Social welfare & social services
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Social welfare & social services
Paperback. Over 350 million people are affected each year by disaster and conflict. The international community is often unable to respond effectively to these crises. This report provides an independent examination of donor performance with the aim of improving the effectiveness of aid, and promoting greater accountability of donors. Num Pages: 252 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JKSR; KCL; KCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 274 x 217 x 17. Weight in Grams: 902.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230573499
- ISBN
- 9780230573499
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Condition: New
€ 68.24
€ 68.24
Hardback. Police personnel have increasingly been deployed outside their own domestic jurisdictions to uphold law and order and to help rebuild states. This book explores the phenomenon of a 'new international policing' and outlines the range of challenges and opportunities it presents to both practitioners and theorists. Series: Global Issues. Num Pages: 207 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JKSW1; JPS; LB. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 374.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 207
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230573901
- ISBN
- 9780230573901
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Condition: New
€ 127.36
€ 127.36
Hardback. Located within a burgeoning therapeutic/self-help culture this book explores stories of childhood sexual abuse, 'recovered memories' and multiple personalities, and explodes the myths surrounding women who, without memories, redefine themselves as victims. Num Pages: 251 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFE1; JFFE2; JKSB1; JKSN2; JMU. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 224 x 146 x 19. Weight in Grams: 420.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 251
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230574045
- ISBN
- 9780230574045
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Condition: New
€ 66.92
€ 66.92
Hardback. This book explores the dimensions and characteristics of social vulnerability in Western Europe. It provides a broad empirical foundation for recent theories on the emergence of new social risks in post-industrial societies, revealing to what extent social risks are compromising the 'normal' functioning of the European population. Num Pages: 319 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; GTB; JFF; JFSC; JHBC; JKS; YQG. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 222 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 500.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 319
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230580916
- ISBN
- 9780230580916
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Condition: New
€ 67.47
€ 67.47
Paperback. Num Pages: 365 pages, 7 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; JFSJ; JKS; JPVH; MMJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 538.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 365
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230602328
- ISBN
- 9780230602328
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Condition: New
€ 128.32
€ 128.32
Risk Regulation in the United States and European Union
Luedtke, Adam; Svedin, Lina M.; Hall, Thad E.
Hardback. Globalization and technology have altered public fears and changed expectations of how government should make people safer. This book analyzes how Europeans and Americans perceive and regulate risk. The authors show how public fears about risk are filtered through political systems to pressure governments to insure against risk. Num Pages: 223 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JKS; JPH; KC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 223
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230620490
- ISBN
- 9780230620490
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Condition: New
€ 66.65
€ 66.65
Hardback. In a unique effort, this book brings together, for the first time, scholarly analyses by eminent researchers of the historical, social, legal, and cultural influences on the young newcomers' lives as well as reports by practitioners in major aid organizations about the concrete work that their organizations have been carrying out. Editor(s): Holton, Gerald. Num Pages: 316 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFD; JFFN; JKS; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 139 x 21. Weight in Grams: 466.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 316
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230621961
- ISBN
- 9780230621961
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Condition: New
€ 53.36€ 47.76
€ 53.36
€ 47.76
Hardback. This book discusses the crisis of caregiving as it affects parents seeking to provide good care for their children and people who care for their aged or disabled relatives. Discussed are alternatives to the present welfare system, a description of the current safety net programs, and an analysis of the privatization of social services. Editor(s): Mandell, Betty Reid. Num Pages: 268 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JKSB; JKSN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230622616
- ISBN
- 9780230622616
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Condition: New
€ 67.28
€ 67.28
Hardback. Editor(s): Ellis, K.; Dean, H.; Campling, Jo. Num Pages: 219 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHBS; JKS; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 465.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Number of pages
- 219
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312220587
- ISBN
- 9780312220587
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.84
€ 127.84
Paperback. This volume examines core issues facing the contemporary welfare state, including the role of race in welfare, how different forms of welfare provision affect public attitudes, and how differing approaches to immigrant integration are influenced by constitutional rules. Editor(s): Steinmo, Sven; Rothstein, Bo. Series: Political Evolution & Institutional Change. Num Pages: 233 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JKSB; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 153 x 229 x 18. Weight in Grams: 354.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- St Martin's Press United States
- Number of pages
- 233
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312296285
- ISBN
- 9780312296285
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Condition: New
€ 53.36€ 46.49
€ 53.36
€ 46.49
Hardcover. This text explores the complex relationship between public policy and scandal. It describes the process whereby scandals are constructed and pursued, and demonstrates how scandals coincide with key shifts in public policy, in ways that are more complex and reciprocal than might first appear. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; JFM; JKS; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 433.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333747629
- ISBN
- 9780333747629
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Condition: New
€ 127.76
€ 127.76
Hardback. Challenges some of the conventional wisdoms on the learning of mathematics. This book uses the computer as a window onto mathematical meaning-making. Series: Mathematics Education Library. Num Pages: 290 pages, 10 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: JKSN2; PB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 592.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 290
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792340737
- ISBN
- 9780792340737
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 199.75
€ 199.75
Paperback. Challenges some of the conventional wisdoms on the learning of mathematics. This book uses the computer as a window onto mathematical meaning-making. Series: Mathematics Education Library. Num Pages: 290 pages, 10 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: JKSN2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 297 x 210 x 15. Weight in Grams: 920.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1996
- Number of pages
- 290
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792340744
- ISBN
- 9780792340744
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 197.17
€ 197.17
Occupational Strain and Efficacy in Human Service Workers
Dollard, Maureen F.; Winefield, Anthony H.; W...
