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Race, Racism and Social Work: Contemporary issues and debates by Michael Lavalette 9781447307075
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £24.99Without a doubt, structural and institutionalised racism is still present in Britain and Europe, a factor that social work education and training has been slow to acknowledge. In this timely new... -
People-Centred Public Health Jane South (School of Health and Community Care, Leeds Metropolitan University.) 9781447305309
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £25.07People-centred public health examines how members of the public can be involved in delivering health improvement, primarily as volunteers or lay health workers. With a foreword by Professor Sir... -
Sixteen for '16: A Progressive Agenda for a Better America by Salvatore J. Babones 9781447324409
Booksplease Price: £12.35The progressive movement is on the march in America and this accessible book points toward a destination. Sixteen for '16 offers a new agenda for the 2016 US election crafted around sixteen core... -
Co-Creation in Theory and Practice: Exploring Creativity in the Global North and South Andres Sandoval-Hernandez 9781447353966
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £22.80This innovative book provides a critical analysis of diverse experiences of Co-creation in neighbourhood settings across the Global North and Global South. A unique collection of international... -
Aging People, Aging Places: Experiences, Opportunities and Challenges of Growing Older in Canada by Maxwell Hartt
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £66.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781447352563Author Maxwell HarttFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Policy PressPublisher Policy... -
What Death Means Now: Thinking Critically about Dying and Grieving Tony Walter 9781447337362
Booksplease Price: £13.28Though death is universal, how we respond to it depends on when and where we live. Dying and grieving continually evolve: new preparations for dying, new kinds of funerals, new ways of handling grief... -
Elements of Research Design by Titus Hjelm 9781447364047
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £19.99Titus Hjelm’s guide to designing a research project is an invaluable primer for students embarking on dissertations, theses and other research projects. The book goes beyond simple introductions... -
The changing role of local politics in Britain by Stephen Leach 9781861346070
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £83.57The Local Government Act 2000 has transformed the way in which local politics operates within local authorities. Local councillors have had to adjust to the introduction of elected mayors, cabinet... -
Understanding the Mixed Economy of Welfare by Brian Lund 9781447333210
Booksplease Price: £85.81As the state withdraws from welfare provision, the mixed economy of welfare – involving private, voluntary and informal sectors – has become ever more important. This second edition of Powell’s... -
Mental Health Service Users in Research: Critical Sociological Perspectives by Patsy Staddon 9781447307341
Booksplease Price: £31.02This book aims to show the value but also the difficulties encountered in the application of 'insider knowledge' in service user research. Mental health service users in research considers ways of... -
Convict Criminology: Inside and Out by Rod Earle 9781447323648
RRP: £69.99Booksplease Price: £69.07Convict criminology is the study of criminology by those who have first-hand experience of imprisonment. This is the first single-authored book to trace the emergence of convict criminology and... -
Women of power: Half a Century of Female Presidents and Prime Ministers Worldwide by Torild Skard 9781447315780
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £94.73CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE 2015 Do women national leaders represent a breakthrough for the women's movement, or is women's leadership weaker than the numbers imply? This unique book, written... -
Social Work and Irish People in Britain: Historical and Contemporary Responses to Irish Children and Families by Paul Michael Garrett 9781861344120
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.99Dominant social work and social care discourses on 'race' and ethnicity often fail to incorporate an Irish dimension. This book challenges this omission and provides new insights into how social work... -
The ethics of welfare: Human rights, dependency and responsibility by Hartley Dean 9781861345585
Booksplease Price: £66.83The book explores the extent to which rights to welfare are related to human inter-dependency on the one hand and the ethics of responsibility on the other. Its intention is to kick-start a fresh... -
Schooling Inequality: Aspirations, Opportunities and the Reproduction of Social Class by Jessie Abrahams 9781447360285
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £21.59Despite a mass expansion of the higher education sector in the UK since the 1960s, young people from socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds remain less likely to enter university than their... -
Austerity Bites 10 Years On: A Journey to the Sharp End of Cuts in the UK Mary O'Hara 9781447374527
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.12Austerity has proven to be more deadly than the COVID-19 pandemic. In fact, over the last decade, the damage caused by austerity measures in the UK has had a long-lasting and profound effect on many... -
Residential Child Care in Practice: Making a Difference Mark Smith (Social Work, School of Social) 9781847423108
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.53Written by experienced practitioners and academics, this is a core text about the practice of residential child care. It takes as its starting point the fact that residential child care involves... -
Unaccompanied Young Migrants: Identity, Care and Justice Sandra Gifford 9781447331889
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.53Taking a multi-disciplinary perspective, and one grounded in human rights, Unaccompanied young migrants explores in-depth the journeys migrant youths take through the UK legal and care systems. ... -
Gender and the Politics of Time: Feminist Theory and Contemporary Debates by Valerie Bryson 9781861347503
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.99Women's increased role in the labour market has combined with concerns about the damaging effects of long working hours to push time-related issues up the policy agenda in many Western nations. This... -
Leadership and the reform of education by Helen M. Gunter 9781847427670
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £83.57Western politicians consider that leadership is essential for the delivery of educational reform. This important and timely book examines how leaders, leading and leadership became the dominant theme... -
Social Justice and Social Policy in Scotland Gerry Mooney (The Open University (Scotland)) 9781847427021
Booksplease Price: £38.93Social justice and social policy in Scotland offers a critical engagement with the state of social policy in one of the devolved nations of the UK, a decade after the introduction of devolution. ... -
Children, family and the state: Decision-making and child participation Nigel Thomas 9781861344489
Booksplease Price: £32.23What part should children take in decisions about their lives? Does their need to be involved in decisions conflict with adult responsibility for their welfare? In its search for answers to these... -
Social inequality and public health by Salvatore J. Babones 9781847423214
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £83.87Public health in the early 21st century increasingly considers how social inequalities impact on individual health, moving away from the focus on how disease relates to the individual person. This... -
Towards the emancipation of patients: Patients' experiences and the patient movement by Charlotte Williamson 9781847427458
Booksplease Price: £83.57Despite a policy focus on involving patients in health care and increasing patient autonomy, much covert coercion of patients takes place in everyday healthcare. This book, by a leading patient... -
Money for Everyone: Why We Need a Citizen's Income by Malcolm Torry 9781447311249
Booksplease Price: £89.15Due to government cuts, the benefits system is currently a hot topic. In this timely book, a Citizen's Income (sometimes called a Basic Income) is defined as an unconditional, non-withdrawable income... -
Unfolding lives: Youth, gender and change by Rachel Thomson 9781847420510
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £83.57The process of becoming an adult in contemporary times is fragmented and unequal, shaped by chance, choice and timing. "Unfolding lives" presents a unique approach to understanding the changing face... -
Children, Families and Social Exclusion: New Approaches to Prevention by Kate Morris 9781861349668
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £83.57Many policy and practice initiatives that aim to prevent social exclusion focus on children and young people. This book seeks to consider new approaches to understanding the complexities of... -
Disabled people and housing: Choices, opportunities and barriers by Laura Hemingway 9781847428066
Booksplease Price: £83.57This book provides a comprehensive investigation of housing issues for disabled people from a social model perspective. Documenting historical and current trends, it looks at policy, barriers to... -
Community Development and Civil Society: Making Connections in the European Context by Paul Henderson 9781861349705
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £83.57To what extent are the ideas and practice of community development across Europe similar? Community Development and Civil Society explores this question with special reference to the UK and Hungary... -
Combining Paid Work and Family Care: Policies and Experiences in International Perspective by 9781447306818
Booksplease Price: £89.15As populations age around the world, increasing efforts are required from both families and governments to secure care and support for older and disabled people.At the same time both women and men... -
Policy Reconsidered: Meanings, Politics and Practices by Susan M. Hodgson 9781861349132
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £83.57The idea of policy is ripe for critical reappraisal. Whilst the context for policy making changes constantly, multiple questions endure, such as how policy is conceived and why; what is taken for... -
Taking the crime out of sex work: New Zealand sex workers' fight for decriminalisation Gillian Abel (University of Otago) 9781847423344
Booksplease Price: £89.45New Zealand was the first country in the world to decriminalise all sectors of sex work. This book provides an in-depth look at New Zealand's experience of decriminalisation. It provides first-hand... -
Community Research for Participation: From Theory to Method by Lisa Goodson 9781847424365
Booksplease Price: £89.45This book bridges a major gap in knowledge by considering, through a range of reflexive chapters from different disciplinary backgrounds, both theoretical and practical issues relating to community... -
Gendering Women: Identity and Mental Wellbeing through the Lifecourse Suzanne Clisby 9781847426765
Booksplease Price: £30.00Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence Gendering Women is an engaging and accessible account of how constructions of femininity fundamentally affect women's mental wellbeing through the... -
Fair play: A Daniel Dorling reader on social justice Daniel Dorling 9781847428790
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £26.99This accessible reader brings together a selection of highly influential writings by Danny Dorling which look at inequality and social justice, why they matter and what they are. Encompassing an... -
The Future of Planning: Beyond Growth Dependence Yvonne Rydin (Bartlett School of Planning, University College London) 9781447308409
Booksplease Price: £25.54For the past half-century, the planning system has operated on the basis of a growth-dependence paradigm. It has been based on market-led urban development and has sought to provide community... -
Including the excluded: From practice to policy in European community development by Paul Henderson 9781861347459
Booksplease Price: £21.07This book provides an in-depth study of how community development can contribute to tackling social exclusion. Drawing on the outcomes of a project funded by the Social Inclusion Programme of the... -
The European challenge: Innovation, policy learning and social cohesion in the new knowledge economy by Graham Room 9781861347398
Booksplease Price: £31.12Economic and social change is accelerating under the twin impact of globalisation and the new information technologies. But how are these processes interrelated? Are they impelling us towards a... -
Changing Communities: Stories of Migration, Displacement and Solidarities by Marjorie Mayo 9781447329312
Booksplease Price: £85.81Issues of displacement and dispossession have become defining characteristics of a globalised 21st century. People are moving within and across national borders, whether displaced, relocated or... -
Key Issues in Corrections by Jeffrey Ian Ross, Ph.D. 9781447318736
Booksplease Price: £28.88Key Issues in Corrections is an engaging textbook critically analyzing the most important challenges affecting the correctional system in the USA. Written by a highly respected expert in the field,...