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To Obama by Jeanne Marie Laskas
RRP: £9.99£7.11One of the most important politics books of the year, To Obama is a record of a time when politics intersected with empathy. 'The real story of Obama's America' Sunday Times Every day, President Obama received ten thousand letters from ordinary... -
Affluenza by Oliver James
RRP: £16.99£12.28There is currently an epidemic of 'affluenza' throughout the world - an obsessive, envious, keeping-up-with-the-Joneses - that has resulted in huge increases in depression and anxiety among millions. Over a nine-month period, bestselling author Oliver... -
Worktown: The Astonishing Story of the Project that launched Mass Observation David Hall 9781780227801
RRP: £10.99£7.40The astonishing story of the project that launched Mass Observation In the late 1930s the Lancashire town of Bolton witnessed a ground-breaking social experiment. Over three years, a team of ninety observers recorded, in painstaking detail, the everyday... -
Who They Was by Gabriel Krauze
RRP: £9.99£6.64Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2020 A Spectator Book of the Year 'A literary rendering of the Top Boy generation... I cannot conjure another work which captures this... -
The Mole People: Life in the Tunnels Beneath New York City by Jennifer Toth
RRP: £17.99£11.41Thousands of people live in the subway, railroad, and sewage tunnels that form the bowels of New York City and this book is about them, the so-called mole people. They live alone and in communities, in subway tunnels and below subway platforms and this... -
Spatialized Injustice in the Contemporary City: Protesting as Public Pedagogy by S. Nombuso Dlamini 9781032186528
RRP: £39.99£35.06This volume documents research illustrating public dissents and interventions to injustice in modern-day cities. Authors present everyday occurrences of city life and place making; still, they show how the ordinary city grows from historical dimensions... -
Paint Your Town Red: How Preston Took Back Control and Your Town Can Too by Matt Brown
RRP: £10.99£7.40Across the world, there is a growing recognition that a new kind of economy is needed: more democratic, less exploitative, less destructive of society and the planet. Paint Your Town Red looks at how wealth can be generated and shared at a local level... -
The Sugar Girls: Tales of Hardship, Love and Happiness in Tate & Lyle's East End by Duncan Barrett
RRP: £9.99£6.64Tales of Hardship, Love and Happiness in Tate & Lyle's East End Factories. The Sugar Girls went straight to No.10 in the Sunday Times Bestseller List, spending five weeks in the top ten. 'On an autumn day in 1944, Ethel Alleyne walked the... -
I Could Be So Good for You: A Portrait of the North London Working Class John Medhurst 9781914420344
RRP: £18.99£13.15I Could Be So Good For You tackles head-on the pernicious and implicitly racist fiction that London, most especially north London, has no "real" working class in comparison to a more "authentic" working class in a place called "the North". In doing... -
House of Outrageous Fortune: Fifteen Central Park West, the World's Most Powerful Address by Michael Gross 9781451666205
RRP: £19.99£13.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451666205Author Michael GrossFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Atria BooksWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 140mm * 25mm -
The Families Who Made Rome: A History and a Guide Anthony Majanlahti 9781844134090
RRP: £16.99£12.28How often does a visitor to Rome drift towards some landmark and wonder who created it? Why? What was their story? This fascinating book provides the answers. At once a history and a guide, it divides Rome into the districts dominated by the fabulously... -
This is London: Life and Death in the World City by Ben Judah
RRP: £10.99£7.93This is London in the eyes of its beggars, bankers, coppers, gangsters, carers, witch-doctors and sex workers. This is London in the voices of Arabs, Afghans, Nigerians, Poles, Romanians and Russians.This is London as you've never seen it before... -
Getting By: Estates, Class and Culture in Austerity Britain Lisa Mckenzie 9781447309956
RRP: £16.99£13.58While the 1% rule, poor neighbourhoods have become the subject of public concern and media scorn, blamed for society's ills. This unique book redresses the balance. Lisa Mckenzie lived on the St Ann's estate in Nottingham for more than 20 years. Her... -
Deeping It: Colonialism, Culture & Criminalisation of UK Drill by Adele Oliver 9781912489787
RRP: £7.50£4.94Deeping It analyses drill's fight against moral panic and its fraught relationship with the police and political authority in the UK, exemplified by constant censorship, racism, and moments such as when a drill duo became the first people in British... -
High Price: Drugs, Neuroscience, and Discovering Myself by Carl Hart 9780670919741
RRP: £15.99£11.61High Price by Carl Hart is a groundbreaking work on neuroscience and addictionAs a youth, Carl Hart didn't see the value of school, studying just enough to keep him on the basketball team. At the same time, he was immersed in street life, dealing drugs... -
The Wandering Jews by Joseph Roth
RRP: £11.99£9.00This is the first English translation of Joseph Roth's portrayal of the Jews of Eastern Europe: their poverty, their towns and trades, their feast days and the mysticism of their rabbis. Roth was conscious that this was a community living under the... -
Urban Regeneration in the UK by Andrew Tallon
RRP: £35.99£32.09This textbook provides an accessible and critical synthesis of urban regeneration in the UK, incorporating key policies, approaches, issues, debates and case studies. The central objective of the textbook is to place the historical and contemporary... -
Cities in Modernity: Representations and Productions of Metropolitan Space, 1840-1930 by Richard Dennis 9780521468411
RRP: £37.99£31.71What made cities 'modern' in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? Cities in Modernity explores connections between culture, economy and built environment in cities of this period, drawing its evidence principally from London, New York and... -
Inclusive Transportation: A Manifesto for Repairing Divided Communities Veronica Davis 9781642832099
RRP: £26.00£21.70Transportation planners, engineers, and policymakers in the US face the monumental task of righting the wrongs of their predecessors while charting the course for the next generation. This task requires empathy while pushing against forces in the... -
Topophilia: A Study of Environmental Perceptions, Attitudes, and Values by Yi-fu Tuan
RRP: £30.00£23.29What are the links between environment and world view? Topophilia, the affective bond between people and place, is the primary theme of this book that examines environmental perceptions and values at different levels: the species, the group, and the... -
Those Who Can, Teach: What It Takes To Make the Next Generation by Andria Zafirakou
RRP: £9.99£6.87'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... -
Creating Community-Led and Self-Build Homes: A Guide to Collaborative Practice in the UK Martin Field (Centre for Comparative Housing Research, De Montfort University) 9781447344391
RRP: £9.99£7.99In Creating Community-Led and Self-Build Homes, Martin Field explores the ways in which people and communities across the UK have been striving to create the homes and neighbourhood communities they want. Giving context to contemporary practices in the... -
Les Fleurs Du Mal (The Flowers of Evil) by Charles Baudelaire
RRP: £10.99£8.69The celebrated, National Book Award winning, translation of Baudelaire's masterpiece. "It is the English edition to acquire."-Washington PostPulitzer Prize winning poet and translator, Richard Howard, gives readers the true voice of Baudelaire in this... -
Serious Money: Walking Plutocratic London by Caroline Knowles 9780241470923
RRP: £25.00£21.79'A latter-day Canterbury Tales ... Serious Money has a serious mission' The Times'Eye-opening ... part guide, part indictment of a yawning wealth gap' Misha Glenny, Financial Times'A wonderful and vital account of a city ruled by, and for, extreme... -
Soft City: Picador Classic by Jonathan Raban
RRP: £10.99£7.93Jonathan Raban's Soft City is a compelling exploration of urban life: a classic in the literature of the city. First published in the 1970s, it is now more relevant to today's overcrowded planet than ever.With an introduction by Iain Sinclair.In the city... -
The North Will Rise Again: In Search of the Future in Northern Heartlands by Alex Niven
RRP: £20.00£15.64"Incorporating sharp questions and big ideas, Niven shifts deftly between history, politics, culture and literature to offer a fascinating and provocative analysis of the marginalisation of the North." Madeleine Bunting, author of Labours of Love: the... -
