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Systems Leadership in Health and Social Care John Edmonstone 9781138596832
RRP: £36.99£32.53Most leadership development activity in health and social care has been intra-organisational or confined to a particular sector. However, there is increasing recognition of the need to move beyond simple collaboration and partnership and work towards... -
Living with Frailty: From Assets and Deficits to Resilience Shibley Rahman 9781138301214
RRP: £39.99£35.06Increasingly, we question 'what makes us healthy?', as well as 'what makes us ill?'. What does this shift mean for frailty? Almost wholly defined in negative terms, the term 'frail' tends to refer to a group of older people who are at highest risk of... -
Cognitive-Behavioural Integrated Treatment (C-BIT): A Treatment Manual for Substance Misuse in People with Severe Mental Health Problems by Hermine L. Graham 9780470854389
RRP: £54.95£47.69This exciting new book addresses the important issue of how to provide integrated mental health and substance misuse treatment of individuals with these co-occurring disorders. Combining both theory and practice, by the use of illustrative clinical case... -
The Remedy: Robert Koch, Arthur Conan Doyle and the Quest to Cure Tuberculosis by Thomas Goetz 9781592409174
RRP: £12.99£9.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592409174Author Thomas GoetzFormat PaperbackPage Count 298Imprint Gotham BooksPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 237g -
The Power of Days: A Story of Resilience, Dignity, and the Fight for Women's Equity by Celeste Mergens 9781637743744
RRP: £23.99£17.34Imagine missing school or work every month because you lacked proper menstrual supplies. How many days per year would you lose in education and wages simply because you got your period? What if no one ever taught you about menstruation, or worse - if... -
Integral Recovery: A Revolutionary Approach to the Treatment of Alcoholism and Addiction by John Dupuy
RRP: £24.05£23.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438446141Author John DupuyFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Excelsior EditionsPublisher State University of New York PressWeight(grams)... -
Stories of Addiction Recovery: The G-CHIME Model by Lisa Ogilvie 9781804555514
RRP: £45.00£37.63Stories of Addiction Recovery explores first-hand structured accounts of addiction recovery through the G-CHIME model. G-CHIME is an adaptation to the CHIME model of mental health recovery, specifically targeted at addiction recovery. Identifying... -
Revolution in Psychology: Alienation to Emancipation by Ian Parker 9780745325354
RRP: £29.99£23.02"A radical methodological approach to psychology that is open to social change - in an anti-capitalist, anti-racist and feminist politics." Antonio Negri Psychology is meant to help people cope with the afflictions of modern society. But how useful... -
Quicksand Henning Mankell 9781784701567
RRP: £9.99£7.11In January 2014 Henning Mankell was informed that he had cancer. However, Quicksand is not a book about death, but about what it means to be human. Mankell writes about love and jealousy, courage and fear, about what it is like to live with a fatal... -
All Secure: A Special Operations Soldier's Fight to Survive on the Battlefield and the Homefront by Steve Jackson
RRP: £25.00£18.20As a senior non-commissioned officer of Delta Force, the most elite and secretive special operations unit in the U.S. military, Command Sergeant Major Tom Satterly fought some of this country's most fearsome enemies. Over the course of twenty years and... -
When a Family Is in Trouble: Children Can Cope with Grief from Drug & Alcohol Addiction by Marge Eaton Heegaard
RRP: £10.99£6.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780962050275Author Marge Eaton HeegaardFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Woodland PressPublisher Woodland PressWeight(grams) 165g -
The Virus in the Age of Madness by Bernard-Henri Levy
RRP: £11.99£10.15A trenchant look at how the coronavirus reveals the dangerous fault lines of contemporary society As seen on CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS: "A stirring alarm addressed to an unsettled world." (Kirkus Reviews) Forget the world that came before. The author of... -
The Fix by Damian Thompson 9780007436101
RRP: £10.99£8.29Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Make, Think, Imagine by John Browne
