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  • Revive your Garden

    How to bring your outdoor space back to life

    by Nick Bailey ...
    'In his excellent and information-packed new book, Revive Your Garden, Bailey shares his tips for container plants - perfect for time-poor, distracted Londoners who still want an Instagram-worthy terrace.' Evening Standard'It's an ideal book for anyone faced with the prospect of restoring a garden. It leaves the reader with a sense of optimism that, no matter how dire the situation appears to be, ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Professional Clojure

    by Jeremy Anderson, Michael Gaare, Nick Bailey, Timothy Pratley, Justin Holguín ...
    Clear, practical Clojure for the professional programmerProfessional Clojure is the experienced developer's guide to functional programming using the Clojure language. Designed specifically to meet the needs of professional developers, this book briefly introduces functional programming before skipping directly to the heart of using Clojure in a real-world setting. The discussion details the read ... Read more

    $42.00 USD

  • Poverty and Social Exclusion in the UK

    Volume 1 - The Nature and Extent of the Problem

    by Maria Gannon, Nick Bailey, Mike Tomlinson, Eric Emerson, Pauline Heslop, Marco Pomati, Jonathan Bradshaw, Saffron Karlsen, Christiana Pantazis, Demi Patsios, Eldin Fahmy, David Gordon ...
    Series series Studies in Poverty, Inequality and Social Exclusion
    The largest UK research study on poverty and social exclusion ever conducted reveals startling levels of deprivation. 18m people are unable to afford adequate housing; 14m can’t afford essential household goods; and nearly half the population have some form of financial insecurity.Defining poverty as those whose lack of resources forces them to live below a publicly agreed minimum standard, this ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Neighbourhood Effects or Neighbourhood Based Problems?

    A Policy Context

    Edited by David Manley, Maarten van Ham, Nick Bailey, Ludi Simpson, Duncan Maclennan ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This edited volume critically examines the link between area based policies, neighbourhood based problems, and neighbourhood effects: the idea that living in disadvantaged neighbourhoods has a negative effect on residents’ life chances over and above the effect of their individual characteristics. Over the last few decades, Western governments have persistently pursued area based policies to fight ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Poverty and Social Exclusion in the UK

    Volume 2 - The Dimensions of Disadvantage

    by Jonathan Bradshaw, Mike Tomlinson, Christiana Pantazis, Simon Pemberton, Glen Bramley, David Manley, Lucy Prior, Eldin Fahmy, Lisa Wilson, Kirsten Besemer0, Filip Sosenko1, Suzanne Fitzpatrick2, Paddy Hillyard3, Marco Pomati4, Demi Patsios5, Joanna Mack6 ...
    Series series Studies in Poverty, Inequality and Social Exclusion
    How many people live in poverty in the UK, and how has this changed over recent decades? Are those in poverty more likely to suffer other forms of disadvantage or social exclusion? Is exclusion multi-dimensional, taking different forms for different groups or places?Based on the largest UK study of its kind ever commissioned, this fascinating book provides the most detailed national picture of ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Understanding Neighbourhood Dynamics

    New Insights for Neighbourhood Effects Research

    Edited by Maarten van Ham, David Manley, Nick Bailey, Ludi Simpson, Duncan Maclennan ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This rare interdisciplinary combination of research into neighbourhood dynamics and effects attempts to unravel the complex relationship between disadvantaged neighbourhoods and the life outcomes of the residents who live therein. It seeks to overcome the notorious difficulties of establishing an empirical causal relationship between living in a disadvantaged area and the poorer health and well ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Neighbourhood Effects Research: New Perspectives

    Edited by Maarten van Ham, David Manley, Nick Bailey, Ludi Simpson, Duncan Maclennan ...
    Over the last 25 years a vast body of literature has been published on neighbourhood effects: the idea that living in more deprived neighbourhoods has a negative effect on residents’ life chances over and above the effect of their individual characteristics. The volume of work not only reflects academic and policy interest in this topic, but also the fact that we are still no closer to answering ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

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  • Welfare Conditionality

    by Beth Watts, Suzanne Fitzpatrick ...
    Series series Key Ideas
    Welfare conditionality has become an idea of global significance in recent years. A ‘hot topic’ in North America, Australia, and across Europe, it has been linked to austerity politics, and the rise of foodbanks and destitution. In the Global South, where publicly funded welfare protection systems are often absent, conditional approaches have become a key tool employed by organisations pursuing ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Health Inequalities

    Critical Perspectives

    Edited by Katherine E. Smith, Clare Bambra, Sarah E. Hill ...
    Informed by a wealth of available research, between 1997 and 2010, the UK Labour government introduced a raft of policies to reduce health inequalities. Despite this, by most measures, the UK's health inequalities have continued to widen. This failure has prompted calls for new approaches to health inequalities research and some consensus that public health researchers ought to be more actively ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Social Advantage and Disadvantage

    Edited by Hartley Dean, Lucinda Platt ...
    Social advantage and disadvantage are potent catch-all terms. They have no established definition but, considered in relation to one another, they can embrace a wide variety of more specific concepts that address the ways in which human society causes, exacerbates or fails to prevent social divisions or injustices. This book captures the sense in which any conceptualisation of disadvantage is ... Read more

    $42.29 USD

  • Canadian Social Policy, Fifth Edition

    Issues and Perspectives

    Edited by Anne Westhues, Brian Wharf ...
    Social policy shapes the daily lives of every Canadian citizen and should reflect the beliefs of a majority of Canadians on just approaches to the promotion of health, safety, and well-being. Too often, those on the front lines—social workers, nurses, and teachers—observe that policies do not work well for the most vulnerable groups in society. In the first part of this new edition of Canadian ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Cities, Economic Inequality and Justice

    Reflections and Alternative Perspectives

    by Edwin Buitelaar, Anet Weterings, Roderik Ponds ...
    Series series Routledge Focus on Economics and Finance
    Increasing economic inequality in cities, and the spatial translation of that into more segregated neighbourhoods, is top of the political agenda in developed countries. While the overall living standards have increased in the last century, the focus has now shifted from poverty to economic differences, with a particular focus on the gap between the very poor and the (ultra-)rich.The authors ... Read more

    $32.99 USD