Politics , Society & Current Affairs

Alex Thomson / An Introduction to African Politics (Large Paperback)

An Intro

Gavan Reilly / The Secret Life Of Leinster House (Large Paperback)

What is it like to run for election? How do public representatives deal with the cut-throat competition from their rivals – and their own running mates? How intense is the work? What’s the Dáil bar...

Richard Florida / The Rise of the Creative Class (Large Paperback)

And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life The Rise of the Creative Class gives us a provocative new way to think about why we live as Americans do today-and where they...

Nathalie Nahai / Webs of Influence - The Psychology of Online Persuasion (Large Paperback)

The Psychology of Online Persuasion As legions of businesses scramble to set up virtual-shop, we face an unprecedented level of competition to win over and keep new customers online. At the forefront...

Doug Wead / Game of Thorns (Large Paperback)

The Inside Story of Hillary Clinton's Failed Campaign and Donald Trump's Winning Strategy Here is the first, insider, account of the precipitous fall of Hillary Clinton. How the scandals of a...

Robert Guest / The Shackled Continent (Large Paperback)

The Shackled Continent: Africa's Past, Present and Future

Ross Douthat / The Decadent Society (Large Paperback)

America Before and After the Pandemic From the New York Times columnist and bestselling author of Bad Religion , a powerful portrait of how the US - a wealthy, successful society has passed into an...

Jon Stratton / Race Daze - Australia in Identity Crisis (Large Paperback)

  PUBLISHED 1998   This book takes a look at how Australians think about race today, discussing its use in history and current politics, particularly Pauline Hanson's use of the term. Jon Stratton...

Arianna Huffington / Third World America (Large Paperback)

Third World America: How Our Politicians Are Abandoning the Ordinary Citizen

Ted Nealon - Nealon's Guide to the 27th Dáil & Seanad ( Election '92) - PB

Nealon's Guide' has been the most authoritative political work of reference in Ireland for over twenty years. The guide to the 27th Dail and Seanad follows on the general election of 25th November...

Theodore Dalrymple / Life at the Bottom (Large Paperback)

Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass <

Francis Gilbert / Yob Nation (Large Paperback)

Yob; The truth about Britain's yob culture   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title...

Joe Foweraker / Governing Latin America (Large Paperback)

Governing Latin America is a concise yet comprehensive introduction to the contemporary politics of the region. Focusing on the enduring difficulties of achieving democratic stability, it explores...

Donal de Buitleir & Frances Ruane ( Editors) / Governance and Policy in Ireland : Essays in Honour of Miriam Hederman O’Brien -

Governance and Policy in Ireland: Essays in Honour of Miriam Hederman O’Brien.  (2003  Institute of Public Administration (IPA) publication analyzing Irish public policy, taxation, health, education,...

Sonja Tiernan - Irish Women's Speeches - A Rich Chorus of Voices ( Volume II) - PB - BRAND NEW

Irish Women's Speeches (Volume II): A Rich Chorus of Voices follows on from the ground-breaking, best-selling Voices that Rocked the System. Related to arts, culture and heritage this compilation of...

Sonja Tiernan - Irish Women's Speeches : Voices That Rocked The System (Volume 1) - BRAND NEW

Sonja Tiernan is the Eamon Cleary Professor of Irish Studies and Co- Director of the Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies at University of Otago. DescriptionThirty-three inspiring speeches by women...

Sarah Fitzgerald ( Editor) - Conversations About Activism and Change - PB - BRAND NEW

Disabled people are all too familiar with fighting to be included in society, but they also do not face their battle in isolation. We all know that real social change can only be brought about when...

Kate Bornstein & S. Bear Bergman / Gender Outlaws - The Next Generation (Large Paperback)

Patrick Seyd / Labour's Grass Roots - The Politics of Party Membership (Large Paperback)

Labour's Grass Roots: The Politics of Party Membership

Katherine J. Cramer / The Politics of Resentment (Large Paperback)

Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker Since the election of Scott Walker, Wisconsin was seen as ground zero for debates about the appropriate role of government in the wake of...

Stephen Collins / Ireland's Call (Hardback)

Brexit altered the relationship between Ireland and the United Kingdom in a profound way and led to the resignation of four British prime ministers. It took four years for the UK to leave the...

Douglas M. Boucher / The Paradox of Plenty (Large Paperback)

Hunger in a Bountiful World Why does the world food system work for some but fails for others? How can we change it? Since its founding in 1975, Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy...

Laura DeNardis / The Global War for Internet Governance (Large Paperback)

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James Carville / And the Horse He Rode in on: The People V. Kenneth Starr (Hardback)

President Clinton's most stalwart supporter, the nationally prominent pundit offers his critique of Independent Prosecutor Kenneth Starr and his investigation of the president, charging Starr with...

Adam Lent / Small is Powerful (Large Paperback)

Small is Powerful: Why the Era of Big Government, Big Business and Big Culture is Over

Bjorn Lomborg / How to Spend $75 Billion to Make the World a Better Place (Large Paperback)

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Thomas Frank / The Wrecking Crew - The American Right and the Lust For Power(Large Paperback)

From the author of What's the Matter with America?, here is a jaw-dropping investigation into decades of deliberate and lucrative right-wing misrule in America. In his previous book, Thomas Frank...

