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The Dilemmas of Development Work

19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Paul Hoggett, Marjorie Mayo, Chris Miller

£65.00 19 Nov 2008 Hardback Policy Press

Social development work takes place in the grey area between government and the voluntary/community sectors: in a society where social inequalities now seem entrenched, where communities are themselves often divided, and where government policy speaks about long-term development yet provides funds and evaluates the process on the basis of short-term principles. This book, written by three well-known UK educators and researchers in the social policy and development field, explores the ways in which front-line professionals, working with communities, identify and address the dilemmas inherent in the current UK policy context. The book reconnects to, and updates, an important tradition in social policy which explores the dilemmas of 'street-level' work. Combining theory and practice, it examines how 'community engagement' workers negotiate the ethical and emotional challenges they face.

The Dilemmas of Development Work

19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Ethical Challenges in Regeneration

By Paul Hoggett, Marjorie Mayo, Chris Miller

£23.99 19 Nov 2008 Paperback Policy Press

Youth Justice in Practice

19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Making a Difference

By Bill Whyte

£55.00 19 Nov 2008 Hardback Policy Press

Examines youth justice in a UK and international context and highlights the challenge facing various jurisdictions in balancing welfare and justice. This book explores the impact of political ideas and influences on the structural and practical challenges of delivering youth justice.

Youth Justice in Practice

19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Making a Difference

By Bill Whyte

£16.99 19 Nov 2008 Paperback Policy Press

Examining youth justice in a UK and international context, this book highlights the challenges facing several jurisdictions in balancing welfare and justice. It explores the impact of political ideas and influences on the structural and practical challenges of delivering youth justice.

Choreographing the Folk

19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Dance Stagings of Zora Neale Hurston

By Anthea Kraut

£46.50 19 Nov 2008 Hardback University of Minnesota Press

Eliminating Poverty Through Development in China

19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Li Shi, Xiaolu Wang, Sangui Wang

£90.00 19 Nov 2008 Hardback Taylor & Francis Ltd

In recent years China has achieved impressive economic growth, and also made remarkable progress in human development. However, contemporary China is still faced with the great challenge of widespread poverty. This work assesses the objectives and success of the poverty alleviation policies adopted by the Chinese government in a comprehensive way.

Understanding Child Abuse

19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Terry Philpot

£70.00 19 Nov 2008 Hardback Taylor & Francis Ltd

Looks at women whose partners are child sex offenders. This book covers: what we know about child sexual abuse, offenders and the effect of sexual abuse on children; a description of the work which allows the women to explore and compare their experiences and feelings about what has happened; and, interviews with both partners and offenders.

Sutton Hoo and Its Landscape

18 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Context of Monuments

By Tom Williamson

£20.00 18 Nov 2008 Paperback Windgather Press

Combining an understanding of local and regional geography, Anglo-Saxon history, and debates about approaches to past landscapes, this book offers an exploration of the context and meaning of an iconic set of monuments.

Making Sense of Death, Dying and Bereavement

18 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

An Anthology

By Sarah Earle, Caroline Bartholomew, Carol Komaromy

£19.99 18 Nov 2008 Paperback SAGE Publications Ltd

Offers a collection of personal accounts of death, dying and bereavement. This title examines representations of death, dying and bereavement in fiction, poetry, the media and the internet, as well as exploring visual representations of death and dying. It includes visual representations of the changing meaning of death within societies.

Making Sense of Death, Dying and Bereavement

18 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

An Anthology

By Sarah Earle, Caroline Bartholomew, Carol Komaromy

£60.00 18 Nov 2008 Hardback SAGE Publications Ltd

Death and Dying

18 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Reader

By Sarah Earle, Carol Komaromy, Caroline Bartholomew

£20.99 18 Nov 2008 Paperback SAGE Publications Ltd

Presents a range of both classic and commissioned pieces on the multidisciplinary study of death and dying. This book explores the meaning of death, and considers caring at the end-of-life. It explores the moral and ethical dilemmas in the context of death and dying. It also examines the issue of grief and ritual after death.

Death and Dying

18 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Reader

By Sarah Earle, Carol Komaromy, Caroline Bartholomew

£65.00 18 Nov 2008 Hardback SAGE Publications Ltd

Features a range of pieces on the multidisciplinary study of death and dying. This book begins with a general exploration of the meaning of death, before moving on to consider caring at the end-of-life. It explores the moral and ethical dilemmas in the context of death and dying. It examines the issue of grief and ritual after death.

Outliers

18 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Story of Success

By Malcolm Gladwell

£16.99 18 Nov 2008 Hardback Penguin Books Ltd

Why are people successful? For centuries, humankind has grappled with this question. This title shows us what makes an extreme overachiever. It reveals that we pay far too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where successful people are from: their culture, their family, and their generation.

Online Counselling and Guidance Skills

18 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Practical Resource for Trainees and Practitioners

By Jane Evans

£17.99 18 Nov 2008 Paperback SAGE Publications Ltd

The difference between online and face-to-face interaction with clients is vast and practitioners need to equip themselves with specialist knowledge and skills to ensure that they are being effective. This book looks at how practitioners need to adapt their basic counselling skills to the online environment.

Online Counselling and Guidance Skills

18 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Practical Resource for Trainees and Practitioners

By Jane Evans

£60.00 18 Nov 2008 Hardback SAGE Publications Ltd

Social Work Theories and Methods

18 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Mel Gray, Stephen A. Webb

£20.99 18 Nov 2008 Paperback SAGE Publications Ltd

Draws together the contemporary theories, theorists and perspectives used in social work and explains how they are applied in practice and critiqued by social workers. This book is suitable for undergraduate, graduate students, post qualifying students and researchers in social work.

Social Work Theories and Methods

18 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Mel Gray, Stephen A. Webb

£65.00 18 Nov 2008 Hardback SAGE Publications Ltd

Post-qualifying Social Work Practice

18 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Patricia Higham

£20.99 18 Nov 2008 Paperback SAGE Publications Ltd

Offers an overview of the post qualifying awards in social work. Written in response to policy and training guidelines, this book helps social workers enhance their post qualifying knowledge, skills and values within specialist areas of practice. It uses critical self-appraisal to construct different ways of thinking about and doing social work.

Post-qualifying Social Work Practice

18 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Patricia Higham

£65.00 18 Nov 2008 Hardback SAGE Publications Ltd

Essential Skills for Youth Work Practice

18 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Kate Sapin

£19.99 18 Nov 2008 Paperback SAGE Publications Ltd

Analyses the key skills in youth work, from the initial steps through to supervision, that can be applied across a range of settings and roles. This work addresses the core values and the purpose of youth work. It is suitable for those preparing for a career in youth work and youth workers wanting to develop their professional practice.

Essential Skills for Youth Work Practice

18 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Kate Sapin

£60.00 18 Nov 2008 Hardback SAGE Publications Ltd

Key Concepts in Ethnography

18 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Karen O'Reilly

£19.99 18 Nov 2008 Paperback SAGE Publications Ltd

Covers and summarises the basic and related issues in ethnography. This book examines topics like 'sampling' and 'generalising' as well as embraces fields such as virtual, visual and multi-sighted ethnography.

Key Concepts in Ethnography

18 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Karen O'Reilly

£70.00 18 Nov 2008 Hardback SAGE Publications Ltd

Post-qualifying Child Care Social Work

18 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Developing Reflective Practice

By Warren-Adamson, Chris, 1946-

£19.99 18 Nov 2008 Paperback SAGE Publications Ltd

Presents an overview of the Post Qualifying Child Care Award in social work. Written in response to the policy and training guidelines, this book provides the underpinning knowledge for candidates following the Post Qualifying curriculum. It helps child care social workers acquire the knowledge and understanding that characterise best practice.

Post-qualifying Child Care Social Work

18 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Developing Reflective Practice

By Warren-Adamson, Chris, 1946-

£60.00 18 Nov 2008 Hardback SAGE Publications Ltd

Anti-oppressive Practice in Health and Social Care

18 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Viola Nzira, Paul Williams

£60.00 18 Nov 2008 Hardback SAGE Publications Ltd

Offers a holistic approach to developing anti-oppressive practice in a range of health and social care settings, and with a range of service users. This book proposes strategies which students and professionals can use to develop skills in cultural equality and anti-discrimination and apply them to their everyday practice.

