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This book, dealing with social policy in Southern Africa, offers a comprehensive collection of possible social policy-based interventions in Southern Africa’s socio-economic and development realitie……続きを見る

What role did Winston Churchill play in excluding comprehensive schooling from the 1944 Education Act? What was the failed promise of technical education in the post-war period? Why did Margaret Tha……続きを見る

Available open access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. One of the most significant ways that social workers can engage with policy is by holding elected office. How and why do social workers transition in……続きを見る

In dit handboek worden politiek en beleid benaderd vanuit een sociaal perspectief. Het boek is vooral gericht op professionals (in opleiding) in de brede sociale sector, die meer inzicht willen krij……続きを見る

This book investigates urban life in the slums of Delhi, demonstrating how individuals and communities self-organise to solve problems that arise in their neighbourhoods. Around one-quarter of the w……続きを見る

Environmental Impact Assessment: Practical Tools and Techniques for Sustainable Development (Optional Subtitle: An EIA Practitioners' Guide for Sustainable Development) Environmental Impact Assessme……続きを見る

What should a country do if it suddenly discovers oil and gas? How should it spend the subsequent cash windfall? How can it protect against corruption? How can citizens truly benefit from national w……続きを見る

Worldwide child and youth poverty and deprivation remain the biggest barrier to achieving a better life in adulthood. Progress in lifting children out of poverty in the last decades has been slow an……続きを見る

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Health inequality has reached a crisis point. Your income or hometown can have a devastating impact on how well and how long you live. This……続きを見る

In this engaging book, Amber Reed provides a new perspective on South Africa’s democracy by exploring Black residents’ nostalgia for life during apartheid in the rural Eastern Cape. Reed looks at a ……続きを見る

Cet ouvrage collectif se propose de revisiter l’idée européenne sous l’angle de trois thèmes : les frontières, les acteurs et les représentations de l’Europe (Fare). Avec un clin d’oeil à l’ancien l……続きを見る

«At long last, English-speaking readers now have access to the most comprehensive and insightful account of the vision that inspires the rapprochement and lived interreligious dialogue between Chris……続きを見る

This book addresses the issues of radicalism and terrorism, which are of exceptional importance and relevance in contemporary society. Each of the two phenomena are analyzed from a multidisciplinary……続きを見る

The term Utopia, coined by Thomas More in 1516, contains an inherent semantic ambiguity: it could be read as eu topos (good place) or ou topos (no place). The authors of this volume analyze this pol……続きを見る

Wahlkampf ist Wortkampf: In Reden, auf Plakaten, in Werbespots, Talkshows und Interviews, online oder auf der Straße – überall versuchen die Parteien und Kandidaten in Präsidentschaftswahlkämpfen mi……続きを見る

The agenda of the 11th CEE Forum Conference in Bratislava, Slovakia, held on 25-26 April 2019 was focused on the reassessment of the Central and Eastern European position in Europe and in the world,……続きを見る

The articles included in this book deal with various aspects of international migration analyzed from different methodological perspectives. What unites this collection of articles is that they deal……続きを見る

"Disputed Identity and Refugee Dilemmas offers: The Rwandophone Congoles Between War and Peace, An Ethnographic Analysis of Conflict Engagement, Silent Loyalties, and Peacebuilding Prospects Among K……続きを見る

This open access book utilizes new data to thoroughly analyze the main factors currently shaping the African housing market. Some of these factors include the supply and demand for housing finance, ……続きを見る

Research into minimum income standards and reference budgets around the world is compared in this illuminating collection from leading academics in the field. From countries with long established re……続きを見る

Soziale Sicherung im globalen Süden weist gegenüber dem Norden einige Besonderheiten auf: sie deckt einen kleineren Teil der Bevölkerung ab, bietet nur ein moderates Ersatzeinkommen und schließt Arb……続きを見る

Our Allies Have Become Our Enemies: You Need This Book to Protect Yourself … From Healthcare! The system that is supposed to nurture, protect and restore you is actually a leach, not a life-saver. Y……続きを見る

"Is Obamacare the Answer" lists the promises made by President Obama for his namesake reform of healthcare and then compares those promises to evidence-of-effect––documented with proof not opinion. ……続きを見る

Depuis la fin de la décennie 1990 jusqu’au moment de la publication de ce livre, la République Démocratique du Congo est secouée par des guerres récurrentes. La littérature sur cette instabilité a r……続きを見る

Drawing on international case studies from emerging economies and developing countries including South Africa, India, Egypt, Morocco, Jordan, Tunisia, Indonesia, China and Russia, this book examines……続きを見る

This book presents an original synthesis of the leading international research on children in conflict with the law, providing an evidence base for a rights-based justice system. Informed by interna……続きを見る

This title combines original research, case studies, and synoptic analysis to cover highly charged topics in America today. Each chapter in this edited volume offers conditional responses to three e……続きを見る

This textbook deals with the progressive global dissolution of political, economic, and social boundaries, which has significant implications for labor markets, the international division of labor, ……続きを見る

Dieses Lehrbuch beschäftigt sich mit der fortschreitenden globalen Entgrenzung von Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, die erhebliche Auswirkungen auf die Arbeitsmärkte, die internationale Arbeits……続きを見る

Journalism in the Civil War Era presents the historical context of Civil War journalismーplacing the press of the era within the entire nineteenth century. It gives a broad account of journalism in ……続きを見る