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Teams That Work: The Seven Drivers of Team Effectiveness by Scott Tannenbaum 9780197764596
RRP: £12.99£11.56Why do some teams thrive, while others struggle? In the modern workplace, employees collaborate. Managers are expected to be effective team leaders and employees are expected to be valued teammates. But many teams struggle. Being part of a struggling... -
Poverty Safari: Understanding the Anger of Britain's Underclass by Darren McGarvey
RRP: £10.99£7.73Brutally honest and fearless, Poverty Safari is an unforgettable insight into modern Britain, and will change how you think about poverty.The Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller.Winner of the Orwell Prize.Named the most 'Rebellious Read of the 21st Century'... -
Safety at street works and road works: a code of practice by Great Britain: Department for Transport 9780115531453
£11.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780115531453Author Great Britain: Department for TransportPage Count 105Imprint TSOPublisher TSO -
The Electricity at Work Regulations 1989: guidance on regulations by Great Britain: Health and Safety Executive 9780717666362
£24.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780717666362Author Great Britain: Health and Safety ExecutiveFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint HSE BooksPublisher HSE Books -
No Ordinary Day: Espionage, betrayal, terrorism and corruption - the truth behind the murder of WPC Yvonne Fletcher by Matt Johnson 9781802471441
RRP: £11.99£7.20SHORTLISTED FOR TWO CRIMECON.UK 2024 TRUE CRIME AWARDS IN THE 'OUTSTANDING INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING' AND 'BOOK OF THE YEAR' CATEGORIES Behind one of the greatest tragedies in UK policing history lies an incredible political scandal 'An important... -
Painting Abstract Landscapes by Gareth Edwards 9781785009730
RRP: £18.99£16.07Abstract landscape painting expresses emotion while still capturing the essence of a landscape. This compelling book explores this suggestive style first developed by Turner. Using the hauntingly-beautiful paintings of Gareth Edwards, it explores the... -
The Craftsman by Richard Sennett
RRP: £10.99£7.99Provocative and enlightening, Richard Sennett's The Craftsman is an exploration of craftsmanship - the desire to do a job well for its own sake - as a template for living. Most of us have to work. But is work just a means to an end? In trying to make a... -
Managing health and safety in construction: Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015: guidance on regulations HSE 9780717666263
£24.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780717666263Author HSEFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint HSE BooksPublisher HSE Books -
Basic Income: And How We Can Make It Happen by Guy Standing
RRP: £10.99£7.99'Basic Income is an idea whose time has come, and Guy Standing has pioneered our understanding of it... Standing's analysis is vital' Paul Mason'Guy Standing has been at the forefront of the movement for nearly 4 decades, and in this superb and thorough... -
Papermaking: An Artist's Guide by Lucy Baxandall 9781785009976
RRP: £12.99£11.01Papermaking is truly a craft for everybody - it is accessible, sustainable and enjoyable for all ages. This book is a step-by-step guide for everyone who wants to make paper at home or in a classroom setting. With clear instructions and over 140 photos,... -
Secret Narco: The Great Train Robber whose partnership with Pablo Escobar turned Britain on to cocaine Wensley Clarkson 9781913543990
RRP: £8.99£6.39This is the extraordinary story of how Charlie Wilson - renowned as one of the leaders of the Great Train Robbery gang - turned his back on so-called traditional crime to become the underworld's original narco by helping to mastermind a multi-billion... -
The Future of the Professions: How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts, Updated Edition by Richard Susskind
RRP: £11.99£8.66This book predicts the decline of today's professions and introduces the people and systems that will replace them. In an internet-enhanced society, according to Richard Susskind and Daniel Susskind, we will neither need nor want doctors, teachers,... -
Lessons in Organising: What Trade Unionists Can Learn from the War on Teachers Gawain Little 9780745345222
RRP: £14.99£10.05'An excellent review of the attack on teachers and their unions, by authors well placed to point to ways to improve the fight back and resistance' - Kevin Courtney, Joint General Secretary NEU The heart of any trade union is its reps and activists... -
The Unfair Advantage: BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD-WINNER: How You Already Have What It Takes to Succeed by Ash Ali
RRP: £10.99£7.73WINNER OF BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2021 AND BEST START UP/SCALE UP BOOK AWARD 2021 'A powerful way to think about success as an entrepreneur.' Ali Abdaal, Productivity YouTuber, Podcaster & Ex-Doctor 'Crucial business advice that you won't... -
Backbone of the Nation: Mining Communities and the Great Strike of 1984-85 by Robert Gildea 9780300277906
RRP: £11.99£10.41"An admirably compassionate testament"-Max Hastings, Sunday Times "A vivid and evocative panorama"-James Graham, The Observer "Superb"-John Harris, The GuardianA powerful new history of the Great Strike in the miners' own voices, based on more than 140... -
The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think in Action by Donald A. Schon
RRP: £32.99£29.24A leading M.I.T. social scientist and consultant examines five professions - engineering, architecture, management, psychotherapy, and town planning - to show how professionals really go about solving problems. The best professionals, Donald SchAn... -
Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth by Ingrid Robeyns 9780241578193
RRP: £25.00£18.02'The best case I've read for putting an upper limit on the accumulation of wealth' Richard Wilkinson'One of the most talked-about books to the moment ... Limitarianism floats the heretical idea that fixing society isn't just about saving the poorest from... -
Inspecting Personal Fall Protection Equipment: United Kingdom 2nd Edition by Dr DF Merchant 9780956078452
RRP: £29.95£22.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956078452Author Dr DF MerchantFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint UVSAR GlobalPublisher UVSARWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 280mm * 216mm * 10mm -
Mick Lynch: The Making of a Working-Class Hero by Gregor Gall 9781526173096
RRP: £20.00£14.53In the summer of 2022, the little-known leader of a small union became a 'working-class hero'. Facing down media pundits who thought they could walk all over him, he offered a robust critique of the government and provided workers with an authentic voice... -
Maritime Men of the Asia-Pacific: True-Blue Internationals Navigating Labour Rights 1906-2006 by Diane Kirkby
£96.61Winner of the Australia and New Zealand Law and History Society (ANZLHS) Prize for 2023 Maritime workers occupy a central place in global labour history. This new and compelling account from Australia, shows seafaring and waterside unions engaged in a... -
Electricity at work: safe working practices by Great Britain: Health and Safety Executive
£18.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780717665815Author Great Britain: Health and Safety ExecutiveFormat PaperbackPage Count 33Imprint HSE BooksPublisher HSE Books -
The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World by Adrian Wooldridge
RRP: £12.99£9.34THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR*Shortlisted for the 2021 Financial Times and McKinsey & Company Business Book of the Year Award*'This unique and fascinating history explains why the blame now being piled upon meritocracy for many social ills is misplaced-and... -
Safety Differently: Human Factors for a New Era, Second Edition by Professor Sidney Dekker
RRP: £48.99£42.33The second edition of a bestseller, Safety Differently: Human Factors for a New Era is a complete update of Ten Questions About Human Error: A New View of Human Factors and System Safety. Today, the unrelenting pace of technology change and growth of... -
Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work by Matthew B Crawford
RRP: £17.00£10.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143117469Author Matthew B. CrawfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 187gDimensions(mm) 197mm *... -
Lost in Work: Escaping Capitalism Amelia Horgan 9780745340913
RRP: £9.99£7.00***Evening Standard's best non-fiction 2021*** 'A brilliant, searing expose of the lies underpinning work' - Owen Jones 'Work hard, get paid.' It's simple. Self-evident. But it's also a lie-at least for most of us. For people today, the old... -
Migrant Labour in Japan by Yoko Sellek 9780333804322
RRP: £44.99£44.97This book explores the impact of foreign migrant workers on elements of sovereign power in Japan and examines how the country's immigration control has been reshaped by the existence of these workers. It traces the changing situation of foreign migrant... -
Labouring Men Prof Eric Hobsbawm 9781474601412
