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The Daughters of Madurai: Heartwrenching yet ultimately uplifting, this incredible debut will make you think by Rajasree Variyar 9781398707283
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.00'Oh my goodness. If I could give this book 6 stars out of 5 I would' 'One of those books that will stay with me for years and decades to come...' 'Grabbed my heart and wouldn't let go!' 'A joy to read' ... -
The INGO Problem: Power, privilege, and renewal Deborah Doane 9781788534406
RRP: £13.95Booksplease Price: £12.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788534406Author Deborah DoaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint Practical Action PublishingPublisher Practical Action PublishingWeight(grams)... -
The Climate Book by Greta Thunberg
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.68*A Times, Financial Times, Observer and Nature Book of the Year*We still have time to change the world. From Greta Thunberg, the world's leading climate activist, comes the essential handbook for making it happen. You might think it's an impossible task:... -
Peters World Map: Folded by WorldView 9781872142029
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £6.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781872142029Author WorldViewPage Count 8Imprint WorldView PublicationsPublisher WorldView PublicationsDimensions(mm) 297mm * 210mm * 9mm -
Out in the Cold: Emergency water supply and sanitation for cold regions (3rd Edition) by Mark Buttle 9781843800774
Booksplease Price: £29.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781843800774Author Mark ButtleFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint WEDCPublisher WEDCWeight(grams) 248g -
Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World by Tom Burgis
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.44SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'If you think the UK isn't corrupt, you haven't looked hard enough ... This terrifying book follows a global current of dirty money, and the murders and kidnappings required to sustain it' GEORGE MONBIOT,... -
States of Confinement: Policing, Detention, and Prisons by Joy James 9780312294502
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £32.04The United States has the highest incarceration and execution rate in the industrialized world. Due to bias in policing and sentencing, seventy percent of the nearly two million people incarcerated in U.S. prisons and immigration detention centers are... -
The Life Project: The Extraordinary Story of Our Ordinary Lives by Helen Pearson
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.27LONGLISTED FOR THE 2017 ORWELL PRIZE'Eye-opening, extraordinary insights into ordinary lives' Financial Times 'Superb' Literary ReviewThe remarkable story of a unique series of studies that have touched the lives of almost everyone in Britain todayIn ... -
The 'Local' Irish in the West of Scotland 1851-1921 by Geraldine Vaughan 9781137329837
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £44.95Vaughan renews perspectives on the changes brought about by Irish migrant communities in terms of identity, politics and religion. The book examines on the experience of generations of Irish migrants in the West of Scotland from the aftermath of the... -
Bad Samaritans: The Guilty Secrets of Rich Nations and the Threat to Global Prosperity Ha-Joon Chang 9781905211371
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.61It's rare that a book appears with a fresh perspective on world affairs, but renowned economist Ha-Joon Chang has some startlingly original things to say about the future of globalization. In theory, he argues, the world's wealthiest countries and... -
The Looting Machine: Warlords, Tycoons, Smugglers and the Systematic Theft of Africa's Wealth by Tom Burgis
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.44Overseas Press Club Award Winner 2016 A shocking investigative journey into the way the resource trade wreaks havoc on Africa, 'The Looting Machine' explores the dark underbelly of the global economy. 'The Looting Machine' is a... -
The Climate Book by Greta Thunberg 9780141999043
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.62*A Times, Financial Times, Observer and Nature Book of the Year*'Spectacular ... this work is planetary in scale' Independent'It offers real, rich hope' Observer, Books of the YearWe still have time to change the world. From the world's leading climate... -
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum by Katherine Boo 9781846274510
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.51'A Mumbai slum understood and imagined as never before in language of intense beauty' Salman Rushdie 'If Bollywood ever decides to do its own version of The Wire, this would be it' Barbara Ehrenreich Annawadi is a slum at the edge of Mumbai... -
A Theory of Human Need by Len Doyal 9780333383254
RRP: £42.99Booksplease Price: £37.99Rejecting fashionable subjectivist and cultural relativist approaches, this important book argues that human beings have universal and objective needs for health and autonomy and a right to their optimal satisfaction. The authors develop a system of... -
The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World by Vijay Prashad 9781595583420
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.90A landmark work, The Darker Nations chronicles the rise and fall of the Third World. Vijay Prashad reconstructs the fascinating history of the Third World, recalling the now-forgotten Brussels conclave of the League Against Imperialism - an international... -
Changing Lives in Laos: Society, Politics, and Culture in a Post-Socialist State by Vanina Boute 9789814722261
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £27.37During the last two decades, Laos has undergone major transformations due to a massive influx of foreign investment. Improved communications and new forms of mobility have dramatically altered rural life. Changing Lives in Laos brings together... -
China's Asian Dream: Empire Building along the New Silk Road by Tom Miller
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.57'China', Napoleon once remarked, 'is a sleeping lion. Let her sleep, for when she wakes she will shake the world.' In 2014, President Xi Jinping triumphantly declared that the lion had awoken. From holding its ground in trade wars with the US, to... -
Training for Transformation: A handbook for community workers Books 1-3 Anne Hope 9781853393532
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £25.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781853393532Author Anne HopeFormat PaperbackPage Count 552Imprint Practical Action PublishingPublisher Practical Action PublishingWeight(grams)... -
Towards Democratic Development States in Southern Africa by Godfrey Kanyenze 9781779223074
RRP: £49.73Booksplease Price: £43.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781779223074Author Godfrey KanyenzeFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint Weaver PressPublisher Weaver PressWeight(grams) 508g -
Crossed Off the Map: Travels in Bolivia by Shafik Meghji 9781909014251
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £13.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909014251Author Shafik MeghjiFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Practical Action PublishingPublisher Practical Action PublishingWeight(grams) 200g -
