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The Other Half of Gender: Men's Issues in Development by Maria C. Correia 9780821365052
£31.27The vulnerabilities of men have received limited attention in development research and programming. In Liberia, men's lack of access to employment and land and their loss of traditional power and authority lay at the heart of the violence and conflict... -
Female Body Image and Beauty Politics in Contemporary Indian Literature and Culture by Srirupa Chatterjee 9781439922521
RRP: £29.99£24.14Female Body Image and Beauty Politics in Contemporary Indian Literature and Culture is the first volume to analyze the myriad conceptualizations of South Asian women’s body issues in film, literature, advertising, and other media. Showing how body image... -
Emerging Evidence on Vouchers and Faith-Based Providers in Education: Case Studies from Africa, Latin America, and Asia by Felipe Barrera-Osorio 9780821379769
RRP: £21.95£21.86While public-private partnerships in education in the United States have received a lot of attention, research on such partnerships elsewhere has been limited-even though such partnerships have been steadily gaining prominence, particularly in developing... -
What Works (and Doesn't) in Reducing Recidivism by Edward J. Latessa 9781455731213
£39.11This book offers criminologists and students an evidence-based discussion of the latest trends in corrections. Over the last several decades, research has clearly shown that rehabilitation efforts can be effective at reducing recidivism among criminal... -
Living Together: Mending a Fractured America by Sheila Suess Kennedy 9781089303299
RRP: £17.50£13.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781089303299Author Sheila Suess KennedyFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 227g -
Gender Divisions and Working Time in the New Economy: Changing Patterns of Work, Care and Public Policy in Europe and North America by Diane Perrons 9781847204974
RRP: £47.95£42.98Contemporary societies are characterised by new and more flexible working patterns, new family structures and widening social divisions. This book explores how these macro-level changes affect the micro organisation of daily life, with reference to... -
Handbook on East Asian Social Policy by Misa Izuhara 9781782548669
RRP: £52.95£49.45Dramatic socio-economic transformations over the last two decades have brought social policy and social welfare issues to prominence in many East Asian societies. Since the 1990s and in response to national as well as global pressure, there have been... -
The New Politics of Old Age Policy by Robert B. Hudson 9780801894916
£27.67As the aging population of the United States continues to increase, age-related policies have come under intense scrutiny and have sparked heated debates. This revised and updated edition of The New Politics of Old Age Policy explains the politics behind... -
Rethinking Community Policing in International Police Reform by Deniz Kocak 9781013292101
RRP: £24.95£21.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013292101Author Deniz KocakFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g -
To Serve the People: My Life Organizing with Cesar Chavez and the Poor by LeRoy Chatfield 9780826360878
RRP: £29.95£20.98The long pilgrimage of LeRoy Chatfield weaves its way through multiple collective projects designed to better the condition of the marginalized and forgotten. From the cloisters of the Christian Brothers and the halls of secondary education to the fields... -
Reforming Healthcare: What the Public Needs to Know by Lindsay Lee Pratt 9780595292134
RRP: £9.99£7.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595292134Author Lindsay Lee PrattFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 150g -
Injecting Incentives Into the Solution of Social and Environmental Problems: Social Policy Bonds by Ronnie Horesh 9780595153749
RRP: £10.99£8.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595153749Author Ronnie HoreshFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint iUniversity PressPublisher iUniversity PressWeight(grams) 222g -
Social Democratic America by Lane Kenworthy 9780199322510
RRP: £25.49£19.47For decades, scholars and commentators have differentiated the US from Europe by pointing to the relative weakness of the American social welfare state. European social democracies--particularly the Nordic ones--have erected broad and deep social... -
The Wages of Sickness: The Politics of Health Insurance in Progressive America by Beatrix Hoffman 9780807849026
RRP: £42.95£39.93The Clinton administration's failed health care reform was not the first attempt to establish government-sponsored medical coverage in the United States. From 1915 to 1920, Progressive reformers led a spirited but ultimately unsuccessful crusade for... -
