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Faraway Home by Marilyn Taylor
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $9.66Karl and Rosa's family watch in horror as Hitler's troops parade down the streets of their home city -- Vienna. It has become very dangerous to be a Jew in Austria, and after their uncle is sent to... -
Public Policy in the Community by Marilyn Taylor 9780230242654
Booksplease Price: $59.02The idea of community involvement and empowerment has become central to politics in recent years. Governments, keen to reduce public spending and increase civic involvement, believe active... -
Changing neighbourhoods: Lessons from the JRF Neighbourhood Programme by Marilyn Taylor 9781861349774
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $22.56This book shares the experience of a four-year programme that was set up to explore how neighbourhood activity could best be supported. It follows the progress of 20 very different neighbourhood... -
Community and Sustainable Development: Participation in the future by Diane Warburton 9781853835308
RRP: $161.25Booksplease Price: $142.80Books like this which bubble over with the fruits of many people experience and insight add new layers of meaning to (the concept if sustainable development) deepening our understanding of what for... -
Community and Sustainable Development: Participation in the future Diane Warburton 9781138971219
RRP: $63.20Booksplease Price: $56.68Books like this which bubble over with the fruits of many people experience and insight add new layers of meaning to (the concept if sustainable development) deepening our understanding of what for... -
Urban Governance, Institutional Capacity and Social Milieux by Goran Cars 9781138704060
RRP: $46.43Booksplease Price: $42.43This title was first published in 2002: Urban governance has faced numerous challenges as city governments, their partners and their critics struggle to transform themselves in the context of... -
Community Approaches to Child Welfare: International Perspectives by Lena Dominelli 9781138616172
RRP: $161.25Booksplease Price: $142.42Published in 1999, Community Approaches to Child Welfare is written by both practitioners and academics to explore ways in which community-based, preventative approaches to child welfare can be used... -
Challenging The Third Sector: Global Prospects For Active Citizenship by Sue Kenny
RRP: $116.10Booksplease Price: $90.04This is the first book to explore the different relationships between active citizenship and civil society, particularly the third sector within civil society. In what ways can the third sector... -
Learning Toward an Ecological Consciousness: Selected Transformative Practices by E. O'Sullivan 9781403963055
RRP: $49.01Booksplease Price: $31.10In their latest book, Edmund O'Sullivan and Marilyn Taylor highlight the pedagogical practices that foster transformation from our current way of thinking about our place in the world to an... -
Enterprising care?: Unpaid voluntary action in the 21st century by Irene Hardill 9781847427212
RRP: $116.10Booksplease Price: $90.04More and more is being expected of volunteers and the voluntary sector in the UK. But what does it mean to be a volunteer today? This book seeks to add new insights into individual action in that... -
Columbia in Manhattanville by Caitlin Blanchfield
Booksplease Price: $21.99In 2003, Columbia University began planning an expansion into neighboring Manhattanville, the site of the soon-to-open campus designed by the Renzo Piano Building Workshop and Skidmore, Owings &... -
The Well-Connected Community: A Networking Approach to Community Development Alison Gilchrist 9781447347798
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $29.06There is a growing recognition of the importance of networking for the vitality and cohesion of community life. The Well-Connected Community provides theoretical insights and practical guidance for... -
Ethics, Equity and Community Development Loretta Pyles 9781447345121
RRP: $41.27Booksplease Price: $33.90This book offers a unique focus on the everyday ethics of community development practice in the context of local and global struggles for equity and social justice. Contributors from around the... -
Planning and Zoning New York City Todd Bressi 9781138513099
RRP: $58.04Booksplease Price: $52.30Two unique events shaped the magnificent unnatural geography of New York City and created its sense of place: the Commissioners' Plan of 1811 and the zoning resolution of 1916. The first imprinted... -
The consumer in public services: Choice, values and difference by 9781847421807
RRP: $42.56Booksplease Price: $34.88This book challenges existing stereotypes about the 'consumer as chooser'. It shows how we must develop a more sophisticated understanding of consumers, examining their place and role as users of... -
