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  • Eccentric Choices

    A Fictionalized Account of Botanical Pioneers

    by David Clapham ...
    How is life in a lab where people in the early twentieth century are making hugely significant biological discoveries?This fictionalized account opens in 1922 with the fourteen-year-old Len La Cour arriving at the John Innes Horticultural Institution, located in an outer London suburb. The institution is directed by Dr Bateson, a pioneer plant geneticist. He appoints Len as technician because he ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Inhabitation in Nature

    Houses, People and Practices

    by David Clapham ...
    Rejecting the assumption that housing and cities are separate from nature, David Clapham advances a new research framework that integrates housing with the rest of the natural world. Demonstrating the wider context of human lives and the impact of housing on the non-human environment, the author considers the impact of current inhabitation practices on climate change and biodiversity.Showcasing ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Remaking Housing Policy

    An International Study

    by David Clapham ...
    Breaking the country-specific boundaries of traditional housing policy books, Remaking Housing Policy is the first introductory housing policy textbook designed to be used by students all around the world. Starting from first principles, readers are guided through the objectives behind government housing policy interventions, the tools and mechanisms deployed and the outcomes of the policy ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

  • Accommodating Difference

    Evaluating Supported Housing for Vulnerable People

    by David Clapham ...
    For vulnerable older, disabled or homeless people who need accommodation and support, many different forms of housing have developed – whether hostels, group homes, extra-care housing or retirement villages. But do these settings effectively improve the well-being of those who live in them? This important book explores the impact of different forms of policy and practice on the lives of vulnerable ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • Odd Socks

    by David Clapham ...
    Chance events and well-intentioned conspiracies can bring people together in unlikely and sometimes comical liaisons. It is 1970, and diffident young mathematician Andrew Carter has just left the security and prestige of Cambridge to begin a junior lectureship at a university situated in northern England. There he runs into Toby Morton, an old school friend, who invites him to his family's country ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • The Special and the Ordinary

    by David Clapham ...
    John Haworth, despite innate shyness, has floated upward in a comfortable English home environment under the influence of much older sisters and their friends. After he begins a new school in the early fifties, the seven-year-old is looking lost when a classmate, Martin Holford, decides to take him under his wing. And so begins a long friendship.Ordinary rules of life apparently do not apply to ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Small Water Supplies

    A Practical Guide

    by David Clapham ...
    There are approximately 50,000 small water supplies in the UK alone, and thousands more worldwide. Dealing with the idiosyncratic characteristics of small water supplies requires specialist knowledge, and this book provides invaluable guidance for professionals.Based on the extensive practical experience of the author, this book covers how small independent supplies differ from public water ... Read more

    $130.99 CAD

  • Public Housing

    Current Trends and Future Developments

    Edited by David Clapham, John English ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Housing
    Originally published in 1987, public rented housing in Britain had undergone many changes in the decade before, which had been accelerated by the policies of the Conservative government since 1979. With financial incentives and the ‘right to buy’, owner occupation was being vigorously promoted as the ‘normal’ tenure for the bulk of households, while the public sector was increasingly confined to ... Read more

    $107.17 CAD

  • The SAGE Handbook of Housing Studies

    Edited by William Clark, Kenneth Gibb, David F Clapham ...
    Cross-disciplinary and critical in its approach, The SAGE Handbook of Housing Studies is an elucidating look at the key issues within the field. It covers the study of housing retrospectively, but also analyses the future directions of research and theory, demonstrating how it can contribute to wider debates in the social sciences. A comprehensive introductory chapter is followed by four parts ... Read more

    $147.99 CAD

  • Housing Management, Consumers and Citizens

    by Liz Caincross, David Clapham, Robina Goodlad ...
    Tenant participation has grown substantially over the last decade, following government legislation, advice from professional bodies and development agencies, and promotion by all major political parties. On few housing issues is there such concensus. Yet, in practice, it is obvious that participation can mean very different things in different contexts. This book explains why this is the case, ... Read more

    $116.79 CAD

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  • The housing debate

    by Stuart Lowe ...
    Series series Policy and Politics in the Twenty-First Century
    The emergence of Britain as a fully fledged home-owning society at the end of the 20th century has major implications for how houses are used not just as a home but as an asset. The key debate in this important and timely book is whether social policy and people's homes should be so closely connected, especially when housing markets are so volatile. It will be essential reading for all students ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD