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All That is Solid: How the Great Housing Disaster Defines Our Times, and What We Can Do About it by Danny Dorling
Category: Architecture
In All That is Solid Danny Dorling offers an agenda-shaping look at the UK's dangerous relationship with housing - and how it's all going to come crashing down. Housing was at the heart of the financial collapse, and our economy is now precariously reliant on the housing market. In this ground-breaking ...Show more
All That is Solid: The Great Housing Disaster by Danny Dorling
Category: History
Housing was at the heart of the financial collapse, and our economy is now precariously reliant on the housing market. In this groundbreaking new book, Danny Dorling argues that housing is the defining issue of our times. Tracing how we got to our current crisis and how housing has come to reflect class ...Show more
Geography: Ideas in Profile by Danny Dorling
Category: Science
Ideas in Profile: Small Introductions to Big TopicsGeography gives shape to our innate curiosity; cartography is older than writing. Channelling our twin urges to explore and understand, geographers uncover the hidden connections of human existence, from infant mortality in inner cities to the decision- ...Show more
Inequality and The 1% by Danny Dorling
Category: Current Affairs
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, everyone else has suffered the penalties of austerity. ...Show more
Inequality and the 1% by Danny Dorling
Category: Culture
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, everyone else has suffered the penalties of austerity. But ...Show more
Population 10 Billion by Danny Dorling
Category: Culture
Before May 2011 the top demographics experts of the United Nations had suggested that world population would peak at 9.1 billion in 2100, and then fall to 8.5 billion people by 2150. In contrast, the 2011 revision suggested that 9.1 billion would be achieved much earlier, maybe by 2050 or before, and by ...Show more
Rule Britannia - Brexit and the End of Empire by Danny Dorling; Sally Tomlinson
Category: History
Things fall apart when empires crumble. This time, we think, things will be different. They are not. This time, we are told, we will become great again. We will not. In Rule Britannia, Danny Dorling and Sally Tomlinson argue that the vote to leave the EU was the last gasp of the old empire working its w ...Show more
Slowdown - The End of the Great Acceleration--And Why It's Good for the Planet, the Economy, and Our Lives by Danny Dorling; Kirsten McClure (Illustrator)
Category: Business Finance Management
A powerful and counterintuitive argument that we should welcome the current slowdown--of population growth, economies, and technological innovation The end of our high-growth world was underway well before COVID-19 arrived. In this powerful and timely argument, Danny Dorling demonstrates the benefi ...Show more
Slowdown - The End of the Great Acceleration--And Why It's Good for the Planet, the Economy, and Our Lives by Danny Dorling
Category: Culture
A powerful and counterintuitive argument that we should welcome the current slowdown--of population growth, economies, and technological innovation Drawing from an incredibly rich trove of global data, this groundbreaking book reveals that human progress has been slowing down since the early 1970s. Dann ...Show more
So You Think You Know About Britain? by Danny Dorling
Category: unmapped
When it comes to immigration, the population explosion, the collapse of the family, the north-south divide, devolution, or the death of the countryside, common wisdom tells us that we are in trouble; however, this is far from the truth. In his brilliant anatomy of contemporary Britain, leading geographe ...Show more
The 32 Stops: The Central Line (Penguin Underground Lines) by Danny Dorling
Category: Travel | Series: Penguin Underground Lines
Geographer Danny Dorling tells the stories of the people who live along "The 32 Stops of the Central Line" to illustrate the extent and impact of inequality in Britain today - part of a series of twelve books tied to the twelve lines of the London Underground, as Tfl celebrates 150 years of the Tube wit ...Show more
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