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Net Zero, Food and Farming: Climate Change and the UK Agri-Food System Neil Ward 9781032235196
RRP: £36.99£32.53This book examines the implications of the net zero transition for food and farming in the UK and how these can be managed to avoid catastrophic climate change in the crucial decades ahead. For the UK to meet its international obligations for reducing... -
Eco-Cities by Federico Cugurullo
RRP: £36.99£32.53This book tells the story of visionary urban experiments, shedding light on the theories that preceded their development and on the monsters that followed and might be the end of our cities. The narrative is threefold and delves first into the eco-city,... -
From Jerusalem to a Kingdom by the Sea by Adel Dajani 9781916197770
RRP: £25.00£17.62Black swans - unforeseen events with extreme consequences - have formed the backdrop of the Dajani family's history for almost a century. In From Jerusalem to a Kingdom by the Sea Adel A. Dajani, one of the first Arabs to ever go to Eton, takes us on... -
Person-centred Active Support Guide (2nd edition): A self-study resource to enable participation, independence and choice for adults and children with intellectual and developmental disabilities by Julie Beadle-Brown 9781911028758
£40.33A fully revised, new edition of Person-centred Active Support self-study guide, including new video. This book is designed to provide the learner with knowledge about what active support is, why it is important, what it looks like in practice, and... -
Climate Refugees: Global, Local and Critical Approaches by Simon Behrman
RRP: £40.99£35.46The last few years have witnessed a flurry of activity in global governance and international lawseeking to address the protection gaps for people fleeing the effects of climate change. This book discusses cutting-edge developments in law and policy on... -
Cortical Visual Impairment: An Approach to Assessment and Intervention by Christine Roman-Lantzy 9780891286882
£64.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780891286882Author Christine Roman-LantzyFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint American Printing House for the BlindPublisher American Printing House for... -
Food Choice and Sustainability: Why Buying Local, Eating Less Meat, and Taking Baby Steps Won't Work by Richard Oppenlander 9781626524354
RRP: £26.99£24.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626524354Author Richard OppenlanderFormat HardbackPage Count 470Imprint Langdon Street PressPublisher Langdon Street PressWeight(grams)... -
Housing Policy in the UK by David Mullins 9780333994344
£45.64Housing Policy in the UK is a major new textbook that traces the emergence of a 'new comprehensive housing policy' in the wake of the Communities Plan and regionalisation. Grounded in cutting-edge research and analysis, it provides a clear account of the... -
Fire and Flood: A People's History of Climate Change, from 1979 to the Present by Eugene Linden
RRP: £10.99£7.77The definitive history of the modern climate change era, from an award-winning writer who has been at the centre of the fight for more than thirty yearsIn 1979, President Jimmy Carter was presented with the findings of scientists who had been... -
Work, Retire, Repeat: The Uncertainty of Retirement in the New Economy by Teresa Ghilarducci 9780226831466
RRP: £20.00£16.03A damning portrait of the dire realities of retirement in the United States-and how we can fix it. While the French went on strike in 2023 to protest the increase in the national retirement age, workers in the United States have all but given up on the... -
The Oxford Handbook of Public Policy by Michael Moran
RRP: £34.99£34.29Public policy is the business end of political science. It is where theory meets practice in the pursuit of the public good. Political scientists approach public policy in myriad ways. Some approach the policy process descriptively, asking how the need... -
Family Support: Prevention, Early Intervention and Early Help by Nick Frost
RRP: £19.99£17.69Family Support introduces and explores the state of the art in preventative social work with children and young people. Drawing on contemporary thinking and research, the book aims to make a contribution to current debates about how we can best support... -
Hunger, Whiteness and Religion in Neoliberal Britain: An Inequality of Power Maddy Power (University of York) 9781447358558
RRP: £26.99£20.84Exploring why food aid exists and the deeper causes of food poverty, this book addresses neglected dimensions of traditional food aid and food poverty debates. It argues that the food aid industry is infused with neoliberal governmentality and shows how... -
Life Imprisonment from Young Adulthood: Adaptation, Identity and Time by Ben Crewe 9781349849932
RRP: £24.99£19.19This book analyses the experiences of prisoners in England & Wales sentenced when relatively young to very long life sentences (with minimum terms of fifteen years or more). Based on a major study, including almost 150 interviews with men and women at... -
Making Health Policy: A Critical Introduction Andy Alaszewski (University of Kent) 9780745641744
RRP: £19.99£17.69This new textbook opens up the policy-making process for students, uncovering how government decisions around health are really made. Starting from more traditional insights into how ministers and civil servants develop policy with limited knowledge and... -
The Great Reconfiguration: A Socio-Technical Analysis of Low-Carbon Transitions in UK Electricity, Heat, and Mobility Systems by Frank W. Geels 9781009198240
RRP: £39.99£34.63This book is intended for researchers, policymakers, and practitioners interested in the dynamics and governance of low-carbon transitions. Drawing on the Multi-Level Perspective, it develops a whole system reconfiguration approach that explains how the... -
A Brief History of Equality by Thomas Piketty
RRP: £23.95£17.06A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA Public Books Best Book of the Year"An opportunity for readers to see Piketty bring his larger argument about the origins of inequality and his program for fighting it into high relief."-Nicholas Lemann, New... -
Ten Years to Midnight Blair H. Sheppard 9781523088744
RRP: £25.00£16.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781523088744Author Blair H. SheppardFormat HardbackPage Count 244Imprint Berrett-Koehler PublishersPublisher Berrett-Koehler Publishers -
Toxic: The Rotting Underbelly of the Tasmanian Salmon Industry Richard Flanagan 9781761044373
RRP: £13.99£9.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781761044373Author Richard FlanaganFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Penguin Random House AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House Australia -
Social infrastructure and left behind places John Tomaney 9781032710044
RRP: £35.99£31.69This book explores the making, unmaking and remaking of social infrastructure in 'left-behind places'. Such places, typically once flourishing industrial communities that have been excluded from recent economic growth, now attract academic and policy... -
The Shame Game: Overturning the Toxic Poverty Narrative Mary O'Hara (journalist) 9781447349266
RRP: £12.99£10.15What does it mean to be poor in Britain and America? For decades the primary narrative about poverty in both countries is that it has been caused by personal flaws or 'bad life decisions' rather than policy choices or economic inequality. This... -
The Diversity Bonus: How Great Teams Pay Off in the Knowledge Economy by Scott E. Page
RRP: £30.00£23.69How businesses and other organizations can improve their performance by tapping the power of differences in how people think What if workforce diversity is more than simply the right thing to do in order to make society more integrated and just? What if... -
The Social Roots of Risk: Producing Disasters, Promoting Resilience by Kathleen Tierney 9780804791397
RRP: £32.00£28.21The first decade of the 21st century saw a remarkable number of large-scale disasters. Earthquakes in Haiti and Sumatra underscored the serious economic consequences that catastrophic events can have on developing countries, while 9/11 and Hurricane... -
Healing Justice Lineages: Dreaming at the Crossroads of Liberation, Collective Care, and Safety Cara Page 9781623177140
RRP: £17.99£12.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623177140Author Cara PageFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S. -
The Anthropocene Unconscious: Climate Catastrophe in Contemporary Culture by Mark Bould
£13.22The art and literature of our time is pregnant with catastrophe, with weather and water, wildness and weirdness. The Anthropocene - the term given to this geological epoch in which humans, anthropos, are wreaking havoc on the earth - is to be found... -
Getting to Scale: How to Bring Development Solutions to Millions of Poor People by Laurence Chandy
RRP: £30.00£26.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815724193Author Laurence ChandyFormat PaperbackPage Count 394Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 608gDimensions(mm)... -
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate by Naomi Klein 9781451697391
