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  • Politics of Segmentation

    Party Competition and Social Protection in Europe

    by Georg Picot ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Political Economy of the Welfare State
    When political parties make policy decisions they are influenced by the competition they face from other parties. This book examines how party competition and party systems affect reforms of social protection. Featuring a historical comparison of Italy and Germany post-1945, the book shows how a high number of parties and ideological polarisation lead to fragmented and unequal social benefits ... Read more

    $63.20 CAD

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  • The Happiness Equation

    The Surprising Economics of Our Most Valuable Asset

    by Nick Powdthavee ...
    Why is marriage worth £200,000 a year?Why will having children make you unhappy?Why does happiness from winning the lottery take two years to arrive?Why does time heal the pain of divorce or the death of a loved one – but not unemployment?Everybody wants to be happy. But how much happiness – precisely – will each life choice bring? Should I get married? Am I really going to feel happy about the ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Forensic Psychology

    A Very Short Introduction

    by David Canter ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Lie detection, offender profiling, jury selection, insanity in the law, predicting the risk of re-offending , the minds of serial killers and many other topics that fill news and fiction are all aspects of the rapidly developing area of scientific psychology broadly known as Forensic Psychology. Forensic Psychology: A Very Short Introduction discusses all the aspects of psychology that are ... Read more

    $7.19 CAD

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  • A Handbook for the Study of Mental Health

    Social Contexts, Theories, and Systems

    Edited by Teresa L. Scheid, Tony N. Brown ...
    The second edition of A Handbook for the Study of Mental Health provides a comprehensive review of the sociology of mental health. Chapters by leading scholars and researchers present an overview of historical, social and institutional frameworks. Part I examines social factors that shape psychiatric diagnosis and the measurement of mental health and illness, theories that explain the definition ... Read more

    $53.59 CAD

  • The Valley

    by Joan MacLeod ...
    Eighteen-year-old Connor, an aspiring author whose fantastical stories foretell his growing struggle with depression, can’t wait to be free of his adverb-wielding, solve-it-all mother, Sharon. But six weeks after leaving for university, he drops out and returns home.Dan Mulano is an infatuated new dad and well-meaning police officer whose selfishness is veiled by the outward display of “principle” ... Read more

    $13.59 CAD

  • The History of Wisconsin, Volume IV

    The Progressive Era, 1893-1914

    by John D. Buenker ...
    Series Book 4 - History of Wisconsin
    Published in Wisconsin's Sesquicentennial year, this fourth volume in The History of Wisconsin series covers the twenty tumultuous years between the World's Columbian Exposition and the First World War when Wisconsin essentially reinvented itself, becoming the nation's "laboratory of democracy."The period known as the Progressive Era began to emerge in the mid-1890s. A sense of crisis and a ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Lose to Gain

    Is Involuntary Resettlement a Development Opportunity?

    Edited by Jayantha Perera ...
    A crucial issue that confronts development in South Asia is how to build a better life for people displaced by infrastructure development projects. This book comprises recent displacement and resettlement case studies conducted by eight anthropologists in South Asia. Each contributor wrote around the key theme of the book: Is involuntary resettlement a development opportunity for those displaced ... Read more

    $7.49 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Child Welfare Research

    Advances for Practice and Policy

    by Aron Shlonsky ...
    Research has already been a significant factor in child welfare policy in recent years, but this essential new volume demonstrates that it has taken a leading role in the field to spur and guide change. In the incisive chapters gathered here, some of the field's top investigators present their work and assess its effect on the full spectrum of child welfare services. Future generations of ... Read more

    $64.79 CAD

  • Rational Choice Theories: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

    by John Paul Wright ...
    Series series Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guides
    This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of criminology find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook provides ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD

  • Why Prison?

    Edited by David Scott ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
    Prison studies has experienced a period of great creativity in recent years, and this collection draws together some of the field's most exciting and innovative contemporary critical writers in order to engage directly with one of the most profound questions in penology - why prison? In addressing this question, the authors connect contemporary penological thought with an enquiry that has received ... Read more

    $48.79 CAD

  • The Approved Mental Health Professional′s Guide to Psychiatry and Medication

    Edited by Alan Pollard, Gwen Adshead, Robert Brown ...
    Series series Post-Qualifying Social Work Practice Series
    This book is essential reading for all Approved Mental Health Professionals (AMHPs) and those students and practitioners on mental health Post-Qualifying awards. It covers the core competencies of the AMHP and how the use of medication fits within the roles of the mental health professional. Fully updated to include aspects of the recently amended Mental Health Act 1983, this guide shows how the ... Read more

    $82.39 CAD

  • Welfare & Competition

    by Tibor Scitovsky ...
    Dealing with general economic theory, other than employment theory, the book discusses the theory of pure and monopolistic competition - with a special emphasis upon welfare aspects. Beginning with an analysis of the consumer and of the individual firm, the main stress is nevertheless placed on the analysis of the economic system as a whole. ... Read more

    $111.30 CAD