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South vs North: India's Great Divide by Nilakantan RS
$26.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789393986344Author Nilakantan RSFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint Juggernaut PublicationPublisher Juggernaut PublicationDimensions(mm) 250mm * 200mm *... -
Political Ecology: A Critical Introduction Paul Robbins (Ohio State University) 9781119167440
RRP: $39.93$35.41An accessible, focused exploration of the field of political ecology The third edition of Political Ecology spans this sprawling field, using grounded examples and careful readings of current literature. While the study of political ecology is sometimes... -
The Economics of Belonging: A Radical Plan to Win Back the Left-Behind and Achieve Prosperity for All by Martin Sandbu 9780691204529
RRP: $25.80$21.01A radical new approach to economic policy that addresses the symptoms and causes of inequality in Western society todayFueled by populism and the frustrations of the disenfranchised, the past few years have witnessed the widespread rejection of the... -
Social Value Investing: A Management Framework for Effective Partnerships by Howard W. Buffett
RRP: $20.63$16.72Social Value Investing presents a new way to approach some of society's most difficult and intractable challenges. Although many of our world's problems may seem too great and too complex to solve - inequality, climate change, affordable housing,... -
In Defense of Housing: The Politics of Crisis by Peter Marcuse
RRP: $21.92$21.89Everyone needs and deserves housing. But today our homes are being transformed into commodities, making the inequalities of the city ever more acute. Profit has become more important than social need. The poor are forced to pay more for worse housing... -
Understanding Offending Behaviour John Stewart 9780582234321
RRP: $67.07$58.30Based on a survey of probation work with almost 1400 young adult offenders, this book provides a unique insight into the realities of probation practice in a context of increasing poverty, drug use and community breakdown. Starting with an outline of... -
Atlas of Informal Settlement: Understanding Self-Organized Urban Design Kim Dovey (Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at the University of Melbourne, University of Melbourne, Australia) 9781350295032
RRP: $32.24$26.37While often seen as unplanned or spontaneous, informal settlement is better understood as a mode of production: a co-evolution of architecture, urban design and planning that embodies informal rules and shapes urban development. The Atlas of Informal... -
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
RRP: $18.05$14.94Widely heralded as a "masterful" (The Washington Post) and "essential" (Slate) history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein's The Color of Law offers "the most forceful argument ever published on how federal, state, and local governments... -
A Just Energy Transition: Getting Decarbonisation Right in a Time of Crisis Ed Atkins (University of Bristol) 9781529220964
RRP: $34.82$26.88To reduce emissions and address climate change, we need to invest in renewables and rapidly decarbonise our energy networks. However, decarbonisation is often seen as a technical project, detached from questions of politics and social justice. What if... -
Fed Up: An Insider's Take on Why the Federal Reserve is Bad for America by Danielle Booth
RRP: $34.82$22.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735211650Author Danielle Di Martino BoothFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Prentice Hall PressPublisher Prentice Hall Press -
The Right to Buy?: Selling off public and social housing by Alan Murie 9781447332077
RRP: $15.47$12.15The Right to Buy has had a massive impact on Housing in the UK for 35 years and in 2015 there were proposals to extend it. But what is the Right to Buy policy, how has it developed and what has its impact been? What evidence is there about the wider and... -
Humanizing the Economy: Co-operatives in the Age of Capital by John Restakis 9780865716513
RRP: $23.21$15.87At the close of the twentieth century, corporate capitalism extended its reach over the globe. While its defenders argue that globalisation is the only way forward for modern, democratic societies, the spread of this system is failing to meet even the... -
Punishing the Poor: The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity by Loic Wacquant
RRP: $30.95$27.40The punitive turn of penal policy in the United States after the acme of the Civil Rights movement responds not to rising criminal insecurity but to the social insecurity spawned by the fragmentation of wage labor and the shakeup of the ethnoracial... -
Cloud Empires: How Digital Platforms Are Overtaking the State and How We Can Regain Control by Vili Lehdonvirta
RRP: $33.54$22.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for PROSE Award - Business, Finance & Management 2023.Book InformationISBN 9780262047227Author Vili LehdonvirtaFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint MIT... -
A Rough Ride to the Future by James Lovelock
RRP: $14.18$10.02In A Rough Ride to the Future, James Lovelock - the great scientific visionary of our age - presents a radical vision of humanity's future as the thinking brain of our Earth-systemJames Lovelock, who has been hailed as 'the man who conceived the first... -
Digitally Invisible: How the Internet Is Creating the New Underclass Nicol Turner Lee 9780815738985
RRP: $25.79$19.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815738985Author Nicol Turner LeeFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & Littlefield -
The Future of the Factory: How Megatrends are Changing Industrialization by Jostein Hauge 9780198861584
RRP: $45.15$38.83For centuries, industrialization and factory-based production have been core ingredients in economic growth, development, and innovation. This symbiotic relationship between industrialization and economic prosperity is now changing. 'Megatrends' - trends... -
Saving Sick Britain: Why We Need the 'Health Society' by Martin Yuille
RRP: $32.25$24.26Britain is sick and it needs saving. Covid-19 has brought death, disruption and disorder. It has revealed fundamental failures in public policy and our approach to health. For years, the same failures have perpetuated a host of modern plagues -... -
CACHE Entry Level 3/Level 1 Caring for Children Student Book by Penny Tassoni
RRP: $46.56$42.67Written by Penny Tassoni so students can be sure that content is reliable, relevant and of the highest quality. Content relating to each level is clearly signposted so students can easily find the information they need. Visually appealing, full-colour... -
The AI Wave in Defence Innovation: Assessing Military Artificial Intelligence Strategies, Capabilities, and Trajectories by Michael Raska
RRP: $47.72$41.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Reviews"This is a must-read volume for anybody interested in understanding both the general implications of AI in the world of defence and more specific issues, including a set... -
The Hybrid Media System: Politics and Power by Andrew Chadwick 9780190696733
RRP: $45.78$34.64New communication technologies have reshaped media and politics. But who are the new power players? The Hybrid Media System is a sweeping new theory of how political communication now works. Politics is increasingly defined by organizations, groups, and... -
The Rendlesham Forest UFO Mystery: And Project Honey Badger by George Wingfield 9781906069230
RRP: $19.29$12.26On a dark winter's night in December 1980 two US airmen who were security guards at a USAF base in Suffolk, England, encountered a mysterious unidentified craft with flashing lights that had landed in the forest outside the perimeter. When the story got... -
Tech Monopoly Herbert Hovenkamp 9780262548748
RRP: $20.63$14.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262548748Author Herbert HovenkampFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Technology and the Rise of Great Powers: How Diffusion Shapes Economic Competition Jeffrey Ding 9780691260341
RRP: $32.25$30.48A novel theory of how technological revolutions affect the rise and fall of great powersWhen scholars and policymakers consider how technological advances affect the rise and fall of great powers, they draw on theories that center the moment of... -
The Power of Positive Deviance: How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World's Toughest Problems Richard Pascale 9781422110669
RRP: $28.38$20.50Think of the toughest problems in your organization or community. What if they'd already been solved and you didn't even know it? In The Power of Positive Deviance, the authors present a counterintuitive new approach to problem-solving. Their advice?... -
Town and Country Planning in the UK by Barry Cullingworth
$94.38Town and country planning has never been more important to the UK, nor more prominent in national debate. Planning generates great controversy: whether it's spending GBP80m and four years' inquiry into Heathrow's Terminal 5, or the 200 proposed wind... -
Space Forces: A Critical History of Life in Outer Space by Fred Scharmen
RRP: $21.92$18.19Many societies have imagined going to live in space. What they want to do once they get up there - whether conquering the unknown, establishing space "colonies," privatising the moon's resources - reveals more than expected. In this fascinating radical... -
Beyond the Welfare State?: The New Political Economy of Welfare by Christopher Pierson 9780745635217
$24.56Over the past decade, Beyond the Welfare State? has become established as the key text on the emergence and development of welfare states. It offers a comprehensive and remarkably well-informed introduction to the ever more intense debates that surround... -
No Destination: Autobiography of a Pilgrim by Satish Kumar
RRP: $19.34$15.16The fascinating life story of Satish Kumar - monk, peace activist, pilgrim and ecological campaigner. When he was only nine years old, Satish Kumar renounced the world and joined the wandering brotherhood of Jain monks. Dissuaded from this path by an... -
Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland by Jonathan M. Metzl
RRP: $20.63$15.66As Dying of Whiteness shows, the right-wing policies that resulted from this white backlash put these voters' very health at risk-and in the end, threaten everyone's well-being. Physician and sociologist Jonathan M. Metzl travels across America's... -
The Economists' Hour: How the False Prophets of Free Markets Fractured Our Society by Binyamin Appelbaum
RRP: $12.89$9.38'A well-reported and researched history of the ways in which plucky economists helped rewrite policy in America and Europe and across emerging markets.' The Economist 'A highly readable, exhilaratingly detailed biographical account.' Sunday Telegraph As... -
A Sense of Inequality by Wendy Bottero 9781783487875
RRP: $50.31$46.53We have a detailed picture of how inequality impacts people's lives, but a much weaker sense of how people perceive, interpret and understand issues of inequality. What shapes people's everyday understandings of inequality? How are understandings of... -
Apocalypse How?: Technology and the Threat of Disaster by Oliver Letwin
RRP: $12.89$8.64'Entertaining and insightful' -- Evening Standard'One of the most important books of the year... Compelling' Jamie Bartlett, Literary Review'Timely' -- New StatesmanAs the world becomes better connected and we grow ever more dependent on technology, the... -
Makers And Takers by Rana Foroohar
RRP: $16.76$11.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553447255Author Rana ForooharFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Crown BusinessPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
On Wars by Michael Mann 9780300266818
RRP: $38.70$32.06A history of wars through the ages and across the world, and the irrational calculations that so often lie behind them Benjamin Franklin once said, "There never was a good war or a bad peace." But what determines whether war or peace is chosen?... -
Universal Basic Income by Karl Widerquist 9780262546898
RRP: $20.63$14.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262546898Author Karl WiderquistFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Future Histories: What Ada Lovelace, Tom Paine, and the Paris Commune Can Teach Us About Digital Technology by Lizzie O'Shea
RRP: $14.18$11.53The key to understanding technology lies not in the future--but in the past. That's the contention of Lizzie O'Shea's Future Histories, a grand tour through past and present to explore the practical--and sometimes revolutionary--possibilities of our... -
Give People Money: The simple idea to solve inequality and revolutionise our lives Annie Lowrey 9780753545775
RRP: $16.76$11.73Shortlisted for the 2018 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award!Surely just giving people money couldn't work. Or could it?Imagine if every month the government deposited GBP1000 in your bank account, with no strings attached and... -
Social and Emotional Development in Early Intervention by Mona Delahooke
RRP: $32.24$21.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683730552Author Mona DelahookeFormat PaperbackPage Count 173Imprint PESI Publishing & MediaPublisher PESI Publishing & Media -
Drug Policy Constellations: The Role of Power and Morality in the Making of Drug Policy in the UK Alex Stevens (Kent University) 9781529231328
RRP: $103.20$78.52How is UK drugs policy made, and why does it so often seem irrational when considering what works in reducing drug-related harms? This book explains how the concept of drug policy constellations - the loosely concerted policy actors with shared moral...