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New Deal or Raw Deal? How FDR's Economic Legacy Has Damaged America by Jr. Burton W. Folsom
RRP: £17.00£10.06A sharply critical new look at Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency reveals government policies that hindered economic recovery from the Great Depression -- and are still hurting America today. In this shocking and groundbreaking new book, economic... -
The Wealth of Refugees: How Displaced People Can Build Economies by Alexander Betts
RRP: £22.99£16.68We live in an age of displacement. Refugee numbers are increasing due to a proliferation of fragile states, and this problem will be exacerbated by climate change and the impact of COVID-19. And yet, rising populist nationalism has undermined the... -
Food Security and Sociopolitical Stability by Christopher B. Barrett 9780198758907
£46.51Global food price spikes in 2008 and again in 2011 coincided with a surge of political unrest in low- and middle-income countries. Angry consumers took to the streets in scores of nations. In some places, food riots turned violent, pressuring governments... -
Economism: Bad Economics and the Rise of Inequality by James Kwak 9780525436287
RRP: £22.00£15.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525436287Author James KwakFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 215gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 132mm... -
Social Policy in Britain Pete Alcock (University of Birmingham, UK) 9781350932715
RRP: £32.99£29.84In this fifth edition of the best-selling core introductory textbook, Pete Alcock and Lee Gregory provide a comprehensive and engaging introduction to social policy. Continuing with the unbeaten narrative style and accessible approach of the previous... -
America's War For The Greater Middle East by Andrew J. Bacevich
RRP: £14.99£9.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsLong-listed for National Book Award.Book InformationISBN 9780553393958Author Andrew J. BacevichFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House... -
The Age of Resilience: Reimagining Existence on a Rewilding Earth by Jeremy Rifkin 9781800751965
RRP: £12.99£8.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800751965Author Jeremy RifkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Swift PressPublisher Swift Press -
New Frontiers of Philanthropy: A Guide to the New Tools and New Actors that Are Reshaping Global Philanthropy and Social Investing by Lester M. Salamon 9780199357543
RRP: £78.00£59.16With the resources of both governments and traditional philanthropy barely growing or in decline, yet the problems of poverty, ill-health and environmental degradation ballooning daily, it is increasingly clear that new models for financing and promoting... -
Can We Save The Planet?: A primer for the 21st century by Alice Bell
RRP: £12.95£8.58The Big Idea shortlisted for series design in the British Design and Production AwardsThe effects of global warming are being felt around the world through climate change, and images of our rivers and oceans choking with plastic have provoked an... -
The Age of Resilience: Reimagining Existence on a Rewilding Earth Jeremy Rifkin 9781800751941
RRP: £22.00£15.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800751941Author Jeremy RifkinFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Swift PressPublisher Swift Press -
CACHE Level 3 Extended Diploma for the Children & Young People's Workforce Student Book by Kate Beith
RRP: £32.49£30.54Contains all the mandatory units and a number of optional units to provide the information learners need to succeed. The magazine-style page design is packed with glossy new photos and illustrations to help learners recap what they have covered for each... -
Natopolitanism: The Atlantic Alliance since the Cold War by Grey Anderson 9781804292372
RRP: £19.99£16.42Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the fortunes of NATO - pronounced "braindead" only a few years prior - have been miraculously revived. The alliance, buoyed by surging European military budgets and inflows of combat-ready troops and... -
On Fantasy Island: Britain, Europe, and Human Rights by Professor Conor Anthony Gearty
£36.73In the 2015 UK General Election, the Conservative party pledged to reset the UK's relations with Europe, holding an in-out referendum on membership of the European Union and repealing the Human Rights Act, to be replaced with a UK Bill of Rights. With... -
How the World Changed Social Media by Elisabetta Costa 9781910634486
RRP: £15.00£13.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910634486Author Daniel MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 286Imprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 425g -
Black Ops: The Life of a CIA Shadow Warrior by Ric Prado
RRP: £23.99£18.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250271846Author Ric PradoFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 634gDimensions(mm) 244mm * 165mm... -
The Challenge of Defending Britain by Michael Clarke
RRP: £12.99£11.95An analysis that takes the complexity of British defence policy apart to view its anatomy and show how policy is made in this area. British defence policy is in a phase of great transition as the country confronts its Brexit future and also as world... -
The Costs of Inequality in Latin America: Lessons and Warnings for the Rest of the World by Diego Sánchez-Ancochea 9781838606237
RRP: £23.99£20.94From the United States to the United Kingdom and from China to India, growing inequality has led to social discontent and the emergence of populist parties, also contributing to economic crises. We urgently need a better understanding of the roots and... -
These Houses are Ours: Co-operative and community-led housing alternatives 1870-1919 by Andrew Bibby
RRP: £18.95£16.95The years before the First World War saw the development of a widespread housing movement in Britain which delivered homes at affordable rents through co-operative and community endeavour. From Cornwall to central Scotland, Suffolk to South Wales,... -
What Works Now?: Evidence-Informed Policy and Practice by Annette Boaz
RRP: £26.99£20.84Building substantially on the earlier, landmark text, What Works? (Policy Press, 2000), this book brings together key thinkers and researchers to provide a contemporary review of the aspirations and realities of evidence-informed policy and practice. The... -
Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies Richard Heinberg 9781905570003
RRP: £12.99£9.09Without oil, what would you do? How would you travel? How would you eat? What would everyday life be like? The world is about to change dramatically and permanently as a result of oil depletion. Within the next few years, the global production of oil... -
