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  • A Magpie's Tale

    by David J Manley ...
    A Magpie's Tale narrates the experiences of Maggie the magpie and her partner, Alfred. They have an adolescent offspring Alfredo, who seems to get into trouble more often than not. They all live together on the outskirts of a little forest area at the Gold Coast in Queensland Australia.The story begins with Maggie looking for food to provide for her family where Maggie forms a connection with a ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Geography and a Geographer

    Reimagining the Discipline After Ron Johnston

    Edited by Richard Harris, David Manley, Robert Mayhew ...
    Series series RGS-IBG Book Series
    Professor Ron Johnston OBE, FAcSS, FBA was one of the most celebrated geographers of his generation. Producing a prolific research record that spanned six decades, Johnston was an insightful, thoughtful, and open-minded contributor to debates and research practices in human geography, to understanding the histories and productions of geographical knowledge in modern Anglo-American geography, and ... Read more

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  • Neighbourhood Effects or Neighbourhood Based Problems?

    A Policy Context

    Edited by David Manley, Maarten van Ham, Nick Bailey, Ludi Simpson, Duncan Maclennan ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This edited volume critically examines the link between area based policies, neighbourhood based problems, and neighbourhood effects: the idea that living in disadvantaged neighbourhoods has a negative effect on residents’ life chances over and above the effect of their individual characteristics. Over the last few decades, Western governments have persistently pursued area based policies to fight ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Understanding Neighbourhood Dynamics

    New Insights for Neighbourhood Effects Research

    Edited by Maarten van Ham, David Manley, Nick Bailey, Ludi Simpson, Duncan Maclennan ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This rare interdisciplinary combination of research into neighbourhood dynamics and effects attempts to unravel the complex relationship between disadvantaged neighbourhoods and the life outcomes of the residents who live therein. It seeks to overcome the notorious difficulties of establishing an empirical causal relationship between living in a disadvantaged area and the poorer health and well ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Neighbourhood Effects Research: New Perspectives

    Edited by Maarten van Ham, David Manley, Nick Bailey, Ludi Simpson, Duncan Maclennan ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Over the last 25 years a vast body of literature has been published on neighbourhood effects: the idea that living in more deprived neighbourhoods has a negative effect on residents’ life chances over and above the effect of their individual characteristics. The volume of work not only reflects academic and policy interest in this topic, but also the fact that we are still no closer to answering ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Poverty and Social Exclusion in the UK

    Volume 2 - The Dimensions of Disadvantage

    by Jonathan Bradshaw, Mike Tomlinson, Christiana Pantazis, Simon Pemberton, Glen Bramley, David Manley, Lucy Prior, Eldin Fahmy, Lisa Wilson, Kirsten Besemer0, Filip Sosenko1, Suzanne Fitzpatrick2, Paddy Hillyard3, Marco Pomati4, Demi Patsios5, Joanna Mack6 ...
    Series series Studies in Poverty, Inequality and Social Exclusion
    How many people live in poverty in the UK, and how has this changed over recent decades? Are those in poverty more likely to suffer other forms of disadvantage or social exclusion? Is exclusion multi-dimensional, taking different forms for different groups or places?Based on the largest UK study of its kind ever commissioned, this fascinating book provides the most detailed national picture of ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • The Football Oddity

    by Robert Manley Ward, David Trow ...
    Dean Stanway is middle aged, over weight and out of shape. He's never played football for a team in his life. A workplace accident is about to change all that. Suddenly he finds he has a special skill that sets him apart from any other footballer. With an eye on the Premier League can he persuade anyone to give him a trial? Will he turn the football world upside down? And what price is he prepared ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Violent States and Creative States (2 Volume Set)

    From the Global to the Individual

    by Grace Lee, Christopher Scanlon, Annie Stopford, Gardnel Carter, Gina Donoso, Gloria Uwizeye, Thilo Kroll, Efrat Even-Tzur, David W. Jones, Ismail Karolia, Julian Manley, Klaus Hoffmann, Barry Richards, Aileen Schloerb, Hayley Berman, Matt Killingsworth, Lucy Neal, Reinmar Du Bois, Maggie McAlister, Zoe Berko, Sarita Bose, Martha Ferrito, Martina Mindang, Anna Motz, Robyn Timoclea, Deborah J. Cohan, Claude Barbre, Jill Barbre, Tamsin Cottis, Alex Maguire, Andrew Ware, Gerrard Drennan, Kate Rothwell, Simon Hackett, James S. Vrettos, Dr John L Young, Clinton Van der Van der Walt, Dr Gwen Adshead ...
    This is a provocative collection exploring the different types of violence and how they relate to one another, examined through the integration of several disciplines, including forensic psychotherapy, psychiatry, sociology, psychosocial studies and political science. By examining the 'violent states' of mind behind specific forms of violence and the social and societal contexts in which an ... Read more

    $90.19 USD

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  • Welfare Conditionality

    by Beth Watts, Suzanne Fitzpatrick ...
    Series series Key Ideas
    Welfare conditionality has become an idea of global significance in recent years. A ‘hot topic’ in North America, Australia, and across Europe, it has been linked to austerity politics, and the rise of foodbanks and destitution. In the Global South, where publicly funded welfare protection systems are often absent, conditional approaches have become a key tool employed by organisations pursuing ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Health Inequalities

    Critical Perspectives

    Edited by Katherine E. Smith, Clare Bambra, Sarah E. Hill ...
    Informed by a wealth of available research, between 1997 and 2010, the UK Labour government introduced a raft of policies to reduce health inequalities. Despite this, by most measures, the UK's health inequalities have continued to widen. This failure has prompted calls for new approaches to health inequalities research and some consensus that public health researchers ought to be more actively ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Social Advantage and Disadvantage

    Edited by Hartley Dean, Lucinda Platt ...
    Social advantage and disadvantage are potent catch-all terms. They have no established definition but, considered in relation to one another, they can embrace a wide variety of more specific concepts that address the ways in which human society causes, exacerbates or fails to prevent social divisions or injustices. This book captures the sense in which any conceptualisation of disadvantage is ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Canadian Social Policy, Fifth Edition

    Issues and Perspectives

    Edited by Anne Westhues, Brian Wharf ...
    Social policy shapes the daily lives of every Canadian citizen and should reflect the beliefs of a majority of Canadians on just approaches to the promotion of health, safety, and well-being. Too often, those on the front lines—social workers, nurses, and teachers—observe that policies do not work well for the most vulnerable groups in society. In the first part of this new edition of Canadian ... Read more

    $43.99 USD