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The Influence of Federal Grants
ISBN: 9780674492219 / Angielski / Twarda / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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282,15 |
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A Minority and the State: Travellers in Britain in the Twentieth Century
ISBN: 9780719091261 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a new paperback edition of Becky Taylor's history of Britain's travelling communities in the twentieth century. It draws together detailed archival research at local and national level to explore the impact of state and legislative developments on Travellers, as well as their experience of missions, education, war and welfare. It also covers legal developments affecting Travellers and crucially argues that their history must not be dealt with in isolation but as part of a wider history of British minorities. This book will be of interest to scholars and students concerned with...
This is a new paperback edition of Becky Taylor's history of Britain's travelling communities in the twentieth century. It draws together detailed arc...
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102,64 |
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Family Support and Family Caregiving Across Disabilities
ISBN: 9781138008984 / Angielski / Miękka / 207 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Family members provide the majority of care for individuals with disabilities in the United States. Recognition is growing that family caregiving deserves and may require societal support, and evidence-based practices have been established for reducing stress associated with caregiving. Despite the substantial research literature on family support that has developed, researchers, advocates and professionals have often worked in separate categorical domains such as family support for caregiving for the frail elderly, for individuals with mental illness, or for people with development...
Family members provide the majority of care for individuals with disabilities in the United States. Recognition is growing that family caregiving dese...
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282,86 |
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Nonprofit Organization Governance: A Theoretical Review
ISBN: 9789004321755 / Angielski / Miękka / 70 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Organizational governance has become a popular and important topic in third-sector research. This review focuses on the governance of paid-staff nonprofit organizations (also called nonprofit agencies), which are characterized by a hierarchical structure where the board has the power and the responsibility to ensure that governance functions are carried out. In this review, Van Puyvelde discusses previous literature on nonprofit organization governance. Next, a wide array of theoretical perspectives are presented that may be useful when studying the governance of nonprofit organizations. In...
Organizational governance has become a popular and important topic in third-sector research. This review focuses on the governance of paid-staff nonpr...
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339,95 |
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Rethinking Unemployment and the Work Ethic: Beyond the 'Quasi-Titmuss' Paradigm
ISBN: 9781349441006 / Angielski / Miękka / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. While recent Labour and coalition governments have insisted that many unemployed people prefer state benefits to a job, and have tightened the rules attached to claiming unemployment benefits, mainstream academic research repeatedly concludes that only a tiny minority of unemployed benefit claimants are not strongly committed to employment. Andrew Dunn argues that the discrepancy can be explained by UK social policy academia leaving important questions unanswered. Dunn presents findings from four empirical studies which, in contrast to earlier research, focused on unemployed people's...
While recent Labour and coalition governments have insisted that many unemployed people prefer state benefits to a job, and have tightened the rules a...
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201,24 |
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Gender and Welfare States in East Asia: Confucianism or Gender Equality?
ISBN: 9781349326822 / Angielski / Miękka / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Contributors address questions about gender equality in a Confucian context across a wide and varied social policy landscape, from Korea and Taiwan, where Confucian culture is deeply embedded, through China, with its transformations from Confucianism to communism and back, to the mixed cultural environments of Hong Kong and Japan.
Contributors address questions about gender equality in a Confucian context across a wide and varied social policy landscape, from Korea and Taiwan, w...
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201,24 |
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Transformations in Global and Regional Social Policies
ISBN: 9781349449644 / Angielski / Miękka / 223 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book discusses key issues in global and regional social policy, exploring Bob Deacon's pioneering approach to regulation, rights and redistribution. It addresses the role of international actors in shaping social policy and discusses the problems and possibilities of new alliances for global social justice.
This book discusses key issues in global and regional social policy, exploring Bob Deacon's pioneering approach to regulation, rights and redistributi...
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201,24 |
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The Meaning of Care: The Social Construction of Care for Elderly People
ISBN: 9781349445943 / Angielski / Miękka / 255 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bernhard Weicht provides a multi-layered analysis of how we understand and construct care in everyday life, the meanings it has for ourselves, our families, our relationships, identities and our sense of society and what is right and proper, making an original contribution to the discussion of the nature of care ethics and its political potential.
Bernhard Weicht provides a multi-layered analysis of how we understand and construct care in everyday life, the meanings it has for ourselves, our fam...
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201,24 |
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Immigration Policy and the Scandinavian Welfare State 1945-2010
ISBN: 9781349337538 / Angielski / Miękka / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores the historical development of post-war immigration politics in Norway, Sweden and Denmark from the perspective of the welfare state, examining how welfare states with high ambitions, generous and inclusive welfare schemes and a strong sense of egalitarianism cope with the pressures of immigration and growing diversities.
This book explores the historical development of post-war immigration politics in Norway, Sweden and Denmark from the perspective of the welfare state...
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201,24 |
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Children and Young People's Participation and Its Transformative Potential: Learning from Across Countries
ISBN: 9781349345694 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bringing together theories, ideas, insights and experiences of practitioners and researchers from Brazil, India, South Africa and the UK, this book explores children and young people's involvement in public action. The contributors consider the potential of children and young people's participation to be transformative.
Bringing together theories, ideas, insights and experiences of practitioners and researchers from Brazil, India, South Africa and the UK, this book ex...
