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Creating Worlds Otherwise: Art, Collective Action, and (Post)Extractivism by Paula Serafini 9780826504555
$39.24Latin American extractivism has become the ground on which activists and scholars frame the dynamics of ecological devastation, accumulation of wealth, and erosion of rights. These maladies are the detritus of longstanding extraction-oriented economies,... -
Service Dog Coaching: A Guide for Pet Dog Trainers by Veronica Sanchez 9781617812361
RRP: $25.74$20.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781617812361Author Veronica SanchezFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Dogwise PublishingPublisher Dogwise PublishingWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm)... -
Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Roll Back Global Warming by Paul Hawken
RRP: $23.21$22.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143130444Author Paul HawkenFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
New Jerusalem: The Good City and the Good Society: 2017 by Ken Worpole 9780854482047
RRP: $11.55$7.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780854482047Author Ken WorpoleFormat HardbackPage Count 92Imprint The Swedenborg SocietyPublisher The Swedenborg SocietyDimensions(mm) 200mm * 130mm * 9mm -
Poststructural Policy Analysis: A Guide to Practice by Carol Bacchi 9781137525444
RRP: $77.39$69.34This book offers a novel, refreshing and politically engaged way to think about public policy. Instead of treating policy as simply the government's best efforts to address problems, it offers a way to question critically how policies produce "problems"... -
In Our Hands: A Plan to Replace the Welfare State by Charles Murray 9781442260719
RRP: $16.76$14.40Imagine that the United States were to scrap all its income transfer programs-including Social Security, Medicare, and all forms of welfare-and give every American age twenty-one and older $10,000 a year for life.This is the Plan, a radical new approach... -
Immigration and Welfare State Retrenchment: Why the US Experience is not Reflected in Western Europe by the late Dennis C. Spies 9780198812906
$125.66Is large-scale immigration to Europe incompatible with the continent's generous and encompassing welfare states? Are Europeans willing to share welfare benefits with ethnically different and often less well-off immigrants? Or do they regard the newcomers... -
The Criminal Cases Review Commission: Hope for the Innocent? by Michael Naughton 9780230390614
RRP: $58.04$58.01This book focuses on the world's first publicly-funded body- the Criminal Cases Review Commission- to review alleged miscarriages of justice, set up following notorious cases such as the Birmingham Six in the UK. Providing a critique of its operations,... -
Study Skills for Town and Country Planning by Adam Sheppard 9781446249697
RRP: $41.27$34.09"Sheppard and Smith provide a clear, accessible and friendly guide to studying to become a planner, with great tips, insight and advice - including what employers will be looking for and the importance of lifelong learning" - Michael Harris,... -
Humanitarian Extractivism: The Digital Transformation of Aid by Kristin Bergtora Sandvik 9781526173355
RRP: $32.25$28.11This book investigates the digital transformation of aid as a form of humanitarian extractivism. It focuses on how practices of data extraction shift power towards states, the private sector and humanitarians.Digital initiatives aimed towards 'fixing'... -
Affluence and Influence: Economic Inequality and Political Power in America by Martin Gilens 9780691162423
RRP: $32.25$25.27Can a country be a democracy if its government only responds to the preferences of the rich? In an ideal democracy, all citizens should have equal influence on government policy--but as this book demonstrates, America's policymakers respond almost... -
Augmented Exploitation: Artificial Intelligence, Automation and Work Phoebe Moore 9780745343495
RRP: $29.66$19.57Artificial Intelligence is a seemingly neutral technology, but it is increasingly used to manage workforces and make decisions to hire and fire employees. Its proliferation in the workplace gives the impression of a fairer, more efficient system of... -
West Ham and the River Lea: A Social and Environmental History of London's Industrialized Marshland, 1839-1914 by Jim Clifford
RRP: $36.11$31.14During 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... -
Routledge International Handbook of Sustainable Development by Michael Redclift 9781138069039
RRP: $64.49$56.63This Handbook gives a comprehensive, international and cutting-edge overview of Sustainable Development. It integrates the key imperatives of sustainable development, namely institutional, environmental, social and economic, and calls for greater... -
The Costs of Inequality in Latin America: Lessons and Warnings for the Rest of the World by Diego Sánchez-Ancochea
RRP: $96.75$85.01From 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... -
The Role of Today's Museum by Clive Gray
RRP: $47.72$41.96The Role of Today's Museum provides a thorough investigation of what museums do and why. Arguing that museums are multifunctional institutions, the book examines the consequences of this for the services that museums provide, the publics to whom they are... -
Father-Daughter Relationships: Contemporary Research and Issues by Linda Nielsen
RRP: $47.72$41.96In this fully revised new edition, Father-Daughter Relationships: Contemporary Research and Issues summarises and analyses the most relevant research regarding father-daughter relationships, aiming to break down the persistent misconceptions regarding... -
The Political Economy of Inequality Frank Stilwell 9781509528653
RRP: $23.21$20.69During the last few decades, the gap between the incomes, wealth and living standards of rich and poor people has increased in most countries. Economic inequality has become a defining issue of our age. In this book, leading political economist Frank... -
Social Policy, Service Users and Carers: Lived Experiences and Perspectives by Clive Sealey
$39.13This textbook provides a greater understanding of the lived effect that social policies have on service users and carers. While service user and carer involvement has become more and more prominent in social policy over recent years, it is rarely the... -
Portfolio Society: On the Capitalist Mode of Prediction by Ivan Ascher
RRP: $32.25$23.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935408741Author Ivan AscherFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone Books -
The Idea of Suicide: Contagion, Imitation, and Cultural Diffusion by Michael J. Kral
