Social Policy Books


Changing Health Care in Canada: The Romanow Papers, Volume 2 Best Price: $36.95 The second in a series of three volumes presenting a selection of the best studies prepared for...	Shocking Mother Russia: Democratization, Social Rights, and Pension Reform in Russia, 1990-2001 Best Price: $54.00 Examining the reform process of the old age pension system in Russia, from its Soviet origins to...	The Drug Legalization Debate (Studies in Crime, Law, and Justice) Best Price: $38.11 Although when first published Inciardi's collection was a valuable addition to the drug...	A Letter to America Best Price: $0.90 Edit of 14 Mar 08: FRAUD ALERT. I like and admire David Boren, but I am now fed up with his...	From Direct Action to Affirmative Action: Fair Employment Law and Policy in America, 1933-1972 Best Price: $6.68 Moreno takes a broad-minded, scholarly perspective on civil rights law. He's not wedded to...



The Anti-Rent Era in New York Law and Politics, 1839-1865 (Studies in Legal History) Best Price: $8.59 A compelling blend of legal and political history, this book chronicles the largest tenant...	Urban and Regional Policy and Its Effects Best Price: $18.00 Urban and Regional Policy and Its Effects , the second in a series, sets out to inform...	Drawing the Line: Public and Private in America Best Price: $4.55 In Drawing the Line , Andrew Stark takes a fresh and provocative look at how Americans debate...	Twenty-First Century Gateways: Immigrant Incorporation in Suburban America (James A. Johnson Metro) Best Price: $16.75 Ellis Island - the cause of such a diverse European-descended population in New York City - but...	Land in Transition: Reform and Poverty in Rural Vietnam (Equity and Development) Best Price: $20.99 This book is a case study of Vietnam s efforts to fight poverty using market oriented land...



School Construction Strategies for Universal Primary Education in Africa: Should Communities Be Empowered to Build Their Schools? (Africa Human Development Series) Best Price: $23.39 'School Construction Strategies for Universal Primary Education in Africa' examines the...	Citizenship, Governance, and Social Policy in the Developing World (New Frontiers of Social Policy) Despite decades of effort to strengthen public institutions, good governance remains one of the...	The Quality of Life in Latin American Cities: Markets and Perception (Latin American Development Forum) Best Price: $20.10 In Latin America, a region with a majority population in urban areas, criteria to prioritize...	Handbook on Impact Evaluation: Quantitative Methods and Practices (World Bank Training Series) Best Price: $29.42 The 'Handbook on Impact Evaluation' provides a practical and comprehensive overview of...	The Community Economic Development Movement: Law, Business, and the New Social Policy Best Price: $20.00 I purchased this book because I am new to the field. I wanted an academic explanation. ...

Arts and Culture in the Metropolis: Strategies for Sustainability Best Price: $12.24 The nonprofit arts currently face an environment that challenges the way they have grown and...	Barriers to the Broad Dissemination of Creative Works in the Arab World Best Price: $4.76 A growing body of creative works by Arab authors and artists counters the intellectual and...	Unravelling Social Policy: Theory, Analysis, and Political Action Towards Social Equality Best Price: $163.50	Age Power Best Price: $1.97 Dychtwald's "Age Power" is a fascinating book about the implications that will...	Pros and Cons: Social Policy Debates of Our Time Best Price: $8.06 This book provides in-depth analyses of ten major controversial social policy issues currently...

The Environment and Society Reader Best Price: $87.57 This is a comprehensive introduction to the issues associated with environmental problems. ...	Social Work, Social Welfare, and American Society (with MyHelpingLab) (6th Edition) Best Price: $54.20 Provides students with a political perspective on social welfare with definitions of liberal,...	Time Matters: On Theory and Method (Oriental Institute Publications) Best Price: $28.49 What do variables really tell us? When exactly do inventions occur? Why do we always miss...	The Foucault Effect: Studies in Governmentality Based on Michel Foucault's 1978 and 1979 lectures at the Collège de France on...	Affirmative Advocacy: Race, Class, and Gender in Interest Group Politics Best Price: $22.45 The United States boasts scores of organizations that offer crucial representation for groups...

Global Health Governance: Crisis, Institutions and Political Economy (International Political Economy) Best Price: $80.39 Eminent scholars investigate the sharp contrast between the acute and multi-dimensional scale of...	Restoring Hope: Decent Care in the Midst of HIV/AIDS Best Price: $76.91 This volume is a call to re-examine assumptions about what care is and how it be practised....	HIV Treatment and Prevention Technologies in International Perspective Best Price: $82.29 This book addresses the governance of the HIV and AIDS pandemic, with reference to the social...	The Contentious Politics of Unemployment in Europe: Welfare States and Political Opportunities Best Price: $42.50 This collection provides a novel approach to unemployment as a contested political field in...	America's Strategic Blunders: Intelligence Analysis and National Security Policy, 1936-1991 Best Price: $23.95 This survey of more than fifty years of national security policy juxtaposes declassified U.S....

