Politics , Society & Current Affairs

Arjun Appadurai / Modernity at Large (Large Paperback)

The world is growing smaller. Every day we hear this idea expressed and witness its reality in our lives-through the people we meet, the products we buy, the foods we eat, and the movies we watch. In...

Masha Gessen / The Man Without a Face (Large Paperback)

Since coming to power in 1999, Vladimir Putin has ruthlessly seized control of media, exiled or killed political rivals and dismantled Russia's fragile electoral system, transforming Russia once more...

Garry Kasparov / Winter Is Coming (Large Paperback)

Winter Is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped The stunning story of Russia’s slide back into a dictatorship—and how the West is

Barack Obama & Michelle Obama - 2 Book Lot - Becoming ( HB 2018) | A Promised Land ( HB 2020)

2 hardcover UK editions, both published by Penguin UK , of the autobiographies of husband and wife Michelle Obama and Barcak Obama.  Both good in solid copies, light edgewear to covers/ dustjacket (...

Bella DePaulo / Singled Out (Large Paperback)

People who are single are changing the face of America. More than 40 percent of the nation's adults---over 87 million people---are divorced, widowed, or have always been single. * There are more...

Ann Coulter / Mugged - Racial Demagoguery from the 1970's to Obama(Large Paperback)

Anne Coulter is a US conservative connentator.  ''For decades, the US Left has been putting on a play with themselves as heroes in an ongoing civil rights movement—from which they were mostly absent...

Oliver Jones / Trump: The Rhetoric

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Eoghan Murphy / Running From Office (Large Paperback)

How to Fail at Politics 'A wonderfully engaging, honest and witty po

Rohit Talwar / A Very Human Future (Large Paperback)

A Very Human Future: Enriching Humanity in a Digitized World

Edward Lucas / Cyberphobia: Identity, Trust, Security and the Internet (Large Paperback)

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Barbara O'Connor , Mary J. Kelly / Media Audiences in Ireland: Power and Cultural Identity: Power and Cultural Identity (Large Paperback)

This is one of the first books to explore key issues relating to media, power, and cultural identity in Ireland. Twelve essays deal with television and audience response, broadcasting, gender issues,...

Harry Bohan / Working Towards Balance : Our Society in the New Millennium (Large Paperback)

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Tony Kinsella / Post Washington: Why America Can't Rule the World (Large Paperback)

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Edward Luce / Time to Start Thinking : America in the Age of Descent (Hardback)

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Ivan Rogers / 9 Lessons in Brexit

Two and a half years after Britain voted to leave the European Union, the political debate over Brexit seems as intense and as complicated as ever. Who and what can we trust? And how on earth do we...

Richard Heinberg / The Oil Depletion Protocol (Large Paperback)

The Oil Depletion Protocol is an international agreement that will enable nations of the world to cooperatively reduce their dependence on oil. It was proposed by Dr. Colin Campbell, a prominent...

Jodi Kantor / The Obamas

When Barack Obama won the 2008 presidential election, he also won a long-running debate with his wife Michelle. Contrary to her fears, politics now seemed like a worthwhile, even noble pursuit...

Chris Clearfield, Andras Tilcsik / Meltdown: Why Our Systems Fail and What We Can Do About It

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Douglas Schuler / New Community Networks: Wired for Change (Large Paperback)

This wise and informative book explains how grassroots networks can be implemented at little cost in a socially directed way. As a founding member of the Seattle Community Network--one of the first...

James Downey - All Things New : The 1989 General Election and Its Consequences - PB

Signed by the author to the late Olivia O'Leary and her husband Paul Tansey.  An analysis of the Irish 1989 election, and the role of the PD's, Haughey and much more. 

Fintan O'Toole & Sam McBride - For and Against a United Ireland - PB - BRAND NEW

The prospect of Irish unification is now stronger than at any point since partition in 1921. Voters on both sides of the Irish border may soon have to confront for themselves what the answer to a...

Ann Coulter / Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism

“Liberals’ loyalty to the United States is off-limits as a subject of political debate. Why is the relative patriotism of the two parties the only issue that is out of bounds for rational...

Michael Hardt, Antonio Negri / Empire (Large Paperback)

Imperialism as we knew it may be no more, but Empire is alive and well. It is, as Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri demonstrate in this bold work, the new political order of globalization. It is easy...

Adam Maguire - Bailout Babies - BRAND NEW

Tracked An Post delivery within Ireland is included in the cost.  Born into boom. Raised on bust. Still waiting for a break - meet the generation rewriting the rules of adulthood. The Bailout...

