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Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
This issues-based reference work (available in both print and electronic formats) shines a spotlight on health care policy and practice in the United States. Impassioned debates about the best solutions to health care in America have perennially erupted among politicians, scholars of public policy,...
U.S. Development Policy in an Aging World
New Challenges and New Priorities for a New Demographic Era
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013
The demographic transformation sweeping the emerging world has profound implications for U.S. development policy. The challenge is no longer helping countries overcome the obstacles to development posed by high birthrates and rapid population growth, but leveraging the opportunities created by falling...
The Power to Heal
Civil Rights, Medicare, and the Struggle to Transform America's Health Care System
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
In less than four months, beginning with a staff of five, an obscure office buried deep within the federal bureaucracy transformed the nation's hospitals from our most racially and economically segregated institutions into our most integrated. These powerful private institutions, which had for a half...
Economics in the Twenty-First Century
A Critical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Economics has always been nicknamed the “dismal science,” but today the field seems a little more dismal than usual as governments, social movements, and even students complain that the discipline is failing to make sense of the major economic problems of the day.
In Economics in the Twenty-First...
by Sumita Dawra
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
The difficulty of finding solutions After six decades of policy-making and planning that appear perfect on paper, vast pockets of poverty persist across the country, accompanied by low human development indices. In Poor but Spirited in Karimnagar, Sumita Dawra recounts her experiences as collector...
Uncertain Futures
An Assessment Of The Conditions Of The Present
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
Uncertain Futures: An Assessment of the Conditions of the Present provides a detailed look into the economic and political conditions of our present moment from a Marxist perspective. Key aspects of Marxist economic theory are illustrated in clear ways in order to provide an easy introduction to Marxist...
Family Stress Management
A Contextual Approach
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2016
The Third Edition of Family Stress Management by Pauline Boss, Chalandra M. Bryant, and Jay A. Mancini continues its original commitment to recognize both the external and internal contexts in which distressed families find themselves. With its hallmark Contextual Model of Family Stress (CMFS), the...
by Cedric Fullwood, John Stewart, David Smith
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Based on a survey of probation work with almost 1400 young adult offenders, this book provides a unique insight into the realities of probation practice in a context of increasing poverty, drug use and community breakdown. Starting with an outline of the current policy environment, the book discusses...
by Paul Iganski, David Mason
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
This title was first published in 2002: Numerous reports have identified the serious problems of under-representation of, and discrimination against, minority ethnic groups in the British NHS. It is widely argued that this both raises issues of social justice and undermines the quality of service...
by Vicenç Navarro, Juan Torres López
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 7, 2013
**Este libro trata de poner las cosas en su sitio explicando de la forma más clara posible lo que hay detrás de todo ese catastrofismo. **
Hace ya años que se inició un claro ataque a las pensiones públicas, uno de los derechos más apreciados por la población. Para ello se ha difundido...
by Kishor Sharma
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Child labour is a serious and contentious issue throughout the developing world and it continues to be a problem whose form and very meaning shifts with social, geographical, economic and cultural context. While the debate about child labour practice in developing countries appears to be motivated...
Crime
How to Solve it - And Why So Much of What We're Told is Wrong
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
In a whirlwind demolition of dozens of misconceptions about crime, Nick Ross proposes what is arguably the most radical re-think of crime policy since the dawn of policing. Setting conventional thinking on its head, Crime challenges everything we take for granted, showing why the criminal justice...
Rothschild Buildings
Life in an East-End Tenement Block 1887 - 1920
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2011
Winner of the Jewish Chronicle Harold H. Wingate Literary Award.
Rothschild Buildings were typical of the 'model dwellings for the working classes' which were such an important part of the response to late-Victorian London's housing problem. They were built for poor but respectable Jewish immigrants...
Mapping Fragile and Conflict-Affected Situations in Asia and the Pacific
The ADB Experience
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
This study maps out the major weaknesses of each fragile situation on the latest country performance assessment exercises. It identifies the overall common issues which require special attention when crafting strategies and implementing programs and projects. Rethinking the Asian Development Bank's...