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Reporting the Troubles: Journalists Tell Their Stories of the Northern Ireland Conflict by Deric Henderson
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $16.32In some ways, I didn't - don't - want to remember any of it. Which is not to say that one ever forgets. I don't know any journalist who worked through the Troubles, with its relentless cycle of... -
Dependency Culture Hartley Dean 9780745012261
RRP: $85.13Booksplease Price: $83.93First published in 1992. In this volume the authors discuss that although the idea that the main object of social security is to regulate the lives of poor people rather than to relieve their poverty... -
Strawberry Plains Audubon Center: Four Centuries of a Mississippi Landscape by Hubert H. McAlexander 9781604730029
Booksplease Price: $36.86In 1982, sisters Ruth Finley and Margaret Finley Shackelford made wills bequeathing 2,500 acres and two antebellum houses in Marshall County, Mississippi, to the National Audubon Society. Early in... -
Political Philosophy and Social Welfare: Essays on the Normative Basis of Welfare Provisions by Raymond Plant 9780415557931
RRP: $63.20Booksplease Price: $57.24This re-issued work, first published in 1980, represents a work of normative political philosophy which argues positively for the centrality of the obligation to meet the various demands of social... -
Investment Decisions in Advanced Manufacturing Technology: A Fuzzy Set Theory Approach by Magdy G. Abdel-Kader
RRP: $46.43Booksplease Price: $42.43First published in 1998, this volume was designed to lead to an operational model of Advanced Manufacturing Technology (AMT) decision making which incorporated the mathematics of fuzzy set theory... -
Blood Kin: A Novel by Mark Powell 9781572339392
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.40Set in the South Carolina foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in the late summer of 1970, Blood Kin tells the story of the Burden family and the community of outcasts that surrounds them. James... -
The Greensboro Reader by Gibbons Ruark 9780807879597
Booksplease Price: $59.16This volume of distinguished stories and poems brings together a number of writers who have either taught or studied at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro during the past thirty years... -
Advanced Introduction to Cities Peter J. Taylor 9781839100147
RRP: $25.74Booksplease Price: $25.09Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world's leading scholars. Designed to be... -
The End of the Welfare State?: Responses to State Retrenchment by Stefan Svallfors 9780415463263
RRP: $63.20Booksplease Price: $57.24Throughout the world, politicians from all the main parties are cutting back on state welfare provision, encouraging people to use the private sector instead and developing increasingly stringent... -
Sir Peter Hall: Pioneer in Regional Planning, Transport and Urban Geography by Richard D. Knowles 9783319280547
Booksplease Price: $60.29This book sheds light on Sir Peter Hall's visions and contributions as recalled by experts. Specialists from the fields of transport and geography testify to Sir Peter Hall's enormous impact on urban... -
Hegemonic Decline: Present and Past by Jonathan Friedman 9781594510090
RRP: $85.13Booksplease Price: $75.32Although the United States is currently the world's only military and economic superpower, the nation's superpower status may not last. The possible futures of the global system and the role of U.S... -
Hegemonic Decline: Present and Past by Jonathan Friedman
RRP: $245.10Booksplease Price: $107.93Although the United States is currently the world's only military and economic superpower, the nation's superpower status may not last. The possible futures of the global system and the role of U.S... -
Appropriating Technology: Vernacular Science And Social Power by Giovanna Di Chiro 9780816634279
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $22.91Contributors: Richard M. Benjamin, Miami U; Hank Bromley, SUNY, Buffalo; Massimiano Bucchi, U of Trento, Italy; Carmen M. Concepcion, U of Puerto Rico; Virginia Eubanks, Rensselaer Polytechnic... -
The Welfare State as Crisis Manager: Explaining the Diversity of Policy Responses to Economic Crisis by Peter Starke 9780230285255
Booksplease Price: $59.70This book presents an in-depth analysis of social policy reactions to international economic shocks in four different welfare states, over a 40-year period. It reveals how expansion and retrenchment... -
The American Century: Consensus and Coercion in the Projection of American Power by David Slater 9780631212218
RRP: $149.58Booksplease Price: $139.44This book brings together studies of Americanization and American imperialism to assess how far the twentieth century can be seen as the "American Century".About the AuthorDavid Slater is Professor... -
The American Century: Consensus and Coercion in the Projection of American Power David Slater (Loughborough University) 9780631212225
RRP: $60.57Booksplease Price: $57.04This book brings together studies of Americanization and American imperialism to assess how far the twentieth century can be seen as the "American Century".About the AuthorDavid Slater is Professor... -
Extraordinary Cities: Millennia of Moral Syndromes, World-Systems and City/State Relations by Peter J. Taylor 9781781954812
RRP: $59.28Booksplease Price: $55.77'Peter J. Taylor has produced a sweeping, empirically grounded, defense of cities as fundamental building blocks of long-term, large scale social structures; a way of freeing social science from... -
The Modern Library: The 200 Best Novels in English Since 1950 by Carmen Callil 9781849016766
Booksplease Price: $26.70For Colm Toibin and Carmen Callil there is no difference between literary and commercial writing - there is only the good novel: engrossing, inspirational, compelling. In their selection of the best... -
Incremental Realism: Postwar American Fiction, Happiness, and Welfare-State Liberalism by Mary Esteve 9781503613942
RRP: $144.48Booksplease Price: $115.97The postwar US political imagination coalesced around a quintessential midcentury American trope: happiness. In Incremental Realism, Mary Esteve offers a bold, revisionist literary and cultural... -
Modernities: A Geohistorical Interpretation Peter J. Taylor (Loughborough University) 9780745621302
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $19.79Taylor develops a geohistorical argument which focuses on the periods and places of modernities, offering a grounded analysis of what it is to be modern. He identifies three 'prime modernities' which... -