RRP: £19.99£13.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451697391Author Naomi KleinFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 590gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 140mm... -
Smart Cities For Dummies Jonathan Reichental 9781119679943
RRP: £25.99£17.38Become empowered to build and maintain smarter cities At its core, a smart city is a collection of technological responses to the growing demands, challenges, and complexities of improving the quality of life for billions of people now living in urban... -
Class, Inequality and Community Development Mae Shaw 9781447322467
RRP: £27.99£21.57This book, the second title in the Rethinking Community Development series, argues for the centrality of class analysis and its associated divisions of power to any discussion of the potential benefits of community development. A wide range of... -
Localism and Neighbourhood Planning: Power to the People? Sue Brownill 9781447329503
RRP: £29.99£23.02A critical analysis of the latest innovation in planning and localism, with a particular focus on neighbourhood planning. Bringing together empirical evidence from the UK and including international examples from the US, Australia and France, the book... -
Child First: Developing a New Youth Justice System by Stephen Case
£40.09This book explores the development and implementation of Child First as an innovative guiding principle for improving youth justice systems. Applying contemporary research understandings of what leads to positive child outcomes and safer communities,... -
Law 3.0: Rules, Regulation and Technology by Roger Brownsword 9780367488635
RRP: £19.99£17.69Putting technology front and centre in our thinking about law, this book introduces Law 3.0: the future of the legal landscape.Technology not only disrupts the traditional idea of what it is 'to think like a lawyer,' as per Law 1.0; it presents major... -
Make, Think, Imagine by John Browne
RRP: £10.99£7.77LONGLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES AND MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2019 __________________ 'A much-needed antidote to pervasive pessimism' Financial Times 'An ode to the ways in which engineering has improved human civilisation' John... -
The World's Banker: A Story of Failed States, Financial Crises, and the Wealth and Poverty of Nations by Sebastian Mallaby 9780300116762
RRP: £32.00£31.51Appointed president of the World Bank in 1995, James Wolfensohn struck it like a whirlwind, determined to reinvent the institution founded by Franklin Roosevelt and his world War II allies. Wolfensohn embraced debt relief for the poorest countries, put... -
City Walls: The Urban Enceinte in Global Perspective by James D. Tracy 9780521124157
RRP: £37.99£35.43The essays presented in this volume, first published in 2000, describe a phenomenon so widespread in human time and space that its importance is easily overlooked. City walls shaped the history of warfare; the mobilisation of manpower and resources... -
Clashing Agendas: Inside the Welfare Trap by David Freud 9781910533529
RRP: £20.00£14.45The introduction of Universal Credit arguably stands as the most far-reaching reform so far this century. Clashing Agendas is the traumatic inside story of how this simple concept became unimaginably complicated in execution, and then nearly... -
How to Prevent the Next Pandemic by Bill Gates 9781802060522
RRP: £10.99£7.77The COVID-19 pandemic isn't over, but even as governments around the world strive to put it behind us, they're also starting to talk about what happens next. How can we prevent a new pandemic from killing millions of people and devastating the global... -
A Case for Climate Engineering by David Keith
RRP: £8.99£6.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262019828Author David KeithFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 277gDimensions(mm) 178mm * 114mm * 16mm -
Pathways to Permanence for Black, Asian and Mixed Ethnicity Children by Julie Selwyn 9781905664870
RRP: £14.95£9.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905664870Author Julie SelwynFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint British Association for Adoption and Fostering (BAAF)Publisher CoramBAAFWeight(grams)... -
The Fed Unbound: The Trouble with Government by Central Bank by Lev Menand
RRP: £11.99£8.00Do the Fed's efforts to stabilize the economy worsen inequality? The Federal Reserve, the U.S. central bank, was built for a monetary system composed primarily of investor-owned, government-chartered banks. But over the years, the erosion of banking...