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The Conversation: Shortlisted for the FT & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2021 by Robert Livingston 9780241502860
RRP: $19.34$14.13SHORTLISTED FOR THE FT MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021 FT BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2021Racial divisions play out as starkly in the workplace as they do in wider society. What can YOU do to eradicate the bias and create a more diverse, inclusive and... -
The Conversation: Shortlisted for the FT & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2021 by Robert Livingston 9780241502860 [USED COPY]
RRP: $19.34$8.06SHORTLISTED FOR THE FT MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021 FT BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2021Racial divisions play out as starkly in the workplace as they do in wider society. What can YOU do to eradicate the bias and create a more diverse, inclusive and... -
The Rage of a Privileged Class by Ellis Cose 9780060925949
RRP: $18.05$13.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060925949Author Ellis CoseFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics by Adam Rutherford
RRP: $12.89$8.77How did an obscure academic idea pave the way to the Holocaust within just fifty years?Why does eugenics still loom large in the 21st century, despite its genocidal past?Did eugenics work? Could it work? Or was it always a pseudoscientific fantasy? ... -
Others: Writers on the power of words to help us see beyond ourselves by Charles Fernyhough
RRP: $12.89$8.84'I cannot think of a time in living memory when this book would have been more urgent or more necessary' Sarah Perry, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Essex Serpent'There are some books which are necessary and there are some which are enjoyable and... -
For a Dollar and a Dream: State Lotteries in Modern America by Jonathan D. Cohen
RRP: $38.04$32.86This first comprehensive history of America's lottery obsession explores the spread of state lotteries and how players and policymakers alike got hooked on wishful dreams of an elusive jackpot. Every week, one in eight Americans place a bet on the... -
Controlling Human Heredity: 1865 to the Present by D.B. Paul 9781573923439
RRP: $25.79$22.72In the late nineteenth and the early twentieth century, it was widely assumed that society ought to foster the breeding of those who possessed favorable traits and discourage the breeding of those who did not. Controlled human breeding, or "eugenics" as... -
Why We Can't Afford the Rich Andrew Sayer 9781447320869
RRP: $14.18$11.24As inequalities widen and the effects of austerity deepen, in many countries the wealth of the rich has soared. Why we can't afford the rich exposes the unjust and dysfunctional mechanisms that allow the top 1% to siphon off wealth produced by others,... -
The Myth of Race: The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea by Robert Wald Sussman
RRP: $25.74$21.31Biological races do not exist-and never have. This view is shared by all scientists who study variation in human populations. Yet racial prejudice and intolerance based on the myth of race remain deeply ingrained in Western society. In his powerful... -
White Minds: Everyday Performance, Violence and Resistance Guilaine Kinouani (psychologist, group analyst and the director and founder of Race Reflections, Syracuse University) 9781447357469
RRP: $19.34$15.65It is widely understood that race is a social fact with profound implications for life chances, group identity, collective representation and the social order. ‘Whiteness’, the source of race-based inequality and injustice, is perpetuated through power,... -
The Essential June Jordan by June Jordan
RRP: $12.89$9.17The definitive introduction to the work of 'the bravest of us . . . the universal poet' (Alice Walker)For the poet and activist June Jordan, neither poetry nor activism could easily be disentangled from the other. Her storied career came to chronicle a... -
The War on Disabled People: Capitalism, Welfare and the Making of a Human Catastrophe by Ellen Clifford
RRP: $18.05$14.24Winner of the Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing Award 2021 In 2016, a United Nations report found the UK government culpable for 'grave and systematic violations' of disabled people's rights. Since then, driven by the Tory government's... -
Decolonizing the Theatre Space: A Conversation by Simeilia Hodge-Dallaway 9781350205130
RRP: $25.79$21.342020 was a year in which global politics radically shifted, catalyzed by the Covid-19 pandemic and the #BlackLivesMatter movement. This book is a response to that year, asking: was it a moment or is it a movement, and what fundamental changes within... -
