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    Evil Roots

    Killers Tales of the Botanical Gothic

    Narrated by Julia Franklin, Jeff Harding, Ben Onwukwe, David Thorpe ...
    Series series British Library Tales of the Weird

    Unabridged

    9 hours 42 min

    Strangling vines and meat-hungry flora fill this unruly garden of strange stories, selected for their significance as the seeds of the villainous (or perhaps just misunderstood) 'killer plant' in fiction, film and video games. Step within to marvel at Charlotte Perkins Gilman's giant wistaria and H.G. Wells' hungry orchid; hear the calls of the ethereal women of the wood, and the frightful drone ... Read more

    $38.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Toy Story 2

    by Christopher Nicholas ...
    Illustrated by Ben Butcher ...
    Series series Little Golden Book
    Oh, no! Woody has been kidnapped by a toy collector! Buzz races to the rescue, but Woody’s not surehe wants to leave. Should he stay and enjoy a life of fame, or return to Andy, the boy who really loveshim? The blockbuster film Toy Story 2 is retold in this full-color, 24-page storybook. ... Read more

    Was $5.99 USD Now $4.99 USD

  • Infrastructures of Informal Care

    Inequality, Exploitation, Emancipation

    by Jala Burton, Julia Cook, Morag Kelly, Sukhmani Khorana, Elise Klein, Amy Marshall, Greg Marston, Kathleen Mee, Emma Mitchell, Emma Power, Sally Robinson, Jordana Silverstein, Lisa Slater, Ben Spies-Butcher, Kylie Valentine, Ilan Wiesel, Amy Conley Wright ...
    Series series Transforming Care
    Care is fundamental to our individual and collective well-being, but it is also deeply implicated in historical and present-day injustices.Taking seriously the darker potentialities of care as a relation of exploitation and domination, this edited collection interrogates the social and governance infrastructures that variously shape, expropriate, necessitate and unravel care at the ‘private’ ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Politics, Inequality and the Australian Welfare State After Liberalisation

    by Ben Spies-Butcher ...
    Series series Anthem Studies in Australian Politics, Economics and Society
    Neoliberalism has transformed work, welfare, and democracy. However, its impacts, and its future, are more complex than we often imagine. Alongside growing inequality, social spending has been rising. Medicare was entrenched alongside privatization. How do we understand this contradictory politics, and what opportunities are there to advance equality? This book takes the three big drivers of ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

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  • Inequality

    What Can Be Done?

    by Anthony B. Atkinson ...
    Winner of the Richard A. Lester Award for the Outstanding Book in Industrial Relations and Labor Economics, Princeton UniversityAn Economist Best Economics and Business Book of the YearA Financial Times Best Economics Book of the YearInequality is one of our most urgent social problems. Curbed in the decades after World War II, it has recently returned with a vengeance. We all know the scale of ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • Inequality

    A New Zealand Crisis

    Edited by Max Rashbrooke ...
    The divide between New Zealand’s poorest and wealthiest inhabitants has widened alarmingly over recent decades. Differences in income have grown faster than in most other developed countries.New Zealand society is being reshaped, stretching to accommodate new distance between those who ‘have’ and those who ‘have not’. Income inequality is a crisis that affects us all.A diverse gathering of New ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Economics: The Key Concepts

    by Donald Rutherford ...
    Series series Routledge Key Guides
    An A-Z of contemporary economics in all its forms, Economics: the Key Concepts is an affordable, accessible reference for students, lecturers and economists at every level. The key topics explored include:competition and monopolydevelopment economicsgame theoryproperty rightstaxation.Fully cross-referenced with extensive guides to further reading, this is the essential comprehensive pocket ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • The Transformation of Welfare States?

    by Nick Ellison ...
    This accessible work provides a ‘political sociology’ of welfare states in industrial societies, with both historical and contemporary perspectives. Ellison focuses on the social and political underpinnings of a number of welfare regimes and looks at the transformations they have undergone and the challenges they face.This book assesses current debates about the role of ‘globalization’ in welfare ... Read more

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  • Housing and Social Policy

    Contemporary Themes and Critical Perspectives

    Edited by Peter Somerville, Nigel Sprigings ...
    Series series Housing and Society Series
    This topical book transforms the analysis of housing problems into a lively, interesting and contentious subject of social scientific study, addressing themes of residential experience, inclusion/empowerment, sustainability and professionalism/managerialism, which lie at the heart of the housing and social policy debate. Each chapter considers a specific social category - such as class, gender, or ... Read more

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  • Capitalism

    With a New Postscript on the Financial Crisis and Its Aftermath

    by Geoffrey Ingham ...
    Series series Key Concepts
    Now with a substantial new postscript on the financial crisisThis book provides a basic introduction to the 'nuts and bolts' of capitalism. It starts by examining the classic accounts of capitalism found in the works of Adam Smith, Karl Marx, Max Weber, Joseph Schumpeter, and John Maynard Keynes. Each placed emphasis on different institutional elements of capitalism - Smith on the market's ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • Why We Need a New Welfare State

    Edited by Duncan Gallie, Anton Hemerijck, John Myles, Gøsta Esping-Andersen ...
    Leading scholars in the field examine the highly topical issue of the future of the welfare state in Europe. They argue that welfare states need to adjust, and examine which kind of welfare architecture will further Europe's stated goal of maximum social inclusion and justice. The volume concentrates on four principal social policy domains; the aged and transition to retirement; the welfare issues ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Wealth and New Zealand

    by Max Rashbrooke ...
    Series Book 33 - BWB Texts
    We are heading towards Thomas Piketty’s predicted steady state of wealth being worth six times national income. We are not immune to his prognosis of a return to Victorian-style levels of inequality.The most recent NBR Rich List has revealed the biggest proportional increase in wealth since the list first appeared in 1986. But what do these figures mean and what else do we know about New Zealand’s ... Read more

    $3.99 USD