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  • Agile Actors on Complex Terrains

    Transformative Realism and Public Policy

    by Graham Room ...
    Series series Complexity in Social Science
    This book assesses the value and relevance of the literature on complex systems to policy-making, contributing to both social theory and policy analysis. For this purpose it develops two key ideas: agile action and transformative realism. The book takes some major themes from complexity science, presents them in a clear and accessible manner and applies them to core problems in sociological theory ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Alcohol: No Ordinary Commodity

    Research and public policy

    by Thomas F. Babor, Sally Casswell, Kathryn Graham, Taisia Huckle, Michael Livingston, Robin Room, Ingeborg Rossow, Bundit Sornpaisarn, Esa Österberg, Jürgen Rehm ...
    Alcohol: No Ordinary Commodity is a collaborative effort by an international group of addiction scientists to improve the linkages between addiction science and alcohol policy. It presents, in a comprehensive, practical, and readily accessible form, the accumulated scientific knowledge on alcohol research that has a direct relevance to the development of alcohol policy on local, national, and ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

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  • Tackling Wicked Problems

    Through the Transdisciplinary Imagination

    Edited by John Harris, Valerie A Brown, Jacqueline Russell ...
    From climate change to GM foods, we are increasingly confronted with complex, interconnected social and environmental problems that span disciplines, knowledge bases and value systems. This book offers a transdisciplinary, open approach for those working towards resolving these 'wicked' problems and highlights the crucial role of this 'transdisciplinary imagination' in addressing the shift to ... Read more

    $91.99 USD

  • The Action Research Planner

    Doing Critical Participatory Action Research

    by Stephen Kemmis, Rhonda Nixon, Robin McTaggart ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    A fully-updated and reworked version of the classic book by Stephen Kemmis and Robin McTaggart, now joined by Rhonda Nixon, The Action Research Planner is a detailed guide to developing and conducting a critical participatory action research project. The authors outline new views on ‘participation’ (based on Jürgen Habermas’s notion of a ‘public sphere’), ‘practice’ (as shaped by practice ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • An Introduction to Community and Primary Health Care

    Edited by Diana Guzys, Rhonda Brown, Elizabeth Halcomb, Dean Whitehead ...
    Community and primary health care nursing is a rapidly growing field. Founded on the social model of health, the primary health care approach explores how social, environmental, economic and political factors affect the health of the individual and communities, and the role of nurses and other health care practitioners in facilitating an equitable and collaborative health care process. An ... Read more

    $60.69 USD

  • Globalization, Lifelong Learning and the Learning Society

    Sociological Perspectives

    by Peter Jarvis ...
    Series series Lifelong Learning and the Learning Society
    This book critically assesses the learning that is required and provided within a learning society and gives a detailed sociological analysis of the emerging role of lifelong learning with examples from around the globe. Divided into three clear parts the book:looks at the development of the knowledge economyprovides a critique of lifelong learning and the learning societyfocuses on the changing ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • The Sociology of Children, Childhood and Generation

    by Madeleine Leonard ...
    Outlining sociology’s distinctive contribution to childhood studies and our understanding of contemporary children and childhood, The Sociology of Children, Childhood and Generation provides a thought provoking and comprehensive account of the connections between the macro worlds of childhood and the micro worlds of children’s everyday lives.Examining children’s involvement in areas such as the ... Read more

    $69.29 USD

  • Oxford Handbook of Public Health Practice

    Edited by Ichiro Kawachi, Iain Lang, Walter Ricciardi ...
    Series series Oxford Medical Handbooks
    Fully revised and updated for the fourth edition, the award-winning Oxford Handbook of Public Health Practice remains the first resort for practitioners in the field. Structured into practical sections addressed towards professional competencies and translating evidence into policy, this Handbook provides concise summaries and covers real issues from across the globe, providing a world of ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Managing Complex Governance Systems

    Edited by Geert Teisman, Arwin van Buuren, Lasse M. Gerrits ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management
    Advances in public management sciences have long indicated the empirical finding that the normal state of public management systems is complex and that its dynamics are non-linear. Complex systems are subject to system pressures, system shocks, chance events, path-dependency and self-organisation. Arguing that complexity is an ever-present characteristic of our developed societies and governance ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Global Health Collaboration

    Challenges and Lessons

    Edited by Margaret S. Winchester, Caprice A. Knapp, Rhonda BeLue ...
    Series series SpringerBriefs in Public Health
    This stimulating open access volume details the innovative work of the Pan Institution Network for Global Health in creating collaborative research-based answers to large-scale health issues. Equitable partnerships among member universities representing North America, Africa, Asia, and Europe reverse standard cross-national dynamics to develop locally relevant responses to health challenges as ... Read more

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  • Re-Thinking Science

    Knowledge and the Public in an Age of Uncertainty

    by Helga Nowotny, Michael T. Gibbons, Peter B. Scott ...
    Re-Thinking Science presents an account of the dynamic relationship between society and science. Despite the mounting evidence of a much closer, interactive relationship between society and science, current debate still seems to turn on the need to maintain a 'line' to demarcate them. The view persists that there is a one-way communication flow from science to society - with scant attention given ... Read more

    $29.00 USD

  • Substance Abuse Disorders

    Evidence and Experience

    Edited by Mario Maj, Hamid Ghodse, Helen Herrman, Norman Sartorius ...
    Substance abuse disorders are among the most prevalent psychiatric disorders and are frequently comorbid with other psychiatric and health conditions and accompanied by social problems; however, they remain under-recognized and under-treated. Many physicians and mental health practitioners receive little-to-no training in the identification and treatment of these disorders. Approaches to their ... Read more

    $103.95 USD