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Staying Alive: Women, Ecology, and Development Vandana Shiva 9781623170516
RRP: £13.99£9.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623170516Author Vandana ShivaFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Frog LtdPublisher Frog LtdWeight(grams) 397gDimensions(mm) 228mm * 153mm * 17mm -
Can We Avoid Another Financial Crisis? Steve Keen 9781509513734
RRP: £9.99£8.95The Great Financial Crash had cataclysmic effects on the global economy, and took conventional economists completely by surprise. Many leading commentators declared shortly before the crisis that the magical recipe for eternal stability had been found... -
Money in One Lesson: How it Works and Why by Gavin Jackson
RRP: £18.99£13.61You Spend It. You Save It. You Never Have Enough of It. But how does money actually work?Understanding cash, currencies and the financial system is vital for making sense of what is going on in our world, especially now. Since the 2008 financial crisis,... -
The Delinquent Teenager Who Was Mistaken for the World's Top Climate Expert by Donna Laframboise 9781466453487
RRP: £20.00£16.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781466453487Author Donna LaframboiseFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint CreateSpacePublisher CreateSpaceWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *... -
Solving The Climate Crisis: Frontline Reports from the Race to Save the Earth by John J. Berger 9781644213223
RRP: £20.00£13.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644213223Author John J. BergerFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S. -
Boulevard of Broken Dreams: Why Public Efforts to Boost Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Have Failed--and What to Do about It by Josh A. Lerner
RRP: £17.99£14.38Silicon Valley, Singapore, Tel Aviv--the global hubs of entrepreneurial activity--all bear the marks of government investment. Yet, for every public intervention that spurs entrepreneurial activity, there are many failed efforts that waste untold... -
A Nation of Veterans: War, Citizenship, and the Welfare State in Modern America by Olivier Burtin
RRP: £45.00£39.18A Nation of Veterans examines how the United States created the world's most generous system of veterans' benefits. Though we often see former service members as an especially deserving group, the book shows that veterans had to wage a fierce political... -
Talking About Adoption to Your Adopted Child: A Guide for Parents by Marjorie Morrison 9781907585364
RRP: £9.50£6.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907585364Author Marjorie MorrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint British Association for Adoption and Fostering (BAAF)Publisher... -
Lithium: The Global Race for Battery Power and the New Energy Revolution by Lukasz Bednarski
RRP: £25.00£22.03A global energy revolution is unfolding before our eyes: ever-growing numbers of electric vehicles on our roads, laptops that last all day on a single charge and solar panels on our roofs, all reliant on lithium-ion batteries. This revolution is... -
Ma, I've Got Meself Locked Up in the Mad House Martha Long 9781780575414
RRP: £12.99£9.09Martha is now in her thirties. Her daughter has left home and she is lonely and vulnerable. The hard knocks have taken their toll on her health, and as she looks into the years still lying ahead of her, she shakes her head, feeling she hasn't the heart... -
Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back Row America by Chris Arnade
RRP: £26.99£18.59Once or twice a generation, an author reveals what life is like for the truly needy and disenfranchised. Chris Arnade cuts through the jargon and abstractions to expose the reality of our current class divide in stark pictures and unforgettable true... -
The Care Crisis: What Caused It and How Can We End It? by Emma Dowling 9781786630353
RRP: £9.99£8.17Every one of us will need care at some point in life: social care, healthcare, childcare, eldercare. In the shadow of COVID-19, care has become the most urgent topic of our times. But our care systems are in crisis. Concern for the most vulnerable has... -
High Street: How our town centres can bounce back from the retail crisis by David Rudlin
RRP: £40.00£33.18The high street is in crisis. How did we get here and what happens next? The global pandemic has made the crisis immeasurably worse but it wasn’t the cause. The crisis was already raging in 2019 with thousands of store closures. Large retailers became... -
The Technology Trap: Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation by Carl Benedikt Frey
