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  • Empty Cradles (Oranges and Sunshine)by Margaret Humphreys

    Transworld 2011; US$ 9.59

    Also published as Oranges and Sunshine. In 1986 Margaret Humphreys, a Nottingham social worker, investigated a woman's claim that, aged four, she had been put on a boat to Australia by the British government. At first incredulous, Margaret discovered that this was just the tip of an enormous iceberg. Up to 150,000 children, some as young as three years old, had been deported from children's homes in Britain and shipped off to a 'new life' in distant parts of the Empire, right up until as recently as 1970. Many were told that their parents were dead, and parents were told that their children had been adopted. In fact, for many children it was to be a life of horrendous physical and sexual abuse far away from everything they knew.... more...

  • Enemies of the Stateby Tim Priest

    New Holland Publishers (Australia) 2009; US$ 14.95

    Tim Priest is a former police detective, on the front line in the war on crime and drugs in Sydney?s Cabramatta. more...

  • Portfolios of the Poorby Daryl Collins; Jonathan Morduch; Stuart Rutherford; Orlanda Ruthven

    Princeton University Press 2009; US$ 19.95

    Nearly forty percent of humanity lives on an average of two dollars a day or less. If you've never had to survive on an income so small, it is hard to imagine. How would you put food on the table, afford a home, and educate your children? How would you handle emergencies and old age? Every day, more than a billion people around the world must answer these questions. Portfolios of the Poor is the first book to systematically explain how the poor find solutions to their everyday financial problems. The authors conducted year-long interviews with impoverished villagers and slum dwellers in Bangladesh, India, and South Africa--records that track penny by penny how specific households manage their money. The stories of these families are often... more...

  • Medical Disaster Responseby David Goldschmitt; Robert Bonvino

    CRC Press 2009; US$ 99.95

    Presenting an overview of the basic principles of disaster management, this book describes the role of emergency medicine in disaster planning and mass casualty events. From disaster capacity to hazard risk score and vulnerability analysis, it addresses various aspects of disaster planning. more...

  • Men Who Sell Sexby Peter Aggleton; Dennis Altman

    Taylor & Francis 1998; US$ 55.95

    Brings together an authoritative collection of essays from different countries and examines sexual behaviour, the reasons men sell sex, the meanings involved, and implications for HIV prevention. more...

  • Debating Human Rightsby Peter Van Ness

    Routledge 1998; US$ 64.95

    Provoking fresh considerations of the issues between East and West, this book of essays presents a uniquely diverse range of voices. more...

  • Policing Citizensby P.A.J. Waddington

    Routledge 1998; US$ 56.95

    This comparative text serves both as an introduction to contemporary police studies and an intervention into current debates concerning police reform and practice. more...

  • Leadership and Change in Human Servicesby David Race

    Routledge 2003; US$ 57.95

    In Leadership and Change in Human Services David Race introduces us to Wolfensberger's key ideas concerning devaluation, vulnerability, normalisation, social role valorisation and advocacy, which can then be explored through a series of extracts more...

  • Policing Across the Worldby R.I. Mawby

    Routledge 1999; US$ 55.95

    This wide-ranging text provides an overview of policing across different societies, and considers the issues facing the US and British police in a wider international context. The book is designed as a coherent introduction to the police. more...

  • New Handbook of Children's Rightsby Bob Franklin

    Routledge 2001; US$ 55.95

    The expanded and completely revised new edition of this well established handbook provides up-to-date information on a topic of increasing importance across a range of disciplines and practices. more...