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Dealing with Dysfunction: Innovative Problem Solving in the Public Sector by Jorrit de Jong 9780815722069
Booksplease Price: £27.89"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
RRP: £54.00Booksplease Price: £37.42The 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... -
The Internet Galaxy: Reflections on the Internet, Business, and Society by Manuel Castells 9780199241538
Booksplease Price: £59.82The 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 activity... -
New Power: Why outsiders are winning, institutions are failing, and how the rest of us can keep up in the age of mass participation by Jeremy Heimans
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26For most of human history the rules of power were clear: power was something to be seized, and then jealously guarded. Under this 'Old Power' we lived in a world of rulers and subjects.Now, we all... -
The Digital Republic: On Freedom and Democracy in the 21st Century by Jamie Susskind 9781526625298
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK TO READ _______________ 'One of the foremost thinkers on the transformative impact of the technology revolution' - TONY BLAIR 'Original and hopeful . . . a unique guide to... -
If Science is to Save Us by Rees 9781509554201
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.89There has never been a time when 'following the science' has been more important for humanity. At no other point in history have we had such advanced knowledge and technology at our fingertips, nor... -
The Future of Teaching: And the Myths That Hold It Back by Guy Claxton
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £19.94It's time for the educational slugfest to stop. 'Traditional' and 'progressive' education are both caricatures, and bashing cartoon images of each other is unprofitable and unedifying. The search for... -
If Science is to Save Us Martin Rees 9781509572298
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.89There has never been a time when 'following the science' has been more important for humanity. At no other point in history have we had such advanced knowledge and technology at our fingertips, nor... -
Human Frontiers: The Future of Big Ideas in an Age of Small Thinking by Michael Bhaskar
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.88'A fascinating book . . . Bhaskar is a reassuringly positive and often witty guide'Observer'A fascinating, must-read book covering a vast array of topics from the arts to the sciences, technology to... -
Deeper City: Collective Intelligence and the Pathways from Smart to Wise by Joe Ravetz
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.99Deeper City is the first major application of new thinking on 'deeper complexity', applied to grand challenges such as runaway urbanization, climate change and rising inequality. The author provides... -
Aid on the Edge of Chaos: Rethinking International Cooperation in a Complex World by Ben Ramalingam 9780199578023
RRP: £33.49Booksplease Price: £31.57It is widely recognised that the foreign aid system - which today involves every country in the world - is in need of drastic change. But there are conflicting opinions as to what is needed. Some... -
Aid on the Edge of Chaos: Rethinking International Cooperation in a Complex World by Ben Ramalingam 9780198728245
Booksplease Price: £25.93Many agree that the foreign aid system - which today involves virtually every nation on earth - needs drastic change. But there is much conflict as to what should be done. In Aid on the Edge of... -
What Got Us Here Won't Get Us There: The Systems Work of Social Change by Cynthia Rayner 9780198857457
RRP: £32.49Booksplease Price: £30.44The issues of poverty, inequality, racial justice, and climate change have never been more pressing or paralyzing. Current approaches to social change, which rely on industrial models of production...