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Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy by Cathy O'Neil
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'A manual for the 21st-century citizen... accessible, refreshingly critical, relevant and urgent' - Financial Times 'Fascinating and deeply disturbing' - Yuval Noah Harari, Guardian Books of the... -
Lost Generation?: New Strategies for Youth and Education by Martin Allen 9781441134707
Booksplease Price: £35.83This is a concise account of the current difficulties in education and employment, offering positive strategies for future policy. Education and training faces its own credit crunch as unemployment... -
Rethinking the Economics of Land and Housing by Josh Ryan-Collins 9781350374270
Booksplease Price: £20.35Why are house prices in many advanced economies rising faster than incomes? Why isn't land and location taught or seen as important in modern economics? What is the relationship between the financial... -
The Alternative: How to Build a Just Economy by Nick Romeo 9781399813808
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.90A provocative debunking of accepted economic wisdom which offers a new pathway to a sustainable, survivable economy.Confronted by the devastating trends of the early twenty-first century - ... -
Against Landlords: How to Solve the Housing Crisis Nick Bano 9781804298336
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.88Housing means prosperity and security for some; poverty, precarity and sickness for others. More people live in private rented accommodation than ever before, and rents rise without apparent reason... -
How Politics Makes Us Sick: Neoliberal Epidemics by Professor Ted Schrecker 9781137463067
Booksplease Price: £90.56Ted Schrecker and Clare Bambra argue that the obesity, insecurity, austerity and inequality that result from neoliberal (or 'market fundamentalist') policies are hazardous to our health, asserting... -
The Alternative: How to Build a Just Economy by Nick Romeo 9781399813792
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £14.55A provocative debunking of accepted economic wisdom which offers a new pathway to a sustainable, survivable economy.Confronted by the devastating trends of the early twenty-first century - ... -
Young People, Welfare and Crime: Governing Non-Participation by Ross Fergusson 9781447307020
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £25.54Mass youth unemployment is now endemic and almost ubiquitous in the global north and south alike. This book offers an original and challenging interpretation of the ways in which young people's... -
Work: A History of How We Spend Our Time by James Suzman
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.15_______________ 'A fascinating exploration that challenges our basic assumptions of what work means' - Yuval Noah Harari 'There is eminently underlinable stuff on most pages ... Fascinating' -... -
How to Save the City: A Guide for Emergency Action by Professor Paul Chatterton 9781788214780
Booksplease Price: £20.45A call to arms, How to Save the City invites the reader to engage with the challenges of living and working in cities at a time when several conflating emergencies have become more pressing and... -
Young People, Welfare and Crime: Governing Non-Participation by Ross Fergusson 9781447307013
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £70.10Mass youth unemployment is now endemic and almost ubiquitous in the global north and south alike. This book offers an original and challenging interpretation of the ways in which young people's... -
The Story of Work: A New History of Humankind by Jan Lucassen
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.92The first truly global history of work, an upbeat assessment from the age of the hunter-gatherer to the present day "Beginning in the hunting-and-gathering past, this long view of work shows how... -
The Care Crisis: What Caused It and How Can We End It? by Emma Dowling 9781786630353
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.24Every one of us will need care at some point in life: social care, healthcare, childcare, eldercare. In the shadow of COVID-19, care has become the most urgent topic of our times. But our care... -
What Do We Know and What Should We Do About Tax Justice? by Alex Cobham 9781529667769
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.21This 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... -
Scotland Rising: The Case for Independence by Gerry Hassan 9780745347271
Booksplease Price: £85.65The Scottish independence debate has consequences for Scotland, British politics, the future of the UK - and internationally. In Scotland Rising, Gerry Hassan addresses the key questions in this... -
Homesick: The End of London Peter Apps 9781836430360
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £13.84From the author of the Orwell Prize-winner SHOW ME THE BODIES: HOW WE LET GRENFELL HAPPEN, the gripping story of how housing defines a city's past, present and future 'Apps set the gold standard... -
![The "Population Problem" in Pacific Asia by Stuart Gietel-Basten](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/508354/508070/9780199361076__31760.1687249406.jpg?c=1 "The "Population Problem" in Pacific Asia by Stuart Gietel-Basten")
The "Population Problem" in Pacific Asia by Stuart Gietel-Basten
Booksplease Price: £56.67Despite the twenty-first century's often being referred to as the Asian Century-indicating hope for economic growth and the rebalancing of the global order-population aging and stagnation present an... -
Chronicles: On Our Troubled Times by Thomas Piketty
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.59The return of the best-selling, award-winning economist extraordinaireWith the same powerful evidence, and range of reference, as his global bestseller Capital in the Twenty-First Century - and in... -
Scotland Rising: The Case for Independence Gerry Hassan 9780745347264
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.86The Scottish independence debate has consequences for Scotland, British politics, the future of the UK - and internationally. In Scotland Rising, Gerry Hassan addresses the key questions in this... -
Good Times, Bad Times: The Welfare Myth of Them and Us John Hills 9781447320036
Booksplease Price: £16.95Two-thirds of UK government spending now goes on the welfare state and where the money is spent - healthcare, education, pensions, benefits - is the centre of political and public debate. Much of... -
The 4 Day Week Handbook: Your Guide to Happy Staff, Smarter Working and a Productivity Miracle by Joe Ryle 9781914487194