Inside the Political Mind: The Human Side of Politics and How It Shapes Development by Greg Power 9781805260516
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £20.00Drawing on his experience of working with hundreds of politicians in more than sixty countries, Greg Power explores how social norms, public expectations and the personal interests of MPs influence the path of political development. Where states are... -
The Passions and the Interests: Political Arguments for Capitalism before Its Triumph by Albert O. Hirschman 9780691160252
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £12.73In this volume, Albert Hirschman reconstructs the intellectual climate of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to illuminate the intricate ideological transformation that occurred, wherein the pursuit of material interests--so long condemned as the... -
Building with Lime: A practical introduction by Stafford Holmes 9781853395475
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £17.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781853395475Author Stafford HolmesFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Practical Action PublishingPublisher Practical Action PublishingWeight(grams)... -
Why We Lie About Aid: Development and the Messy Politics of Change by Pablo Yanguas 9781783609338
Booksplease Price: £21.80Foreign aid is about charity. International development is about technical fixes. At least that is what we, as donor publics, are constantly told. The result is a highly dysfunctional aid system which mistakes short-term results for long-term... -
It's Our Turn to Eat by Michela Wrong 9780007241972
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.66A gripping account of both an individual caught on the horns of an excruciating moral dilemma and a continent at a turning point. When Michela Wrong's Kenyan friend John Githongo appeared one cold February morning on the doorstep of her London... -
Cultivating Development: An Ethnography of Aid Policy and Practice by David Mosse 9780745317984
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £24.99What if development agencies and researchers are not driven by policy? Suppose that the things that make for 'good policy' - policy that legitimises and mobilises political support - in reality make it impossible to implement? By focusing in detail on... -
The Poverty of Growth by Olivier De Schutter 9780745350233
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £9.98'Lucid, calm and compelling - Olivier De Schutter tackles the big questions' Kate Pickett, co-author, The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better for Everyone How do we combat poverty and rising inequality? In our age of impending climate catastrophe,... -
International Migration within, to and from Africa in a Globalised World by Aderanti Adepoju 9789988647421
RRP: £43.66Booksplease Price: £37.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789988647421Author Aderanti AdepojuFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Sub-Saharan PublishersPublisher Sub-Saharan PublishersWeight(grams) 426g -
Patterns of Protest: Politics and Social Movements in Bolivia by John Crabtree 9781899365715
Booksplease Price: £21.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781899365715Author John CrabtreeFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Latin America BureauPublisher Latin America Bureau -
Rammed Earth Structures: A Code of Practice by Julian Keable 9781853397271
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £13.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781853397271Author Julian KeableFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Practical Action PublishingPublisher Practical Action PublishingWeight(grams) 425g -
The Sexual History of the Global South: Sexual Politics in Africa, Asia and Latin America by Saskia Wieringa 9781780324029
Booksplease Price: £24.88The Sexual History of the Global South explores the gap between sexuality studies and post-colonial cultural critique. Featuring twelve case studies, based on original historical and ethnographic research from countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin... -
Staying Alive: Women, Ecology, and Development Vandana Shiva 9781623170516
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623170516Author Vandana ShivaFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Frog LtdPublisher Frog LtdWeight(grams) 397gDimensions(mm) 228mm * 153mm * 17mm -
Africonomics: A History of Western Ignorance Bronwen Everill 9780008581145
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £15.55'A wry, rollicking, and provocative history' Michael Taylor, author of The Interest 'A thought-provoking analysis of Africa's relationship with economic imperialism' Astrid Madimba and Chinny Ukata,... -
Change Your World: How Anyone, Anywhere Can Make a Difference by John C. Maxwell
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.61Whatever the desires of your heart, Change Your World will guide you through the entire process to take action and start making an impact today right where you are.You can bring about positive, lasting change in the world and you don't have to be rich... -
Investment in Blood: The True Cost of Britain's Afghan War by Frank Ledwidge 9780300205268
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.54In this follow-up to the extremely successful Losing Small Wars, Frank Ledwidge analyses the cost - both financial and human - of Britain's involvement in the Afghanistan war. With the aid of interviews, on-the-ground research and countless Freedom of... -
The Economic Rise of East Asia: Development Paths of Japan, South Korea, and China by Linda Glawe 9783030871307
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £45.23In light of the growing global economic importance of East Asia, this book analyzes and compares the extraordinary development paths and strategies of Japan, South Korea, and China. It examines both the factors that enabled these countries' prolonged... -
Raging Grace: Australian Writers Speak Out on Disability by Andy Jackson 9781923099326
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £16.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781923099326Author Andy JacksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Puncher and WattmannPublisher Puncher and WattmannWeight(grams) 210g -
State-Directed Development: Political Power and Industrialization in the Global Periphery by Atul Kohli 9780521545259
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £28.29Why have some developing country states been more successful at facilitating industrialization than others? An answer to this question is developed by focusing both on patterns of state construction and intervention aimed at promoting industrialization... -
Nigeria: What Everyone Needs to Know (R) by John Campbell 9780190657987
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.96As the "Giant of Africa," Nigeria is home to about twenty percent of the population of Sub-Saharan Africa, serves as Africa's largest producer of oil and natural gas, comprises Africa's largest economy, and represents the cultural center of African... -
World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability by Amy Chua
RRP: £19.00Booksplease Price: £13.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385721868Author Amy ChuaFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncWeight(grams)...