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Building Resilience in Families Under Stress
National Children's Bureau 2012; US$ 26.50Essential reading for professionals who support families affected by parental mental illness and substance abuse. more...
Settlement
Aboriginal Studies Press 2000; US$ 31.00This book encompasses the whole history of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Housing. more...
Wringer
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 7.99Palmer LaRue is running out of birthdays. For as long as he can remember, he's dreaded the day he turns ten -- the day he'll take his place beside all the other ten-year-old boys in town, the day he'll be a wringer. But Palmer doesn't want to be a wringer. It's one of the first things he learned about himself and it's one of the biggest things he... more...
Changing Police Culture
Cambridge University Press 1997; US$ 34.00In this case study of police racism and police reform in Australia, the author provides a critical assessment of police initiative in response to the problem of police/minorities relations. more...
Three Crooked Kings
University of Queensland Press 2013; US$ 12.99Journalist and novelist Matthew Condon has crafted the definitive account?a searing story of greed, crime, and corruption?of an era that changed Queensland society; an impact that reverberates across the country to this day. In 1949, a young Terence Murray Lewis graduated from the police academy, ready to start his career in law enforcement. Over... more...
Policing, Race Racism
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 44.95Over recent years race has become one of the most important issues faced by the police. This book seeks to analyse the context and background to these changes, to assess the impact of the Lawrence Inquiry and the MacPherson Report, and to trace the growing emphasis on policing as an 'antiracist' activity, proactively confronting racism in both crime... more...
Security Intelligence Services in New Democracies
Palgrave Macmillan 2000; US$ 138.00The first account of the secret police in Eastern Europe and after 1989, this book uses a wide range of sources, including archives, to identify what has and has not changed since the end of communism. After explaining the structure and workings of two of the area's most feared services, Czechoslovakia's StB and Romania's Securitate, the authors details... more...
The Politics of Social Welfare in America
Cambridge University Press 2013; US$ 72.00Explores disability rights groups and welfare rights activism in the 1960s and 1970s, focusing on poverty, need and welfare. more...
Social Policy in a Developing World
Edward Elgar Publishing 2013; US$ 40.00There is increasing interest in the significance of social policy in the management of welfare and risk in the developing world. This volume provides a critical analysis of the challenges and opportunities facing social protection systems in the global south, and examines current strategies for addressing poverty and welfare needs in the region. In... more...
The Undeserving Rich
Cambridge University Press 2013; US$ 24.00McCall contests assumptions that Americans care little about income inequality, believe opportunities abound, admire the rich, and dislike redistributive policies. more...









