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  • The Killing Trapby Manus I. Midlarsky

    Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 35.00

    The Killing Trap seeks to understand both the occurrence and magnitude of genocide, based on the conviction that such comparative analysis may contribute towards prevention of genocide in the future. Equal emphasis is given to the non-occurrence of genocide, a critical element not found in other comparisons. more...

  • Social Movementsby Donatella Della Porta; Mario Diani

    Blackwell Publishing Ltd. 2009; US$ 41.95

    Social Movements is a comprehensive introduction and critical analysis of collective action in society today. In this new edition, the authors have updated all chapters with the most recent scientific literature, expanded on topics such as individual motivations, new media, public policies, and governance. Draws on research and empirical work across the social sciences to address the key questions in this international field. New edition expands on topics such as individual motivations, new media, public policies, and governance. Has been redesigned in a more user-friendly format. more...

  • Private and Confidential?by Professor Chris Clark; Ms Janice McGhee

    The Policy Press 2008; US$ 39.95

    This book examines key philosophical, ethical, legal and professional practice issues in the area of privacy and confidentiality and explores their implications for policy and practice. more...

  • Development as Freedomby Amartya Sen

    Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 12.99

    By 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 population. Releasing the idea of individual freedom from association with any particular historical, intellectual, political, or religious tradition, Sen clearly demonstrates its current applicability and possibilities. In the new global economy, where, despite unprecedented increases in overall opulence, the contemporary world denies elementary freedoms to vast numbers--perhaps... more...

  • Growing Up Absurdby Paul Goodman; Susan Sontag

    New York Review Books 2011; US$ 17.95

    Includes the essay "On Paul Goodman" by Susan Sontag. Paul Goodman’s Growing Up Absurd was a runaway bestseller when it was first published in 1960 and it became one of the defining texts of the nascent New Left. Goodman, at the time well into middle age, was a maverick anarchist who broke every mold, and did it brilliantly—he was a novelist, poet, and a social theorist, among a host of other things—and the book’s success established him as one of America’s most unusual and trenchant critics, combining vast learning, an astute mind, utopian sympathies, and a wonderfully hand-on way with words. Growing Up Absurd takes the crisis of disaffected youth as indicative of the crisis within the culture at large,... more...

  • The Student's Companion to Social Policyby Pete Alcock; Margaret May; Sharon Wright

    John Wiley & Sons 2011; US$ 54.95

    The fourth edition of The Student's Companion to Social Policy maintains the text's inimitable and best-selling approach. Written by a wide range of experts in the field, it has been extensively updated and revised to take account of recent developments and debates and changing political and economic configurations.   The fourth edition has been extensively revised and is again written by experts at the forefront of the discipline Includes an additional five chapter section on the key themes and issues in the development of social policy in the UK since the nineteenth century New to this edition are chapters addressing emergent areas in the discipline, new illustrative material, problem-centred review questions, and a dedicated... more...

  • Economics and Utopiaby Geoffrey M. Hodgson

    Routledge 1998; US$ 70.00

    This book challenges the view that an alternative to Western capitalism is neither possible nor desirable. Without proposing a static blueprint, the author explores a new possible scenario. more...

  • EU Social Policy in the 1990sby Gerda Falkner

    Routledge 1998; US$ 170.00

    This book gives an analytical overview of schools of thought on European integration which offer useful insights into EU social politics. It finds that the EU social policy-making environment has become increasingly corporatist in the 1990s. more...

  • Urban Politics in Early Modern Europeby Christopher R. Friedrichs

    Routledge 2000; US$ 32.95

    Takes a fascinating comparative approach to the nature of conflict and conflict resolution in early modern communities throughout Europe. more...

  • Housing the Poor in the Developing Worldby A. Graham Tipple; Kenneth G. Willis

    Routledge 1991; US$ 250.00

    The methodology of housing and planning in the developing world has largely been adapted from practice in post-industrial countries. Housing the Poor in the Developing World shows how methods of analysis can be best suited to the local context. This study meets the need to bring together methods of analysis from several disciplines which can be applied to housing. Each method is presented and illustrated with a case study to show how it can be used to inform housing policy in a wide range of countries in all parts of the developing world. more...