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![Community health and wellbeing: Action research on health inequalities by Steve Cropper 9781861348180 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/6064534/6141539/9781861348180__80885.1732851784.jpg?c=1 "Community health and wellbeing: Action research on health inequalities by Steve Cropper 9781861348180 [USED COPY]")
Community health and wellbeing: Action research on health inequalities by Steve Cropper 9781861348180 [USED COPY]
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £3.78Improving health in populations in which health is poor is a complex process. This book argues that the traditional government approach of exhorting individuals to live healthier lifestyles is not... -
Policy Analysis in the Netherlands by Frans Van Nispen 9781447313335
RRP: £111.99Booksplease Price: £85.99This comprehensive study, part of the International Library of Policy Analysis, edited by Iris Geva-May and Michael Howlett, brings together for the first time a systemic overview of policy analysis... -
Estate Regeneration and its Discontents: Public Housing, Place and Inequality in London by Paul Watt 9781447329183
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £61.27Public housing estates are disappearing from London's skyline in the name of regeneration, but what impact is state-led gentrification having on London's marginalised communities? Watt provides a... -
Polish families and migration since EU accession Anne White (University College London) 9781847428202
RRP: £85.99Booksplease Price: £66.50Based on 115 interviews with Polish mothers in the UK and Poland, as well as a specially-commissioned opinion poll, this topical book discusses recent Polish migration to the UK. In a vivid account... -
The Third Sector Delivering Public Services: Developments, Innovations and Challenges by James Rees 9781447322399
RRP: £79.99Booksplease Price: £61.26This important book is the first edited collection to provide an up to date and comprehensive overview of the third sector's role in public service delivery. Exploring areas such as social... -
Social-Spatial Segregation: Concepts, Processes and Outcomes Christopher D. Lloyd (School of Geography, Archaeology and Palaeoecology, Queens University Belfast) 9781447301356
RRP: £79.99Booksplease Price: £61.26This edited volume brings together leading researchers from the United States, the United Kingdom and Europe to look at the processes leading to segregation and its implications. With a... -
Social Work with People with Learning Difficulties: Making a Difference by Susan Hunter 9781861348791
RRP: £74.99Booksplease Price: £57.54In the field of learning difficulties there has been a revolution in professional understanding and user aspirations towards delivery of services. Institutional models no longer prevail; language,... -
![Austerity Bites: A Journey to the Sharp End of Cuts in the UK by Mary O'Hara 9781447315704 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/5991719/6068737/9781447315704__36904.1730605129.jpg?c=1 "Austerity Bites: A Journey to the Sharp End of Cuts in the UK by Mary O'Hara 9781447315704 [USED COPY]")
Austerity Bites: A Journey to the Sharp End of Cuts in the UK by Mary O'Hara 9781447315704 [USED COPY]
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £2.19Voted one of the Guardian best books of 2014 by Owen Jones. After coming to power in May 2010, the Coalition government in the United Kingdom embarked on a drastic programme of cuts to public... -
![Critical practice with children and young people by Martin Robb 9781847426819 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/6098213/6175214/9781847426819__37348.1734234286.jpg?c=1 "Critical practice with children and young people by Martin Robb 9781847426819 [USED COPY]")
Critical practice with children and young people by Martin Robb 9781847426819 [USED COPY]
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £2.29This reader provides a critical perspective on work with children and young people at a time of change. Written by experts with a wide range of academic and professional experience, it examines the... -
![Why We Can't Afford the Rich by Andrew Sayer 9781447320869 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/5822567/5899635/9781447320869__92522.1726540910.jpg?c=1 "Why We Can't Afford the Rich by Andrew Sayer 9781447320869 [USED COPY]")
Why We Can't Afford the Rich by Andrew Sayer 9781447320869 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £3.62As inequalities widen and the effects of austerity deepen, in many countries the wealth of the rich has soared. Why we can't afford the rich exposes the unjust and dysfunctional mechanisms that allow... -
Getting By: Estates, Class and Culture in Austerity Britain Lisa Mckenzie 9781447309956
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.97While the 1% rule, poor neighbourhoods have become the subject of public concern and media scorn, blamed for society's ills. This unique book redresses the balance. Lisa Mckenzie lived on the St... -
