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When Science Meets Power by Geoff Mulgan 9781509553068
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $35.47Science and politics have collaborated throughout human history, and science is repeatedly invoked today in political debates, from pandemic management to climate change. But the relationship between... -
Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Radical Political Imagination by Geoff Mulgan
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $31.67Calls for an imaginative surge to fix our battered societies, fusing bold ideas and practical experiment. As the world confronts the fast catastrophe of Covid and the slow calamity of climate... -
Advanced Introduction to Public Sector Innovation Geoff Mulgan 9781035363575
RRP: $35.00Booksplease Price: $34.05This Advanced Introduction explores innovation in the public sector, examining the mindsets, methods and strategies needed for success at every stage. It draws on global case studies to showcase key... -
Advanced Introduction to Public Sector Innovation Geoff Mulgan 9781035363551
Booksplease Price: $178.04This Advanced Introduction explores innovation in the public sector, examining the mindsets, methods and strategies needed for success at every stage. It draws on global case studies to showcase key... -
Politics in an Antipolitical Age Geoff Mulgan (DEMOS, UK) 9780745608136
RRP: $35.08Booksplease Price: $33.21In this book Geoff Mulgan offers a powerful analysis of the crisis of contemporary politics and argues that a new politics based around the quality and reciprocity of relationships is slowly emerging... -
The Locust and the Bee: Predators and Creators in Capitalism's Future by Geoff Mulgan 9780691146966
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $41.73The recent economic crisis was a dramatic reminder that capitalism can both produce and destroy. It's a system that by its very nature encourages predators and creators, locusts and bees. But, as... -
Prophets at a Tangent: How Art Shapes Social Imagination by Geoff Mulgan
RRP: $35.10Booksplease Price: $32.21This Element asks if the arts can help us imagine a better future society and economy, without deep social gulfs or ecological harm. It argues that at their best, the arts open up new ways of seeing... -
Big Mind: How Collective Intelligence Can Change Our World by Geoff Mulgan
RRP: $42.90Booksplease Price: $36.21How collective intelligence can transform business, government, and our everyday livesA new field of collective intelligence has emerged in recent years, prompted by digital technologies that make it... -
The Locust and the Bee: Predators and Creators in Capitalism's Future - Updated Edition by Geoff Mulgan 9780691165745
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $36.21The recent economic crisis was a dramatic reminder that capitalism can both produce and destroy. It's a system that by its very nature encourages predators and creators, locusts and bees. But, as... -
The Art of Public Strategy: Mobilizing Power and Knowledge for the Common Good by Geoff Mulgan 9780199593453
Booksplease Price: $106.74The strategies adopted by our governments and public officials can lead to significant change in citizens' lives - smoking bans, carbon markets, even the reunification of a country like Germany... -
Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination Geoff Mulgan 9781805264378
Booksplease Price: $25.56Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Big Mind: How Collective Intelligence Can Change Our World by Geoff Mulgan 9780691170794
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $43.29A new field of collective intelligence has emerged in the last few years, prompted by a wave of digital technologies that make it possible for organizations and societies to think at large scale... -
Social Innovation: How Societies Find the Power to Change Geoff Mulgan (University College London) 9781447353799
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $28.24Written by one of the leading figures in SIAbout the AuthorSir Geoff Mulgan is Professor of Collective Intelligence, Public Policy and Social Innovation at University College London (UCL). Previously... -
About Time: Speed, Society, People and the Environment Tim Aldrich 9781874719915
RRP: $77.98Booksplease Price: $74.08Where does all the time go? Despite the burgeoning army of machines designed to save us time - from cars and aeroplanes to dishwashers and microwaves - we don't seem to have any more of it on our... -
Business as an Instrument for Societal Change: In Conversation with the Dalai Lama Sander Tideman 9781783534524
RRP: $70.18Booksplease Price: $67.45Business as an Instrument for Societal Change: In Conversation with the Dalai Lama is the result of two decades of research and dialogue with His Holiness the Dalai Lama and other leaders in... -
Social Justice and the Politics of Community by Christine Everingham 9781138717404
RRP: $48.73Booksplease Price: $47.54This title was first published in 2003. Social welfare is the focus of much discussion and there is a broad spectrum of political opinion that agrees on the need for urgent reform. The literature... -
Business as an Instrument for Societal Change: In Conversation with the Dalai Lama by Sander Tideman 9781783534500
RRP: $234.00Booksplease Price: $215.85Business as an Instrument for Societal Change: In Conversation with the Dalai Lama is the result of two decades of research and dialogue with His Holiness the Dalai Lama and other leaders in... -
Public Value: Theory and Practice by John Benington 9780230249042
RRP: $97.48Booksplease Price: $87.73This text provides a concise and internationalized restatement of the public value approach, an assessment of its impact to date - in theory and practice - and of its particular relevance to the... -
Engaging Public Sector Clients: From Service-Delivery to Co-Production by John Alford 9780230223769
RRP: $194.98Booksplease Price: $176.59Exploring three rich cases across three countries, this book shows how government organizations need their clients to contribute time and effort to co-producing public services, and how organizations... -
Leading Public Sector Innovation (Second Edition): Co-creating for a Better Society Christian Bason (Mindlab, Denmark) 9781447336242
RRP: $50.68Booksplease Price: $42.14The second edition of this significant text has been thoroughly revised to take account of the latest literature, case studies and international developments in the field. Drawing on global research... -
Re-imagining Government: Public Leadership and Management in Challenging Times by Barry Quirk 9780230314429