Intersecting Inequalities: Women and Social Policy in Peru, 1990-2000 Best Price: $59.99 As the only male head of state to address the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in...	Medicare: New Directions in Quality Assurance Proceedings Best Price: $43.62 This book contains chapters and commentaries by members of the Institute of Medicine (IOM)...	Government in America: People, Politics and Policy, Brief S.O.S. Edition, Election Update (8th Edition) (MyPoliSciLab Series) Best Price: $2.32 Framing its content within a ?politics matters? theme, Government in America illustrates the...	Work, Consumerism and the New Poor (Issues in Society) Best Price: $30.89 From one of today's most eminent thinkers--a piercing examination of poverty in the modern...	Health Policy and European Union Enlargement (European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies Series) Best Price: $37.93 The process of European Union enlargement will have major implications for health and health...

Common Purpose: Strengthening Families and Neighborhoods to Rebuild America Best Price: $5.18 Schorr documents some of the success stories in our attempts to overcome economic and social...	Health Action Zones: Partnerships for Health Equity Best Price: $41.76 Health Action Zones (HAZ) were one of the earliest and most prominent area-based initiatives...	Prostitution, Politics & Policy Best Price: $129.63 Prostitution has become an extremely topical issue in recent years and attention has focused...	Yet a Stranger: Why Black Americans Still Don't Feel at Home Best Price: $15.64 When discussing race relations in America the Black community often asks, "Have things...	New Perspectives in Workers' Compensation (Frank W. Pierce Memorial and Conference)

New Perspectives in Worker's Compensation (Frank W. Pierce Lectureship and Conference Series, No 7) Best Price: $224.80	Disabled Rights: American Disability Policy and the Fight for Equality Best Price: $29.95 I am impressed with the comprehensive treatment of disability policy issues (connecting this...	Superstars of Insurance Sales (Handbooks) Best Price: $19.99 I have only been a life insurance agent for one and a half years now. Certainly, it has its ups...	Race and Racism: Canada's Challenge Best Price: $109.77 This book shows one of the many struggles that our frozen citizens from the north have to face...	The Political Economy of Regulation: The Case of Insurance (Suny Series in Public Administration)

Child Poverty and the Canadian Welfare State: From Entitlement to Charity Best Price: $19.99 In 2005, 1.2 million children in Canada were living below the poverty level. This represents a...	Liability Insurance: Crisis in Supply	Deep Ecology & Anarchism Best Price: $11.06 Freedom Press have published some interesting titles, but unfortunately they have a tendency to...	New Perspectives in Workers' Compensation (Frank W. Pierce Memorial and Conference)	New Perspectives in Worker's Compensation (Frank W. Pierce Lectureship and Conference Series, No 7) Best Price: $224.80

Disabled Rights: American Disability Policy and the Fight for Equality Best Price: $29.95 I am impressed with the comprehensive treatment of disability policy issues (connecting this...	Superstars of Insurance Sales (Handbooks) Best Price: $19.99 I have only been a life insurance agent for one and a half years now. Certainly, it has its ups...	Race and Racism: Canada's Challenge Best Price: $109.77 This book shows one of the many struggles that our frozen citizens from the north have to face...	The Political Economy of Regulation: The Case of Insurance (Suny Series in Public Administration)	Child Poverty and the Canadian Welfare State: From Entitlement to Charity Best Price: $19.99 In 2005, 1.2 million children in Canada were living below the poverty level. This represents a...

Liability Insurance: Crisis in Supply	Deep Ecology & Anarchism Best Price: $11.06 Freedom Press have published some interesting titles, but unfortunately they have a tendency to...	Canada and Immigration: Public Policy and Public Concern (Canadian Public Administration Series) Best Price: $22.50 Remarkable changes have taken place in Canadian immigration policy, law, and management since...	Immigrant Settlement Policy in Canadian Municipalities (Fields of Governance: Policy Making in Canadian Municipalities) Best Price: $22.81 Canada has one of the most successful immigration programmes in the world, a function of the...	Turning Point: Moving Beyond Neoconservation Best Price: $5.00 In Turning Point, the authors trace the history of economic thought from John Maynard Keynes...

Lost in the Suburbs: A Political Travelogue Best Price: $8.54 Tracing Ontario's political sea change to its philosophical roots in New Jersey and...	Crowded Land Of Liberty: Library Edition Best Price: $15.09	Governing Hate and Race in the United States and South Africa Best Price: $5.00 Argues that the responsibility for eradicating racial hatred has been redirected away from the...	Race, Racism, and Reparations Best Price: $6.89 If affirmative action and other ethnicity-based social programs are justified, then J. Angelo...	From Warfare to Welfare: Defense Intellectuals and Urban Problems in Cold War America Best Price: $24.00 During the early decades of the Cold War, large-scale investments in American defense and...

