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The Low-Carbon Good Life Jules Pretty 9781032388205
RRP: €46.40Booksplease Price: €42.17The Low-Carbon Good Life is about how to reverse and repair four interlocking crises arising from modern material consumption: the climate crisis, growing inequality, biodiversity loss and... -
The Inequality Machine: How universities are creating a more unequal world - and what to do about it by Paul Tough
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.21'Indelible and extraordinary, a powerful reckoning with just how far we've allowed reality to drift from our ideals.' Tara Westover, New York Times Book ReviewWe're told that universities are our... -
The Years That Matter Most by Paul Tough 9781847947970
Booksplease Price: €15.48What has gone wrong in our universities? And how do we make it right?When Amy applied to university, she thought she'd be judged purely on her merits. But she never thought that her family background... -
Life for the Academic in the Neoliberal University Alpesh Maisuria (University of the West of England, Bristol) 9780367347680
RRP: €65.44Booksplease Price: €58.92Life for the Academic in the Neoliberal University investigates the impact of neoliberalism on academics in today's universities. Considering the experiences of early career researchers as well as... -
Plunder of the Commons: A Manifesto for Sharing Public Wealth by Guy Standing
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46'One of the most important books I've read in years' Brian EnoWe are losing the commons. Austerity and neoliberal policies have depleted our shared wealth; our national utilities have been sold off... -
The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal about Identity, Race, Wealth and Power by Deirdre Mask
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €10.02Longlisted for the Jhalak Prize 2021 A TIME Magazine Must-Read Book of 2020 Shortlisted for the Katharine Briggs Award 2020 'Deirdre Mask's book was just up my Strasse, alley, avenue and... -
The Parade by Dave Eggers
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €8.39From the bestselling author of The Circle and The Monk of Mokha comes a taut, suspenseful story of two foreigners' role in a nation's fragile peace.'Tightly written, carefully designed to wrong-foot... -
The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions by Jason Hickel
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €10.48________________'There's no understanding global inequality without understanding its history. In The Divide, Jason Hickel brilliantly lays it out, layer upon layer, until you are left reeling with... -
No Is Not Enough: Defeating the New Shock Politics by Naomi Klein
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.70**The New York Times and Sunday Times Bestseller**'An ordinary person's guide to hope. Read this book' Arundhati Roy'As accessible as it is brilliant' Owen Jones'A genuine page turner' Michelle... -
Life for the Academic in the Neoliberal University Alpesh Maisuria (University of the West of England, Bristol) 9781032088693
RRP: €28.55Booksplease Price: €27.31Life for the Academic in the Neoliberal University investigates the impact of neoliberalism on academics in today's universities. Considering the experiences of early career researchers as well as... -
Fair play: A Daniel Dorling reader on social justice Daniel Dorling 9781847428790
RRP: €39.26Booksplease Price: €32.12This accessible reader brings together a selection of highly influential writings by Danny Dorling which look at inequality and social justice, why they matter and what they are. Encompassing an... -
The Rise and Fall of Communism by Archie Brown
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.86Winner of the 2010 W.J.M. Mackenzie Prize for Best Political Science Book of the Year 2010The relentless rise of Communism was the most momentous political development of the first half of the... -
Delivering Rehabilitation: The politics, governance and control of probation Lol Burke 9780415540384
RRP: €63.06Booksplease Price: €56.88Do offenders have the right to be rehabilitated and should the state be responsible for their rehabilitation? Should the public expect punitive and coercive approaches to offender rehabilitation? Why... -
Act Now: A Vision for a Better Future and a New Social Contract Common Sense Policy Group 9781526180759
RRP: €101.15Booksplease Price: €73.32An inspiring manifesto offering a radical vision for our political future.We live in an age of crisis and decline. The right presents 'solutions' that only worsen the situation, driving a downward... -
Infant Mortality: A Continuing Social Problem Eilidh Garrett 9781138358171
RRP: €40.45Booksplease Price: €37.12In 1906, Sir George Newman's 'Infant Mortality: A Social Problem', one of the most important health studies of the twentieth century, was published. To commemorate this anniversary, this volume... -
A Home of One's Own by Hashi Mohamed
RRP: €7.13Booksplease Price: €5.77As cities expand and rents rise, what does it really mean to have a home? 'A marvel, by an inspiring and deeply humane writer' - Philippe Sands A home is important because it offers sanctuary... -
People Like Us: What it Takes to Make it in Modern Britain by Hashi Mohamed
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.91A New Statesman Book of the Year AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4'S BOOK OF THE WEEK 'Hashi Mohamed powerfully exposes the alienating and segregating effect of social immobility in this country.' David... -
Starmergeddon Mark Perryman 9780745351094
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €16.5204.07.24: Fourteen years of Tory gross mismanagement of government, economy and society came to a crashing and well-deserved end. Keir Starmer's Labour government was elected with a landslide of... -
Fair play: A Daniel Dorling reader on social justice by Daniel Dorling 9781847428806
Booksplease Price: €105.49This accessible reader brings together a selection of highly influential writings by Danny Dorling which look at inequality and social justice, why they matter and what they are. Encompassing an... -
The Routledge Companion to Spatial History by Ian Gregory 9780367735371
RRP: €57.11Booksplease Price: €51.78The Routledge Companion to Spatial History explores the full range of ways in which GIS can be used to study the past, considering key questions such as what types of new knowledge can be developed... -
Enough: Why It's Time to Abolish the Super-Rich Luke Hildyard 9780745348544
