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  • No Place Like Home

    Wealth, Community and the Politics of Homeownership

    by Brian J. McCabe ...
    In the decade following the housing crisis, Americans remain enthusiastic about the prospect of owning a home. Homeownership is a symbol of status attainment in the United States, and for many Americans, buying a home is the most important financial investment they will ever make. We are deeply committed to an ideology of homeownership that presents homeownership as a tool for building stronger ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • The Sociology of Housing

    How Homes Shape Our Social Lives

    Edited by Brian J. McCabe, Eva Rosen ...
    A landmark volume about the importance of housing in social life.In 1947, the president of the American Sociological Association, Louis Wirth, argued for the importance of housing as a field of sociological research. Now, seventy-five years later, the sociology of housing has still not developed as a distinct subfield, leaving efforts to understand housing’s place in society to other disciplines, ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Re-Thinking Autism

    Diagnosis, Identity and Equality

    by Saqib Latif, Tom Billington, Gail Simon, Richard Hassall, Brian McCabe, Anne McGuire, Dan Goodley, Rafaela Zorzanelli, Nick Hodge, Graham Collins, Kim Davies, Tom Muskett, Francisco Ortega, Clarice Rios, Ginny Russell, Mark Haydon Haydon Laurelut ...
    Challenging existing approaches to autism that limit, and sometimes damage, the individuals who attract and receive the label, this book questions the lazy prejudices and assumptions that can surround autism as a diagnosis in the 21st Century.Arguing that autism can only be understood through examining 'it' as a socially or culturally produced phenomenon, the authors offer a critique of the ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • The Myth of Autism

    Medicalising Men's and Boys' Social and Emotional Competence

    by Sami Timimi, Neil Gardner, Brian McCabe ...
    In this groundbreaking book, the authors dispute the concept of autism and explore the cultural and political reasons why the number of those diagnosed with it has increased over the years. This is a must-read for students studying autism and related disorders as well as practitioners working in the mental health services. ... Read more

    $61.99 CAD

  • Batik

    Fabled Cloth of Java

    by Inger McCabe Elliott ...
    Batik: Fabled Cloth of Java is richly illustrated with color plates of the finest antique and contemporary batik from thirty museums and private collections around the world.From the royal courts of Yogyakarta and Cirebon to the coastal towns of Pekalongan, Surabaya and Lasem, Inger McCabe Elliot takes the reader on a spellbinding tour of Java's north coast examining the customs, cultures and ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Democracy Vouchers and the Promise of Fairer Elections in Seattle

    by Jennifer A. Heerwig, Brian J. McCabe ...
    Series series PLAC: Political Lessons from American Cities
    In 2017, Seattle inaugurated a new way for citizens to be involved in democracy: they introduced publicly financed vouchers for voters to donate to local candidates. The innovative plan is designed to level the playing field in campaign financing. Through the vouchers, residents allocate dollars to candidates of their choice in local elections, putting political money directly in the hands of ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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    How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy

    by Elizabeth Popp Berman ...
    The story of how economic reasoning came to dominate Washington between the 1960s and 1980s—and why it continues to constrain progressive ambitions todayFor decades, Democratic politicians have frustrated progressives by tinkering around the margins of policy while shying away from truly ambitious change. What happened to bold political vision on the left, and what shrunk the very horizons of ... Read more

    $29.69 CAD

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  • An Introduction To Counselling

    by John McLeod, Richard Smith ...
    This bestseller provides a comprehensive introduction to the theory and practice of counselling and psychotherapy. ... Read more

    $72.99 CAD

  • Poor Numbers

    How We Are Misled by African Development Statistics and What to Do about It

    by Morten Jerven ...
    Series series Cornell Studies in Political Economy
    One of the most urgent challenges in African economic development is to devise a strategy for improving statistical capacity. Reliable statistics, including estimates of economic growth rates and per-capita income, are basic to the operation of governments in developing countries and vital to nongovernmental organizations and other entities that provide financial aid to them. Rich countries and ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • The System Worked

    How the World Stopped Another Great Depression

    by Daniel W. Drezner ...
    International institutions, from the International Monetary Fund to the International Olympic Committee, are perceived as bastions of sclerotic mediocrity at best and outright corruption at worst, and this perception is generally not far off the mark. In the wake of the 2008 financial crash, Daniel W. Drezner, like so many others, looked at the smoking ruins of the global economy and wondered why ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD

  • Progress for the Poor

    by Lane Kenworthy ...
    One of the principal goals of antipoverty efforts should be to improve the absolute living standards of the least well-off. This book aims to enhance our understanding of how to do that, drawing on the experiences of twenty affluent countries since the 1970s. The book addresses a set of questions at the heart of political economy and public policy: How much does economic growth help the poor? When ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • An Introduction To Family Therapy: Systemic Theory And Practice

    by Rudi Dallos, Ros Draper ...
    The fourth edition of the bestselling An Introduction to Family Therapy provides an overview of the core concepts informing family therapy and systemic practice, covering the development of this innovative field from the 1950s to the present day. ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD