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The Contradictions of Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Pat Hudson 9781911116110
RRP: £29.99£28.28This volume of essays builds upon renewed interest in the long-run global development of wealth and inequality stimulated by the publication of Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century. It brings together an international team of leading... -
How Stella Saved the Farm: A Tale about Making Innovation Happen by Vijay Govindarajan 9781250002129
RRP: £22.00£13.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250002129Author Vijay GovindarajanFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 404gDimensions(mm) 223mm... -
Dream Zones: Anticipating Capitalism and Development in India Jamie Cross 9780745333724
RRP: £29.99£23.02Dream Zones explores the dreamed of and desired futures that constitute, sustain and disrupt capitalism in contemporary India. Drawing on five years of research in and around India's Special Economic Zones (SEZs), the book follows the stories of... -
Public Choices and Policy Change: The Political Economy of Reform in Developing Countries by Merilee Serrill Grindle
RRP: £27.50£24.50'About the AuthorMerilee S. Grindle is in the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.ReviewsThis work looks not so much at the obstacles to reform as the ways to get around them through imaginative management. The proper setting of... -
Managing Startups - Best Blog Posts Thomas Eisenmann 9781449367879
RRP: £11.99£8.50If you want salient advice about your startup, you've hit the jackpot with this book. Harvard Business School Professor Tom Eisenmann annually compiles the best posts from many blogs on technology startup management, primarily for the benefit of his... -
The Biosphere and the Bioregion: Essential Writings of Peter Berg by Cheryll Glotfelty
RRP: £37.99£33.38Bioregionalism asks us to reimagine ourselves and the places where we live in ecological terms and to harmonize human activities with the natural systems that sustain life. As one of the originators of the concept of bioregionalism, Peter Berg... -
Leave No One Behind: Time for Specifics on the Sustainable Development Goals by Homi Kharas
RRP: £30.00£26.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815737834Author Homi KharasFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm)... -
Development as Swaraj: Towards a Sustainable and Equitable Future Sumanas Koulagi 9781032404394
RRP: £45.99£40.44This book offers an in-depth insight into the Indian concept of swaraj--self-rule--both in theory and practice and posits it within the larger context of development.It opens by discussing the limitations of prevailing sustainable development paradigm as... -
China's Great Economic Transformation by Loren Brandt 9780521712903
RRP: £69.99£59.63This landmark study provides an integrated analysis of China's unexpected economic boom of the past three decades. The authors combine deep China expertise with broad disciplinary knowledge to explain China's remarkable combination of high-speed growth... -
The Solutionists: How Businesses Can Fix the Future by Solitaire Townsend 9781398609341
RRP: £52.00£27.17In the face of our climate emergency, we desperately need solutionists working to fix the future. This is your handbook for becoming the leader that the world needs. The Solutionists sets out what it takes to join the new generation of entrepreneurs,... -
Stuck with Tourism: Space, Power, and Labor in Contemporary Yucatan by Matilde Córdoba Azcárate
RRP: £25.00£19.59Tourism has become one of the most powerful forces organizing the predatory geographies of late capitalism. It creates entangled futures of exploitation and dependence, extracting resources and labor, and eclipsing other ways of doing, living, and... -
Social Innovation In Africa: A practical guide for scaling impact Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli 9781138182844
RRP: £37.99£33.64Encouraged by the emergence and early impact of social innovators on the African Continent, but frustrated by the slow pace of large scale change, this book is focused on filling the knowledge gap for those tackling Africa's serious social problems.It... -
The Rise of The Meaningful Economy: A megatrend where meaning is a new currency by Mark Drewell 9781912892907
RRP: £14.20£10.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912892907Author Mark DrewellFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Foresight PressPublisher Foresight PressWeight(grams) 281gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm *... -
Extreme Innovation: 3 Superpowers for Purpose and Profit by Sandy Carter 9780995030275
