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  • - Methods That Matter
     
    489,-

    This valuable book offers a distinct and critical showcase of emerging forms of discovery for policy-making drawing on the insights of some of the world's leading authorities in public policy analysis.

  • - Where You Live Can Kill You
    av Clare (Newcastle University) Bambra
    265,-

    Clare Bambra examines the social, environmental, economic and political causes of health inequalities, how they have evolved over time and what they are like today. Revealing gaps in life expectancy of up to 25 years between places just a few miles apart, this important book demonstrates that where you live can kill you.

  • - Power, Planning and Protest
    av Brian Lund
    409 - 1 415,-

    As housing moves up the UK political agenda, Brian Lund uses insights from public choice theory, the new institutionalism and social constructionism to explore the political processes involved in constructing and implementing housing policy and its political consequences.

  • - How Society Needs to Change
    av Caroline (Institute of Education) Lodge
    339,-

    Debunking the myth of the ageing time bomb, this timely book from the authors of Retiring with Attitude challenges our assumptions and stereotypes and demonstrates that we are capable of living better together longer in this new, older world.

  • av Andrew & Ph.D. Millie
    475 - 1 149,-

    This accessible book is structured around six philosophical ideas concerning our relations with others: values, morality, aesthetics, order, rules and respect. Using examples from a range of countries, it provides a platform for engaging with important topical issues.

  • av Pete Harris & Mike Seal
    409 - 1 325,-

    Drawing on the findings of a two-year European research project, this book presents a new model for responding meaningfully and effectively the 'problem' of how to respond to violence involving young people that continues to challenge youth workers and policy makers.

  • - Deepening Inequality in Times of Austerity
    av Lorenza Antonucci
    309 - 1 325,-

    In this empirically-grounded analysis, Lorenza Antonucci compares the lives of university students at a time of austerity and financial crisis from three very different European welfare systems - Italy, England and Sweden.

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    505,-

    This is the classic assessment of the state of child well-being in the UK. This fourth edition has been updated to review the latest evidence, including the impact of the economic crisis and austerity measures since 2008. An essential resource.

  • - A Critical Analysis of Environmental Politics
    av Garth Andrew Myers
    529 - 1 325,-

    Explores the impact of Africa's rapidly growing urban population on local resources and the environment, acknowledging the clash between Western focus on sustainable development and the lived realities of residents of often poor, informal settlements.

  • - Developments, Innovations and Challenges
     
    1 329,-

    This edited collection explores areas such as social enterprise, capacity building, volunteering and social value, and charts the historical development of the state-third sector relationship, reviewing the major debates and controversies accompanying recent shifts in that relationship.

  • - Key Issues, Interdisciplinary Approaches and Future Directions
     
    489,-

    Multidisciplinary in approach, this book is the first to draw together insights from a range of leading academics and thinkers in 'behaviour change' across a range of disciplines including public health, transport, marketing and the environment to discuss new innovations in practice and research.

  • - Progressive Ideas in the Neoliberal Ascendency
     
    579,-

    Australian public policy engages with the values and dilemmas of progressive public policy in Australia, bringing together leading authors to explore a wide range of issues which challenge and extend current thinking about Australian public policy.

  •  
    1 595

    This volume, part of the successful International Library of Policy Analysis series, brings together for the first time leading figures from both the Israeli public and academic spheres to provide a comprehensive study of policy analysis in Israel.

  • - Governing Non-Participation
    av Ross Fergusson
    1 329,-

    Offers a challenging interpretation of the ways in which young people's non-participation is becoming marginalised and criminalised. It re-examines the causes and consequences of youth unemployment in and beyond the UK from an unusually wide range of social science disciplines and perspectives.

  • - Differential Space in Three Post-Industrial Cities
    av Michael Edema (Arts and Human Sciences Leary-Owhin
    1 339,-

    This important book engages critically with Lefebvre's spatial theories and challenges recent thinking about the nature of urban space. Research in three iconic post-industrial cities in the UK and North America, explains how urban public spaces, including differential space are socially produced.

  • - Care and Social Control in Policy and Practice
    av Kate (University of York) Brown
    529,-

    Draws on in-depth research with marginalised young people and the professionals who support them to explore the implications of a 'vulnerability zeitgeist', asking how far the rise of vulnerability in welfare and criminal justice processes serves the interests of those who are most disadvantaged.

  • - A Practitioner Guide
    av Kusminder (Stop Hate UK Chahal
    185

    This practical guide provides user-friendly, concise, expert and up-to-date guidance for both new and experienced hate crime caseworkers and advocates. Full of relevant, up-to-date evidence based research and policy, it will enable practitioners to be confident and knowledgeable in supporting victims of hate crime.

  • av Short Guide to Community Development 3e) Taylor, Alison (Community Development Consultant) Gilchrist & Marilyn (Author
    239 - 285,-

    Fully updated to reflect changes in policy, practice, economics and culture, the third edition of this well-respected guide offers an invaluable, authoritative and concise introduction to community development.

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    1 415,-

    This is the first book to explode the myth of Swedish gender equality, offering both a new perspective for an international audience, and suggesting how equality might be re-thought more generally.

  • - Representing the Muslim Woman in Public Policy Discourses
    av Naaz Rashid
    1 245

    Uses original scholarship and empirical research to examine how Muslim women are represented in social policy discourse and situated within national debates about Britishness, the death of multiculturalism and international terrorism.

  • - Politics, Policy and Practice
    av Peter (University of Lincoln) Somerville
    515 - 1 329,-

    This substantially revised edition of a highly topical text applies a critical approach to themes introduced in the first edition including economic development, heath and housing, and draws upon theory from Marx and Bourdieu to offer a clearer understanding of community in capitalist society.

  • av Alan France
    495 - 1 325,-

    Drawing on eight countries as case studies Professor Alan France tells the story of what impact the 2007 global crisis and the great recession that followed has had on our understandings of youth.

  • - The Conservative Party and the Welfare State since 1940
    av Robert M. (Institute of Applied Social Sciences Page
    1 379,-

    Written for a broad readership, the book takes an authoritative look at Conservative party policy and practice in the modern era. Its time-defined content and broad historical thread make it a valuable resource for academics and students in social policy and politics as well as social history.

  • - Analysis and Debate in Social Policy, 2015
     
    1 379,-

    This exciting volume brings together international scholarship to address a broad range of issues including the effects of financialisation on services and care provision, policies to address deficiencies in housing and labour markets and ways in which the study of social policy may need to develop.

  • - Children First, Offenders Second
    av Kevin (Lecturer, Swansea) Haines, Stephen Case & m.fl.
    459

    This topical book outlines a model of positive youth justice: Children First, Offenders Second (CFOS), which promotes child-friendly, diversionary, inclusionary, engaging, promotional practice and legitimate partnership between children and adults to serve as a blueprint for other local authorities and countries.

  • - Why Social Inequality Still Persists
    av Danny (University of Oxford) Dorling
    199

    We are living in the most remarkable and dangerous times. Globally, the richest 1% have never held a greater share of world wealth, while the share of most of the other 99% has collapsed in the last five years. In this fully rewritten and updated edition of Injustice, Dorling offers hope of a more equal society.

  • av Jeffrey Ian & Ph.D. Ross
    495 - 1 445

    Key Issues in Corrections critically analyzes the most important challenges affecting the correctional system in the USA, offering a no-nonsense explanation of the problems of correctional officers, correctional managers, prisoners, and the public.

  • - Global Prospects For Active Citizenship
    av Marilyn Taylor, Sue Kenny, Marjorie Mayo & m.fl.
    565 - 1 379,-

    Written by experts this important book explores the vital relationships between active citizenship, civil society and the third sector in different socio-political contexts. Drawing on a range of theory and empirical studies the book will be a useful resource for researchers and practitioners.

  • av Carmel Halton, Margaret Scanlon & Fred Powell
    475 - 1 465,-

    This book offers a unique insight into the possibilities of CPD and the issues it presents for newly qualified and experienced social workers in practice. It offers possible directions for the future of post qualifying social work education, making it essential reading for practitioners, educators, managers and policy-makers.

  • - An Applied Approach
    av Jonathan Wistow
    519 - 1 445

    Through the framework of understanding health inequalities as a 'wicked problem' the book develops an applied approach to researching, understanding and addressing these by drawing on complexity theory.

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