Uprooted - Parker, Roy - £19.99
This 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 and provides a vivid look at one aspect of...
View ArticleAgeing, health and care - Victor, R. Christina - £21.99
The ageing of the population has enormous policy implications for health care. This important new textbook, written by a leader in the field, covers key questions such as the fitness of older people in...
View ArticleContemporary social evils - Foundation, Rowntree Joseph - £17.99
A hundred years after its philanthropist founder identified poverty, alcohol, drugs and gambling among the social evils of his time, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation initiated a major consultation among...
View ArticleCritical practice with children and young people - Robb, Martin - £19.99
This reader provides a critical perspective on work with children and young people at a time of change. It examines the ways that ideas inform practice, explores recent changes in the organisation of...
View ArticlePublic health ethics and practice - Peckham, Stephen - £21.99
This book examines the principles and values that support an ethical approach to public health practice and provides examples of complex areas which those practising, analysing and planning the health...
View ArticleBroadening the dementia debate - Bartlett, Ruth - £24.99
This book examines dementia from a social citizenship perspective. It looks at rights, status(es) and participation and shows how this framework can be applied in practice.
View ArticleA generation of change, a lifetime of difference? - Evans, Martin - £24.99
This original book provides an overview of changes in social and fiscal policy since the 1970s, using an original and unique lifetime simulation approach to analyse how changes in these policies would...
View ArticleThe governance of problems - Hoppe, Robert - £70.00
A compelling new approach to public policy-making as problem processing, bringing together aspects of puzzling, powering and participation and relating them to cultural theory, issues about networks,...
View ArticleSocial work and global health inequalities - Bywaters, Paul - £23.99
Based on the practice expertise and research of social workers from developing and developed countries worldwide, this book examines the relationship between social work and health inequalities in the...
View ArticleUnderstanding social citizenship (second edition) - Dwyer, Peter - £19.99
This updated edition of Understanding social citizenship provides an understanding of citizenship in relation to UK, EU and global welfare institutions. The second edition contains new topical sections...
View ArticleRadical social work in practice - Ferguson, Iain - £16.99
This much-needed textbook provides a fresh understanding of the radical tradition and shows how it can be developed in contemporary social work.
View ArticleFamily practices in later life - Chambers, Pat - £24.99
This exciting book challenges many common stereotypes about the nature of family involvement as people age. The book explores diversity and change in the family relationships older people maintain,...
View ArticleManaging transitions - Petch, Alison - £17.99
Drawing on the best available research evidence, 'Managing transitions' highlights issues common to all experiencing transition as well as the dilemmas specific to particular situations. It addresses...
View ArticleReligion, belief and social work - Furness, Sheila - £16.99
This book examines how religion and related beliefs have varied impacts on the needs and perceptions of practitioners, service users, and the support networks available to them.
View ArticleThe short guide to social work - Adams, Robert - £9.99
This one-stop text for new and prospective social work students is easy to read and full of essential information and practical advice about what is needed to qualify and practice in social work.
View ArticleHousing policy transformed - King, Peter - £65.00
This book seeks to understand the Right to Buy, the most controversial housing policy of the last 30 years, on its own terms, rather than most studies which focus on its negative impact. It explains...
View ArticleRecording in social work - O'Rourke, Liz - £18.99
This highly topical book explores the conflicting demands on social workers as they record information on case files, and will stimulate a debate on how to achieve more effective recording in social work.
View ArticleOur stories, our lives - Shaffi, Wahida - £7.99
This book presents the stories of 20 women from Bradford between the ages of 14 and 80, from their own perspectives. It offers an intricate mosaic of the experiences, views and hopes of these women and...
View ArticleRegulating sex for sale - Phoenix, Jo - £23.99
'Regulating sex for sale' provides a detailed analysis and critical reflection on the processes, assumptions and contradictions shaping the UK's emerging prostitution policy. It examines the total...
View ArticleCommunicating with children and young people - Lefevre, Michelle - £18.99
This timely book prepares social workers and other practitioners for the challenge of engaging directly with children and young people in order to make a difference to their lives.
View ArticleLeading public sector innovation - Bason, Christian - £21.99
Using global case studies and many practical examples, this book explores the innovation challenges that face the public sector today.
View ArticleUnderstanding theories and concepts in social policy - Lister, Ruth - £19.99
This lively textbook, part of the successful Understanding Welfare series, helps us to understand policy, politics and practice. It combines an in-depth exploration of selected theoretical perspectives...
View ArticleStreet capital - Sandberg, Sveinung - £65.00
Presents a new theoretical framework for understanding street cultures based on fieldwork and interviews with dealers aged between 15 and 30, exploring themes including marginalisation, discrimination,...
View ArticleRural social work - Pugh, Richard - £23.99
This book provides a wide-ranging review of existing writing and research on rural social services and explores some of the distinctive features of rural contexts and rural problems.
View ArticleAsylum, migration and community - O'Neill, Maggie - £24.99
Rooted in more than two decades of scholarship, this book uses critical social theory and participatory, biographical and arts-based methods with asylum seekers, refugees and emerging communities to...
