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China's Changing Population by Judith Banister
RRP: $78.00$68.89In this comprehensive analysis of thirty-five years of population change in the People's Republic of China, the author highlights China's shifting population policies and pieces together the available data, assessing and adjusting them as necessary in... -
Three Women by Lisa Taddeo
RRP: $21.43$10.65The International No. 1 Bestseller A BBC 2 Between the Covers Book Club Pick 'Cuts to the heart of who we are' Sunday Times 'A book that begs discussion' Vanity Fair All Lina wanted was to be desired. How did she end up in a marriage with two... -
Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents—and What They Mean for America's Future by Jean M. Twenge 9781668038154
RRP: $39.00$25.86A groundbreaking, revelatory portrait of the six generations that currently live in the United States and how they connect, conflict, and compete with one another-from the acclaimed author of Generation Me and iGen. There are currently six generations of... -
Sister of Darkness: The Chronicles of a Modern Exorcist by Rachel H Stavis 9780062656155
RRP: $38.98$26.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062656155Author Rachel H StavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 201mm... -
The Fourth Turning Is Here: What the Seasons of History Tell Us about How and When This Crisis Will End by Neil Howe
RRP: $39.00$25.86The visionary behind the bestselling phenomenon The Fourth Turning looks once again to America's past to predict our future in this startling and hopeful prophecy for how our present era of civil unrest will resolve over the next ten years-and what our... -
London Labour and the London Poor by Henry Mayhew 9781840226195
RRP: $9.73$6.75With an Introduction by Rosemary O'Day. London Labour and the London Poor is a masterpiece of personal inquiry and social observation. It is the classic account of life below the margins in the greatest Metropolis in the world and a compelling portrait... -
Under the Sky We Make: How to Be Human in a Warming World by Kimberly Nicholas
RRP: $33.13$22.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593328170Author Kimberly NicholasFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Penguin Putnam IncPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Violent Borders: Refugees and the Right to Move by Reece Jones
RRP: $21.43$14.14Forty thousand people died trying to cross international borders in the past decade, with the high-profile deaths along the shores of Europe only accounting for half of the grisly total.Reece Jones argues that these deaths are not exceptional, but rather... -
The Pinch: How the Baby Boomers Took Their Children's Future - And Why They Should Give It Back by David Willetts
RRP: $21.43$14.27In this fascinating and provocative book, David Willetts shows how the baby boomer generation has amassed unprecedented wealth and power at the expense of its children. Today's young people will pay heavier taxes, work longer hours for less money and... -
Tomorrow's People: The Future of Humanity in Ten Numbers by Paul Morland
RRP: $19.48$13.40'Morland predicts the future of humanity in 10 illuminating statistics (could the Japanese and Italians now go the way of the dodo?) and looks back to how ebbs and flows of population have shaped history, such as the Soviet Union's plummeting birth rate... -
The Anthropology of Pregnancy Loss: Comparative Studies in Miscarriage, Stillbirth and Neo-natal Death by Roseanne Cecil 9781859731253
RRP: $70.18$64.70How much influence does culture have on a mother's reactions to pregnancy loss? At what stage is a fetus attributed with human status? How does this affect the mother's reactions to the loss of a baby?Contemporary, historical and oral-history accounts... -
Am I Normal?: The 200-Year Search for Normal People (and Why They Don’t Exist) by Sarah Chaney 9781788162463
RRP: $21.43$13.88*As heard on BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour* *A Blackwell's and Waterstones Best Popular Science Book of 2022* 'Excellent ... one of those rare pop-science books that make you look at the whole world differently' The Daily Telegraph ***** 'Riveting' Mail... -
The Racialized Social System: Critical Race Theory as Social Theory by Meghji
RRP: $31.18$29.39Far from its origins in US legal studies in the 1980s, critical race theory has grown to become a leading approach to the analysis of racial inequality around the world. It has courted much controversy along the way, often misunderstood and poorly... -
