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Toward Psychologies of Liberation by Mary Watkins 9780230537699
RRP: £44.99£40.09Understanding that the psychological well-being of individuals is inextricably linked to the health of their communities, environments, and cultures, the authors propose a radical interdisciplinary reorientation of psychology to create participatory and... -
The Well-Being of Children in the UK Jonathan Bradshaw (Department of Social Policy and Social Work, University of York) 9781447325635
RRP: £30.99£24.14Now in its fourth edition, this is the classic assessment of the state of child well-being in the United Kingdom. This edition has been updated to review the latest evidence, examining the outcomes for children of the impact of the economic crisis and... -
The Inheritance: America's Military After Two Decades of War by Mara E. Karlin 9780815738459
RRP: £30.00£26.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815738459Author Mara E. KarlinFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm)... -
Generation F Winston Smith 9781906308186
RRP: £8.99£6.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906308186Author Winston SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Monday BooksPublisher Monday BooksWeight(grams) 203g -
Freeing Energy: How Innovators Are Using Local-scale Solar and Batteries to Disrupt the Global Energy Industry from the Outside In by Bill Nussey 9781732544642
RRP: £16.99£13.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732544642Author Bill NusseyFormat PaperbackPage Count 434Imprint Anenergyproject, LLCPublisher Anenergyproject, LLCWeight(grams) 630gDimensions(mm) 229mm... -
The Political Economy of Decentralization in Sub-Saharan Africa: A New Implementation Model in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Kenya, and Senegal by Bernard Dafflon 9780821396131
£31.27For two decades now, experiences in decentralization and federalization have been in progress in many countries, particularly in Sub Saharan Africa. How can these processes be understood and improved? Focusing on four Sub-Saharan countries (Burkina Faso,... -
The governance of problems: Puzzling, powering and participation by Robert Hoppe 9781847429629
RRP: £31.99£24.47Contemporary democracies need to develop a better governance of problems, as all too often, policy is a sophisticated answer to the wrong problem. This book offers a compelling approach to public policy-making as problem processing, bringing together... -
Planet in Peril: Humanity's Four Greatest Challenges and How We Can Overcome Them by Michael D. Bess
RRP: £20.00£13.98Written by an award-winning historian of science and technology, Planet in Peril describes the top four mega-dangers facing humankind - climate change, nukes, pandemics, and artificial intelligence. It outlines the solutions that have been tried, and... -
The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State by Francis G. Castles
RRP: £34.99£34.89The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State is the authoritative and definitive guide to the contemporary welfare state. In a volume consisting of nearly fifty newly-written chapters, a broad range of the world's leading scholars offer a comprehensive... -
The Climate Majority by Leo Barasi
RRP: £9.99£6.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780264073Author Leo BarasiFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint New Internationalist Publications LtdPublisher New Internationalist Publications Ltd -
The Passionate Economist: How Brian Abel-Smith Shaped Global Health and Social Welfare Sally Sheard 9781447314844
RRP: £45.00£35.83Brian Abel-Smith was one of the most influential expert advisers of the 20th century in shaping social welfare. He was a modern-day Thomas Paine, driven by a strong socialist mission to improve the lives of the poorest. This valuable and accessible book... -
Nature Praising God: Towards a Theology of the Natural World by Dermot Lane
RRP: £12.95£9.68This book was written during the lockdown caused by the Covid crisis: streets were emptied, churches closed down, and all of a sudden we began to hear the sounds of nature. A new relationship with nature developed in which new questions arose: is God... -
Social Policy Hugh Bochel 9780367200084
RRP: £42.99£38.59This thoroughly revised and expanded new edition provides a comprehensive introduction to contemporary social policy and addresses its historical, theoretical and contextual foundations as well as contemporary policy issues relating to health, education... -
