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Making Health Public: A Manifesto for a New Social Contract Peter Littlejohns (Kings College London) 9781447371267
RRP: €47.60€37.31A public health crisis is gripping the UK. Improvements in life expectancy have stalled, health inequalities have widened, obesity and alcohol misuse are placing an increasing strain on health services and urban air pollution is now widely recognised as... -
Obedience is Freedom Jacob Phillips 9781509549344
RRP: €17.84€16.40The virtue of obedience is seen as outdated today, if not downright toxic - and yet, are we any freer than our forebears? In this provocative work, Jacob Phillips argues not. Many feel unable to speak freely, their opinions policed by the implicit or... -
Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign by Jonathan Allen
RRP: €16.65€11.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553447118Author Jonathan AllenFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Crown Publishing Group, Division of Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
The River of Lost Footsteps by Thant Myint-U
RRP: €15.46€10.47Burma is currently ruled by a harsh dictatorship unmoved by Western activists and sanctions. It is also the sight of the longest-running conflict in the world. Drawing both on his own family's stories and his years of hands-on political experience... -
Practice Research in the Human Services: A University-Agency Partnership Model by Michael J. Austin
RRP: €36.88€33.89This book offers a practical approach to conducting practice research in the field of human services. This evolving form of applied research seeks to understand practice in the context of the relationships between service providers and service users,... -
Can We Talk about Israel?: A Guide for the Curious, Confused, and Conflicted by Daniel Sokatch
RRP: €29.75€21.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635573879Author Daniel SokatchFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USAWeight(grams) 596g -
Wonder Confronts Certainty: Russian Writers on the Timeless Questions and Why Their Answers Matter by Gary Saul Morson 9780674971806
RRP: €38.02€29.95A noted literary scholar traverses the Russian canon, exploring how realists, idealists, and revolutionaries debated good and evil, moral responsibility, and freedom.Since the age of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Chekhov, Russian literature has posed... -
Keys of This Blood: Pope John Paul II Versus Russia and the West for Control of the New World Order by Martin 9780671747237
€38.98Synopsis coming soon.......Book InformationISBN 9780671747237Author MartinFormat HardbackPage Count 736Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 790gDimensions(mm) 228mm * 155mm * 50mm -
The Rise of the Outsiders: How Mainstream Politics Lost its Way Steve Richards 9781786491442
RRP: €15.46€10.47Intelligent, nuanced and wide-ranging, this is the essential handbook for understanding the chaotic political times in which we live.In recent years, voters have deserted the political centre like never before. Whether it's Trump, Brexit, Le Pen, or... -
Scanned: Why Vaccine Passports and Digital IDs Will Mean the End of Privacy and Personal Freedom Nick Corbishley 9781645021629
RRP: €15.46€10.51Imagine being physically denied access to your office, business or livelihood. Imagine being refused entry to a shop or being told who you can or cannot sit with at a restaurant. Imagine being barred from a hospital room when you or your family member... -
Complexity Theory and the Social Sciences: The State of the Art David Byrne 9781032100869
RRP: €42.83€38.01This expanded and updated edition of Complexity Theory and the Social Sciences: The State of the Art revisits the use of complexity theory across the social sciences and demonstrates how complexity informs approaches to various contemporary issues in the... -
There's a War Going On But No One Can See It by Huib Modderkolk
RRP: €11.89€9.23'A brilliant page-turner by one of Holland's finest investigative journalists' Rutger Bregman, author of Humankind 'Essential . . . What's revealed are networks of spies and criminals fighting an invisible war that involves us all' Eliot Higgins,... -
Putting the Tea in Britain: The Scots Who Made Our National Drink by Les Wilson
RRP: €17.84€11.97'Deserves to sell like hot cakes' - Allan Massie, The Scotsman Shortlisted for the Saltire Society History Book of the Year From the Indian Mutiny to the London Blitz, offering a 'nice cup of tea' has been a stock British response to a crisis. But... -
