Public Policy

An Introduction to Sustainability provides students with a comprehensive overview of the key concepts and ideas which are encompassed within the growing field of sustainability.The fully updated second edition, including new figures and images, teases...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945934520Author U S Department of LaborFormat HardbackPage Count 90Imprint Cosimo ReportsPublisher Cosimo ReportsWeight(grams) 290gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Thoroughly revised throughout, this bestselling book returns in a new edition to take an even more comprehensive look at the question: How can teachers and schools create genuinely inclusive classrooms that meet the needs of every student? Inclusive...

George Louis Beer Prize WinnerWallace K. Ferguson Prize FinalistA Marginal Revolution Book of the Year"A groundbreaking contribution...Intellectual history at its best."-Stephen Wertheim, Foreign AffairsNeoliberals hate the state. Or do they? In the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551527383Author Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-SamarasinhaFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Arsenal Pulp PressPublisher Arsenal Pulp Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062560131Author Laura Wides-Mu ozFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm)...

The Great American Recession resulted in the loss of eight million jobs between 2007 and 2009. More than four million homes were lost to foreclosures. Is it a coincidence that the United States witnessed a dramatic rise in household debt in the years...

*Winner of the Enlightened Economist Prize 2019**Winner of Debut Writer of the Year at the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards 2020**Longlisted for the Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2019*'Extreme Economies is a revelation -...

Peter Hall's seminal Cities of Tomorrow remains an unrivalled account of the history of planning in theory and practice, as well as of the social and economic problems and opportunities that gave rise to it. Now comprehensively revised, the fourth...

What are the effects of decreasing social mobility?How does education help - and hinder - us in improving our life chances?Why are so many of us stuck on the same social rung as our parents? Apart from the USA, Britain has the lowest social mobility in...

Was the Iraq war really about oil? As a senior oil advisor for the Office for Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance (ORHA) and briefly as minister of oil, Gary Vogler thought he knew. But while doing research for a book about his experience in Iraq,...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Everyone should read this book' MATT HAIG'One of the most inspiring books I have ever read' YUVAL NOAH HARARI'Inspirational, compassionate and clear. The time to read this is NOW' MARK RUFFALO'Figueres and Rivett-Carnac dare...

The infamous ‘Beeching Axe’ swept away virtually every Scottish branch line in the 1960s. Conventional wisdom viewed these losses as regrettable yet inevitable in an era of growing affluence and rising car ownership. This ground-breaking study of Dr...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781425105648Author Julie A. BrandFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Trafford PublishingPublisher Trafford PublishingWeight(grams) 271gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907585296Author Pablo FernandezFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint British Association for Adoption and Fostering (BAAF)Publisher...

Welfare states face profound challenges. Widening economic and social inequalities have been intensified by austerity politics, sharpened by the rise in ethno-nationalism and exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic. At the same time, recent decades have seen a...

The green movement has got it very wrong. Nature no longer controls our planet - it is humanity, 'the god species', that must save the environment we have inflicted unprecedented damage upon. And the tools we must use are the very technologies...

Is the future of food looking bleak - or better than ever? At a time when every day brings news of drought and famine, Amanda Little investigates what it will take to feed a hotter, hungrier, more crowded world. She explores the past along with the...

The environmental emergency is the greatest threat we face. Preventing it will require an unprecedented political and social response. And yet, there is still hope. Academic, physicist, environmental expert and award-winning science communicator Paul...

Managing Children's Homes focuses on leadership, effective management, the allocation of resources, and ensuring positive outcomes for young people in residential care.The book develops an interdisciplinary understanding of what needs to be taken into...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645149104Author Stacey M KingFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint Banaban Vision PublicationsPublisher Banaban Vision PublicationsWeight(grams) 91g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593298589Author Jason De LeonFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Viking Press IncPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262016360Author Jan K. BruecknerFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262538930Author Lee McIntyreFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 19mm

For the past century, governments have been compelled, time and again, to return to the search for solutions to the housing and economic challenges posed by a restructuring countryside. The rural housing question is an analysis of the complexity of...

Manual Handling in Health and Social Care is written for all those involved in the manual handling of adults or children - including those carrying it out, assessors, managers and commissioners. It lays out the current legal requirements in a...

Under contemporary capitalism the extraction of value from the built environment has escalated, working in tandem with other urban processes to lay the foundations for the exploitative processes of gentrification world-wide. Global gentrifications:...

A Financial Times Best Economics Book of the YearA Foreign Affairs Best Book of the YearA Fareed Zakaria GPS Book of the Week"A highly intelligent, fact-based defense of the virtues of an open, competitive economy and society."-Fareed Zakaria"A vitally...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE 2024Shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize 2023 for Nature Writing'Exquisite, luminous and quietly radical . . . utterly unique and refreshing' Lucy JonesWhere nothing grows, moss is the spark that triggers new life...

This aim of this open access book is to launch an international, cross-disciplinary conversation on fatherhood engagement. By integrating perspective from three sectors-Health, Social Policy, and Work in Organizations-the book offers a novel perspective...

A challenge to the conventional wisdom surrounding financial risk, providing insight into why easy solutions to control the financial system are doomed to fail Finance plays a key role in the prosperity of the modern world, but it also brings grave...

Britain began the twenty-first century convinced of its creativity. Throughout the New Labour era, the visual and performing arts, museums and galleries, were ceaselessly promoted as a stimulus to national economic revival, a post-industrial...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849354448Author Murray BookchinFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint AK PressPublisher AK PressWeight(grams) 358gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 132mm * 23mm

Food and the systems that produce, disrupt, prepare it are central to all human life. Yet, scholarly analysis of the food systems that support human life are highly fragmented across a variety of disciplines. Public administration, with its focus on the...

We need to act five times faster to avoid dangerous climate change. This is an inside story from Simon Sharpe, who has spent ten years at the forefront of climate change policy and diplomacy. In our fight to avoid dangerous climate change, science is...

Christianity Today 2019 Book of the Year Award - Politics and Public Life 'Scrupulously researched and documented, illustrated with both statistics and personal stories, this is a book that changes perceptions and could play a substantive role in...

Public health is an important and fast-developing area of ethical discussion. In this volume a range of issues in public health ethics are explored using the resources of moral theory, political philosophy, philosophy of science, applied ethics, law, and...

‘Compelling and essential . . . will appeal to everyone who enjoyed Adam Kay’s This Is Going to Hurt’ Philippa Perry In this powerful and deeply personal memoir, award-winning GP Dr Laura Marshall-Andrews introduces us to the patients who have shaped...

The resurgence of Russian power in the Arctic and High North will be a key consideration for NATO planners. The Alliance's northern flank represents both a potential vulnerability due to its relative isolation and an area in which NATO enjoys options for...

Today, the Bay Area is home to the most successful knowledge economy in America, while Los Angeles has fallen progressively further behind its neighbor to the north and a number of other American metropolises. Yet, in 1970, experts would have predicted...