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Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster by Adam Higginbotham 9781501134630
RRP: $46.18Booksplease Price: $28.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence (Nonfiction) 2020.Book InformationISBN 9781501134630Author Adam HigginbothamFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Simon &... -
When the Dust Settles: The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller by Lucy Easthope
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $13.76When a plane crashes, a bomb explodes, a city floods or a pandemic begins, Lucy Easthope's phone starts to ring...________________THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKPROFILED IN THE NEW YORKERCHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE... -
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $20.03'Impassioned, hugely informative, wonderfully controversial, and scary as hell' John le CarreAround the world in Britain, the United States, Asia and the Middle East, there are people with power who are cashing in on chaos; exploiting bloodshed and... -
Show Me the Bodies: How We Let Grenfell Happen by Peter Apps
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $15.96***WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2023*** 'Never before, in years of reviewing books about buildings, has one brought me to tears. This one did.' Rowan Moore, Observer Book of the Week On 14 June 2017, a 24-storey block of flats... -
Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy by Serhii Plokhy
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.72*WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2018**WINNER OF THE PUSHKIN HOUSE BOOK PRIZE 2019*'As moving as it is painstakingly researched. . . a cracking read' Viv Groskop, Observer'A riveting account of human error and state duplicity. . ... -
Motherhood in Lockdown: 150 mothers on pregnancy, birth and postpartum in a pandemic by Daisie Lane 9781399979351
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $24.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399979351Author Daisie LaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 490Imprint Posh Dog PressPublisher Posh Dog PressWeight(grams) 744gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm *... -
The Sociological Imagination by C. Wright Mills 9780195133738
RRP: $34.63Booksplease Price: $23.08C. Wright Mills is best remembered for his highly acclaimed work The Sociological Imagination, in which he set forth his views on how social science should be pursued. Hailed upon publication as a cogent and hard-hitting critique, The Sociological... -
Nomad Century: How to Survive the Climate Upheaval by Gaia Vince 9780141997681
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.72Highly Commended for the Wainwright Prize 2023, and shortlisted for the Zocalo Book Prize and the Christopher Moore Prize For Human Rights Writing 'Gaia Vince's new book should be read not just by every politician, but by every person on the planet'... -
Survival of the Richest: escape fantasies of the tech billionaires Douglas Rushkoff 9781915590244
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $15.77'A devastating portrait of the cultures and logics underlying big tech. Rushkoff is going to make you mad enough to fight back. A vital, lucid, and enraging read.' Naomi Klein, author of This Changes Everything The tech elite have a plan to survive the... -
Fire in the Night: The Piper Alpha Disaster by Stephen McGinty
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.69The fire was visible from seventy miles away and the heat generated was so intense that a helicopter could only circle the rig at a perimeter of one mile. On the surface of the sea, a converted fishing trawler inched as close as possible, but the paint... -
An Imperfect Offering: Dispatches from the medical frontline by James Orbinski
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $25.68Born in Britain in 1960, James Orbinski's family moved to Canada when he was seven years old. As a young man, he became a medic to learn how to help, and deal with, the suffering of others. From then on he was plunged into many highly demanding... -
Noises After Dark: Memoirs of a Doctor in East Africa by John Tomlinson 9781803137070
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.46"When I went to medical school, I never dreamt, that as a doctor, one day the biggest contribution I would make to people's health, would be to hand out plastic sheets and blankets under armed guard." Moved by the devastating media coverage of the... -
How to Survive a Crisis: Lessons in Resilience and Avoiding Disaster by David Omand 9780241995402
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.72'David Omand is exactly the man you need in a crisis' RORY STEWART From the former Director of GCHQ comes a guide to surviving crises using the latest intelligence strategiesWar, terrorism, cyberattack, climate change, the threat of AI: it has never been... -
Dead Aid: Why aid is not working and how there is another way for Africa by Dambisa Moyo
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.72Dambisa Moyo's Dead Aid reveals why millions are actually poorer because of aid, unable to escape corruption and reduced, in the West's eyes, to a childlike state of beggary. We all want to help. Over the past fifty years $1 trillion of development aid... -
Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62 Frank Dikoetter 9781408886366
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $25.14WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 'A gripping and masterful portrait of the brutal court of Mao, based on new research but also written with great narrative verve' Simon Sebag Montefiore 'Harrowing and brilliant' Ben Macintyre 'A critical... -
I Shall Not Hate by Izzeldin Abuelaish
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $18.88Heart-breaking, hopeful and horrifying, I Shall Not Hate is a Palestinian doctor's inspiring account of his extraordinary life, growing up in poverty but determined to treat his patients in Gaza and Israel regardless of their ethnic origin. A London... -
102 Minutes by Jim Dwyer
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.84________________________________________The only book on 9/11 to focus solely on the remarkable testimony of those inside the Twin Towers during the attacks.At 8.46 am on September 11, 2001, 14,000 people were inside the Twin Towers in New York - reading... -
The Dragon's Gift: The Real Story of China in Africa by Deborah Brautigam 9780199550227
Booksplease Price: $128.88Is China a rogue donor, as some media pundits suggest? Or is China helping the developing world pave a pathway out of poverty, as the Chinese claim? In the last few years, China's aid program has leapt out of the shadows. Media reports about huge aid... -
The Disappearing Act: The Impossible Case of MH370 by Florence de Changy
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $15.62'People often say that non-fiction books read like fast-moving thrillers, but this one genuinely does... This is a splendid book - and highly recommended.' Daily Mail A remarkable piece of investigative... -
Going Beyond Aid: Development Cooperation for Structural Transformation by Justin Yifu Lin 9781316607152
RRP: $58.80Booksplease Price: $44.84Developing countries have for decades been trying to catch up with the industrialized high-income countries, but only a few have succeeded. Historically, structural transformation has been a powerful engine of growth and job creation. Traditional... -
Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World by Fareed Zakaria
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $14.22From the international bestselling author of The Post-American World 'An intelligent, learned and judicious guide for a world already in the making' The New York TimesSince the end of the Cold War, the world has been shaken to its core three times. 11... -
A Pocket History of the Irish Famine by Tony Potter 9780717179442
RRP: $14.68Booksplease Price: $11.21The Great Famine, an Gorta Mor in Irish, was a period of mass starvation, disease and emigration in Ireland between 1845 and 1852. Often referred to as the Irish Potato Famine, particularly outside Ireland, as around forty percent of the population were... -
When the Dust Settles: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER. 'A marvellous book' -- Rev Richard Coles Lucy Easthope 9781529358247
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $27.93THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE TELEGRAPH AND THE NEW STATESMAN"A marvellous book" Rev Richard Coles"Gripping... filled with compassion." Sunday Times"Remarkable... hopeful and uplifting." Mail on... -
Chernobyl Prayer: Voices from Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievich
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.33Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature'Desperately important and impossible to put down. It is timeless. . . what shines clear from the testimonies is love - love which can make you do the most spectacular things ' Sheena Patel, Observer'- A new... -
The Book of the Dead by Murial Rukeyser
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $25.03Written in response to the Hawk's Nest Tunnel disaster of 1931 in Gauley Bridge, West Virginia, The Book of the Dead is an important part of West Virginia's cultural heritage and a powerful account of one of the worst industrial catastrophes in American... -
At Work in the Ruins: Finding Our Place in the Time of Science, Climate Change, Pandemics and All the Other Emergencies by Dougald Hine
RRP: $46.20Booksplease Price: $26.08'One of the most perceptive and thought-provoking books ...Essential reading for these turbulent times.' Amitav Ghosh, author of The Great Derangement 'Dougald Hine's brilliant book demands we stare into that abyss and rethink our securest certainties... -
The Famine Plot: England's Role in Ireland's Greatest Tragedy by Tim Pat Coogan 9781137278838
