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Hidden Voices: Lived Experiences in the Irish Welfare Space Joe Whelan (Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin) 9781447360933
RRP: $32.24$25.01Underpinned by the idea of the right to a 'basic minimum', welfare states are a major feature of many societies. However, the lived experiences of persons seeking and receiving welfare payments can often be overlooked. This book seeks to remedy this... -
The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth by Sam Quinones
RRP: $23.22$14.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639730476Author Sam QuinonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USAWeight(grams) 437g -
Governing Global Health: Who Runs the World and Why? by Chelsea Clinton 9780190865986
RRP: $23.85$17.13The past few decades have seen a massive increase in the number of international organizations focusing on global health. Campaigns to eradicate or stem the spread of AIDS, SARS, malaria, and Ebola attest to the increasing importance of globally-oriented... -
Nudge, Nudge, Think, Think: Experimenting with Ways to Change Citizen Behaviour, by Peter John
RRP: $32.25$22.72How can governments persuade their citizens to act in socially beneficial ways? This ground-breaking book builds on the idea of 'light touch interventions' or 'nudges' proposed in Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein's highly influential Nudge (2008). While... -
BLM: The Making of a New Marxist Revolution by Mike Gonzalez 9781641772235
RRP: $27.08$20.56The George Floyd riots that have precipitated great changes throughout American society were not spontaneous events. Americans did not suddenly rise up in righteous anger, take to the streets, and demand not just that police departments be defunded but... -
Understanding Restorative Justice: How Empathy Can Close the Gap Created by Crime Pete Wallis (Oxfordshire Youth Offending Service) 9781447317425
RRP: $23.21$18.46This unique book is a clear and detailed introduction that analyses how restorative justice nurtures empathy, exploring key themes such as responsibility, shame, forgiveness and closure. The core notion of the book is that when a crime is committed, it... -
Social Problems in the UK: An Introduction by Stuart Isaacs
RRP: $46.43$40.88Social Problems in the UK: An Introduction contextualises the most pressing social problems of our times drawing upon the disciplines of sociology, social policy, education studies and health studies. This much-needed textbook brings together a... -
The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Theory by Lisa Disch 9780190872823
RRP: $57.39$54.41The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Theory provides a rich overview of the analytical frameworks and theoretical concepts that feminist theorists have developed to analyze the known world. Featuring leading feminist theorists from diverse regions of the... -
Cybercrime Prevention: Theory and Applications by Russell Brewer
RRP: $70.94$63.67This book articulates how crime prevention research and practice can be reimagined for an increasingly digital world. This ground-breaking work explores how criminology can apply longstanding, traditional crime prevention techniques to the digital realm... -
Frontiers of Justice: Disability, Nationality, Species Membership by Martha C. Nussbaum
RRP: $33.48$26.63Theories of social justice are necessarily abstract, reaching beyond the particular and the immediate to the general and the timeless. Yet such theories, addressing the world and its problems, must respond to the real and changing dilemmas of the day. A... -
The Battle for Britain: Crises, Conflicts and the Conjuncture John Clarke (Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, The Open University) 9781529227680
RRP: $32.24$25.01This book addresses the social, political and economic turbulence in which the UK is embroiled. Drawing on Cultural Studies, it explores proliferating crises and conflicts, from the multiplying varieties of social dissent through the stagnation of... -
Reflective Practice and Learning From Mistakes in Social Work Alessandro Sicora 9781447325222
RRP: $27.08$21.26Learning from professional errors in social work is vital for successful reflective practice. This important book presents a theoretical framework that underpins this learning, along with a series of strategies for social workers to use, including... -
From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America by Elizabeth Hinton
RRP: $25.74$20.98Co-Winner of the Thomas J. Wilson Memorial PrizeA New York Times Notable Book of the YearA New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA Wall Street Journal Favorite Book of the YearA Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the YearA Publishers Weekly... -
