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Reassessing Attachment Theory in Child Welfare Sue White (University of Sheffield) 9781447336921
RRP: €28.55Booksplease Price: €26.81This book offers an analysis and summary of the uses, abuses and limitations of attachment theory in contemporary child welfare practice. Analysing the primary science and drawing on the authors'... -
The Economics of Arrival: Ideas for a Grown-Up Economy Katherine Trebeck (Wellbeing Economy Alliance) 9781447337263
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €15.68What do we want from economic growth? What sort of a society are we aiming for? In everyday economics, there is no such thing as enough, or too much, growth. Yet in the world's most developed... -
Islam and Social Work: Culturally Sensitive Practice in a Diverse World Sara Ashencaen Crabtree (Bournemouth University) 9781447330103
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €29.50This unique textbook enables social work practitioners to gain a deeper understanding of how Islamic principles inform and influence the lives of Muslim populations. Designed to support work with... -
Human Growth and Development in Adults: Theoretical and Practice Perspectives Julie Christie (Women's Design Service (WDS)) 9781447337379
RRP: €29.74Booksplease Price: €27.72Uniquely wide-ranging in its coverage of key concepts, themes and issues relating to human growth and development in adults, this textbook explores the crucial challenges and transitions that adults... -
Social Workers Affecting Social Policy: An International Perspective by John Gal
RRP: €35.69Booksplease Price: €32.12Furthering 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... -
Hope Under Neoliberal Austerity: Responses from Civil Society and Civic Universities Mel Steer (Newcastle University) 9781447356837
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €29.50Neoliberal-driven austerity has changed the role of the state, public service provision and citizenship. Thriving in today's society is a challenge for communities around the world as governments... -
The Impacts of Welfare Conditionality: Sanctions Support and Behaviour Change Peter Dwyer (University of York) 9781447343738
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €29.50Should a citizen’s right to social welfare be contingent on their personal behaviour? Welfare conditionality, linking citizens’ eligibility for social benefits and services to prescribed compulsory... -
European societies: Mapping structure and change Steffen Mau (Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences, University of Bremen) 9781847426543
RRP: €35.69Booksplease Price: €32.53This comprehensive textbook provides a thorough analysis of the nature of European societies across the expanded EU member states. Using a wealth of data, the authors compare the different dimensions... -
The Short Guide to Working with Children and Young People Liesl Conradie (Department of Applied Social Studies, University of Bedfordshire.) 9781447300236
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €16.65Childhood and youth have become increasingly important key concepts across a range of disciplines, professions and studies. The short guide to working with children and young people is an accessible... -
Gender regimes in transition in Central and Eastern Europe by Gillian Pascall
RRP: €35.69Booksplease Price: €32.18Understanding of welfare states has been much enriched by comparative work on welfare regimes and gender. This book uses these debates to illuminate the changing gender regimes in countries of... -
Participatory Practice: Community-based Action for Transformative Change Margaret Ledwith (Youth and Community Development, School of Applied Social Science, University of Cumbria) 9781447360070
RRP: €28.55Booksplease Price: €26.81In this second edition of a bestselling book, the authors' unique, holistic and radical perspective on participatory practice has been updated to reflect advances made in the past decade, the impact... -
Harnessing Complexity for Better Outcomes in Public and Non-profit Services Max French (Northumbria University) 9781447364115
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €12.92ePDF and ePUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. How can public services and social interventions create and sustain good outcomes for the populations they serve? Building on research... -
Reflecting realities: Participants' perspectives on integrated communities and sustainable development by Jean Anastacio
Booksplease Price: €26.10Government rhetoric increasingly emphasises the importance of community participation in area regeneration programmes; however, it is far less clear how much those involved are able to effectively... -
Peacebuilding, Conflict and Community Development John Eversley (Queen's University Belfast) 9781447359340
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €29.50How 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... -
Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking: The Victim Journey Anne-Marie Greenslade (Leeds Beckett University) 9781447363637
RRP: €101.15Booksplease Price: €83.06Throughout the world, vulnerable people are being deceived into entering abusive journeys. Whether in the organ trade, exploitative labour businesses or forced criminality, their lives will never be... -
Co-producing Research: A Community Development Approach Sarah Banks 9781447340768
RRP: €38.07Booksplease Price: €34.86Offering a critical examination of the nature of co-produced research, this important new book draws on materials and case studies from the ESRC funded project 'Imagine - connecting communities... -
Rematerialising Children's Agency: Everyday Practices in a Post-Socialist Estate Matej Blazek (Loughborough University) 9781447322740
RRP: €101.15Booksplease Price: €83.06This book is a detailed study of children's everyday practices in a small, deprived neighbourhood of post-socialist Bratislava, called Kopcany. It provides a novel empirical insight on what it is... -
Philanthropic Response to Disasters: Gifts, Givers and Consequences by Myles McGregor-Lowndes
RRP: €102.33Booksplease Price: €84.82When disaster strikes, our instinctive response is to make things better, not only as individuals but also as groups, organisations, communities and major institutions within society. With... -
Who’s Afraid of Political Education?: The Challenge to Teach Civic Competence and Democratic Participation by Titus Alexander
RRP: €95.20Booksplease Price: €78.60Democracy should enable citizens to play an informed role in determining how power is exercised for their common wellbeing, but this only works if people have the understanding, skills and confidence... -
Taxation and Social Policy Carlene Wynter (Aston University) 9781447364184
RRP: €35.69Booksplease Price: €32.18This book is about tax and social policy and how they interact with each other. The impact of taxation as an instrument of social policy is central in influencing redistribution and behaviour. This... -
Children caring for parents with HIV and AIDS: Global issues and policy responses by Ruth Evans
RRP: €35.69Booksplease Price: €32.18This ground-breaking book focuses on the experiences and perspectives of children and young people who care for a parent with HIV in the global North and South. Drawing on in-depth qualitative... -
English Planning in Crisis: 10 Steps to a Sustainable Future Hugh Ellis 9781447330349
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €11.52This book is a manifesto for a new planning system in England. Reflecting on controversial new Government reforms and deregulation, the authors draw on policy and practice examples from across the UK... -
The Right Amount of Panic: How Women Trade Freedom for Safety Fiona Vera-Gray (University of Durham) 9781447342298
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €15.68Have you ever thought about how much energy goes into avoiding sexual violence? The work that goes into feeling safe goes largely unnoticed by the women doing it and by the wider world, and yet women... -
The idea of poverty Paul Spicker (Robert Gordon University) 9781861348883
RRP: €27.36Booksplease Price: €25.93This book examines views about what poverty is and what should be done about it. 'Poverty' means many different things to different people - for example, material deprivation, lack of money,... -
Doing research with refugees: Issues and guidelines Bogusia Temple (School of Social Work University of Central Lancashire) 9781847429056
RRP: €38.07Booksplease Price: €34.86This book is the first specifically to explore methodological issues relating to the involvement of refugees in both service evaluation and development and research more generally. It builds on a... -
International Community Organising: Taking Power, Making Change Dave Beck 9781847429766
RRP: €34.50Booksplease Price: €31.27As the Arab Spring continues to work through changes, the Occupy Movement is agitating for change and many are looking for alternatives in the face of global financial and political challenges,... -
Delivering Social Welfare: Governance and Service Provision in the UK Derek Birrell (Ulster University) 9781447319184
RRP: €29.74Booksplease Price: €26.17As the system of governance and delivery of social welfare in the UK radically changes, this important new book argues that the extent of this change is such that it could be considered a fundamental... -
Evidence-Based Policy Making in the Social Sciences: Methods That Matter Gerry Stoker (University of Southampton) 9781447329374
RRP: €35.69Booksplease Price: €32.53Drawing on the insights of some of the world's leading authorities in public policy analysis, this important book offers a distinct and critical showcase of emerging forms of discovery for... -
A Contemporary History of Social Work: Learning from the Past Terry Bamford (Healthwatch Formerly chair of British Association of Social Workers) 9781447322160
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €29.50Drawing on lessons from the recent history of social work to identify how and why it has lost its privilege and influence, this book challenges social work students to understand why social work has... -
Supporting people: Towards a person-centred approach Peter Beresford (Visiting Professor, University of East Anglia and Co-Chair, Shaping Our Lives,) 9781847427625
RRP: €29.74Booksplease Price: €28.07There is widespread agreement that care and support services must change radically if they are to meet the rights and needs of the rapidly growing number of people who require them. For the first... -
Making Sense of Child Sexual Exploitation: Exchange, Abuse and Young People Sophie Hallett 9781447333609
RRP: €27.36Booksplease Price: €21.79Child sexual exploitation (CSE) is now high on the social care agenda, but what is it? How is it different from other forms of child sexual abuse? This important book puts forward the rarely heard... -
Shame and Social Work: Theory, Reflexivity and Practice by Liz Frost 9781447344087
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €29.50For many service users and professionals in the field of social work, shame is an ongoing part of their daily experience. Providing an in-depth examination of the complex phenomena of shame and... -
Childhoods in Context Alison Clark (School of Education, Roehampton University) 9781447305811
RRP: €33.31Booksplease Price: €30.75Childhoods 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: *... -
Criminalisation and Advanced Marginality: Critically Exploring the Work of Loic Wacquant Peter Squires (School of Applied Social Science, University of Brighton) 9781447300007
RRP: €45.21Booksplease Price: €40.20This book represents the first full-length critical and interdisciplinary assessment of Loic Wacquant's work in English. Wacquant's challenging critique of the neo-liberal government of crime and the... -
What Matters in Policing?: Change, Values and Leadership in Turbulent Times Auke van Dijk 9781447326922
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €29.50Policing is at a turbulent turning point: the pace of change is accelerating with renewed emphasis on crime reduction yet with austerity. This topical book examines what matters in policing, rather... -
Social Work in the Community: Making a Difference Barbra Teater (City University of New York) 9781847424846
RRP: €28.55Booksplease Price: €26.81Social work in the community offers practice guidance to students, practice assessors and practitioners within a political, theoretical, methodological and ethical framework. The book is written from... -
The Purpose of Planning: Creating Sustainable Towns and Cities Yvonne Rydin (Bartlett School of Planning, University College London) 9781847424303
RRP: €21.41Booksplease Price: €18.39Planning is never far from the top of the policy or media agenda, whether this concerns 'garden-grabbing', the location of wind farms or protests about travellers' sites. The operation of the... -
Foundations for offender management: Theory, law and policy for contemporary practice Anne Robinson (Sheffield Hallam University) 9781847427649
RRP: €33.31Booksplease Price: €30.75'Offender management' for probation means continuing commitment to constructive work with individuals who break the law but in a changing multi-agency context. Providing a comprehensive introduction... -
Growing up with risk Betsy Thom (School of Health and Social Sciences, Middlesex University) 9781861347312
RRP: €34.50Booksplease Price: €31.27"Growing up with risk" provides a critical analysis of ways in which risk assessment and management - now a pervasive element of contemporary policy and professional practice - are defined and... -
The new countryside?: Ethnicity, nation and exclusion in contemporary rural Britain Sarah Neal (University of Sheffield) 9781861347954
RRP: €35.69Booksplease Price: €32.18This book explores issues of ethnicity, identity and racialised exclusion in rural Britain, in depth and for the first time. It questions what the countryside 'is', problematises who is seen as...