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  • Clear Blue Water?

    The Conservative Party and the Welfare State since 1940

    by Robert M. Page ...
    Has the modern Conservative Party developed a distinctive approach to the post-war welfare state? In exploring this question, this accessible book takes an authoritative look at Conservative Party policy and practice in the modern era. The book takes as its main starting point the progressive One Nation Conservative (1950-64) perspective, which endeavoured to embrace those features of the welfare ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

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  • Creating Person-Centred Organisations

    Strategies and Tools for Managing Change in Health, Social Care and the Voluntary Sector

    by Stephen Stirk, Helen Sanderson ...
    Person-centred thinking and planning are approaches that enable people using social care and health services to plan their future, and use a personal budget to commission personalised services.Creating Person-Centred Organisations is a guide for organisations who want to deliver personalised services. Key issues covered include attending to the vision, strategy and business planning of the ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Animal Studies

    An Introduction

    by Paul Waldau ...
    Animal studies is a growing interdisciplinary field that incorporates scholarship from public policy, sociology, religion, philosophy, and many other areas. In essence, it seeks to understand how humans study and conceive of other-than-human animals, and how these conceptions have changed over time, across cultures, and across different ways of thinking. This interdisciplinary introduction to the ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • The Failed Welfare Revolution

    America's Struggle over Guaranteed Income Policy

    by Brian Steensland ...
    Today the United States has one of the highest poverty rates among the world's rich industrial democracies. The Failed Welfare Revolution shows us that things might have turned out differently. During the 1960s and 1970s, policymakers in three presidential administrations tried to replace the nation's existing welfare system with a revolutionary program to guarantee Americans basic economic ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Well-Being and Public Policy

    Edited by Matthew D. Adler, Marc Fleurbaey ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    What are the methodologies for assessing and improving governmental policy in light of well-being? The Oxford Handbook of Well-Being and Public Policy provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary treatment of this topic. The contributors draw from welfare economics, moral philosophy, and psychology and are leading scholars in these fields. The Handbook includes thirty chapters divided into four ... Read more

    $165.59 USD

  • The Early Years

    Assessing and Promoting Resilience in Vulnerable Children 1

    by Brigid Daniel, Sally Wassell ...
    This clear and practical workbook shows the importance of encouraging resilience in pre-school children who live in challenging circumstances. Focusing on assessment of need, Brigid Daniel and Sally Wassell show how to evaluate resilience using checklists and background information.They explain that children in their early years gain resilience from a range of experiences, including attachment ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Never Enough

    Capitalism and the Progressive Spirit

    by Neil Gilbert ...
    It is said that greed fuels capitalism and socialism feeds on envy. But what happens in a stable society when a successful economy generates material progress for one population sector, while simultaneously creating income inequality and poverty for another sector? While this has long been a classic debate for economists, Neil Gilbert, a social welfare theorist, offers a new take. In this landmark ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Other Welfare

    Supplemental Security Income and U.S. Social Policy

    by Edward D. Berkowitz, Larry DeWitt ...
    The Other Welfare offers the first comprehensive history of Supplemental Security Income (SSI), from its origins as part of President Nixon's daring social reform efforts to its pivotal role in the politics of the Clinton administration. Enacted into law in 1972, Supplemental Security Income (SSI) marked the culmination of liberal social and economic policies that began during the New Deal. The ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • Social Disorganization: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

    by Andres F. Rengifo ...
    Series series Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guides
    This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of criminology find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook provides ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Tackling Inequalities in Brazil, China, India and South Africa 2010

    The Role of Labour Market and Social Policies

    by Collective ...
    Greater integration into the world economy and important policy reforms have resulted in Brazil, China, India and South Africa becoming major actors in the globalisation process, with impressive results in terms of economic growth, social development and poverty reduction. But the benefits of stronger growth have not always been shared equally and income inequality has remained at very high levels ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • A Handbook for Interprofessional Practice in the Human Services

    Learning to Work Together

    Edited by Brian Littlechild, Roger Smith ...
    A Handbook for Inter-professional Practice in the Human Services: Learning to Work Together is an essential text for all students of inter-professional education, and for practitioners looking to understand and develop better inter-agency working.With an emphasis on working collaboratively with fellow professionals, service users and the community, and developing an holistic approach to working, ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Care Act 2014

    An A-Z of Law and Practice

    by Michael Mandelstam ...
    The Care Act 2014 represents a major upheaval in adult social care law: the biggest since 1948. This book sets out and explains the provisions of the Care Act 2014 in simple terms, illustrating its practical implications for both social and health care with many legal cases and local ombudsman investigations. It also includes a substantial section on NHS Continuing Health Care and how it relates ... Read more

    $57.39 USD