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Inequality and the 1% by Danny Dorling
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.62Since the Great Recession hit in 2008, the 1% has only grown richer while the rest find life increasingly tough. The gap between the haves and the have-nots has turned into a chasm. While the rich... -
Finntopia by Danny Dorling 9781788212168
Booksplease Price: €15.99The 2020 World Happiness Report ranked Finland, for the third year running, as the world's happiest country. The "Nordic Model" has long been touted as the aspiration for social and public policy in... -
Geography: Ideas in Profile Danny Dorling 9781781255308
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €8.39Ideas in Profile: Small Introductions to Big Topics Geography gives shape to our innate curiosity; cartography is older than writing. Channelling our twin urges to explore and understand,... -
Why Demography Matters Danny Dorling 9780745698410
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €21.28Demography is not destiny. As Giacomo Casanova explained over two centuries ago: 'There is no such thing as destiny. We ourselves shape our own lives.' Today we are shaping them and our societies... -
Why Demography Matters Danny Dorling 9780745698403
RRP: €65.45Booksplease Price: €58.37Demography is not destiny. As Giacomo Casanova explained over two centuries ago: 'There is no such thing as destiny. We ourselves shape our own lives.' Today we are shaping them and our societies... -
Population 10 Billion Professor Danny Dorling 9781780334912
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.76Before May 2011 the top demographics experts of the United Nations had suggested that world population would peak at 9.1 billion in 2100, and then fall to 8.5 billion people by 2150. In contrast, the... -
Rule Britannia: Brexit and the End of Empire by Danny Dorling 9781785905995
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.20WHEN EMPIRES CRUMBLE, WHAT HAPPENS TO THOSE LEFT IN THE RUINS? In Rule Britannia, Danny Dorling and Sally Tomlinson argue that the vote to leave the EU was the last gasp of the old empire working... -
Injustice: Why Social Inequality Still Persists by Danny Dorling
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €11.89In the five years since the first edition of Injustice there have been devastating increases in poverty, hunger and destitution in the UK. Globally, the richest 1% have never held a greater share of... -
Unequal Health: The Scandal of Our Times by Danny Dorling 9781447305149
RRP: €101.15Booksplease Price: €83.41Health inequalities are the most important inequalities of all. In the US and the UK these inequalities have now reached an extent not seen for over a century. Most people's health is much better now... -
Peak Inequality: Britain's Ticking Time Bomb Danny Dorling 9781447349075
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €12.92Inequality is the key political issue of our time. Here Dorling brings together brand new material alongside a carefully curated selection of his most recent writing on inequality from publications... -
Shattered Nation: Inequality and the Geography of A Failing State Danny Dorling 9781804295847
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.38Britain was once the leading economy in Europe; it is now the most unequal. In Shattered Nation, leading geographer and author of Inequality and the 1% shows that we are growing further and further... -
Slowdown: The End of the Great Acceleration - and Why It's a Good Thing by Danny Dorling
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €13.93A powerful and counterintuitive argument that we should welcome the current slowdown-of population growth, economies, and technological innovation The end of our high-growth world was underway well... -
Shattered Nation: Inequality and the Geography of A Failing State by Danny Dorling 9781804293270
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €10.27Britain was once the leading economy in Europe; it is now the most unequal. In Shattered Nation, leading geographer and author of Inequality and the 1% shows that we are growing further and further... -
Peak Injustice: Solving Britain’s Inequality Crisis Danny Dorling 9781447372615
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €15.46By 2024 a majority of parents in the UK with three or more children were going hungry to feed their families. Children in the UK are becoming shorter and childhood mortality has been rising. What... -
People and Places: ?A 21st-Century Atlas of the UK Danny Dorling 9781447311379
RRP: €30.93Booksplease Price: €27.18How has UK society changed since 2001? What does the UK population look like in 2016? This unique atlas, the third in a bestselling series, uses a wealth of up-to-the minute data sources alongside... -
Seven Children: Inequality and Britain's Next Generation Danny Dorling 9781911723509
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €17.68If we found seven typical 5-year-olds to represent today's UK, who would they be? What would their stories reveal? Seven Children is about injustice and hope. Danny Dorling's highly original book... -
So You Think You Know About Britain? by Danny Dorling 9781849013918
Booksplease Price: €24.63When it comes to immigration, the population explosion, the collapse of the family, the north-south divide, devolution, or the death of the countryside, common wisdom tells us that we are in trouble;... -
The Next Crisis: What We Think About the Future Danny Dorling 9781804294345
RRP: €26.18Booksplease Price: €18.48in The Next Crisis leading geographer Danny Dorling unpacks the data on what people really think about when they consider the future. In a series of global surveys, he shows that our global concerns... -
Unequal Health: The Scandal of Our Times Danny Dorling (University of Oxford) 9781447305132
RRP: €35.69Booksplease Price: €32.53Health inequalities are the most important inequalities of all. In the US and the UK these inequalities have now reached an extent not seen for over a century. Most people's health is much better now... -
Poverty in Education Across the UK: A Comparative Analysis of Policy and Place by Danny Dorling 9781447327981
RRP: €101.15Booksplease Price: €83.06Nuanced interconnections of poverty and educational attainment around the UK are surveyed in this unique analysis. Across the four jurisdictions of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland,... -
