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  • Contracting for Public Value

    New Thinking for More Effective, Accountable, and Sustainable Public Service Contracts

    by Carolyn J. Heinrich, Deanna Malatesta, Eleanor Carter, Michael Gibson, Nigel Ball ...
    Public-private partnerships (PPPs) play an increasingly central role in the delivery of public services worldwide, promoting long-term institutional cooperation through multisector partnerships. If well-structured and managed, PPPs offer the opportunity to expand public service capacities while sharing financial and operational risks and responsibilities with private partners. Yet many PPPs ... Read more

    $47.69 USD

  • Local Authorities and the Social Determinants of Health

    by Nigel Ball, Steve Thomas, Jennifer Law, Isobel Anderson, Peter Hain, Richard Simmons, Tony Chasteauneuf, Chris O'Leary, Chris Fox, Alison Navarro, Melissa Hawkins, Max French, Toby Lowe, Glenda Roberts, Keith Clements, Gayle Munro, Richard Smith, Dave Ayre, Penny Cook, Keith Cunliffe, Catherine Parker, Gillian Gibson, Edward Kunonga, Ruth Dombey, Jacquie Russell, Paul Dennett, Graham Tope, David J. Hunter, Jolanta Shields, Anna Coleman, Jim McManus, Jeanelle De Gruchy, Harry Burns ...
    As many social inequalities widen, this is a crucial survey of local authorities’ evolving role in health, social care and wellbeing.Health and social and public policy experts review structural changes in provision and procurement, and explore social determinants of health including intergenerational needs and housing. With detailed assessments of regional disparities and case studies of ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • The Fundamentals of Graphic Design

    by Gavin Ambrose, Mr Paul Harris, Nigel Ball ...
    Series series Fundamentals
    Introducing students to the field of graphic design through inspirational examples and clear, practical advice, The Fundamentals of Graphic Design has been fully updated to reflect the changes in today's technologies and graphic design practice. With a new section expanding the coverage of digital design tools and new material on social media, apps plus more on design for the Web, the book gives ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

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  • Does Education Matter?

    Myths About Education and Economic Growth

    by Alison Wolf ...
    "Education, education, education" has become an obsession for politicians and the public alike. It is seen as an economic panacea: an engine for growth and prosperity. But is there a link between increased spending on higher eductaion and economicgrowth? Professor Alison Wolf takes a critical look at successive governments' education policy and challenges many of the tenets of received wisdom: ... Read more

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  • Managing Labour in Small Firms

    Edited by Susan Marlow, Dean Patton, Monder Ram ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Entrepreneurship and Small Business
    The majority of employees currently working in the private sector are now employed in small firms, yet little is known about their working conditions. This collection of essays addresses this gap. Based on theoretical analysis supported by contemporary empirical evidence, the book explores key areas of the employment relationship adding a new perspective to our understanding of contemporary work. ... Read more

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  • Irish Business and Society

    Governing, Participating and Transforming in the 21st Century

    Edited by John Hogan, Paul F. Donnelly, Brendan K. O'Rourke ...
    A collection of stimulating essays exploring the wide-ranging debates surrounding the relationship between business and society in 21st century Ireland.Wide-ranging, diverse and thought-provoking contributions from leading business researchers, economists, sociologists and political scientists from Ireland and abroad probe five central themes: the making and unmaking of the Celtic Tiger; ... Read more

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  • A Contemporary History of Social Work

    Learning from the Past

    by Terry Bamford ...
    Drawing on lessons from the recent history of social work to identify how and why it has lost its privilege and influence, this book challenges social work students to understand why social work has failed to maintain its position as a driver of social reform. Bamford looks forward to a new model of practice that places a commitment to put social justice back at the heart of professional practice ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

  • Education plc

    Understanding Private Sector Participation in Public Sector Education

    by Stephen J. Ball ...
    Is the privatisation of state education defendable? Did the public sector ever provide a fair education for all learners?In Education plc, Stephen Ball provides a comprehensive, analytic and empirical account of the privatisation of education. He questions the kind of future we want for education and what role privatisation and the private sector may have in that future. Using policy sociology to ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Adult Social Care

    Edited by Iain Ferguson, Michael Lavalette ...
    Series series Critical and Radical Debates in Social Work
    Adult social care in Britain has been at the centre of much media and public attention in recent years. Revelations of horrific abuse in learning disability settings, the collapse of major private care home providers, abject failures of inspection and regulation, and uncertainty over how long-term care of older people should be funded have all given rise to serious public concern. In this short ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

  • The Other Invisible Hand

    Delivering Public Services through Choice and Competition

    by Julian Le Grand, Alain Enthoven ...
    How can we ensure high-quality public services such as health care and education? Governments spend huge amounts of public money on public services such as health, education, and social care, and yet the services that are actually delivered are often low quality, inefficiently run, unresponsive to their users, and inequitable in their distribution. In this book, Julian Le Grand argues that the ... Read more

    $52.59 USD

  • Policy and Strategy for Improving Health and Wellbeing

    Edited by Lesley Coles, Elizabeth Porter ...
    Series series Transforming Public Health Practice Series
    As health policy at a national level has ever increasing impact on local health services, it is essential that public health students understand how the development and implementation of policy and strategy provide the framework for improving quality, innovation, productivity and prevention in the delivery of healthcare.The book is divided into two sections, with section one covering a strategic ... Read more

    $70.19 USD

  • Place-Keeping

    Open Space Management in Practice

    Edited by Nicola Dempsey, Harry Smith, Mel Burton ...
    Place-Keeping presents the latest research and practice on place-keeping – that is, the long-term management of public and private open spaces – from around Europe and the rest of the world. There has long been a focus in urban landscape planning and urban design on the creation of high-quality public spaces, or place-making. This is supported by a growing body of research which shows how high ... Read more

    $77.99 USD