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  • 走向共产党之后的中国:转型八论(下册)

    by 吴国光 ...
    Series Book 3 - 转型八论
    三卷本《走向共产党之后的中国:转型八论》融贯学术研究与现实关怀,结合制度分析与时政评论,回望当今中国"逆转型"的来路,剖析"习近平新 时代"的特点,展望中国政治经济前景,并提出对中国政治大转型的战略思考。全书分八辑,下册包括三辑:第六辑,论政治转型:以"民变促发官变""再论民变与官变"及"三论民 变与官变"为骨架,本辑探讨中国政治变革自毛后到今天的历程和困局,并勾勒中国政治转型的现实路径。其中后半部分贡献了对当今中国政治转型 形势与战略的新思考,深入探讨在新极权时代如何反抗,如何寻求"破局"并推动中国走向没有共产党的政治未来。第七辑,论历史经验:按所论主题的历史顺序排列,涉及民族主义和大 一统等宏观问题,对辛亥革命和五四运动等历史事件从民主巩固视角提出 新的分析思路,揭示中共的暴力本质与专制密码,也有在追思王若水、刘宾 雁、余英时、鲍彤等前辈中生发出的关于社会变革的洞见。第八辑,论文化重建 ... Read more

    £6.79

  • Death Note

    Another Note - The Los Angeles BB Murder Cases

    by Ishin Nishio ...
    There's a serial killer loose in Los Angeles and super-sleuth L is on the case. Along with Naomi Misora, a former FBI agent, he helps the LA police solve the grisly crimes.There's a Serial Killer Loose in Los Angeles and the local authorities need help fast. For some reason the killer has been leaving a string of maddeningly arcane clues at each crime scene. Each of these clues, it seems, is an ... Read more

    £7.32

  • 走向共产党之后的中国:转型八论(中册)

    by 吴国光 ...
    Series Book 2 - 转型八论
    三卷本《走向共产党之后的中国:转型八论》融贯学术研究与现实关怀, 结合制度分析与时政评论,回望当今中国"逆转型"的来路,剖析"习近平新 时代"的特点,展望中国政治经济前景,并提出对中国政治大转型的战略思 考。全书分八辑,中册包括两辑:第四辑,论中共党代会:2015年,剑桥大学出版社出版作者的英文专著 《中共党代会:权力、合法性与制度操控》。这在国际学术界被认为是第一本 系统研究中国共产党全国代表大会的著作。在此基础上,作者跟踪研究此后 两次中共党代会(十九大、二十大),形成收在这里的多篇文章和访谈,进一 步剖析中共的"合法性赤字"和"制度操控",也对分析"习近平新时代"和中 国政治转型提供了理论视角。第五辑,论"习近平新时代":"习近平新时代"是什么样的时代?为什么 其本质在于"逆转型"?为什么"逆转型"的方向是重归极权主义?习近平为什 么走上这条道路?习近平时代与此前的邓小平、江泽民 ... Read more

    £6.79

  • Ján Kuciak

    The Murder Mystery

    On 25th February 2018, the Slovak investigative journalist Jan Kuciak and his fiancee Martina Kusnirova are found shot dead in their small house. They are 27 years old. The investigations which follow the double homicide lead to a story of power and its abuse, to servility and sex, to a mafia-like network that committed murders and planned more. A system emerges which has been hollowed out and ... Read more

    £4.49

  • Pearson Edexcel A Level US Government and Politics Second Edition

    Help your students develop a critical understanding of the latest developments in US Government and Politics with this fully updated textbook for Pearson Edexcel A-level Politics. This trusted textbook by Anthony J Bennett, revised by David Tuck and Simon Lemieux, is specially designed to reflect the Edexcel specification and help your students approach complex topics with confidence.Ensure in ... Read more

