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  • Commonwealth Education

    Adapting to Survive

    Edited by Beth Kreling, Peter R.C. Williams ...
    Education, once regarded as a key pillar of Commonwealth activity, is increasingly inconspicuous on Commonwealth agendas. Written to mark the sixtieth anniversary of the first Commonwealth Education Conference in 1959, the chapters in this volume reflect on the past, present, and future of Commonwealth educational cooperation. This book reviews some of the principal dimensions of education ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Autism Spectrum Disorder in Mid and Later Life

    by Pamela A. Smith, Amy Maida Wadsworth, William McMahon, Kristina Cottle, Megan Farley, Hilary Coon, Christopher Gregg, Amanda Bakian, Temple Grandin, Judy Endow, Michael Baron, Saskia Baron, Digby Tantam, Elizabeta Mukaetova-Ladinska, Mick Coppock, Hilde Geurts, R.C. Oude Voshaar, Sylvia Heijnen, Bruce Parsons, Dermot Bowler, Amanda Roestorf, Monique Hines, Susan Balandin, Benjamin DiCicco-Bloom, Shana Nichols, E. Sandra Byers, Denise D. Resnik, A.J. Paron-Wildes, Jeremy Parr, Gregory Prince, JaLynn Prince, Valerie D'Astous, Karen Glaser, Karen Lowton, Terry Brugha, Carol Povey, Cos Michael, Robert MacBean, Stella Macdonald, Peter Gerhardt, Valerie Paradiz, Xenia Grant, Elizabeth A. Perkins, Angela Rodriguez, Bas van van Alphen, Dr Valerie Gaus, Lauren Bishop Bishop Fitzpatrick ...
    Bringing together international academics and professionals who are actively researching and working in the field, this pioneering scholarly volume covers the issues faced by individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder(ASD) in mid and later life.Including a range of personal, academic and clinical perspectives, the book considers historical and contemporary perspectives on autism, including ... Read more

    $60.49 CAD

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    Winner: Donner Prize for Excellence and Innovation in Public Policy Writing by Canadians (2016)Winner: New Brunswick Book Award for Non-Fiction (2016)Recent decades have shown the public's support for government plummet alongside political leaders’ credibility. This downward spiral calls for an exploration of what has gone wrong. The questions "What is government good at?" and "What is government ... Read more

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  • Public Management Reform

    A Comparative Analysis - Into The Age of Austerity

    by Christopher Pollitt, Geert Bouckaert ...
    Since the third edition of this authoritative volume, most of Western Europe and North America have entered an era of austerity which has pervasive effects on programmes of public management reform. Even in Australasia extensive measures of fiscal restraint have been implemented. In this fourth edition the basic structure of the book has been retained but there has been a line-by-line rewriting, ... Read more

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  • Irish Business and Society

    Governing, Participating and Transforming in the 21st Century

    Edited by John Hogan, Paul F. Donnelly, Brendan K. O'Rourke ...
    A collection of stimulating essays exploring the wide-ranging debates surrounding the relationship between business and society in 21st century Ireland.Wide-ranging, diverse and thought-provoking contributions from leading business researchers, economists, sociologists and political scientists from Ireland and abroad probe five central themes: the making and unmaking of the Celtic Tiger; ... Read more

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  • Planning and Transformation

    Learning from the Post-Apartheid Experience

    by Philip Harrison, Alison Todes, Vanessa Watson ...
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    Planning and Transformation provides a comprehensive view of planning under political transition in South Africa, offering an accessible resource for both students and researchers in an international and a local audience.In the years after the 1994 transition to democracy in South Africa, planners believed they would be able to successfully promote a vision of integrated, equitable and sustainable ... Read more

    $126.41 CAD

  • Africa's Urban Revolution

    by Doctor Edgar Pieterse, Susan Parnell ...
    The facts of Africa's rapid urbanisation are startling. By 2030 African cities will have grown by more than 350 million people and over half the continent's population will be urban. Yet in the minds of policy makers, scholars and much of the general public, Africa remains a quintessentially rural place. This lack of awareness and robust analysis means it is difficult to make a policy case for a ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Regional Planning

    by John Glasson, Tim Marshall ...
    Series series Natural and Built Environment Series
    Regional Planning provides a comprehensive introduction to the concepts and theory of regional planning in the UK. Drawing on examples from throughout the UK, it provides students and practitioners with a descriptive and analytical foundation for understanding this rapidly changing area of planning.The book includes four main sections covering:the context and history of regional ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Rethinking Governance

    The Centrality of the State in Modern Society

    by Stephen Bell, Andrew Hindmoor ...
    Several problems plague contemporary thinking about governance. From the multiple definitions that are often vague and confusing, to the assumption that governance strategies, networks and markets represent attempts by weakening states to maintain control. Rethinking Governance questions this view and seeks to clarify how we understand governance. Arguing that it is best understood as 'the ... Read more

    $75.99 CAD

  • A Different Kind of State?

    by Gregory Albo, Leo Panitch ...
    A large factor in the appeal of neo-conservatism in the early 1980s was its sustained attack on the welfare state. Even those most dependent on public services were frustrated by a system that allowed them no say in decisions directly affecting their lives. A decade later, the alternative offered by the new right—free market competition—has only deepened the need for effective state assistance. ... Read more

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  • Social Development

    Theory and Practice

    by James O. Midgley ...
    Walking through social development’s key theoreticalprinciples and practice strategies, this book shows how it promotes peoples’ wellbeing not only in the Global South, where it first emerged, but in the Western countries as well. It covers:Definitions and an historical evolution of social developmentKey theoretical debates around social well-being, human rights and social justiceSocial ... Read more

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  • The Student's Companion to Social Policy

    Edited by Pete Alcock, Tina Haux, Margaret May, Sharon Wright ...
    This fully updated and expanded edition of the bestselling Student’s Companion to Social Policy charts the latest developments, research, challenges, and controversies in the field in a concise, authoritative format.Provides students with the analytical base from which to investigate and evaluate key concepts, perspectives, policies, and outcomes at national and international levelsFeatures a new ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD