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The Rules of Democracy Marcial Bragadini Boo (Chief Executive of UKPHR (UK Public Health Register)) 9781447364146
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $14.55The world can be run better. Democracy is the most effective way to take back control over decisions that impact on people's lives. But democracy must evolve following a Global Technological... -
Making the Most of Your Research Journal Nicole Brown (UCL Institute of Education) 9781447360049
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $19.01Providing practical guidance based on real-life examples, this book shows researchers different forms and ways of keeping a research journal and how to get the most out of journaling. Appealing to... -
How to Use Social Work Theory in Practice: An Essential Guide Malcolm Payne 9781447343776
RRP: $36.17Booksplease Price: $29.47Social work theory is full of ideas about how to practise. It guides you in what to do as well as how to approach and think about social work goals. In this clear and systematic book covering both... -
The Cruel Optimism of Racial Justice Nasar Meer (The University of Edinburgh) 9781447363026
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $19.40What can we learn from successes and failures in the pursuit of racial justice in the UK and elsewhere in the Global North? A dominant view of racial justice in Britain has long been linked to a... -
Residential Child Care in Practice: Making a Difference Mark Smith (Social Work, School of Social) 9781847423108
RRP: $32.15Booksplease Price: $28.13Written 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... -
Adult Social Care Iain Ferguson (University of the West of Scotland) 9781447316169
Booksplease Price: $16.78Adult social care in Britain has been at the centre of much media and public attention in recent years. Revelations of horrific abuse in learning disability settings, the collapse of major private... -
The New Working Class: How to Win Hearts, Minds and Votes Claire Ainsley (Executive Director at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation) 9781447344186
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $16.32Recent events such as the Brexit vote and the 2017 general election result highlight the erosion of traditional class identities and the decoupling of class from political identity. The majority of... -
Beyond Behaviour Change: Key Issues, Interdisciplinary Approaches and Future Directions Fiona Spotswood (University of the West of England) 9781447317562
RRP: $40.19Booksplease Price: $36.23'Behaviour change' has become a buzz phrase of growing importance to policymakers and researchers. There is an increasing focus on exploring the relationship between social organisation and... -
Faith as social capital: Connecting or dividing? Robert Furbey (School of Environment and Development, Sheffield Hallam University) 9781861348371
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $22.73The UK government has identified Faith communities as important sources of 'social capital' in community development and regeneration. But religion is also associated with conflict and division. How... -
Photovoice Reimagined by Nicole Brown 9781447369387
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $19.40Over the past decades, ‘photovoice’ has emerged as a participatory and creative research method in which participants capture and discuss their reality through photographs. This indispensable... -
Uncomfortably Off: Why Addressing Inequality Matters, Even for High Earners by Marcos González Hernando 9781447367529
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $14.55In highly unequal societies such as the UK, where the top 10% take a higher share of disposable income than in most other European countries, many feel resentment towards high earners. On paper, they... -
Migration and socioeconomic change: A 2001 Census analysis of Britain's larger cities by Tony Champion 9781847420039
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $21.43Migration and socioeconomic change brings new evidence to debates on urban regeneration in Britain: are we seeing urban renaissance, or is there city flight? This study examines 27 of the largest... -
Uprooted: The Shipment of Poor Children to Canada, 1867-1917 by Roy Parker 9781847426680
RRP: $33.49Booksplease Price: $31.61This book explores the economic, religious, political and personal forces that led to some 80,000 British children being sent to Canada between 1867 and 1915. How did this come about? What were the... -
Austerity Bites 10 Years On: A Journey to the Sharp End of Cuts in the UK Mary O'Hara 9781447374527
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $14.55Austerity 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... -
50 Facts Everyone Should Know about the Police: Criminal Investigation and Policing in England and Wales John Lamb 9781447370475
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $19.40Have you ever wondered whether crime dramas reflect the reality of police work? Or what the future of policing could look like in the context of recent controversies? Offering thought-provoking... -
Child Development and the Brain: An Introduction by Rob Abbott 9781447307044
RRP: $32.15Booksplease Price: $28.13This accessibly written textbook explores how our increasing knowledge of neuroscience and advances in methods of investigation is changing our understanding of child development. Packed full of... -
What Kind of Democracy Is This?: Politics in a Changing World by Matthew Flinders 9781447337621
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.56Has there ever been a period in modern history when democratic politics seemed more unpredictable or unruly? The old rules by which politics was once both ordered and understood have waned, in the... -
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A more equal society?: New Labour, poverty, inequality and exclusion by John Hills 9781861345776 [USED COPY]
RRP: $36.17Booksplease Price: $3.51This major new book provides, for the first time, a detailed evaluation of policies on poverty and social exclusion since 1997, and their effects. Bringing together leading experts in the field, it... -
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Childhoods in Context by Alison Clark 9781447305811 [USED COPY]
RRP: $37.51Booksplease Price: $3.22Childhoods in context offers a critical exploration of childhood, drawing attention to the physical and social context of children and young people's lives. Three key themes are explored: *... -
Markets as sites for social interaction: Spaces of diversity by Sophie Watson 9781861349255
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $21.43Open air markets are as old as the market towns they spawned but in the modern world of 24 hour shopping, credit cards, super stores, sprawling multi shop malls and one stop shopping do they still... -
What Have Charities Ever Done for Us?: The Stories Behind the Headlines Stephen Cook (Journalist) 9781447359883
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $17.66When the coronavirus pandemic took hold early in 2020, charities were among the first to respond to the resulting social and economic distress. But recent scandals and a more critical climate have... -
Community Development in Action: Putting Freire into Practice Margaret Ledwith (Youth and Community Development, School of Applied Social Science, University of Cumbria) 9781847428752
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $20.09In a world in which social divisions are widening not lessening, it is essential for community development, or any other practice committed to social justice and sustainability, to understand how... -
Ethics of Care: Critical Advances in International Perspective Marian Barnes (University of Brighton) 9781447316541
RRP: $41.53Booksplease Price: $38.24Over the last 20 years there has been a flourishing of work on feminist care ethics. This collection makes a unique contribution to this body of work. The international contributors demonstrate the... -
Intermediaries in the Criminal Justice System: Improving Communication for Vulnerable Witnesses and Defendants Joyce Plotnikoff 9781447326069
RRP: $38.85Booksplease Price: $36.65This is the first book about the intermediary scheme, criminal justice's untold 'good news story'. Intermediaries are independent communication specialists who assist children and vulnerable adults... -
Integrating victims in restorative youth justice Adam Crawford (Centre for Criminal Justice Studies, University of Leeds) 9781861347855
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $24.43It is a key aim of current youth justice policy to introduce principles of restorative justice and involve victims in responses to crime. This is most evident in the referral order and youth offender... -
Mental Health Jeremy Weinstein 9781447316176
Booksplease Price: $16.78Mental health social work is at an impasse. On the one hand, the emphasis in recent policy documents on the social roots of much mental distress ,and in the recovery approaches popular with service... -
White Minds: Everyday Performance, Violence and Resistance Guilaine Kinouani (psychologist, group analyst and the director and founder of Race Reflections, Syracuse University) 9781447357469
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $19.40It is widely understood that race is a social fact with profound implications for life chances, group identity, collective representation and the social order. ‘Whiteness’, the source of race-based... -
Childhood and Youth Gary Clapton (University of Edinburgh) 9781447321941
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $14.55Childhood and youth have often been the targets of moral panic rhetoric. This Byte explores a series of pressing concerns about young people: child abuse, child pornography, child sexual... -
Secrets and Silence: Uncovering the Legacy of the Cleveland Child Sexual Abuse Case Beatrix Campbell 9781447341147
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $14.55The child sexual abuse scandal in the English county of Cleveland in the 1980s was a defining moment but not the scandal we were led to believe it was. Acclaimed journalist Beatrix Campbell has... -
What Matters and Who Matters to Young People Leaving Care: A New Approach to Planning by Peter Appleton 9781447368335
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $19.40The EPDF and EPUB are available open access under a CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This publication was supported by the University of Essex's open access fund. How do young people transitioning from care plan... -
Transforming society?: Social work and sociology by Graeme Simpson 9781861347411
RRP: $32.15Booksplease Price: $30.19Society is undergoing change, and, as a result, social welfare services - including social work - are being transformed. This book explores the sociological basis of contemporary society and shows... -
The Education Debate by Stephen J. Ball 9781861349200
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $18.41Tony Blair's 1996 pre-election speech put 'education, education, education' firmly at the centre of the policy stage. Education has since become a key political issue and a major focus of media... -
Employment transitions of older workers: The role of flexible employment in maintaining labour market participation and promoting job quality by Stephen Lissenburgh 9781861344755
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $21.43The experience of an abrupt and often premature departure from work can leave individuals feeling disorientated and disappointed and can prevent their valuable economic potential from being tapped. ... -
Information and joining up services: The case of an information guide for parents of disabled children by Bridgette Wessels 9781861344298
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $22.43There have been numerous government initiatives in relation to providing quality services for disabled children and their families. One key area in need of further development, identified by both... -
Attitudes to flexible working and family life by Diane M. Houston 9781861345493
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $22.43This report is the first to examine attitudes towards flexible working and family life. Drawing on a study of over 1500 members of the Amalgamated Electrical and Engineering Union (AEEU) and... -
Sexualities: Personal lives and social policy by Jean Carabine 9781861345189 [USED COPY]
RRP: $36.17Booksplease Price: $2.93Sexualities: Personal Lives and Social Policy explores the choices that we make about our sexuality and how these can transform our personal lives. It analyses how social policy informs and responds... -
Key Challenges in Criminal Investigation by Martin O'Neill
RRP: $30.81Booksplease Price: $29.20What are the current and future challenges in criminal investigation carried out by the police in the UK? How has the role of the detective changed over time and is there a real journey towards... -
Islam in Prison: Finding Faith, Freedom and Fraternity Matthew Wilkinson (SOAS University of London) 9781447363606
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $22.73This overview of how Islam is understood and practised in British and European prisons is an indispensable primer for prison and legal practitioners and policy-makers and contributes a much-needed... -
University-Industry Partnerships for Positive Change: Transformational Strategic Alliances Towards UN SDGs Tim Bodley-Scott (University College London) 9781447364245
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $22.43Robust university–industry partnerships are vital to achieve the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and create a better world for everyone. Developing the theory and practice of the ‘5th... -
Protecting Children: A Social Model Brid Featherstone 9781447332756
RRP: $32.15Booksplease Price: $29.47The state is increasingly experienced as both intrusive and neglectful, particularly by those living in poverty, leading to loss of trust and widespread feelings of alienation and disconnection...