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  • Policing, Politics, and Faith

    A Police and Crime Commissioner’s Diary from Lockdown to 2024

    by Alan Billings ...
    As the elected police and crime commissioner for South Yorkshire, Alan Billings was in a unique position to witness how the criminal justice system worked for victims of crime.When Covid struck and the country went into lockdown, he began to publish a weekly diary chronicling how the police struggled to understand fast-changing government instructions and enforce the law without losing public ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Art, Imagination and Public Service

    by Hughie O’Donoghue, Brenda Hale, James O’Donnell, Clare Moriarty, Micheal O’Siadhail, David Blunkett ...
    Series series Haus Curiosities
    A collection of three conversations between artists and public servants.Intended to inspire public servants of all kinds to reconnect fearlessly with their fundamental humanity, the three conversations in Art, Imagination and Public Service present a way of thinking about imaginative, compassionate, and intelligent public service. The book consists of three dialogues: between former UK Home ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Whose Government Is It?

    The Renewal of State-Citizen Cooperation

    by Pat Conaty, James Weinberg, Barry Quirk, Hazel Blears, Carol Packham, Zoraida Mendiwelso-Bendek, Marjorie Mayo, Jane Roberts, Matthew Flinders, James Sloam, Marian Barnes, Marilyn Taylor, Graham Smith, David Blunkett, Simon Burall, Anna Coote, Nick Pearce ...
    This book brings together leading figures in democratic reform and civic engagement to show why and how better state-citizen cooperation is necessary for achieving positive social change. Their contributions demonstrate that, while protest and non-state action may have their place, citizens must also work effectively with public bodies to secure sustainable improvements.The authors explain why the ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

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  • Quarterly Essay 41 The Happy Life

    The Search for Contentment in the Modern World

    by David Malouf ...
    Series Book 41 - Quarterly Essay
    In the first Quarterly Essay for 2011, David Malouf returns to one of the most fundamental questions and gives it a modern twist: what makes for a happy life?With grace and profundity, Malouf discusses new and old ways to talk about contentment and the self. In considering the happy life what it is, and what makes it possible David Malouf returns to the "highest wisdom" of the classics, looks at ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Letters to a Law Student

    A Guide To Studying Law At University

    by Nicholas McBride ...
    What does it take to succeed as a law student? This book will show you how.Voted one of the top 6 books that all future law students should read by The Guardian’s studying law website*, Letters to a Law Student is packed full of practical advice and helpful answers to the most common questions about studying law at University across every stage of taking, or thinking about taking, a law degree ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Form of Things

    Essays on Life, Ideas and Liberty

    by Prof A.C. Grayling ...
    The bestseller from our pre-eminent philosopher, A.C. Grayling'Grief and loneliness, depression, despair and failure - those things are the common human lot at least at times in all our lives'.Yet it is philosophy which, while not providing an answer to these problems, can enable us to prepare for them, and create strategies with which to deal with them. It is only through reflecting upon the ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Trust

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Katherine Hawley ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Trust is indispensable, yet it can be dangerous. Without trusting others, we cannot function in society, or even stay alive for very long, but being overly-trustful can be a bad strategy too. Trust is pragmatic, but it also has a moral dimension: trustworthiness is a virtue, and well-placed trust benefits us all. In this Very Short Introduction, Katherine Hawley explores the key ideas about trust ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Should You Judge This Book By Its Cover?

    by Julian Baggini ...
    A philosopher takes a second look at sayings, proverbs, and bits of homespun wisdom: "Every society needs its guardian of good sense: Baggini is ours." — The Financial TimesThese short, stimulating, and entertaining capsules of philosophy delve into the familiar words that live in our consciousness yet are rarely examined. Should you really do as the Romans do when in Rome and practice what you ... Read more

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  • Being Cultured

    in defence of discrimination

    by Angus Kennedy ...
    Series Book 19 - Societas
    Today culture is everywhere as maybe never before. We read culture reviews, watch culture shows, live in Cities of Culture, and witness the Cultural Olympiad. Government, museums and arts councils worry that we are not getting enough culture and shape policy around notions of art and culture for all. Access and inclusion are in. Difficulty and exclusivity out. In "Being Cultured: in defence of ... Read more

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  • Wounded Leaders

    British Elitism and the Entitlement Illusion: A Psychohistory

    by Nick Duffell ...
    Political leaders in Britain are consistently drawn from a class born to be educated away from their families in institutions - elite boarding schools. This has a direct effect on their ability to love, to relate, to make good judgments and to develop the necessary leadership qualities for today's world. In this controversial and highly acclaimed book, the author guides the reader along the elite ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Brexit and the British

    Who Do We Think We Are?

    by Stephen Green ...
    Series series Haus Curiosities
    Whatever the eventual outcome of Britain’s negotiations to leave the European Union, the critical questions remain: what does the Referendum vote tell us about British society? As with the election of Donald Trump in the United States, why did so few people in Britain see the result coming? Why was there such a fundamental misunderstanding about divisions in society that had existed for years?In ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Feminism: The Ugly Truth

    by Mike Buchanan ...
    Extracts from Erin Pizzey's Foreword: 'Mike Buchanan is a very brave man. I've known other men who've tried to draw the public's attention to the damage done by the radical feminist movement. Many lost their jobs and none of them were able to find a publisher for their books. Men have been thrown out of their own houses and unjustly accused of domestic violence towards their partners, and some of ... Read more

    $6.94 USD or Free with Kobo Plus