Blaxhaustion, Karens & Other Threats to Black Lives and Well-Being by Theresa M Robinson 9780998842080
RRP: $24.50$21.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998842080Author Theresa M RobinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Master Trainer Tmr & Associates, LLCPublisher Master Trainer Tmr &... -
Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life by Barbara J Fields
RRP: $14.18$11.53Praised by a wide variety of people from Ta-Nehisi Coates to Zadie Smith, Racecraft "ought to be positioned," as Bookforum put it, "at the center of any discussion of race in American life." Most people assume racism grows from a perception of human ... -
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: Study Guide Revised by Joy a Degruy 9781615391080
RRP: $19.29$12.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781615391080Author Joy a DegruyFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Joy Degruy Publications IncPublisher Joy Degruy Publications IncWeight(grams) 216g -
Access All Areas: The Diversity Manifesto for TV and Beyond by Lenny Henry
RRP: $10.31$7.04** PRE-ORDER LENNY HENRY'S NEW AUTOBIOGRAPHY RISING TO THE SURFACE NOW ** Sir Lenny Henry rang up the Office for National Statistics to confirm something he'd been thinking about for a long time. They told him that only 29.5% of the United Kingdom's... -
Tangled in Terror: Uprooting Islamophobia Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan 9780745345413
RRP: $12.89$8.77'Lyrical and uncompromising - Suhaiymah writes to disrupt' - gal-dem Islamophobia is everywhere. It is a narrative and history woven so deeply into our everyday lives that we don't even notice it - in our education, how we travel, our healthcare,... -
Bringing Up Race: How to Raise a Kind Child in a Prejudiced World Uju Asika 9781529368727
RRP: $24.50$16.45You can't avoid it, because it's everywhere. In the looks my kids get in certain spaces, the manner in which some people speak to them, the stuff that goes over their heads. Stuff that makes them cry even when they don't know why. How do you bring up... -
The Racial Contract by Charles W. Mills
RRP: $25.79$22.63The Racial Contract puts classic Western social contract theory, deadpan, to extraordinary radical use. With a sweeping look at the European expansionism and racism of the last five hundred years, Charles W. Mills demonstrates how this peculiar and... -
Navigating Interracial Borders: Black-White Couples and Their Social Worlds by Erica Chito Childs 9780813535869
RRP: $39.99$29.42Is love color-blind, or at least becoming increasingly so? Today's popular rhetoric and evidence of more interracial couples than ever might suggest that it is. But is it the idea of racially mixed relationships that we are growing to accept or is it the... -
Inclusify: The Power of Uniqueness and Belonging to Build Innovative Teams by Stefanie K. Johnson
RRP: $28.38$18.81In this groundbreaking guide, a management expert outlines the transformative leadership skill of tomorrow-one that can make it possible to build truly diverse and inclusive teams which value employees' need to belong while being themselves. Humans... -
White Girls by Hilton Als
RRP: $14.18$10.02'I defy you to read this book and come away with a mind unchanged' John Jeremiah Sullivan'Als has a serious claim to be regarded as the next James Baldwin' Observer'I see how we are all the same, that none of us are white women or black men; rather,... -
The Heretics: Adventures with the Enemies of Science by Will Storr
RRP: $14.18$10.23Why do obviously intelligent people believe things in spite of the evidence against them? Will Storr has travelled across the world to meet an extraordinary cast of modern heretics in order to answer this question. He goes on a tour of Holocaust sites... -
The Rebirth of Antisemitism in the 21st Century: From the Academic Boycott Campaign into the Mainstream David Hirsh (London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism, UK) 9781032116624
RRP: $33.53$29.19The Rebirth of Antisemitism in the 21st Century is about the rise of antizionism and antisemitism in the first two decades of the 21st century, with a focus on the UK.It is written by the activist-intellectuals, both Jewish and not, who led the... -
A World Without Racism: Building Antiracist Futures Joshua Virasami 9780745348094
RRP: $19.34$12.64What is antiracist activism? And how do we organise for power around antiracist principles? In this groundbreaking collection, long-time activist Joshua Virasami gathers the voices of some of our most inspirational organisers, thinkers and collectives. A... -
Settlers: Journeys Through the Food, Faith and Culture of African London by Jimi Famurewa