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $17.20During a Biblical seven years in the middle of the nineteenth century, fully a quarter of Ireland's citizens either perished from starvation or emigrated in what came to be known as Gorta Mor, the Great Hunger. Waves of hungry peasants fled across the... -
Late Victorian Holocausts: El Nino Famines and the Making of the Third World by Mike Davis
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $23.08Examining a series of El Nino-induced droughts and the famines that they spawned around the globe in the last third of the 19th century, Mike Davis discloses the intimate, baleful relationship between imperial arrogance and natural incident that combined... -
A Slow Death: 83 Days of Radiation Sickness by NHK TV
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $16.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942993544Author NHK TV CrewFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Vertical, Inc.Publisher Vertical, Inc.Weight(grams) 203g -
Hillsborough - The Truth by Phil Scraton
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.84This is the definitive, unique account of the disaster in which 96 men, women and children were killed, hundreds injured and thousands traumatised. It details the appalling treatment endured by the bereaved and survivors in the immediate aftermath, the... -
Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe by Niall Ferguson
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.47'Magisterial ... Immensely readable' Douglas Alexander, Financial Times'Insightful, productively provocative and downright brilliant' New York Times A compelling history of catastrophes and their consequences, from 'the most brilliant British historian... -
Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century by Geoffrey Parker
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $47.75How to account for decades of worldwide war, revolution, and human suffering in the seventeenth century? A master historian uncovers the disturbing answer. Revolutions, droughts, famines, invasions, wars, regicides - the calamities of the... -
A Cloud Over Bhopal: Causes, Consequences and Constructive Solutions by Anne-Marie De Grazia 9781603770897
RRP: $27.20Booksplease Price: $23.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781603770897Author Anne-Marie De GraziaFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Metron PublicationsPublisher Metron PublicationsWeight(grams)... -
Atlas of the Great Irish Famine by John Crowley 9781859184790
Booksplease Price: $123.04The Great Famine is possibly the most pivotal event/experience in modern Irish history. Its global reach and implications cannot be underestimated. In terms of mortality, it is now widely accepted that over a million people perished between the years... -
The Great Irish Famine: A History in Four Lives by Enda Delaney
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $24.76The Great Irish Famine of 1845-52 was the defining event in the history of modern Ireland. At least one million people died, and double that number fled the country within a decade. The Great Irish Famine surveys the history of this great tragedy... -
Hope Against Hope: Writings on Ecological Crisis by Out of the Woods 9781942173205
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $21.11We are told we are living in the middle of a climate crisis of unprecedented proportions. As doomsday scenarios mount, hope collapses. Even as more and more people around the planet experience climate disaster as immediate and urgent, our imagination and... -
The High Girders: The gripping true story of a Victorian dream that ended in tragedy John Prebble 9781474616188
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $14.70'A tale of irresponsibility and inexperience' THE TIMES'Graphically written with a sense of dramatic construction' SCOTSMANOn December 28th 1879, the night of the Great Storm, the Tay Bridge collapsed, along with the train that was crossing, and everyone... -
People First: Leading the UN's Humanitarian Response in Dire Times by Mark Lowcock
Booksplease Price: $42.44Relief Chief is Mark Lowcock's behind-the-scenes account of his experience as the world's most senior humanitarian official-the UN Relief Chief. In his four years on the job, Lowcock coordinated the work of UN agencies, the Red Cross, and countless... -
Belly Woman: Birth, Blood & Ebola: the Untold Story by Benjamin Oren Black
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $21.32Courage meets crisis in a doctor's extraordinary true account on the frontlines of maternal healthcare during a deadly epidemic in Sierra Leone. In May 2014, as the country grapples with the highest maternal mortality rate globally, a new, invisible... -
How to Survive a Crisis: Lessons in Resilience and Avoiding Disaster by David Omand
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $34.19'David Omand is exactly the man you need in a crisis' Rory Stewart'An extraordinary achievement. Probably the best book ever written on crisis management' Christopher Andrew, author of Defence of the RealmWe never know when a crisis might explode. Some...