Booksplease Price: $86.40In an age of austerity, public leaders and managers face a range of external challenges - fiscal, social and political. Combining theoretical insight, empirical commentary and practical experience,... -
Strategies for Distributed and Collective Action: Connecting the Dots by Martin Kornberger 9780198864301
Booksplease Price: $187.01How do we organize ourselves to accomplish shared goals? Our well-worn modes of collective action--from markets to hierarchies, from institutions to movements--have so far provided a limited... -
What Works Now?: Evidence-Informed Policy and Practice by Annette Boaz
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $48.34Building substantially on the earlier, landmark text, What Works? (Policy Press, 2000), this book brings together key thinkers and researchers to provide a contemporary review of the aspirations and... -
What Works Now?: Evidence-Informed Policy and Practice by Annette Boaz 9781447345473
RRP: $165.75Booksplease Price: $136.68Building substantially on the earlier, landmark text, What Works? (Policy Press, 2000), this book brings together key thinkers and researchers to provide a contemporary review of the aspirations and... -
The Weight of the World: Social Suffering in Contemporary Society by Pierre Bourdieu 9780745615936
Booksplease Price: $47.46This book can be read like a series of short stories - the story of a steel worker who was laid off after twenty years in the same factory and who now struggles to support his family on unemployment... -
London voices, London lives: Tales from a working capital Peter Hall (Bartlett Professor of Planning and Regeneration, University College London) 9781861349835
RRP: $58.48Booksplease Price: $53.31This book is a unique collection: ordinary Londoners, in their own voices, tell about ordinary London lives. Interviews with over a hundred people in eight localities, from inner-city Battersea, to... -
Social Entrepreneurship: New Models of Sustainable Social Change by Alex Nicholls 9780199283880
Booksplease Price: $107.33'Social Entrepreneurship' is a term that has come to be applied to the activities of grass-roots activists, NGOs, policy makers, international institutions, and corporations, amongst others, which... -
New Frontiers in Social Innovation Research by Alex Nicholls 9781137549532
Booksplease Price: $31.63This book is open access under a CC BY license. Interest in social innovation continues to rise, from governments setting up social innovation 'labs' to large corporations developing social... -
A new health and care system: Escaping the invisible asylum Alex Fox 9781447341673
RRP: $42.88Booksplease Price: $34.28Drawing on the ethos, practices and economics of human focused initiatives such as Shared Lives, this book outlines a new model for public services to replace the `invisible asylum' - an approach... -
The World that Changes the World: How Philanthropy, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship are Transforming the Social Ecosystem by Willie Cheng 9780470827154
RRP: $74.08Booksplease Price: $69.71If there is an X PRIZE for collaborative thought leadership of the social ecosystem, this book would get it. Dr. Peter H. Diamandis Chairman and CEO, X PRIZE Foundation The World that Changes the... -
City Survivors: Bringing Up Children in Disadvantaged Neighbourhoods by Anne Power 9781847420503
RRP: $165.75Booksplease Price: $136.70Seen through the eyes of parents, mainly mothers, "City survivors" tells the eye-opening story of what it is like to bring up children in troubled city neighbourhoods. The book provides a unique... -
Who Can You Trust?: How Technology Brought Us Together - and Why It Could Drive Us Apart Rachel Botsman 9780241296189
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $16.75TRUST IS FUNDAMENTAL TO EVERY ACTION, EVERY RELATIONSHIP, EVERY TRANSACTIONAND IT MATTERS NOW MORE THAN EVER BEFORE...In this ground-breaking book world-renowned trust expert Rachel Botsman reveals... -
Democracy under Attack: How the Media Distort Policy and Politics Malcolm Dean (Nuffield College, Oxford) 9781847428493
Booksplease Price: $25.92Malcolm Dean, The Guardian newspaper's longstanding chief monitor of social affairs, expertly indicts his own trade through a series of seven case studies on the influence of media on social policy. ... -
Democracy under Attack: How the Media Distort Policy and Politics by Malcolm Dean 9781847428486
RRP: $97.50Booksplease Price: $89.58Malcolm Dean, The Guardian newspaper's longstanding chief monitor of social affairs, expertly indicts his own trade through a series of seven case studies on the influence of media on social policy. ... -
Fixing the Planet: An Overview for Optimists by Michael Norton 9781914613111
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.00Knowledge is power. Get informed and choose action over despair. Everything you need to know about the earth and the life it supports - right now. From the challenges we face with global... -
Seven Children: Inequality and Britain's Next Generation Danny Dorling 9781911723509
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $27.98If we found seven typical 5-year-olds to represent today's UK, who would they be? What would their stories reveal? Seven Children is about injustice and hope. Danny Dorling's highly original book... -
Cultural-Historical Perspectives on Collective Intelligence: Patterns in Problem Solving and Innovation by Rolf K. Baltzersen
RRP: $74.10Booksplease Price: $69.75In the era of digital communication, collective problem solving is increasingly important. Large groups can now resolve issues together in completely different ways, which has transformed the arts,... -
The Frugal Innovator: Creating Change on a Shoestring Budget by Charles Leadbeater 9781137335364
Booksplease Price: $57.62This insightful book looks at the phenomenon of low-cost innovation and explores what we can learn from the innovators in developing nations who are making amazing technical and social advances with... -
Dealing with Dysfunction: Innovative Problem Solving in the Public Sector by Jorrit de Jong 9780815722069
Booksplease Price: $54.39"How can we intervene in the systemic bureaucratic dysfunction that beleaguers the public sector? De Jong examines the roots of this dysfunction and presents a novel approach to solving it. Drawing... -
The Internet Galaxy: Reflections on the Internet, Business, and Society by Manuel Castells 9780199255771
Booksplease Price: $112.40The Web has been with us for less than a decade. The popular and commercial diffusion of the Internet has been extraordinary - instigating and enabling changes in virtually every area of human...