Sociology and Social Policy
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Advanced Introduction to Cities
Peter J. Taylor
This insightful Advanced Introduction explores the key attributes of cities, identifying their five basic characteristics; innate complexity, the agglomeration of activities, inter-city connectivities, the projection of power, and relati...eBook:Find out more$23.16
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Retiring Women
Philip Taylor, Catherine Earl, Elizabeth Brooke, Christopher McLoughlin
With current policy concerns about shortfalls of labour supply and effects on the social welfare system due to population ageing, there is a need to understand the factors that shape women’s choices about if, when and how to retire. Rece...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Advanced Introduction to Public Policy
B. G. Peters
In this updated second edition, internationally renowned scholar B. Guy Peters provides a succinct introduction to public policy and illustrates the design approach to policy problems. Peters demonstrates how decision-makers can make mor...eBook:Find out more$27.40
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Advanced Introduction to Housing Studies
William A.V. Clark
This timely Advanced Introduction explores the links between housing and households, including the complex process of how people sort themselves into houses and neighborhoods. It covers the choices that households make, why these choices...eBook:Find out more$27.40
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The European Social Model and an Economy of Well-being
Giovanni Bertin, Marion Ellison, Giuseppe Moro
This timely book critically examines the European Social Model as a contested concept and concrete set of European welfare and governance arrangements. It offers a theoretical and empirical analysis of new economic models and existing Eu...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Digital Citizen(ship)
Luigi Ceccarini
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. This cutting-edge book explores the diverse and contested meanings of ‘citizenship’ in the 2...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Social Innovation as Political Transformation
Edited by Pieter Van den Broeck, Abid Mehmood, Angeliki Paidakaki, Constanza Parra
This book is an introduction to the works of a collective of academics on social innovation and socio-political transformation. It offers a critique of the dominance of market-based logics and extractivism in the age of neoliberalism. Ca...eBook:Find out more$37.56
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Handbook of Culture and Migration
Edited by Jeffrey H. Cohen, Ibrahim Sirkeci
Capturing the important place and power role that culture plays in the decision-making process of migration, this Handbook looks at human movement outside of a vacuum; taking into account the impact of family relationships, access to res...eBook:Find out more$65.00
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Productivity and the Pandemic
Edited by Philip McCann, Tim Vorley
This forward-thinking book examines the potential impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on productivity. Productivity and the Pandemic features 21 chapters authored by 46 experts, examining different aspects of how the pandemic is likely to i...eBook:Find out more$39.96
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Robotization of Work?
Barbara Czarniawska, Bernward Joerges
In this timely book, Barbara Czarniawska and Bernward Joerges examine the hopes and fears around work and job security inspired by automation, from the original coining of the term ‘robot’ to the present day media fascination. Have these...eBook:Find out more$26.36
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Advanced Introduction to Community-based Conservation
Fikret Berkes
Professor Fikret Berkes provides a unique introduction to the social and interdisciplinary dimensions of biodiversity conservation. Examining a range of approaches, new ideas, controversies and debates, he demonstrates that biodiversity ...eBook:Find out more$25.96
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EU Migration Agencies
David Fernández-Rojo
This insightful book analyzes the evolution of the operational tasks and cooperation of the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (FRONTEX), the European Asylum Support Office (EASO) and the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Coo...eBook:Find out more$40.00