All Health Politics Is Local: Community Battles for Medical Care and Environmental Health by Merlin Chowkwanyun 9781469667676
RRP: £32.95£31.32Health care is political. It entails fierce battles over the allocation of resources, arguments over the imposition of regulations, and the mediation of dueling public sentiments-all conflicts that are often narrated from a national, top-down view. In... -
Making Democracy Work Better: Mediating Structures, Social Capital, and the Democratic Prospect by Richard A. Couto 9780807848241
RRP: £46.95£44.93The decade of the 1980s marked a triumph for market capitalism. As politicians of all stripes sought to reinvent government in the image of private enterprise, they looked to the voluntary sector for allies to assuage the human costs of reductions in... -
Yield For Oncoming Greatness: Capping Capitalism by Matt N Tabrizi 9780996210003
RRP: £19.95£15.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996210003Author Matt N TabriziFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Thinking Hat PressPublisher Thinking Hat PressWeight(grams) 340g -
Race for the Exits: The Unraveling of Japan's System of Social Protection by Leonard James Schoppa 9780801474453
RRP: £23.99£17.86Contrary to all expectations, Japan's long-term recession has provoked no sustained political movement to replace the nation's malfunctioning economic structure. The country's basic social contract has so far proved resistant to reform, even in the face... -
Social Security and Medicare for the New Millenium by Dr Maurice Youakim 9780595141890
RRP: £8.99£6.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595141890Author Dr Maurice YouakimFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Writers Club PressPublisher Writers Club PressWeight(grams) 168g -
Cooked? the Homosexualization of the Entire American Culture by Jo Coleman 9780979821219
RRP: £9.99£6.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979821219Author Jo ColemanFormat PaperbackImprint Unity PressPublisher Unity PressWeight(grams) 136g -
Sandy Hook: A Man Sold A Gun by Michael R Weisser 9780692945025
RRP: £14.95£12.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692945025Author Michael R WeisserFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Teetee PressPublisher Teetee PressWeight(grams) 231gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *... -
Health Care and Its Costs by Carl J. Schramm 9780393956719
£19.06It seems clear though that this massive spending has not improved the health of Americans. It is clear too that as the population ages, there must me major changes in America's health care delivery system. Is it feasible for the American government to... -
Social Policy, Employment and Family Change in Comparative Perspective by Jonathan Bradshaw 9781845426262
£117.53This book is a comparative study of family change, parental employment and social policy in the five Nordic countries, the Netherlands, Germany and the United Kingdom. In all these countries family forms have been profoundly affected by lower fertility... -
Democracy's Hidden Heroes: Fitting Policy to People and Place by David C. Campbell 9781439924587
RRP: £21.99£17.54Democracy’s Hidden Heroes tells the story of the local public managers and nonprofit directors who work where bureaucratic hierarchies and community networks meet and often collide. These “hidden heroes” struggle to align universal rules and compliance... -
Democracy's Hidden Heroes: Fitting Policy to People and Place by David C. Campbell 9781439924570
RRP: £71.00£56.93Democracy’s Hidden Heroes tells the story of the local public managers and nonprofit directors who work where bureaucratic hierarchies and community networks meet and often collide. These “hidden heroes” struggle to align universal rules and compliance... -
Flak-Catchers: One Hundred Years of Riot Commission Politics in America by Lindsey Lupo 9780739138106
RRP: £102.00£89.54Flak-Catchers explores the ways in which riot commissions-the institutional bodies appointed by an executive in the aftermath of a race riot to determine a riot timeline, investigate causes, and offer prescriptions for change-have dealt with racial... -
Is the Good Book Good Enough?: Evangelical Perspectives on Public Policy by David K. Ryden 9780739150597
RRP: £109.00£95.57The political emergence of evangelical Christians has been a signal development in America in the past quarter century. And while their voting tendencies have been closely scrutinized, their participation in the policy debates of the day has not. They... -
Transforming Children's Mental Health Policy into Practice: Lessons from Virginia and Other States' Experiences Creating and Sustaining Comprehensive Systems of Care by Robert Cohen 9781498541145
