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  • Pigs That Ate the Garden

    A Human Ecology from Papua New Guinea

    by Peter D. Dwyer ...
    In The Pigs that Ate the Garden, Peter D. Dwyer examines the subsistence ecology of 109 Etolo people who live on the wet, forested mountain slopes of Papua New Guinea. Dwyer describes the community's method of deliberately placing pigs in gardens so that the pigs depredate the vegetation there. He shows how this practice is actually the community's method of sending a message to itself that serves ... Read more

    $48.99 CAD

  • What's Next

    2020 Onwards

    by Peter Dwyer ...
    The title of this short book is What's Next?, and the short answer is Who Knows? This is despite the mounting evidence that our current worldwide problems are leading people to reassess their priorities for the future and insist on the need for change. The purpose of the book is to take this contrast seriously, and not only to accept the task of seeing what is at stake as we enter upon a new ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Precarious Lives

    Forced Labour, Exploitation and Asylum

    by Hannah Lewis, Peter Dwyer, Stuart Hodkinson, Louise Waite ...
    Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licenceThis ground breaking book presents the first evidence of forced labour among displaced migrants who seek refuge in the UK.Through a critical engagement with contemporary debates about precarity, unfreedom and socio-legal status, the book explores how asylum and forced labour are linked, and enmeshed in a broader picture of modern slavery produced ... Read more

    $51.69 CAD

  • African Struggles Today

    Social Movements Since Independence

    by Peter Dwyer, Leo Zeilig ...
    Three leading Africa scholars investigate the social forces driving the democratic transformation of postcolonial states across southern Africa. Extensive research and interviews with civil society organizers in Zimbabwe, South Africa, Zambia, Malawi, Namibia, and Swaziland inform this analysis of the challenges faced by non-governmental organizations in relating both to the attendant inequality ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • The Impacts of Welfare Conditionality

    Sanctions Support and Behaviour Change

    by Peter Dwyer, Lisa Scullion, Katy Jones, Jenny McNeill, Alasdair B.R. Stewart ...
    Series series Welfare Conditionality
    Should a citizen’s right to social welfare be contingent on their personal behaviour?Welfare conditionality, linking citizens’ eligibility for social benefits and services to prescribed compulsory responsibilities or behaviours, has become a key component of welfare reform in many nations.This book uses qualitative longitudinal data, from repeat interviews with people subject to compulsion and ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Facing 2030

    Coping with Climate Change

    by Peter J. Dwyer ...
    Currently, the human race is living in troubled times, exemplified by the issue of Climate Change. The following pages attempt a reflection on this to explore how do we make sense of its strange effects? To do this we need to take it seriously and resist the temptation to consign it to the Too Hard Basket. ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • What’s Next: 2020 Onwards

    by Peter J Dwyer ...
    The title of this short book is What’s Next?, and the short answer is Who Knows? This is despite the mounting evidence that our current worldwide problems are leading people to reassess their priorities for the future and insist on the need for change. The purpose of the book is to take this contrast seriously, and not only to accept the task of seeing what is at stake as we enter upon a new ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Atlas of Urogynecological Endoscopy

    by Peter L. Dwyer ...
    The study of gynecology and pelvic floor disorders is a rapidly developing area for gynecologists all around the world; and, moreover, an essential aspect to the diagnosis and treatment of pelvic floor disorders is a need for expertise in cystourethroscopy to accurately diagnose conditions of the lower urinary tract that frequently present to the gynecologists. However, gynecologists have little ... Read more

    $365.52 CAD

  • The French Revolution and Napoleon

    A Sourcebook

    Edited by Philip Dwyer, Peter McPhee ...
    This volume collects together a wide selection of primary texts that explain the processes behind the enormous changes undergone by France and Europe between 1787 and 1815, from the origins of the Revolution to the counterrevolution and from Marie-Antoinette to Bonaparte.The achievements, terror and drama of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic period restructured politics and society on a ... Read more

    $75.99 CAD

  • Youth, Education and Risk

    Facing the Future

    by Peter Dwyer, Johanna Wyn ...
    Youth, Education and Risk: Facing the Future provides a provocative and valuable insight into how the dramatic social and economic changes of the last twenty years have affected the lives of Western youth. Covering young people's attitudes towards relationships and health, the authors provide a comprehensive perspective on young people in Western society in the 1990s.The book reviews ten years of ... Read more

    $71.44 CAD

  • Tourism Economics and Policy

    by Prof. Larry Dwyer, Prof. Peter Forsyth, Wayne Dwyer ...
    Series Book 5 - Aspects of Tourism Texts
    Since the publication of the first edition of this seminal textbook, the tourism economics landscape has undergone many changes. In this concise revised edition, the authors have incorporated new approaches and ideas influencing tourism economics and policy. This includes discussions of the implications of the sharing economy and its effect on industry structure in accommodation and transport, and ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • An Introduction to Social Policy

    Edited by Peter Dwyer, Sandra Shaw ...
    An Introduction to Social Policy explores essential welfare topics, themes and issues for students studying social policy or related disciplines such as sociology, social work, or nursing and social care.- Part One examines key concepts including welfare, social justice, diversity and health and well-being.- Part Two explores policy issues in relation to key stages of the lifecourse.- Part Three ... Read more

    $82.39 CAD