What Do We Know and What Should We Do about Housing? (Atkinson Rowland)(Paperback)

What Do We Know and What Should We Do about Housing? (Atkinson Rowland)(Paperback)

The UK housing market is in crisis. House-prices are spiralling out of control, rents are rising faster than wages, and there is a serious shortage of new affordable homes. But what caused this crisis and what can we do about it? In this book, established housing policy experts Rowland Atkinson

What Do We Know and What Should We Do about Immigration? (Portes Jonathan)(Paperback)

What Do We Know and What Should We Do about the Future of Work? (Simms Melanie)(Paperback)

'An excellent summary of why and how we work.' People Management magazine What do we know about the current state of work and employment and what does the future of work look like? Professor Melanie Simms provides a far-reaching overview of paid employment in the UK, examining why we work, how we

The Most Sublime Hysteric: Hegel with Lacan (Žižek Slavoj)(Paperback)

What do we know about Hegel? What do we know about Marx? What do we know about democracy and totalitarianism? Communism and psychoanalysis? What do we know that isn't a platitude that we've heard a thousand times - or a self-satisfied certainty? Through his brilliant reading of Hegel, Slavoj Zizek

What Do We Know and What Should We Do about Fake News? (Anstead Nick)(Paperback)

Voters need to be informed to make political decisions, but what if their media diet not only prevents them from getting the information they need, but actively shapes inaccurate perceptions of the world? Drawing on examples and evidence from around the world, this book aims to make a timely

What Do We Know and What Should We Do about the Irish Border? (Hayward Katy)(Paperback)

The Irish border is a manifestation of the relationship between Britain and Ireland. When that relationship has been tense, we have seen the worst effects at the Irish border in the form of violence, controls and barriers. When the relationship has been good, the Irish border has become - to all

Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know (Gladwell Malcolm)(Paperback)

Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Outliers, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers--and why they often go wrong. A Best Book of the Year: The Financial Times, Bloomberg, Chicago Tribune, and Detroit

What Do We Know and What Should We Do about Social Mobility? (Major Lee Elliot)(Pevná vazba)

Featured in the Financial Times Best Books of the Year 2020 The evidence is rigorously marshalled and the...solutions equally clearly illuminated. A definitive study. - Martin Wolf, Chief Economics Commentator, The Financial Times In this vital new book, Britain's first Professor of Social

Do Earth: Healing Strategies for Humankind. (Omond Tamsin)(Paperback)

We know there's a climate emergency but what does that mean we should do? What does a 'better future' look like and how do we get there? Having spent over a decade on the frontlines of climate activism -- organising, campaigning, and holding the powerful to account -- Tamsin Omond discovered

What Grieving People Wish You Knew about What Really Helps (and What Really Hurts) (Guthrie Nancy)(Paperback)

We want to say or do something that helps our grieving friend. But what? When someone we know is grieving, we want to help. But sometimes we stay away or stay silent, afraid that we will do or say the wrong thing, that we will hurt instead of help. In this straightforward and practical book, Nancy

What If We Knew What God Knows about Us (Rogers Cris)(Paperback)

This is a book about who God is and who we are in light of that.What we think about ourselves governs what we do. If we think we are powerless, then we will behave that way. If we believe we are weak, we will be weak. If we believe we have no gifts, we will not use our gifting.When we believe the

Thinking Sex with the Early Moderns (Traub Valerie)(Paperback)

What do we know about early modern sex, and how do we know it? How, when, and why does sex become history? In Thinking Sex with the Early Moderns, Valerie Traub addresses these questions and, in doing so, reorients the ways in which historians and literary critics, feminists and queer theorists

The Brothers Grimm Volume II: 110 Grimmer Fairy Tales (Grimm Brothers)(Imitation Leather)

We all know the stories -- or do we? We know who Snow White is, but what about Rose Red? And what happens to an all-too willful child? Learn more intriguing stories about 'Wise Folks,' 'The King's Son Who Feared Nothing,' and . . . well . . . 'Donkey Cabbages'--to name a few. Jacob and Wilhelm

Terracotta Warriors - History, Mystery and the Latest Discoveries (Burman Edward)(Paperback / softback)

A history of the famous Terracotta Army in Xi'an, China, exploring what we now know about it, what we still do not know and the theories that surround its

Scouting and Scoring: How We Know What We Know about Baseball (Phillips Christopher)(Paperback)

An in-depth look at the intersection of judgment and statistics in baseball Scouting and scoring are considered fundamentally different ways of ascertaining value in baseball. Scouting seems to rely on experience and intuition, scoring on performance metrics and statistics. In Scouting and Scoring,

Tacit and Explicit Knowledge (Collins Harry)(Paperback)

Much of what humans know we cannot say. And much of what we do we cannot describe. For example, how do we know how to ride a bike when we can't explain how we do it? Abilities like this were called 'tacit knowledge' by physical chemist and philosopher Michael Polanyi, but here Harry Collins

Before You Know It - The Unconscious Reasons We Do What We Do (Bargh John)(Paperback / softback)

And most crucial of all: if we understood how our unconscious worked - if we knew why we do what we do - could we finally, fundamentally, know ourselves?From checking a dating app to holding a cup of coffee or choosing who to vote for, our unconscious secretly governs everything we feel, think and

Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits (Russell Bertrand)(Paperback)

How do we know what we 'know'? How did we -as individuals and as a society - come to accept certain knowledge as fact? In Human Knowledge, Bertrand Russell questions the reliability of our assumptions on knowledge. This brilliant and controversial work investigates the relationship between

One Who Wrote Destiny (Shukla Nikesh)(Paperback / softback)

'A funny and moving novel about what we inherit and what we create for ourselves' Sunday

Talking to Strangers : What We Should Know about the People We Don´t Know - Malcolm Gladwell

The routine traffic stop that ends in tragedy. The spy who spends years undetected at the highest levels of the Pentagon. The false conviction of Amanda Knox. Why do we so often get other people wrong? Why is it so hard to detect a lie, read a face or judge a stranger's motives? Through a series of

Agnotology: The Making and Unmaking of Ignorance (Proctor Robert N.)(Paperback)

What don't we know, and why don't we know it? What keeps ignorance alive, or allows it to be used as a political instrument? Agnotology--the study of ignorance--provides a new theoretical perspective to broaden traditional questions about 'how we know' to ask: Why don't we know what we don't know?

Difficult Conversations - How to Discuss What Matters Most (Patton Bruce)(Paperback / softback)

We know we must talk to a colleague, our boss or even a friend about something we know can be at least uncomfortable and at worst explosive. So we repeatedly mull it over until we can no longer put it off, and then finally stumble through a confrontation when we could have had a conversation. This

What We Think About When We Think About Football (Critchley Simon)(Paperback / softback)

A philosopher's take on what makes the beautiful

Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency: War Communism in the Twenty-First Century (Malm Andreas)(Paperback)

What does the COVID 19 tell us about the climate breakdown, and what should we do about it? The economic and social impact of the coronavirus pandemic has been unprecedented. Governments have spoken of being at war and find themselves forced to seek new powers in order to maintain social order and