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The Daughters of Madurai: Heartwrenching yet ultimately uplifting, this incredible debut will make you think by Rajasree Variyar 9781398707283
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92'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!' ... -
Peters World Map: Folded by WorldView 9781872142029
RRP: $9.37Booksplease Price: $7.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781872142029Author WorldViewPage Count 8Imprint -
Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World by Tom Burgis
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.10SUNDAY 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... -
The Life Project: The Extraordinary Story of Our Ordinary Lives by Helen Pearson
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37LONGLISTED 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... -
The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It by Paul Collier 9780195374636
RRP: $18.08Booksplease Price: $14.02In this elegant and impassioned synthesis from one of the world's leading experts on Africa and poverty, economist Paul Collier writes persuasively that although nearly five billion of the world's... -
Bad Samaritans: The Guilty Secrets of Rich Nations and the Threat to Global Prosperity Ha-Joon Chang 9781905211371
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.81It'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,... -
The Looting Machine: Warlords, Tycoons, Smugglers and the Systematic Theft of Africa's Wealth by Tom Burgis
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $9.15Overseas 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... -
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum by Katherine Boo 9781846274510
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65'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... -
Why Public Space Matters by Setha Low
RRP: $29.47Booksplease Price: $22.24Drawing from decades of research, Setha Low shows how public space contributes to a flourishing society through promoting social justice and democratic practices. Thriving public spaces also enhance... -
China's Asian Dream: Empire Building along the New Silk Road by Tom Miller
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $13.40'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. ... -
The Passions and the Interests: Political Arguments for Capitalism before Its Triumph by Albert O. Hirschman 9780691160252
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $17.63In this volume, Albert Hirschman reconstructs the intellectual climate of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to illuminate the intricate ideological transformation that occurred, wherein the... -
It's Our Turn to Eat by Michela Wrong 9780007241972
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.84A 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... -
The Poverty of Growth by Olivier De Schutter 9780745350233
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $16.56'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... -
Staying Alive: Women, Ecology, and Development Vandana Shiva 9781623170516
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623170516Author Vandana ShivaFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint -
Development as Freedom by Amartya Sen
RRP: $20.76Booksplease Price: $16.71In Development as Freedom Amartya Sen explains how in a world of unprecedented increase in overall opulence millions of people living in the Third World are still unfree. Even if they are not... -
Investment in Blood: The True Cost of Britain's Afghan War by Frank Ledwidge 9780300205268
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $13.47In 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... -
Nigeria: What Everyone Needs to Know (R) by John Campbell 9780190657987
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.71As 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... -
Half The Sky: How to Change the World Nicholas D. Kristof 9781844086825
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $14.47Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting team, husband and wife Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, take us on a journey through Africa and Asia to meet an extraordinary array of exceptional women... -
The Challenge for Africa by Wangari Maathai
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.81In this urgent yet optimistic new work, Nobel Peace Prize Winner Wangari Maathai provides a unique perspective on the fate of Africa. Informed by her three decades as an environmental activist and... -
Planet of Slums by Mike Davis
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.70According to the United Nations, more than one billion people now live in the slums of the cities of the South. In this brilliant and ambitious book, Mike Davis explores the future of a radically... -
Introducing Anthropology: A Graphic Guide by Merryl Wyn-Davis
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.37Anthropology originated as the study of 'primitive' cultures. But the notion of 'primitive' exposes presumptions of 'civilized' superiority and the right of the West to speak for 'less evolved'... -
Anti-Politics Machine: Development, Depoliticization, and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho by James Ferguson 9780816624379
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $22.07Development, it is generally assumed, is good and necessary, and in its name the West has intervened, implementing all manner of projects in the impoverished regions of the world. When these projects... -
The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South by Vijay Prashad 9781781681589
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $20.09In The Darker Nations, Vijay Prashad provided an intellectual history of the Third World and traced the rise and fall of the Non-Aligned Movement. With The Poorer Nations, Prashad takes up the... -
Clothing Poverty: The Hidden World of Fast Fashion and Second-Hand Clothes by Andrew Brooks 9781786997371
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $19.68Have you ever stopped and wondered where your jeans came from? Who made them and where? Ever wondered where they end up after you donate them for recycling? Following a pair of jeans, Clothing... -
Revolution in Rojava: Democratic Autonomy and Women's Liberation in Syrian Kurdistan by Michael Knapp
RRP: $33.49Booksplease Price: $26.59A new kind of society is being built in Syria, but it's not one you would expect. Surrounded by deadly bands of ISIS and hostile Turkish forces, the people living in Syria's Rojava cantons are... -
Micro-Hydro Design Manual: A guide to small-scale water power schemes by Adam Harvey
RRP: $53.53Booksplease Price: $49.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781853391033Author Adam HarveyFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint -
No Such Thing as a Free Gift: The Gates Foundation and the Price of Philanthropy by Linsey McGoey
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.40The charitable sector is one of the fastest-growing industries in the global economy. Nearly half of the more than 85,000 private foundations in the United States have come into being since the year... -
Forgotten Continent: A History of the New Latin America by Michael Reid
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $17.46A newly updated edition of the best-selling primer on the social, political, and economic challenges facing Central and South America Ten years after its first publication, Michael Reid's... -
Getting to Zero: A Doctor and a Diplomat on the Ebola Frontline by Sinead Walsh 9781786992482
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $19.12In 2014, a 28-year old British doctor found himself co-running the Ebola isolation unit in Sierra Leone's main hospital after the doctor in charge had been killed by the virus. Completely overwhelmed... -
Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor by Rob Nixon
RRP: $29.41Booksplease Price: $25.26"Groundbreaking in its call to reconsider our approach to the slow rhythm of time in the very concrete realms of environmental health and social justice." -Wold Literature TodayThe violence wrought... -
An Uncertain Glory: India and its Contradictions by Jean Dreze
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37UPDATED WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION'Magnificent ... a major work by two of the world's most perceptive and intelligent India-watchers writing today' William Dalrymple, New Statesman From two of... -
The Short Guide to International Development Nick Sage (University of Northampton) 9781447348825
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $19.40International development is a vibrant, interdisciplinary area of the social sciences. This Short Guide offers a uniquely succinct and balanced account of this politically charged subject. It distils... -
Breakout Nations: In Pursuit of the Next Economic Miracles by Ruchir Sharma
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.37The argument of BREAKOUT NATIONS is that the astonishingly rapid growth over the last decade of the world's celebrated emerging markets is coming to an end. China, in particular, will soon slow, but... -
North of South: An African Journey by Shiva Naipaul
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $12.37In the 1970s Shiva Naipaul travelled to Africa, visiting Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia for several months. Through his experiences, the places he visited and his various encounters, he aimed to discover... -
The sustainable development goals by United Nations: Department of Public Information 9789211013696
Booksplease Price: $19.93On 25 September 2015, countries adopted a set of 17 goals to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure prosperity for all as part of a new sustainable development agenda to be achieved by 2030. For... -
A People's Green New Deal Max Ajl 9780745341750
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $16.79'Hands-down the best book yet on the Green New Deal' - Jason Hickel The idea of a Green New Deal was launched into popular consciousness by US Congressperson Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in 2018. It... -
Money from Nothing: Indebtedness and Aspiration in South Africa by Deborah James
RRP: $30.81Booksplease Price: $27.28Money from Nothing explores the dynamics surrounding South Africa's national project of financial inclusion-dubbed "banking the unbanked"-which aimed to extend credit to black South Africans as a... -
80-20: Development in an Unequal World by Tony Daly
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780263168Author Tony DalyFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint -
The Idealist: Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty Nina Munk 9780767929424
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $13.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767929424Author Nina MunkFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint -
1949 the First Israelis by Tom Segev 9781501183737
RRP: $28.13Booksplease Price: $20.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501183737Author T SegevFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint