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£10.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781801107235 | ISBN 10: 1801107238
A compelling investigation into the phenomenon of dirty work - labour that society considers essential, but morally compromised.
A New Statesman Book of the Year
'This book will prompt a public reckoning with inequality in work'
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£12.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780141995236 | ISBN 10: 0141995238
'A work of exhilarating scope and relevance ... What a rare and powerful experience to feel a book in your very body' Naomi Klein
'Health is not something we can attain as individuals, for ourselves, hermetically sealed off from the world ar ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780241433171 | ISBN 10: 0241433177
Discover why as a woman the world is financially rigged against you and exactly what you can do to overcome it.
FINANCE IS A FEMINIST ISSUE.Â
It's 2021. The modern world is still rigged unfairly in men's favour.
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Exploring injustices from ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781788736473 | ISBN 10: 1788736478
Since 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 have found new ways of protecting their wealth, every ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780141975399 | ISBN 10: 0141975393
The essential new book from the authors of the international bestseller The Spirit Level.Â
Why is the incidence of mental illness in the UK twice that in Germany? Why are Americans three times more likely than the Dutch to develop gambling proble ... more
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£20.00 hardback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781846147418 | ISBN 10: 1846147417
Why is the incidence of mental illness in the UK twice that in Germany? Why are Americans three times more likely than the Dutch to develop gambling problems? Why is child well-being so much worse in New Zealand than Japan? As this groundbreaking stu ... more
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£16.50 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781849352789 | ISBN 10: 184935278x
Poverty is on the rise, especially since the 2008 economic meltdown. Riots and urban insurrections are also on the rise, and are becoming increasingly confrontational and intense. Why Don't the Poor Rise Up? asks why the former hasn't led to mo ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780141985411 | ISBN 10: 0141985410
New York Times Bestseller
A former Wall Street quant sounds an alarm on the mathematical models that pervade modern life - and threaten to rip apart our social fabric
We live in the age of the algorithm. Increasingly, the decisions ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781780263908 | ISBN 10: 1780263902
The Equality Effect is almost magical. In more equal countries, human beings are generally happier and healthier, there is less crime, more creativity and higher educational attainment. Danny Dorling delivers all evidence that is now so overwhelming ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781784786618 | ISBN 10: 1784786616
The classic, brilliant, best-selling account of the rise of the world’s slums, where, according to the United Nations, one billion people now live.
According to the United Nations, more than one billion people now live in the slums of the ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780141981222 | ISBN 10: 0141981229
Why has inequality increased in the Western world - and what can we do about it? In The Great Divide, Joseph E. Stiglitz expands on the diagnosis he offered in his best-selling book The Price of Inequality and suggests ways to counter this growing pr ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781780263298 | ISBN 10: 1780263295
It’s dinned into us from birth that ‘all good things come at a price’. Today, that price looks apocalyptic, with wars, exploitation and environmental collapse in every part of the globe. Some suggest that the carnage is “a price worth payingâ ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781408857977 | ISBN 10: 1408857979
In Baltimore's inner-city neighborhood of Upton/Druid Heights, a man's life expectancy is sixty-three; not far away, in the Greater Roland Park/Poplar neighborhood, life expectancy is eighty-three. The same twenty-year avoidable disparity exists in t ... more
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£16.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781783607747 | ISBN 10: 1783607742
A leading voice in the environmental movement, Vandana Shiva has played a key role in bringing the struggles for social and ecological justice to international attention.
Earth Democracy remains one of her key works, in which she addresses ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781784782115 | ISBN 10: 1784782114
Pilger tackles the injustices and double standards inherent in the politics of globalization and exposes the terrible truth behind the power and wealth of states and corporations.
John Pilger is one of the world’s renowned investigative jour ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781782797401 | ISBN 10: 1782797408
How and why the working class are being blamed for climate change, and what we can do about it.
Received wisdom is increasingly that we all have to eat less to save the planet, but received wisdom is wrong. A Diet of Austerity argues that, j ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781784782078 | ISBN 10: 1784782076
Can we afford the rich? Why the growth of the wealthy is making the UK a more dangerous place to live.
Since 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 th ... more
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£19.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781137463098 | ISBN 10: 1137463090
Since the early 1980s, neoliberalism or 'market fundamentalism' has dominated politics and economics across the globe. In this important book, Ted Schrecker and Clare Bambra consider the effects of over three decades of these policies with part ... more
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£18.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781479871544 | ISBN 10: 1479871540
Recent years have seen an explosion in the number of children diagnosed with “invisible disabilities” such as ADHD, mood and conduct disorders, and high-functioning autism spectrum disorders. Whether they are viewed as biological problems in brain wi ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781447320753 | ISBN 10: 1447320751
In 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 world wealth, while the share of most of the other ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781781681589 | ISBN 10: 1781681589
In The Darker Nations, Vijay Prashad provided an intellectual history of the Third World and traced the rise and fall of the Non-Aligned Movement. With The Poorer Nations, Prashad takes up the story where he left off.
Since the ’70s, the cou ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781781250358 | ISBN 10: 1781250359
A passionate argument that asks 'can the world feed itself?' Comparable to Jared Diamond in its compelling and accessible narrative style.
This subject is as big as they come: the world's food supply.
Written for a popular audience, ... more
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£18.99 hardback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780300203776 | ISBN 10: 0300203772
2008 was a watershed year for global finance. The banking system was eventually pulled back from the brink, but the world was saddled with the worst slump since the 1930s Depression, and millions were left unemployed. While numerous books have addres ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780718197384 | ISBN 10: 0718197380
The impact of inequality on societies is now increasingly well understood - higher crime, health problems and mental illness, lower educational achievements, social cohesion and life expectancy. But what are the causes of inequality, why is it growin ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781780260716 | ISBN 10: 1780260717
The No-Nonsense Guide to Equality discusses the positive effects that equality can have, using examples and case studies from across the globe, including many from the UK. It examines the lessons of history and covers race, gender and ethnicity, age, ... more
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£27.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780745331973 | ISBN 10: 0745331971
The failure of attempts to tackle global poverty have bred cynicism and 'compassion fatigue'. Eradicating Extreme Poverty provides an urgently needed fresh approach which will re-energise action on this issue.
Rejecting traditional 'top- ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780099541721 | ISBN 10: 0099541726
* Dirty money, tax havens and the offshore system describe the ugliest and most secretive chapter in the history of global economic affairs.
* Tax havens have declared war on honest, law-abiding people around the world.
* Wealthy indi ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780718191412 | ISBN 10: 0718191412
"Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,
Where wealth accumulates, and men decay"(Oliver Goldsmith)
Something is profoundly wrong with the way we live today. For thirty years we have made a virtue out of the pursuit of material sel ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780141036342 | ISBN 10: 0141036346
The world has a 'food problem' - rapidly rising prices, shortages, 100 million people starving, environmental depredation - or it thinks it does. This book shows that farmers, manufacturers, supermarkets and consumers in North America and Europe disc ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780747596424 | ISBN 10: 0747596425
How the era of postwar superabundance is coming to and end and what awaits us – by the author of the best-selling The End of Oil.
The emergence of large-scale food production gave us unprecedented abundance – but at a steep and ultimately unsusta ... more
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£21.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780745327273 | ISBN 10: 0745327273
This is the second edition of Andrew Simm's highly regarded guide to ecological debt. Simms shows how millions of us in the West are running up huge ecological debts: from the amount of oil and coal that we burn to heat our houses and run our c ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781847080967 | ISBN 10: 1847080960
In the boom years, the rich got richer while the poor got poorer. Bankers pocketed millions while the low paid fell ever further behind. Brazen greed had led us into a global economic crisis and the widening gap between rich and poor has damaged the ... more
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£27.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780745328614 | ISBN 10: 074532861x
Tax justice is a massive issue worldwide. Never before has there been so much wealth, and yet even the world's richest countries seem to lack public finances to fund the most basic needs of their citizens. It is a great paradox of our time.
