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  • - Difference, Diversity and Inequality
    av Paul (University College London) Higgs & Chris (University College London) Gilleard
    385 - 1 415,-

    As the population ages, this book reveals how divides that are apparent through childhood and working life change and are added to in later life.

  • - The Cambridge Hundred Rolls Source Volume
    av Catherine (The University of Manchester) Casson
    1 519,-

    One of the most important manuscripts surviving from thirteenth-century England, the documents known as the Hundred Rolls for Cambridge have been incomplete until the recent discovery of an additional roll. Offering new translations and additional appendices, this invaluable volume updates the inaccurate transcription of 1818.

  • - Evidence-Informed Policy and Practice
     
    1 429,-

    Building substantially on the earlier, landmark text, What Works? (Policy Press, 2000), this book brings together key thinkers and researchers to provide a clearly-structured review of the aspirations and contemporary realities of evidence-informed policy and practice.

  • - Brexit, Austerity and Agency
     
    399

    Brings together interdisciplinary and international case studies to provide a distinctive analysis of how politics in the UK and the lives of British citizens have evolved in the first decades of the twenty-first century, focusing on the interconnectedness of austerity politics, the Brexit vote and the rise of populist politics.

  • av H ED LAMBIE-MUMFORD
    399

    As the demand for food banks and other emergency food charities continues to rise across the continent, this is the first systematic Europe-wide study of the roots and consequences of this urgent phenomenon.

  • - A Relational Perspective
    av Paul (Centre for Public Policy) Spicker
    369 - 1 415,-

    This book examines poverty in the context of the economy, society and the political community, considering how states can respond to issues of inequality, exclusion and powerlessness. Drawing on examples in both rich and poor countries, this is an accessible contribution to the debate about the nature of poverty and responses to it.

  • - Research and Practice
    av Tom Cockcroft
    365 - 1 325,-

    At a time of close scrutiny of police culture, this is a thorough and accessible study of its impacts on both practitioners and the people they serve. Tom Cockcroft's evidence-based approach contextualises our understanding of police culture in relation to both contemporary police agendas and wider social change.

  • - The Academic-Student Relationship and the University Experience
    av Anwesa (Canterbury Christ Church University) Chatterjee, Sarah (Canterbury Christ Church University) Cant & Jennie (Canterbury Christ Church University) Bristow
    399 - 1 415,-

    Employing a generational analysis, this book offers an original approach to the study of Higher Education and documents the changing nature of the relationship between academics and students. Examining wider issues of culture and socialisation, this is a timely contribution to current debates about the University around higher education.

  • - The Norway Model and the Changing Face of Fatherhood
    av Elin (Elin Kvande is Professor at the Department of Sociology and Political Science at Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim. Her research interests include dynamics and change in gender relations in organizations, welfare state policies and fathers' use of care policies.) Kvande, family and care policies with a special focus on fathering and parental leave, m.fl.
    369 - 1 159

    This compelling book examines parental leave policies in Nordic countries, looking at how these laws encourage men towards life courses with greater care responsibilities. It considers the impact that these policies have had on gender equality and how they have led to a re-gendering of men by promoting 'caring masculinities'.

  • Spara 11%
     
    1 019

    The intersections of law and sustainability are explored in new ways in this interdisciplinary volume by legal experts in a variety of fields. Offering analysis of sustainability at land and sea alongside trade, labour and corporate governance perspectives, this book articulates important debates about the role of law.

  • - A Reflective Tool for Your First Independent Research Project
    av Barbara (Canterbury Christ Church University) Bassot
    255

    This brilliant book is a great guide for students undertaking their first piece of independent research. Regular critical reflection is an invaluable tool for helping you gain new insights, deal with practical issues as they arise and develop your understanding. This book gets you started in the habit of using a research journal.

  • av Mark Doidge & Rima Saini
    289,-

    This illuminating book offers a fresh and contemporary guide to the field of sociology. By demonstrating the versatility of the sociological imagination, the authors reveal the ways in which thinking sociologically can help us understand the personal, social and structural changes going on in the world around us.

  • - An Anthropological Perspective
    av Linda (Middlesex University) Bell
    529 - 1 415,-

    This unique study of social work provides a bold and challenging view of the subject from an anthropological perspective. Combining research and personal reflection, it explores cultural and symbolic representations of social work, evolving identities of social work practitioners and the ways in which they and society now view one another.

  • - Challenges for the Public Sector
    av Nigel (Independent Researcher) Malin
    565 - 1 415,-

    From scarcer resources to greater stresses, this book charts how policies and cuts have compromised workers' ability to undertake their professional roles. Combining research and practice experience, it assesses the extent of de-professionalisation in recent years, and how workers have responded.