Freud and the Non-European by Edward W. Said
€19.99Using an impressive array of material from literature, archaeology and social theory, Edward Said explores the profound implications of Freud's Moses and Monotheism for Middle-East politics today. The resulting book reveals Said's abiding interest in... -
Civil Resistance: What Everyone Needs to Know (R) by Erica Chenoweth
RRP: €15.46€11.11A sweeping overview of civil resistance movements around the world that explains what they are, how they work, why they are often effective, and why they can fail. Civil resistance is a method of conflict through which unarmed civilians use a variety... -
Dance of the Trillions: Developing Countries and Global Finance by David Lubin
RRP: €35.70€31.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815736745Author David LubinFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm)... -
The Governor's Dilemma: Indirect Governance Beyond Principals and Agents by Kenneth W. Abbott
RRP: €39.85€36.51The Governor's Dilemma develops a general theory of indirect governance based on the tradeoff between governor control and intermediary competence; the empirical chapters apply that theory to a diverse range of cases encompassing both international... -
J. S. Mill: 'On Liberty' and Other Writings by John Stuart Mill 9780521379175
RRP: €21.41€16.99On Liberty has become celebrated as the most powerful defence of the freedom of the individual, and is now widely regarded as the most important theoretical foundation for Liberalism as a political creed. The Subjection of Women is a powerful indictment... -
To End a Civil War: Norway's Peace Engagement with Sri Lanka by Mark Salter
RRP: €29.75€27.11Between 1983 and 2009 Sri Lanka was host to a bitter civil war fought between the Government and the Tamil Tigers, which sought the creation of an independent Tamil state. In May 2009 came the war's violent end with the crushing defeat of the Tamil... -
The Great Transformation by Karl Polanyi
€33.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807056431Author Karl PolanyiFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 465gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 25mm -
The Ant Trap: Rebuilding the Foundations of the Social Sciences by Brian Epstein 9780190871758
RRP: €36.28€26.62We live in a world of crowds and corporations, artworks and artifacts, legislatures and languages, money and markets. These are all social objects - they are made, at least in part, by people and by communities. But what exactly are these things? How are... -
The Passengers by Will Ashon 9780571364145
RRP: €17.84€11.97An original and profound portrait of contemporary Britain told through the testimonies of its inhabitants.SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2023'A spectacularly enjoyable and compelling reading experience . . . funny, moving, surprising and... -
We are the Change-Makers: poems supporting Drop the Disorder! by Jo Watson
RRP: €17.84€16.26This is a unique collection of poems written by and for people who have survived our mental health system and the diagnostic process that is used to categorise and treat mental and emotional distress. In October 2016, Jo Watson launched A Disorder for... -
The Power of Women: A doctor's journey of hope and healing Dr Dr Denis Mukwege 9781780725376
RRP: €15.46€10.51Nobel laureate, world-renowned doctor and human rights activist, Dr Mukwege has dedicated his life to caring for victims of sexual violence. Over the past two decades living and working in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, he has stood up to soldiers... -
Unwoke: How to Defeat Cultural Marxism in America by Ted Cruz 9781684513628
RRP: €26.18€17.20Our institutions have gone "woke." Everybody knows that. But nobody has come up with a way to stop it. Until now.In this hard-hitting new book, Senator Ted Cruz delivers a realistic battle plan for defeating the woke assault on America.The Democratic... -
On the Emergence of an Ecological Class: A Memo Bruno Latour (Institut d'etudes politiques (Sciences Po), Paris, France) 9781509555062
RRP: €11.89€8.33Under what conditions could ecology, instead of being one cluster of movements among others, organise politics around an agenda and a set of beliefs? Can ecology aspire to define the political horizon in the way that liberalism, socialism, conservatism... -
Desert Dawn by Waris Dirie
