Politics & Law

From the U.S. Vice President, the New York Times bestseller about the core truths that unite us and the shared values that will see us into the future. Read the...

From Rhodes Scholar to union leader to political powerhouse: how Bobbie became Bob, the iconic PM. The new biography from award-winning historian David Day sheds fresh light on the formative...

Two-term governor of Tennessee Bill Haslam reveals how faith--too often divisive and contentious--can be a redemptive and unifying presence in the public square. As a former mayor and governor, Bill...

For years the Ewing family of Ohio has been lost in the historical shadow cast by their in-law, General William T. Sherman. In the era of the Civil War, it...

This book investigates the reportage of the 2004 Beslan hostage-taking published by three very different Russian-language websites: RIA-Novosti, Kavkazcenter, and Caucasian Knot, tracking the ways in which these three sites...

For years people have tried to persuade the leader of the Cuban Revolution to tell his own life story. Here, finally, Ignacio Ramonet, well-known activist and editor of "Le Monde...

This extensively research biography, based on interviews with 400 sources, shares the life of Pamela Churchill Harriman-the grand daughter-in-law of Winston Churchill and a woman who consistently managed to be...

On March 27, 2003, President George W. Bush said, aAmerica has learned a lot about Tony Blair over the last weeks . . . and weare proud to have him...

The book titled The Apocalypse Watch by the author A premier name in thrillers for nearly a quarter of a century returns with a supercharged novel of the Brotherhood of...

The book titled Here Comes Trouble: Stories from My Life by the author . This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The increasing globalization of economic, social, political and cultural life is a key feature of the contemporary world. Jan Aart Scholte's provides a concise but broad ranging introduction to its...

Shrouding themselves and their aims in deepest secrecy, the leaders of the Taliban movement control Afghanistan with an inflexible, crushing fundamentalism. The most extreme and radical of all Islamic organizations,...

Although nearly every country in the world today holds multiparty elections, these contests are often blatantly unfair. For governments, electoral misconduct is a tempting but also a risky practice, because...

'A remarkable feat of scholarship, fairness and readability, full of lively detail with a freshness of style which brings new life to the narrative' Anthony Sampson Throughout its turbulent history,...

In The British Dream , David Goodhart tells the story of post-war immigration and charts a course for its future. Drawing on hundreds of interviews with people from all over...

Investigative reporter Patrick J. Sloyan, a former member of the White House Press Corps, revisits the last years of John F. Kennedy's presidency, his fateful involvement with Diem's assassination, the...

Oil is the world's single most important commodity and its political effects are pervasive. Jeff D. Colgan extends the idea of the resource curse into the realm of international relations,...

The book titled J. Edgar Hoover: as They Knew Him by the author . This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Over the past 10 years Hanif Kureishi has charted the gradual widening of the gulf between fundamentalist Islam and Western values. Starting with The Black Album , Kureishi portrayed the...

"In The Year My Politics Broke, Jonathan Green looks at where politics, truth and disconnection collide." "Is there more to politics than politics? What about sincere belief? Or conviction? Both...

A New York Times bestseller * A Washington Post Notable Book * Named a Best Book of the Year by The Wall Street Journal and NPR "This book will serve...

The book titled Secrecy and Power: Life of J.Edgar Hoover by the author . This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

From the mystique of the glamorous Kennedys to the tumult that surrounded Bill and Hillary Clinton during the president's impeachment to the historic tenure of Barack and Michelle Obama, each...

The book titled A Gospel of Shame: Children, Sexual Abuse, and the Catholic Church by the author . This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

Author: Daniel PickBinding: PaperbackPublished: Yale University Press, 1993Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis compelling non-fiction work dissects the historical and psychological underpinnings...

Author: The New York TimesBinding: HardbackPublished: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, 2009Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: HEAVY. CD-Roms and magnifier included. This monumental collection chronicles over...

Author: Reinhard Bentmann And Michael MüllerBinding: HardbackPublished: HUMANITIES PRESS, 1992Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Spine slightly bruised. Internally sound, clean and bright copy. The Villa As...

Author: Kurt WeisskopfBinding: HardbackPublished: ELEK LONDON, 1968Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsThis incisive work of political history chronicles the twin crises that shattered Czechoslovakia in 1938...

Author: Adrian LytteltonBinding: PaperbackPublished: Jonathan Cape, 1973Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Light foxing on book block. Light wear on...

Author: Laurie Oakes And David SolomonBinding: PaperbackPublished: Cheshire, 1973Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis political biography, The Making Of An...

Author: Margaret WeidenhoferBinding: HardbackPublished: Lowne Press, 1973Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsThis historical account, The Convict Years: Transportation And The Penal System 1788-1868, meticulously chronicles the...

Author: George Nathaniel CurzonBinding: HardbackPublished: SIDGWICK & JACKSON, 1986Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis historical account, Curzon's Persia, meticulously chronicles the intricate political landscape and cultural nuances of...

Author: James W. WhiteBinding: HardbackPublished: STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1970Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Boards in good condition. Light foxing on book block. Name and...

Author: Richard ParesBinding: HardbackPublished: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1953Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: No markingsRichard Pares's King George III and the Politicians presents a...

Author: Andrew C. JanosBinding: HardbackPublished: Princeton University Press, 1982Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis academic work chronicles Hungary's political and economic trajectory from the reform era to the...

Author: Paul AvrichBinding: HardbackPublished: Thames & Hudson., 1973Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Yellowed DJ with marking to front, tanned page edges, FEP clipped.Paul Avrich's The Anarchists...

Author: Charles MooreBinding: HardbackPublished: Allen Lane., 2015Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Some minor staining to back of DJ.The sensational second volume of Charles Moore's bestselling authorised...

Author: Maurice J Casey Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 418 'If affection is the first ground of memory, the archive is its late flowering and Hotel Lux its conservatory, Casey's...

This important book provides an invaluable guide to Scoland's new parliament. With his unique insight, gained in more than twenty years of covering Scottish politics as a journalist, Brian Taylor...

Policy- and decision-makers in government and industry constantly face important decisions without full knowledge of all the facts. They rely routinely on expert advice to fill critical scientific knowledge gaps....

Nelson Mandela is widely considered to be one of the most inspiring and iconic figures of our age. Now, after a lifetime of taking pen to paper to record thoughts...

One of the most influential political and philosophical texts ever written One of the most notorious works of modern times, as well as one of the most influential, Capital is...

While governments are authorized to invoke eminent domain - the power to take property by force - only when the property is to be employed for public uses, such as...

Hard-hitting facts and incisive analysis in this vivid picture of the inequalities and absurdities of our world. In Kenya, monthly bribery payments add a third to the average household budget....

How Bush-hating CIA Bureaucrats Are Sabotaging the War on Terror Since the attacks on September 11, 2001, intelligence collection has become the number-one weapon in the effort to defeat al...

The unbelievable true story of the Cold War's strangest proxy war , fought between the zoos on either side of the Berlin Wall. "The liveliness of Mohnhaupt's storytelling and the...

Blankley paints the picture of a Europe in which radical Islam is triumphant - a threat that becomes more real with every passing day. Blankley also shows what the United...