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  • Women, Their Lives, and the Law

    Essays in Honour of Rosemary Auchmuty

    Edited by Dr Victoria Barnes, Dr Nora Honkala, Professor Sally Wheeler ...
    This collection of essays honours Rosemary Auchmuty, Professor of Law at the University of Reading, UK. She has fostered the study of women's academic careers and, more politically, advanced progress on gender and equality issues including same-sex marriage and property law. Her research promotes the case of feminist legal history as a way of revealing the place of women and challenging dominant ... Read more

    $49.39 USD

  • Pandemic Legalities

    Legal Responses to COVID-19 – Justice and Social Responsibility

    by Kathleen Lahey, Katie Bales, Sally Wheeler, Alison Struthers, Ed Kirton-Darling, Helen Carr, Rowan Alcock, Rosie Harding, Mark Flear, Ivanka Antova, Tamara Hervey, Albert Sanchez-Graells, Joe Tomlinson, Jed Meers, Suhraiya Jivraj, Foluke Adebisi, Linda Mulcahy, Nick Gill, Kathryn Hollingsworth ...
    Series series Law, Society, Policy
    The effects of COVID-19 are visited disproportionately on the already disadvantaged.This important text maps out ways in which those already disadvantaged have been affected by legal responses to COVID-19. Contributors tackle issues including virtual trials, adult social care, racism, tax and spending, education and more. They reflect on the implications of COVID-19 and express concerns with ... Read more

    $38.69 USD

  • Changing Concepts of Contract

    Essays in Honour of Ian Macneil

    Edited by David Campbell, Linda Mulcahy, Sally Wheeler ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    Changing Concepts of Contract is a prestigious collection of essays that re-examines the remarkable contributions of Ian Macneil to the study of contract law and contracting behaviour.Ian Macneil, who taught at Cornell University, the University of Virginia and, latterly, at Northwestern University, was the principal architect of relational contract theory, an approach that sought to direct ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

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  • The Myth of Meritocracy

    Why Working-Class Kids Still Get Working-Class Jobs (Provocations Series)

    by James Bloodworth ...
    The best jobs in Britain today are overwhelmingly done by the children of the wealthy. Meanwhile, it is increasingly difficult for bright but poor kids to transcend their circumstances. This state of affairs should not only worry the less well-off. It hurts the middle classes too, who are increasingly locked out of the top professions by those from affluent backgrounds.Hitherto, Labour and ... Read more

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  • Born to Rule

    The Making and Remaking of the British Elite

    by Aaron Reeves, Sam Friedman ...
    The Economist, Best Books of 2024**The Times, Best Ideas Books of 2024A uniquely data-rich analysis of the British elite from the Victorian era to today: who gets in, how they get there, what they like and look like, where they go to school, and what politics they perpetuate.**Think of the British elite and familiar caricatures spring to mind. But are today’s power brokers a conservative ... Read more

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  • How Good We Can Be

    Ending the Mercenary Society and Building a Great Country

    by Will Hutton ...
    Britain is beset by a crisis of purpose. For a generation we have been told the route to universal well-being is to abandon the expense of justice and equity and so allow the judgments of the market to go unobstructed. What has been created is not an innovative, productive economy but instead a capitalism that extracts value rather than creates it, massive inequality, shrinking opportunity and a ... Read more

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  • Why History Matters

    by John Tosh ...
    Does history matter? Is it anything more than entertainment? And if so, what practical relevance does it have? In this fully revised second edition of a seminal text, John Tosh persuasively argues that history is central to an informed and critical understanding of topical issues in the present. Including a range of contemporary examples from Brexit to child sexual abuse to the impact of the ... Read more

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  • Rescue

    From Global Crisis to a Better World

    by Ian Goldin ...
    An optimistic vision of the future after Covid-19 by a leading professor of globalisation at the University of Oxford.Covid-19 left us at a crossroads: should we go back to 'normal', or use the lessons learned during the pandemic to shape a new society?But what does life after a pandemic look like, and how do we build a better, more hopeful future?Ian Goldin, Professor of Development and ... Read more

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  • Identities and Social Change in Britain since 1940

    The Politics of Method

    by Mike Savage ...
    Identities and Social Change in Britain since 1940 examines how, between 1940 and 1970 British society was marked by the imprint of the academic social sciences in profound ways which have an enduring legacy on how we see ourselves. It focuses on how interview methods and sample surveys eclipsed literature and the community study as a means of understanding ordinary life. The book shows that these ... Read more

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  • Them And Us

    Changing Britain - Why We Need a Fair Society

    by Will Hutton ...
    The suddenness and depth of the recession has raised questions about the workability of capitalism not seen since the 1930s. One of the constraints on recovery is the growing belief that if the old model did not work there is no new one on offer. This book sets out to provide one, arguing that reconstructing a bust financial system is not just a technical question. It cannot be done without a ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Virtue Capitalists

    The Rise and Fall of the Professional Class in the Anglophone World, 1870–2008

    by Hannah Forsyth ...
    Virtue Capitalists explores the rise of the professional middle class across the Anglophone world from c. 1870 to 2008. With a focus on British settler colonies – Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the United States – Hannah Forsyth argues that the British middle class structured old forms of virtue into rapidly expanding white-collar professional work, needed to drive both economic and ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • A Precariat Charter

    From Denizens to Citizens

    by Prof. Guy Standing ...
    This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.Guy Standing's immensely influential 2011 book introduced the Precariat as an emerging mass class, characterized by inequality and insecurity. Standing outlined the increasingly global nature of the Precariat as a social phenomenon, especially in the light of the ... Read more

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