask. Addressing timely issues with analytical bite, Drezner looks at how well-known theories from…
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This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America’s Future
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- The shocking, definitive account of the 2020 election and the first year of the Biden presidency by two New York Times reporters, exposing the deep fissures within both parties as the country approaches a political breaking point. This is the authoritative account of an eighteen-month crisis in American democracy that…
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Twilight Of Democracy: The Seductive Lure Of Authoritarianism
- £15.00
- In the years just before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall, conservative politicians and intellectuals across Europe and America celebrated a great achievement, felt a common purpose and, very often, forged personal friendships. The euphoria quickly evaporated, the common purpose and centre ground gradually disappeared and eventually -…
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Unleashed (SIGNED, LIMITED)
- £350.00
- ÔABSOLUTELY, TOTALLY, MIND-BLOWINGLY EXPLOSIVEÕ ED BALLS. Boris Johnson has always been larger than life. Controversial, untrammelled by the normal rules of politics, his route to becoming BritainÕs prime minister included a landmark career as a journalist, two terms as LondonÕs mayor, leading the Vote Leave Brexit campaign and acting as…
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Unleashed (SIGNED)
- £120.00
- ÔABSOLUTELY, TOTALLY, MIND-BLOWINGLY EXPLOSIVEÕ ED BALLS. Boris Johnson has always been larger than life. Controversial, untrammelled by the normal rules of politics, his route to becoming BritainÕs prime minister included a landmark career as a journalist, two terms as LondonÕs mayor, leading the Vote Leave Brexit campaign and acting as…
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Unpresidented: Politics, pandemics and the race that Trumped all others (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- Fear and loathing on the 2020 campaign trail... 'Feb 26, White House briefing room: the coronavirus feels like it is changing everything.... Coronavirus is suddenly not just a public health emergency; it has the potential to upend Trump's whole campaign.... ' Our man in America, BBC North America Editor Jon…
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War and the Future: Italy, France and Britain at War
- £20.00
- War and the Future (1917) is a work of war propaganda by H.G. Wells that was published in the North America under the title Italy, France, and Britain at War (the subtitle of the British original). Wells would have preferred the title The War of Ideas, but his publisher over-ruled…
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What does Jeremy Think? The Jeremy Heywood and the Making of Modern Britain
- £11.00
- Seasoned Whitehall watchers often remark: ÒIt wouldnÕt have been like this if Jeremy Heywood were still around.Ó É How could it be that the effectiveness of the once-revered civil service had become reliant on a single man?Õ Guardian ÔThis book should be read in a similar spirit to MantelÕs masterpieces…
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What I saw in Russia (SIGNED)
- £250.00
- The account of a British socialist's fact-finding mission to Soviet Russia in the early 1920s. Lansbury became leader of the Labour Party in 1932, and was succeeded by his deputy Clement Atlee in 1935. Lansbury's account provides a firsthand view of the nation's efforts to rebuild after the revolution, as…
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Who thought this was a good idea?
- £6.00
- If your funny older sister were the former deputy chief of staff to President Barack Obama, her behind-the-scenes political memoir would look something like this . . . Alyssa Mastromonaco worked for Barack Obama for almost a decade, and long before his run for president. From the then-senator's early days…
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World At Risk
- £20.00
- Twenty years ago Ulrich Beck published Risk Society, a book that called our attention to the dangers of environmental catastrophes and changed the way we think about contemporary societies. During the last two decades, the dangers highlighted by Beck have taken on new forms and assumed ever greater significance. Terrorism…
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World Brain
- £180.00
- World Brain is a collection of essays and addresses by the English science fiction pioneer, social reformer, evolutionary biologist and historian H. G. Wells, dating from the period of 1936Ð1938.[1] Throughout the book, Wells describes his vision of the World Brain: a new, free, synthetic, authoritative, permanent "World Encyclopaedia" that…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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.…
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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…
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Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (Veritas)
- £14.00
- ÒOne of the most profound and illuminating studies of this century to have been published in recent decades.Ó_John Gray, New York Times Book Review ÒA powerful, and in many [ways] insightful, explanation as to why grandiose programs of social reform, not to mention revolution, so often end in tragedy. .…
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Sowing the Mustard Seed: The Struggle for Freedom and Democracy in Uganda
- £75.00
- The autobiography of Yoweni Kaguta Museveni. Museveni led a guerilla war to liberate his country from tyranny and, as President of Uganda, has established a reputation as one of the most widely respected African leaders of his generation.
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Stalin-Wells Talk.: The Verbatim Record And A Discussion By G. Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, J. M. Keynes, Ernst Toller And Others
- £200.00
- "The discussions [Wells] had with Stalin were recorded by a secretary and Wells later published an edited version as Stalin-Wells Talk: The Verbatim Record. It became clear to Wells that Stalin's vision of the machinery required to power a socialist system was not the same as his, and that Stalin's…
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Superior: The Return of Race Science
- £14.00
- When you see how power has shaped the idea of race, then you can start to understand its meaning. For millennia, dominant societies have had the habit of believing their own people to be the best, deep down: the more powerful they become, the more power begins to be framed…
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The Beautiful Teetotaller
- £30.00
- A satirical work of poet and journalist T. W. H. Crosland (1865-1924), this is a condemnation of the impudence and intolerance of teetotallers.
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The Caxton Edition of Raemaekers’ Cartoons
- £50.00
- Louis Raemaekers (1869Ð1956) was a Dutch painter, caricaturist and editorial cartoonist for the Amsterdam newspaper De Telegraaf during World War I, noted for his anti-German stance. Full colour page illustrations with commentary by a range of writers.
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The Coup: a novel
- £25.00
- Nothing in his previous life could have prepared Colonel Hakim Felix Ellellou for his new role as the President of Kush. Neither the French army nor his American university provided a grounding in the subtle skills of revolutionary dictatorship. Still less did they expect him to acquire four wives...
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The Creevey Papers
- £15.00
- A selection from the correspondence & diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M. P. (1768-1838)
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The Future of Geography (SIGNED)
- £65.00
- Spy satellites orbiting the Moon. Space metals worth billions. Humans on Mars within our lifetimes. This isnÕt science fiction. ItÕs astropolitics. WeÕre entering a new space race Ð and it could revolutionise life on Earth. Space: the new frontier, a wild and lawless place. It is already central to communication,…
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The Intelligent Woman’s Guide to Socialism and Capitalism
- £20.00
- Published in 1928 when Shaw was seventy-two, this book draws on decades of political activity and remains one of his brilliant exercises in propaganda. Ramsay MacDonald, Labour leader, hailed the work as the world's most important book since the Bible. As a Fabian and lifelong socialist, Shaw believed that economic…
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The Lion and the Unicorn, Socialism and the English Genius
- £140.00
- George Orwell's moving reflections on the English character and his passionate belief in the need for political change. The Lion and the Unicorn was written in London during the worst period of the blitz. It is vintage Orwell, a dynamic outline of his belief in socialism, patriotism, and an English…
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The New Russia
- £20.00
- After years of rapprochement, the relationship between Russia and the West is more strained now than it has been in the past 25 years. PutinÕs motives, his reasons for seeking confrontation with the West, remain for many a mystery. Not for Mikhail Gorbachev. In this new work, RussiaÕs elder statesman…
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The Origin of the Family, Private Propety and the State
- £20.00
- In this 1884 work, Engels argues that the family is an ever-changing institution that has been shaped by capitalism. It contains a historical view of the family in relation to issues of class, female subjugation and private property.
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The Point of Departure (SIGNED)
- £30.00
- Robin Cook's unvarnished account of the build-up to and the consequences of the second gulf war, as well as a broader look at the Blair government since its re-election in 2001: its increased alliance to right-wing figures such as George W Bush; its erosion of Cabinet government; its failure to…
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The Political Samaritan: How Power Hijacked A Parable
- £10.00
- Nick Spencer sets out to rescue an innocent parable, mugged for political ends, ignored by passers-by, and then left for half-dead at the edge of the English language. The parable of the Good Samaritan has been used by almost every major British politician over recent years - from Theresa May…
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The Private Eye Annual 2001
- £35.00
- The annual round up of photographs, cartoons and drawings from the satirical Private Eye fortnightly magazine of 2001. "Voted Best Private Annual This Year!"
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The Revenge of Power: How Autocrats Are Reinventing Politics for the 21st Century
- £30.00
- Moiss Nam's The Revenge of Power is an urgent, thrilling, and original look at the future of democracy. It illuminates one of the most important battles of our time: the future of freedom and how to contain and defeat the autocrats mushrooming around the world. In his bestselling book The…
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The Road to Wigan Pier
- £300.00
- George Orwell's searing account of working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire in the 1930s, The Road to Wigan Pier is a brilliant and bitter polemic that has lost none of its political impact over time. Orwell's graphically unforgettable descriptions of social injustice, cramped slum housing,…
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The sad, sad tail of Normas the Tebbit
- £20.00
- What the hell is a Tebbit? What does it look like? Does it really fill a whole house? Why does the poor creature want to be loved? At last the truth is revealed in this book, the heart-rendering story of an outsized crossbreed - half terrier, half rabbit - who…
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The Short Reign of Pippin IV, a fabrication
- £25.00
- Steinbeck's only work of political satire turns the French Revolution on its head, as amateur astronomer Pippin Heristal is drafted in to rule the unruly French. Enchanting comedy ensues as Steinbeck creates the most hilarious royal court ever around the brief, bold reign of the corduroy-clad Pippin, his social-climbing wife…
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The Short Reign of Pippin IV, a fabrication
- £30.00
- Steinbeck's only work of political satire turns the French Revolution on its head, as amateur astronomer Pippin Heristal is drafted in to rule the unruly French. Enchanting comedy ensues as Steinbeck creates the most hilarious royal court ever around the brief, bold reign of the corduroy-clad Pippin, his social-climbing wife…
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The State of Us (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- A fascinating call to arms full of insight' Independent. After four decades broadcasting to the nation each night, Jon Snow gives vent to his opinions on the state of our nation . . . the good news and the bad news. It is rare in history that so many nations…
