Hunger and Fury - The Crisis of Democracy in the Balkans (Mujanovic Jasmin)(Paperback / softback)

Hunger and Fury - The Crisis of Democracy in the Balkans (Mujanovic Jasmin)(Paperback / softback)

A cool analysis of authoritarian tendencies among the Balkans' entrenched elites and the hollowness of existing 'democratisation' approaches. ONE OF 'THE SPECTATOR' BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2018, CHOSEN BY KAPIL

The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy (Schmitt Carl)(Paperback)

The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy offers a powerful criticism of the inconsistencies of representative democracy.Described both as 'the Hobbes of our age' and as 'the philosophical godfather of Nazism,' Carl Schmitt was a brilliant and controversial political theorist whose doctrine of

Democracy and Its Crisis (Grayling A. C.)(Paperback)

The EU referendum in the UK and Trump's victory in the USA sent shockwaves through our democratic systems. In Democracy and Its Crisis A. C. Grayling investigates why the institutions of representative democracy seem unable to hold up against forces they were designed to manage, and why it matters

Crisis? What Crisis? - Britain in the 1970s (Turner Alwyn W.)(Paperback / softback)

An acclaimed account of the most colourful and controversial decade in the history of modern

Crown in Crisis - Countdown to the Abdication (Larman Alexander)(Paperback / softback)

The definitive account of the Abdication Crisis of

Crises of Democracy (Przeworski Adam)(Pevná vazba)

Is democracy in crisis? The current threats to democracy are not just political: they are deeply embedded in the democracies of today, in current economic, social, and cultural conditions. In Crises of Democracy, Adam Przeworski presents a panorama of the political situation throughout the world of

Hitchhiking to India in 1962 - India, the Balkans and Greece in 2015 (Waller John)(Paperback / softback)

Balkans (Mazower Mark)(Paperback / softback)

A dazzling short history of the Balkans from the Romans to the present, which provides vital historical and cultural background to contemporary Balkan

Burn (Baggott Julianna)(Paperback / softback)

The final part in the PURE trilogy for fans of THE PASSAGE, THE ROAD and THE HUNGER

Fuse (Baggott Julianna)(Paperback / softback)

The second book in the PURE trilogy for fans of THE PASSAGE, THE ROAD and THE HUNGER

The Crisis in Physics (Caudwell Christopher)(Paperback)

Christopher Caudwell's The Crisis in Physics is a stylish and readable analysis of the lines of connection between scientific theories and economic realities. Caudwell provides a trenchant critique of mechanism and positivism. In the words of J.B.S. Haldane, The Crisis in Physics offers a 'quarry

Rise and Fall of Nations - Ten Rules of Change in the Post-Crisis World (Sharma Ruchir)(Paperback / softback)

Angels in America (new edition) (Kushner Tony)(Paperback / softback)

America in the mid-1980s. In the midst of the AIDS crisis and a conservative Reagan administration, New Yorkers grapple with life and death, love and sex, heaven and

Hunger Games (Collins Suzanne)(Paperback / softback)

Kniha The Hunger Games:Set in a dark vision of the near future, a reality TV show is taking place. Twelve boys and twelve girls are forced to appear in a live event called The Hunger Games. There is only one rule: kill or be killed. When sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdee steps forward to take her

Choir (Trollope Joanna)(Paperback / softback)

Crisis loomed in the gentle precinct of Aldminster Cathedral. The urbane and worldly Dean wanted nothing so much as to restore and beautify his beloved Cathedral - even if it meant sacrificing the Choir School to pay for it. Each human dilemma took its part in the turmoil of Chapter and Close and

Princess in Black and the Hungry Bunny Horde (Hale Shannon)(Paperback / softback)

In the Shadow of Green Man - My Journey from Poverty and Hunger to Food Security and Hope (Haslett-Marroquin Reginaldo)(Paperback / softback)

The Balkans: A Short History (Mazower Mark)(Paperback)

Throughout history, the Balkans have been a crossroads, a zone of endless military, cultural, and economic mixing and clashing between Europe and Asia, Christianity and Islam, Catholicism and Orthodoxy. In this highly acclaimed short history, Mark Mazower sheds light on what has been called the

Of Love and Hunger (Maclaren-Ross Julian)(Paperback / softback)

Set in the Depression era, this novel is written by a key literary figure in the pubs of post-war

LEONARD AND HUNGRY PAUL (Hession Ronan)(Paperback / softback)

LEONARD AND HUNGRY PAUL is the story of two friends who ordinarily would remain uncelebrated. They change the world differently to the rest of us: we try and change it by effort and force; they change it by discovering the small things they can do well and offering them to

Northmen's Fury - A History of the Viking World (Parker Philip)(Paperback / softback)

The Northmen's Fury describes how and why a region at the edge of Europe came to dominate and to terrorise much of the rest of the continent for nearly three centuries and how, in the end, the coming of Christianity and the growing power of kings tempered the Viking ferocity and stemmed the tide of

Gaza in Crisis - Reflections on Israel's War Against the Palestinians (Pappe Ilan)(Paperback / softback)

From the targeting of schools and hospitals, to the indiscriminate use of white phosphorus, Israel's conduct in 'Operation Cast Lead' has rattled even some of its most strident supporters. This title surveys the fallout from that devastation, and places the massacre in Gaza in the context of

Firefighting - The Financial Crisis and its Lessons (Bernanke Ben S.)(Paperback / softback)

The primary architects of the response to the 2008 financial crisis offer a magnificent big-picture synthesis - from why it happened to where we are

Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy (Schumpeter Joseph A.)(Paperback)

Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy remains one of the greatest works of social theory written in the twentieth Century. Schumpeter's contention that the seeds of capitalism's decline were internal, and his equal and opposite hostility to centralist socialism have perplexed, engaged and infuriated