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Managing Poverty: The Limits of Social Assistance
1st Edition
By Carol Walker
September 01, 2025
Since the Second World War, the means test has played a role of growing importance in British social security provision. Beveridge’s vision of a society protected by a national system of social insurance has never been realized and, instead, social assistance, designed as a residual and diminishing...
Metropolitan Government
1st Edition
By I. M. Barlow
September 01, 2025
First published in 1991, Metropolitan Government provides an in-depth study of metropolitan government and outlines the need for a unit of government at the metropolitan level. It discusses relevant theoretical aspects of local government reorganization. Developments in metropolitan government in ...
Mugging as a Social Problem
1st Edition
By Michael Pratt
September 01, 2025
First published in 1980, Mugging as a Social Problem sets out to remedy the deficiency of serious research on mugging. The work is based on a random sample of over 1000 muggings which occurred within the Metropolitan Police District in the mid-1970s, and the author analyses the results not only in ...
Musical Life in Poland: The Postwar Years 1945–1977
1st Edition
By Lidia Rappoport-Gelfand
September 01, 2025
Never in the history of Polish music has there been a period like the one that followed World War II. No other era has given the world so many outstanding composers and so many talented works in all kinds of musical genres. Polish music asserted itself on the world scene as independent, distinct, ...
Patterns of Residential Care: Sociological Studies in Institutions for Handicapped Children
1st Edition
By Roy D. King, Norma V. Raynes, Jack Tizard
September 01, 2025
Originally published in 1971, this title describes a series of studies dealing with the upbringing of children in residential institutions. Most work has been carried out in institutions for children with learning disabilities, although units caring for able but deprived children and children with ...
Philosophy at the Limit
1st Edition
By David Wood
September 01, 2025
First published in 1990, Philosophy at the Limit was originally part of the Problems of Modern European Thought book series. It pursues the theme of philosophy’s confrontation with its own limits, in modern philosophers from Hegel to Derrida, including Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Heidegger, and ...
Process and Structure in Higher Education
1st Edition
By Tony Becher, Maurice Kogan
September 01, 2025
During the 1980s, the whole higher education scene in Britain shifted dramatically. Originally published in 1980 and here reissuing the second edition of 1992, Process and Structure in Higher Education presents a synoptic model of how the system as a whole now functions, and how its various ...
Radiation Protection Dosimetry: A Radical Reappraisal
1st Edition
By Jack A. Simmons, David E. Watt
September 01, 2025
Background: Physicist Jack Simmons’ research led him to develop a new paradigm to quantify radiation effects. He questioned both the International Commission on Radiation Units and Measurements (ICRU) and the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP), which had established the ...
Reviewing before the Edinburgh 1788-1802
1st Edition
By Derek Roper
September 01, 2025
First published in 1978, Reviewing before the Edinburgh is a study of English literary reviewing during the fifteen years before the founding in 1802 of the Edinburgh Review, and an assessment of the reviewers’ achievement. The long introductory chapter describes the aims, methods, staffing, ...
School and Community in Less Developed Areas
1st Edition
Edited
By Kevin M. Lillis
September 01, 2025
There has long been a debate about the role of schools and relevant education in community development in less developed areas. Efforts are continually being made to relate the work of schools more closely to the life of the local community. First published in 1985, School and Community in Less ...
Sex, Class and Culture
1st Edition
By Lillian Robinson
September 01, 2025
First published in 1986, Sex, Class and Culture is a collection of Marxist feminist essays that develops an original critical theory and applies it to literature, the visual arts, and mass media. Lillian Robinson was the first American critic to suggest the essential connections among sex, class, ...
Social Change and the Schools: 1918–1944
1st Edition
By Gerald Bernbaum
September 01, 2025
First published in 1967, Social Change and the Schools is an examination of the change which took place in the English school system between 1918 and 1944. Special attention is paid throughout to the social factors operating on, and within, the schools, and there is a close study of the conflicts ...