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Car Safety Wars: One Hundred Years of Technology, Politics, and Death by Michael R. Lemov 9781611477450
Booksplease Price: £96.35Car Safety Wars is a gripping history of the hundred-year struggle to improve the safety of American automobiles and save lives on the highways. Described as the "equivalent of war" by the Supreme... -
The All-Consuming Nation: Chasing the American Dream Since World War II by Mark H. Lytle
RRP: £34.49Booksplease Price: £33.07In his 1958 "kitchen debate" with Nikita Khrushchev, Richard Nixon argued that the freedom to consume defined the American way of life. High wages, full employment, new technologies, and a rapid... -
Monocultures of the Mind: Perspectives on Biodiversity and Biotechnology by Vandana Shiva 9781856492188
Booksplease Price: £37.81Vandana Shiva has established herself as a leading independent thinker and voice for the South in that critically important nexus where questions of development strategy, the environment and the... -
No More Dirty Looks: The Truth about Your Beauty Products--and the Ultimate Guide to Safe and Clean Cosmetics by Alexandra Spunt
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.82It started with a harmless quest for perfect wash-and-go hair. Every girl wants it, and Siobhan O'Connor and Alexandra Spunt finally found it in a fancy salon treatment. They were thrilled,until they... -
Prosperity for All: Consumer Activism in an Era of Globalization by Matthew Hilton
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £28.65The history of consumerism is about much more than just shopping. Ever since the eighteenth century, citizen-consumers have protested against the abuses of the market by boycotting products and... -
No Accident: Eliminating Injury and Death on Canadian Roads by Neil Arason
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £22.70It is possible to eliminate death and serious injury from Canada's roads. In other jurisdictions, the European Union, centres in the United States, and at least one automotive company aim to achieve... -
Advise and Dissent: Memoirs of an Ex-Senator by James G. Abourezk 9780803248588
RRP: £16.50Booksplease Price: £14.44Advise and Dissent is the personal odyssey of James Abourezk, from his coming of age as the son of Lebanese immigrants in South Dakota, through his hardscrabble days as a farmhand, bartender,... -
Lethal But Legal: Corporations, Consumption, and Protecting Public Health by Nicholas Freudenberg 9780190495374
Booksplease Price: £16.70Decisions made by the food, tobacco, alcohol, pharmaceutical, gun, and automobile industries have a greater impact on today's health than the decisions of scientists and policymakers. As the... -
Reclaiming the Commons: Biodiversity, Traditional Knowledge, and the Rights of Mother Earth by Vandana Shiva 9780907791782
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £7.81Reclaiming the Commons: Biodiversity, Traditional Knowledge, and the Rights of Mother Earth lays out the scientific, legal, political, and cultural struggle to defend the sovereignty of biodiversity... -
The United States Constitution: 200 Years of Anti-Federalist, Abolitionist, Feminist, Muckraking, Progressive, and Especially Socialist Criticism by Professor Bertell Ollman 9780814761700
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £26.12"How can anyone claim to really understand our Constitution without knowing what these critical traditions had to say?" Michael Wallace, Professor of History, John Jay College. "A real... -
America: The Farewell Tour by Chris Hedges 9781501152689
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £13.48Chris Hedges's profound and unsettling examination of America in crisis is "an exceedingly...provocative book, certain to arouse controversy, but offering a point of view that needs to be heard"... -
The Arab Americans by Randa A. Kayyali 9780313332197
Booksplease Price: £46.75Americans of Arab heritage have made major contributions to U.S. society, and this is a timely and unique overview of their immigration patterns, settlement, adaptation, and assimilation for a... -
Kid's Guide to Arab American History by Yvonne Wakim Dennis 9781613740170
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £12.73Winner of:2014 Arab American Book Award, Children/Young Adult Category Many Americans, educators included, mistakenly believe all Arabs share the same culture, language, and religion, and have only... -
Greed to Green: Solving Climate Change and Remaking the Economy Charles Derber 9781594518126