Peter Hitchens / The Abolition of Liberty

Crime is

Kai Strittmatter / We Have Been Harmonised: Life in China's Surveillance State

In China's shiny new 'Smart Cities', citizens can scarcely cross the road or buy an orange without the Party knowing, and posting a satirical online comment about President Xi's Winnie-the-Pooh-like...

Alan Tonelson / The Race To The Bottom (Large Paperback)

Why A Worldwide Worker Surplus And Uncontrolled Free Trade Are Sinking American Living Standards   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/

Mark Fenster / Conspiracy Theories: Secrecy and Power in American Culture (Large Paperback)

The popular study of conspir

Leo McKinstry / Turning the Tide (Large Paperback)

This analysis of modern Britain argues that, while superficially UK society is enjoying unprecedented wealth and freedom, the structures and attitudes that bind it together are being destroyed,...

Peter Hitchens / Abolition of Britain (Large Paperback)

This book offers a powerful polemic on the decline of modern day Britain. Hitchens identifies everything that he feels has gone wrong with Britain since the Second World War. Writing with brilliance...

John Freeman / Tales of Two Cities (Large Paperback)

Stories of Inequality in a Divided New York In a city where the top one percent earns more than a half-million dollars per year while twenty-five thousand children are homeless, public discourse...

Leo McKinstry / Turning the Tide (Large Paperback)

This analysis of modern Britain argues that, while superficially UK society is enjoying unprecedented wealth and freedom, the structures and attitudes that bind it together are being destroyed,...

Daniel Freeman / Paranoia - A Journey into Extreme Mistrust and Anxiety(Large Paperback)

  What is paranoia? What makes us mistrustful? How can this be overcome? Daniel Freeman, Professor of Psychology at Oxford, has spent thirty years at the vanguard of paranoia research and treatment...

Dan Lyons / Lab Rats (Large Paperback)

  Personality tests. Team-building exercises. Forced Fun. Desktop surveillance. Open-plan offices. Acronyms. Diminishing job security. Hot desking. Pointless perks. Hackathons. If any of the above...

Michael D'Antonio / The Truth About Trump (Large Paperback)

In the summer of 2015, as he vaulted to the lead among the many GOP candidates for president, Donald Trump was the only one dogged by questions about his true intentions. This most famous American...

Corey R. Lewandowski / Let Trump Be Trump (Large Paperback)

Let Trump Be Trump: The Inside Story of His Rise to the Presidency

Darryl Cunningham / Putin's Russia (Large Paperback)

The Rise of a Dictator Author of more than six acclaimed graphic novels and well-known for his economical drawing and clear, explanatory narrative, Cunningham shows how the West and its leaders have...

Paula Mayock & Eoin O'sullivan - Lives in Crisis : Homeless Young People in Dublin - PB - 2007

A larger format paperback, published by The Liffey Press, 2007.  Based on interviews with and study of the lives of 40 young people in Dublin, tracing their life experience , and exploring the...

Danny Goldberg / How the Left Lost Teen Spirit: (Large Paperback)

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Michael Laver - Invitation to Politics - PB

An examination of the theory of politics - what do governments do, what should they do, how power is used and transferred , theories of political power , controls, flaws, and influence.  Originally...

Thomas L. Friedman / Thank You for Being Late - An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations (Large Paperback)

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Michael D. Higgins - Power to the People : Essays : The Hot Press Years - HB SIGNED

Hardcover, published by Hot Press, signed by Michael D Higgins, 2024.  This edition was sold only via Hot Press directly, the standard trade-sold edition was unsigned.  An essential read for anyone...

Shane Ross / Wasters (Large Paperback) (5 Copies) (Book Club Bundle)

These 5 books are identical copies of each other. Ideal for book clubs or group reading..     Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. Even if...

Brian O'Connell / The Fat Boy with the Bomb (Large Paperback)

and 299 of the World's Craziest Politicians A completely original illustrated international dossier of lunatic statesmen and insane leadersThis first attempt to catalog the world s craziest...

Maria Ressa / How to Stand Up to a Dictator (Large Paperback)

What will you sacrifice for the truth?Maria Ressa has spent decades speaking truth to power. But her work tracking disinformation networks seeded by her own government, spreading lies to its own...

Ellen Coyne - Dirty Dancing : The Inside Story of the Irish Dancing Cheating Scandal - PB - BRAND NEW

From the outside, Irish dancing seems like a wholesome world of dazzling costumes, intricate footwork and groomed hair. The sport and art form, made world-famous by the smash hit Riverdance, is an...

Zeynep Tufekci / Twitter and Tear Gas - The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest(Large Paperback)

  From New York Times  opinion columnist Zeynep Tufekci, an firsthand account and incisive analysis of the role of social media in modern protest“[Tufekci’s] personal experience in the squares

Gerry O'Hanlon / A Dialogue of Hope (Large Paperback)

Critical Thinking for Critical Times We live in an Ireland, and a world, where conventional economic models have failed, politics is fractured, what it means to be human is contested, and opposition...

Kerryn Higgs / Collision Course - Endless Growth on a Finite Planet (Large Paperback)