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Environmentalist: Environmental Law & Policy by Douglas James Joyce 9781560726371
RRP: $126.41$102.22The book is unique in its blend of humor, sharp commentary, and scholastic research, all products of critical thinking on issues of environmental law and policy. The Environmentalist is aimed primarily at undergraduate students of biology, chemistry and... -
The Goals of Social Policy by Martin I A Bulmer 9781032251233
RRP: $41.27$37.06First published in 1989, The Goals of Social Policy is an invaluable text that will give students an admirable introduction to the central concerns of the study of social policy. It asks what have been the traditional concerns of social policy as a... -
Creative Social Policy: The Collective Emancipation of Human Potential by Johannes Kananen 9781035321391
$105.28Innovative and forward-thinking in its approach, this book advocates for the liberation of people’s creative potential through the systematic transformation of work and capital. Providing a detailed account and analysis of current social policy, Johannes... -
Political Determinants of Health in Australia: A Planetary Perspective by Marguerite C. Sendall 9781032325323
RRP: $46.43$40.88Exposing the explicit and implicit relationships between politics, political decisions and public policy within a planetary perspective, this textbook focuses on the importance of the political environment as a determinant of population health outcomes... -
Human Rights and Literature: Writing Rights by Pramod K. Nayar 9781137504319
RRP: $116.10$62.02Set at the intersection of Human Rights, social justice and Literature, this cutting edge book examines a range of literary texts, fiction, plays and poetry, and through them considers representations of Human Rights and their violations. Examining... -
Transforming Child Welfare: Interdisciplinary Practices, Field Education, and Research by H. Monty Montgomery 9780889774513
RRP: $36.12$35.13Canada has among the highest rate of children in foster care in the developed world-a national tragedy that has its roots in poverty, residential schooling, and other forms of colonialism. Tackling the "wicked" and intransigent problems of... -
Arts Education Partnerships - Lessons Learned from One School: District's Experience 2004 by Melissa K. Rowe 9780833036506
$24.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780833036506Author Melissa K. RoweFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint RANDPublisher RANDWeight(grams) 199g -
American Marriage: A Political Institution by Priscilla Yamin 9780812223330
RRP: $38.69$31.14As states across the country battle internally over same-sex marriage in the courts, in legislatures, and at the ballot box, activists and scholars grapple with its implications for the status of gays and lesbians and for the institution of marriage... -
Rising Up: The Fight for Living Wage Work in Canada by Bryan Evans 9780774864367
RRP: $104.49$83.14This book will appeal to students and scholars of public policy, labour studies, social work, community studies, political economy, and sociology. It will also be valuable reading for policy and government researchers, union and community-based workers,... -
Social Capital, Diversity, and the Welfare State by Fiona Kay 9780774813099
RRP: $121.26$97.95Social capital is arguably the most critical idea to emerge in thesocial sciences in the last two decades. Emphasizing the importance ofsocial networks, communication, and the symbolic and material exchangesthat strengthen communities, social capital has... -
From UI to EI: Waging War on the Welfare State by Georges Campeau 9780774811224
RRP: $121.26$105.11Established in 1940 in response to the Great Depression, the original goal of Canada's system of unemployment insurance was to ensure the protection of income to the unemployed. Joblessness was viewed as a social problem and the jobless as its... -
China's Urban Health Care Reform: From State Protection to Individual Responsibility by Chack-kie Wong 9780739106600
RRP: $122.55$107.22One way to describe the importance of social policy is to say it's about "what is and what might be." This ethos is the driving force behind Chack-Kie Wong, Vai Io Lo, and Kwong-leung Tang's China's Urban Health Care Reform. Based on a study of... -
What Is "Your" Race?: The Census and Our Flawed Efforts to Classify Americans by Kenneth Prewitt 9780691173566
RRP: $25.80$20.50America is preoccupied with race statistics--perhaps more than any other nation. Do these statistics illuminate social reality and produce coherent social policy, or cloud that reality and confuse social policy? Does America still have a color line? Who... -
The Paradox of Gender Equality: How American Women's Groups Gained and Lost Their Public Voice by Kristin A. Goss 9780472035618
