'Strong social policy is essential for sustainable growth. This book is an extremely useful overview of social policy issue for policy makers and anyone who wants to understand the true roots of successful sustainable development'

- Ian Johnson, Vice President for Sustainable Development, The World Bank

'Throughout the world issues of social development have now taken centre stage. There is no more comprehensive and readable guide to the choices and conflicts of this global drama. This book is essential reading for all students and...

ask anyone. what is fear? what is faith? it is likely that an answer that relates to either a biblical verse or a rambling non-definition will be offered. adequate? possibly not. what is written in these pages is a simple solution to what may be perceived as a complex situation: developing the ability to let go of the madness that is fear, the tendency to speculate, to make up stuff that results in more fretting, the learned behavior that maximizes misery, the spiritual, emotional, and psychological garbage that festers, and all that is the result of self-delusion. this book is not about...