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  • The Ways of Friendship

    Anthropological Perspectives

    Edited by Amit Desai, Evan Killick ...
    Friendship is an essential part of human experience, involving ideas of love and morality as well as material and pragmatic concerns. Making and having friends is a central aspect of everyday life in all human societies. Yet friendship is often considered of secondary significance in comparison to domains such as kinship, economics and politics. How important are friends in different cultural ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • COVID-19 and Co-production in Health and Social Care Research, Policy, and Practice

    Volume 1: The Challenges and Necessity of Co-production

    by Helen Walker, Fiona Quigley, Lauren O’Connell, Iain Cameron, Chris Rintoul, Anne Campbell, Allan Herbert, Eva Elliott, Mashmooma Din, Amal Beyrouty, Cordelia Ruck, Lucy Allwright, Ellen Clifford, Bob Singh Virdee, Harvinder Kaur Dulku, Felipe Szabzon, Cristian R. Montenegro, Glenn Robert, Sally Brearley, Graham Martin, Amit Desai, Giulia Zoccatelli, Jacqui Dyer, Lela Kogbara, Yasmin Ibison, Celestin Okoroji, Natalie Creary, Sophie Staniszewska, Usha Boolaky, Alison Allam, Savitri Hensman ...
    EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Groups most severely affected by COVID-19 have tended to be those marginalised before the pandemic and are now largely being ignored in developing responses to it.This two-volume set of Rapid Responses explores the urgent need to put co-production and participatory approaches at the heart of responses to the pandemic and demonstrates ... Read more

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  • Small Places, Large Issues

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  • Health Promotion

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    Health Promotion: A Practical Guide to Effective Communication introduces students to the fundamental principles of health promotion in Australian and international public health contexts. Combining the core principles and theories of health promotion with those of effective communication, the text guides readers through the practical steps of planning, implementing and evaluating programs that ... Read more

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  • How to Think Like an Anthropologist

    by Matthew Engelke ...
    From an award-winning anthropologist, a lively accessible, and at times irreverent introduction to the subjectWhat is anthropology? What can it tell us about the world? Why, in short, does it matter? For well over a century, cultural anthropologists have circled the globe, from Papua New Guinea to suburban England and from China to California, uncovering surprising facts and insights about how ... Read more

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  • The Empire Writes Back

    Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures

    by Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, Helen Tiffin ...
    Series series New Accents
    The experience of colonization and the challenges of a post-colonial world have produced an explosion of new writing in English. This diverse and powerful body of literature has established a specific practice of post-colonial writing in cultures as various as India, Australia, the West Indies and Canada, and has challenged both the traditional canon and dominant ideas of literature and culture ... Read more

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  • Ethical Evidence and Policymaking

    Interdisciplinary and International Research

    Edited by Ron Iphofen, Dónal O’Mathúna ...
    EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.This important book offers practical advice for using evidence and research in policymaking. The book has two aims. First, it builds a case for ethics and global values in research and knowledge exchange, and second, it examines specific policy areas and how evidence can guide practice.The book covers important policy areas including ... Read more

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  • The End of the Cognitive Empire

    The Coming of Age of Epistemologies of the South

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  • Mental Health

    Edited by Jeremy Weinstein ...
    Series series Critical and Radical Debates in Social Work
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  • Trans Femme Futures

    Abolitionist Ethics for Transfeminist Worlds

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  • COVID-19 Collaborations

    Researching Poverty and Low-Income Family Life during the Pandemic

    Edited by Kayleigh Garthwaite, Ruth Patrick, Maddy Power, Anna Tarrant, Rosalie Warnock ...
    Epdf and ePUB available Open Access under CC BY NC ND licence. The COVID-19 pandemic affected everyone – but, for some, existing social inequalities were exacerbated, and this created a vital need for research. Researchers found themselves operating in a new and difficult context; they needed to act quickly and think collectively to embark on new research despite the constraints of the pandemic. ... Read more

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