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Enterprise and the Welfare State
ISBN: 9781858986647 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text argues that there is more to welfare than simply provision by the state and so the focus of this book is on the welfare society rather than on the welfare state. A multidisciplinary approach is used to examine the design of the pensions systems in nine countries with different institutional welfare mixes. Using a common conceptual framework, the book compares and contrasts the goals and realities of the welfare systems in France, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden, where strong occupational pensions are in operation, with the more modest welfare states in Japan, the UK and the US....
This text argues that there is more to welfare than simply provision by the state and so the focus of this book is on the welfare society rather than ...
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220,65 zł |
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The Role of International Organizations in Social Policy: Ideas, Actors and Impact
ISBN: 9781847209764 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book considers the role of international organizations and their promotion of ideas and recommendations in social and health policy. It explores a wide range of organizations, scrutinizing their ideas-based content, their role as policy actors and their impact on national policy. What is the role of international organizations in the making of national social policy ideas and practices? What is the content of ideas advocated by international organizations? In examining these and other questions this book presents a range of international organizations dealing with social and health...
This book considers the role of international organizations and their promotion of ideas and recommendations in social and health policy. It explores ...
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579,92 zł |
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Before and After the Economic Crisis: What Implications for the 'European Social Model'?
ISBN: 9781849809924 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This timely book casts new light on the key issues arising from the contentious debate around the future of the European Social Model. The book brings together leading experts to provide a thorough and well-informed response to the recent developments in European social and labour law and policy, in the light of institutional changes. The contributors provide unique insights as they evaluate the impact of the enlargement processes, the implications of the Lisbon treaty, the integration of the Charter into EU law - and, crucially, the consequences of the economic crisis.
This timely book casts new light on the key issues arising from the contentious debate around the future of the European Social Model. The book brings...
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640,67 zł |
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The Economics of Housing
ISBN: 9781852787547 / Angielski / Twarda / 1320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Housing is an important commodity in national accounts of all countries. These papers in two volumes span 1960 to the present, covering housing and urban spatial structures, housing supply, the analysis of housing demand and empirical and theoretical studies of housing quality and prices.
Housing is an important commodity in national accounts of all countries. These papers in two volumes span 1960 to the present, covering housing and ur...
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3109,45 zł |
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The Power of the Stranger: Structures and Dynamics in Social Intervention - A Theoretical Framework
ISBN: 9780754670629 / Angielski / Twarda / 138 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The decline of the welfare state in Western Europe has led to an increasing role both for citizen-led initiatives and for philanthropy in easing, solving or preventing social problems. Care and everyday help is being provided by strangers a people driven by enthusiasm and commitment but unfamiliar with the pitfalls of social intervention. Utilizing research on social intervention over the past twenty-five years, this book presents a new theoretical framework for a number of basic principles which are paramount in social intervention at the individual level, at group level and at societal...
The decline of the welfare state in Western Europe has led to an increasing role both for citizen-led initiatives and for philanthropy in easing, solv...
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482,65 zł |
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Media, Policy and Interaction
ISBN: 9780754674146 / Angielski / Twarda / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Situated within the field of discourse-oriented approaches to policy and media, this collection explores the interface between government, media and the public, highlighting the increasing importance placed on media channelled 'public opinion' as part of a democratic process. The authors use a variety of discourse analytic methods including CA/MCA, Discourse Analysis and Interactionism, to provide discussions around the social organization of policy debate in media sites including news interviews, public access broadcasts, broadcast debates, panel discussions, mediated government initiatives,...
Situated within the field of discourse-oriented approaches to policy and media, this collection explores the interface between government, media and t...
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760,80 zł |
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Walk the Walk and Talk the Talk: An Ethnography of a Drug Abuse Treatment Facility
ISBN: 9780877229179 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Argues that the drug abuse treatment facility forces its residents to 'walk the walk and talk the talk' by compelling them to subscribe to its rules and ideology, which emphasize the need to conform to the image of a dope fiend in order to show 'progress' in treatment.
