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Investing in the Disadvantaged
Georgetown University Press 2009; US$ 22.50A comprehensive review of how cost-benefit analysis can improve effectiveness and efficiency in the most important areas of social policy. more...
From Inside Brazil
World Bank Publications 2006; US$ 19.99Fifth in population and geographical size and fourteenth in total income, Brazil is not only a regional, but also potentially a global force. Will Brazil capitalize on its huge strengths and emerge as a true global leader, or will it miss out on its great opportunity? This book lays out the crucial dimensions of Brazil?s development prospects ? and... more...
The Other Half of Gender
World Bank Publications 2006; US$ 24.99This book is an attempt to bring the gender and development debate full circlefrom a much-needed focus on empowering women to a more comprehensive gender framework that considers gender as a system that affects both women and men. The chapters in this book explore definitions of masculinity and male identities in a variety of social contexts,... more...
Policy and Choice
Brookings Institution Press 2011; US$ 29.95Traditional public finance provides a powerful framework for policy analysis, but it relies on a model of human behavior that the new science of behavioral economics increasingly calls into question. In Policy and Choice economists William Congdon, Jeffrey Kling, and Sendhil Mullainathan argue that public finance not only can incorporate many lessons... more...
Before Roe
Temple University Press 2011; US$ 29.95Few issues in contemporary U.S> politics have remained on the public agenda so long and so divisively as abortion policy. The landmark Supreme Court decision of Roe v. Waade, which held that laws prohibiting first trimester abortions were illegal because they violated a woman's right to privacy, still generates heated controversy today, a quarter... more...
A Question of Commitment
Wilfrid Laurier University Press 2007; US$ 42.95In 1991, the Government of Canada ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, requiring governments at all levels to ensure that Canadian laws and practices safeguard the rights of children. A Question of Commitment: Children's Rights in Canada is the first book to assess the extent to which Canada has fulfilled this commitment.... more...
A History of Intelligence and "Intellectual Disability"
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2011; US$ 69.95C.F. Goodey traces the interplay between human types and the changing characteristics attributed to them, from the twelfth-century beginnings of European social administration through to the onset of today's formal human science disciplines. In proposing a theory of intellectual disability as historically contingent, this paradigm-shifting work... more...
Beggars and Choosers
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2002; US$ 21.99In the late 1960s and early 1970s, advocates of legal abortion mostly used the term rights when describing their agenda. But after Roe v. Wade, their determination to develop a respectable, nonconfrontational movement encouraged many of them to use the word choice-- an easier concept for people weary of various rights movements. At first the... more...
Brave New World of Healthcare Revisited
Fulcrum Publishing 2013; US$ 16.95An informed look at the current state of the American healthcare system. more...
Autonomy
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2012; US$ 114.95This volume explores and critiques one of the most dynamic terrains of political theory sometimes referred to as 'Autonomist Marxism' or post-Operaismo. Taking three divergent manifestations of Autonomist Marxism found in the works of John Holloway, Antonio Negri and Paul Virno, David Eden examines how each approach questions the nature of... more...