Take Back the Economy: An Ethical Guide for Transforming Our Communities by J. K. Gibson-Graham
RRP: £15.99£14.24In the wake of economic crisis on a global scale, more and more people are reconsidering their role in the economy and wondering what they can do to make it work better for humanity and the planet. In this innovative book, J. K. Gibson-Graham, Jenny... -
The Class Matrix: Social Theory after the Cultural Turn by Vivek Chibber
RRP: £30.95£24.42An influential sociologist revives materialist explanations of class, while accommodating the best of rival cultural theory.Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, analysis of class and other basic structures of capitalism was sidelined by theorists... -
Profit and Prejudice: The Luddites of the Fourth Industrial Revolution by Paul Donovan
RRP: £28.99£25.09Avoiding prejudice will be critical to economic success in the fourth industrial revolution. It is not the new and innovative technology that will matter in the next decade, but what we do with it. Using technology properly, with diverse decision making,... -
Measuring Social Welfare: An Introduction by Matthew D. Adler 9780190643034
RRP: £37.99£29.60Disputes over government policies rage in a number of areas. From taxation to climate change, from public finance to risk regulation, and from health care to infrastructure planning, advocates debate how policies affect multiple dimensions of individual... -
House of Debt: How They (and You) Caused the Great Recession, and How We Can Prevent it from Happening Again by Atif Mian
RRP: £15.00£9.70The 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... -
The Transport Debate Jon Shaw (School of Geography, University of Plymouth) 9781847428561
RRP: £17.99£14.31At a time when transport is high on the political agenda and government decision-making is being vigorously scrutinised, there is a need for an incisive and accessible analysis of the key policy issues. This book is a highly readable introduction to the... -
Transforming School Food Politics around the World by Jennifer E. Gaddis 9780262548113
RRP: £48.00£33.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262548113Author Jennifer E. GaddisFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Split: Class Divides Uncovered Ben Tippet 9780745340210
RRP: £9.99£6.80How can we make sense of a world where we have both too many billionaires and too many foodbanks? We're supposed to go to university, forge a career, get wealthier, buy a house - but why is that so hard for most of us to achieve? Split makes sense of... -
Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life by Eric Klinenberg
RRP: £20.00£11.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsLong-listed for Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction 2018.Book InformationISBN 9781524761172Author Eric KlinenbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Crown... -
Iconoclasm, Identity Politics and the Erasure of History by Alexander Adams
£17.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788360425Author Alexander AdamsFormat PaperbackImprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 300gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 135mm * 15mm -
The Language of Climate Politics: Fossil-Fuel Propaganda and How to Fight It by Genevieve Guenther 9780197642238
RRP: £22.99£17.51A groundbreaking investigation into the propaganda justifying the fossil-fuel economy, The Language of Climate Politics offers readers powerful new ways to talk about the climate crisis that will help create transformative change. In an illuminating... -
The Case Against Fluoride: How hazardous waste ended up in our drinking water and the bad science and powerful politics that keep it there by Paul Connett
RRP: £25.00£16.38When the U.S. Public Health Service endorsed water fluoridation in 1950, there was little evidence of its safety. Now, six decades later and after most countries have rejected the practice, more than 70 percent of Americans, as well as 200 million people... -
The Uncommon Knowledge of Elinor Ostrom: Essential Lessons for Collective Action by Erik Nordman
RRP: £28.00£23.27In the 1970s, the accepted environmental thinking was that overpopulation was destroying the earth. Prominent economists and environmentalists agreed that the only way to stem the tide was to impose restrictions on how we used resources, such as land,... -
Unlocking Sustainable Cities: A Manifesto for Real Change by Paul Chatterton 9780745337012
RRP: £24.99£16.38This book is a manifesto for real urban change. Today, our urban areas are held back by corporate greed, loss of public space and rising inequality. This book highlights how cities are locked into unsustainable and damaging practices, and how exciting... -
Whitewash: The Story of a Weed Killer, Cancer, and the Corruption of Science Carey Gillam 9781642830422
RRP: £26.00£21.70Rachel Carson Environment Book Award, First Place (2018) IPPY Outstanding Book of the Year: Most Likely to Save the Planet (2018) Thorpe Menn Literary Excellence Award (2018) "Reads like a mystery novel as Gillam skillfully... -
NHS Plc: The Privatisation of Our Health Care by Allyson M. Pollock 9781844675395
RRP: £21.99£21.89Universal, comprehensive health care, equally available to all and disconnected from income and the ability to pay, was the goal of the founders of the National Health Service. This book, by one of the NHS's most eloquent and passionate defenders, tells... -
A Cultural History of Climate Wolfgang Behringer (Saarland University, Germany) 9780745645292
RRP: £17.99£16.04Global warming and the future of the climate is one of the greatest challenges of our time, but what do we know about climate variations 500 years ago, or 5000 years ago? How can we know anything at all about the history of weather? What impact have... -
Call Me Auntie: My Childhood in Care and My Search for My Mother Anne Harrison 9781909976801
£15.19The author's account of being abandoned by her mother as a young child and her life in homes and institutions will captivate any reader. The mystery of her search for her mother and constant rejections will leave the reader wondering what demons drove... -
The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth by The Red Nation
RRP: £10.99£7.38When the Red Nation released their call for a Red Deal, it generated coverage in places from Teen Vogue to Jacobin to the New Republic, was endorsed by the DSA, and has galvanized organizing and action. Now, in response to popular demand, the Red Nation... -
Get What's Yours: The Secrets to Maxing Out Your Social Security by Professor of Economics Laurence J Kotlikoff 9781501144769
RRP: £20.00£12.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501144769Author Professor of Economics Laurence J KotlikoffFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams)...