Social welfare & social services
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Social welfare & social services
Hardback. Num Pages: 119 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFF; JHBL; JKSN1; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 308.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 119
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137521866
- ISBN
- 9781137521866
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€ 66.02
€ 66.02
Hardcover. Food Stamps, now known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), has endured and expanded in recent years. The program has been preserved and in some cases enhanced as a result of its inclusion in the Farm Bill, being characterized as a safety net of last resort and as a program for the deserving poor. Num Pages: 93 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JKSB; JPH; JPP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 224 x 15. Weight in Grams: 256.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137520913
- ISBN
- 9781137520913
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€ 65.76
€ 65.76
Hardcover. Family members are increasingly likely to provide caregiving for older adults as the US population ages. This book summarizes what we know about caregiving by spouses and other intimate partners, adult children, siblings, grandchildren, friends, and other relatives, as well as by members of racial, ethnic, and sexual minority groups. Num Pages: 150 pages, 9 black & white tables, 3 graphs. BIC Classification: JFFP; JHBK; JKSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 147 x 16. Weight in Grams: 326.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137520678
- ISBN
- 9781137520678
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Condition: New
€ 66.17
€ 66.17
Hardback. Editor(s): McNeill, Fergus; Durnescu, Ioan; Butter, Rene. Num Pages: 281 pages, 1 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: JKSN; JKVQ2; JKVS; LNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 20. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 281
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137519801
- ISBN
- 9781137519801
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€ 67.11
€ 67.11
Welfare State Transformations and Inequality in OECD Countries
. Ed(S): Wulfgramm, Melike; Bieber, Tonia; Le...
Hardback. Editor(s): Wulfgramm, Melike; Bieber, Tonia; Leibfried, Stephan. Series: Transformations of the State. Num Pages: 309 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFS; JKSB; JPQB; KCR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 309
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137511836
- ISBN
- 9781137511836
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€ 117.39
€ 117.39
Hardback. The author develops an original interpretation of foreign aid by analysing it as a particular domain of international government. She demonstrates how foreign aid practices are contemporary forms of gift-giving that have made recipient countries and populations governable due to a continuously renovated and expanded debt of development. Num Pages: 145 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTF; JKSR; KCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 337.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 145
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137505897
- ISBN
- 9781137505897
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€ 66.17
€ 66.17
Hardback. Cash Transfers and Basic Social Protection offers a ground-breaking analysis of the discourses that facilitated the rise of cash transfers as instruments of development policy since the 1990s. The author gives a detailed overview of the history of social protection and identifies the factors that made cash transfers legitimate policy. Series: Rethinking International Development Series. Num Pages: 217 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTF; JKSR; KCM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 405.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 217
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137505682
- ISBN
- 9781137505682
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€ 66.62
€ 66.62
Hardcover. This book explores the suffering of social class and how traditional biomedical models for mental illness do not adequately account for the stresses of poverty. Turning to mental health user testimonies, this book equips ministers and counsellors to become working class advocates. Series: New Approaches to Religion and Power. Num Pages: 268 pages, 1 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRCV3; JKSN2; JMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 223 x 21. Weight in Grams: 460.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137497826
- ISBN
- 9781137497826
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€ 66.99
€ 66.99
The Palgrave Handbook of Adult Mental Health. Discourse and Conversati...
. Ed(S): O'Reilly, Michelle; Lester, Jessica ...
