Sociology and Social Policy
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Sounding Places
Edited by Karolina Doughty, Michelle Duffy, Theresa Harada
This edited collection examines the more-than-representational registers of sound. It asks how sound comes to be a meaningful ingredient in the microgeographies of place-making through the workings of affect, emotion, and atmosphere, how...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Handbook on In-Work Poverty
Edited by Henning Lohmann, Ive Marx
There has been a rapid global expansion of academic and policy attention focusing on in-work poverty, acknowledging that across the world a large number of the poor are ‘working poor’. Taking a global and multi-disciplinary perspective, ...eBook:Find out more$59.96
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Constitutionalising the External Dimensions of EU Migration Policies in Times of Crisis
Edited by Sergio Carrera, Juan Santos Vara, Tineke Strik
This discerning book examines the external dimension EU migration and asylum polices in times of crisis. It thoroughly assesses patterns of co-operation in EU migration management with a focus on co-operation with the global south. A key...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Higher Education and the Future of Graduate Employability
Edited by Ruth Bridgstock, Neil Tippett
This book challenges the dominant ‘employability skills’ discourse by exploring socially connected and networked perspectives to learning and teaching in higher education. Both learning and career development happen naturally and optimal...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Beyond Public Policy
Peter K. Spink
Public policy is an expression that has come to dominate the way people talk about doing government and public administration and is seen as a central component of the modern democratic order. Adopting an innovative ‘public action langua...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Dynamics of Regional Migration Governance
Edited by Andrew Geddes, Marcia Vera Espinoza, Leila Hadj Abdou, Leiza Brumat
This book analyses the dynamics of regional migration governance and accounts for why, how and with what effects states cooperate with each other in diverse forms of regional grouping on aspects of international migration, displacement a...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Handbook of Behavioural Change and Public Policy
Edited by Holger Straßheim, Silke Beck
Behavioural change has become a core issue of public policy. Behavioural instruments such as ‘nudging’ apply insights from behavioural economics and behavioural sciences, psychology and neurosciences across a broad range of policy areas....eBook:Find out more$65.00
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New Parents in Europe
Edited by Daniela Grunow, Marie Evertsson
This innovative book explores the different ways in which dual-earner couples in contemporary welfare states plan for, realize and justify their divisions of work and care during the transition to parenthood. Providing a unique comparati...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Law and Policy of Healthcare Financing
Edited by Wolf Sauter, Jos Boertjens, Johan van Manen, Misja Mikkers
Examining the ways and extent to which systemic factors affect health outcomes with regard to quality, affordability and access to curative healthcare, this explorative book compares tax-funded Beveridge systems and insurance-based Bisma...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Rethinking Third Places
Edited by Joanne Dolley, Caryl Bosman
Ray Oldenburg’s concept of third place is re-visited in this book through contemporary approaches and new examples of third places. Third place is not your home (first place), not your work (second place), but those informal public place...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Politics and Practices of Apartment Living
Hazel Easthope
The majority of people now live in cities and for many that means apartment living. Apartments are where we spend our time, make our homes, raise our families and invest our money. Apartment living requires that we try to get along with ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Sustainable Development Goals and Income Inequality
Edited by Peter A.G. van Bergeijk, Rolph van der Hoeven
This timely book documents and analyses the seriousness of growing national inequality in different regions around the world. It argues that the treatment of inequality in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is wholly insufficient d...eBook:Find out more$37.56