Skip to main content
Search Button
Canada Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Top Series in Canada

Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “marcus redley”
Skip side bar filters

  • Putting the Family First

    Identities, decisions, citizenship

    by Bill Jordan, Marcus Redley, Simon James ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1994, Putting the Family First is a study of better-off couples that clarifies the relationship between individualism and family values. Partners’ cultural practices focus on "making something of themselves", being "supportive" of each other, and spending "quality time" with children. But their economic strategies are directed towards competition for positional goods, especially ... Read more

    $67.32 CAD

  • Trapped in Poverty?

    Labour-Market Decisions in Low-Income Households

    by James Davidson, Bill Jordan, Helen Kay, Marcus Redley ...
    How do people on low incomes make decisions about employment and benefit claims? Interview material and economic analysis combine with new theories of the relationship between moral and economic reasoning. ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • Education Policy and Social Class

    The Selected Works of Stephen J. Ball

    by Stephen J. Ball ...
    Series series World Library of Educationalists
    Bringing together twenty years of research and writing, this book provides an overview of Stephen Ball’s career and shows not only the development of his most important ideas but also the long-lasting contributions he has made to the field of educational policy analysis. This volume contains sixteen key essays divided into three sections:perspectives on policy researchpolicy technologies and ... Read more

    $92.99 CAD

  • Class Strategies and the Education Market

    The Middle Classes and Social Advantage

    by Stephen J. Ball ...
    Class Strategies and the Education Market examines the ways in which the middle classes maintain and improve their social advantages in and through education.Drawing on an extensive series of interviews with parents and children, this book identifies key moments of decision making in the construction of the educational trajectories of middle class children. Stephen J. Ball organises his analysis ... Read more

    $100.99 CAD

  • The Secret Life of Cities

    Social reproduction of everyday life

    by Helen Jarvis, Andy C. Pratt, Peter Cheng-Chong Wu ...
    Contemporary urbanisation has two faces: global flows of people, money and information, and that of localised social and economic disparities. Recent research has focused on the headlines of global cities as control centres of the world economy, and social and economic shock waves that have raged through cities and regions, but less attention has been paid to the secret life of cities, and the ... Read more

    $126.41 CAD

  • Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD): Looking Back to Look Forward (3rd Edition)

    In conversation with John McKnight about the heritage of ABCD and its place in the world today

    by Cormac Russell ...
    Asset Based Community Development (ABCD), Looking Back to Look Forward is a prelude to a longer book. It is framed as a conversation between Cormac Russell, who is a leader in the Asset Based Movement in Europe, and Director of ABCD Europe and Professor John McKnight the Co-Director of the ABCD Institute.This book provides a detailed background to Asset Based Community Development (ABCD), with a ... Read more

    $9.61 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Ethics of Teaching

    by Jonas F. Soltis, Kenneth A. Strike ...
    Series series Thinking About Education Series
    This popular book covers the most important ethical issues in contemporary schooling.Written in a style that speaks directly to today’s teacher, The Ethics of Teaching, Fifth Edition uses realistic case studies of day-to-day ethical dilemmas. The book covers such topics as: punishment and due process • intellectual freedom • equal treatment of students • multiculturalism • religious differences • ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • The Empty Raincoat

    Making Sense of the Future

    by Charles Handy ...
    *Can you find the way to Davy's bar? *Do you know the Doughnut principal? *How do you make a Chinese contract? The changes which Charles Handy foresaw in THE AGE OF UNREASON are happening. Endless growth can make a candyfloss economy, and capitalism must be its own sternest critic. Handy reaches here for a philosophy beyond the mechanics of business organisations, beyond material choices, to try ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Consumption and Its Consequences

    by Daniel Miller ...
    This is a book for those looking for different answers to some of today's most fundamental questions. What is a consumer society? Does being a consumer make us less authentic or more materialistic? How and why do we shop? How should we understand the economy? Is our seemingly insatiable desire for goods destroying the planet? Can we reconcile curbs on consumption with goals such as reducing ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Cheek by Jowl

    A History of Neighbours

    by Emily Cockayne ...
    Almost everyone has a neighbour. Neighbours can enrich or ruin our lives. They fascinate and worry us in equal measure. Soap operas watched by millions play with every lurid permutation of relationships in fictional neighbourhoods. Disputes over gigantic Leylandii and noise nuisance turn nasty and fill newspaper columns. These stories have a rich history - as long as we have lived in shelters, we ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • School and Society

    by Walter Feinberg, Jonas F. Soltis ...
    Series series Thinking About Education Series
    This widely used text has been expanded to include the most important issues in contemporary schooling, including:New end-of-chapter sections for Further Reading.New references added to the useful Additional Resources section.School and Society, Fifth Edition uses realistic case studies, dialogues, and open-ended questions designed to stimulate thinking about problems related to school and society ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • What Should We Tell Our Daughters?

    The Pleasures and Pressures of Growing Up Female

    by Melissa Benn ...
    We have reached a tricky crossroads in modern women's lives and our collective daughters are bearing the brunt of some intolerable pressures. Although feminism has made great strides forward since our mothers' and grandmothers' day, many of the key issues - equality of pay, equality in the home, representation at senior level in the private, public and political sectors - remain to be tackled. ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD