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Rethinking Nature Relations
E. C. H. Keskitalo
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. This incisive book explores the implications of the nature–culture binary and how it impacts...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Urban Now
John R. Short
Drawing upon over a quarter of a century’s worth of research, The Urban Now illuminates our present urban condition. John Rennie Short captures the main features of this moment of urban significance, investigating the city as a crucial a...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Western Welfare Capitalisms in Good Times and Bad
Bruce Headey, Ruud Muffels, John Quiggin
Western Welfare Capitalisms in Good Times and Bad provides an insightful appraisal of policy priorities and outcomes in four Western regimes: the Anglo-American liberal regimes, Southern European ‘proto-corporatist’ regimes, the historic...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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A Research Agenda for Public Attitudes to Welfare
Edited by Femke Roosma, Tijs Laenen
Bringing together contributions from a diverse range of international scholars, A Research Agenda for Public Attitudes to Welfare draws upon past and contemporary research methods used to study citizens’ attitudes to welfare. It highligh...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Welfare States in the 21st Century
Ian Greener
On the 80th anniversary of Beveridge’s report on the ‘Five Giants’ confronting societal progress in the 1940s, this innovative book examines the ‘New Giants’ confronting us today: inequality, preventable mortality, the crisis of democrac...eBook:Find out more$27.96
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A Modern Guide to Networks
Edited by Robyn Keast, Joris Voets, Jack W. Meek, Christine Flynn
A Modern Guide to Networks highlights the key dimensions of today’s networks, advancing knowledge of how networks operate and how they will likely function in the future. Combining academic perspectives with practice-based insights, it p...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Teaching Social Work
Neil Thompson
There are particular challenges involved in teaching social work. As with other professional disciplines, it is not simply a matter of passing on the key elements of the knowledge base; there is also the need to equip students to be able...eBook:Find out more$39.16
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Care Homes in a Turbulent Era
Edited by Pat Armstrong, Susan Braedley
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. This thoughtful book provides a refreshing, comparative perspective on the future of care ho...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Beyond ‘Ever Closer Union’
Jakov Bojović
With novel insights into the ambitions and objectives behind President Jean-Claude Juncker’s European Commission, this innovative book elucidates how the Commission has transcended the concept of ‘ever closer union’ in its attempts to ad...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Healthcare and Elderly Care in Europe
Thomas Bahle, Mareike Ariaans, Katharina Koch, Claus Wendt
Given growing caseloads, limited funding and staff shortages, the need for coordination in healthcare and elderly care is at an all-time high. This timely book conducts a cross-national analysis of coordination problems in healthcare and...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Rethinking Corruption
Alina Mungiu-Pippidi
Driven by an international agenda, the act of ‘rethinking’ corruption has already taken place more than once in the past two decades, contributing further to a post-truth about corruption than to anything else. This book makes a clear ar...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Critical Geographies of Resistance
Edited by Sarah M. Hughes
This cutting-edge book explores and advances contemporary geographical understandings of resistance. Calling for geographers to focus on the emergence of resistance and to avoid making assumptions on the forms it takes, chapters critical...eBook:Find out more$40.00