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £35.44This book shows how we can solve the climate change crisis, which is the greatest threat humanity has faced. Charles Derber, a prominent sociologist and political economist, shows that global warming... -
People Get Ready: The Fight Against a Jobless Economy and a Citizenless Democracy by Robert W. McChesney
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £22.86Humanity is on the verge of its darkest hour- or its greatest momentThe consequences of the technological revolution are about to hit hard: unemployment will spike as new technologies replace labour... -
How Nations Grow Rich: The Case for Free Trade by Melvyn B. Krauss 9780195112375
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £21.68There can be no doubt, writes economist Melvyn Krauss, that the prosperity of the industrial nations since the Second World War has been due largely to global specialization and interdependence. No... -
An End to Inequality: Breaking Down the Walls of Apartheid Education in America by Jonathan Kozol 9781620978726
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.84An eloquent and passionate call for educational reparations, from the New York Times bestselling author When Jonathan Kozol's Death at an Early Age appeared in 1967, it rocked the education world... -
No Fear: A Whistleblower's Triumph Over Corruption and Retaliation at the EPA by Marsha Coleman-Adebayo 9781556528187
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £20.53As a young, black, MIT-educated social scientist, Marsha Coleman-Adebayo landed her dream job at the EPA, working with Al Gore's special commission to assist postapartheid South Africa. But when she... -
First Class: The U.S. Postal Service, Democracy, and the Corporate Threat Christopher W. Shaw 9780872868779
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.31Investigating the essential role that the postal system plays in American democracy and how the corporate sector has attempted to destroy it."With First Class: The U.S. Postal Service, Democracy, and... -
How You Can Help: An Easy Guide to Doing Good Deeds in Your Everyday Life by William D. Coplin
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94How You Can Help is a book for anyone who wants to help make the world a better place, but doesn't know how to take the first step. This is the book for anyone who's ready to get involved, to reach... -
A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age by Matt Richtel 9780062284075
Booksplease Price: £12.37From Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Matt Richtel, a brilliant, narrative-driven exploration of technology's vast influence on the human mind and society, dramatically-told through the lens of a... -
Tax the Rich!: How Lies, Loopholes, and Lobbyists Made the Rich Even Richer and What to Do About It by Morris Pearl
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.42A powerfully persuasive and thoroughly entertaining guide to the most effective way to un-rig the economy and fix inequality, from America's wealthiest "class traitors" The vast majority of... -
A Deadly Wandering: A Tale of Tragedy And Redemption in the Age of Attention by Matt Richtel 9780062284068
Booksplease Price: £18.68From Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Matt Richtel, a brilliant, narrative-driven exploration of technology's vast influence on the human mind and society, dramatically-told through the lens of a... -
Dying for Capitalism: How Big Money Fuels Extinction and What We Can Do About It by Charles Derber 9781032512587
RRP: £37.99Booksplease Price: £34.59This is an original, accessible book for scholars, students, activists, and the general public on the greatest crisis the world has faced. The authors challenge the widespread notion that a green and... -
Activism, Inc.: How the Outsourcing of Grassroots Campaigns Is Strangling Progressive Politics in America by Dana R. Fisher 9780804752176
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £20.71Activism, Inc. introduces America to an increasingly familiar political actor: the canvasser. She's the twenty-something with the clipboard, stopping you on the street or knocking on your door, the... -
Building Cocoa Applications - A Step-by-Step Guide Simson Garfinkel 9780596002350
RRP: £51.99Booksplease Price: £37.69This guide takes a step-by-step approach to teaching developers how to build real graphics applications using Cocoa. By showing the basics of an application in one chapter and then layering... -
The Golden Passport: Harvard Business School, the Limits of Capitalism, and the Moral Failure of the MBA Elite by Duff McDonald 9780062347176