    £21.49

  • Pearson Edexcel A Level UK Government and Politics Sixth Edition

    This fully updated Textbook for Pearson Edexcel A-level Politics will help your students develop a critical understanding of the latest developments in UK Government and Politics. This trusted textbook by Neil McNaughton, revised by Toby Cooper, is specially designed to reflect the Edexcel specification and help your students approach complex topics with confidence. This Student Textbook:- ... Read more

    £22.99

  • CIA World Factbook 2022-2023

    The ultimate, comprehensive guide to official country data and statistics, from the world’s most sophisticated intelligence-gathering organization.From Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, The CIA World Factbook 2022-2023 offers complete and up-to-date information on the world's nations. This comprehensive guide is packed with data on countries' politics, populations, economics, and environment for 2022 and ... Read more

    £11.61

  • The Rub of Time

    Bellow, Nabokov, Hitchens, Travolta, Trump. Essays and Reportage, 1994-2016

    by Martin Amis ...
    Of all the great novelists writing today, none shows the same gift as Martin Amis for writing non-fiction – his essays, literary criticism and journalism are justly acclaimed.The Rub of Time comprises superb critical pieces on Amis’s heroes Nabokov, Bellow and Larkin to brilliantly funny ruminations on sport, Las Vegas, John Travolta and the pornography industry. The collection includes his essay ... Read more

    £6.99

  • The Communist Manifesto

    with an introduction by Yanis Varoufakis

    by Karl Marx ...
    The Communist Manifesto is a timeless classic providing intelligent insight into socialism, communism and today’s group identity politics.This pocket edition includes a new introduction by the economist and bestselling author of Adults in the Room, Yanis Varoufakis.The Communist Manifesto was first published in London in 1848, by two young men in their late twenties. Its impact reverberated across ... Read more

    £4.99

  • Total Sh*t: An Excremental Essay About President Trump

    by Paul Orwell ...
    This satirical essay about our president uses "shit" as a metaphor to describe Trump: the doofus, the dotard, the dog. It will help you satisfy the urge to purge and cope with the pall of that two-hundred-and-sixty-six-pound poser living in The White House whose fetid smell is wafted all day via mass media into your living room, your bedroom, and up your nostrils. It's a cathartic read that's as ... Read more

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  • Charles Darwin's Collection (18 Books)

    Charles Darwin's Collection (18 Books)Charles Robert Darwin FRS was an English naturalist who realised and presented compelling evidence that all species of life have evolved over time from common ancestors, through the process he called natural selection. The fact that evolution occurs became accepted by the scientific community and much of the general public in his lifetime, while his theory of ... Read more

    £0.73

  • The Communist Manifesto

    'An astonishing masterpiece ... a political classic ... has an almost biblical force' Eric HobsbawmThe Communist Manifesto, Marx and Engels' revolutionary 1848 summons to the working classes, is one of the most influential political theories ever formulated. After four years of collaboration, the authors produced this incisive account of their idea of Communism, in which they envisage a society ... Read more

    £7.99

  • Capitalism

    The Unknown Ideal

    In this series of essays, Ayn Rand presents her stand on the persecution of big business, the causes of war, the default of conservatism, and the evils of altruism.The foundations of capitalism are being battered by a flood of altruism, which is the cause of the modern world's collapse. This is the view of Ayn Rand, a view so radically opposed to prevailing attitudes that it constitutes a major ... Read more

    £5.39

  • Urban Studies: Border and Mobility

    Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Urban Studies (ICUS 2017), December 8-9, 2017, Universitas Airlangga, Surabaya, Indonesia

    This work contains a selection of papers from the International Conference on Urban Studies (ICUS 2017) and is a bi-annual periodical publication containing articles on urban cultural studies based on the international conference organized by the Faculty of Humanities at the Universitas Airlangga, Indonesia. This publication contains studies on issues that become phenomena in urban life, including ... Read more

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  • L'art de la guerre

    Traité de stratégie militaire chinois

    by Sun Tzu ...
    Découvrez une édition de référence de L'art de la guerre de Sun Tzu, spécialement conçue pour la lecture sur les supports numériques.« Sun Tzu dit : La guerre est d'une importance vitale pour l'État. C'est le domaine de la vie et de la mort : la conservation ou la perte de l'empire en dépendent ; il est impérieux de le bien régler. [...] Cinq choses principales doivent faire l'objet de nos ... Read more

