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An accessible multidisciplinary overview for anyone seeking to understand the commercial determinants of health Our health is largely shaped by the world around usーby the conditions in which we gro……続きを見る

Simply put, we have entered an era when many people are poor and in constant need of support from society. It means there needs to be generous citizens and officials in our society who are willing t……続きを見る

In "An Essay on the First Principles of Government," Joseph Priestley engages in a profound exploration of political philosophy, articulating the foundational elements that underpin legitimate gover……続きを見る

Would you like to instantly catch people's thoughts, emotions, motivations, and intentions through mere observation? If yes, you've come to the right place! 10-Minute Social Psychology is a unique b……続きを見る

SCMP's reporting team looks back at Hong Kong's most wrenching political crisis since its return to Chinese rule in 1997. Anti-extradition bill protests that morphed rapidly into a wider anti-govern……続きを見る

A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Engaging and visceral ... Reads like a thriller' Financial Times 'Riveting and often deeply disturbing ... A punch to the stomach' Sunday Times 'Ebner has done some gut……続きを見る

A temática da gestão da segurança constitui um campo de desafios e remete, inicialmente, ao aspecto da construção social desse problema das violências e sua problematizarão sociológica. O livro se p……続きを見る

Com enfoque no período de pós-transição democrática, analisa as relações de mútua constituição entre sociedade civil e Estado, observando diferentes movimentos sociais e organizações de sociedade ci……続きを見る

The first comprehensive map of the social safety net, public and private, in the United States. Societies are often judged by how they treat their most vulnerable members: the poor and near poor. In……続きを見る

In the wake of the financial crisis, and with increasing numbers of people in precarious and low paid jobs, there has been a surprising surge of support for populist right-wing political parties who……続きを見る

East Asian societies and welfare systems are rapidly changing, creating an increasing need for research that can help to establish sustainable and legitimate welfare systems. This original volume co……続きを見る

This book reviews how local social and employment policy fields react to the European Social Fund (ESF) to determine the role of the ESF in local activation policies. Drawing on both sociology and p……続きを見る

How Social Security has shaped American politicsーand why it faces insolvency Since its establishment, Social Security has become the financial linchpin of American retirement. Yet demographic trend……続きを見る

Has the modern Conservative Party developed a distinctive approach to the post-war welfare state? In exploring this question, this accessible book takes an authoritative look at Conservative Party p……続きを見る

How has North Korea developed and managed its military readiness to achieve its strategic ends? Hinata-Yamaguchi analyzes North Korea’s defense planning by looking at how political, economic, and so……続きを見る

What are the possibilities for and conditions of global security in the 21st century? This book provides an innovative study of future wars, crises and transformations of the global political econom……続きを見る

The Prince (Italian: Il Principe) is a political treatise by the Italian diplomat, historian and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli. From correspondence a version appears to have been distribute……続きを見る

This original book makes a timely and potentially controversial contribution both to the teaching of social policy and the wider debates surrounding it in Britain today. It offers a critical and the……続きを見る

The report aims to meet two broad objectives: (a) enhance knowledge about the current state of existing social safety nets (SSNs) and assess their effectiveness in responding to new and emerging cha……続きを見る

Governments in all advanced industrial societies are involved in an endless struggle of how to 'square the welfare circle', as demand for public services rises due to demographic, social and labour ……続きを見る

"[W]e must tell the story of how social insurance programs have assured basic economic and health security for millions of AmericansÖ.This book is a must-read for anyone who cares about these goals.……続きを見る

This book provides a comprehensive survey of Japanese-Russian relations from the end of the Russo-Japanese War until the present. Based on extensive original research in both Japanese and Russian so……続きを見る

A former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury and an eminent economist tackle the biggest social issue of our time. Of all the issues swirling around the 2008 election, the staggering projected costs for ……続きを見る

Based on primary resources, including documents and extensive interviews with Japanese policy makers, this book provides a comprehensive and detailed empirical analysis of Japan’s involvement in Asi……続きを見る

Social justice and social policy in Scotland offers a critical engagement with the state of social policy in one of the devolved nations of the UK, a decade after the introduction of devolution. Pro……続きを見る

The challenges of staying solvent in later years can be fierce. The Solvency Struggle chronicles the yearlong personal struggle of one grandmother to wrestle with this reality. Other "year of books"……続きを見る

This book seeks to analyse the development of the European Union (EU), which was founded upon the principle of the free movement of capital, goods, services and people in 1957. Its central thesis is……続きを見る

The e-book follows the author's theme "How to Navigate the Social Security Disability Bureaucracy". The publication presents a 40-year perspective from an executive manager. The e-book project has t……続きを見る

The Prince is a political treatise by the Italian diplomat, historian and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli. From correspondence a version appears to have been distributed in 1513, using a Lati……続きを見る

This important sequel to Nordic Social Policy (Routledge 1999) compares welfare state development over the last twenty years in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden with that of Germany, the Netherla……続きを見る