Argues that the drug abuse treatment facility forces its residents to 'walk the walk and talk the talk' by compelling them to subscribe to its rules a...
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325,86 zł |
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Monitoring and Supervision in 'Ordinary' Families : The Views and Experiences of Young People Aged 11 to 16 and Their Parents
ISBN: 9781904787426 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based on over 100 interviews with young people aged 11 to 16 and their parents, this book looks at how monitoring and supervision are handled in ordinary families. It includes: how parents obtain information about what their children are doing; the areas that parents monitor, such as social life, friendships, school, use of media and technology, and health; the role of the wider support network in assisting with monitoring; factors that influence monitoring, including family structure, parental employment, religious beliefs, age and gender.
Based on over 100 interviews with young people aged 11 to 16 and their parents, this book looks at how monitoring and supervision are handled in ordin...
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82,79 zł |
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Arson Around
ISBN: 9781905217151 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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116,13 zł |
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Well-Being of Older People in Ageing Societies
ISBN: 9780754675969 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Well-Being of Older People in Ageing Societies poses answers to the question of how we can measure and conceptualize the well-being of older people. It focuses on the future research agenda and policy reforms that will be necessary to maintain a decent well-being for older people, given the context of our ageing populations. This book draws on longitudinal datasets and empirical research on the multidimensional measures of older people's welfare, providing a comparative analysis of social assistance and pensions for older people in the UK and The Netherlands. This title will be essential...
Well-Being of Older People in Ageing Societies poses answers to the question of how we can measure and conceptualize the well-being of older people. I...
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314,76 zł |
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Child Development
ISBN: 9780754628835 / Angielski / Twarda / 404 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides a good foundation for understanding influences on children's health and development. The volume brings together in a single reference source the world's leading thinkers on children's health and development. It sets out the basic concepts that underpin the study of child development and response to impairments to development, including attachment, changes in brain structure, and resilience. The book explores the idea of life-course development, explaining how experiences at each stage in a person's life shapes his or her future. It goes on to example the relative...
This book provides a good foundation for understanding influences on children's health and development. The volume brings together in a single referen...
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1101,84 zł |
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Welfare States: Construction, Deconstruction, Reconstruction
ISBN: 9781847200808 / Angielski / Twarda / 2176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this three-volume collection Leibfried and Mau have gathered together the most vital articles about the welfare state and its 'reformation' written since the mid-1970s. Their choices and organizing principles bring coherence and additional insight to these articles which, together, provide a comprehensive presentation of all the key empirical, conceptual and normative issues.
In this three-volume collection Leibfried and Mau have gathered together the most vital articles about the welfare state and its 'reformation' written...
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5324,17 zł |
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Ageing and Pension Reform Around the World: Evidence from Eleven Countries
ISBN: 9781847200945 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book comprehensively documents developments in pension policy in eleven advanced industrial countries in Western Europe, East Asia and North America. In order to explore what population ageing means for the sustainability of pension systems, the authors present a detailed review of pension policy making over the past two decades and provide up-to-date analysis of current pension legislation. They examine the factors that can facilitate or impede the adaptation of pension systems and the features that shape and determine reforms. They also highlight the fact that although the path of...
This book comprehensively documents developments in pension policy in eleven advanced industrial countries in Western Europe, East Asia and North Amer...
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215,12 zł |
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The Economics of Social Policy
ISBN: 9781845422578 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This unique book demonstrates how instruments of economics can be usefully employed to analyse social policy. The merits and limits of social policy programmes are discussed as answers to problems of market societies. Taking this enlightening approach the author addresses such key issues as access to health services, pension programmes, unemployment, poverty and family support. Microeconomic tools are used to evaluate the rationale behind these programmes, underpinning the theoretical propositions with strong empirical research. Unusually, economic values are shown to harmonise with, rather...
This unique book demonstrates how instruments of economics can be usefully employed to analyse social policy. The merits and limits of social policy p...
