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Solving Social Problems eBook Series

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  • Guidebook for Aligning Practices and Steering Multi-System Change

    From Intervention to Social Change II

    by Triin Vihalemm, Margit Keller, Maie Kiisel ...
    Series series Solving Social Problems
    Building on the work of the authors’ previous volume, the Guidebook for Aligning Practices and Steering Multi‑System Change translates cutting‑edge theoretical concepts into the language and applied toolkits of change practitioners. This empirically grounded and theoretically sophisticated book provides policymakers and change‑managers methods and toolkits for conceptual modelling of change when ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • From Intervention to Social Change

    A Guide to Reshaping Everyday Practices

    by Triin Vihalemm, Margit Keller, Maie Kiisel ...
    Series series Solving Social Problems
    This book explores the design, communication and implementation of social change programmes aimed at solving various social problems, from reducing health-risk behaviour to ’green’ consumption or financial literacy. Examining the application of social practice theory as a way of understanding social change, From Intervention to Social Change connects theoretical reflections with empirical research ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

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  • Doing Research in the Business World

    by David E. Gray ...
    Starting with the basics and fully grounded in the context of actually doing research, this practical book is the perfect companion as students tackle a business research project head on for the first time.Guiding readers through the research process in author David E. Gray’s approachable style, the book helps them build their understanding and develop the skills they need to establish good ... Read more

    $84.59 USD

  • Fat China

    How Expanding Waistlines are Changing a Nation

    by Paul French, Matthew Crabbe ...
    Series series China in the 21st Century
    'Fat China' provides an in-depth analysis of the growing problem of obesity and body image in China as urban lifestyles change and a sizeable middle class emerges. Rising obesity rates are examined in relationship to changing diets, modern lifestyles, investment from foreign fast food and supermarket retailers and urban planning. Crucial to this analysis is the likely effects on China's future ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • The American Health Care Paradox

    Why Spending More is Getting Us Less

    by Elizabeth H. Bradley, Lauren A Taylor ...
    Foreword by Harvey V. Fineberg, President of the Institute of MedicineFor decades, experts have puzzled over why the US spends more on health care but suffers poorer outcomes than other industrialized nations. Now Elizabeth H. Bradley and Lauren A. Taylor marshal extensive research, including a comparative study of health care data from thirty countries, and get to the root of this paradox: We've ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • The Miracle Cure: A closer look inside the cord blood stem cell industry

    by Michael S. Williams ...
    Have you ever thought a cord blood of a newborn baby can save a life? No one knew it until 1980. It was in this year when a group of scientists found a number of similarities between human cord blood and bone marrow. Three years later, an important confirmation was made and it's suggested cord blood stem cells were good alternative for bone marrow in transplantation. Hundreds of people in the ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Dope Girls

    The Birth Of The British Drug Underground

    by Marek Kohn ...
    This is a discussion of the transformation of drug use (especially morphine and cocaine, which was once commonly available in any chemist's shop) into a national menace. It revolves around the death of Billie Carleton, a West End musical actress, in 1918. Its cast of characters includes Brilliant Chang, a Chinese restaurant proprietor and Edgar Manning, a jazz drummer from Jamaica. They were ... Read more

    $14.59 USD

  • Piecing the Puzzle

    The Genesis of AIDS Research in Africa

    by Larry Krotz ...
    In 1979, Dr. Allan Ronald, a specialist in infectious diseases from Canada, and Dr. Herbert Nsanze, head of medical microbiology at University of Nairobi, met through the World Health Organization. Ronald had just completed a successful project that cured a chancroid (genital ulcer) epidemic in Winnipeg and Nsanze asked him to come to Kenya to help with Kenya’s “sexual diseases problem.” That ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Ethics and Visual Research Methods

    Theory, Methodology, and Practice

    Edited by Jenny Waycott, Susan Cox, Marilys Guillemin, Deborah Warr ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This collection presents stories from the field that were gathered from researchers using a breadth of visual methods. Visual methods refer to the use of still or moving images either as forms of data, to explore research topics and explorations of artistic practice. In addition to well-established visual methods, such as photo-voice and photo-elicitation, the possibilities for visual methods are ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Emotions and Reflexivity in Health & Social Care Field Research

    Edited by Helen T. Allan, Anne Arber ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book is about emotions and reflexivity when doing field research in health and social care settings. Health and social care students often undertake field research in their own area of practice using observation and interviews. All contributing authors have a dual identity as researchers and health or social care professionals. Their chapters draw on research carried out in a number of fields ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Living with Mental Disorder

    Insights from Qualitative Research

    by Jacqueline Corcoran ...
    Series series Routledge Key Themes in Health and Society
    This evidence-based text puts a human face on mental disorders, illuminating the lived experience of people with mental health difficulties and their caregivers. Systematically reviewing the qualitative research conducted on living with a mental disorder, this text coalesces a large body of knowledge and centers on those disorders that have sufficient qualitative research to synthesize, including ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Stem Cell Tourism and the Political Economy of Hope

    by Alan Petersen, Megan Munsie, Claire Tanner, Casimir MacGregor, Jane Brophy ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book provides a unique and innovative perspective on the controversial phenomenon of ‘stem cell tourism’. A growing number of patients are embarking on stem cell treatments that are clinically unproven and yet available in clinics and hospitals around the world. The authors offer a cutting-edge multi-dimensional perspective on this complex and rapidly changing phenomenon, including an ... Read more

    $62.99 USD