Messengers by Julian Sayarer
RRP: £8.99£6.20AUTHOR OF INTERSTATE, STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016"Julian's tales of weaving through the streets of London on two wheels bring to life the gig economy, showing how things have changed in the modern workforce but have also stayed the same... -
Palaces for the People: How To Build a More Equal and United Society by Eric Klinenberg
RRP: £10.99£7.77How can we bring people together? Sociologist and best-selling author Eric Klinenberg introduces a transformative and powerfully uplifting new idea for health, happiness, safety and healing our divided, unequal society. 'This wonderful book shows us how... -
A Beginner's Guide to Urban Design and Development: The ABC of Quality, Sustainable Design by Laura B. Alvarez 9781032154152
RRP: £31.99£28.33This book provides invaluable guidance to all those with an interest in placemaking and the built environment, from those with no experience to those who have worked for many years in industry, illustrating key principles that will secure higher quality,... -
Film Noir and the Spaces of Modernity by Edward Dimendberg
RRP: £34.95£28.19Film noir remains one of the most enduring legacies of 1940s and '50s Hollywood. Populated by double-crossing, unsavory characters, this pioneering film style explored a shadow side of American life during a period of tremendous prosperity and optimism... -
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles by Mike Davis
RRP: £12.99£11.01No metropolis has been more loved or more hated. To its official boosters, "Los Angeles brings it all together." To detractors, LA is a sunlit mortuary where "you can rot without feeling it." To Mike Davis, the author of this fiercely elegant and... -
Invisible China: How the Urban-Rural Divide Threatens China's Rise by Scott Rozelle
RRP: £16.00£12.45As the glittering skyline in Shanghai seemingly attests, China has quickly transformed itself from a place of stark poverty into a modern, urban, technologically savvy economic powerhouse. But as Scott Rozelle and Natalie Hell show in Invisible China,... -
Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution by Janette Sadik-Khan
RRP: £18.99£12.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143128977Author Janette Sadik-KhanFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Blue Above the Chimneys by Christine Marion Fraser
RRP: £10.99£7.77Discover the heart-warming and uplifting story of a Glasgow tenement urchin finding her way against adversityBorn during the Second World War in Glasgow, Christine Fraser was her mother's eighth child.Growing up with her siblings in a tiny flat, learning... -
Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles by Rosecrans Baldwin
RRP: £13.99£11.22America is obsessed with Los Angeles. And America has been thinking about Los Angeles all wrong, for decades, on repeat. Los Angeles is not just the place where the American dream hits the Pacific. Not just the end of the line anymore. Not just the... -
San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities by Michael Shellenberger
RRP: £20.00£13.74The author of the national bestseller Apocalypse Never examines the problems plaguing America's most liberal cities. San Francisco was once widely viewed as the prettiest city in America. Today it is best known as the epicenter of the homeless... -
Understanding Crime and Place: A Methods Handbook by Elizabeth R. Groff 9781439920664
RRP: £124.00£107.04Place has become both a major field of criminological study as well as an important area for policy development. Capturing state of the art crime and place research methods and analysis, Understanding Crime and Place is a comprehensive Handbook focused... -
Riyadh: Transforming a Desert City Yasser Elsheshtawy 9781032038742
RRP: £39.99£35.06Riyadh has set its sights on becoming a world city befitting the twenty-first century. To that end it has embarked on a massive construction drive evidenced in the proliferation of proposals for high-end districts, giga-developments and elaborate... -
Settlers: Journeys Through the Food, Faith and Culture of African London by Jimi Famurewa
RRP: £18.99£14.59A 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... -
The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams 9780063090248
RRP: £34.00£22.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063090248Author Sara Nisha AdamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 224mm...