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£16.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781844075737 | ISBN 10: 1844075737
Over 50 full-colour world maps and graphics break down hardcore statistics to provide a compelling analysis of all the political, social, economic and ecological nightmares that keep us awake at night.
* The world's car population has grown ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780091924164 | ISBN 10: 0091924162
In the bestselling Affluenza, world-renowned psychologist Oliver James introduced us to a modern-day virus sweeping through the English-speaking world. He met those suffering from it and demonstrated how their obsessive, envious tendencies made them ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780091914356 | ISBN 10: 0091914353
Do you know why Africa is so poor? What really happens to your aid money?
Why trade rules fail African countries and yet cost you too? We've heard it all before: the corrupt leaders, heartless global corporations, the wicked World Bank. But ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781595582140 | ISBN 10: 1595582142
Hailed by John le Carré as “an act of courage on the part of its author” and singled out for praise by the leading medical journals in the United States and the United Kingdom, The Body Hunters uncovers the real-life story behind le Carré’s acclaimed ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780199226115 | ISBN 10: 0199226113
We are all aware of the extreme hunger and poverty that afflict the world's poor. We hear the facts, see the images on television, buy the T-shirt and are moved as individuals and governments to dig deep into our pockets. Yet what happens to all this ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780552773324 | ISBN 10: 0552773328
When Nelson Mandela stepped out of prison to freedom in 1990, the elation in South Africa and around the world was palpable. But true freedom for his people remains a distant dream. Why? From South Africa to India and beyond, a rapacious economic sys ... more
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£21.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780415374637 | ISBN 10: 0415374634
This is the ideal book for students who need a clear and concise introduction to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and an overview of its debates and controversies.
Where did the IMF come from? What does it do? Why do so many governments p ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781905379057 | ISBN 10: 1905379056
This is a story of tragedy and suffering on an epci scale. From the heart of an ancient continent comes a tale as old as time and a journey that is powerful and beautiful. This is a story of passion and love, disaster and corruption. It is the story ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780330419727 | ISBN 10: 0330419722
Africa is the only continent to have grown poorer over the last three decades. Why? The Shackled Continent, Robert Guest's fascinating first book, seeks to diagnose the sickness that continues to hobble Africa's development. Why are so many African n ... more
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£20.99 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9781844071623 | ISBN 10: 1844071626
'State of the World 2005' takes a new and deeper look at the theme that has dominated international politics since 9/11: security. Not just the armed conflicts that occur when it breaks down, but also the underlying social, economic and environmental ... more
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£13.99 hardback (2004) - ISBN 13: 9781583226254 | ISBN 10: 1583226257
'Crude' is the story of the black gold that eclipsed King Coal, decisibely won the Great War, propelled the west from the industrial revolution to the Plastic Age, and ultimately divided the world of nations into three camps: the powerful, the powerl ... more
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£17.99 paperback (2004) - ISBN 13: 9781565848412 | ISBN 10: 1565848411
Globalization affects our lives every day in myriad ways-often for the worse. Yet, as this eye-opening expose documents, the current terms of corporate-led globalization are not inevitable, merely one option being imposed by the powerful, secretive a ... more
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£4.99 paperback (2002) - ISBN 13: 9781583224205 | ISBN 10: 1583224203
Despite technological advances, an alarming number of people in the world go hungry. Even more chilling is the fact that in the future that number will likely increase. In this fully updated second edition of Gene Wars: The Politics of Biotechno ... more
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£19.99 paperback (2001) - ISBN 13: 9781856498654 | ISBN 10: 1856498654
Will free trade benefit transnational coporations or the millions who are currently malnourished? Will small farmers find new markets in the North? Or will they lose even their local markets to cheap, subsidized food from the North? Why should countr ... more
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£22.99 paperback (1998) - ISBN 13: 9781853834936 | ISBN 10: 1853834939
In this completely revised and updated edition of their revealing and often startling book, three of the world's foremost experts on our food system expose and demolish the myths surrounding world hunger. Drawing on extensive research, they examine t ... more
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