Leading change: A guide to whole systems working Margaret Attwood 9781861344496
Booksplease Price: £38.93There is continuing government pressure on public services to 'reform' and change. Expectations of new forms and standards of delivery, joined-up practice and the re-connection of services to users... -
Children caring for parents with mental illness: Perspectives of young carers, parents and professionals by Jo Aldridge 9781861343994
Booksplease Price: £35.48Little is known about the experiences of children living in families affected by severe and enduring mental illness. This is the first in-depth study of children and young people caring for parents... -
Doing Phenomenography: A Practical Guide Amanda M.L. Taylor-Beswick 9781447369899
Booksplease Price: £82.83This practical handbook provides a step-by-step guide for students who are new to phenomenography. A qualitative research approach within the interpretivist paradigm, phenomenography explores the... -
The Short Guide to Social Policy John Hudson (Department of Social Policy & Social Work, University of York) 9781447325680
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.73This fully updated edition of an essential introductory text offers a concise guide to the key structures and concepts in social policy and is now supplemented by unique and innovative digital... -
Public Service Motivation?: Rethinking What Motivates Public Actors by Christopher O'Leary 9781447360797
Booksplease Price: £76.10Chris O'Leary looks afresh at the reasons for prosocial work choices in the first substantive critique of Public Service Motivation (PSM). With critical analysis of theoretical and empirical research... -
Fracture: Adventures of a broken body Ann Oakley (UCL Social Research Institute) 9781861349378
Booksplease Price: £17.48The starting point of Ann Oakley's fascinating book is the fracture of her right arm in the grounds of a hotel in the USA. What begins as an accident becomes a journey into some critical themes of... -
Remaking governance: Peoples, politics and the public sphere by Janet Newman 9781861346407
Booksplease Price: £115.03Remaking governance focuses on the dynamics of change as new strategies - active citizenship, public participation, partnership working, consumerism - encounter existing institutions. It explores... -
Delivering Personal Health Budgets: A Guide to Policy and Practice Vidhya Alakeson (Deputy Chief Executive of Resolution Foundation) 9781447308522
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £17.85Personal health budgets are an important new tool to improve the lives of people living with long-term conditions and disabilities by giving them greater choice and control over their healthcare.This... -
Valuing older people: A humanist approach to ageing Ricca Edmondson (Department of Political Science and Sociology/Irish centre for Social Gerontology, National University of Ireland, Galway.) 9781847422910
RRP: £30.99Booksplease Price: £24.55How can we understand older people as real human beings, value their wisdom, and appreciate that their norms and purposes both matter in themselves and are affected by those of others? Using a... -
Social Workers Affecting Social Policy: An International Perspective by John Gal 9781847429735
RRP: £79.99Booksplease Price: £62.12Furthering 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... -
Working futures?: Disabled people, policy and social inclusion by Alan Roulstone 9781861346261
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £25.29Working futures? looks at the current effectiveness and future scope for enabling policy in the field of disability and employment. By addressing the current strengths and weaknesses of disability... -
Work, Money and Duality: Trading Sex as a Side Hustle Raven Bowen (National Ugly Mugs (NUM)) 9781447358817
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £21.57As the labour market continues to exploit workers by offering precarious, low-paid and temporary jobs, for some duality offers much needed flexibility and staves off poverty. Based on extensive... -
Imagining Regulation Differently: Co-creating for Engagement by Morag McDermont 9781447348016
RRP: £79.99Booksplease Price: £62.12There is an urgent need to rethink relationships between systems of government and those who are 'governed'. This book explores ways of rethinking those relationships by bringing communities normally... -
Living on the Margins: Undocumented Migrants in a Global City by Alice Bloch 9781447319368
RRP: £79.99Booksplease Price: £62.12Living on the margins offers a unique insight into the working lives of undocumented (or 'irregular') migrants living in London, and their employers. Breaking new ground, this topical book exposes... -
Peacebuilding, Conflict and Community Development by John Eversley 9781447359333