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.39A riveting and timely intellectual history of one of our most important capitalist institutions, Harvard Business School, from the bestselling author of The Firm. With The Firm, financial journalist... -
The Golden Passport: Harvard Business School, the Limits of Capitalism, and the Moral Failure of the MBA Elite by Duff McDonald
Booksplease Price: £16.32A riveting and timely intellectual history of one of our most important capitalist institutions, Harvard Business School, from the bestselling author of The Firm.With The Firm, financial journalist... -
Born on Third Base: A One Percenter Makes the Case for Tackling Inequality, Bringing Wealth Home, and Committing to the Common Good by Chuck Collins 9781603586832
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.94As heard on NPR's Fresh Air "This empowering light into a brighter future is a narrative you won't want to miss." - Ralph Nader "Collins not only talks the talk but walks the walk...this is a... -
The Radical Middle Class: Populist Democracy and the Question of Capitalism in Progressive Era Portland, Oregon by Robert D. Johnston 9780691126005
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.85America has a long tradition of middle-class radicalism, albeit one that intellectual orthodoxy has tended to obscure. The Radical Middle Class seeks to uncover the democratic, populist, and even... -
Superstition: Belief in the Age of Science by Robert L. Park 9780691145976
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.32From uttering a prayer before boarding a plane, to exploring past lives through hypnosis, has superstition become pervasive in contemporary culture? Robert Park, the best-selling author of Voodoo... -
The Unseen Power: Public Relations: A History Scott M. Cutlip 9780805814651
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £101.73Based largely on primary sources, this book presents the first detailed history of public relations from 1900 through the 1960s. The author utilized the personal papers of John Price Jones, Ivy L... -
From Microsoft to Malawi: Learning on the Front Lines as a Peace Corps Volunteer by Michael L. Buckler 9780761854012
Booksplease Price: £43.76In this compelling narrative, Michael L. Buckler draws readers into the challenging, yet rewarding world of the Peace Corps. Inspired by his journals, the book recounts his life as a Peace Corps... -
The Top 50 Sustainability Books Wayne Visser 9781906093327
RRP: £65.99Booksplease Price: £58.39This unique title draws together in one volume some of the best thinking to date on the pressing social and environmental challenges we face as a society. These are the Top 50 Sustainability Books as... -
Recovering The Sacred: The Power of Naming and Claiming by Winona LaDuke 9781608466276
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.21Only the power to define what is sacred - and access it - will enable Native American communities to remember who they are. The indigenous imperative to honour nature is undermined by federal laws... -
Science in the Private Interest: Has the Lure of Profits Corrupted Biomedical Research? by Sheldon Krimsky 9780742543713
Booksplease Price: £43.68Something has changed in the culture and values of academic science over the last quarter-century. University science is now entangled with entrepreneurship, and researchers with a commercial... -
Wired for Authoritarianism: American Oligarchies and How to Re-Wire America for the People Charles Derber 9781041267553
Booksplease Price: £28.39In contrast to much of the current literature that treats Trump's authoritarianism as new and singular, this book shows that authoritarianism in the United States instead has a long history that... -
Wrong Place, Wrong Time: Trauma and Violence in the Lives of Young Black Men by John A. Rich
RRP: £19.00Booksplease Price: £14.81Medical school taught John Rich how to deal with physical trauma in a big city hospital but not with the disturbing fact that young black men were daily shot, stabbed, and beaten. This is Rich's... -
Fighting Oligarchy: How Positive Populism Can Reclaim America Charles Derber 9781041119975
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £23.54This book offers a new analysis of why Trump's Far Right populism helped him win the Presidency twice, and how it enshrined a corporate establishment that he claimed to run against. Charles Derber... -
Think Like a Commoner: A Short Introduction to the Life of the Commons by David Bollier 9780865717688
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.60The biggest "tragedy of the commons" is the misconception that commons are failures-relics from another era rendered unnecessary by the market and state. Think Like a Commoner dispels such prejudices...