RRP: £14.99£10.05The topics covered in this book can be divided into four broad groups: studies of labour conditions up to the middle of the nineteenth century; studies in the 'new trade unionism' of 1889 to 1914; studies in the late nineteenth-century revival of... -
Critical Systems Thinking and the Management of Complexity Michael C. Jackson (University of Humberside, Hull, UK) 9781119118374
RRP: £64.95£57.56From the winner of the INCOSE Pioneer Award 2022The world has become increasingly networked and unpredictable. Decision makers at all levels are required to manage the consequences of complexity every day. They must deal with problems that arise... -
Ale, Beer and Brewsters in England: Women's Work in a Changing World, 1300-1600 by Judith M. Bennett 9780195126501
RRP: £38.99£26.91Women brewed and sold most of the ale drunk in medieval England, but after 1350, men slowly took over the trade. By 1600, most brewers in London-as well as in many towns and villages-were male, not female. Drawing on a wide variety of sources-such as... -
Nickel and Dimed: Undercover in Low-Wage America by Barbara Ehrenreich
RRP: £10.99£7.54Millions of Americans work full time, year round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. Leaving her home, she took the cheapest lodgings she could find, and accepted whatever jobs she was offered. Nickel and Dimed... -
Sick-Note Britain: How Social Problems Became Medical Issues by Adrian Massey
RRP: £25.00£22.21The NHS is stretched to its limits. Yet doctors are writing 10 million sick-notes a year for people they cannot 'fix', while patients with treatable diseases queue for appointments. This is Britain's grave error: our hyper-medicalised society has falsely... -
A Feminist Reading of Debt by Luci Cavallero
RRP: £16.99£11.54***Winner of an English PEN Award 2021*** In this sharp intervention, authors Luci Cavallero and Veronica Gago defiantly develop a feminist understanding of debt, showing its impact on women and members of the LGBTQ+ community and examining the... -
The Battle of Grangemouth: A Worker's Story by Mark Lyon 9781912064007
RRP: £14.00£12.35An account of the assault on the Union at Grangemouth in 2013, when workers were forced to accept cuts in their pay andconditions by the owner's threat of closure. Written by the Grangemouth convenor, The Battle of Grangemouth is a vital storyin trying... -
The Meritocracy Trap by Daniel Markovits
RRP: £12.99£9.19'This book flips your world upside down. Daniel Markovits argues that meritocracy isn't a virtuous, efficient system that rewards the best and brightest. Instead it rewards middle-class families who can afford huge investments in their children's... -
The Truth About Modern Slavery by Emily Kenway
RRP: £21.99£14.67'A powerful treatise' - Amelia Gentleman, Guardian In 2019, over 10,000 possible victims of slavery were found in the UK. From men working in Sports Direct warehouses for barely any pay, to teenaged Vietnamese girls trafficked into small town nail... -
Marx: The Alternative to Capitalism by Kieran Allen 9780745337425
RRP: £16.99£13.68If we are serious about finding a different way to run the post-credit crunch society, we must start by introducing alternatives to undergraduates. Kieran Allen begins the task with an accessible and comprehensive look at the ideas of Karl Marx. ... -
Random Noise: Measuring Your Company's Safety Performance by Georgina Poole 9781032012421
RRP: £32.99£29.16In the realm of safety management, this book embarks on a profound exploration of how the political economy was reshaped in the last two decades. Much like privatization, deregulation, and financialization altered the economic landscape, this narrative... -
Environmentalism from Below: How Global People's Movements Are Leading the Fight for Our Planet by Ashley Dawson 9781642599701
RRP: £19.99£13.56A global account of the grassroots environmental movements on the frontlines of the climate crisis. Environmentalism from Below takes readers inside the popular struggles for environmental liberation in the Global South. These communities-among the... -
Is There Life After Death?: The Extraordinary Science of What Happens When We Die by Anthony Peake 9781839401077
RRP: £11.99£8.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839401077Author Anthony PeakeFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint ArcturusPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd -
Peter Bakes by Peter Sawkins 9781785303500
RRP: £20.00£15.20BAKING TO BRING A SMILE TO EVERYONE'S FACEWhen Peter Sawkins became the youngest ever winner of the Great British Bake Off in 2020, it was a landmark moment on a journey that began when he started baking flapjacks and shortbread aged five.In his debut...