POLITICS from Chilton Books

London: Andre Deutsch, 1971.. 1st edition."Barry Reckord, a Jamaican playwright, talked not only to children in Cuba but apparently to everyone - street-sweepers, factory managers, housewives, doctors, students, teachers, farmers, motor mechanics, economists, foreign experts - and they all spoke freely to him about the Cuban revolution, or the Cuban experiment in equality, as he calls it." Pp.191.… Read more about this item

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.. In a series of analytically focused chapter Dr Geuss discusses the state, authority, violence and coercion, the concept of legitimacy, liberalism, toleration, freedom, democracy, and human rights. He argues that the liberal democratic state commited to the defence of human rights is a historically contingent conjunction of disparate elements that do not fit together… Read more about this item

London: James Currey, 1995.. The dynamics of labour bargaining for slave, contract and wage workers in the Caribbean, the Southern States and Latin America is traced here over a period of two centuries....These studies demonstrate that, despite changes in legal status, the methods available for workers to improve their terms of work remained substantively the same." Pp.x/309, owner's… Read more about this item

Cape Town: Cape Times Limited, 1908.. A Comparison of Some Union Constitutions. With a sketch of the Development of Union in Canada, Australia and Germany; and the text of the Constitutions of the United States, Canada, Germany, Switzerland and Australia. Pp.viii/208/cxviii, slight toning to pages. Dark blue cloth, gilt title to front and spine, wear to top and tail… Read more about this item

Woodstock: Princeton University Press, 2008.. Uncorrected Advanced Proof. "What kind of hypocrite should voters choose as their next leader? The question seems utterly cynical, but, as Runciman suggests, it is actually much more cynical to pretend that politics can ever be completely sincere....What are the limits of truthfulness in politics? And when, where, and how should we expect our… Read more about this item

London: Harrap, 1983.. 1st edition. Ian Will "shows how security and spying are inextricably linked...He examines the growth of govrnment computers, the police, the security services, the DHSS - and shows with frightening clarity and from first-hand experience how data files can be built up (often inaccurately) to which the individual has no right of access and which he… Read more about this item

Petersfield: Harriman House Ltd, 2007.. 1st edition. A book about political ideas. "New Labour's main economic policies - tax credits, the minimum wage, expanding higher education and promoting macroeconomic stability - have not removed the trade-off between equality and efficiency. However, the failure of managerialism is not merely a failure of particular policies. There are deeper flaws in it.… Read more about this item

London: Thornton Butterworth Ltd, 1930.. 1st edition. Preface by The Rt.Hon. Sir Austen Chamberlain. Introductory Life by Baron Rochus von Rheinbaben. Contents include: The Fleet, World Economics and the Nation; The Common Destiny of England and Germany; Do We Need Colonies? The Political Upheaval; Germany of Yesterday and To-Day; Scapa Flow; Bethmann Hollweg; The Fiction of War Guilt and… Read more about this item

Ringwood, Victoria: Penguin, 1991.. Frank Brennan, a lawyer, Jesuit priest and Aboriginal affairs advisor to Australia's Catholic bishops, explains what needs to be done in law and social justice to create an agreement for the future between black and white Australians." Pp.x/176, toning to pages. Paperback, wear to top front edge. G+.

New York: World Goodwill / Lucis Trust, 1978.. March 1978. Published in anticipation of the United Nations Special Session on Disarmament in May and June 1978. "The support of world public opinion is vital to convey to keaders the necessity for meaningful progress in this most important of global problems....The choice is clearly between a future of right relationship… Read more about this item

Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1973.. Pelican. "1905, which Bernard Wolfe called Trotsky's masterpiece, is a serioes of essays based on the events of thatt year, and containing the first formulation of his theory of permanent revolution." Pp.504, toning to pages, owner's name to inside front cover. Paperback, scuffing to spine and crease to lower front corner. G+.

London: George G.Harrap & Co.Ltd, 1971.. Third edition. (Revised up to June 1970). Contents: 1.The British Constitution; 2.The Sovereign; 3.The House of Lords; 4.The House of Commons; 5.Procedure in Parliament; 6.Parliamentary Representation; 7.The Party System; 8.The Cabinet; 9.The Civil Service; 10.Administrative Law; 11.Parliament and the Public Corporations; 12.Local and Regional Government; 13.Parliament and the People. Pp.viii/248. Paperback. VG.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1939.. 1st edition. "Asserting that communism, just as much as fascism, is incompatible with democracy, he[Murry] conducts a critical examination of the theories of Karl Marx, and although he evidently finds Marx worthy of the respect due to 'a Hebrew prophet' imbued with what amounts to a religious idea of regeneration, he shows that Marx's conception… Read more about this item

London: John Murray, 1869.. 1st edition. "When after a social dinner, at which I was present, Sir Charles Wetherell, with much humour, sketched the character of several of the guests; he thus addressed Lord Campbell:- "Then there is my noble and biographical friend who has added a new terror to death." I have lived to find that he… Read more about this item

London: William Heinemann, 1907.. 1st British edition. Sinclair devoted his writing career to documenting and criticizing the social and economic conditions of the early 20th century in both fiction and nonfiction. He exposed his view of the injustices of capitalism and the overwhelming effects of poverty among the working class. Pp.xviii/284,black & white photo frontispiece + 7 further black… Read more about this item

London: The Liberal Publication Department, 1933.. The thirtieth edition of the Liberal Year Book. "The Poll Book now contains a reliable description of every candidate and the correct voting figures at all general elections and by-elections for the past nine years....As usual a complete summary is given of every Act of Parliament passed, including those which received the… Read more about this item

London: Freedom Press, 1949.. 1st edition. Political philosophy. Pp.56, errata slip pasted to p.9, inkstain to p.42, ex libris bookplate (Libertad Gabielles) to inside front board, four page extract from Herbert Read's review of "The Language of Symbols" by Susanne Langer ("World Review") folded and lossely enclosed. Pale blue paper-covered boards have tears to spine… Read more about this item

London: Pluto Press, 1995.. 'Necessary Illusions' explodes the myth of an independent media, intent on uncovering the truth at any cost. Noam Chomsky demonstrates that, in practice, the media in the developed world serve the interests of state and corporate power - despite protestations to the contrary. While individual journalists strive to abide by high standards of professionalism and… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: The American Philosophical Society, 1956.. 1st edition. Edmund Burke was the agent of the New York Assembly during the four years preceding the American Revolution. "The letters of Burke and other members of the Burke family to O'Hara make possible...an intimate insight into the character and private life of the great statesman and political philosopher. They illuminate… Read more about this item

Boston: Bedford / St. Martin's, 1999.. Edited and with an introduction by John E.Toews. "Intended to engage students and teachers in the imaginative task of reconstructing the historical meaning of the Communist Manifesto as a communication from the past that can stimulate historical reflection and critical self-understanding in the present." Pp.xvi/184, 9 figure illustrations. Paperback. VG.