This study reflects a growing recognition of the contribution that studies of the post-war 'welfare state' can make to contemporary debates about the restructuring of welfare. Drawing on the community care debates from 1971 to 1993, it illuminates contemporary concerns about such key issues as rationing care, the health and social care divide, the changing role of residential care and the growing emphasis on provider competition.From community care to market care focuses on the interpretation and development of national policy at local authority level in four contrasting local authorities....

This book, now in paperback, revisits Peter Townsend's classic study of residential care for older people in Britain conducted in the late 1950s. It provides not only a fascinating account of residential care for older people over the last 50 years but is also an important contribution to the literature on research methods.

Also available on the Kindle, this is a story of a normal housewife who appears to be a photojournalist, but unknown to her friends and family, is really an agent for Homeland Security. This is her story of conflicts, adventure and romance.

This story is included in the collections "Willful Women" and "Willful Women II" available on Amazon and the Kindle.

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Leah Dallaire - "About SAM delves into the adventure/romance genre. Intrigue and plot twists make this story about a...

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These stories consist of a variety of genres including adventure, corporate intrigue, Old West satire, romance and science fiction, and provide an engaging combination of conflict, action, love, sex and killings. They are also included in the subsequent collection "Willful Women."

*** "About Sam" has a seemingly ordinary housewife who is secretly a Homeland Security agent. Share in her conflicts, family issues, adventures and romance.

*** "Lost in Space-Time" is based on rumors, physics blogs, and NASA videos found on...

A concise, fast-paced guide to orchestrating and deploying scalable services with Docker About This Book - Explore the new features added to the core Docker Engine to make multi-container orchestration easy - Leverage tools such as Docker Machine, Swarm, Compose, and third-party tools such as Kubernetes, Mesosphere, and CoreOS to orchestrate containers - Use Docker Compose with Swarm and apply rolling updates for zero downtime deployments Who This Book Is For This book is aimed at Sysadmins and DevOps engineers who know what Docker does and are now looking to manage multiple containers on...