The Case for Economic Democracy Andrew Cumbers 9781509533855
RRP: £9.99£8.95The idea that the people have a right to shape political decisions through democratic means is widely accepted. The same cannot be said of the decisions that impact on our everyday economic life in the workplace and beyond. Andrew Cumbers shows why this... -
A Practical Guide for Policy Analysis - International Student Edition: The Eightfold Path to More Effective Problem Solving by Eugene S. Bardach 9781544372204
RRP: £29.99£26.93Eugene Bardach and co-author Eric Patashnik draw on more than 40 years of experience teaching students to be effective, accurate, and persuasive policy analysts. This bestselling handbook presents dozens of concrete tips, interesting case studies, and... -
Gaia, Psyche and Deep Ecology: Navigating Climate Change in the Anthropocene Andrew Fellows 9781138300507
RRP: £36.99£32.53Winner of the Scientific & Medical Network Book Prize 2019!In Gaia, Psyche and Deep Ecology: Navigating Climate Change in the Anthropocene, Andrew Fellows uniquely connects Earth systems, Jungian and philosophical approaches to the existential threats... -
For Good Measure: An Agenda for Moving Beyond GDP by Joseph E. Stiglitz
RRP: £28.99£19.64In the first book of its kind, leading economists from around the world, including Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez, Elizabeth Beasely, Jacob Hacker, Francois Bourguignon, Nora Lustig, Alan B. Krueger, and Joseph E. Stiglitz, describe a range of fascinating... -
Inventing Future Cities by Michael Batty
RRP: £26.00£18.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262038959Author Michael BattyFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Hungry Britain: The rise of food charity Hannah Lambie-Mumford (University of Sheffield) 9781447328292
RRP: £27.99£21.57Drawing on empirical research with the UK's two largest charitable food organisations, this book explores the prolific rise of food charity over the last 15 years and its implications for overcoming food insecurity. As the welfare state withdraws,... -
Social Work in a Globalizing World Lena Dominelli (Head of Social, Community and Youth Work, Durham University) 9780745640891
RRP: £16.99£15.22This inspiring and stimulating book confronts contemporary challenges facing social workers. Many of the forms of human, social and environmental degradation addressed arise from social problems that have persisted over time, such as social work's own... -
When the Money Runs Out: The End of Western Affluence by Stephen D. King
RRP: £11.99£10.15An eminent economist warns that Western nations' economic expectations for the future are way out of sync with the realities of economic stagnation and stringent steps will be required to avoid massive political and economic upheaval. "It is alarmingly... -
End The Fed by Ron Paul
RRP: £12.99£11.48During the 2008 presidential campaign over 4,000 students gathered at the University of Michigan to hear Republican candidate Ron Paul speak. As he began to address the topics of monetary policy and the coming depression, a chant came from the crowd,... -
Rossetti's Portraits by Christopher Newall 9781843682097
RRP: £24.99£20.29Dante Gabriel Rossetti, poet, painter, aesthete, founder member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, was one of the most influential British artists to have lived. His extraordinary and obsessive vision was fuelled by the tortured love he felt for three... -
Will Big Business Destroy Our Planet? Peter Dauvergne (University of British Columbia) 9781509524013
RRP: £9.99£8.95Walmart. Coca-Cola. BP. Toyota. The world economy runs on the profits of transnational corporations. Politicians need their backing. Non-profit organizations rely on their philanthropy. People look to their brands for meaning. And their power continues... -
The 100% Solution: A Framework for Solving Climate Change by Solomon Goldstein-Rose
RRP: £17.99£12.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612198385Author Solomon Goldstein-RoseFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House Publishing -
An Introduction to the Policy Process: Theories, Concepts, and Models of Public Policy Making Thomas A. Birkland (North Carolina State University, USA) 9781138495616
RRP: £45.99£40.53Now in a thoroughly revised Fifth Edition, An Introduction to the Policy Process provides students at all levels with an accessible, readable, and affordable introduction to the field of public policy. In keeping with prior editions, author Tom Birkland... -
The Strange Demise of the Local in Local Government: Bigger is Not Better by Steve Leach 9783031328183
