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What Do We Know and What Should We Do About the Future of Work? by Melanie Simms 9781526463456
Booksplease Price: £73.19"An excellent summary of why and how we work." People Management magazine What do we know about the current state of work and employment and what does the future of work look like? Professor Melanie... -
The Violence of Austerity Vickie Cooper 9780745399485
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.21Austerity, a response to the aftermath of the financial crisis, continues to devastate contemporary Britain. In The Violence of Austerity, Vickie Cooper and David Whyte bring together the voices... -
How Women Can Save The Planet by Anne Karpf
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.19Here's a perverse truth: from New Orleans to Bangladesh, women--especially poor women of colour--are suffering most from a crisis they have done nothing to cause. Yet where, in environmental policy,... -
The Great Decline: From the Era of Hope and Progress to the Age of Fear and Rage by John Bone 9781529213034
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.23It seems clear that many formerly stable societies in wealthy developed countries appear to be falling into an apparent state of 'permacrisis' accompanied by an increasingly angry and irrational... -
Why We Can't Afford the Rich Andrew Sayer 9781447320869
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.86As inequalities widen and the effects of austerity deepen, in many countries the wealth of the rich has soared. Why we can't afford the rich exposes the unjust and dysfunctional mechanisms that allow... -
Why We Can't Afford the Rich by Andrew Sayer 9781447320791
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.29As inequalities widen and the effects of austerity deepen, in many countries the wealth of the rich has soared. Why we can't afford the rich exposes the unjust and dysfunctional mechanisms that allow... -
The Pound and the Fury: Why Anger and Confusion Reign in an Economy Paralysed by Myth by Jack Mosse
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.97What's wrong with the UK economy? Everyone has an opinion. But no one has an answer. Why?For decades, our economy has failed to work for ordinary citizens: stagnant wages have been combined with... -
What Do We Know and What Should We Do About the Future of Work? by Melanie Simms 9781526463463
Booksplease Price: £16.21"An excellent summary of why and how we work." People Management magazine What do we know about the current state of work and employment and what does the future of work look like? Professor Melanie... -
'Sleepwalking to Segregation'?: Challenging Myths About Race and Migration by Nissa Finney 9781847420084
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £53.29In the context of renewed debates about diversity and cohesion, this book interrogates contemporary claims about race and migration. It demonstrates that many of the claims are myths, presenting... -
The Violence of Austerity by Vickie Cooper 9780745337463
Booksplease Price: £85.65Austerity, a response to the aftermath of the financial crisis, continues to devastate contemporary Britain. In The Violence of Austerity, Vickie Cooper and David Whyte bring together the voices... -
Lean Out by Dawn Foster 9781910924020
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78In her powerful debut work Lean Out, acclaimed journalist Dawn Foster unpicks how the purportedly feminist message of Sandberg's book neatly exempts patriarchy, capitalism and business from any... -
The Blue Commons: The Political Economy of the Sea by Guy Standing
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £16.62A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST ECONOMICS BOOK OF 2022 'A landmark book... The Blue Commons is at once a brilliant synthesis, a searing analysis, and an inspiring call to action.' - David Bollier'With... -
The Alternative: How to Build a Just Economy Nick Romeo 9781399813815
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'A very valuable field manual for those who want to change our economies for the better' Ha-Joon Chang'A book of dark fears and bright hope . . . Excellent' Danny DorlingA provocative debunking of ... -
End State: 9 Ways Society is Broken - and how we can fix it by James Plunkett
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02A GUARDIAN POLITICAL BOOK OF THE YEAR'End State is absolutely superb. If you're looking for a book that is honest about the problems of the future but leaves you hopeful about solutions, then this is... -
Class Inequality in Austerity Britain: Power, Difference and Suffering by W. Atkinson 9781137016379
RRP: £99.99Booksplease Price: £99.66When the Coalition Government came to power in 2010 in claimed it would deliver not just austerity, as necessary as that apparently was, but also fairness. This volume subjects this pledge to... -
Betraying a Generation: How Education is Failing Young People Patrick Ainley (University of Greenwich and Visiting Fellow at New College Oxford) 9781447332114
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.86Education has betrayed its promises to deliver upward social mobility and a brighter future. Young people study harder but learn less, running up a down-escalator of devalued qualifications to... -
Rebel Footprints - Second Edition: A Guide to Uncovering London's Radical History by David Rosenberg 9780745338569
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £69.54The radical response to conservative heritage tours and banal day-tripper guides, Rebel Footprints brings to life the history of social movements in the capital. Transporting readers from well-known... -
Rethinking Political Identity: Citizens and Parties in Europe Colin Crouch 9781800881525
Booksplease Price: £119.22In this precisely argued book, Colin Crouch questions the current meaning of political parties for citizens in Western Europe given that the identities on which they are based were the product of... -
My Life in Fragments by Zygmunt Bauman
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £18.75Zygmunt Bauman was one of the great social thinkers of our time: inventor of the idea of liquid modernity, he transformed our way of thinking about the social conditions shaping our lives today. His... -
Identity in Britain: A cradle-to-grave atlas Bethan Thomas (Department of Geography, University of Sheffield) 9781861348203
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £27.88Sixty million people live in Britain. Imagine sixty million. Imagine a map of sixty million. What would that map look like and what story would it tell us about identity in Britain today? Bethan... -