An Essay on the Principle of Population by Thomas Malthus
RRP: $19.48$13.86Malthus's Essay looks at the perennial tendency of humans to outstrip their resources: reproduction always exceeds food production. Today Malthus remains a byword for concern about man's demographic and ecological prospects. ABOUT THE SERIES: For... -
Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline by Darrell Bricker
RRP: $25.33$15.95**A SUNDAY TIMES MUST-READ**'Riveting and vitally important' - Steven Pinker'A gripping narrative of a world on the cusp of profound change' - Anjana Ahuja, New StatesmanEmpty Planet offers a radical, provocative argument that the global population will... -
iGen: Why Today's Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy--and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood--and What That Means for the Rest of Us by Jean M. Twenge
RRP: $21.43$13.65As seen in Time, USA TODAY, The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, and on CBS This Morning, BBC, PBS, CNN, and NPR, iGen is crucial reading to understand how the children, teens, and young adults born in the mid-1990s and later are vastly different from... -
The War on Critical Race Theory – Or, The Remaking of Racism by DT Goldberg
RRP: $29.23$20.01"Critical Race Theory" is consuming conservative America. The mounting attacks on a once-obscure legal theory are upending public schooling, legislating censorship, driving elections, and cleaving communities. In this much-needed response, renowned... -
Designing Public Space for an Ageing Population: Improving Pedestrian Mobility for Older People by Charles Musselwhite 9781839827457
RRP: $93.58$93.41Designing Public Space for an Ageing Population examines the barriers older people face by being a pedestrian in the built environment and demonstrates how to overcome them. Drawing on research carried out across the globe, and framed around Bourdieu's... -
Population Geography: Social Justice for a Sustainable World by Helen D. Hazen 9780367697969
RRP: $70.18$64.70Population Geography: Social Justice for a Sustainable World surveys the ways in which geographic approaches may be applied to population issues, exploring how human populations are embedded in natural and social environments. It encourages students to... -
The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century by Walter Scheidel 9780691183251
RRP: $31.18$25.37Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To judge by thousands of years of history, the answer is yes. Tracing the global history of inequality from the Stone Age to today, Walter Scheidel shows... -
Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code by Ruha Benjamin 9781509526406
RRP: $29.23$20.01From everyday apps to complex algorithms, Ruha Benjamin cuts through tech-industry hype to understand how emerging technologies can reinforce White supremacy and deepen social inequity. Benjamin argues that automation, far from being a sinister story of... -
Fortress London: Why we need to save the country from its capital by Sam Bright
RRP: $19.48$12.95A vividly written and timely polemic tackling the burning injustices shaping British society today. 'Intelligently written and powerfully argued.' Paul Mason 'Witty, scathing, and entertaining... -
Why Demography Matters by Danny Dorling 9780745698410
RRP: $37.03$34.42Demography is not destiny. As Giacomo Casanova explained over two centuries ago: 'There is no such thing as destiny. We ourselves shape our own lives.' Today we are shaping them and our societies more than ever before. Globally, we have never had fewer... -
Led by Donkeys: How four friends with a ladder took on Brexit by LedByDonkeys
RRP: $19.50$13.08The official account - complete with full-colour illustrations - of how four ordinary people managed to expose the government's hypocrisies through a nationwide guerrilla advertising campaign.Seeking to highlight the hypocrisy of our politicians on... -
The Darksome Bounds of a Failing World: The Sinking of the "Titanic" and the End of the Edwardian Era by Gareth Russell
RRP: $25.33$16.22When the Titanic sank, so did the Edwardian age that created it. In this brilliantly original history, Gareth Russell recasts a tragedy we think we know to explore an era of seismic change. With new research and... -
England: A Class of Its Own: An Outsider's View by Professor Detlev Piltz