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £62.13How do local communities effectively build peace and reconciliation before, during and after open violence? This trailblazing book gives practical examples, from the Global North, the former Soviet... -
Global Social Work in a Political Context: Radical Perspectives by Iain Ferguson 9781447322665
RRP: £79.99Booksplease Price: £62.12How is social work shaped by global issues and international problems and how should it address them? This book employs a radical perspective to examine international social work. Globalisation had... -
Diversity in Family Life: Gender, Relationships and Social Change by Elisabetta Ruspini 9781447300939
RRP: £79.99Booksplease Price: £62.12As new forms of family and 'non-traditional' families grow in number, there is a need to understand these 'new' arrangements and models of parenthood. This ground-breaking book discusses, using a... -
Safeguarding Adults Online: Perspectives on Rights to Participation by Emma Bond 9781447360575
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £62.13This much needed volume fills an overlooked gap in adult protection - the digital arena - in providing a comprehensive overview of policy and practice in online safeguarding of adults considered to... -
Changing Adolescence: Social Trends and Mental Health by Ann Hagell 9781447301042
RRP: £85.99Booksplease Price: £67.53The general well-being of British adolescents has been the topic of considerable debate in recent years, but too often this is based on myth rather than fact. Are today's young people more stressed,... -
Social Policy Review 31: Analysis and Debate in Social Policy, 2019 by Elke Heins 9781447343981
RRP: £79.99Booksplease Price: £62.12Bringing together the voices of leading experts in the field, this edition offers an up-to-date and diverse review of the best in social policy scholarship over the past year. The book considers a... -
Women and Welfare Conditionality: Lived Experiences of Benefit Sanctions, Work and Welfare by Sharon Wright 9781447347736
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £62.13Recent welfare reforms, based on austerity narratives and a gender-neutral rationale, have failed to recognise the ways in which women and men experience the different demands and rewards of paid... -
Medical Doctors in Health Reforms: A Comparative Study of England and Canada by Jean-Louis Denis 9781447352150
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £62.13This timely comparative study assesses the role of medical doctors in reforming publicly-funded health services in England and Canada. Respected authors from health and legal backgrounds from both... -
Decision Making in Child and Family Social Work: Perspectives on Children's Participation Clive Diaz (Cardiff University) 9781447354444
RRP: £74.99Booksplease Price: £58.34There is increasing pressure to involve children and young people in the decisions that affect them. Presenting new research on the extent to which parents and children participate in decision making... -
Financial Inclusion: Critique and Alternatives by Rajiv Prabhakar 9781447345466
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £62.13Should the public play a greater role within the financial system? Decisions about money are a part of our everyday lives. Supporters promote financial inclusion as a way of helping people navigate... -
Providing Public Space in a Contemporary Metropolis: Dilemmas and Lessons from London and Hong Kong Claudio De Magalhães 9781447358855
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £62.13Increasingly, public space provision and management are being transferred from the public sector to real estate developers, private sector organisations, voluntary groups and community bodies... -
Making it personal: Individualising activation services in the EU by Rik van Berkel 9781861347978
RRP: £79.99Booksplease Price: £62.12Public social services are increasingly being individualised in order to better meet the differentiated needs of competent and independent citizens and to promote the effectiveness of social... -
Vital Bodies: Living with Illness by Charlotte Bates 9781447335047
RRP: £79.99Booksplease Price: £62.12This book is the story of twelve people, each living with long-term illness. Delving into the routines and rhythms of everyday life, the book reveals the significance of the things that we usually... -
Migration and Social Work: Approaches, Visions and Challenges Elin Ekstroem (Linnaeus University) 9781447361800
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £62.13With cross-cultural perspectives from contributors in nine countries, this book showcases much-needed research on current issues around migration and social work in Europe. Focusing on the reception,... -
Welfare policy under New Labour: Views from inside Westminster by Hugh M. Bochel 9781861347909
RRP: £79.99Booksplease Price: £62.12Based on an extensive series of interviews with MPs and Peers from across Parliament, the book traces the dynamics of political debate on welfare both between and within parties; assesses the...