RRP: £10.99£7.77LONGLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES AND MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2019 __________________ 'A much-needed antidote to pervasive pessimism' Financial Times 'An ode to the ways in which engineering has improved human civilisation' John... -
Animals and Psychedelics: The Natural World and its Instinct to Alter Consciousness by Giorgio Samorini 9780892819867
RRP: £11.99£6.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892819867Author Giorgio SamoriniFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Inner Traditions Bear and CompanyPublisher Inner Traditions Bear and... -
The Malaria Capers: Tales of Parasites and People by Robert S. Desowitz 9780393310085
RRP: £20.00£16.52Why, Robert S. Desowitz asks, has biotechnical research on malaria produced so little when it had promised so much? An expert in tropical diseases, Desowtiz searches for answers in this provocative book.About the AuthorRobert S. Desowitz (1926-2008) was... -
The Accidental Soberista: Discover the unexpected bliss of an alcohol-free life by Kate Gunn
RRP: £15.99£11.61Kate Gunn was a social drinker, usually having a few drinks about three nights a week. But she had an inkling that alcohol was holding her back from getting on top of her life, and the hangovers were getting worse. So, when Kate's partner had to take... -
Plandemic: Indoctornation by Mikki Willis 9781510765542
RRP: £26.99£15.89The incredible true story of the most banned documentary in history.Researching the controversy arising after the release of the viral phenomenon known as Plandemic, the most seen and censored documentary in history, an investigative journalist sets out... -
Healing: Our Path from Mental Illness to Mental Health by Thomas Insel
RRP: £32.00£19.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593298046Author Thomas InselFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 578gDimensions(mm) 242mm *... -
Pharma: Greed, Lies, and the Poisoning of America by Gerald Posner 9781501151897
RRP: £25.00£22.34Award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author Gerald Posner traces the heroes and villains of the trillion-dollar-a-year pharmaceutical industry and uncovers how those once entrusted with improving life have often betrayed that ideal to... -
COVID-19: Surviving a Pandemic by J. Michael Ryan
RRP: £35.99£31.69COVID-19: Surviving a Pandemic provides critical insights into survival strategies employed by communities and individuals around the world during the pandemic.A central question since this pandemic began has been how to survive it. That question has... -
The NHS at 75: The State of UK Health Policy Mark Exworthy (University of Birmingham) 9781447368601
RRP: £27.99£21.57In its 75th anniversary year, this book examines the history, evolution and future of the NHS. With contributions from leading researchers and experts across a range of fields, such as finance, health policy, primary and secondary care, quality and... -
Righteous Dopefiend by Philippe Bourgois 9780520254985
£32.11This powerful study immerses the reader in the world of homelessness and drug addiction in the contemporary United States. For over a decade Philippe Bourgois and Jeff Schonberg followed a social network of two dozen heroin injectors and crack smokers on... -
Explaining Mental Illness: Sociological Perspectives Baptiste Brossard (University of York) 9781529215052
RRP: £24.99£19.39How can sociology explain the emergence of mental disorders in societies or individuals? This authoritative book makes a case for the renewal of the sociology of mental illness, proposing a reorganisation of this field around four areas: social... -
The First Cell: And the Human Costs of Pursuing Cancer to the Last by Azra Raza
RRP: £14.99£11.66In The First Cell, Azra Raza offers a searing account of how both medicine and our society (mis)treats cancer, how we can do better, and why we must. A lyrical journey from hope to despair and back again, The First Cell explores cancer from every angle:... -
Understanding Trans Health: Discourse, Power and Possibility by Ruth Pearce 9781447342359
RRP: £28.99£22.29What does it mean for someone to be 'trans'? What are the implications of this for healthcare provision? Drawing on the findings of an extensive research project, this book addresses urgent challenges and debates in trans health. It interweaves patient... -
The Golden Cage: The Enigma of Anorexia Nervosa, With a New Foreword by Catherine Steiner-Adair, Ed.D. by Hilde Bruch 9780674005846