Hardback. This essential publication brings together empirical and theoretical chapters that examine the broad issue of adult mental health. Contributions focus on topics including interactions of adults with mental health conditions, their practitioners, and/or their families as well as assessing the dominant and alternative discourses of mental illness. Editor(s): O'Reilly, Michelle; Lester, Jessica Nina. Num Pages: 704 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JKSM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 44. Weight in Grams: 1274.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 704
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137496843
- ISBN
- 9781137496843
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Condition: New
€ 197.80
€ 197.80
Hardcover. This book explores the relationship between the Irish police and ethnic minorities, made particularly pressing by the rapid ethnic diversification of Irish society. It addresses the current deficit in knowledge of this area by exploring how Irish police officers conceive of, talk about, and interact with Ireland's immigrant minority communities. Num Pages: 335 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; JFSL; JKSW1; JKVC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 277 x 24. Weight in Grams: 548.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137490445
- ISBN
- 9781137490445
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Condition: New
€ 67.49
€ 67.49
Hardcover. This book attributes American poverty to consequences 19th Century social welfare policies within an economy stretching to meet its 21st Century economic potential, arguing that American poverty persists as economic and political structures have moved into the world of fiscal planning but social welfare remains in its Depression-era structure. Num Pages: 213 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JM; JKSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 137 x 17. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137485472
- ISBN
- 9781137485472
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Condition: New
€ 66.80
€ 66.80
Hardback. Num Pages: 194 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JKSN1; JPP; KCP; KJVX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 18. Weight in Grams: 385.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 194
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137482884
- ISBN
- 9781137482884
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Condition: New
€ 127.16
€ 127.16
Hardback. This book offers a brief but comprehensive overview of the history of sociology in Sweden from the prewar period to the present day. It focuses in particular on scientific boundaries, gender and the relationship between sociology and the Swedish welfare state. Series: Sociology Transformed. Num Pages: 111 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFCX; JFSJ; JHB; JHBC; JKS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 224 x 18. Weight in Grams: 284.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 111
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137482297
- ISBN
- 9781137482297
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€ 65.90
€ 65.90
Hardcover. Norway, Sweden, and Denmark are home to more than 90,000 transnational adoptees of Scandinavian parents raised in a predominantly white environment. This ethnography provides a unique perspective on how these transracial adoptees conceptualize and construct their sense of identity along the intersection of ethnicity, family, and national lines. Num Pages: 281 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DN; JFSL; JHBK; JKSF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 570.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137480644
- ISBN
- 9781137480644
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€ 67.37
€ 67.37
Hardcover. The author aims to develop conceptual refining and theoretical reframing of the productivist welfare capitalism thesis in order to address a set of questions concerning whether and how productivist welfarism has experienced both continuity and change in East Asia. Num Pages: 183 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FP; JKSB; JPRB; KCM; KCR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 16. Weight in Grams: 354.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137471840
- ISBN
- 9781137471840
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Condition: New
€ 66.38
€ 66.38
Hardback. Num Pages: 308 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, 27 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: GTJ; JKSN; JPP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 21. Weight in Grams: 534.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 308
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137462688
- ISBN
- 9781137462688
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Condition: New
€ 67.59
€ 67.59
Culture and the Politics of Welfare: Exploring Societal Values and Soc...
Hudson, John, Jo, Nam Kyoung, Keung, Antonia
Hardcover. This text offers an in-depth examination of the influence of culture on welfare states. It suggests new ways in which cross-national differences in culture might be measured and, using a range of approaches, utilizes these measures to explore the role culture plays in shaping differences in social policy frameworks across high income countries. Num Pages: 138 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFCA; JHB; JHBC; JKS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 314.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137457486
- ISBN
- 9781137457486
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€ 66.12
€ 66.12
Hardcover. The dominant cultural script is that the Baby Boomers have 'had it all', thereby depriving younger generations of the opportunity to create a life for themselves. Bristow provides a critical account of this discourse by locating the problematisation of the Baby Boomers within a wider ambivalence about the legacy of the Sixties. Num Pages: 224 pages, 2 graphs, 1 tables. BIC Classification: 3JJPK; JFFP; JFSP; JHBK; JKSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 146 x 18. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137454720
- ISBN
- 9781137454720
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Condition: New
€ 66.62
€ 66.62
Hardcover. This book addresses how the Conservative Party has re-focused its interest in social policy. Analysing to what extent the Conservatives have changed within this particular policy sphere, the book explores various theoretical, social, political, and electoral dimensions of the subject matter. Num Pages: 264 pages, 5 black & white tables, 2 figures. BIC Classification: 1DBK; JKS; JPFM; JPL; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137445803
- ISBN
- 9781137445803
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Condition: New
€ 66.89
€ 66.89
Hardcover. Membership in Service Clubs provides the first rigorous assessment of the activities of Rotary, a global service organization founded in 1905 that implements projects and helps build goodwill and peace throughout the world. Num Pages: 179 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JKSN1; KJVX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 219 x 18. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137444738
- ISBN
- 9781137444738
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.44
€ 66.44