$43.01Drawing on original research, Kristin A. Goss examines how women's civic place has changed over the span of more than 120 years, how public policy has driven these changes, and why these changes matter for women and American democracy. Suffrage, which... -
Addressing Racial Disproportionality and Disparities in Human Services: Multisystemic Approaches by Rowena Fong 9780231160810
RRP: $41.28$31.94The issue of racial disproportionality in the child welfare system, particularly as it impacts African American children and families, has long been a concern to practitioners and policymakers. However, disproportionality is not limited to the African... -
Reassembling Motherhood: Procreation and Care in a Globalized World by Yasmine Ergas 9780231170505
RRP: $79.98$62.20The word "mother" has traditionally meant a woman who bears and nurtures a child. In recent decades, changes in social norms and public policy as well as advances in reproductive technologies and the development of markets for procreation and... -
Proposing Prosperity?: Marriage Education Policy and Inequality in America by Jennifer M. Randles 9780231170307
RRP: $70.95$55.35"Fragile families"-unmarried parents who struggle emotionally and financially-are one of the primary targets of the Healthy Marriage Initiative, a federal policy that has funded marriage education programs in nearly every state. These programs,... -
Globalized Labour Markets and Social Inequality in Europe by Hans-Peter Blossfeld 9780230241992
RRP: $58.04$17.61Based on contributions from international experts, this volume provides an up-to-date account of globalization's influences on individual life courses in nine different modern societies, and of cross-nationally varying political strategies to mediate... -
Sociology and Social Policy: Essays on Community, Economy, and Society by Herbert J. Gans 9780231183048
RRP: $129.00$100.53This collection of recent essays by the influential sociologist Herbert J. Gans brings together the many themes of Gans's wide-ranging career to make the case for a policy-oriented vision of sociology. Sociology and Social Policy presents a range of... -
Abortion Politics, Women's Movements, and the Democratic State: A Comparative Study of State Feminism by Dorothy McBride Stetson 9780199242665
$72.61This volume examines the impact of women's movements on the policy making processes determining abortion laws. It comprises the results of a cross-national research project on abortion politics in 11 democratic states between the 1960s and 2000. The... -
Inevitable Aging?: Contributions to Evolutionary-Demographic Theory by Annette Baudisch 9783642095344
$121.48The theoretical results in this monograph indicate that life provides alternative strategies to aging. The groundbreaking findings open a completely new field of research. The author gets away from the human centered vision of life showing that aging in... -
Demographic Change in Germany: The Economic and Fiscal Consequences by Ingrid Hamm 9783642087837
$122.07This book provides an up-to-date summary of the consequences of demographic aging for labor markets, financial markets, economic growth, social security schemes and public finances in Germany, essentially reflecting the present state of knowledge in any... -
Seasonality in Human Mortality: A Demographic Approach by Roland Rau 9783642079504
$121.72Seasonal fluctuations in mortality are a persistent phenomenon, but variations from culture to culture pose fascinating questions. This book investigates whether sociodemographic and socioeconomic factors play a role as important for seasonal mortality... -
Fairness, opportunity and security: filling the policy vacuum: Filling the Policy Vaccuum by John Menadue 9781925309096
RRP: $61.91$50.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925309096Author John MenadueFormat HardbackPage Count 440Imprint ATF PressPublisher ATF PressWeight(grams) 824g -
Long-term ill health, poverty and ethnicity by Sarah Salway 9781861349934
RRP: $27.08$21.26Chronic ill-health is now recognised as a major public health and social welfare issue, with significant new policy initiatives in recent months. This report presents findings from a detailed new investigation into the experiences of individuals living... -
Poverty, wealth and place in Britain, 1968 to 2005 by Daniel Dorling 9781861349958
RRP: $27.08$21.26This is the first detailed study of the recent geographical distribution of poverty and wealth in Britain. It presents the most comprehensive estimates of the changing levels of poverty and wealth from the late 1960s. A wide range of secondary data is... -
The persistence of poverty across generations: A view from two British cohorts by Jo Blanden 9781861348524
RRP: $23.21$18.46The recent focus on reducing the extent of child poverty in the UK stems mainly from worries about the future consequences of poverty on children's later achievement. With this background in mind, it is clearly crucial to improve our understanding of the... -