RRP: £25.95£20.64First published more than twenty years ago, with almost 150,000 copies sold, The Golden Cage is still the classic book on anorexia nervosa, for patients, parents, mental health trainees, and senior therapists alike. Writing in direct, jargon-free style,... -
Legal Highs: Inside Secrets of the World's Newest and Deadliest Drugs Wensley Clarkson 9781848667167
RRP: £8.99£6.20Legal Highs are without doubt the biggest drug scourge to blight the world since recreational drugs first hit the streets more than 100 years ago. Their growing menace opens up a new front in the drug war, shifting the battle line from the Colombian... -
HIV & AIDS: A Very Short Introduction by Alan Whiteside
RRP: £8.99£6.45In 2008 it was believed that HIV/AIDS was without doubt the worst epidemic to hit humankind since the Black Death. The first case was identified in 1981; by 2004 it was estimated that about 40 million people were living with the disease, and about 20... -
Mentored by a Madman: The William Burroughs Experiment by Andrew Lees
RRP: £14.99£13.64Lees draws on Burroughs' search for an addiction cure to discover a ground-breaking treatment for shaking palsy, and learns how to use the deductive reasoning of Sherlock Holmes to diagnose patients. Lees follows Burroughs into the rainforest and under... -
Addictions Counseling: A Practical and Comprehensive Guide for Counseling People with Addictions by Dianne Doyle Pita 9780824522629
£17.52This wholly revised and updated edition of Addictions Counseling is widely read by professional counselors as well as ministers, teachers, and nurses. Topics include the counselor's role in recovery, treatment approaches, and sample treatment plans.Book... -
Birthing Liberation: How Reproductive Justice Can Set Us Free by Sabia Wade
RRP: £25.95£20.60Black maternal mortality statistics have not shifted in the past thirty years. The maternal mortality rate for Black patients is four to five times higher than it is for White patients. This is just one example of racism as a health and national crisis,... -
No Dice: Gambling and Risk in Modern Culture by Nathan Charles 9781912489664
RRP: £7.50£4.94When you think of 'gambling' you might think of Vegas casinos, betting shops and football flutters but the risk of gambling is embedded in numerous corners of popular culture that many of us consume. By considering the concept of 'soft gambling', No... -
Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness by Roy Richard Grinker
RRP: £23.99£20.51For centuries, scientists and society cast moral judgments on anyone deemed mentally ill, confining many to asylums. In Nobody's Normal, anthropologist Roy Richard Grinker chronicles the progress and setbacks in the struggle against mental-illness... -
Applied Theatre: Performing Health and Wellbeing by Veronica Baxter 9781472584571
RRP: £26.99£23.44Applied Theatre: Performing Health and Wellbeing is the first volume in the field to address the role that theatre, drama and performance have in relation to promoting, developing and sustaining health and wellbeing in diverse communities. Challenging... -
The Anthropology of Drugs by Neil Carrier 9780367625269
RRP: £35.99£31.69An ideal book for those coming to the anthropology of drugs for the first time, filling a surprisingly big gap in the literature Includes many case studies, such as drug tourism, the opioid crisis and 'county lines' in the UK as well as global examples... -
The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth by Sam Quinones
RRP: £18.00£11.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639730476Author Sam QuinonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USAWeight(grams) 437g -
Let Me Not Be Mad: A Story of Unravelling Minds by A K Benjamin
RRP: £9.99£7.11Let Me Not Be Mad is an immersive, virtuosic and provocative investigation of madness, love and self-destruction that defies categorisation. 'Exhilarating ... dazzling ... a miraculous feat' Guardian'I have rarely read a more haunting and enthralling... -
The Truth About Fat: Why Obesity is Not that Simple by Anthony Warner
RRP: £9.99£7.11Most people try out diets just to see if they work. One friend cuts out sugar, a second cuts out fat. Another mumbles something about gut microbes. Even scientists still seem to be arguing about what causes obesity, so what hope is there for the rest of... -
7 Tools To Beat Addiction by Stanton Peele
RRP: £13.99£11.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400048731Author Stanton PeeleFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Three Rivers PressPublisher Three Rivers PressWeight(grams) 252g