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Tribes, Empires, Nations, and Protest Movements
This book examines how different levels and forms of human collectivity have interacted, voluntarily or coercively, and how these transformed societie...
This book provides a detailed analysis of the economic and political implications of the introduction of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics into the...
This book addresses the challenge for social integration posed by immigration into Western liberal democracies. Movement of people, goods and money ac...
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, it was assumed that liberal democracies would flourish worldwide. Instead, today authoritarian leaders are gai...
Discusses grips, calibers, loads, and the care and fitting of a holster, and looks at the keys to the fast draw and successful gunfighting...
A new way to learn how to play Chess openings.
Opening Moves Made Easy This book has many large clear colour diagrams. You do not need a chess set and board to read this book. It is designed to be ...
What Next for Social Policy?
This book is an up-to-date analysis of the issues facing the future of the social work profession in the face of rising political authoritarianism, ec...
Social Justice in a Global Context
This critical and highly topical introduction to the current debates and politics surrounding welfare reform in the United Kingdom and the United Stat...
First published in 1979, Helping in Social Work elaborates on the personal processes of influence in social work between clients and social workers. S...
Tough Love as Social Policy
`This lively book critiques New Labour assumptions and implementation of policies related to citizenship, communities and welfare reform and the impli...
Social value in public policy
Research on well-being reveals the significance of personal relationships, trust and participation to sustain quality of life, yet it is the economic ...
The Dilemmas of Transnational Mobility
Provides a theoretical framework for the analysis of mobility and border crossing in an age of globalization. Focuses on people working in the UK with...
The Transformation of Collective Life
Intimacy, choice, movement: these are the elements that make up the desirable lifestyle in the mainstream of affluent societies. They also undermine t...
Identities, decisions, citizenship
First published in 1994, Putting the Family First is a study of better-off couples that clarifies the relationship between individualism and family va...
Economics, morality and the origins of the 'Big Society'
In the wake of the economic crash, public policy is in search of a new moral compass. This book explains why the Third Way's combination of market-fri...
Social Work and the Third Way
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What has the contemporary financial context meant for social policy, social work and the relationship between them? Examining the role of political, e...
Books ร la Carte are unbound, three-hole-punch versions of the textbook. This lower cost option is easy to transport and comes with same access code ...
This book argues that the financial crash of 2008-9 has exposed the disastrous consequences of applying economic theory to the collective life of soci...
Labour-Market Decisions in Low-Income Households
How do people on low incomes make decisions about employment and benefit claims? Interview material and economic analysis combine with new theories of...
Originally published in 1976, Freedom and the Welfare State, critiques the Welfare State in Britain and analyses the relationship between freedom and ...
This book considers the role of social value in the making and implementation of public policy, taking into account how concepts such as subjective we...
Franklin argues that these Pacific traversals in public, open cyberspace trace another possible future for the Internet; more hospitable and equitable...
The author shows how - in Europe, North America, Australasia - we are at the cusp of the transformation from societies organised around economic growt...
Habitats, Life Cycles, Food Chains, Threats
Part of the Natural World series, this book looks at the leopard, detailing the animal's life cycle, food chain, natural habitat and daily threats. En...
Transcribed in UEB w/ Nemeth. Tactile graphics are a combination of embossed Tiger-style graphics and mixed materials....
This edition features the exact same content as the traditional text in a convenient, three-hole- punched, loose-leaf version. Books ร la Carte also ...
The Making of the New Claiming Class
Originally published in 1973, Paupers looks at poverty through the lens of class and the Welfare State. The book examines those living in poverty, and...
Bill Jordan seeks to fill a gap in social scientific theory by accounting for why a deterioration in the living standards of the worst-off members of ...
Originally published in 1981, Automatic Poverty provides a much-needed alternative to the Radical Rightโs analysis. The book argues that Britainโs...
Follow a lion cub as it takes its first steps through life in the grasslands of Africa. Discover how the female cubs learn to hunt and kill wildebeest...
The CON in Conservation
The veterinarian founder of Care for the Wild International argues that, while many zoos and organizations share the goal of wildlife conservation, fe...
Wilhelm Steinitz
IntroductionThis book is similar to Rate Your Chess and Rate Your Chess 2 which proved surprisingly popular. It uses a system developed by FIDE master...