Life in Britain: Using Millennial Census data to understand poverty, inequality and place by Ben Wheeler 9781861347732
RRP: $55.46$43.51This lively, colourful and innovative pack has been designed specifically for use as a teaching aid and learning resource for students of geography, sociology, social policy and related social science disciplines. With new evidence about the nature of... -
Including the excluded: From practice to policy in European community development by Paul Henderson 9781861347459
RRP: $25.79$20.33This book provides an in-depth study of how community development can contribute to tackling social exclusion. Drawing on the outcomes of a project funded by the Social Inclusion Programme of the European Union and managed by a European network of... -
Social Workers Affecting Social Policy: An International Perspective by John Gal 9781847429735
RRP: $103.19$78.51Furthering social justice and human rights is a fundamental principle underlying the social work profession. Engaging in social policy formulation processes is a major route through which social workers can realise this goal. This type of social work... -
Social Policy Review 16: Analysis and debate in social policy, 2004 by Nick Ellison 9781847424716
RRP: $103.19$78.51Social Policy Review 16 has been given a new editorial lease of life and has been re-organised to reflect more closely key developments in the UK and internationally.Book InformationISBN 9781847424716Author Nick EllisonFormat HardbackPage Count... -
Social Policy Review 15: UK and international perspectives by Catherine Bochel 9781847424709
RRP: $103.19$78.51Social Policy Review 15 continues the tradition of providing a different style and approach to policy issues from that found in most academic journals and books. Welfare and Welfare Reform in the USA, Europe and the UK combines issues such as... -
The impact of enforcement on street users in England by Sarah Johnsen 9781847420015
RRP: $24.50$19.39Concerns have mounted in recent years about the 'problematic street culture' sometimes associated with rough sleeping, especially begging and street drinking. There has been a significant shift towards enforcement interventions aimed at the 'street... -
Public Water Policies: The Ultimate Weapons of Social Control by Charles R., Jr. Porter 9781641433006
RRP: $103.20$90.56Although water is nature's most important molecule; its regulation and management are the most challenging public policy issues for any society. Water is the common denominator of all life on earth. Public water policies then become the fundamental... -
Mayors and Schools: Minority Voices and Democratic Tensions in Urban Education by Stefanie Chambers 9781592134687
RRP: $87.72$37.89Analyzes the trend toward increased mayoral control of urban schools, using Chicago and Cleveland as case studiesBook InformationISBN 9781592134687Author Stefanie ChambersFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Temple University Press,U.S.Publisher Temple... -
The Politics of Policy Change: Welfare, Medicare, and Social Security Reform in the United States by Daniel Beland 9781589018846
RRP: $36.12$31.66For generations, debating the expansion or contraction of the American welfare state has produced some of the nation's most heated legislative battles. Attempting social policy reform is both risky and complicated, especially when it involves dealing... -
Health Care Under the Knife: Moving Beyond Capitalism for Our Health by Howard Waitzkin 9781583676752
RRP: $96.75$78.21"I've still got my health so what do I care?" goes a lyric in an old Cole Porter song. Most of us, in fact, assume we can't live full lives, or take on life's challenges, without also assuming that we're basically healthy and will be for the... -
In Our Hands: The Struggle for U.S. Child Care Policy by Elizabeth Palley 9781479862658
RRP: $103.20$89.73A call for better child care policies, exploring the reasons why there has been so little headway on a problem that touches so many families. Working mothers are common in the United States. In over half of all two-parent families, both parents work,... -
Social Policy Review 33: Analysis and Debate in Social Policy, 2021 by Marco Pomati 9781447359722
RRP: $103.20$78.52Considering the global impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the annual Social Policy Review is even more critical than before. This comprehensive volume addresses critical debates throughout the international social policy field over the past year with a key... -
The Gift Relationship: From Human Blood to Social Policy by Richard M Titmuss 9781447349570
RRP: $103.19$78.51Richard Titmuss (1907-1973) was a pioneer in the field of social administration (now social policy). In this reissued classic, listed by the New York Times as one of the 10 most important books of the year when it was first published in 1970, he compares...