Sons of the Empire: The Frontier and the Boy Scout Movement, 1890-1918 Best Price: $160.14 In Sons of the Empire, Robert MacDonalf explores popular ideas and myths in Edwardian Britain,...	Visions of Privacy: Policy Choices for the Digital Age (Studies in Comparative Political Economy & Public Policy) Best Price: $63.00 As the world moves into the twenty-first century, cellular systems, high-density data storage,...	Welfare Theory: An Introduction to the Theoretical Debates in Social Policy Best Price: $21.44 What are the concepts and principles that underpin the design and delivery of social policies? ...	Criminal Justice and Neoliberalism Best Price: $42.50 This book explores the origins of the so-called "punitive turn" in penal policy across...	The Politics and Pleasures of Consuming Differently (Consumption and Public Life) Best Price: $69.95 This volume casts a critical eye on representations and practices of consumption in the...

The Federal Nation: Perspectives on American Federalism (Studies of the Americas) Best Price: $53.65 Federalism is often described as the greatest of the American contributions to the art of...	Providing Public Goods in Transitional China Best Price: $53.95 China?s leaders faced a major challenge to provide citizens with acceptable social welfare...	Risk Regulation in the United States and European Union: Controlling Chaos Best Price: $79.70 Globalization and technology have altered public fears and changed expectations of how...	Moral Sentiments and Material Interests: The Foundations of Cooperation in Economic Life (Economic Learning and Social Evolution) Best Price: $14.20 One of the central dilemmas of the human condition is getting large groups of unrelated...	The Gordian Knot: Political Gridlock on the Information Highway Best Price: $20.96 This was the first book I read about information and telecommunications policy, and it made me...

Democracy, Justice, and the Welfare State: Reconstructing Public Care Best Price: $40.94 The commitment to end welfare as we know it shaped public policy in the 1990s. Analysts all...	Categorical Principles of Law: A Counterpoint to Modernity Best Price: $38.95 In Germany, Otfried HÃ¶ffe has been a leading contributor to debates in moral, legal,...	Tournament Approaches to Policy Reform: Making Development Assistance More Effective Best Price: $18.06 While much foreign aid achieves commendable goals, some is ineffective. In this volume, Clifford...	Implementing Projects for the Poor: What Has Been Learned? (Directions in Development) Best Price: $22.00	East Asian Labor Markets and the Economic Crisis: Impacts, Responses, and Lessons Best Price: $37.60 The recent financial crisis in East and South East Asia had sudden and painful consequences for...

World Bank Economists' Forum: Second Annual Best Price: $21.79 This volume evaluates some of the key dimensions of human development and growth. It provides...	World Development Report 2004: Making Services Work for Poor People Best Price: $12.00 Award winning title! Selected as a 2003 "Notable Government Document" by the American...	World Development Report 2004 : Making Services Work for Poor People	Pension Reform: Issues and Prospect for Non-financial Defined Contribution (NDC) Schemes (Trade and Development) Best Price: $27.00 This book presents 24 state of the art papers on the conceptual foundations and issues...	Pensions in the Middle East and North Africa (Orientations in Development) Best Price: $10.53 This is the first comprehensive assessment of pension systems in the Middle East and North...

Assets, Livelihoods, and Social Policy (New Frontiers of Social Policy Series) Best Price: $14.50 Given the lack of adequate universal social welfare for those unable to find jobs in the...	Case Management in Community Care: An Evaluated Experiment in the Home Care of the Elderly	Hispanic / Latino Identity: A Philosophical Perspective Best Price: $36.78 This volume provides a superb introduction to the philosophical, social, and political elements...	Identity and Control: How Social Formations Emerge (Second Edition) Best Price: $75.00 In this completely revised edition of one of the foundational texts of network sociology,...	New Directions for International Relations: Confronting the Method-of-Analysis Problem (Innovations in the Study of World Politics) Best Price: $24.66 Why does the academic study of international relations have limited impact on the policy...

The Uprooted: Improving Humanitarian Responses to Forced Migration (Program in Migration and Refugee Studies) Best Price: $31.16 By conservative estimates about 50 million migrants are currently living outside of their home...	Where Do We Go from Here?: American Democracy and the Renewal of the Radical Imagination (Logos: Perspectives on Modern Society and Culture) Best Price: $69.50 Progressive politics has long been in crisis in the United States. As the radical Left realizes...	The Faith-Based Initiatives and the Bush Administration; The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Best Price: $23.87 Designed to level the playing field between sacred and secular organizations, President George...	Lives at Risk: Single-Payer National Health Insurance Around the World Best Price: $14.95 There is little disagreement among stakeholders in the U.S. health care system--patients,...	Beyond Control: Medical Power and Abortion Law Best Price: $28.84 Who really controls access to abortion services in Britain, supposedly one of the most liberal...

New Managerialism, New Welfare? (Published in association with The Open University) Best Price: $32.45 New Managerialism, New Welfare? is a carefully integrated textbook that explores the continuing...

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