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Talking Policy
Allen & Unwin 2005; US$ 40.90An introduction to the process of social policy making in Australia. The authors emphasise the intensely human and political nature of the development of social services and programs, illustrating their arguments with detailed case studies. more...
Are Prisons Obsolete?
Seven Stories Press 2011; US$ 11.95With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case for the latest abolition movement in American life: the abolition of the prison. As she quite correctly notes, American life is replete with abolition movements, and when they were engaged in these struggles, their chances of success seemed almost unthinkable.... more...
Human Rights from Below
Cambridge University Press 2009; US$ 50.00This book encompasses human rights and community development, arguing that each is necessary for both understanding and practising the other. more...
Development as Freedom
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 17.00By the winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Economics, an essential and paradigm-altering framework for understanding economic development--for both rich and poor--in the twenty-first century. Freedom, Sen argues, is both the end and most efficient means of sustaining economic life and the key to securing the general welfare of the world's entire... more...
Unnatural Selection
PublicAffairs 2011; US$ 15.99A shocking exposé of the causes of Asia's massive gender imbalance and its consequences across the globe more...
What Money Can't Buy
Penguin Books Ltd 2012; Not AvailableShould we pay children to read books or to get good grades? Is it ethical to pay people to test risky new drugs or to donate their organs? What about hiring mercenaries to fight our wars, outsourcing inmates to for-profit prisons, auctioning admission to elite universities, or selling citizenship to immigrants willing to pay? Isn't there something... more...
I'm Only Being Honest
Hodder & Stoughton 2009; Not AvailableTeenage pregnancy, alcoholism, juvenile delinquency, absentee parents, soaring rates of drug addiction? Britain is failing. Over the last twenty years, traditional family values have declined to the point where young adults without guidance marry too early, have children soon after and end up being swamped by the responsibilities of parenthood.... more...
The Submerged State
University of Chicago Press 2011; US$ 15.00“Keep your government hands off my Medicare!” Such comments spotlight a central question animating Suzanne Mettler’s provocative and timely book: why are many Americans unaware of government social benefits and so hostile to them in principle, even though they receive them? The Obama administration has been roundly criticized for... more...
An End to Poverty?
Columbia University Press 2012; US$ 24.99In the 1790s, for the first time, reformers proposed bringing poverty to an end. Inspired by scientific progress, the promise of an international economy, and the revolutions in France and the United States, political thinkers such as Thomas Paine and Antoine-Nicolas Condorcet argued that all citizens could be protected against the hazards of economic... more...
Work, Family Policies and Transitions to Adulthood in Europe
Palgrave Macmillan 2012; US$ 88.00This book analyzes how the current generation of young adults enters the labour market and tries to create their own autonomous household, with or without children, exploring questions such as what does it mean to be a young adult in Europe today and what social policies help them to combine work and family life? more...









