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  • The Overthinkers

    by Lisa Portolan, Ben Cheong ...
    Four people, figuring out sex, love, and how to ‘adult.’ Sydney - one of those places that just consumes you. A private school boy, a tortured drug dealer, a starving writer and a gay outcast, try to do their best as they navigate through the unspoken rules which govern the fast paced, status obsessed harbour city.Benji: desperate to stand on his own, and be perceived as separate to his status ... Read more

    $7.21 USD

  • Legal Personhood in the Anthropocene

    An ESG Approach to Legal Recognition

    by Ben Chester Cheong ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    Claims to legal personhood have expanded dramatically beyond traditional boundaries to encompass rivers, future generations, and potentially artificial intelligence and animals. Yet many such initiatives fail, collapsing into symbolic gestures without practical effect. This book argues that these failures stem not only from fragmented approaches that privilege one dimension—environmental ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • Occupational Science

    Society, Inclusion, Participation

    Edited by Gail E. Whiteford, Clare Hocking ...
    Occupational Science: Society, Inclusion, Participation is the must have resource for occupational therapists, occupational scientists, students and researchers. The book begins with a comprehensive review of the current literature and the knowledge generated to date. Reasons for the field's limited impact are proposed, including its focus on individuals rather than groups and communities, its ... Read more

    $53.00 USD

  • Governing the Present

    Administering Economic, Social and Personal Life

    by Nikolas Rose, Peter Miller ...
    The literature on governmentality has had a major impact across the social sciences over the past decade, and much of this has drawn upon the pioneering work by Peter Miller and Nikolas Rose. This volume will bring together key papers from their work for the first time, including those that set out the basic frameworks, concepts and ethos of this approach to the analysis of political power and the ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • Amartya Sen

    Edited by Christopher W. Morris ...
    Series series Contemporary Philosophy in Focus
    Amartya Sen was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 1998 'for his contributions in welfare economics'. Although his primary academic appointments have been mostly in economics, Sen is also an important and influential social theorist and philosopher. His work on social choice theory is seminal, and his writings on poverty, famine, and development, as well his contributions to moral ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • The Argumentative Turn Revisited

    Public Policy as Communicative Practice

    Edited by Frank Fischer, Herbert Gottweis ...
    Rejecting the notion that policy analysis and planning are value-free technical endeavors, an argumentative approach takes into account the ways that policy is affected by other factors, including culture, discourse, and emotion. The contributors to this new collection consider how far argumentative policy analysis has come during the past two decades and how its theories continue to be refined ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Land of Strangers

    by Ash Amin ...
    The impersonality of social relationships in the society of strangers is making majorities increasingly nostalgic for a time of closer personal ties and strong community moorings. The constitutive pluralism and hybridity of modern living in the West is being rejected in an age of heightened anxiety over the future and drummed up aversion towards the stranger. Minorities, migrants and dissidents ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • The Tragic Science

    How Economists Cause Harm (Even as They Aspire to Do Good)

    by George F. DeMartino ...
    A forceful critique of the social science that has ruled—and damaged—the modern world.The practice of economics, as economists will tell you, is a powerful force for good. Economists are the guardians of the world's economies and financial systems. The applications of economic theory can alleviate poverty, reduce disease, and promote sustainability.While this narrative has been successfully ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Transformation of Contemporary Health Care

    The Market, the Laboratory, and the Forum

    by Tiago Moreira ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Health and Social Welfare
    The past three decades have seen enormous changes in the organisation of health care. This book explores the role of knowledge production and technology on these transformations, focusing on the market (attempts to embed principles of economic rationality and efficient use of resources in the shaping and delivery of health care), the laboratory (science, experiments and 'evidence' in the ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Solidarity in Biomedicine and Beyond

    by Barbara Prainsack, Alena Buyx ...
    Series Book 33 - Cambridge Bioethics and Law
    In times of global economic and political crises, the notion of solidarity is gaining new currency. This book argues that a solidarity-based perspective can help us to find new ways to address pressing problems. Exemplified by three case studies from the field of biomedicine: databases for health and disease research, personalised healthcare, and organ donation, it explores how solidarity can make ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Against Injustice

    The New Economics of Amartya Sen

    Edited by Reiko Gotoh, Paul Dumouchel ...
    Traditional theories of justice as formulated by political philosophers, jurists and economists have all tended to see injustice as simply a breach of justice, a breakdown of the normal order. Amartya Sen's work acts as a corrective to this tradition by arguing that we can recognise patent injustices, and come to a reasoned agreement about the need to remedy them, without reference to an explicit ... Read more

    $49.19 USD

  • Ethics and Economics

    New perspectives

    Edited by Mark D. White, Irene van Staveren ...
    Since the days of Adam Smith, ethics and economics have been closely intertwined, and were nominally separated only with the advent of neoclassical economics in the beginning of the last century. This book features eleven essays by leading scholars in economics and philosophy who argue for a renewal of the bond between the two disciplines.Several of the contributors argue that the ethical content ... Read more

    $68.99 USD