RRP: $39.00$29.21A wry, affectionate and amusing take on English class and customs from an outsider's perspective. For years German lawyer and author Detlev Piltz has been observing England, its life, customs and above all its classes. He argues that whenever an... -
Gen Z, Explained: The Art of Living in a Digital Age by Roberta Katz
RRP: $35.10$31.43Born since the mid-1990s, Generation Z is the first generation never to know the world without the internet, and it is the most diverse generation yet. As Gen Z starts to emerge into adulthood and enter the workforce, what do we really know about them?... -
The Tribes of Britain by David Miles
RRP: $29.23$18.95Who are we? The story of the peoples of Britain and Ireland, drawing on new genetic discoveries, language, buildings and landscape.The diverse peoples of Britain and Ireland are revealed not only by physical characteristics but also through structures... -
Youthquake: Why African Demography Should Matter to the World by Edward Paice
RRP: $21.43$15.89A riveting study of Africa's demographics - its youth and growth - and what they mean for the continent, today and into the future. 'Essential reading' Guardian 'Intensely researched - and very important!' The Week 'The research in Youthquake... -
Men Without Work: Post-Pandemic Edition (2022) by Nicholas Eberstadt
RRP: $27.28$18.82Nicholas Eberstadt's landmark 2016 study, Men without Work, cast a spotlight on the collapse of work for men in modern America. Rosy reports of low unemployment rates and "full or near full employment" conditions, he contends, were overlooking a quiet,... -
Britain by Numbers: A Visual Exploration of People and Place by Stuart Newman
RRP: $48.75$35.14A beautiful, compelling and eye-opening guide to the way we live in Britain today.______________How much more do we drink than we should? Why do immigrants come here? How have house prices changed in the past decade? What do we spend our money on?... -
The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life by Richard J. Herrnstein 9780684824291
RRP: $33.13$23.56The controversial book linking intelligence to class and race in modern society, and what public policy can do to mitigate socioeconomic differences in IQ, birth rate, crime, fertility, welfare, and poverty.About the AuthorRichard J. Herrnstein held the... -
Bageye at the Wheel: A 1970s Childhood in Suburbia by Colin Grant
RRP: $21.43$15.15A powerful prescient memoir of life in 1970s Britain for a child of Windrush generation parents. ... -
Population Control: How Corporate Owners Are Killing Us by Jim Marrs 9780062359902
RRP: $25.33$16.54From the food we eat, the water we drink to the air we breathe, everything these days seems capable of killing us. Recently we have seen an unprecedented number of deaths due to medications for diseases that may not even exist, obscure cancers caused by... -
Migration Studies and Colonialism by Lucy Mayblin
RRP: $33.13$31.06The history of migration is deeply entangled with colonialism. To this day, colonial logics continue to shape the dynamics of migration as well as the responses of states to those arriving at their borders. And yet migration studies has been surprisingly... -
Asian America by Pawan Dhingra 9781509534296
RRP: $38.98$36.89Asian Americans are the fastest growing minority population in the country. Moreover, they provide a unique lens on the wider experiences of immigrants and minorities in the United States, both historically and today. Pawan Dhingra and Robyn Magalit... -
Changing Population: Issues Series - PSHE & RSE Resources For Key Stage 3 & 4: 435 by Danielle Lobban 9781861688958
$17.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781861688958Author Danielle LobbanFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Independence Educational PublishersPublisher Cambridge Media Group -
Population 10 Billion by Danny Dorling 9781780334912
RRP: $25.33$15.95Before May 2011 the top demographics experts of the United Nations had suggested that world population would peak at 9.1 billion in 2100, and then fall to 8.5 billion people by 2150. In contrast, the 2011 revision suggested that 9.1 billion would be... -
Lifescapes: The Experience of Landscape in Britain, 1870–1960 by Jeremy Burchardt 9781009199872
RRP: $58.50$51.38Why does landscape matter to us? We rarely articulate the often highly individual ways it can do so. Drawing on eight remarkable unpublished diaries, Jeremy Burchardt demonstrates that responses to landscape in modern Britain were powerfully affected by... -
The Rise of the Creative Class by Richard Florida
RRP: $35.08$22.52In 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...