RRP: £34.99£31.79This book challenges the notion that bigger local government is always better. Whilst the central government in Britain has often supported increases in local government size, the book argues that this has been detrimental, and has caused the erosion of... -
Disease by Frances Darlington-Pollock
RRP: £16.99£16.12In 1942 life expectancy at birth was 66 for women and 60 for men. Death was usually due to degenerative and infectious diseases. The greatest postwar success in the fight against disease was the establishment of the NHS and care that was free at the... -
Rural Development: Putting the last first by R. Chambers 9780582644434
£35.74Rural poverty is often unseen or misperceived by outsiders. Dr Chambers contends that researchers, scientists, administrators and fieldworkers rarely appreciate the richness and validity of rural people's knowledge or the hidden nature of rural poverty... -
Governing Global Health: Who Runs the World and Why? by Chelsea Clinton 9780190253271
RRP: £26.49£19.97The past few decades have seen a massive increase in the number of international organizations focusing on global health. Campaigns to eradicate or stem the spread of AIDS, SARS, malaria, and Ebola attest to the increasing importance of globally-oriented... -
Local Government in the United Kingdom by David Wilson 9780230246393
£44.39During its 13 years of office, Labour's modernization agenda transformed the world of UK local government. Amidst a starkly altered political and economic climate the coalition government formed in 2010 pledged to implement equally radical changes to the... -
One Billion Americans by Matthew Yglesias
RRP: £24.99£16.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593190210Author Matthew YglesiasFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint PortfolioPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
America's Frozen Neighborhoods: The Abuse of Zoning by Robert C. Ellickson
£30.34This book examines local zoning policies and suggests reforms that states and the federal government might adopt to counter the negative effects of exclusionary zoning "[A] tale . . . well told by Robert Ellickson. . . . It's a valuable contribution to... -
Plastic Capitalism: Contemporary Art and the Drive to Waste by Amanda Boetzkes
RRP: £32.00£21.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262039338Author Amanda BoetzkesFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 178mm * 21mm -
From Printing to Streaming: Cultural Production under Capitalism by Michael Chanan
RRP: £19.99£15.76**Shortlisted for the Deutscher Memorial Prize 2023** For mainstream economics, cultural production raises no special questions: creative expression is to be harvested for wealth creation like any other form of labour. As Karl Marx saw it, however,... -
Hopeful Influence: A Theology of Christian Leadership by Jude Padfield
RRP: £17.99£16.37The Church by its very nature is called to be hope filled and future orientated - it exists as a sign, instrument and foretaste of the coming Kingdom of God. Christian leadership, therefore, is at heart all about eschatological influence. Engaging... -
Wood: A History Joachim Radkau (University of Bielefeld) 9780745646886
RRP: £12.99£12.34OEtzi the iceman could not do without wood when he was climbing his Alpine glacier, nor could medieval cathedral-builders or today's construction companies. From time immemorial, the skill of the human hand has developed by working wood, so much so that... -
Dream States: Smart Cities and the Pursuit of Utopian Urbanism by John Lorinc
RRP: £12.99£8.63WINNER OF THE 2022 WRITERS' TRUST BALSILLIE PRIZE FOR PUBLIC POLICYSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 DONNER BOOK PRIZEWINNER OF THE PATTIS FAMILY FOUNDATION GLOBAL CITIES BOOK AWARDIs the 'smart city' the utopia we've been waiting for?The promise of the so-called... -
Trickle Down" Theory and "Tax Cuts for the Rich by Thomas Sowell
RRP: £4.95£4.64This essay unscrambles gross misconceptions that have made rational debates about tax policies virtually impossible for decades.About the AuthorThomas Sowell is the Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover Institution, USA... -
Apocalypse Next: The Economics of Global Catastrophic Risks by Stephen Davies 9780255368216
RRP: £17.50£15.74The Covid-19 pandemic was, and remains, a global disaster - claiming countless lives and wreaking economic havoc that still reverberates today. But it could have been worse. Much worse. Author Stephen Davies contends the planet 'dodged a bullet' this...