RRP: £19.99£13.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995030275Author Sandy CarterFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint Param MediaPublisher Param MediaWeight(grams) 327gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm * 16mm -
Bonfire of Illusions: The Twin Crises of the Liberal World Alex Callinicos (King s College, London) 9780745648767
RRP: £15.99£14.41Something dramatic happened in the late summer and autumn of 2008. The post-Cold War world came to an abrupt end. This was the result of two conjoined crises. First, in its brief war with Georgia in August 2008, Russia asserted its military power to halt... -
The Central Asian Economies in the Twenty-First Century: Paving a New Silk Road by Richard Pomfret 9780691182216
RRP: £42.00£33.30This book analyzes the Central Asian economies of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan, from their buffeting by the commodity boom of the early 2000s to its collapse in 2014. Richard Pomfret examines the countries'... -
Product Entrepreneur: How to Launch Your Product Idea: Napkin Sketch to $1 Million in Sales by Chris Clearman 9780578906485
RRP: £18.95£12.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578906485Author Chris ClearmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Christopher ClearmanPublisher Christopher ClearmanWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm)... -
Circular Economy Supply Chains: From Chains to Systems by Lydia Bals 9781839825453
RRP: £78.99£65.67A circular economy perspective embraces a notion that we design everything to be reused for as long as possible, and then recaptured and repurposed when reuse is no longer possible. Designing for a circular economy ecosystem requires a more holistic,... -
Environmental Ethics and Film Pat Brereton 9780415747288
RRP: £49.99£43.50Environmental ethics presents and defends a systematic and comprehensive account of the moral relation between human beings and their natural environment and assumes that human behaviour toward the natural world can and is governed by moral norms. In... -
Globalization and the Politics of Development in the Middle East by Clement Moore Henry
RRP: £30.99£23.80In this 2010 edition of their book on the economic development of the Middle East and North Africa, Clement Henry and Robert Springborg reflect on what has happened to the region's economy since 2001. How have the various countries in the Middle East... -
Our Extractive Age: Expressions of Violence and Resistance by Judith Shapiro
RRP: £36.99£32.53Our Extractive Age: Expressions of Violence and Resistance emphasizes how the spectrum of violence associated with natural resource extraction permeates contemporary collective life. Chronicling the increasing rates of brutal suppression of local... -
Global Value Chains and Development: Redefining the Contours of 21st Century Capitalism by Gary Gereffi 9781108471947
RRP: £89.99£82.06Globalization has transformed how nations, firms and workers compete in the international economy over the past half century. This book by Gary Gereffi, one of the founders of the global value chains (GVC) framework, traces the emergence of arguably the... -
Strongly Sustainable Societies: Organising Human Activities on a Hot and Full Earth Karl Johan Bonnedahl 9780815387220
RRP: £43.99£38.74The response of the international community to the pressing socio-ecological problems has been framed around the concept of 'sustainable development'. The ecological pressure, however, has continued to rise and mainstream sustainability discourse has... -
Hegemony and World Order: Reimagining Power in Global Politics by Piotr Dutkiewicz
RRP: £36.99£32.53Hegemony and World Order explores a key question for our tumultuous times of multiple global crises. Does hegemony - that is, legitimated rule by dominant power - have a role in ordering world politics of the twenty-first century? If so, what form does... -
Turbulent and Mighty Continent: What Future for Europe? Anthony Giddens (House of Lords) 9780745680972
RRP: £18.99£17.13Winner of the 2014 European Book Prize. A "United States of Europe", Winston Churchill proposed in 1946, could "as if by a miracle transform" that "turbulent and mighty continent". "In this way only", he continued, "will hundreds of millions of toilers... -
New Product Success Stories: Lessons from Leading Innovators by Robert J. Thomas
RRP: £37.99£24.64What are the secrets behind such spectacular new product successesas Slim-Fast, Cellular One, and Phillips CD? How did Snapple, MCIFriends and Family, MTV, and The Body Shop emerge from obscurity tobecome household names, seemingly overnight? Find out... -
Off-Grid Electrical Systems in Developing Countries by Henry Louie 9783319918891
RRP: £89.99£80.43This book provides students and practicing engineers with a comprehensive guide to off-grid electrification: from microgrids and energy kiosks to solar home systems and solar lanterns. As the off-grid electrification industry grows, universities are... -
Environmental Humanities in the New Himalayas: Symbiotic Indigeneity, Commoning, Sustainability by Dan Smyer Yü 9780367699819
RRP: £39.99£35.06Environmental Humanities in the New Himalayas: Symbiotic Indigeneity, Commoning, Sustainability showcases how the eco-geological creativity of the earth is integrally woven into the landforms, cultures, and cosmovisions of modern Himalayan communities... -
The Orderly Entrepreneur: Youth, Education, and Governance in Rwanda by Catherine A. Honeyman 9780804799850
RRP: £24.99£21.67The first generation of children born after Rwanda's 1994 genocide is just now reaching maturity, setting aside their school uniforms to take up adult roles in Rwandan society and the economy. At the same time, Rwanda's post-war government has begun to... -
Global Green Shift: When Ceres Meets Gaia by John A. Mathews 9781783086412
RRP: £14.99£14.90The world that created modern industry, pioneered in the West, is in decline. It is being transformed by a global green shift, creating new industries based on clean energy, clean water and clean food - all produced in a safe, clean and sustainable way,... -
German Europe Ulrich Beck ( Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich) 9780745665405
RRP: £9.99£9.19The euro crisis is tearing Europe apart. But the heart of the matter is that, as the crisis unfolds, the basic rules of European democracy are being subverted or turned into their opposite, bypassing parliaments, governments and EU institutions... -
But Will the Planet Notice?: How Smart Economics Can Save the World by Gernot Wagner 9780809032730
RRP: £11.99£8.39You are one of seven billion people on Earth. Put bluntly, whatever you do personally - eat tofu in a Hummer or hamburgers in a Prius - the planet doesn't care. Nor, for that matter, does the economy. And when confronting the entwined challenges of... -
The Earthscan Reader on NGO Management Michael Edwards 9781853838484
RRP: £43.99£38.54In the last ten years, NGOs have become a force for transformation in global politics and economics. Their numbers and size have grown dramatically and they have assumed far more extensive responsibilities as intermediaries between governments,... -
On the Trail of Capital Flight from Africa: The Takers and the Enablers by Léonce Ndikumana 9780198883135
RRP: £25.00£22.54On the Trail of Capital Flight from Africa investigates the dynamics of capital flight from Angola, Cote d'Ivoire, and South Africa, countries that have witnessed large-scale illicit financial outflows in recent decades. Quantitative, qualitative, and... -
A Critical Approach to Climate Change Adaptation: Discourses, Policies and Practices by Silja Klepp 9780367459048
RRP: £43.99£38.44This edited volume brings together critical research on climate change adaptation discourses, policies, and practices from a multi-disciplinary perspective. Drawing on examples from countries including Colombia, Mexico, Canada, Germany, Russia, Tanzania,... -
Fundamentals of Sustainable Development Niko Roorda 9780367511197
RRP: £47.99£42.21Fundamentals of Sustainable Development is an accessible and interdisciplinary textbook that introduces the concept of sustainable development to students from across the disciplines from economics, management, teacher education, arts and humanities to... -
The Limits of the Green Economy: From re-inventing capitalism to re-politicising the present by Anneleen Kenis
RRP: £41.99£36.75Projecting win-win situations, new economic opportunities, green growth and innovative partnerships, the green economy discourse has quickly gained centre stage in international environmental governance and policymaking. Its underlying message is... -
The Handbook of Economic Development and Institutions by Jean-Marie Baland 9780691191218
RRP: £105.00£84.01The definitive reference on the most current economics of development and institutionsThe essential role that institutions play in understanding economic development has long been recognized across the social sciences, including in economics. Academic... -
Protecting the Wild: Parks and Wilderness, the Foundation for Conservation George Wuerthner 9781610915489
RRP: £34.00£28.53A big, bold vision for protected areas and re-wilding the Earth, this book presents a spirited argument on the future of conservation. Protected natural areas have historically been the primary tool of conservationists to conserve land and wildlife... -
Journeys toward Progress: Studies of Economic Policy-Making in Latin America by Albert O. Hirschman 9780837101064
£83.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837101064Author Albert O. HirschmanFormat HardbackPage Count 308Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO