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  • Infrastructures of Informal Care

    Inequality, Exploitation, Emancipation

    by Jala Burton, Julia Cook, Morag Kelly, Sukhmani Khorana, Elise Klein, Amy Marshall, Greg Marston, Kathleen Mee, Emma Mitchell, Emma Power, Sally Robinson, Jordana Silverstein, Lisa Slater, Ben Spies-Butcher, Kylie Valentine, Ilan Wiesel, Amy Conley Wright ...
    Series series Transforming Care
    Care is fundamental to our individual and collective well-being, but it is also deeply implicated in historical and present-day injustices.Taking seriously the darker potentialities of care as a relation of exploitation and domination, this edited collection interrogates the social and governance infrastructures that variously shape, expropriate, necessitate and unravel care at the ‘private’ ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • The Development of Child Protection Systems and Practice in Low- to Middle-Income Countries

    by Houwayda Matta Bou Ramia, Jamile Khoury, Susan Muchiri, Bienvenue Magorwa Munyerere, Ashenafi Hagos Baynesagn, Emebet Mulugeta, Khadija Loudghiri, Mohammed Houmine, Jie Lei, Hanyu Zhang, Zhenhao Su, Tahira Jabeen, Mariya Ali, Justin Rogers, Kanthamanee Ladaphongphatthana, Andy Lillicrap, Ilya Smirnoff, Mohamed Naeem, Syed Saleem Abbas, Saleem Bokhari, Irene Intebi, Dayané Proenza González, Clotilde Proveyer Cervantes, Marcela Losantos Velasco, Natasha Morales, Ana Maria Arias Uriona, Natalie Guillén ...
    Child protection systems across the globe are developing at pace, each reflecting their unique economic, social, and cultural contexts.This book provides an overview of 11 child protection systems from low- and middle-income countries and discusses the formal and informal responses countries are making to the shared problem of child abuse and maltreatment. Within each chapter, vignettes give ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • International Student Policy in Australia

    The welfare dimension

    by Professor Gaby Ramia ...
    Australia's higher education sector was hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic. Student and staff numbers declined, and the government assistance afforded to other sectors was all but missing for universities. In a callous example of abandonment in an hour of need, Australian's international students were similarly ignored by the federal government.International Student Policy in Australia: The welfare ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Research Handbook on Social Policy and Employment

    Edited by Gaby Ramia, Zoe Irving, Elke Heins, Ricardo Velázquez Leyer ...
    Series series Elgar Handbooks in Social Policy and Welfare series
    This compelling Handbook explores how social policies have been adapted and remodelled in response to transformations in work and employment in the twenty-first century. It outlines the history of the welfare-work relationship, assesses the current state of the global workforce and provides theoretical and practical analyses of the work-employment-social policy relationship.Leading experts review ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • White Space Revisited

    Creating Value through Process

    by Geary A. Rummler, Richard A. Rummler, Alan J. Ramias ...
    When Improving Performance: Managing the White Space on the Organization Chart was published in 1990, it was lauded as the book that launched the Process Improvement revolution. This was the book that first detailed an approach that bridged the gaps between organization strategy, work processes and individual performance. Two decades later, White Space Revisited goes beyond a mere revision of that ... Read more

    $70.00 USD

  • Governing Social Protection in the Long Term

    Social Policy and Employment Relations in Australia and New Zealand

    by Gaby Ramia ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book examines the comparative evolution of social protection in Australia and New Zealand from 1890 to the present day, focusing on the relationship between employment relations and social policy. Utilising longstanding and more recent developments in historical institutionalist methodology, Ramia investigates the relationship between these two policy domains in the context of ... Read more

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  • Adaptive Mediation and Conflict Resolution

    Peace-making in Colombia, Mozambique, the Philippines, and Syria

    Edited by Cedric de Coning, Ako Muto, Rui Saraiva ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This open access book introduces adaptive mediation as an alternative approach that enables mediators to go beyond liberal peace mediation, or other determined-design models of mediation, in the context of contemporary conflict resolution and peace-making initiatives. Adaptive mediation is grounded in complexity theory, and is specifically designed to cope with highly dynamic conflict situations ... Read more

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  • Brexitland

    by Maria Sobolewska, Robert Ford ...
    Long-term social and demographic changes - and the conflicts they create - continue to transform British politics. In this accessible and authoritative book Sobolewska and Ford show how deep the roots of this polarisation and volatility run, drawing out decades of educational expansion and rising ethnic diversity as key drivers in the emergence of new divides within the British electorate over ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Development Assistance for Peacebuilding

    Edited by Rachel M. Gisselquist ...
    Development assistance to fragile states and conflict-affected areas can be a core component of peacebuilding, providing support for the restoration of government functions, delivery of basic services, the rule of law, and economic revitalization. What has worked, why it has worked, and what is scalable and transferable, are key questions for both development practice and research into how peace ... Read more

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  • The Companion to Development Studies

    Edited by Vandana Desai, Rob Potter ...
    The Companion to Development Studies contains over a hundred chapters written by leading international experts within the field to provide a concise and authoritative overview of the key theoretical and practical issues dominating contemporary development studies. Covering a wide range of disciplines the book is divided into ten sections, each prefaced by a section introduction written by the ... Read more

    $115.99 USD

  • Scrum - A Pocket Guide

    by Gunther Verheyen ...
    This pocket guide is the one book to read for everyone who wants to learn about Scrum. The book covers all roles, rules and the main principles underpinning Scrum, and is based on the Scrum Guide Edition 2013. A broader context to this fundamental description of Scrum is given by describing the past and the future of Scrum. The author, Gunther Verheyen, has created a concise, yet complete and ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Australia's Welfare Wars

    The Players, the Politics and the Ideologies

    by Philip Mendes ...
    In this fully revised third edition of Australia's Welfare Wars, Philip Mendes questions many of the key values and assumptions that determine contemporary social welfare policies, and the factors and forces that shape these policies in Australia. ... Read more

    $29.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus