Public Policy

During the nineteenth century, London's population grew by more than five million as people flocked from the countryside to the city to take up jobs in shops and factories. In West Ham and the River Lea, Jim Clifford explores the growth of London's most...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912712380Author Eddie BartnikFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Centre for Welfare ReformPublisher Centre for Welfare ReformWeight(grams)...

The book examines ideas about the making and shaping of Greenland's society, environment, and resource spaces.It discusses how Greenland's resources have been extracted at different points in its history, shows how acquiring knowledge of subsurface...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780872867154Author Todd MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint City Lights BooksPublisher City Lights Books

Clausewitz's On War, first published in 1832, remains the most famous study of the nature and conditions of warfare. Contemporaries found him 'endearing' or 'totally unpalatable', while later generations called him 'the father of modern strategical...

Rachel 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142181119Author Tyler CowenFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 227g

Successful social work practice is underpinned by knowledge, theories and research findings from a range of related disciplines, key among which is psychology. This timely book offers a grounded and engaging guide to psychology's vital role at the heart...

In the wake of the financial crisis and the Great Recession, economics seems anything but a science. In this sharp, masterfully argued book, Dani Rodrik, a leading critic from within, takes a close look at economics to examine when it falls short and...

This text challenges the belief that cities will eventually disappear as territorial forms of social organization as new information technologies permit the articulation of social processes without regard for distance, arguing that the specific role of...

Urban Political Ecology in the Anthropo-obscene: Interruptions and Possibilities centres on how to organize anew the articulation between emancipatory theory and political activism. Across its theoretical and empirical chapters, written by leading...

Essays are enjoying renewed popularity, from the personal essays of Lewis Thomas, to the intellectual treats of Marguerite Yourcenar, to the political and social commentary of Michael Parenti in this superb collection. Parenti covers the myth of the...

The Baby Peter and Dano Sonnex incidents were high profile cases in which two key public services, namely child protection and probation, both failed in their tasks of protection of the victims and the public. In this book the author graphically...

That our ecological future appears grave can no longer come as any surprise. And yet we have so far failed, collectively and individually, to begin the kind of action necessary to shift our path away from catastrophic climate collapse. In this stark and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593239261Author Andrew CuomoFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

If, in the ancient world, it was guns and germs and steel that determined the fates of people and nations, in modern times it is electricity. No other form of power translates into affluence and influence like it. Though demand for it is growing...

This engaging and practical guide is a much-needed new textbook that illustrates the power of geographic information systems (GIS) and spatial analysis. Today's planner has a wealth of data available to them, much of which is increasingly linked to a...

Apologies 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

Increasingly, employees are being falsely treated as 'self-employed'. This phenomenon - the 'gig economy' - is seen as the inevitable shape of things to come. In this book, Colin Crouch takes a step back and questions this logic. He shows how the idea of...

David Harvey is among the most influential Marxist thinkers of the last half century. This book offers a lucid and authoritative introduction to his work, with a structure designed to reflect the enduring topics and insights that serve to unify Harvey's...

Most global citizens are well aware of the explosive growth of the Chinese economy. Indeed, China has famously become the "workshop of the world." Yet, while China watchers have shed much light on the country's internal dynamics--China's politics, its...

This open access book examines the various ways that shame, shaming and stigma became an integral part of the United Kingdom's public health response to COVID-19 during 2020. As the Covid-19 pandemic unfolded in 2020, it quickly became clear that...

The United Kingdom has never had an easy relationship with its capital. Far and away the wealthiest and most populous city in the country, London is the political, financial and cultural centre of the UK and it is responsible for almost a quarter of its...

From the 1992 Rio Earth Summit to the 2009 Copenhagen Climate Conference there was a concerted international effort to stop climate change. Yet greenhouse gas emissions increased, atmospheric concentrations grew, and global warming became an observable...

We are living in turbulent times, witnessing renewed international conflict, resurgent nationalism, declining multilateralism, and a torrent of hostile propaganda. How are we to understand these developments and conduct diplomacy in their presence?...

How businesses and other organizations can improve their performance by tapping the power of differences in how people thinkWhat if workforce diversity is more than simply the right thing to do? What if it can also improve the bottom line? It can. The...

Having a serious illness can be incredibly difficult, especially when there is no cure. As your disease progresses, not only your physical health, but your entire well-being may be affected. Unfortunately, most of your medical care may only treat your...

Economics is too important to be left to the economists. This book provides the information you need to understand how capitalism works (and how it doesn't). Through clear bite-sized chapters interspersed with illuminating illustrations, this is an...

More people today get news via Facebook and Google than from any news organization in history, and smaller platforms like Twitter serve news to more users than all but the biggest media companies. In The Power of Platforms, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen and Sarah...

Experts dominate all facets of global governance, from accounting practices and antitrust regulations to human rights law and environmental conservation. In this study, Ole Jacob Sending encourages a critical interrogation of the role and power of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583229293Author Derrick JensenFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 611g

This unique study of social harm offers a systematic and critical discussion of the nature of environmental harm from an eco-justice perspective, challenging conventional criminological definitions of environmental harm. The book evaluates three...

In this ground-breaking book, the author draws extensively on archival material and theortical advances in the social sciences literature on citizenship and migration. Citizenship and Immigration in Postwar Britain examines the transformation since 1945...

The Political Philosophy of the European City is a courageous and wide-ranging panorama of the political life and thought of the European city. Its novel hypothesis is that modern Western political thought, since the time of Hobbes and Locke,...

An innovative view of how everyone doing part-time work and part-time caregiving would promote flourishing families, free time, equality, and the true value of care. The way that Western countries approach work and care for others is fundamentally...

What's really in your food? Award-winning investigative journalist and clean food activist Mike Adams, the "Health Ranger," is founder and editor of NaturalNews.com, one of the top health news websites in the world, reaching millions of readers each...

There is no better guide than Paul Krugman to basic economics, the ideas that animate much of our public policy. Likewise, there is no better foe of zombie economics, the misunderstandings that just won't die. Arguing with Zombies is Krugman "the most...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780544570283Author Shane HarrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Harper PaperbacksPublisher Harper PaperbacksWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815722625Author Sanderijn CelsFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 349gDimensions(mm)...