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253,79 zł |
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Colonialism and Welfare: Social Policy and the British Imperial Legacy
ISBN: 9781849808484 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The British Empire covered three centuries, five continents and one-quarter of the world's population. Its legacy continues, shaping the societies and welfare policies of much of the modern world. In this book, for the first time, this legacy is explored and analysed. Colonialism and Welfare reveals that social welfare policies, often discriminatory and challenging to those colonised, were introduced and imposed by the 'mother country.' It highlights that there was great diversity in rationales and impacts across the empire, but past developments had a major impact on the development of much...
The British Empire covered three centuries, five continents and one-quarter of the world's population. Its legacy continues, shaping the societies and...
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524,69 zł |
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Law Enforcement, Communication and Community
ISBN: 9789027225894 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Given widespread media attention to issues of crime and its prevention, police heroism, and new modes of police-community involvements, this international collection is timely. It is unique in examining ways in which police and citizens communicate across a range of contexts and problem areas. While much attention is afforded the critical roles of communication by police agencies, there has been little recourse to communication science and its theories. Likewise, the latter has not, until recently, concerned itself with analyzing police-citizen interactions. This volume examines the character...
Given widespread media attention to issues of crime and its prevention, police heroism, and new modes of police-community involvements, this internati...
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635,15 zł |
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Law Enforcement, Communication and Community
ISBN: 9789027225924 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Given widespread media attention to issues of crime and its prevention, police heroism, and new modes of police-community involvements, this international collection is timely. It is unique in examining ways in which police and citizens communicate across a range of contexts and problem areas. While much attention is afforded the critical roles of communication by police agencies, there has been little recourse to communication science and its theories. Likewise, the latter has not, until recently, concerned itself with analyzing police-citizen interactions. This volume examines the character...
Given widespread media attention to issues of crime and its prevention, police heroism, and new modes of police-community involvements, this internati...
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317,57 zł |
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Libraries and Society : Role, Responsibility and Future in an Age of Change
ISBN: 9781843341314 / Angielski / Miękka / 472 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book reviews both the historical and future roles that public, private, academic and special libraries have in supporting and shaping society at local, regional, national and international levels. Globalisation, economic turmoil, political and ethnic tensions, rapid technology development, global warming and other key environmental factors are all combining in myriad and complex ways to affect everyone, both individually and collectively. Fundamental questions are being asked about the future of society and the bedrock organisations that underpin it. Libraries and Society considers the...
This book reviews both the historical and future roles that public, private, academic and special libraries have in supporting and shaping society at ...
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361,98 zł |
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Drug Treatment Systems in an International Perspective: Drugs, Demons, and Delinquents
ISBN: 9780761905431 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the last 10 years, many countries have seen a rapid expansion in their specific drug treatment services. This book describes the ways in which 20 different countries worldwide have chosen to cope with the spread of illicit drugs and the expansion of services. Contributors from a range of disciplines including sociology, psychology, anthropology, political science, psychoanalysis and criminology present results which provide access to information on drug treatment in these countries, and investigate the cultural and societal context in which drug treatment developed. The book also compares...
In the last 10 years, many countries have seen a rapid expansion in their specific drug treatment services. This book describes the ways in which 20 d...
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571,90 zł |
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Drug Treatment Systems in an International Perspective: Drugs, Demons, and Delinquents
ISBN: 9780761905424 / Angielski / Twarda / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the last 10 years, many countries have seen a rapid expansion in their specific drug treatment services. This book describes the ways in which 20 different countries worldwide have chosen to cope with the spread of illicit drugs and the expansion of services. Contributors from a range of disciplines including sociology, psychology, anthropology, political science, psychoanalysis and criminology present results which provide access to information on drug treatment in these countries, and investigate the cultural and societal context in which drug treatment developed. The book also compares...
In the last 10 years, many countries have seen a rapid expansion in their specific drug treatment services. This book describes the ways in which 20 d...
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797,52 zł |
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