Policy Press: 559 books
by Sheppard, Adam, Croft
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2019
The short guide to town and country planning provides a short, introductory overview of the practice of planning for those with little or no prior knowledge. The book considers who planners are and what they do, presenting a historical narrative of the emergence of planning as an organised action...
Protecting children
A social model
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2018
The state is increasingly experienced as both intrusive and neglectful, particularly by those living in poverty, leading to loss of trust and widespread feelings of alienation and disconnection. Against this tense background, this innovative book argues that child protection policies and practices...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
We live in a world that is increasingly characterised as full of risk, danger and threat. Every day a new social issue emerges to assail our sensibilities and consciences. Drawing on the popular Economic Social and Research Council (ESRC) seminar series, this book examines these social issues and...
What death means now
Thinking critically about dying and grieving
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
Though death is universal, how we respond to it depends on when and where we live. Dying and grieving continually evolve: new preparations for dying, new kinds of funerals, new ways of handling grief and new ways to memorialise are developing all the time. Bringing 25 years of research and teaching...
Social determinants of health
An interdisciplinary approach to social inequality and wellbeing
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
This book provides an applied, interdisciplinary approach to an understanding of the key social determinants of health, essential at a time of increasing inequalities and reductions in existing NHS services and local authority budgets. A person's health and wellbeing is influenced by a spectrum of...
The collaborating planner?
Practitioners in the neoliberal age
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2014
Since the turn of the 21st century, there has been a greater pace of reform to planning in Britain than at any other time. As a public sector activity, planning has also been impacted heavily by the wider changes in the way we are governed. Yet whilst such reform has been extensively commented upon...
Dead-end lives
Drugs and violence in the city shadows
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
“Julia” nervously emerges from her shabby tent in the suburban wastelands on the outskirts of Madrid to face another day of survival in one of Europe’s most problematic ghettos: she is homeless, wanted by the police, and addicted to heroin and cocaine. She is also five months pregnant and rarely...
Peak Inequality
Britain's ticking time bomb
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
Inequality is the key political issue of our time. Danny Dorling wrote his seminal work Injustice: Why social inequality persists in 2010, and as an early proponent of rapidly reducing economic inequalities, he is now much sought-after as one of the foremost contributors to the debates surrounding...
by Tomlinson, Sally
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2019
Covering the period from the height of Empire to Brexit and beyond, this book shows how the vote to leave the European Union increased hostilities towards racial and ethnic minorities and migrants. Concentrating on the education system, it asks whether populist views that there should be a British...
A new health and care system
Escaping the invisible asylum
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
How do we find sustainable and human ways to care for people with long-term needs? This book reveals the ways in which public services squander the potential of people with long term support needs and the creativity and caring capacity of front line workers. Drawing on the ethos, practices and economics...
In whose interest?
The privatisation of child protection and social work
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2018
As the government continues to open up child protection and social work in England to a commercial market place, what is the social cost of privatising public services? And what effect has the failure of previous privatisations had on their provision? This book, by best-selling author and expert social...
by Hain, Peter
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2015
What's gone wrong with capitalism and how should governments respond? What does the future hold for the Left in the UK in the face of the austerity straitjacket around our politics and media? Anthony Crosland’s The Future of Socialism (1956) provided a creed for governments of the centre left until...
Voyage to Utopias
a fictional guide through social philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
This fascinating fictional account will introduce the reader to key ideas in social and political philosophy. It presents crucial skills of philosophical investigation in an accessible, rigorous and light-hearted way. The novel is funny, informative and entertaining, allowing the reader to experience...
Ageing, insight and wisdom
Meaning and practice across the lifecourse
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015
This book focuses on older people as makers of meaning and insight, highlighting the evolving values, priorities and ways of communicating that make later life fascinating. It explores what creating ‘meaning’ in later life really implies, for older people themselves, for how to conceptualise older...