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  • 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

    $9.99 CAD

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  • 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

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Spirit Level

    Why Equality is Better for Everyone

    by Kate Pickett, Richard Wilkinson ...
    Why do we mistrust people more in the UK than in Japan? Why do Americans have higher rates of teenage pregnancy than the French? What makes the Swedish thinner than the Greeks? The answer: inequality.This groundbreaking book, based on years of research, provides hard evidence to show:- How almost everything - from life expectancy to depression levels, violence to illiteracy - is affected not by ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • 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

    $83.81 CAD

  • 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

    $64.49 CAD

  • Pharaoh's Land and Beyond

    Ancient Egypt and Its Neighbors

    Edited by Pearce Paul Creasman, Richard H. Wilkinson ...
    The concept of pharaonic Egypt as a unified, homogeneous, and isolated cultural entity is misleading. Ancient Egypt was a rich tapestry of social, religious, technological, and economic interconnections among numerous cultures from disparate lands. In fifteen chapters divided into five thematic groups, Pharaoh's Land and Beyond uniquely examines Egypt's relationship with its wider world. The first ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD

  • Act now

    A vision for a better future and a new social contract

    by Common Sense Policy Group, Kate Pickett, Richard Wilkinson, Danny Dorling ...
    An inspiring manifesto offering a radical vision for our political future.We live in an age of crisis and decline. The right presents ‘solutions’ that only worsen the situation, driving a downward cycle in which desperation leads to despair. But the left is also to blame: progressive politicians have consistently failed to recognise both the urgency of people’s need and their receptiveness to new ... Read more

    $16.49 CAD

  • 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

    $79.69 CAD

  • 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

    $60.99 CAD

  • 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 $100.30 CAD Now $89.31 CAD

  • 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

    $55.99 CAD

  • 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

    $63.20 CAD