RRP: $54.17$47.41This book is about a new theory of suicide as cultural mimesis, or as an idea that is internalized from culture. Written as part of a new, critical focus in suicidology, this volume moves away from the dominant, strictly scientific understanding of... -
What You Should Know About Politics . . . But Don't: A Nonpartisan Guide to the Issues That Matter by Jessamyn Conrad
RRP: $21.92$15.73"Engaging and inspiring . . . Reading this book should make you want to vote." Barack Obama In a world of sound bites, deliberate misinformation, and a political scene colored by the blue versus red partisan divide, how does the average educated... -
A Manifesto for Social Progress: Ideas for a Better Society by Marc Fleurbaey
RRP: $25.79$21.18At this time when many have lost hope amidst conflicts, terrorism, environmental destruction, economic inequality and the breakdown of democracy, this beautifully written book outlines how to rethink and reform our key institutions - markets,... -
Drug Policy Alison Ritter (UNSW Sydney, Australia) 9781032124278
RRP: $47.72$41.96Taking a multidisciplinary perspective (including public health, sociology, criminology, and political science amongst others) and using examples from across the globe, this book provides a detailed understanding of the complex and highly contested... -
Women Who Love Men Who Kill: 35 True Stories of Prison Passion (Updated Edition) by Sheila Isenberg
RRP: $20.63$14.4930 years after she first asked the question, "Why do women fall in love with convicted murderers?," Sheila Isenberg answers it anew in the age of the internet, smart phones, social media, mass shootings, celebrity worship of murderers, and... -
Social Justice and Social Policy in Scotland Gerry Mooney (The Open University (Scotland)) 9781847427021
RRP: $49.01$38.20Social justice and social policy in Scotland offers a critical engagement with the state of social policy in one of the devolved nations of the UK, a decade after the introduction of devolution. Promoting greater social justice has been held up as a key... -
The Politics of Evidence-Based Policy Making by Paul Cairney 9781137517807
RRP: $77.39$71.14The Politics of Evidence Based Policymaking identifies how to work with policymakers to maximize the use of scientific evidence. Policymakers cannot consider all evidence relevant to policy problems. They use two shortcuts: 'rational' ways to gather... -
Major Infrastructure Planning and Delivery: Exploring Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (Nsips) in England and Wales by Ben Clifford 9781800085244
RRP: $38.70$34.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800085244Author Ben CliffordFormat PaperbackImprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 610gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 22mm -
Crude Intentions: How Oil Corruption Contaminates the World by Alexandra Gillies
RRP: $49.01$42.53Billions of dollars stolen from citizens are circling the globe, enriching powerful individuals, altering political outcomes, and disadvantaging everyday people. News headlines provide glimpses of how this corruption works and why it matters: President... -
American Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the Covid-19 Pandemic by Andrew Cuomo
RRP: $25.79$21.87Apologies 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 -
Political Ecology: A Critical Engagement with Global Environmental Issues by Tor A. Benjaminsen 9783030560355
RRP: $36.11$32.83This textbook introduces political ecology as an interdisciplinary approach to critically examine land and environmental issues. Drawing on discourse and narrative analysis, Marxist political economy and insights from natural science, the book points at... -
Co-Cities: Innovative Transitions toward Just and Self-Sustaining Communities by Sheila R. Foster
RRP: $49.02$42.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262539982Author Sheila R. FosterFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Taking English Planning Law Scholarship Seriously by Maria Lee 9781800082892
RRP: $32.25$26.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800082892Author Maria LeeFormat PaperbackImprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 600g -
Health, Luck, and Justice by Shlomi Segall 9780691140537
RRP: $64.50$50.46"Luck egalitarianism"--the idea that justice requires correcting disadvantages resulting from brute luck--has gained ground in recent years and is now the main rival to John Rawls's theory of distributive justice. Health, Luck, and Justice is the first... -
The Rise of the Creative Class by Richard Florida
RRP: $23.21$16.40In his modern classic The Rise of the Creative Class, urbanist Richard Florida identifies the emergence of a new social class that is reshaping the twenty-first century's economy, geography, and workplace. This Creative Class is made up of... -
The Great Risk Shift: The New Economic Insecurity and the Decline of the American Dream, Second Edition by Jacob Hacker 9780190844141
RRP: $18.05$17.80[Please note this is placeholder text from the previous edition] America's leaders say the economy is strong and getting stronger. But the safety net that once protected us is fast unraveling. With retirement plans in growing jeopardy while health... -
Practical Sustainability: A Guide to a More Sustainable Life by Robert Brinkmann
RRP: $32.24$19.57This book will teach you everything you need to know about sustainable living-from reducing your greenhouse gas footprint to making sure that you are part of the green economy. Along the way, readers will learn about the field of sustainability and the... -
Diversity and Inclusion in Environmentalism by Karen Bell
RRP: $47.72$41.96This book discusses how to develop green transitions which benefit, include and respect marginalised social groups.Diversity and Inclusion in Environmentalism explores the challenge of taking into account issues of equity and justice in the green... -
Understanding social citizenship: Themes and perspectives for policy and practice Peter Dwyer (University of York) 9781847423283
RRP: $29.66$23.14This updated and revised edition of Understanding social citizenship is still the only citizenship textbook written from a social policy perspective. It provides students with an understanding of the concept of citizenship in relation to UK, EU and... -
Gender Inequalities in the 21st Century: New Barriers and Continuing Constraints Jacqueline Scott 9781849800792
RRP: $45.09$40.88Both women and men strive to achieve a work and family balance, but does this imply more or less equality? Does the persistence of gender and class inequalities refute the notion that lives are becoming more individualised? Leading international...