RRP: $24.50$18.82A journey into the extraordinary, vibrant world of Black African London which is shaping modern Britain. What makes a Londoner? What is it to be Black, African and British? And how can we understand the many tangled roots of our modern nation without... -
Stigma: The Machinery of Inequality by Imogen Tyler
RRP: $18.05$14.76Stigma is a corrosive social force by which individuals and communities throughout history have been systematically dehumanised, scapegoated and oppressed. From the literal stigmatizing (tattooing) of criminals in ancient Greece, to modern day... -
The Violence of Britishness: Racism, Borders and the Conditions of Citizenship Nadya Ali 9780745341705
RRP: $21.92$14.89In post-Brexit Britain wracked by multiple crises, the entitlements of citizenship grow increasingly precarious. 'Britishness' is a way of understanding the nation shaped by white nationalism that acts as a powerful tool of racial bordering, separating... -
A Map of Absence: An Anthology of Palestinian Writing on the Nakba by Atef Alshaer 9780863569906
RRP: $21.92$14.89A Map of Absence presents the finest poetry and prose by Palestinian writers over the last seventy years. Featuring writers in the diaspora and those living under occupation, these striking entries pay testament to one of the most pivotal events in... -
Those Who Can, Teach: What It Takes To Make the Next Generation by Andria Zafirakou
RRP: $12.89$8.86'An amazing book . . . Read it gang, honestly' Zoe Ball 'I haven't read a book for a long time that so often had me close to tears' Observer 'Inspirational . . . You can call this good teaching; what it looks like is love' Evening Standard The... -
Is God Colour-Blind?: Insights from Black Theology for Christian Faith and Ministry. New Edition with an afterword on why Black Lives Matter by Anthony G. Reddie
RRP: $18.05$12.58'An incredible resource, earthed in academic rigour but packed to the gills with useful exercises that have been honed by reality and experience.' Black Theology Commended as essential reading by reviewers, this insightful guide shows how Black... -
Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism by James W. Loewen
RRP: $19.34$13.26In this groundbreaking work, sociologist James W. Loewen, author of the classic bestseller Lies My Teacher Told Me, brings to light decades of hidden racial exclusion in America. In a provocative, sweeping analysis of American residential patterns,... -
The Children's Inquiry: How the state and society failed the young during the Covid-19 pandemic by Liz Cole
RRP: $12.89$9.17Despite being least affected by the virus itself, children and young people bore the brunt of Covid-19 pandemic restrictions. When schools were closed, playgrounds taped up and play outlawed, children's lives were closed down. The catastrophic impact on... -
The Meaning of Freedom: And Other Difficult Dialogues by Angela Y. Davis
RRP: $15.47$10.32What is the meaning of freedom? Angela Y. Davis' life and work have been dedicated to examining this fundamental question and to ending all forms of oppression that deny people their political, cultural, and sexual freedom. In this collection of twelve... -
Not All Dead White Men: Classics and Misogyny in the Digital Age by Donna Zuckerberg 9780674241411
RRP: $21.87$17.87A Times Higher Education Book of the WeekA virulent strain of antifeminism is thriving online that treats women's empowerment as a mortal threat to men and to the integrity of Western civilization. Its proponents cite ancient Greek and Latin texts to... -
Hitler's American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law by James Q. Whitman 9780691183060
RRP: $16.76$11.69How American race law provided a blueprint for Nazi GermanyNazism triumphed in Germany during the high era of Jim Crow laws in the United States. Did the American regime of racial oppression in any way inspire the Nazis? The unsettling answer is yes. In... -
Surviving Sexual Violence by Liz Kelly 9780745604633
RRP: $24.50$21.76Women's awareness of the threat and reality of sexual violence is now perhaps more than ever publicly acknowledged. Yet this fact continues to be almost wholly ignored. This new study, based on in-depth interviews with 60 women, is the first to cover the... -
The Doctor Robert Icke 9781350382541
RRP: $14.18$12.46First, do no harm. How do we defend the "truth" when no one agrees what it is and many have reason to undermine it? Very freely adapting Professor Bernhardi by Arthur Schnitzler, Robert Icke's gripping moral thriller uses the lens of medical... -
Culture is Bad for You: Inequality in the Cultural and Creative Industries by Orian Brook
RRP: $15.47$11.06Culture will keep you fit and healthy. Culture will bring communities together. Culture will improve your education. This is the message from governments and arts organisations across the country; however, this book explains why we need to be cautious...