This title looks at how geography - in the widest sense - makes a difference to life outcomes. The text explains differences in key socio-economic variables - like education, health, and work - that map the UK's inequalities and affect everyone's lives. Prev. ed. published as Human geography in the UK.
This title looks at how geography - in the widest sense - makes a difference to life outcomes. The text explains differences in key socio-economic var...
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 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 and wealth in Britain, All That Is Solid shows that the solution to our problems - rising homelessness, a generation priced out of home...
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 cras...
The aim of this book is to inspire a better politics: one that will enable future generations to be happier. Greater well-being and better health should be the goals - rather than wealth maximization. We need to value health-care more than hedge-funds, caring above careers, relationships more than real-estate. Happiness is the avoidance of misery, the gaining of long-term life satisfaction, the feeling of fulfilment, of worth, of kindness, of usefulness and of love. The book is about what makes most of us happier, but it is also about the collective good. We cannot truly be happy if those...
The aim of this book is to inspire a better politics: one that will enable future generations to be happier. Greater well-being and better health shou...