RRP: £45.00£39.49This book examines the long term impact of service reform in children's mental health, focusing on comprehensive state and local initiatives to improve care for children with serious behavioral health and their families to illustrate how programmatic and... -
Transforming Children's Mental Health Policy into Practice: Lessons from Virginia and Other States' Experiences Creating and Sustaining Comprehensive Systems of Care by Robert Cohen 9781498541121
RRP: £110.00£101.06This book examines the long term impact of service reform in children's mental health, focusing on comprehensive state and local initiatives to improve care for children with serious behavioral health and their families to illustrate how programmatic and... -
Policy Framing Issues in the World of COVID-19 by Beryl A Radin 9798889105442
RRP: £7.99£6.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798889105442Author Beryl A RadinFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Austin Macauley Publishers LLCPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers LLCWeight(grams)... -
Quest for Inclusive Growth in Bangladesh: An Employment-focused Strategy by Muhammed Muqtada 9789811576133
RRP: £89.99£89.87This book offers a selection of intensely researched essays focused on the critical planning objectives and policy priorities that would enhance the promotion of inclusive growth in a developing country. It has taken Bangladesh as the case study. It... -
Comparative Media Systems: European and Global Perspectives by Boguslawa Dobek-Ostrowska 9789639776548
RRP: £73.00£67.27Inspired by the recent achievements on comparing media systems and research on models of media and politics in Western Europe and the US, this title extends the findings to Central and Eastern Europe. It addresses five major interrelated themes: concepts... -
Divide and Pacify: Strategic Social Policies and Political Protests in Post-communist Democracies by Pieter Vanhuysse 9789637326790
RRP: £47.00£43.22Despite dramatic increases in poverty, unemployment, and social inequalitites, the Central and Eastern European transitions from communism to market democracy in the 1990s have been remarkably peaceful. This book proposes a new explanation for this... -
Divide and Pacify: Strategic Social Policies and Political Protests in Post-Communist Democracies by Pieter Vanhuysse 9789633866993
RRP: £19.95£18.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789633866993Author Pieter VanhuysseFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Central European University PressPublisher Central European University Press -
The Political Function of Education in Deeply Divided Countries by Theodor Hanf 9783832968052
RRP: £64.00£61.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783832968052Author Theodor HanfFormat PaperbackPage Count 338Imprint Nomos VerlagsgesellschaftPublisher Nomos VerlagsgesellschaftWeight(grams) 454g -
Social Security, Demographics, and Risk by Christoph Borgmann 9783642060823
£94.25This study has been written during my time at the Institute of Public Finance at the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg, Germany. I am indebted to a number of people who have made this work possible. First and foremost, I thank my teacher Prof. Dr... -
The Perils of Posting: Court Cases on Off-Duty Social Media Conduct of Public Employees by Paul Douglas Foote 9781498588928
RRP: £76.00£69.99In recent years, there has been an increase of public employees being fired for inappropriate behavior on social media. This research explores social media conduct of public employees that have been adjudicated through the federal and state court systems... -
Iran's Struggles for Social Justice: Economics, Agency, Justice, Activism by Peyman Vahabzadeh 9783319830162
RRP: £89.99£86.80This interdisciplinary volume offers a range of studies spanning the various historical, political, legal, and cultural features of social justice in Iran, and proposes that the present-day realities of life in Iran could not be farther from the promises... -
Transparent Lives: Surveillance in Canada by The New Transparency Project 9781927356777
RRP: £39.00£30.74Although most Canadians are familiar with surveillance cameras andairport security, relatively few are aware of the extent to which thepotential for surveillance is now embedded in virtually every aspect ofour lives. We cannot walk down a city street,... -
Ageing and Social Policy in Ireland by Patricia Kennedy 9781904558958
RRP: £21.00£20.15This book explores many of these aspects of ageing in Ireland today. It is envisaged that it will serve as an appraisal of policy developments to date and as a point of departure for future challenges. It is ideal for undergraduate and postgraduate...