'Sleepwalking to segregation'?: Challenging myths about race and migration Nissa Finney (Cathie Marsh Centre for Census and Survey Research, University of Manchester) 9781847420077
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.49In the context of renewed debates about diversity and cohesion, this book interrogates contemporary claims about race and migration. It demonstrates that many of the claims are myths, presenting... -
Reckless Opportunists: Elites at the End of the Establishment by Aeron Davis
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £61.61Aeron Davis takes a close look at the state of elites today. He argues that the Brexit vote and 2017 election outcome are signs of a deeper leadership crisis that has been developing over decades... -
The Soul of a University: Why Excellence is not Enough Chris Brink 9781529200348
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.48What is the role of a university in society? In this innovative book, Chris Brink offers the timely reminder that it should have social purpose, as well as achieve academic excellence. He book shows... -
Rebel Footprints: A Guide to Uncovering London's Radical History David Rosenberg 9780745338552
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.86The radical response to conservative heritage tours and banal day-tripper guides, Rebel Footprints brings to life the history of social movements in the capital. Transporting readers from well-known... -
Reckless Opportunists: Elites at the End of the Establishment by Aeron Davis 9781526127280
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.85Aeron Davis takes a close look at the state of elites today. He argues that the Brexit vote and 2017 election outcome are signs of a deeper leadership crisis that has been developing over decades... -
The Great Decline: From the Era of Hope and Progress to the Age of Fear and Rage by John Bone 9781529213027
RRP: £79.99Booksplease Price: £65.29It seems clear that many formerly stable societies in wealthy developed countries appear to be falling into an apparent state of 'permacrisis' accompanied by an increasingly angry and irrational... -
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The Blue Riband: The Piccadilly Line by Peter York 9781846146794 [USED COPY]
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £2.46Peter York, co-author of the 80s bestseller, The Sloane Ranger Handbook, charts the progress of the dream of grandeur and aspiration in London - part of a series of twelve books tied to the twelve... -
Class Inequality in Austerity Britain: Power, Difference and Suffering by W. Atkinson 9781349437016
Booksplease Price: £91.70When the Coalition Government came to power in 2010 in claimed it would deliver not just austerity, as necessary as that apparently was, but also fairness. This volume subjects this pledge to... -
The Political Class: Why It Matters Who Our Politicians Are by Peter Allen 9780198795971
RRP: £27.49Booksplease Price: £22.11Recent years have seen an intensification of discussion on the issue of Britain's political class. The question of who our politicians are is front and centre. Do they represent us? Are all... -
Rethinking Political Identity: Citizens and Parties in Europe Colin Crouch 9781800881549
RRP: £34.95Booksplease Price: £32.89In this precisely argued book, Colin Crouch questions the current meaning of political parties for citizens in Western Europe given that the identities on which they are based were the product of... -
Speaking of Universities by Stefan Collini 9781786631657
Booksplease Price: £25.31In recent decades there has been an immense global surge in the numbers both of universities and of students. In the UK alone there are now over 140 institutions teaching more subjects than ever to... -
Handbook on Wealth and the Super-Rich Iain Hay 9781783474059
RRP: £52.95Booksplease Price: £49.41Fewer than 100 people own and control more wealth than 50 per cent of the world's population. The Handbook on Wealth and the Super-Rich is a landmark multidisciplinary evaluation of both the lives... -
Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Radical Political Imagination by Geoff Mulgan
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £16.24Calls 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... -
The Party's Over: The Rise and Fall of the Conservatives from Thatcher to Sunak by Phil Burton-Cartledge 9781839760372
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.51Today, it is not a question of if, but when? What we are watching is the collapse of the most successful political party in Europe. Despite winning the December 2019 General Election, the... -
The 1% and the Rest of Us: A Political Economy of Dominant Ownership by Tim Di Muzio 9781783601424
Booksplease Price: £24.88While the Occupy movement faces many strategic and organizational challenges, one of its major accomplishments has been to draw global attention to the massive disparity of income, wealth and... -
Posh Boys: How English Public Schools Ruin Britain Robert Verkaik 9781786076120
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.74'The latest in the series of powerful books on the divisions in modern Britain, and will take its place on many bookshelves beside Reni Eddo-Lodge's Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About... -
What Do We Know and What Should We Do About… Abortion? Tanya Saroj Bakhru 9781036201371
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £38.78Abortion is a critical health care issue that demands informed discourse and action. This book explores the complexities of abortion through a social science lens, empowering readers to understand... -
What Do We Know and What Should We Do About… Abortion? Tanya Saroj Bakhru 9781036201364
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.84Abortion is a critical health care issue that demands informed discourse and action. This book explores the complexities of abortion through a social science lens, empowering readers to understand... -
The Political Origins of Inequality: Why a More Equal World is Better for Us All by Simon Reid-Henry
Booksplease Price: £24.80Inequality is the defining issue of our time. But it is not just a problem for the rich world. It is the global 1% that now owns fully half the world's wealth-the true measure of our age of... -
Homesick: Why I Live in a Shed Catrina Davies 9781787478664
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26The story of a personal housing crisis that led to a discovery of the true value of home.*'You will marvel at the beauty of this book, and rage at the injustice it reveals' George...