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Public Private Partnerships in Education
Edited by Susan L. Robertson, Karen Mundy, Antoni Verger, Francine Menashy
This insightful book brings together both academics and researchers from a variety of international organizations and aid agencies to explore the complexities of public private partnerships as a resurgent, hybrid mode of educational gov...eBook:Find out more£29.56
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The Changing Welfare State in Europe
Edited by David G. Mayes, Anna Michalski
The welfare state in Europe has been reformed gradually over the past two decades, with the intensification of the economic and monetary union and the addition of fifteen new members to the EU. This book explores the pressures that have ...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Economic and Social Integration
Dagmar Schiek
The book draws on a unique content and discourse analysis of all Grand Chamber decisions on substantive EU law since May 2004. It finds the EU’s ‘judicial constitution’ to be more nuanced and more uniform than expected. While the Court o...eBook:Find out more£34.36
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Welfare State, Universalism and Diversity
Edited by Anneli Anttonen, Liisa Häikiö, Kolbeinn Stefánsson
Welfare State, Universalism and Diversity is a thought-provoking book dealing with key ideas, values and principles of social policies and asking what exactly is meant by universal benefits and policies? Is the time of post-war universal...eBook:Find out more£24.76
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C. Wright Mills and the Sociological Imagination
Edited by John Scott, Ann Nilsen
C. Wright Mills is one of the towering figures in contemporary sociology and his writings continue to be of great relevance to the social science community. Generations of sociology students have enjoyed learning about the discipline fro...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Forests and Climate Change
Anthony Hall
Controlling deforestation, which is responsible for about one-fifth of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions, has become a major tool in the battle against global warming. An important new international initiative – Reduced Emissions fro...eBook:Find out more£30.36
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Labour Administration in Uncertain Times
Edited by Jason Heyes, Ludek Rychly
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. The 2008 financial crisis marked the beginning of a prolonged and ongoing period of extreme ...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Improving Health Services
Walter Holland
This insightful book describes how Health Services Research (HSR) can be developed and used to evaluate, advance and improve all aspects of health services. It demonstrates the need for good HSR to avoid the continuation or development o...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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The Politics of Structural Reforms
Edited by Hideko Magara, Stefano Sacchi
For countries undertaking economic or political reform the case of Italy and Japan is both highly instructive and sobering. The Politics of Structural Reforms reveals what Italy and Japan gained and lost through a series of social and in...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Older Workers in an Ageing Society
Edited by Philip Taylor
Prolonging working lives is high on the agenda of policy makers in most of the world’s major industrialized nations. This book explains how they are keen to tackle issues associated with the ageing of populations, namely the funding of p...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Regenerative Sustainable Development of Universities and Cities
Edited by Ariane König
Now that the Earth has reached the limits of its biophysical carrying capacity, we have to change technologies, social practices and social norms relating to material production and consumption to ensure that we do not further jeopardize...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Social Protection, Economic Growth and Social Change
Edited by James Midgley, David Piachaud
This highly original and thought-provoking book examines the recent expansion of social protection in China, India, Brazil and South Africa – four countries experiencing rapid economic growth and social change.eBook:Find out more£25.00