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402,53 |
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Health Care Systems in Europe Under Austerity: Institutional Reforms and Performance
ISBN: 9781349350599 / Angielski / Miękka / 319 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book analyses recent reform trends of European health care systems. Using eight European countries case studies it connects policy reforms with a healthcare quadrilemma, and compares how well these systems perform in terms of economic efficiency, medical achievements, social inequalities, and responsiveness to patients and workers.
This book analyses recent reform trends of European health care systems. Using eight European countries case studies it connects policy reforms with a...
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201,24 |
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The Eu and the Domestic Politics of Welfare State Reforms: Europa, Europae
ISBN: 9781349333585 / Angielski / Miękka / 351 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book focuses on the relationship between European integration, its outputs and national institutional and political settings. It explores the political mechanisms through which the EU plays a role in domestic social policy changes.
This book focuses on the relationship between European integration, its outputs and national institutional and political settings. It explores the pol...
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201,24 |
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The Governance of Active Welfare States in Europe
ISBN: 9781349321667 / Angielski / Miękka / 279 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During the last decade, many European countries introduced extensive reformsto the way thatincome protection and activation programmes for the unemployed are implemented and delivered. This book analyzes and compares these reforms in nine European countries, focusing on the reforms programmes themselves, as well as on their effects."
During the last decade, many European countries introduced extensive reformsto the way thatincome protection and activation programmes for the unemplo...
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201,24 |
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Civil Society Organizations, Unemployment, and Precarity in Europe: Between Service and Policy
ISBN: 9781349351589 / Angielski / Miękka / 247 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides a Europe-wide comparative analysis of the role of civil society organizations active in the field of unemployment and precarity. It illustrates how crucial civil society organizations are for the inclusion of the young unemployed, mainly in two ways: by delivering services and by advocating policy.
This book provides a Europe-wide comparative analysis of the role of civil society organizations active in the field of unemployment and precarity. It...
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201,24 |
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The Age of Dignity: Preparing for the Elder Boom in a Changing America
ISBN: 9781620972014 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In The Age of Dignity, thought leader and activist Ai-jen Poo offers a wake-up call about the demographic reality that will affect us all. "We have more senior citizens in America today than we've had at any time in our history," Poo writes, pointing out that more than 14 percent of our population is now over sixty-five; by 2030 that ratio will be one in five. In fact, our fastest-growing demographic is the eighty -five-plus age group--over 5 million people now, a number that is expected to more than double in the next twenty years. This change presents us with a new challenge: how... In The Age of Dignity, thought leader and activist Ai-jen Poo offers a wake-up call about the demographic reality that will affect us all. "... |
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76,46 |
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Understanding Research in Counselling
ISBN: 9781446260104 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Many counselling courses have a strong research element built into the modules and students are expected to gain a thorough understanding of research issues early on in their studies. This accessible and practical textbook will demystify research and make it relevant to counselling practice. There are sections on linking clinical practice to research, developing 'curiosity' and engaging with the data. The book uses clinical practice as a basis for understanding research, and makes connections between the activity of therapy and the research process.
Many counselling courses have a strong research element built into the modules and students are expected to gain a thorough understanding of research ...
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536,56 |
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Understanding Global Social Policy
ISBN: 9781447310235 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Understanding Global Social Policy "is the first student-aimed textbook that comprehensively engages with this fast paced field of study, examining key theoretical and policy debates and issues. Written by an international team of leading social policy analysts, it examines how global social policies are constructed and explores how the globalizing strategies of state and non-state actors intersect with social policy concerns. This second edition contains systematically updated chapters that reflect major new developmentsincluding the United Nation s Millennium Development Goals, the Social...
"Understanding Global Social Policy "is the first student-aimed textbook that comprehensively engages with this fast paced field of study, examining k...
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410,71 |
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Access to Justice for Disadvantaged Communities
ISBN: 9781447311027 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Justice is a basic human right in all democratic doctrines, but in Britain, where welfare has faced recent market-based reforms, it s increasingly a right available only to those who can afford it.Professionals and volunteers are struggling to provide services such as legal counseling and representation to disadvantaged communities. This book explores how strategies to safeguard these vital services can strengthen, rather than undermine, the basic ethics and principles of public service provision. The authors show how such safeguarding might improve the positions of those who administer as...
Justice is a basic human right in all democratic doctrines, but in Britain, where welfare has faced recent market-based reforms, it s increasingly a r...
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410,71 |
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Changing Children's Services: Working and Learning Together
ISBN: 9781447313793 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Changing Children s Services" examines the fundamental changes that children s services have been undergoing in the United Kingdom in the context of the drive toward increasingly integrated ways of working. The contributors critically examine the potential and realities of closer integration and ask whether these new ways of working are truly more effective in responding to the needs and aspirations of children and their families. They also explore the experiences of working in constantly changing environments and their effects on practitioners and clients. This fully updated second edition...
"Changing Children s Services" examines the fundamental changes that children s services have been undergoing in the United Kingdom in the context of ...
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138,58 |
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Political Trust: Why Context Matters
ISBN: 9781907301582 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From a European comparative perspective, the book addresses a broad range of contested issues. Can political trust be conceived as a one-dimensional concept, and to what extent do international population surveys warrant the culturally equivalent measurement of political trust across European societies? Is there indeed an observable general trend of declining levels of political trust? What are the individual, societal and political prerequisites of political trust and how do they translate into trustful attitudes? Why do so many Eastern European citizens still distrust their political...
From a European comparative perspective, the book addresses a broad range of contested issues. Can political trust be conceived as a one-dimensional c...
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229,25 |
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