    £9.99 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism

    Originally published in 1916, it was one of the first attempts to account for the increasing importance of the world market in the twentieth century. The essay is a synthesis of Lenin’s modifications and developments of economic theories that Karl Marx formulated in ‘Das Kapital’. This remarkable Marxist text explains fully the inescapable flaws and destructive power of Capitalism.Lenin offers a ... Read more

    £0.99

  • The Assault on Liberty

    What Went Wrong with Rights

    by Dominic Raab ...
    An urgent and necessary polemic on the government’s assault on our fundamental freedoms and the proliferation of Human Rights.From 42 days detention to ASBOs, as citizens of modern Britain we are seeing some of our fundamental freedoms being pawned off cheaply in the name of security. At the same time, a whole range of novel, and comparatively trivial, rights are being handed out like sweets. Why? ... Read more

    £6.99

  • The Communist Manifesto

    The Communist Manifesto, is a 1848 publication written by the political theorists Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. It has since been recognized as one of the world's most influential political manuscripts. It presents an analytical approach to the class struggle (historical and present) and the problems of capitalism, rather than a prediction of communism's potential future forms. ... Read more

    £0.54

  • The Future of Politics (text only)

    The former leader of the Liberal Democrats sets out his personal beliefs and political vision to create a new political language and a new brand of politics.Politics and government are in danger of going out of business unless politicians adopt a fresh and innovative approach. In The Future of Politics Charles Kennedy sets out his views on the problems and the solutions.Until now politicians have ... Read more

    £2.99

  • Politics Weird-o-Pedia

    The Ultimate Book of Surprising, Strange, and Incredibly Bizarre Facts about Politics

    by Tim Rowland ...
    Series series Weird-o-Pedia
    Government and politics might seem twisted today, but they’ve always been strange.There’s something about public office that, throughout time, has transcended normalcy. Politics Weird-o-Pedia presents some of the oddest and most interesting political absurdities and tidbits from around the world, from Peter the Great’s tax on beards to a lawmaker’s mistress whom he kept on the congressional ... Read more

    £6.99

  • Only in America

    by Matt Frei ...
    Matt Frei, the BBC's former Washington correspondent, goes under the skin of the nation's capital to unravel the paradoxes of the world's last remaining superpower.The paperback has been fully updated to provide a unique view into the weird, wonderful and totally bizarre workings of America’s political world and the 2008 Presidential election.Imagine a city so powerful that the weapons commanded ... Read more

    £5.99

  • War with Russia?

    From Putin & Ukraine to Trump & Russiagate

    Is America in a new Cold War with Russia? How does a new Cold War affect the safety and security of the United States? Does Vladimir Putin really want to destabilize the West? What should Donald Trump and America’s allies do?America is in a new Cold War with Russia even more dangerous than the one the world barely survived in the twentieth century. The Soviet Union is gone, but the two nuclear ... Read more

    £11.12

  • Essentials of UK Politics and Government

    Series series Essentials of… for Edexcel A-level Politics
    Essentials of UK Politics and Government is the go-to textbook for all A-level Politics students studying the Edexcel specification. Building on Andrew Heywood's signature accessible style, this new fifth edition has been thoroughly updated by Kathy Schindler and Adam Tomes who draw on their experience to provide an innovative guide to UK Politics. This book covers all the core topics from ... Read more

    £20.99

  • Feminism: The Ugly Truth

    by Mike Buchanan ...
    Extracts from Erin Pizzey's Foreword: âMike Buchanan is a very brave man. I've known other men who've tried to draw the public's attention to the damage done by the radical feminist movement. Many lost their jobs and none of them were able to find a publisher for their books. Men have been thrown out of their own houses and unjustly accused of domestic violence towards their partners, and some of ... Read more

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