The Consumer in Public Services: Choice, Values and Difference by 9781847421814
RRP: $116.10Booksplease Price: $90.43This book challenges existing stereotypes about the 'consumer as chooser'. It shows how we must develop a more sophisticated understanding of consumers, examining their place and role as users of... -
Contract or trust?: The role of compacts in local governance by Gary Craig 9781861343796
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $20.63Relationships between local and central government and voluntary and community organisations have been controversial for some time; and particularly since the introduction of the 'contract culture'... -
The Short Guide to Community Development Alison Gilchrist (Community Development Consultant) 9781447360728
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $16.76The only up-to-date, accessibly written short guide to community development, this third edition offers an invaluable and authoritative introduction. Fully updated to reflect changes in policy,... -
The Short Guide to Community Development by Alison Gilchrist 9781447327837
Booksplease Price: $19.00The only up-to-date, accessibly written short guide to community development, this third edition offers an invaluable and authoritative introduction. Fully updated to reflect changes in policy,... -
The community development reader: History, themes and issues by 9781847427045
RRP: $54.17Booksplease Price: $43.96Community development emerged as a recognisable occupational activity in the United Kingdom in the 1950s. Since then, whilst struggling to remain true to its basic values it has often been... -
The Community Development Reader: History, Themes and Issues by 9781847427052
RRP: $116.09Booksplease Price: $90.42Community development emerged as a recognisable occupational activity in the United Kingdom in the 1950s. Since then, whilst struggling to remain true to its basic values it has often been... -
The Evaluator's Cookbook: Exercises for participatory evaluation with children and young people by Angus McCabe
RRP: $45.14Booksplease Price: $41.77Participation is a vital element of working with children and young people - ensuring that services are meeting their needs as well as promoting citizenship, resilience and general well-being. The... -
Designing Public Policy for Co-production: Theory, Practice and Change Catherine Durose (University of Birmingham) 9781447316954
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $30.43This important book is a response to crises of public policy. Offering an original contribution to a growing debate, the authors argue that traditional technocratic ways of designing policy are... -
Emergent Learning for Wisdom by M. Taylor 9780230603677
RRP: $70.94Booksplease Price: $43.78The new millennium presents us with unexpected events that challenge us to think and act in different ways. Meeting these challenges requires creation of knowledge and development of wisdom. This... -
Emergent Learning for Wisdom by Marilyn M. Taylor 9781349371686
RRP: $70.94Booksplease Price: $43.05The new millennium presents us with unexpected events that challenge us to think and act in different ways. Meeting these challenges requires creation of knowledge and development of wisdom. This... -
Disadvantaged by where you live?: Neighbourhood governance in contemporary urban policy by Ian Smith 9781861348944
RRP: $42.56Booksplease Price: $35.27"Disadvantaged by where you live?" distils lessons from work on neighbourhoods carried out within the Cities Research Centre of the University of the West of England over the past seven years. It... -
Challenging The Third Sector: Global Prospects For Active Citizenship Sue Kenny (Deakin University) 9781447316947
RRP: $42.56Booksplease Price: $34.88This is the first book to explore the different relationships between active citizenship and civil society, particularly the third sector within civil society. In what ways can the third sector... -
Partnership working: Policy and practice Susan Balloch (Health and Social Policy Research Centre (HSPRC), University of Brighton) 9781861342201
RRP: $41.27Booksplease Price: $33.90Over the past 10 years partnership working has become a central feature of public services. This book analyses experience of partnerships in different policy fields, identifying the theoretical and... -
17 Martin Street: A Graphic Novel by Alan Nolan 9781788495806
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $15.88Graphic novel adaptation of the classic wartime novel When Hetty Golden's family move to Martin Street near Portobello bridge in Dublin, they're not sure of their welcome. And next door, Ben...