Child Social Work Policy and Practice

18 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Derek Kirton

£18.99 18 Nov 2008 Paperback SAGE Publications Ltd

Offers an overview of child care policy and practice in the UK. This book covers assessment and family support services, understanding child maltreatment and protection, the care of looked after children, including the contribution of adoption, foster and residential care, services for those leaving care.

Child Social Work Policy and Practice

18 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Derek Kirton

£60.00 18 Nov 2008 Hardback SAGE Publications Ltd

Medical Sociology

18 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

An Introduction

By Hannah Bradby

£19.99 18 Nov 2008 Paperback SAGE Publications Ltd

What are the limits of medical power? How has sociology helped to make sense of illness, disease, choice and risk? What are the challenges to medical practice? This book provides lecturers and students an analysis of the key questions in medicine and society. It is suitable for students of medical sociology, medical care and health management.

Medical Sociology

18 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

An Introduction

By Hannah Bradby

£60.00 18 Nov 2008 Hardback SAGE Publications Ltd

The Ethics of Mobilities

18 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Rethinking Place, Exclusion, Freedom and Environment

By Bergmann, Sigurd, 1956-

£55.00 18 Nov 2008 Hardback Ashgate Publishing Group

Builds upon the interest in social surveillance, raised by the use of technology for the surveillance and control of mobility as well as for transport. This book describes and explores contemporary and narrow notions of mobility and also investigates and nurtures their transition to richer conceptual models.

American Christians and Islam

18 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Evangelical Culture and Muslims from the Colonial Period to the Age of

By Thomas S. Kidd (Assistant Professor of History at Baylor University)

£17.95 18 Nov 2008 Hardback University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton

Tracing Islam's role in the imagination of American Christians from the colonial period to today, this title demonstrates that Protestant evangelicals have viewed Islam as a global threat - while also actively seeking to convert Muslims to the Christian faith - since the nation's founding.

Explorations in Consumer Culture Theory

18 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Sherry John, F. Consumer Culture Theory Conference (2nd

£70.00 18 Nov 2008 Hardback Taylor & Francis Ltd

Explores in detail and theoretical depth the relationships that the consumer has developed both with goods and services and with the stakeholders that animate markets. Beginning with an examination of the underpinnings of cultural inquiry, this book focuses on specific consumption venues.

Humanitarian Response Index 2008

18 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Measuring Commitment to Best Practice

By DARA (Development Assistance Research Associates)

£40.00 18 Nov 2008 Paperback Palgrave Macmillan

An annual report, which offers potential to improve the quality of humanitarian aid globally. It intends to reduce vulnerability to disasters by measuring the effectiveness of humanitarian aid.

Scaremongering

17 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Frank Furedi

£10.99 17 Nov 2008 Paperback VISION Paperbacks

Investigates the way scaremongering influences us and just how much the resulting fears can dictate our daily habits and alter the way we lead our lives. Covering various scare stories, this book reveals how scaremongering has actually become a respectable enterprise, with 'fear appeals' being openly discussed by public health officials.

Young People's Perspectives on the Rights of the Child

17 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Implications for Theory, Research and Practice

By Martin D. Ruck, Stacey S. Horn

£19.99 17 Nov 2008 Paperback John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Highlights the complexity, breadth, and range of topics pertaining to children's rights as a social issue. This title provides the theory and empirical research addressing the ways in which children and youth conceptualize their need for rights in contexts such as the family, school, community, and greater society.

Culture and Society

17 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Critical Essays in Human Geography

By Nuala C. Johnson

£130.00 17 Nov 2008 Hardback Ashgate Publishing Group

Human geographers have been at the forefront of research that examines the relationships between space, culture and society. Focusing on four themes - landscape, identity, colonialism, nature - this volume represents some of the best interventions that geographers have made on these topics.

Shopping for God

17 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

How Christianity Went from in Your Heart to in Your Face

By James B. Twitchell

£8.99 17 Nov 2008 Paperback Simon & Schuster

SHOPPING FOR GOD is the story of how religion went from a personal matter to yet another product or service that is advertised, marketed and purchased.

Justice, Power and the Political Landscape

17 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Kenneth Olwig, Donald Mitchell

£70.00 17 Nov 2008 Hardback Taylor & Francis Ltd

Landscape is on the agenda in a fresh way. The increasing interest in justice, power and the political landscape expresses a sea change occurring in the meaning of landscape itself, from landscape as scenery to landscape as polity and place.