RRP: £14.99£12.15"Made me look at the industrial revolution, invention, sleeping beauties, contexts and the forces that shape our societies differently."-David Byrne, New York Times Book ReviewHow the history of technological revolutions can help us better understand... -
Queen and Country: Same-Sex Desire in the British Armed Forces, 1939-45 by Emma Vickers 9781784991180
RRP: £19.99£17.61Queen and country examines the complex intersection between same-sex desire and the British Armed Forces during the Second World War. It illuminates how men and women lived, loved and survived in an institution which, at least publicly, was unequivocally... -
Unseen Beings: How We Forgot the World Is More Than Human by Erik Jampa Andersson
RRP: £12.99£7.72'Unseen Beings is a magnificent, passionate, brilliantly written manifesto for our urgent reimagining of our relationship with every aspect of the creation... indispensable reading for anyone who longs for a just and balanced human future. Buy it and... -
Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism by Harsha Walia 9781642592696
RRP: £19.99£13.23In Border and Rule, one of North America's foremost thinkers and immigrant rights organizers delivers an unflinching examination of migration as a pillar of global governance and gendered racial class formation. Harsha Walia disrupts easy... -
Another End of the World is Possible – Living the Collapse (and not merely surviving it) by P Servigne
RRP: £14.99£9.80The critical situation in which our planet finds itself is no longer in doubt. Some things are already collapsing while others are beginning to do so, increasing the possibility of a global catastrophe that would mean the end of the world as we know it... -
Enforcing Normalcy: Disability, Deafness and the Body by Lennard J. Davis
£17.25In this highly original study of the cultural assumptions governing our conception of people with disabilities, Lennard J. Davis argues forcefully against "ableist" discourse and for a complete recasting of the category of disability itself.Enforcing... -
All Together Now?: One Man's Walk in Search of a Lost England Mike Carter 9781783351572
RRP: £10.99£7.32'This important, disturbing and frequently heartbreaking book should be read by every politician in Westminster.' Adrian Tempany, Observer'In a few weeks' time, it would be thirty-five years to the day since those men and women had walked 340 miles to... -
The Necropolitical Production and Management of Forced Migration by Ariadna Estevez 9781793653291
RRP: £81.00£74.50Using examples from the United States-Mexico border, Central America, and South America, this book argues that forced migration is not a spontaneous phenomenon, but rather a product of necropolitical strategies designed to depopulate resource rich... -
The Technology Trap: Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation by Carl Benedikt Frey 9780691172798
RRP: £25.00£20.59"Made me look at the industrial revolution, invention, sleeping beauties, contexts and the forces that shape our societies differently."-David Byrne, New York Times Book ReviewHow the history of technological revolutions can help us better understand... -
Sludge: What Stops Us from Getting Things Done and What to Do about It by Cass R. Sunstein
RRP: £16.99£10.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262545082Author Cass R. SunsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
The Politics of Climate Change Anthony Giddens (London School of Economics and Political Science) 9780745655154
RRP: £18.99£16.87"A landmark study in the struggle to contain climate change, the greatest challenge of our era. I urge everyone to read it."-Bill Clinton, 42nd President of the United States of America Since it first appeared, this book has achieved a classic status... -
The Tyranny of Metrics by Jerry Z. Muller
RRP: £20.00£15.89How the obsession with quantifying human performance threatens our schools, medical care, businesses, and governmentToday, organizations of all kinds are ruled by the belief that the path to success is quantifying human performance, publicizing the... -
The Well-Tempered City: What Modern Science, Ancient Civilizations, and Human Nature Teach Us About the Future of Urban Life by Jonathan F. P. Rose
RRP: £12.99£8.482017 PROSE Award Winner: Outstanding Scholarly Work by a Trade Publisher In the vein of Jane Jacobs's The Death and Life of Great American Cities and Edward Glaeser's Triumph of the City, Jonathan F. P. Rose-a visionary in urban development and... -
From Greed to Wellbeing: A Buddhist Approach to Resolving Our Economic and Financial Crises Joel Magnuson (Portland Community College) 9781447318941
RRP: £15.99£12.85Despite our fitful attempts over decades at reform, the global financial system seems caught in cycles of boom and bust, instability, and scandal. In this timely new book, Joel Magnuson builds on the classic works of E. F. Schumacher and other kindred... -
The Fertile Earth: Nature's Energies in Agriculture, Soil Fertilisation and Forestry by Viktor Schauberger 9781858600604
RRP: £25.99£18.28How does Nature work? When one looks closely at the enormously complex web of life, it is impossible not to be caught by the wonder of how all living things - including rocks and crystals - are interconnected. Just as there is thought behind action, so... -
The Solutions are Already Here: Strategies for Ecological Revolution from Below Peter Gelderloos 9780745345116
RRP: £16.99£11.54Are alternative energies and Green New Deals enough to deliver environmental justice? Peter Gelderloos argues that international governmental responses to the climate emergency are structurally incapable of solving the crisis. But there is hope. ... -
The Great Acceleration: An Environmental History of the Anthropocene Since 1945 by Professor J. R. McNeill
RRP: £20.95£16.88The Earth has entered a new age-the Anthropocene-in which humans are the most powerful influence on global ecology. Since the mid-twentieth century, the accelerating pace of energy use, greenhouse gas emissions, and population growth has thrust the... -
Place in the Country: Three Counties Asylum 1860-1999 by Judith Pettigrew
RRP: £12.99£11.95In the mid-1850s, the counties of Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and Huntingdonshire set about looking for a site for a new asylum to house their 'pauper lunatics'. Two hundred acres of farmland at Stotfold on the Hertfordshire-Bedfordshire border were... -
Town Planning in Britain Since 1900: The Rise and Fall of the Planning Ideal by Gordon E. Cherry 9780631199946
RRP: £37.95£34.20This book examines town and country planning policy in twentieth-century Britain as an important aspect of state activity. Tracing the origins of planning ideals and practice, Gordon Cherry charts the adoption by state, both at the central and local... -
New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future by James Bridle
RRP: £9.99£8.17From the highly acclaimed author of WAYS OF BEING. We live in times of increasing inscrutability. Our news feeds are filled with unverified, unverifiable speculation, much of it automatically generated by anonymous software. As a result, we no longer... -
Ethical Vegan: A Personal and Political Journey to Change the World Jordi Casamitjana 9781912836581
RRP: £12.99£8.68'Veganism is not just a diet. Not just an opinion, nor a trend. It is a 21st-century revolution which began 20 centuries ago.' From the activist, scientist and animal welfare consultant whose employment tribunal changed the law forever comes a timely,... -
Long Problems: Climate Change and the Challenge of Governing across Time by Thomas Hale 9780691238128
RRP: £25.00£21.19Political strategies for tackling climate change and other “long problems” that span generationsClimate change and its consequences unfold over many generations. Past emissions affect our climate today, just as our actions shape the climate of tomorrow,... -
No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference by Greta Thunberg 9780241514573
RRP: £7.99£5.79In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.No One is Too Small to Make a Difference collects Greta Thunberg's history-making speeches, from addresses at climate rallies around the world audiences at the UN, the... -
Community Care and the Law by Luke Clements 9781912273225
£81.64Community Care and the Law is the pre-eminent legal text on adult social care law. Its contributors are leading experts in the field and the lead author, Professor Luke Clements, was the expert adviser to the Parliamentary Committee that scrutinised the... -
How to Fight Inequality: (and Why That Fight Needs You) Ben Phillips 9781509543090
RRP: £14.99£13.58Inequality is the crisis of our time. The growing gap between a few at the top and the rest of society damages us all. No longer able to deny the crisis, every government in the world is now pledged to fix it - and yet it keeps on getting worse. In this... -
BTEC Level 2 Firsts in Children's Play, Learning and Development Student Book Penny Tassoni 9781447944614
RRP: £31.49£29.08Resources designed to support learners of the new next generation BTEC First in Children's Play, Learning and Development specification*. Covers the underpinning knowledge and understanding for all core, mandatory and optional units for the Award and... -
Thinking like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy by Elizabeth Popp Berman 9780691248882
RRP: £20.00£15.89The story of how economic reasoning came to dominate Washington between the 1960s and 1980s-and why it continues to constrain progressive ambitions todayFor decades, Democratic politicians have frustrated progressives by tinkering around the margins of...