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  • The Spirit Level

    Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger

    by Richard Wilkinson, Kate Pickett ...
    Groundbreaking analysis showing that greater economic equality-not greater wealth-is the mark of the most successful societies, and offering new ways to achieve it."Get your hands on this book."-Bill MoyersThis groundbreaking book, based on thirty years' research, demonstrates that more unequal societies are bad for almost everyone within them-the well-off and the poor. The remarkable data the ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • The Impact of Inequality

    How to Make Sick Societies Healthier

    by Richard Wilkinson ...
    A "powerful and provocative" inquiry into the relationship between societies' inequality and their citizens' health, happiness and well-being (Lisa Berkman, Harvard School of Public Health).Comparing the United States with other market democracies, and one American state with another, this book presents irrefutable evidence that inequality is a driver of poor health, social conflict, and violence. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Inner Level

    How More Equal Societies Reduce Stress, Restore Sanity and Improve Everyone's Well-Being

    by Richard Wilkinson, Kate Pickett ...
    A groundbreaking investigation of how inequality infects our minds and gets under our skinWhy are people more relaxed and at ease with each other in some countries than others? Why do we worry so much about what others think of us and often feel social life is a stressful performance? Why is mental illness three times as common in the USA as in Germany? Why is the American dream more of a reality ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Social Determinants of Health

    by Michael Marmot, Richard Wilkinson ...
    Social Determinants of Health, 2nd Edition gives an authoritative overview of the social and economic factors which are known to be the most powerful determinants of population health in modern societies. Written by acknowledged experts in each field, it provides accessible summaries of the scientific justification for isolating different aspects of social and economic life as the primary ... Read more

    $68.39 USD

  • Louis XIV

    by Richard Wilkinson ...
    Series series Routledge Historical Biographies
    Louis XIV ruled France for more than half a century and is typically remembered for his absolutism, his patronage of the arts and his lavish lifestyle – culminating in the building of Versailles. This original and lively biography focuses on Louis’s personal life while keeping the needs of the history student at the forefront, featuring analysis of Louis’s wider significance in history and the ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Lloyd George

    Statesman or Scoundrel

    by Richard Wilkinson ...
    David Lloyd George left a profound political legacy, despite being described by the wife of his successor, Herbert Asquith, as a 'gambler without foresight'. He is, of course, best known as the Prime Minister who led Britain to victory in World War I, but his contribution to domestic politics was similarly impressive. As Chancellor of the Exchequer he introduced pensions and national insurance ... Read more

    $44.59 USD

  • Guidelines for the Assessment of General Damages in Personal Injury Cases

    by Mrs Justice Lambert DBE, Lisa Sullivan, Stuart McKechnie KC, Steven Snowden KC, Richard Wilkinson ...
    Series series Judicial College Guidelines for the Assessment of General Damages in Personal Injury Cases
    The Guidelines for the Assessment of General Damages is designed to provide a clear and logical framework for the assessment of damages in personal injury cases. The first edition of this title was regarded as a landmark in personal injury practice. Each succeeding issue has built on this reputation and the book has now firmly established itself as an essential reference for all those involved in ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of the Valley of the Kings

    Edited by Richard H. Wilkinson, Kent Weeks ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The royal necropolis of New Kingdom Egypt, known as the Valley of the Kings (KV), is one of the most important--and celebrated--archaeological sites in the world. Located on the west bank of the Nile river, about three miles west of modern Luxor, the valley is home to more than sixty tombs, all dating to the second millennium BCE. The most famous of these is the tomb of Tutankhamun, first ... Read more

    $52.19 USD

  • Poverty and Progress

    An Ecological Model of Economic Development

    by Richard G. Wilkinson ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Originally published in 1973 and now reissued with a new Preface, this striking book challenges the whole structure of our thinking on how societies develop – why some are primitive and others advanced. It demonstrates that the pursuit of progress is not the real driving force behind change. Economic development, it argues, is simply the escape route of societies caught in the ecological pincers ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Unhealthy Societies

    The Afflictions of Inequality

    by Richard G. Wilkinson ...
    Among the developed countries it is not the richest societies which have the best health, but those which have the smallest income differences between rich and poor. Inequality and relative poverty have absolute effects: they increase death rates. But why? How can smaller income differences raise average life expectancy?Using examples from the USA, Britain, Japan and Eastern Europe, and bringing ... Read more

    Was $72.99 USD Now $64.99 USD

  • The Impact of Inequality

    How to Make Sick Societies Healthier

    by Richard G. Wilkinson ...
    In this book, pioneering social epidemiologist Richard Wilkinson, shows how inequality affects social relations and well-being. In wealthy countries, health is not simply a matter of material circumstances and access to health care; it is also how your relationships and social standing make you feel about life.Using detailed evidence from rich market democracies, the book addresses people’s ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Social Determinants of Health

    Edited by Michael Marmot, Richard Wilkinson ...
    Social Determinants of Health, 2nd Edition gives an authoritative overview of the social and economic factors which are known to be the most powerful determinants of population health in modern societies. Written by acknowledged experts in each field, it provides accessible summaries of the scientific justification for isolating different aspects of social and economic life as the primary ... Read more

    $68.39 USD