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €14.11'This, right now, with no excuses, no delays, no equivocation, no loop-holes, no moaning' - Danny Dorling 'A concise, sharp book that makes an incontrovertible case for a profound redistribution... -
Thatcher's Grandchildren?: Politics and Childhood in the Twenty-First Century by Stephen Wagg 9781349448210
Booksplease Price: €55.07Thatcher's Grandchildren explores sociological and political issues about childhood that have that have become increasingly significant in the twenty first century within a political landscape framed... -
The Routledge Handbook of Census Resources, Methods and Applications: Unlocking the UK 2011 Census John Stillwell (University of Leeds, UK) 9780367660031
RRP: €58.30Booksplease Price: €53.16The collection of reliable and comprehensive data on the magnitude, composition and distribution of a country's population is essential in order for governments to provide services, administer... -
The Five Health Frontiers: A New Radical Blueprint Christopher Thomas (Institute for Public Policy Research) 9780745343921
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €15.72'A brilliant expose' - Danny Dorling Covid-19 has exposed the limits of a neoliberal public health orthodoxy. But instead of imagining radical change, the left is stuck in a rearguard action... -
The Five Health Frontiers: A New Radical Blueprint Christopher Thomas (Institute for Public Policy Research) 9780745343938
Booksplease Price: €101.92'A brilliant expose' - Danny Dorling Covid-19 has exposed the limits of a neoliberal public health orthodoxy. But instead of imagining radical change, the left is stuck in a rearguard action... -
From Votes to Seats: The Operation of the Uk Electoral System Since 1945 by Ron Johnston 9780719058523
Booksplease Price: €28.01The British electoral system treats parties disproportionately and differentially. This original study of the fourteen general elections held between 1950 and 1997 shows that the amount of bias in... -
What Do We Know and What Should We Do About Authoritarian Regimes? by Natasha Lindstaedt 9781529670301
RRP: €79.73Booksplease Price: €71.92At least 70% of the world’s population now lives under an autocracy. There are more openly authoritarian states than ever, democratic regimes are ‘backsliding’ into autocracy, and authoritarian... -
What Do We Know and What Should We Do About Abolishing Prisons? Joe Sim 9781529684605
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €14.09This book challenges the myths and misrepresentations that justify the existence of prisons. It traces the history and failure of prison reform over two centuries, addresses a number of key,... -
From recession to renewal: The impact of the financial crisis on public services and local government by Joanna Richardson 9781847427007
RRP: €101.15Booksplease Price: €83.06The banking collapse and ensuing global financial crisis has been the subject of much analysis and speculation. One growing certainty is that there will be an impact on the delivery of public... -
What Do We Know and What Should We Do About Abolishing Prisons? Joe Sim 9781529684612
RRP: €54.73Booksplease Price: €46.15This book challenges the myths and misrepresentations that justify the existence of prisons. It traces the history and failure of prison reform over two centuries, addresses a number of key,... -
Harmful Societies: Understanding Social Harm Simon A. Pemberton (School for Social Policy, University of Birmingham) 9781847427953
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €29.50While the notion of social harm has long interested critical criminologists it is now being explored as an alternative field of study, which provides more accurate analyses of the vicissitudes of... -
Harmful Societies: Understanding Social Harm Simon A. Pemberton (School for Social Policy, University of Birmingham) 9781847427946
RRP: €101.15Booksplease Price: €83.06While the notion of social harm has long interested critical criminologists it is now being explored as an alternative field of study, which provides more accurate analyses of the vicissitudes of... -
Progress: How One Idea Built Civilisation and Now Threatens to Destroy It Samuel Miller McDonald 9780008462475
RRP: €26.18Booksplease Price: €18.84'A new understanding of history' Danny Dorling, author of Inequality and the 1% 'If you think progress will take us to the promised land, this is a... -
GIS and the Social Sciences: Theory and Applications Dimitris Ballas 9781138785120
RRP: €73.77Booksplease Price: €65.78GIS and the Social Sciences offers a uniquely social science approach on the theory and application of GIS with a range of modern examples. It explores how human geography can engage with a variety... -
What Do We Know and What Should We Do About Authoritarian Regimes? by Natasha Lindstaedt 9781529670295
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €15.99At least 70% of the world's population now lives under an autocracy. There are more openly authoritarian states than ever, democratic regimes are 'backsliding' into autocracy, and authoritarian... -
Progress: How One Idea Shaped Our Past and Puts Our Future At Risk by Samuel Miller McDonald 9780008462482
Booksplease Price: €16.77'A spirited skewering of the idea that things can only get better' The Guardian 'A new understanding of our past' Danny Dorling, author of... -
Blaming the Victim: How Global Journalism Fails Those in Poverty Jairo Lugo-Ocando 9780745334417
RRP: €35.69Booksplease Price: €31.30Poverty, it seems, is a constant in today's news, usually the result of famine, exclusion or conflict. In Blaming the Victim, Jairo Lugo-Ocando sets out to deconstruct and reconsider the variety of... -
From recession to renewal: The impact of the financial crisis on public services and local government Joanna Richardson (Department of Public Policy, De Montfort University) 9781847426994
RRP: €35.69Booksplease Price: €32.18The banking collapse and ensuing global financial crisis has been the subject of much analysis and speculation. One growing certainty is that there will be an impact on the delivery of public... -
What Do We Know and What Should We Do About Tax Justice? by Alex Cobham 9781529667776
Booksplease Price: €78.80This book lays out what we know about the scale, history and impacts of tax abuse. From profit-shifting by multinational corporations to the exploitation of offshore tax havens. It sheds light on the... -
What Do We Know and What Should We Do About Internet Privacy? by Paul Bernal 9781529707687
Booksplease Price: €77.77Privacy on the internet is challenged in a wide variety of ways - from large social media companies, whose entire business models are based on privacy invasion, through the developing technologies of...