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  • Council Tax and Wider Property Taxation Reform

    by Kenneth Gibb ...
    For decades, British housing taxation has fuelled inequality, distorted housing markets and undermined local government finance. This urgent book makes the case for clear, evidence-based reform.A multidisciplinary analysis of the problems generated by council tax and stamp duty, this book stresses the challenges in achieving meaningful tax reform while also demonstrating how it can be countered by ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Housing Economics

    Edited by Kenneth Gibb, Chris Leishman, Alex Marsh, Geoffrey Meen, Rachel Ong ViforJ, Craig Watkins ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    The Routledge Handbook of Housing Economics brings together an international panel of contributors to present a comprehensive overview of this important field within economics. Housing occupies an increasingly central role in modern society, dominating consumer assets and spending, forming an important part of social policy and being a large enough market to impact the macroeconomy. This handbook ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • The Satire Compendium: 70 Must-Reads

    A 70-Work Anthology of Comic Dissent, Social Critique, and Satirical Tradition

    by Molière, St. John Hankin, Elizabeth F. Guptill, Petronius Arbiter, Anthony Trollope, Kenneth Grahame, Thomas Carlyle, George Gibbs, Richard Head, Francis Kirkman, Herman Melville, Maria Edgeworth, Marietta Holley, Anatole France, Nelson Lloyd, Voltaire, Samuel Brunt, Archibald Marshal, Gilbert Knox, H. H. Sir Bashford, P. G. Wodehouse, Susan Fenimore Cooper, Thomas Love Peacock, William Carlos Williams, Terry Southern, Hilaire Belloc, Iris Barry, C. M. Westmacott, Desiderius Erasmus, I. J. Potter, Montague Glass, Edwin Abbott Abbott, Elkanah Settle, Samuel Pordage, Bernard Mandeville, James Thomson, G. W. Foote, Marie Corelli, William Herman, Mark Twain, Ingersoll Lockwood, Jonathan Swift, T. Smollett, Thomas Mann, H. G. Wells, Bertram Gayton, George S. Schuyler, Eugen Richter, Walter Harte, Aristophanes, Bill Nye, John Arbuthnot, Thomas Bridges, James Bramston, Ambrose Bierce, Franklin P. Adams, John Hervey Baron Hervey, An M. D., Frank Chapman Bliss ...
    The Satire Compendium: 70 Must-Reads maps satire's remarkable durability from classical invective and Roman social comedy to Enlightenment irony, Victorian caricature, modernist experiment, and twentieth-century absurdism. Its selections traverse dramatic farce, mock-heroic prose, utopian fantasy, political allegory, comic essay, parody, and epigrammatic wit. Canonical assaults on hypocrisy, ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The SAGE Handbook of Housing Studies

    Edited by William Clark, Kenneth Gibb, David F Clapham ...
    Cross-disciplinary and critical in its approach, The SAGE Handbook of Housing Studies is an elucidating look at the key issues within the field. It covers the study of housing retrospectively, but also analyses the future directions of research and theory, demonstrating how it can contribute to wider debates in the social sciences. A comprehensive introductory chapter is followed by four parts ... Read more

    $118.99 USD

  • Housing Economics

    A Historical Approach

    by Geoffrey Meen, Kenneth Gibb, Chris Leishman, Christian Nygaard ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    The world has still to emerge fully from the housing-triggered Global Financial Crisis, but housing crises are not new. The history of housing shows long-run social progress, littered with major disasters; nevertheless the progress is often forgotten, whilst the difficulties hit the headlines. Housing Economics provides a long-term economic perspective on macro and urban housing issues, from the ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

  • The Scottish Economy

    A Living Book

    Edited by Kenneth Gibb, Duncan Maclennan, Des McNulty, Michael Comerford ...
    Series series Regions and Cities
    The Scottish economy is at the heart of contemporary constitutional and public policy debates. This substantial new edited collection, the first comprehensive and authoritative analysis for more than 60 years, is a timely update on the classic volume of the same name edited by Sir Alec Cairncross in 1954. It is data rich, and offers links to updatable data and leading indicators of the Scottish ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • How to Use Evidence to End Homelessness

    For Smarter, More Impactful Action

    by Michael Barber, Stephen Aldridge, Andy Burnham, Will Snell, Carol Black, Suzanne Fitzpatrick, Pete Mackie, Richard Garside, James Turner, Guillermo Rodriguez-Guzman, Will Moy, Michael Sanders, Vanessa Hirneis, Julia Ellingwood, Derek McGowan, Lezley Marion Cameron, Kenneth Gibb, Mark McGreevy, Rosanne Haggerty, Juha Kahila, Henrique Joaquim, Eleanor Williams, Jo Metcalfe, Matt Peacock, Mike Findlay-Agnew, Lorna Tucker, Sam Freedman, Brian Robson, Jack Shaw, Jonathan Roberts, Ian Rutherford ...
    Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.Building on the influential Using Evidence to End Homelessness (Bristol University Press, 2020), this practical collection shows how evidence and data can drive smarter action to improve outcomes for people affected by homelessness. Six years on, it captures lessons learned and progress made while charting a path for greater impact. With ... Read more

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  • Did You See That?

    by Lawrence Gibbs, Kenneth Lamar Gibbs Sr. ...
    Chaka Attah is young witch-in-training and under the tutelage of her mentor, Witch Mildred, she has kept her cover as a college student secure. However, once her mentor is given custody of the Riazza Themsla, an ancient book of magic, Chaka seizes the opportunity to use it's renowned power to cast a love spell on the man of her dreams. What she didn't expect was the demon living within the book's ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Safety Net

    The Future of Welfare in Australia

    by Daniel Mulino ...
    The welfare state is one of the crowning achievements of the twentieth century, giving citizens access to healthcare, pensions, disability and unemployment benefits. This unprecedented expansion of the state was a product of the postwar period of the late 1940s, when governments ramped up investment in this grand safety net. By the 1970s, half of all government spending went towards social-welfare ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Employment in the Lean Years:Policy and Prospects for the Next Decade

    Policy and Prospects for the Next Decade

    Edited by David Marsden ...
    Over the last fifteen years, the deregulation of Britain's labour market has led to economic growth, employment opportunities, and a more diverse workforce: the 'fat years'. However, now as Britain faces its lean years with job cuts, rising unemployment, income insecurity, and related social strains, how can and should the government and key labour market policy makers ensure the labour market ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Understanding Social Security

    Issues for Policy and Practice

    by Luke Martinelli, Dan Finn, Sue Watson, Ruth Patrick, John Hudson, Zoë Irving, Kevin Farnsworth, Nicola Yeates, Bozena Sojka, Emma Carmel, Fran Bennett0, Steve McKay1, Jane Millar2, Tess Ridge4 ...
    Series series Understanding Welfare: Social Issues, Policy and Practice
    The political and economic landscape of UK social security provision has changed significantly since the 2008 financial crisis. This fully revised, restructured and updated 3rd edition of a go-to text book covers all the key policy changes and their implications since the elections of 2010 and 2015.With contributions from leading academics in the field this book critically examines the design, ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Great Britain?

    The must-read Sunday Times bestseller by Labour's economic mastermind

    by Torsten Bell ...
    THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, updated with a new PrefaceThe essential blueprint for a better future, by Labour's economic mastermind‘Stellar: brilliant, incredibly pragmatic’ Rory Stewart‘Refreshingly optimistic’ The Times‘No one has done more to re-inject sanity into our national policy’ Emily Maitlis'Everyone should read this book if they care... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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