Sociology and Social Policy
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Handbook of Developments in Consumer Behaviour
Edited by Victoria K. Wells, Gordon Foxall
Consumer research incorporates perspectives from a spectrum of long-established sciences: psychology, economics and sociology. This Handbook strives to include this multitude of sources of thought, adding geography, neuroscience, ethics ...eBook:Find out more$63.16
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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$43.96
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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$40.00
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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$54.36
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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$39.16
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A Handbook of Economic Anthropology, Second Edition
Edited by James G. Carrier
The first edition of this unique Handbook was praised for its substantial and invaluable summary discussions of work by anthropologists on economic processes and issues, on the relationship between economic and non-economic areas of life...eBook:Find out more$65.56
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Economic, Social and Cultural Rights as Human Rights
Edited by Olivier De Schutter
This volume offers a selection of those major contributions which have shaped debate in the field of economic, social and cultural rights. The broad range of discussion includes: the nature of economic, social and cultural rights and the... -
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Pharmaceutical Economics
Edited by William S. Comanor, Stuart O. Schweitzer
Pharmaceutical Economics begins with an investigation of the structure of the industry and its three main components: the research firms which produce innovative products; the generic drug industry and its expanding role; and the biotech... -
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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$40.00
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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$40.00
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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$40.00
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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$48.76