Social Policy and Sociology
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Advanced Introduction to Community-based Conservation
Fikret Berkes
‘Fikret Berkes didn’t invent the concept of community-based conservation, but he has been its most vigorous and high-profile academic advocate and analyst. His towering impact on the social science of conservation makes this masterful vo...eBook:Find out more£12.76
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Mobility and Travel Behaviour Across the Life Course
Edited by Joachim Scheiner, Henrike Rau
‘Mobility is an essential part of people’s lives. This book presents frontier research on mobility and travel behaviour based on the life course approach. Drawing on new concepts and theories, it demonstrates how quantitative and qualita...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Myths, Narratives and Welfare States
Bent Greve
‘Bent Greve investigates the stories we tell ourselves about the welfare state and its workings. This book is not only a quick and authoritative reality check on these stories, it is also a path-breaking study of how such popular narrati... -
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Politics for Hire
Stefan Svallfors
‘In most western democracies, trust in government has been going down. In this path-breaking and truly original book, Stefan Svallfors provides an important clue to this worrying development, namely the huge increase of a group of politi... -
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Poverty, Crisis and Resilience
Edited by Marie Boost, Jennifer Dagg, Jane Gray, Markus Promberger
‘This timely collection of reflections about resilience practices, and the social, cultural and economic resources mobilised by households to cope with poverty, offers a fresh and innovative perspective concerning the tricky EU metaconce...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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![How Not to Write a Thesis or Dissertation]()
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Research Handbook on Communicating Climate Change
Edited by David C. Holmes, Lucy M. Richardson
Drawing together key frameworks and disciplines that illuminate the importance of communication around climate change, this Research Handbook offers a vital knowledge base to address the urgency of conveying climate issues to a variety o...eBook:Find out more£48.00
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Entrepreneurial Ecosystems
Ben Spigel
'With rapid digitalisation of the economy, entrepreneurial ecosystems have emerged as a novel cluster type to support the start-up and scale-up of new entrepreneurial ventures. This development creates important challenges for policy and...eBook:Find out more£20.00
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Ageing in Place
Edited by Bruce Judd, Kenichi Tanoue, Edgar Liu
'Tackling an important and growing challenge for countries throughout the world Ageing in Place provides a much-needed multi-country dialogue on ageing with dignity. Chapters grounded in empirical work and project examples investigate ho...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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A Research Agenda for Social Wellbeing
Neil Thin
‘Now more than ever it is vitally important for us to understand that wellbeing is not a solo job. Neil Thin has written an original, masterful book on the good life as a social endeavor. Lively and full of insight and optimism, it will ...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Debt and Austerity
Edited by Jodi Gardner, Mia Gray, Katharina Moser
‘As problems of debt and overindebtedness loom large in the wake of the Coronavirus pandemic, this rich and interdisciplinary collection of essays provides timely insights into the theoretical, policy and practical issues in addressing p...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Handbook of Social Policy and Development
Edited by James Midgley, Rebecca Surender, Laura Alfers
‘If you read one book to understand current scholarship on social policy and development in the global south, this should be it. Lucid and comprehensive, it is encyclopaedic in scope. The role of the state is set out and powerfully defen...eBook:Find out more£36.00
