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  • Arts, Culture and Community Development

    Series series Rethinking Community Development
    How and why are arts and cultural practices meaningful to communities?Highlighting examples from Lebanon, Latin America, China, Ireland, India, Sri Lanka and beyond, this exciting book explores the relationship between the arts, culture and community development.Academics and practitioners from six continents discuss how diverse communities understand, re-imagine or seek to change personal, ... Read more

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  • Politics, Power and Community Development

    Edited by Rosie Meade, Mae Shaw, Sarah Banks ...
    Series series Rethinking Community Development
    The increasing impact of neoliberalism across the globe means that a complex interplay of democratic, economic and managerial rationalities now frame the parameters and practices of community development. This book explores how contemporary politics, and the power relations it reflects and projects, is shaping the field today.This first title in the timely Rethinking Community Development series ... Read more

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  • Class, Inequality and Community Development

    Edited by Mae Shaw, Marjorie Mayo ...
    Series series Rethinking Community Development
    This book, the second title in the Rethinking Community Development series, starts from concern about increasing inequality worldwide and the re-emergence of community development in public policy debates.It argues for the centrality of class analysis and its associated divisions of power to any discussion of the potential benefits of community development. It proposes that, without such an ... Read more

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    Sing Me Home

    Seddledowne Two: Finding Home, Book 1

    Narrated by Lee Samuels, Lidia Dornet ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - Seddledowne Two: Finding Home

    Unabridged

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    The whole world wants a piece of him. He only wants her.If only he knew where she was.CharlieIt's better for everyone that I disappeared. At least, my ex thought so when he left me for dead.Then Cash—my childhood best friend turned country music star—sings his heartbreak for the world, one song at a time. And somehow, I know… they're all meant for me.I tell myself none of it matters. That I can ... Read more

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  • The community development reader

    History, themes and issues

    Community development emerged as a recognisable occupational activity in the United Kingdom in the 1950s. Since then, whilst struggling to remain true to its basic values it has often been manipulated to serve differing policy and political purposes. This unique Reader traces its changing fortunes through a selection of readings from key writers. It will be invaluable to those pursuing community ... Read more

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  • Understanding Social Inequality

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  • Analysing Community Work: Theory And Practice

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  • Anthropology and Development

    Culture, Morality and Politics in a Globalised World

    In recent decades international development has grown into a world-shaping industry. But how do aid agencies work and what do they achieve? How does aid appear to the adults and children who receive it? And why has there been so little improvement in the position of the poor? Viewing aid and development from anthropological perspectives gives illuminating answers to questions such as these. This ... Read more

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  • Ordering Lives

    Family, Work and Welfare

    Edited by Gordon Hughes, Ross Fergusson ...
    Series series Understanding Social Change
    Taking as its focus three familiar and profoundly influential social institutions, the family, work and welfare, this accessible and exciting text looks at their role in maintaining social order and promoting social change in Britain from the 1950's to the beginning of the twenty first century. It shows how everyday life within these institutions is marked by the exercise of power and resistance ... Read more

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  • AQA Sociology for A-level Book 2

    Exam Board: AQALevel: AS/A-levelSubject: SociologyFirst Teaching: September 2016First Exam: June 2017Build students' understanding with this concept-driven approach to the 2015 AQA A-level Sociology specification, written by a team of leading subject authors and approved by AQA.- Develop the knowledge required to master Year 2 topics with clear a... ... Read more

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