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Frontiers of Justice: Disability, Nationality, Species Membership by Martha C. Nussbaum
RRP: $33.48$26.08Theories 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... -
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... -
The Battle for Britain: Crises, Conflicts and the Conjuncture by John Clarke
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 by 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... -
A Life in Error: From Little Slips to Big Disasters by James Reason
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... -
Thatcher's Children?: Politics, Childhood And Society In The 1980s And 1990s by Jane Pilcher
RRP: $63.20$55.03That childhood is a social construction is understood both by social scientists and in society generally. The authors of this book examine the political issues surrounding childhood, including law making, social policy, government provisions and... -
Social Policy in Britain by Pete Alcock
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... -
Comparing Health Systems by Ian Greener
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... -
The Moon and the Ghetto: An Essay on Public Policy Analysis by Richard R Nelson
RRP: $21.29$18.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorRichard R. Nelson is a professor of economics and leading figure in the field of evolutionary economics.Book InformationISBN 9780393091731Author Richard R... -
The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Age of Fentanyl and Meth by Sam Quinones
RRP: $25.80$19.84Apologies 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 -
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... -
Legal Identity, Race and Belonging in the Dominican Republic: From Citizen to Foreigner by Eve Hayes de Kalaf 9781785277641
RRP: $103.20$96.98This 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... -
Mass Starvation: The History and Future of Famine by 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... -
From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America by Elizabeth Hinton
RRP: $25.74$20.86Co-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... -
The Well-Being of Children in the UK by Jonathan Bradshaw 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... -
Risky Business: Why Insurance Markets Fail and What to Do About It by Liran Einav 9780300274042
RRP: $19.34$16.81An engaging and accessible examination of what ails insurance markets-and what to do about it-by three leading economists "The authors . . . do a masterful job of explaining the intractable complexities created by this socially vital activity."-Martin... -
Heat, Greed and Human Need: Climate Change, Capitalism and Sustainable Wellbeing by 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... -
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... -
Happiness in Action: A Philosopher's Guide to the Good Life by Adam Adatto Sandel
RRP: $32.19$25.65"Here, at last, is a book about what happiness really means, and why it often eludes us in our stressed-out, always-on lives."-Arianna Huffington, Founder and CEO, ThriveA young philosopher and Guinness World Record holder in pull-ups argues that the key... -
Growing Up Absurd by Paul Goodman
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)... -
Critical Theory and New Materialisms by Hartmut Rosa 9781032020518
RRP: $49.01$43.06Bringing together authors from two intellectual traditions that have, so far, generally developed independently of one another - critical theory and new materialism - this book addresses the fundamental differences and potential connections that exist... -
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$22.82Since 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,... -
Judicial Uses of Images: Vision in Decision by Prof Peter Goodrich 9780192848772
RRP: $100.62$91.95A judge springs out of his car on the way to court in downtown Chicago and takes photographs of an inflatable rat. A while later he inserts these photographs into a decision involving another insufflated rodent used in a union protest. The increasing use... -
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)... -
Hungry Britain: The rise of food charity by Hannah Lambie-Mumford 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,... -
Revolting Subjects: Social Abjection and Resistance in Neoliberal Britain by Imogen Tyler 9781848138513
RRP: $32.19$31.04Revolting Subjects is a groundbreaking account of social abjection in contemporary Britain, exploring how particular groups of people are figured as revolting and how they in turn revolt against their abject subjectification. The book utilizes a number... -
Positive Youth Justice: Children First, Offenders Second by Kevin Haines 9781447321712
RRP: $30.95$24.07This topical, accessibly written book moves beyond established critiques to outline a model of positive youth justice: Children First, Offenders Second. Already in use in Wales, the proposed model promotes child-friendly, diversionary, inclusive,... -
Everyday Revolutions: Horizontalism and Autonomy in Argentina by Marina A. Sitrin
$30.48In the wake of the global financial crisis, new forms of social organization are beginning to take shape. Disparate groups of people are coming together in order to resist corporate globalization and seek a more positive way forward. These movements are... -
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee 9780525509561
RRP: $38.70$25.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for National Book Awards (Nonfiction) 2021.Book InformationISBN 9780525509561Author Heather McGheeFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint One World BooksPublisher... -
COVID-19 and the Voluntary and Community Sector in the UK: Responses, Impacts and Adaptation by James Rees 9781447365518
RRP: $38.69$29.70The voluntary sector was central to the COVID-19 response: fulfilling basic needs, highlighting new and existing inequalities and coordinating action where the state had been slow to respond. This book curates rigorous academic, policy and... -
When the State Meets the Street: Public Service and Moral Agency by Bernardo Zacka
RRP: $43.80$35.20When the State Meets the Street probes the complex moral lives of street-level bureaucrats: the frontline social and welfare workers, police officers, and educators who represent government's human face to ordinary citizens. Too often dismissed as... -
Creating a Learning Society: A New Approach to Growth, Development, and Social Progress, Reader's Edition by Joseph E. Stiglitz
RRP: $25.80$19.65Since its publication Creating a Learning Society has served as an effective tool for those who advocate government policies to advance science and technology. It shows persuasively how enormous increases in our standard of living have been the result of... -
Sex, Law, and Society in Late Imperial China by Matthew H. Sommer
RRP: $36.11$31.04This study of the regulation of sexuality in the Qing dynasty explores the social context for sexual behavior criminalized by the state, arguing that the eighteenth century in China was a time of profound change in sexual matters. During this time, the... -
The Oxford Handbook of the Social Science of Poverty by David Brady 9780190947361
$96.34Despite remarkable economic advances in many societies during the latter half of the twentieth century, poverty remains a global issue of enduring concern. Poverty is present in some form in every society in the world, and has serious implications for... -
Out of the Melting Pot, into the Fire: Multiculturalism in the World's Past and America's Future by Jens Kurt Heycke
RRP: $28.37$19.65The melting pot has been the prevailing ideal for integrating new citizens through most of America's history, yet contemporary elites often reject it as antiquated and racist. Instead, they advocate multiculturalism, which promotes ethnic boundaries and... -
Family Criminology: An Introduction by Amanda Holt
RRP: $51.59$45.42This textbook offers a fresh conceptual approach to understanding the intersections of crime, criminal justice and family life. In doing so, it proposes a brand new sub-discipline of Criminology that places the family at the heart of its analysis,... -
Food Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know (R) by Robert Paarlberg
RRP: $14.18$10.02The politics of food is changing fast. In rich countries, obesity is now a more serious problem than hunger. Consumers once satisfied with cheap and convenient food now want food that is also safe, nutritious, fresh, and grown by local farmers using... -
Hopeful Influence: A Theology of Christian Leadership by Jude Padfield
RRP: $23.21$20.56The Church by its very nature is called to be hope filled and future orientated - it exists as a sign, instrument and foretaste of the coming Kingdom of God. Christian leadership, therefore, is at heart all about eschatological influence. Engaging... -
Social Policy by Hugh Bochel
RRP: $55.46$49.78This thoroughly revised and expanded new edition provides a comprehensive introduction to contemporary social policy and addresses its historical, theoretical and contextual foundations as well as contemporary policy issues relating to health, education... -
The Social Worker by Clement Attlee
RRP: $12.89$11.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781698828923Author Clement AttleeFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams)...