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.15"A four-day working week is long overdue and this book provides a crucial roadmap. One day, we will look back in horror at the fact we worked until we dropped." - Owen Jones, Journalist What if there... -
Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A Guardian, Daily Telegraph, New Statesman and Daily Express Book of the Year 'Hugely, highly and happily recommended' Stephen Fry 'You should read Humankind. You'll... -
The Globalization of Inequality by Francois Bourguignon 9780691175645
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.32In The Globalization of Inequality, distinguished economist and policymaker Francois Bourguignon examines the complex and paradoxical links between a vibrant world economy that has raised the living... -
Discovering and Using Historical Geographic Resources on the Web: A Practical Guide for Librarians by Eva Dodsworth 9780810891449
Booksplease Price: £71.54Historical geographic material, like maps, plans, and air photos, although collected and persevered by libraries, archives, and other heritage organizations, are often hidden from the general public... -
Health Divides: Where You Live Can Kill You Clare Bambra (Newcastle University) 9781447330356
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.99HIGHLY COMMENDED IN THE BMA BOOK AWARDS 2017 Americans live three years less than their counterparts in France or Sweden. Scottish men survive two years less than English men. Across Europe, women... -
The Globalization of Inequality by Francois Bourguignon 9780691160528
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.40In The Globalization of Inequality, distinguished economist and policymaker Francois Bourguignon examines the complex and paradoxical links between a vibrant world economy that has raised the living... -
Hunger Pains: Life inside Foodbank Britain Kayleigh Garthwaite (University of Birmingham) 9781447329114
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.99WINNER OF THE BRITISH ACADEMY PETER TOWNSEND PRIZE 2017 Welcome to Foodbank Britain, where emergency food provision is an increasingly visible and controversial feature of ongoing austerity. We know... -
Uncommon Wealth: Britain and the Aftermath of Empire by Kojo Koram
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26WINNER OF THE PEN HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZE 2023Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political WritingLonglisted for the British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural UnderstandingA Guardian Book of the... -
Low Impact Living: A Field Guide to Ecological, Affordable Community Building by Paul Chatterton
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37This book is the inspirational story of one project that shows you how you can become involved in building and running your neighbourhood. The author, co-founder of Lilac (Low Impact Living... -
When Nothing Works: From Cost of Living to Foundational Liveability by Luca Calafati 9781526173713
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.15It's hard to escape the feeling that in Britain today nothing works. In the face of mounting inflation and widespread industrial action, this book offers an incisive analysis of the UK's problems and... -
When Nothing Works: From Cost of Living to Foundational Liveability by Luca Calafati 9781526173706
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £61.61It's hard to escape the feeling that in Britain today nothing works. In the face of mounting inflation and widespread industrial action, this book offers an incisive analysis of the UK's problems and... -
Basic Income: A Radical Proposal for a Free Society and a Sane Economy by Philippe Van Parijs
RRP: £18.95Booksplease Price: £16.51"Powerful as well as highly engaging-a brilliant book."-Amartya SenA Times Higher Education Book of the WeekIt may sound crazy to pay people whether or not they're working or even looking for work... -
The Predictive Postcode: The Geodemographic Classification of British Society by Richard Webber
Booksplease Price: £77.85It is not lost on commercial organisations that where we live colours how we view ourselves and others. That is why so many now place us into social groups on the basis of the type of postcode in... -
The Inequality of Wealth: Why it Matters and How to Fix it by Liam Byrne 9781804543382
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £12.74The super-rich have never had it so good. But millions of us can't afford a home, an education or a pension. And unless we change course soon, the future will be even worse. Much worse. But things... -
Debt Trap Nation: Family Homelessness in a Failing State Katherine Brickell 9781788218641
Booksplease Price: £17.13Across England, one of the wealthiest yet most unequal nations in the world, families are being trapped in debt and homelessness. In this blistering expose, Katherine Brickell and Mel Nowicki take... -
Gentrification is Inevitable and Other Lies by Leslie Kern
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.42What does gentrification look like? Can we even agree that it is a process that replaces one community with another? It is a question of class? Or of economic opportunity? Who does it affect the... -
Utopia for Realists by Rutger Bregman
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Listen out for Rutger Bregman. He has a big future shaping the future' Observer 'A more politically radical Malcolm Gladwell' New York Times 'The Dutch... -
Goliath’s Curse: A Deep History of Societal Collapse and What it Means for Our Future by Luke Kemp 9780241741238
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.77A radical retelling of human history through collapse, and what it means for our uncertain future A radical retelling of human history through collapse - from the dawn of our species to the urgent... -
Selfie: How the West Became Self-Obsessed by Will Storr
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.64'Fascinating' Guardian'Brilliant' Evening Standard'Electrifying' Financial Times'So interesting I literally couldn't put it down' Sunday TimesWe are living in an age of heightened individualism... -
Butler to the World: How Britain became the servant of tycoons, tax dodgers, kleptocrats and criminals by Oliver Bullough
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.74With a new introduction on the Ukraine crisis LONGLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022 A TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022 A DAILY MAIL BEST...