Social welfare & social services
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Social welfare & social services
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
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.80
€ 66.80
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.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137490445
- ISBN
- 9781137490445
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.49
€ 67.49
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.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 704
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137496843
- ISBN
- 9781137496843
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 197.80
€ 197.80
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.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137497826
- ISBN
- 9781137497826
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.99
€ 66.99
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.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 217
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137505682
- ISBN
- 9781137505682
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.62
€ 66.62
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.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 145
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137505897
- ISBN
- 9781137505897
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.17
€ 66.17
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. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 309
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137511836
- ISBN
- 9781137511836
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 117.39
€ 117.39
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
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.11
€ 67.11
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.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137520678
- ISBN
- 9781137520678
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.17
€ 66.17
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.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137520913
- ISBN
- 9781137520913
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.76
€ 65.76
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.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 119
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137521866
- ISBN
- 9781137521866
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.02
€ 66.02
Hardback. Num Pages: 255 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFDL; GTF; JHBS; JHMC; JKS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 219 x 19. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 255
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137524683
- ISBN
- 9781137524683
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.01
€ 67.01
Hardback. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life. Num Pages: 282 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHBK; JKSF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 282
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137524744
- ISBN
- 9781137524744
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.96
€ 127.96
Hardback. The New Deal as a Triumph of Social Work concerns the 'hand' the New Deal plays from the perspective of early American History in which government and business cooperation is assumed and economic rights are addressed collectively whereas political rights are considered individually. Num Pages: 162 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJC; JKSN; JPHL; JPV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 162
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137527806
- ISBN
- 9781137527806
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.38
€ 66.38
Hardback. Editor(s): Harper, Marjory. Series: Mental Health in Historical Perspective. Num Pages: 295 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFFN; JKSM; MMH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 20. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 295
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137529671
- ISBN
- 9781137529671
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.05
€ 128.05
Hardcover. This book offers a critical analysis on employing a universal understanding of poverty and suggests ways forward for poverty reduction for developing countries in a post-2015 era. Taking specific country-contexts into account, the author argues that national poverty lines should be the benchmark for future anti-poverty policies. Num Pages: 110 pages, 3 charts, 2 black & white tables. BIC Classification: JFFA; JKSR; KCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 223 x 15. Weight in Grams: 280.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137541420
- ISBN
- 9781137541420
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.88
€ 65.88
Hardback. Num Pages: 215 pages, 3 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFSL; JHBK; JKSF; JKSN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 215
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137541833
- ISBN
- 9781137541833
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.48
€ 116.48
Hardback. Policing New Risks in Modern European History provides an historical panorama of political and police reactions to the 'risks' of societal change in a Western European perspective, focusing on Belgium, France, The Netherlands and the colonial world, from the late nineteenth-century until the second half of the twentieth-century. Editor(s): Rousseaux, Xavier; Campion, Jonas. Series: World Histories of Crime, Culture and Violence. Num Pages: 106 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJ; HBJD; JKSW1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 302.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 106
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137544018
- ISBN
- 9781137544018
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.96
€ 65.96
Hardback. Series: Series in Asian Labor and Welfare Policies. Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JKSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 18. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 230
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137546937
- ISBN
- 9781137546937
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.62
€ 66.62
Hardback. This three-volume work is the first comprehensive study of China's foreign aid and investment diplomacy to trace its evolution since the founding of PRC in 1949. Volume I examines the definitions, origins, nature, and scope of China's foreign aid and investment and shows that China has a more salient history of giving than any other country. Num Pages: 283 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JKSR; KCG; KCL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 283
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137551818
- ISBN
- 9781137551818
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.94
€ 116.94