Sociology and Social Policy
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Handbook of Transnational Environmental Crime
Edited by Lorraine Elliott, William H. Schaedla
‘This Handbook makes a creative and considered contribution towards this important topic. It provides a well-balanced mix of chapters from scholars and practitioners on issues that we must better understand if we are to successfully tack...eBook:Find out more$55.20
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Heat, Greed and Human Need
Ian Gough
‘In his book, Gough offers an impressive synthesis of ideas drawn from wholly disparate areas of academic research and distills them into clear-cut suggestions on how to move forward in the climate crisis. Given the urgency of the climat...eBook:Find out more$25.56
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Neoliberal Capitalism and Precarious Work
Edited by Rob Lambert, Andrew Herod
‘The anthology’s backbone is its ethnographic perspective that allows the reader to follow the articles not only from the particular circumstances of specific workers to international webs of relationships, but also to the impact of neol...eBook:Find out more$42.40
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Individualism and Inequality
Ralph Fevre
‘Suitors would be wrong to see this book as just another study of modern-day inequality. It offers far more insight than other books on this topic. Broadly, it is about two related trends: the decline of belief in human qualities and hum...eBook:Find out more$38.40
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Sick of Inequality?
Andreas Bergh, Therese Nilsson, Daniel Waldenström
‘With this book Bergh, Nilsson and Waldenström bring a nuanced contribution to a research field torn by controversies and heated polemics. In a clear and pedagogical manner the authors sift through the research and weigh the evidence. It...eBook:Find out more$25.56
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Health Policy
David Reisman
‘Too often health economics proceeds without serious consideration of the concrete challenges of health policy. David Reisman’s new book does just the opposite: it starts with those challenges and shows what the economics of health care...eBook:Find out more$42.40
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Handbook of Healthcare Management
Edited by Myron D. Fottler, Donna Malvey, Donna J. Slovensky
‘The editors have created an important resource for healthcare management practitioners and students, effectively presenting the most up-to-date knowledge on issues critical to the management of healthcare organizations by experts in the...eBook:Find out more$59.16
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Handbook of the International Political Economy of Migration
Edited by Leila Simona Talani, Simon McMahon
‘Recent years has seen a flowering of International Relations and IPE approaches to international migration. The subject, indeed, poses a challenge to existing paradigms, as a key dimension of globalisation and the complex de- and re-bo...eBook:Find out more$55.20
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Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Social Capital
Edited by Yaojun Li
Social capital is fundamentally concerned with resources in social relations. This Handbook brings together leading scholars from around the world to address important questions on the determinants, manifestations and consequences of soc...eBook:Find out more$55.20
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Advanced Introduction to Social Policy
Daniel Béland, Rianne Mahon
‘Daniel Béland and Rianne Mahon provide advanced students with an excellent overview of systems of social provision and regulation worldwide, notable for its theoretical sophistication and compelling empirical materials. The authors enga...eBook:Find out more$23.96
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Labor Standards in International Supply Chains
Daniel Berliner, Anne Regan Greenleaf, Milli Lake, Margaret Levi, Jennifer Noveck
'This book constitutes a valuable contribution to a growing and increasingly important scholarly field and will prove to be useful for anyone interested in learning more about factors that contribute to the shaping of working conditions ...eBook:Find out more$33.56
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Non-Standard Employment in Post-Industrial Labour Markets
Edited by Werner Eichhorst, Paul Marx
Examining the occupational variation within non-standard employment, this book combines case studies and comparative writing to illustrate how and why alternative occupational employment patterns are formed. Through expert contributions,...eBook:Find out more$46.40