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The West Wing: The American Presidency As Television Drama
- £20.00
- Informed by historical scholarship and media analysis, this book takes a critical look at the award-winning show from a wide range of perspectives. Media scholars Peter C. Rollins and John E. OÕConnor make an important contribution to the field with an eclectic mix of essays, which translate the visual language…
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The World Ahead: Our Future In The Making
- £25.00
- Will humanity survive the coming century? Are we threatened by a demographic time-bomb? Will there be food for all? Can we eliminate poverty? Are we, in our cities, heading for a kind of apartheid between the affluent and the socially excluded? Will new information technologies increase the gap between rich…
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Theories of International Politics and Zombies: Revived Edition
- £20.00
- What would happen to international politics if the dead rose from the grave and started to eat the living? Daniel Drezner's groundbreaking book answers the question that other international relations scholars have been too scared to ask. Addressing timely issues with analytical bite, Drezner looks at how well-known theories from…
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This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America’s Future
- £20.00
- The shocking, definitive account of the 2020 election and the first year of the Biden presidency by two New York Times reporters, exposing the deep fissures within both parties as the country approaches a political breaking point. This is the authoritative account of an eighteen-month crisis in American democracy that…
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Twilight Of Democracy: The Seductive Lure Of Authoritarianism
- £15.00
- In the years just before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall, conservative politicians and intellectuals across Europe and America celebrated a great achievement, felt a common purpose and, very often, forged personal friendships. The euphoria quickly evaporated, the common purpose and centre ground gradually disappeared and eventually -…
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Unleashed (SIGNED, LIMITED)
- £350.00
- ÔABSOLUTELY, TOTALLY, MIND-BLOWINGLY EXPLOSIVEÕ ED BALLS. Boris Johnson has always been larger than life. Controversial, untrammelled by the normal rules of politics, his route to becoming BritainÕs prime minister included a landmark career as a journalist, two terms as LondonÕs mayor, leading the Vote Leave Brexit campaign and acting as…
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Unleashed (SIGNED)
- £120.00
- ÔABSOLUTELY, TOTALLY, MIND-BLOWINGLY EXPLOSIVEÕ ED BALLS. Boris Johnson has always been larger than life. Controversial, untrammelled by the normal rules of politics, his route to becoming BritainÕs prime minister included a landmark career as a journalist, two terms as LondonÕs mayor, leading the Vote Leave Brexit campaign and acting as…
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Unpresidented: Politics, pandemics and the race that Trumped all others (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- Fear and loathing on the 2020 campaign trail... 'Feb 26, White House briefing room: the coronavirus feels like it is changing everything.... Coronavirus is suddenly not just a public health emergency; it has the potential to upend Trump's whole campaign.... ' Our man in America, BBC North America Editor Jon…
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War and the Future: Italy, France and Britain at War
- £20.00
- War and the Future (1917) is a work of war propaganda by H.G. Wells that was published in the North America under the title Italy, France, and Britain at War (the subtitle of the British original). Wells would have preferred the title The War of Ideas, but his publisher over-ruled…
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What does Jeremy Think? The Jeremy Heywood and the Making of Modern Britain
- £11.00
- Seasoned Whitehall watchers often remark: ÒIt wouldnÕt have been like this if Jeremy Heywood were still around.Ó É How could it be that the effectiveness of the once-revered civil service had become reliant on a single man?Õ Guardian ÔThis book should be read in a similar spirit to MantelÕs masterpieces…
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What I saw in Russia (SIGNED)
- £250.00
- The account of a British socialist's fact-finding mission to Soviet Russia in the early 1920s. Lansbury became leader of the Labour Party in 1932, and was succeeded by his deputy Clement Atlee in 1935. Lansbury's account provides a firsthand view of the nation's efforts to rebuild after the revolution, as…
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Who thought this was a good idea?
- £6.00
- If your funny older sister were the former deputy chief of staff to President Barack Obama, her behind-the-scenes political memoir would look something like this . . . Alyssa Mastromonaco worked for Barack Obama for almost a decade, and long before his run for president. From the then-senator's early days…
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World At Risk
- £20.00
- Twenty years ago Ulrich Beck published Risk Society, a book that called our attention to the dangers of environmental catastrophes and changed the way we think about contemporary societies. During the last two decades, the dangers highlighted by Beck have taken on new forms and assumed ever greater significance. Terrorism…
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World Brain
- £180.00
- World Brain is a collection of essays and addresses by the English science fiction pioneer, social reformer, evolutionary biologist and historian H. G. Wells, dating from the period of 1936Ð1938.[1] Throughout the book, Wells describes his vision of the World Brain: a new, free, synthetic, authoritative, permanent "World Encyclopaedia" that…
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