A Life in Error: From Little Slips to Big Disasters James Reason 9781472418418
RRP: $61.91$53.93This succinct but absorbing book covers the main way stations on James Reason's 40-year journey in pursuit of the nature and varieties of human error. In it he presents an engrossing and very personal perspective, offering the reader exceptional... -
Are Cops Racist? by Heather MacDonald 9781566638678
RRP: $19.34$15.04False charges of racial profiling threaten to obliterate the crime-fighting gains of the last decade, especially in America's inner cities. This is the message of Heather Mac Donald's new book, in which she brings her special brand of tough and honest... -
Social Policy in Britain Pete Alcock (University of Birmingham, UK) 9781350932715
RRP: $42.56$38.49In this fifth edition of the best-selling core introductory textbook, Pete Alcock and Lee Gregory provide a comprehensive and engaging introduction to social policy. Continuing with the unbeaten narrative style and accessible approach of the previous... -
Paradiplomacy: Cities and States as Global Players by Rodrigo Tavares 9780190462123
RRP: $47.72$36.77Orthodox international relations theory considers foreign affairs to be the exclusive purview of national governments. Yet as Rodrigo Tavares demonstrates, the vast majority of leading sub-states and cities are currently practicing foreign affairs, both... -
Comparing Health Systems Ian Greener (University of Aberdeen) 9781447356936
RRP: $32.24$25.01Health services are among the most expensive and complex areas of social policy. Using qualitative comparative analysis to explore 11 developed countries' health services, this volume considers the links between a range of different outcome measures and... -
How Migration Really Works: A Factful Guide to the Most Divisive Issue in Politics by Hein de Haas 9780241632215
RRP: $21.92$17.91Authoritative and myth-busting, this is the one book you need to read to understand why we've been wrong about migration'An important book that will force Left and Right alike to reconsider old assumptions' The Telegraph'This book should be falling out... -
'Am I That Name?': Feminism and the Category of 'Women' in History by Denise Riley 9780333346136
RRP: $58.04$58.01Writing about changes in the notion of womanhood, Denise Riley examines, in the manner of Foucault, shifting historical constructions of the category of "women" in relation to other categories central to concepts of personhood: the soul, the... -
The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Age of Fentanyl and Meth by Sam Quinones
RRP: $25.80$20.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635574357Author Sam QuinonesFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA -
Only in Australia: The History, Politics, and Economics of Australian Exceptionalism by William Coleman 9780198753254
$85.79This edited volume is about the Australian difference and how Australia's economic and social policy has diverged from the approach of other countries. Australia seems to be following a 'special path' of its own that it laid down more than a century ago... -
Mass Starvation: The History and Future of Famine Alex de Waal 9781509524679
RRP: $21.92$19.63The world almost conquered famine. Until the 1980s, this scourge killed ten million people every decade, but by early 2000s mass starvation had all but disappeared. Today, famines are resurgent, driven by war, blockade, hostility to humanitarian... -
Legal Identity, Race and Belonging in the Dominican Republic: From Citizen to Foreigner by Eve Hayes de Kalaf 9781785277641
RRP: $103.20$58.02This book offers a critical perspective into social policy architectures primarily in relation to questions of race, national identity and belonging in the Americas. It is the first to identify a connection between the role of international actors in... -
The Well-Being of Children in the UK Jonathan Bradshaw (Department of Social Policy and Social Work, University of York) 9781447325635
RRP: $39.98$31.14Now in its fourth edition, this is the classic assessment of the state of child well-being in the United Kingdom. This edition has been updated to review the latest evidence, examining the outcomes for children of the impact of the economic crisis and... -
Future of Work: Robots, AI, and Automation by Darrell M. West 9780815737865
RRP: $20.63$18.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815737865Author Darrell M. WestFormat PaperbackPage Count 221Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 349gDimensions(mm)... -
Rethinking Our World: an invitation to rescue our future by Maja Göpel
RRP: $16.76$11.04A radical vision for a better future: an economy that works for us, rather than the other way around. As this major German bestseller reports, our world is at a tipping point, and we feel it every day. Costs are rising, the gap between the rich and poor... -
Global Childhoods by Monica Edwards 9781909682696
RRP: $25.79$22.72This up to date text is suitable for students on all early years courses that include a module on global childhoods. Taking an ecological approach, it examines how culture and society shape childhoods through considering the lived experiences of children... -
Governing Global Health: Who Runs the World and Why? by Chelsea Clinton 9780190253271
RRP: $34.17$25.76The past few decades have seen a massive increase in the number of international organizations focusing on global health. Campaigns to eradicate or stem the spread of AIDS, SARS, malaria, and Ebola attest to the increasing importance of globally-oriented... -
Disease by Frances Darlington-Pollock
RRP: $21.92$20.79In 1942 life expectancy at birth was 66 for women and 60 for men. Death was usually due to degenerative and infectious diseases. The greatest postwar success in the fight against disease was the establishment of the NHS and care that was free at the... -
International Community Development Practice by Charlie McConnell
RRP: $42.56$37.62International Community Development Practice provides readers with practice-based examples of good community development, demonstrating its value for strengthening people power and improving the effectiveness of development agencies, whether these be... -
Heat, Greed and Human Need: Climate Change, Capitalism and Sustainable Wellbeing Ian Gough 9781785365126
RRP: $32.19$28.88'There are few scholarly books about climate change that take the issue of the distribution of its costs, and of the costs and benefits of its mitigation, as seriously as their absolute value. This is probably the best of those books that I have come... -
Growing Up Absurd Paul Goodman 9781590175811
RRP: $25.79$17.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590175811Author Paul GoodmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
Where COVID Came From by Nicholas Wade
RRP: $14.18$9.52Did the Covid virus jump naturally from an animal species to humans, or did it escape from a laboratory experiment? In this essay, science writer Nicholas Wade explores the two scenarios and argues that, on present evidence, lab escape is the more... -
Neoliberalism and Early Childhood Education: Markets, Imaginaries and Governance by Peter Moss
RRP: $42.56$37.62Neoliberalism, with its worldview of competition, choice and calculation, its economisation of everything, and its will to govern has 'sunk its roots deep' into Early Childhood Education and Care. This book considers its deeply detrimental impacts upon... -
Citizenship and Immigration in Postwar Britain: The Institutional Origins of a Multicultural Nation by Randall Hansen 9780199240548
RRP: $129.00$108.81In this ground-breaking book, the author draws extensively on archival material and theortical advances in the social sciences literature on citizenship and migration. Citizenship and Immigration in Postwar Britain examines the transformation since 1945... -
Irregular Army: How the US Military Recruited Neo-Nazis, Gang Members, and Criminals to Fight the War on Terror by Matt Kennard
RRP: $27.08$27.01Since the launch of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars-now the longest wars in American history-the US military has struggled to recruit troops. It has responded, as Matt Kennard's explosive investigative report makes clear, by opening its doors to neo-Nazis,... -
Idleness by Katy Jones
RRP: $21.92$20.79UK workers are stuck in a low-pay, low-productivity rut, with far too many people working in poor quality, insecure jobs, with little training or chance of getting on. Katy Jones and Ashwin Kumar question the mantra that "work is the best way out of... -
Hungry Britain: The rise of food charity Hannah Lambie-Mumford (University of Sheffield) 9781447328292
RRP: $36.11$27.83Drawing on empirical research with the UK's two largest charitable food organisations, this book explores the prolific rise of food charity over the last 15 years and its implications for overcoming food insecurity. As the welfare state withdraws,... -
The Power of Hope: How the Science of Well-Being Can Save Us from Despair by Carol Graham
RRP: $38.70$30.04Why hope matters as a metric of economic and social well-beingIn a society marked by extreme inequality of income and opportunity, why should economists care about how people feel? The truth is that feelings of well-being are critical metrics that...