RRP: €13.08€9.06Fashion model, UN ambassador and courageous spirit, Waris Dirie is a remarkable woman, born into a traditional family of tribal desert nomads in Somalia. She told her story - enduring, at five years old, the ancient and savage custom of female... -
Creation Walk: The Amazing Story of a Small Blue Planet by Brian Grogan
RRP: €14.22€12.58This booklet offers an unique presentation of the unfolding of our universe. It interweaves the insights of contemporary science with Christian faith, and reveals the divine orchestration of the Creation Story in a dramatic, fresh and appealing way. ... -
The Battle for British Islam: Reclaiming Muslim Identity from Extremism: 2016 by Sara Khan 9780863561597
RRP: €17.84€11.96Across Britain, Muslims are caught up in a battle over the very nature of their faith. And extremists appear to be gaining the upper hand. Sara Khan has spent the past decade campaigning for tolerance and equal rights within Muslim communities, and is... -
Exorbitant Privilege: The Rise and Fall of the Dollar by Barry Eichengreen
RRP: €14.27€10.31For more than half a century, the dollar has been not just America's currency but the world's. It is used globally by importers, exporters, investors, governments and central banks alike. This singular role of the dollar is a source of strength for the... -
The Genius of Home: Teaching Your Children at Home with the Waldorf Curriculum by Catherine Read 9781952166099
RRP: €29.75€21.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952166099Author Catherine ReadFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint SteinerbooksPublisher SteinerbooksWeight(grams) 402g -
The Return of Inequality: Social Change and the Weight of the Past by Mike Savage
€37.09A pioneering book that takes us beyond economic debate to show how inequality is returning us to a past dominated by empires, dynastic elites, and ethnic divisions.The economic facts of inequality are clear. The rich have been pulling away from the rest... -
The Soul at Work: From Alienation to Autonomy by Franco "Bifo" Berardi
RRP: €20.22€14.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781584350767Author Franco "Bifo" BerardiFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm... -
Against Civilization: Readings and Reflections by John Zerzan 9780922915989
RRP: €19.03€13.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780922915989Author John ZerzanFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Feral House,U.S.Publisher Feral House,U.S.Weight(grams) 391g -
AI for School Teachers Rose Luckin 9781032037714
RRP: €27.36€24.36What is artificial intelligence? Can I realistically use it in my school? What's best done by human intelligence vs. artificial intelligence, and how do I bring these strengths together? What would it look like for me, and my school, to be AI Ready?AI... -
The Other Arab-Israeli Conflict: Making America's Middle East Policy, from Truman to Reagan Steven L. Spiegel 9780226769622
RRP: €53.55€51.90The Other Arab-Israeli Conflict illuminates the controversial course of America's Middle East relations from the birth of Israel to the Reagan administration. Skillfully separating actual policymaking from the myths that have come to surround it, Spiegel... -
The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Donald Trump by Corey Robin
RRP: €23.19€17.55Late in life, William F. Buckley made a confession to Corey Robin. Capitalism is "boring," said the founding father of the American right. "Devoting your life to it," as conservatives do, "is horrifying if only because it's so repetitious. It's like sex... -
Adua by Igiaba Scego
RRP: €10.70€7.91Once a young girl in Somalia who wanted to be in films and escape the domineering grasp of her father, Adua is now an "Old Lira," a woman who immigrated to Italy during the first wave in the 1970's. With the end of the Somalian civil war, Adua begins to... -
Future? China! How The New Superpower Is Changing The West by Frank Sieren 9789811264672
RRP: €29.75€26.35'For centuries, it was taken for granted that the West determined the rules of the global game. In the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, it was the Europeans. In the 20th century, it was the Americans. Now we find ourselves at the dawn of an epochal,... -
Going to Seed: A Counterculture Memoir Simon Fairlie 9781645020615
RRP: €17.84€11.96Simon Fairlie is possibly the most influential - and unusual - eco-activist you might not have heard of. The Observer Simon Fairlie is the original hippie. The Idler This is a fascinating, funny and moving record of an extraordinary life lived in...