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  • A Practical Guide for Policy Analysis

    The Eightfold Path to More Effective Problem Solving

    by Eugene S. Bardach, Eric M. Patashnik ...
    Drawing on more than 40 years of experience with policy analysis, best-selling authors Eugene Bardach and Eric M. Patashnik use practical tips and real-world examples to equip effective, accurate, and persuasive policy analysts. The Seventh Edition of A Practical Guide for Policy Analysis offers new case studies, expanded discussion, new guidance for policy analysis in a polarized age, and step-by ... Read more

    $52.19 USD

  • Social Security at the Dawn of the 21st Century

    Topical Issues and New Approaches

    Edited by Eugene Bardach ...
    Series series International Social Security Series
    Presenting a periodic overview of the most significant developments and trends in the field of social security has become, for the International Social Security Association, a tradition and a firm commitment. Benefiting from the vast quantity of information uniquely available to the ISSA, its triennial review takes stock of the current state of social security world wide and focuses, through ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

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  • The Character of Harms

    Operational Challenges in Control

    by Malcolm K. Sparrow ...
    How should we deal with societal ills such as crime, poverty, pollution, terrorism, and corruption? The Character of Harms argues that control or mitigation of 'bad' things involves distinctive patterns of thought and action which turn out to be broadly applicable across a range of human endeavors, and which need to be better understood. Malcolm Sparrow demonstrates that an explicit focus on the ... Read more

    $44.29 USD

  • Social Work

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Sally Holland, Jonathan Scourfield ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Social workers spend their time trying to ease social suffering. They encounter the extreme casualties of social inequality: the victims of poverty, illness, addiction, and abuse; they work with abusers and offenders; and operate in the space between the State and the poor or marginalized. Social work is replete with vivid human stories: the troubled teenage boy who cannot settle in a foster home; ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Making the Most of Mess

    Reliability and Policy in Today's Management Challenges

    by Emery Roe ...
    In Making the Most of Mess, Emery Roe emphasizes that policy messes cannot be avoided or cleaned up; they need to be managed. He shows how policymakers and other professionals can learn these necessary skills from control operators who manage large critical infrastructures such as water supplies, telecommunications systems, and electricity grids. The ways in which they prevent major accidents and ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • A Mighty Purpose

    How Jim Grant Sold the World on Saving Its Children

    by Adam Fifield ...
    The inspiring story of how the iconoclastic humanitarian Jim Grant succeeded in saving the lives of tens of millions of children through his extraordinary ability to win over world leadersNicholas Kristof hailed Jim Grant as a man who “probably saved more lives than were destroyed by Hitler, Mao, and Stalin combined.” Nominated by President Jimmy Carter to head UNICEF, Grant ran the United Nations ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • A Social Laboratory for Modern France

    The Musée Social and the Rise of the Welfare State

    by Janet R. Horne ...
    As a nineteenth-century think tank that sought answers to France’s pressing “social question,” the Musée Social reached across political lines to forge a reformist alliance founded on an optimistic faith in social science. In A Social Laboratory for Modern France Janet R. Horne presents the story of this institution, offering a nuanced explanation of how, despite centuries of deep ideological ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Take Care, Son

    The Story of My Dad and his Dementia

    by Tony Husband ...
    'Hi Dad . . . can we have a chat about your dementia . . . Can you remember how it started?'When Ron Husband started to forget things - dates, names, appointments . . . daft things, important things - it took a while to realise that this was 'a different form of forgetting'. But it was just the first sign of the illness that gradually took him away from the family he loved.This is the touching, ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Jobs with Justice

    25 Years, 25 Voices

    by Larry Cohen ...
    The world today has no shortage of economic crises—or politicians and pundits who claim to have the vision that will get us out of the Great Recession. For 25 years, the labor-community coalition Jobs with Justice (JwJ) has endured the brutal vagaries of the global economy with a single alternative economic vision. By putting its ideas into practice, it has won powerful victories with working ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Child Protection

    An Introduction

    by Chris Beckett ...
    Praise for the First Edition:`All readers will be drawn to the style of the book as well as its content. The structure will make sure that it is not just a "one-off", being read as part of a course of study, but a book which is used frequently as a source of reference′ - Child Abuse ReviewThe Second Edition of this best-selling textbook provides students and practitioners with a broad introduction ... Read more

    $78.29 USD

  • Hidden Cameras

    Everything You Need to Know About Covert Recording, Undercover Cameras and Secret Filming

    by Joe Plomin ...
    The complete and authoritative guide to the use of hidden cameras to expose abuse or wrongdoing.Secret filming is no longer the preserve of specialists, professional journalists and private investigators. Drawing on the author's own experience producing undercover documentaries and wearing secret cameras, this book explains covert recording for the general public, including specific advice on the ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Confronting Suburban Poverty in America

    by Elizabeth Kneebone, Alan Berube ...
    It has been nearly a half century since President Lyndon Johnson declared war on poverty. Back in the 1960s tackling poverty ""in place"" meant focusing resources in the inner city and in rural areas. The suburbs were seen as home to middle- and upper-class families-affluent commuters and homeowners looking for good schools and safe communities in which to raise their kids. But today's America is ... Read more

    $25.69 USD