Robert Winnett / No Expenses Spared: The Inside Story of the Scoop Which Changed the Face of British Politics -- by the Team That Broke It (Large Paperback)

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Charles Spinosa / Disclosing New Worlds: Entrepreneurship, Democratic Action, and the Cultivation of Solidarity (Large Paperback)

Argues that human beings are at their best not when they are engaged in abstract reflection, but when they are intensely involved in changing the taken-for-granted, everyday practices in some domain...

Joshua Ramo / The Age of the Unthinkable: Why the new world disorder constantly surprises us and what to do about it (Large Paperback)

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Amitai Etzioni / The Limits Of Privacy (Large Paperback)

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Alexander Cockburn - Corruptions of Empire : Life Studies and the Reagan Era - HB -1988

"The implied narrative of this collection is the journalist's background, the imperial myths that helped to shape him, the impulse to exile and his encounter with the Reagan era. The background, the...

Tom Bower / Boris Johnson: The Gambler (Large Paperback)

Tom Bower is acknowledged as Britain’s leading investigative writer. His 24 bestselling books encompass a remarkably wide range of subjects. His most recent books include the most authoritative and...

Desmond Dinan / Ever Closer Union?: Introduction to the European Community (Large Paperback)

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Neill Nugent / Government and Politics of the European Union (Large Paperback)

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Michael McDowell - The Definite Article : Collected Writings - HB - BRAND NEW

Politician and barrister Michael McDowell has, for many years, been a widely published columnist and regular commentator on a broad range of social and political issues, both domestic and...

Neill Nugent / The Government and Politics of the European Union (Large Paperback)

A systematically updated and entirely red

Harold D. Clarke / Brexit - Why Britain Voted to Leave the European Union (Large Paperback)

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Nicholas Carr / The Shallows: How the Internet Is Changing the Way We Think, Read and Remember

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Mark Stevenson / We Do Things Differently

Our systems are failing. Old models - for education, healthcare and government, food production, energy supply - are creaking under the weight of modern challenges. As the world's population heads...

Anand Giridharadas / Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World

What explains the spreading backlash against the global elite? In this revelatory investigation, Anand Giridharadas takes us into the inner sanctums of a new gilded age, showing how the elite follow...

Tommy Greene - Troubled Waters - BRAND NEW

In the summer of 2023, the people of Northern Ireland were stunned when a foul-smelling green algae bloom blanketed the surface of Lough Neagh – the largest freshwater body on these islands –...

Fintan Drury - Catastrophe - Nakba II - PB BRAND NEW

‘The lips of the present give depth to history, and Fintan Drury certainly knows that there are several sides to every story. He rows the boat out – for some it will be a drowning expeirence, but for...

Jonathan L. Zittrain / The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It

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Evgeny Morozov / The Net Delusion: How Not to Liberate the World

In The Net Delusion: How Not to Liberate the World Evgeny Morozov argues that our utopian, internet-centric thinking holds devastating consequences for the future of democracy.We were promised that...

Jayawati Shrivastava / Lady Driver

"In 2008, when the Azad Foundation, an NGO based in Delhi, began training women to become drivers of commercial and private vehicles, most people thought they were somewhat out of touch with reality...

Ben Fountain / Beautiful Country Burn Again: Trump's Rise to Power and the State of the Country that Voted for Him

In a sweeping work of reportage set over the course of 2016, New York Times bestselling author Ben Fountain recounts a surreal year of politics and an exploration of the third American existential...

Peter Singer / The Life You Can Save : How to Play your part in ending World Poverty

Would you walk past a drowning child?This is a book that will change the way you think about giving. It shows what you can do, as an individual, about the fact that more than a billion people are...

Noreena Hertz / I.O.U. - The Debt Threat and Why We Must Defuse It

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Jack Jones / In Your Opinion : Political and Social Trends in Ireland through the eyes of the Electorate (Hardback)

Do opinion polls predict or influence election results in any way? How should the results be read? Who has access to the results of the differing surveys? Can the findings be helpful to political...

Alan Duncan / In the Thick of It - The Private Diaries of a Minister (Hardback)

As Minister of State at the Foreign Office, Alan Duncan was once described as Boris Johnson’s ‘pooper-scooper’. For two years, he deputised for the then Foreign Secretary, now Prime Minister. Few are...

William Easterly / White Mans Burden : Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good (Hardback)

We are all aware of the extreme hunger and poverty that afflict the world's poor. We hear the facts, see the images on television, buy the T-shirt and are moved as individuals and governments to dig...

Stefan Kornelius / Angela Merkel: The Chancellor and Her World

Brian Nolan / Bust to Boom? The Irish Experience of Growth and Inequality (Large Paperback)

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Rory Stewart / Politics On the Edge

From the former Conservative Cabinet minister and co-presenter of 2022's breakout hit podcast The Rest is Politics , a searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in ParliamentOver the...