The Language of the American South by Cleanth Brooks 9780820331232
RRP: $29.61Booksplease Price: $27.23In this volume Cleanth Brooks pays tribute to the language and literature of the American South. He writes of the language's unique syntax and its celebrated languorous rhythms; of the classical... -
Mapping Welfare Attitudes in East Asia: Cultural and Political Trajectories by Trude Sundberg 9781447357025
RRP: $103.19Booksplease Price: $85.20East Asian societies and welfare systems are rapidly changing, creating an increasing need for research that can help to establish sustainable and legitimate welfare systems. This original... -
Built Around the Fire by Nathan Lipps 9781622882557
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $16.23Built Around the Fire delves into notions of place, the enveloping wonder and plight of our environment, and the complexities of rural culture: an examination of hierarchies, conservatism,... -
The New Regulatory State: Regulating Pensions in Germany and the UK by Lutz Leisering 9780230272057
Booksplease Price: $59.70Explores the role of governments in creating and regulating private pensions in the UK and Germany since the 1980s. Private pensions have given rise to a new regulatory state in this area. The... -
Clough The Autobiography by Brian Clough
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.51For the last three decades Brian Clough has been the most charismatic manager in football. Funny, outrageous, sentimental, he stands out sharply from the bland men in suits. Though his talent has... -
Observing the Sun by Peter O. Taylor 9780521056366
RRP: $56.75Booksplease Price: $52.23Observing the Sun is one of the most interesting and rewarding facets of astronomy to which amateurs can contribute. Few areas of science offer as many opportunities to contribute meaningful data. It... -
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Religion, War, Famine and Death in Reformation Europe by Dr. Andrew Cunningham 9780521467018
RRP: $41.28Booksplease Price: $37.77This book offers an exciting interpretation of early modern European history (1490-1648). Cunningham and Grell's point of departure, and a prism through which events of the period are interpreted, is... -
Bloody Southerners: Clough and Taylor at Brighton by Spencer Vignes
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.62Imagine Pep Guardiola quitting Manchester City to take over at Rochdale. Or Jose Mourinho walking out on United to join Southend. That sort of thing just wouldn't happen, would it? Except that in... -
Randall Jarrell's Letters: An Autobiographical and Literary Selection by Randall Jarrell 9780813921532
RRP: $33.53Booksplease Price: $29.67In this expanded edition of Randall Jarrell's letters, his widow, Mary, has added letters from Jarrell to Peter Taylor, publication of which was withheld during Taylor's lifetime. Taylor was, along... -
Major Thinkers in Welfare: Contemporary Issues in Historical Perspective Vic George (Emeritus Professor of Social Policy, University of Kent) 9781447305842
RRP: $38.69Booksplease Price: $34.88This is the first book to examine the views of a number of theorists from ancient times to the 19th century on a range of welfare issues: wealth, poverty and inequality; slavery, gender issues, and... -
European Welfare Futures: Towards a Theory of Retrenchment by Giuliano Bonoli 9780745618111
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $23.08European Welfare Futures presents a clear and up-to-date analysis of developments in social policy in the main EU member states. It provides a systematic account of welfare retrenchment and assesses... -
Trinity by Leon Uris
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $15.11This is the story of the defeats and triumphs of three Irish families.It is a powerful and stirring look at love and hate, both personal and political.Told through the simple lives of its people,... -
Introduction to Geopolitics by Colin Flint
RRP: $65.78Booksplease Price: $59.25This new updated edition presents the overarching themes of geopolitical structures and agents in an engaging and accessible manner, which requires no previous knowledge of theory or current affairs... -
The Right Tools for the Job: At Work in Twentieth-Century Life Sciences by Adele E. Clarke 9780691603421
RRP: $92.88Booksplease Price: $85.41This volume examines scientific practice through studies of research tools in an array of twentieth-century life sciences. The contributors draw upon and extend the multidisciplinary perspectives in... -
Major thinkers in welfare: Contemporary issues in historical perspective by Professor Vic George 9781847427069
RRP: $109.65Booksplease Price: $90.43This is the first book to examine the views of a number of theorists from ancient times to the 19th century on a range of welfare issues: wealth, poverty and inequality; slavery, gender issues, and... -
Introduction to Social Policy Analysis: Illuminating Welfare Stephen Sinclair (Glasgow Caledonian University) 9781447313922
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $28.11In this distinctive introduction Stephen Sinclair illuminates the subject of Social Policy by showing readers how Social Policy analysts think about welfare issues and policies. From what influences... -
Ending child poverty: Popular welfare for the 21st century? Robert Walker (Department of Social Policy) 9781861341990
Booksplease Price: $29.71In the Beveridge Lecture, delivered on 18 March 1999, Prime Minister Tony Blair committed his government to abolishing child poverty within 20 years. He concluded that the present-day welfare state... -
The Globalizing Cities Reader by Xuefei Ren
RRP: $70.94Booksplease Price: $64.29The newly revised Globalizing Cities Reader reflects how the geographies of theory have recently shifted away from the western vantage points from which much of the classic work in this field was... -
Introduction to Social Policy Analysis: Illuminating Welfare by Stephen Sinclair 9781447313915
RRP: $109.65Booksplease Price: $90.03In this distinctive introduction Stephen Sinclair illuminates the subject of Social Policy by showing readers how Social Policy analysts think about welfare issues and policies. From what influences... -
The Failure of Anglo-liberal Capitalism by C. Hay 9781137360502
Booksplease Price: $54.64Colin Hay argues that the crisis in which we are still mired is best seen as a crisis of growth and not as a crisis of debt. It is a crisis of and for an excessively liberalised form of capitalism...