Hardback. Shows how one large human service organisation systematically investigated the occupational strain and efficacy of its workforce, leading to a rational intervention plan which was broadly supported by management and workers alike. This book explores academic and local theory in the development of an intervention plan to reduce occupational strain. Num Pages: 235 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JKSN; MBN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 1160.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 235
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792368526
- ISBN
- 9780792368526
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 198.76
€ 198.76
Institutional and Financial Incentives for Social Insurance
. Ed(S): D'Aspremont, Claude; Ginsburgh, Vict...
Hardback. Provides an account of the main difficulties presently threatening social insurance systems in most industrialized countries. This title analyzes the remedies that have been discussed and sometimes introduced and addresses many questions still left largely unresolved. Editor(s): D'Aspremont, Claude; Ginsburgh, Victor A.; Sneessens, Henri (IRES, Universit Catholique de Louvain, Belgium); Spinnewyn, Frans (CES, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium). Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JKSB; KC; PBW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 542.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 242
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792374176
- ISBN
- 9780792374176
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 132.70
€ 132.70
Hardback. Describes the dimensions of diversity which characterize the contemporary American family and discusses the implications for public policy and associated intervention programs linked to this diversity. This book focuses on child poverty and argues that this topic may be usefully studied within the context of developmental systems theory. Series: International Series in Outreach Scholarship. Num Pages: 168 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JKSB; JMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 1000.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792386124
- ISBN
- 9780792386124
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 131.35
€ 131.35
Hardcover. The ethics of care has flourished in recent decades yet we remain without a succinct statement of its core theoretical commitment. This study argues for a simple care ethical slogan: dependency relationships generate responsibilities. It uses this slogan to unify, specify and justify the wide range of views found within the care ethical literature. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPQ; JFF; JKS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 145 x 17. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137011442
- ISBN
- 9781137011442
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 160.44
€ 160.44
Hardcover. Performing Governance sets out a new framework to assess the performance of partnerships and examines what these actually deliver. This is applied to three areas of New Labour's welfare policy; child safeguarding, urban regeneration and the modernisation of health and social care. This book contributes to understanding governance under New Labour. Num Pages: 218 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JKS; JPP; KJC; KJMD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137024039
- ISBN
- 9781137024039
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.86
€ 66.86
Hardcover. O'Hagan explores the phenomenon of filicide, a deliberate act of a parent killing his or her own son or daughter. Examining over 120 cases of filicide in the UK, this book identifies relationship and family patterns in which situations may rapidly deteriorate, and children may become the ultimate weapon in disputes between partners. Num Pages: 248 pages, 7 figures, 5 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJPR; 3JMC; JKSB1; JKSN; JKV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 139 x 19. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137024312
- ISBN
- 9781137024312
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.76
€ 127.76
Hardcover. Despite emancipation from the evils of enslavement in 1838, most people of African origin in the British West Indian colonies continued to suffer serious material deprivation and racial oppression. This book examines the management and treatment of those who became insane, in the period until the Great War. Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series. Num Pages: 295 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KJ; 3JH; 3JJC; HBJK; HBTQ; JKSM; MBPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 146 x 22. Weight in Grams: 492.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137028624
- ISBN
- 9781137028624
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.50
€ 66.50