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Spaces for Growth: learning our way out of a crisis Graham Leicester 9781913743468
RRP: £12.50Booksplease Price: £11.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913743468Author Graham LeicesterFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint -
Being with Others: Curses, spells and scintillations by Nelisha Wickremasinghe
Booksplease Price: £15.85Many of our significant relationships are based not on trust, respect and growth but on an unconscious compulsion to deny our own problems, flaws and fears. We see the consequences at home and at... -
TNT The New Theatre: lessons, techniques and ideas for making new theatre for a changing world from the most widely travelled theatre that ever packed a bag: 2020 by Paul Stebbings
Booksplease Price: £29.01From a first-hand account of working with Jerzy Grotowski to an analysis of the art of writing for the stage; from the hazards of touring in the Emirates to the dramas of touring behind the Iron... -
Memories by Russell L. Ackoff 9780956537973
Booksplease Price: £17.45For the late Russell Ackoff, the important principles and qualities on which his work was based - clear-sightedness, looking at the bigger picture, working backwards to dissolve problems, radicalism... -
The Pilgrimage of Piltdown Man by Mike O'Leary 9781911193579
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £9.38This is the pilgrimage of a knitted-together Piltdown Man from the South Downs to Cornwall and Brittany. Mike O’Leary is a professional storyteller and his post-fairy tale knits together the... -
On Walking: - And Stalking Sebald by Phil Smith 9781909470309
Booksplease Price: £17.45"A sensitive walk up any High Street is a Pilgrim's Progress" Phil Smith - playwright, walk-performance artist and author (Mythogeography and Counter-Tourism) - recently retraced W.G. Sebald's famous... -
Attending to Movement: Somatic Perspectives on Living in This World by Sarah Whatley 9781909470637
Booksplease Price: £29.99This edited collection draws on the conference, Attending to Movement: Somatic Perspectives on Living in this World, run at C-DaRE, the Centre for Dance Research, Coventry University, 12 - 14 July,... -
Context, Context, Context: How Our Blindness to Context Cripples Even the Smartest Organizations by Barry Oshry
Booksplease Price: £16.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911193289Author Barry OshryFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint -
Designing Regenerative Cultures by Daniel Christian Wahl
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £20.00This is a 'Whole Earth Catalog' for the 21st century: an impressive and wide-ranging analysis of what's wrong with our societies, organizations, ideologies, worldviews and cultures - and how to put... -
When I Open My Eyes: Dance Health Imagination by Miranda Tufnell 9781913743758
Booksplease Price: £33.22Celebrated dance artist and body therapist Miranda Tufnell takes us on a moving and inspiring exploration of the field of dance and health. For 14 years she worked in a GP surgery in Cumbria and the... -
Playing for Time: Making art as if the world mattered by Lucy Neal 9781913743819
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £26.00Now back in print... This groundbreaking handbook (first published in 2015 by Oberon and now needed more than ever in the face of multiple unfolding crises) is a resource for artists, community... -
The Search for Leadership: An Organisational Perspective by William Tate 9780955768170
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £27.84Most organizations - public, private and third sector - know they need to offer better leadership. But, in trying to do so, they too often look in the wrong place. Experience tells us that even... -
Ways to Wander the Gallery: 2018 by Clare Qualmann 9781911193517
Booksplease Price: £14.6425 intriguing ideas for different ways to walk in and beyond an art gallery - for gallery-goers, walkers, performance artists, students and academics. The book asks you to reconsider your walked... -
walk write (repeat) by Sonia Overall 9781913743185
RRP: £12.50Booksplease Price: £11.46This is a manual for creative writers, but the approaches and exercises can readily be adapted by practitioners working in other media. All of the exercises included here have been foot-tested. Use... -
Skinner Releasing Technique: A Movement and Dance Practice by Manny Emslie 9781913743291
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £25.96Skinner Releasing Technique (SRT), created by Joan Skinner, is a somatic movement, dance and creative practice with a core underlying principle of releasing blocked energy, held tension and habitual... -
Flourish: Design Paradigms for Our Planetary Emergency by Sarah Ichioka 9781913743260
RRP: £28.95Booksplease Price: £23.73Regenerative design and architecture What will it take to restore balance to our world, repair past injustices, and support future generations' survival? Reaching beyond 'sustainability',... -
Terminalian Drift by Jerry Gordon 9781913743406
Booksplease Price: £20.59"Water only knows how to flow. It never ceases. Even glaciers thousands of years old are not a stilling of water. A chilling, but not a stilling. The city is likewise, imposing its own flows of seep... -
The Wisdom of Not-Knowing by Bob Chisholm 9781909470910
Booksplease Price: £16.96"We often find that the state of not-knowing can be a precursor to moments of rich discovery which possess a dynamic, transformative power that exceeds any prior expectation." From the Introduction... -
A Sardine Street Box of Tricks by Crab Man 9781908009579
Booksplease Price: £14.92A Sardine Street Box of Tricks is a handbook for anyone who wants to make their own 'mis-guided' tour or walk. Written by 'Crab Man' and 'Signpost' (Phil Smith and Simon Persighetti - both members of... -
Suomenlinna Gropius: Two Contemplations on Body, Movement and Materiality by 9781913743246
Booksplease Price: £24.00How can we dance here - so the aliveness of everything past and present can surface and shimmer? Paula Kramer's beautiful, evocative and touching 'contemplations' take us on a double journey... -
