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  • The Dynamics of Local Housing Policy

    A Study of Council Housing Renewal in the London Borough of Hackney

    by Keith Jacobs ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1999, this study features Keith Jacobs examining housing practice through a detailed analysis of processes that surround a large-scale housing regeneration initiative in the London Borough of Hackney. It forms part of a series incorporating a wide range of approaches to urban and regional studies, with an emphasis on original research linking theory and practice. The series is ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Neoliberal Housing Policy

    An International Perspective

    by Keith Jacobs ...
    Series series Explorations in Housing Studies
    Neoliberal Housing Policy considers some of the most significant housing issues facing the West today, including the increasing commodification of housing; the political economy surrounding homeownership; the role of public housing; the problem of homelessness; the ways that housing accentuates social and economic inequality; and how suburban housing has transformed city life. The empirical focus ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Experience and Representation

    Contemporary Perspectives on Migration in Australia

    by Keith Jacobs ...
    Experience and Representation: Contemporary Perspectives on Migration in Australia provides a critical overview of influential theoretical perspectives and recent empirical material in the fields of migration, race, culture and politics. With a primary focus on Australia, the book explores the complexities surrounding migration; sets out the most appropriate frameworks to understand ethnicity and ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • What Do We Know and What Should We Do About Housing?

    by Rowland Atkinson, Keith Jacobs ...
    Series series What Do We Know and What Should We Do About
    The UK housing market is in crisis. House-prices are spiralling out of control, rents are rising faster than wages, and there is a serious shortage of new affordable homes. But what caused this crisis and what can we do about it?In this book, established housing policy experts Rowland Atkinson and Keith Jacobs expose the true economic forces behind Britain’s housing crisis. Urging readers to see ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Building Better Societies

    Promoting Social Justice in a World Falling Apart

    by Michael Orton, Sophie Body-Gendrot, Sam Burgum, Alan Walker, Steve Corbett, Paul Ward, Kate Pahl, Richard Williams, Gretel Taylor, Deborah Joy-Warr, Martin Coward, Anthony Ellis, Keith Jacobs, Iain Wilkinson ...
    What would it take to make society better? For the majority, conditions are getting worse and this will continue unless strong action is taken. This book offers a wide range of expert contributors outlining what might help to make better societies and which mechanisms, interventions and evidence are needed when we think about a better society.The book looks at what is needed to prevent the ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Clinical Ocular Prosthetics

    by Robert J. Jacobs, Brian H. Sloan, Keith R. Pine ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    This is the first textbook to offer a comprehensive account of ocular prosthetics and the evidence used to underpin and support this field of healthcare. It does so by bringing together information from ophthalmology, prosthetic eye and contact lens literature, and from experts actively engaged in these fields.The book describes the psychological, anatomical and physiological aspects of eye loss ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Dark One

    Forgotten

    by Brandon Sanderson, Dan Wells ...
    Narrated by Rachel Jacobs, Sophie Oda, Keith Szarabajka, Kaleo Griffith, Avery Waddell, Kelli Tager, John H. Mayer, Mia Barron, Jose Luis Bermudez, William Elsman, Nan McNamara, Jim Meskimen, Roxanne Hernandez ...
    Series series Dark One

    Unabridged

    6 hours 33 min

    From #1 New York Times bestselling, Hugo Award–winning author Brandon Sanderson, and co-author Dan Wells, comes DARK ONE: FORGOTTEN, a true-crime fantasy audio series and the first entry in Brandon Sanderson’s new DARK ONE fantasy saga.Every year in the United States there are fifteen thousand murders, give or take a few hundred. Of those, nearly forty percent go unsolved.In this six-part audio ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Philosophy and the City

    Interdisciplinary and Transcultural Perspectives

    Edited by Keith Jacobs, Jeff Malpas ...
    Philosophy has its origins in the city, and in the context of our own highly urbanised modes of living, the relationship between philosophy and the city is more important than ever. The city is the place in which most humans now play out their lives, and the place that determines much of the cultural, social, economic, and political life of the contemporary world. Towards a Philosophy of the City ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Now What?

    The Voters Have Spoken—Essays on Life After Trump

    by Mary C. Curtis, Christopher Buckley, Mark Ulriksen, Angela Wright Shannon, Keith Olbermann, Jacob Heilbrunn, Joan Walsh, Marcos Breton, Stephen Mack Jones, Bronwen Hruska ...
    When the networks called the 2020 presidential election for Joe Biden on Saturday, November 7, 2020, people from coast to coast exhaled—and danced in the streets. This quick-turnaround volume, a collection of 38 personal essays from writers all over the country—“many of America’s most thoughtful voices,” as Jon Meacham puts it on the back cover—captures the week Trump was voted out, a unique ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    For I Could Lift My Finger and Black Out the Sun

    John Black Book 1

    by Keith Soares ...
    Narrated by Jacob McNatt ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - John Black

    Unabridged

    11 hours 41 min

    My name is John Black and I'm in trouble.I used to be your typical nerd, a total weakling, letting bullies like Bobby Graden push me around. Then one day, Bobby and I got hit by a car. Somehow, the accident changed us, as if something inside us responded. It made us strong. More than strong, actually. It gave us power.That power brought us together, our shared secret creating a friendship despite ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Funding of Political Parties

    Where Now?

    Edited by Keith Ewing, Jacob Rowbottom, Joo-Cheong Tham ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Comparative Politics
    This book explores the problems associated with regulating the funding of political parties and election campaigns in a timely assessment of a topic of great political controversy.From interest in Obama's capacity to raise vast sums of money, to scandals that have rocked UK and Australian governments, party funding is a global issue, reflected in this text with case studies from Australia, Canada, ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Social Constructionism in Housing Research

    by Jim Kemeny ...
    By stressing the importance of subjectivity and interpretation, social constructionism offers a different conception of reality from the traditional approach to housing policy analysis. This book provides an up-to-date review of the social constructionist perspective and considers its philosophical basis. It discusses how social problems are constructed and, in turn, how this informs policy-making ... Read more

    $77.99 USD