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Intellectual advances in economics often come from debates that have been long forgotten but which offer context, depth and clarity to contemporary study.

This book presents a wide-ranging overview of current debates and research in issues relating to race and ethnicity in contemporary British society. It focuses on the extent of racial inequality while encapsulating the character of recent theories and debates that focus on issues of ethnic diversity and culture.

While sociological modernists were outrageously presumptious in their claims for sociological knowledge, postmodernists have gone to another extreme in claiming that it has no more truth status than fiction.

Why is there a resurgence of racism in contemporary societies? Drawing on comparative sources, this study analyses some of the most important aspects of racism within the context of contemporary social relations, introducing both students and practitioners to questions of key importance in the study of racism.

This latest volume in the immensely popular Midwifery Practice Series deals with a further set of important issues, this time drawn from all three stages of care during pregnancy.

The value chain framework has made its way to the forefront of management thought as a powerful analysis tool for strategic planning. Its ultimate goal is to maximize value creation while minimizing costs. In this book David Walters applies the framework to strategic decision making in the field of operations management.

It covers all the Central American states and the largest Caribbean island territories - Jamaica, Cuba, The Dominican Republic, Haiti and Puerto Rico - as well as Panama and Grenada, assessing their common experiences as small economies living in the shadow of the United States but also highlighting key differences.

Between 1852 and 1886 British politics moved from a system of 'parliamentary government' towards a two party system. This book looks at why and how this change happened and analyses the long-term implications it had for British politics.

The issues of growth performance and structural change are critical to an appreciation of British economic development. It also incorporates a discussion of the controversial political issues in this sphere: disindustrialisation, North Sea oil and the environmental cost of economic growth.

This handy guide helps science students to develop essential skills for success in their discipline. Featuring top tips, memorable illustrations and real scientific examples, it shows them how to record their observations accurately, interpret their results accurately and develop good time management skills and study habits.

In How Literature Works important issues of literary theory are vividly illustrated by application to a wide variety of texts, many quoted and discussed at length.

Communities and Caring explores the theoretical background of social policy debates around the mixed economy of welfare in relation to community participation and community development. without such underlying public sector support, community participation will be unable to meet community needs.

Substantial new sections have been added on local political parties, hung councils, the politics of non-elected local government, recent developments in privatisation, and the politics of the poll tax.

Videography is an attempt to discover the conditions under which it is possible to speak, write and teach about the electronic media. A theoretical section tests the claims of various theses in art history, media and cultural theory to account for the variety of video practice in the contemporary scene.

Through close readings of Doris Lessing's novels from The Grass is Singing to The Fifth Child, Margaret Moan Rowe maps many of the literary and cultural negotiations that make Doris Lessing both a maverick and a mainstream novelist.

Local government organisation and management in Britain is in the throes of a major transformation brought about by changing economic, social and political circumstances and central government legislation.

Vladimir Nabakov considers the novelist's aesthetic precepts and practice and the distinctive character of his work and the book also gives consideration of his fiction in the larger context of the modernist and postmodernist enterprise.

This study of George Orwell's style examines his stylistic versatility, and analyzes the linguistic techniques which create a variety of effects in his novels and other prose works.

The Challenge of British Management confronts three big questions: What is Management all about?, What is British Management, in particular, like?, How good is it? An understanding of British Management requires a knowledge of Management in general and familiarity with the experience and best practice of other countries.

This excellent book should be read by policy-makers, service providers and anyone working with or concerned about young people.' Margaret Chekri, FPA Information Officer Teenage sexuality, pregnancy and motherhood have become matters of concern in many countries.

The Economic Question is the core book of the Economics Today series. The book provides a beginner's guide to the subject matter and methods of economics and is suitable for those considering or just starting its study, concentrating on approach rather than technical content in order to introduce the reader to the nature of economics.

Investigating Social Issues uses economic theory to analyse real events and problems and to evaluate different solutions. Newspaper cuttings have been used as an integral part of the text to highlight the causes, effects and solutions to these issues and problems.

The curbing of trade union power is often seen as one of the major achievements of Margaret Thatcher's premiership. David Marsh's book provides a broad-ranging introduction to British trade unionism in the 1990s and an assessment of the last decade's major changes in legislation, policing and attitudes.

Since it first appeared in 1975, Ben Fine's introductory account of Capital has become the most popular text of its kind, used widely across the social sciences and also read by a wider audience.

This book gives a linguistic overview of the first eight centuries of English poetry - years which produced such key works as Beowulf, Layaman's Brut and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.

Conventional texts on the welfare state have had a narrow gaze, focused mainly on benefits to the poor and relatively poor. Welfare and the State updates and broadens the classic debates on poverty, inequality and the nature of state. It directs attention to gender, through examining women's welfare state and men's welfare state.

The Old English selections which include extracts from Beowulf and well-known riddles and elegies, are in modern English translation. The Middle English writings, from Langland, Chaucer, Malory and many others, are presented in the original language with marginal notes, or with a full translation where appropriate.

As social work adapts to the challenge of a mixed economy of welfare, this book offers a reassertion of the vital contribution of social work in the welfare structures of the 1990s.

An accessible introduction to French feminist theory and contemporary French women's writing for non-French speakers.

A great deal has been written about the decarceration movement which involves the transfer of mental patients from the mental hospital to the community. Here the authors look at the impact of that process as it affects patients and staff alike once the patients leave the hospital.