Ten Things to Do in a Conceptual Emergency by Graham Leicester 9780955768163
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £8.84If the idea of a conceptual emergency was wacky and original when it was taken up in the first edition of this booklet, it now appears inescapable. Brought on by the global credit crunch and the... -
The Whitehall Effect: How Whitehall Became the Enemy of Great Public Services and What We Can Do about It by John Seddon
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.00In The WHITEHALL Effect, John Seddon explains how and why it is that governments repeatedly fail to deliver what our public services need and exposes the devastation that three decades of political... -
Ways to Wander by Clare Qualmann
Booksplease Price: £10.31'Ways to Wander' is your invitation to experiment with a whole range of different ways to 'go for a walk'. Rather than picking up a map and following a footpath, the book offers 54 intriguingly... -
Beyond Threat by Nelisha Wickremasinghe
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £13.45How the hidden drives and motivations of the Trimotive Braindetermine our behaviour at work -- and what we can do about it. Unless we are in physical danger few of us think we are living 'under... -
Combining by Nora Bateson 9781913743857
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.00In 'Combining', Nora Bateson invites us into an ecology of communication where nothing stands alone, and every action sets off a chain of incalculable consequences. She challenges conventional fixes... -
Walking Bodies: Papers, Provocations, Actions from Walking's New Movements, the Conference by Helen Billinghurst 9781913743093
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.00The experience and variety of walking practices have never been so broad, relevant or unpredictable. Walking Bodies charts some of their very latest developments. Editors Helen Billinghurst, Claire... -
Bonelines by Phil Smith 9781913743062
Booksplease Price: £14.04In their 'Guidebook for an Armchair Pilgrimage', authors Phil Smith, Tony Whitehead and photographer John Schott lead us on a ‘virtual’ journey to explore difference and change on their way to an... -
Stone Talks by Alyson Hallett 9781911193555
Booksplease Price: £13.45Stone Talks brings together poems and four talks/essays by noted poet Alyson Hallett on the subject of stones, rocks, somatics and our relationship with our environment. The book invites us to listen... -
Living in the Magical Mode: Notes from the Book of Minutes of a Guild of Shy Sorcerers by Phil Smith 9781913743574
Booksplease Price: £17.45In 2019 a group of book-lovers began to turn from their usual diet of contemporary novels to read classics of the 'English eerie' like Arthur Machen's 'The Great God Pan'. The documents recovered,... -
What if Women Designed the City?: 33 leverage points to make your city work better for women and girls by May East 9781913743871
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £13.45Dr. May East here explores the set of symbiotic relationships between women and the cities they live and work in. She considers how cities would look if they were designed by women, and how that... -
The Roots of Amerta Movement: An introduction to the movement improvisation of Suprapto Suryodarmo by Lise Lavelle 9781911193531
Booksplease Price: £27.16The Javanese movement artist Suprapto Suryodarmo (universally known as Prapto) died in 2019. He had devoted his life to developing, embodying, teaching and sharing his practice of Amerta Movement /... -
The Long Way Home by Timothy Herwig 9781913743604
RRP: £14.00Booksplease Price: £13.20"We keep things inside, those of us who live in the Midwest. Anyone who lives out in the open where little stands between you and the horizon knows this. It's all sky. It's infinitely blue in summer... -
Local Money: What Difference Does it Make? by John Rogers 9781909470194
Booksplease Price: £19.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909470194Author John RogersFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint -
Haunted Experience: Being, Loss, Memory by Julian Wolfreys 9781911193029
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £19.23Julian Wolfreys starts with loss. All memory is the memory of loss... All that we are, all we experience, all we remember, all that we forget but which leaves nevertheless a trace on us, in us, a... -
The Footbook of Zombie Walking: How to be More Than a Survivor in an Apocalypse by Phil Smith 9781909470873
Booksplease Price: £20.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909470873Author Phil SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint -
Dancing at the Edge: Competence, Culture and Organization in the 21st Century by Maureen O'Hara 9781908009982
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £14.38In his 1980 essay, The World of Tomorrow and the Person of Tomorrow, the psychologist Carl Rogers contemplated the future. He described those who would usher in this new era as people with the... -
Beyond Survival: Practical Hope in Powerful Times: 2020 by Graham Leicester 9781913743031
RRP: £6.00Booksplease Price: £5.67This feels like a moment of truth. For many years people have been warning that we live in extraordinary times, a change of age not just an age of change. International Futures Forum (IFF) has been... -
Ready for Anything: Designing Resilience for a Transforming World by Anthony M. Hodgson 9781908009470
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £13.45The Mess What kind of trouble is our species and our planet in? What's likely to happen next? How can we think creatively about and understand the interconnected problems (climate, health, energy,... -
Nine Ways of Seeing a Body by Sandra Reeve
RRP: £12.50Booksplease Price: £10.43This book presents nine lenses through which the body is conventionally viewed. The body as object, the body as subject, the phenomenological body, the contextual body, the interdependent body, the... -
Strategic Foresight by Patricia Lustig
Booksplease Price: £17.45This is a book is for leaders, to aid their practice in strategy, decision making and change - it's a very practical (field) guide to foresight and foresight tools. It's aimed at leaders in...