A Better Politics: How Government Can Make Us Happier by Danny Dorling 9781907994531
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €17.10The aim of this book is to inspire a better politics: one that will enable future generations to be happier. Greater well-being and better health should be the goals - rather than wealth maximization... -
The Visualization of Spatial Social Structure Danny Dorling (Department of Geography, University of Sheffield, UK) 9781119962939
Booksplease Price: €59.15How do you draw a map of 100,000 places, of more than a million flows of people, of changes over time and space, of different kinds of spaces, surfaces and volumes, from human travel time to... -
Poverty in Education Across the UK: A Comparative Analysis of Policy and Place Danny Dorling (University of Oxford) 9781447327998
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €29.50Nuanced interconnections of poverty and educational attainment around the UK are surveyed in this unique analysis. Across the four jurisdictions of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland,... -
Do We Need Economic Inequality? Danny Dorling (Department of Geography, University of Sheffield, UK) 9781509516551
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €17.84Although economic inequality provokes widespread disquiet, its supposed necessity is rarely questioned. At best, a basic level of inequality is seen as a necessary evil. At worst, it is seen as... -
Do We Need Economic Inequality? Danny Dorling (Department of Geography, University of Sheffield, UK) 9781509516544
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €38.14Although economic inequality provokes widespread disquiet, its supposed necessity is rarely questioned. At best, a basic level of inequality is seen as a necessary evil. At worst, it is seen as... -
Hired: Six Months Undercover in Low-Wage Britain James Bloodworth 9781786490162
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46Longlisted for the Orwell Prize, 2019 ____________The Times Round-up of the Best Non-fiction Paperbacks, 2019The Times Best Current Affairs and Big Ideas Book of the Year, 2018For many in modern... -
Globalization and Its Discontents by Joseph Stiglitz
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98**Over 1 million copies sold worldwide**MAJOR NEW EDITIONFrom Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz, Globalization and its Discontents is the bestselling expose of the all-powerful organizations that... -
Big Capital: Who Is London For? by Anna Minton
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98The inside story of London's housing crisis, by the award-winning author of Ground ControlLondon is facing the worst housing crisis in modern times, with knock-on effects for the rest of the UK... -
Fair Shot by Chris Hughes 9781408899816
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €9.39Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes makes the case that one percenters like him should pay their fortune forward in a radically simple way: a guaranteed income for working people The first half of... -
Why You Won't Get Rich: How Capitalism Broke its Contract with Hard Work by Robert Verkaik
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.21From the bottom to the top of our economy, capitalism is too blunt an instrument to tackle Britain's epidemic of inequality. Soaring rents, unfair taxation and a growing gig economy have brought... -
Why You Won't Get Rich by Robert Verkaik
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €19.50From the bottom to the top of our economy, capitalism is too blunt an instrument to tackle Britain's epidemic of inequality. Soaring rents, unfair taxation and a growing gig economy have brought... -
Progress: A History of Humanity’s Worst Idea Samuel Miller McDonald 9780008462512
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €11.77'A spirited skewering of the idea that things can only get better' The Guardian 'A new understanding of our past' Danny Dorling, author of Inequality... -
The Inner Level: How More Equal Societies Reduce Stress, Restore Sanity and Improve Everyone's Well-being by Richard Wilkinson
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98The essential new book from the authors of the international bestseller The Spirit Level'Why are people, particularly young people, experiencing increasing levels of mental illness and distress?... -
The Monk of Mokha by Dave Eggers
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €10.98From the best-selling author of The Circle - the gripping true story of a young Yemeni American man, raised in San Francisco, who dreams of resurrecting the ancient art of Yemeni coffee but finds... -
Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky by Noam Chomsky
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €10.50'Arguably the most important intellectual alive' New York Times An indispensable collection of Noam Chomsky's talks on the past, present and future of the politics of power Noam Chomsky is... -
The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs 9781847926180
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €17.91In this classic text, Jane Jacobs set out to produce an attack on current city planning and rebuilding and to introduce new principles by which these should be governed. The result is one of the most... -
Ethical Leadership for a Better Education System: What Kind of People Are We? Carolyn Roberts 9781138504424
RRP: €33.31Booksplease Price: €31.05What kind of people run our schools? What makes them behave as they do? What kind of an example do they set? How can headteachers live up to expectations? What makes them fail? What keeps the... -
Serious Money: Walking Plutocratic London by Caroline Knowles
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98'A latter-day Canterbury Tales ... Serious Money has a serious mission' The Times'Eye-opening ... part guide, part indictment of a yawning wealth gap' Misha Glenny, Financial TimesLondon is a... -
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... -
Things That Can and Cannot Be Said by John Cusack
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €8.70From the bestselling author of The Ministry of Utmost HappinessAn extraordinary secret meeting between four brilliant political activists: Booker Prize-winner Arundhati Roy, NSA whistle-blower Edward...