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The inspiring true story of the first Girl Scout troop founded for and by girls living in a shelter in Queens, New York, and the amazing, nationwide response that it sparked “A powerful book full of……続きを見る

This book promotes the well-being of the commons through representation and accountability through monitoring from below in order to operationalize engagement. This book views the commons as a legal……続きを見る

This handbook brings together the international research focussing on prisoners’ families and the impact of imprisonment on them. Under-researched and under-theorised in the realm of scholarship on ……続きを見る

The Great Chicago Fire in October 1871 destroyed 2,600 acres and left tens of thousands without housing, food, fuel, or clothing. In the aftermath the mayor handed all relief duties to the commercia……続きを見る

The second edition of Evidence-Based Practice in Clinical Social Work continues to bridge the gap between social work research and clinical practice, presenting EBP as both an effective approach to ……続きを見る

This book examines the intellectual and institutional transformations of four British think tanks in the aftermath of the 2008 global financial crisis. In the context of a crisis of expert authority……続きを見る

Home and care are central aspects of everyday, personal lives, yet they are also shaped by political and economic change. Within a context of austerity, economic restructuring, worsening inequality ……続きを見る

The capability approach, an increasingly popular conceptual and theoretical framework focused on what individuals are able to do and be, offers a unique evaluative perspective to social policy analy……続きを見る

Frank "Pache" Pachecano, a former ICE detective in Texas, has been tapped by female FBI special agent Aitana Garcia, to help solve the murder of a ten year old girl in Miami. The government of the U……続きを見る

Si bien existen algunas investigaciones sobre construcción de paz desde procesos locales, este tema ha sido poco desarrollado. Mediante un trabajo de reflexión interdisciplinar, esta obra busca defi……続きを見る

ePDF and ePUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This book brings together leading international authors from a number of fields to provide an up-to-date understanding of part-time wor……続きを見る

After decades of extraordinary successes as a multicultural society, new debates are bubbling to the surface in Canada. The contributors to this volume examine the conflict between equality rights, ……続きを見る

This is a book about understanding women’s empowerment and pathways as well as roadblocks to women’s economic empowerment in rural India, as understood through an evaluation-based research of a stat……続きを見る

Despite its impressive economic growth, East Asia is facing daunting challenges in mitigating its social problems, including chronic poverty and worsening social inequality. The past decade has seen……続きを見る

In the Great Recession of 2007-2009, the United States suffered the most sustained and extensive wave of job destruction since the Great Depression. When families in need sought help from the safety……続きを見る

You cannot help but hear the voices calling for impeachment, change in immigration policy and climate change. America is tired of the incongruity of political parties that never get anything done bu……続きを見る

Compromiso con Andalucía reúne los primeros artículos que José Antonio Jiménez Ramos ha publicado durante los últimos dos años en su blog en Sevilla Directo, un diario digital de ámbito sevillano co……続きを見る

Arap Baharı’nın ardından Mısır’daki dönüşüm sürecinin evreleri özellikle dış politika alanında açık biçimde gözlemlenmektedir. 2011’de Mübarek’in devrilmesi sonrası Yüksek Askeri Konseyin yönetime h……続きを見る

Impact has become a central part of the assessment criteria for academic worth. It has been adopted by many research funding bodies, and it is firmly embedded in the British Research Excellence Fram……続きを見る

Türk Dış Politikası Yıllığı yeni sayısıyla karşınızda. Bu sayıda da birbirinden zengin makaleleri içinde barındıran kitabımız Türk dış politikasının nabzını tutmaya devam ediyor. Eserimiz alanında e……続きを見る

“(Religious freedom is of) fundamental importance in any democracy… (it is) of great concern to many Australians that this right is being denied and vilified.” (Glenn Davies, Archbishop of Sydney, 2……続きを見る

This book introduces the “Belt and Road” in its entirety, including what it is, what it aims to do, what it can do and how. This book can serve as a helpful resource for the general public, it can i……続きを見る

This volume explores transgender children and internalized body normalization in early childhood education settings, steeped in critical methodologies including post-structuralism, queer theory, and……続きを見る

This book presents a novel approach to framing the concept of stigma, and understanding why and how it functions. Graham Scambler extends his analysis beyond common social interactionist understandi……続きを見る

This comparative resource charts the interface between the University of the Third Age (U3A) movement and active ageing, and in doing so, offers a comprehensive and thorough understanding of what U3……続きを見る

This book examines the staying power of the People's Action Party, a political party that has governed Singapore since June 1959. A political titan with few chinks in its armour, the party has kept ……続きを見る

As debates about migrants and refugees reverberate around the world, this book offers an important first-hand account of how migration is being approached at the highest levels of international gove……続きを見る

I segnali sulla necessità di rivedere il parametro della crescita su cui si fondano le società industriali continuano a moltiplicarsi: l’avvicinarsi dell’esaurimento delle fonti fossili e le guerre ……続きを見る

This book is devoted to offering a new concept of non-employment caused by social exclusion. Among labor economic studies, it is the first attempt to investigate the conditions of jobless persons wh……続きを見る

This book examines the work of Milton Friedman, which is amongst the most significant in modern economics and, equally, amongst the most contentious. Although Friedman became most famous for his vie……続きを見る