View ArticleSocial work - Rogowski, Steve - £14.99
This book charts social work's development over the last 150 years, calling for a progressive, radical/critical practice based on social justice and social change.
View ArticleLegalising drugs - Bean, Philip - £14.99
This timely book explores the debates surrounding the legalisation of drugs, examining the alternatives and their implications for individuals and society. It will be essential reading for students and...
View ArticleSocial work and child welfare politics - Forsberg, Hannele - £65.00
Drawing on contemporary research and debates from different Nordic countries, this book examines how social work and child welfare politics are produced and challenged as both global and local ideas...
View ArticleAgeing and intergenerational relations - Izuhara, Misa - £24.99
This exciting book explores the exchange of support between generations and examines variations in contemporary practices and rationales in different regions and societies around the world. It draws on...
View ArticleCommunity and ageing - Evans, Simon - £24.99
This important book investigates changing concepts and experiences of community across the lifecourse and into older age and how they play out in housing with care settings. An overview of how the...
View ArticleImplementing restorative justice in children's residential care - Hayden,...
With the growth in the use of restorative justice and restorative approaches, this book takes an in-depth look at their applicability in the environment of children's residential care homes.
View ArticleKids online - Livingstone, Sonia - £19.99
As children spend more time online there are increasing questions about its social implications and consequences. The risks they face and the proposed solutions are all subject to continual change....
View ArticleReinventing social security worldwide - Rys, Vladimir - £19.99
In this timely book, the author, with his life-long experience of international social security, advocates reinstating social insurance by reducing the volume of income redistribution, increasing the...
View ArticleSocial theory for beginners - Ransome, Paul - £20.00
Aimed at first-year undergraduates studying sociology and related disciplines, this introductory-level textbook presents key ideas and concepts in social theory and an account of their intellectual...
View ArticleChallenging choices - Clarke, Michael - £14.99
This lively and topical book provides a critique of choice in contemporary society and policy. Having choices empowers us, but constant extension of choice overwhelms us. In a concise and readable...
View ArticleSocial policy review 22 - Greener, Ian - £65.00
Essential reading for academics and students in the field, Social Policy Review 22: Analysis and debate in social policy, 2010 presents an up-to-date and diverse review of the best in social policy...
View ArticleThe public health system in England - Hunter, J. David - £21.99
This timely and wide-ranging book offers an accessible assessment of challenges confronting a public health system, which will appeal to public health professionals and students.
View ArticleInjustice - Dorling, Daniel - £19.99
Danny Dorling claims in this timely book that in rich countries inequality is now caused by unacknowledged beliefs which propagate it. Hard-hitting and uncompromising in its call to action, this is...
View ArticleParticipatory practice - Ledwith, Margaret - £19.99
This exciting book is a pioneering work of integrated praxis, situating theory within a participatory worldview and grounding practice in the important issues of our times - social justice and...
View ArticleVoyage to Utopias - Fitzpatrick, Tony - £12.99
This fascinating fictional account introduces key ideas in social and political philosophy in a funny, informative and entertaining way. The reader will learn about freedom, responsibility, justice and...
View ArticlePhoenix cities - Power, Anne - £28.99
This book explores economic, social and environmental transformations in Europe and the USA to inform the regeneration of 'weak market cities'.
View ArticleUnequal ageing - Cann, Paul - £17.99
This much-needed book analyses money, health, place, quality of life and identity, and demonstrates the gaps of treatment and outcomes between older and younger people, and between different groups of...
View ArticleThe impact of devolution on social policy - Birrell, Derek - £25.99
With new devolved administrations in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, this book provides a study of developments in the major areas of social policy and a full comparison between the four UK nations.
View ArticleEmbodying identities - Seidler, Jeleniewski Victor - £19.99
This book shapes a new language of social theory that allows people to embody their differences with a sense of dignity and self-worth, enabling them to come to terms with the complexities of their...
View ArticleChildren and young people's worlds - Montgomery, Heather - £19.99
'Children and young people's worlds' offers a range of critical perspectives on children's lives in the early 21st century at both national and international levels. Key topics illustrate important...
View ArticleLeadership for healthcare - Hartley, Jean - £19.99
Having a clear sense of which leadership ideas and practices are rooted in sound theory and convincing evidence, and which are more speculative, is vital for healthcare leaders. This book provides a...
View ArticleUnderstanding human need - Dean, Hartley - £21.99
This book provides an accessible overview of human needs, exploring how they may be translated into rights. It also looks at how social policy can be informed by a politics of human need.
View ArticleTowards the emancipation of patients - OBE, Williamson Charlotte - £22.99
Combining new academic theory with rich empirical evidence, the author explains how looking at healthcare from an emancipatory perspective could improve its quality as patients experience it.
View ArticleChildren of the 21st century (Volume 2) - Hansen, Kirstine - £24.99
This book documents the first five years of life of the children of the influential Millennium Cohort Study, looking at the children's lives and development as they begin formal education and the...
View ArticleWhy the Third Way failed - Jordan, Bill - £22.99
This insightful and progressive book proposes a new moral approach to public policy to replace Third Way governments' failed attempts to reconcile global markets with ethically-informed public policies.
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