  • - Overturning the Toxic Poverty Narrative
    av Mary O'Hara
    209

    Drawing on a two-year multi-platform initiative, this book by award-winning journalist and author Mary O'Hara, asks how we can overturn the portrayal of poverty once and for all. Crucially, she turns to the real experts to try to find answers - the people who live it.

  • - Complexity, Governance and the State
    av Adrian Kay, Kate Crowley, Brian Head & m.fl.
    1 415,-

    This book reconsiders traditional policy-analytic concepts, and re-develops and extends new ones, in a melded approach defined as systemic institutionalism. This links policy with governance and the state and suggests how real-world issues might be substantively addressed.

  • - Citizens and Constitutions in Uncertain Times
    av Jo (University of Edinburgh and Tampere University) Shaw
    399 - 1 415,-

    Questions of citizenship and the role of constitutions in determining its boundaries are under scrutiny in this judicious and accessible analysis from Jo Shaw. With populism on the rise and debates about immigration intensifying, it draws on examples from around the world to set out the shifting boundaries of state inclusion and exclusion.

  • - The Case for Sociology
    av Dylan (University of Leicester and University of the West Indies, Daniel (East China University of Science and Technology in Shanghai) Nehring & Trinidad and Tobago) Kerrigan
    325

    Re-examining C.Wright Mills's legacy as a jumping off point, this original introduction to sociology illuminates global concepts, themes and practices that are fundamental to the discipline and rethinks and re-imagines what a critically committed, politically engaged and publicly relevant sociology should look like in the 21st century.

  • - Ethical Issues in Upbringing
    av Tim (University of Bristol) Fowler
    369 - 1 159

    Fowler provides an innovative critical exploration of ethical issues in children's upbringing through the lens of political philosophy, calling for a radical new understanding of what constitutes wellbeing, the duties of parents and the collective obligations of state and society in guaranteeing children flourishing lives.

  • - The Democratic Challenge of Climate Change
    av Rebecca (Lancaster University) Willis
    209

    This book explores why climate is such a challenge for political systems, even when policy solutions exist. It argues that more democracy, not less, is needed to tackle the climate crisis, and suggests practical ways forward.

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    1 159

    A key driver of migration is environmental conflict, and this is only likely to increase with the effects of climate change. This urgent book responds to this and provides invaluable insights into urgent questions surrounding migration, climate change and conflict that will be of relevance to researchers across social science.

  • - The Changing Politics of Abortion in Britain
    av Fran Amery
    399 - 1 159

    Tracing the evolution of political discourse on abortion from the 1960s to today, this interdisciplinary book argues that in order to understand the changing pluralities of contemporary abortion debate, it is necessary to move beyond an understanding of abortion politics as characterised by 'pro-choice' and 'pro-life'.

  • - An Anti-Racist Feminist Intervention
    av Helena ( Helena Liu UTS Business School & Australia ) Liu
    399 - 1 159

    This thought-provoking new study by Helena Liu shows how anti-racist feminism can reinvigorate leadership theory and practice, which have long been dominated by imperialist, masculinist and white supremacist agendas. Theoretically rigorous and with examples from around the world, it states the case for a bold reimagining of leadership.

  • - For Policy and Practice
    av Eoin (Trinity College Dublin) O'Sullivan
    195

    Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Bringing to light the most contemporary research, policy and practice, this book presents stark evidence from Irish experience to argue that we need to urgently reimagine the root causes of homelessness and provides a robust evidence base to reimagine how we respond to homelessness.

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    1 139

    First published as a special issue of Policy & Politics, this updated volume explores policy failures and the valuable opportunities for learning that they offer.

  • - From the Caregiver's Perspective
    av Natalie (Bath Spa University) Booth
    689,-

    Exploring the untold experiences of family members and friends caring for the children of female prisoners in England and Wales, this book analyses the complex challenges of the 'family sentence' they serve and the realities of their disenfranchised status in society, policy and practice.

  • - Planning, Localism and Institutional Change
    av John Sturzaker & Alexander Nurse
    399 - 1 415,-

    Providing new research and thinking about cities, their governance and planning reform, this book compares the UK with multiple international examples in order to examine cutting-edge experimentation and innovation in new models of governance and urban policy in response to today's increasing global social and environmental challenges.

  • - Co-creating for Engagement
     
    579,-

    This book innovatively explores how we can better apply a 'bottom-up' approach to the design of regulatory systems that recognise the capabilities, knowledge, passions and creativity of citizens in communities at the margins.

  • - Institutionalisation, Place-Making and City Building
    av WILLIAM SALET
    399

    Spanning multiple countries across South America, Europe and Africa, this book uses an international comparative perspective to investigate the phenomenon of self-building for low- and middle-income groups in urban areas, examining the tensions between regulation and self-regulatory initiatives.

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    469

    Using a wide range of case studies, this edited collection shows how community engagement and co-creation is challenging and extending the notion of the archive.

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