Victims in the Criminal Justice System

16 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Pamela Davies, Peter Francis

£50.00 16 Nov 2008 Hardback Blackwell Publishers

Addresses various aspects of criminal victimisation and the criminal justice system. This book is suitable for programmes in criminology, criminal justice, community safety, and youth justice.

The Aigina Treasure

16 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Fitton, J. Lesley.

£50.00 16 Nov 2008 Hardback British Museum Press

Since its arrival at the British Museum in 1891 the Aigina Treasure, a group of Greek Bronze Age gold jewellery and other objects that is believed to come from the island of Aigina, has been shrouded in speculation. This book features essays complemented by a catalogue of the Treasure, which incorporates the results of a technological examination.

In a Dark Time

16 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Memory, Community, and Gendered Nationalism in Postwar Okinawa

By Linda Isako Angst

£25.95 16 Nov 2008 Hardback Harvard University, Asia Center

Since the reversion of Okinawa from American occupation to Japanese sovereignty in 1972, these islands have become the site of a colonial and postcolonial relationship of resistance and dependence between Okinawa, Japan and the United States. This work provides a glimpse behind the historical and geopolitical dimensions of the Okinawan experience.

Comparative Anthropology of Ancient Greece

16 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Marcel Detienne

£11.95 16 Nov 2008 Paperback Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies

Looks at the anthropology of the Greeks and other cultures across space and time, and in the process discovers aspects of the art of comparability. This book tries to see how cultural systems react not just to a touchstone category, but also to the questions and concepts that arise from the reaction.

Social Economy of the Metropolis

16 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Cognitive-cultural Capitalism and the Global Resurgence of Cities

By Allen J. Scott

£25.00 16 Nov 2008 Hardback Oxford University Press

This book is about the renaissance of cities in the twenty first century and their increasing role as centers of creative economic activity. Allen Scott is one of the world's foremost thinkers on globalization and the economies of modern cities, and in this book presents a concise introduction to his innovative and insightful perspective.

Interpreting Southeast Asia's Past

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Monument, Image and Text

By Elisabeth A. Bacus, Ian Glover, Peter Sharrock

£41.95 15 Nov 2008 Paperback Singapore University Press

Features 31 papers read at the 10th International Conference of the European Association of Southeast Asian Archaeologists, held in London in September 2004. This volume covers monumental arts, sculpture and painting, epigraphy and heritage management across mainland Southeast Asia and as far south as Indonesia.

Sri Lankan Housemaids in Lebanon

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Case of Symbolic Violence and Everyday Forms of Resistance

By Nayla Moukarbel

£25.00 15 Nov 2008 Paperback Amsterdam University Press,Netherlands

Jonathan Loved David

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Manly Love in the Bible and the Hermeneutics of Sex

By Anthony Heacock

£45.00 15 Nov 2008 Hardback Sheffield Phoenix Press

The Way the World Ends?

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Apocalypse of John in Culture and Ideology

By William John Lyons, Jorunn Okland

£60.00 15 Nov 2008 Hardback Sheffield Phoenix Press

Gracing No Man's Land

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Erotic Sexual Fantasies of Women Sadists, Female Masochists and Male

By Annabel Penrose, L.T. Wilkinson

£9.99 15 Nov 2008 Paperback Schiel & Denver Publishing Limited

Doodlebugs, Gas Masks and Gum, Children's Voices from the Second World War

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Christina Rex

£14.99 15 Nov 2008 Paperback Amberley Publishing

Entrepreneurial strategic decision-making : a cognitive perspective

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Cognitive Perspective

By Patrick A.M. Vermeulen, Petru L. Curseu

£65.00 15 Nov 2008 Hardback Edward Elgar

Strategic choices made by entrepreneurs have major consequences for SME performance. This book explores the factors that influence entrepreneurial strategic decisions using a cognitive theoretical framework. The proposed model, based on a dual processing approach, integrates motivation, emotions and information processing modes.

History of Policing in Northern Wales

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Kenneth Birch

£11.50 15 Nov 2008 Paperback Llygad Gwalch Cyf

Early Psychosocial Interventions in Dementia

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Evidence-based Practice

By Moniz-Cook, Esme Manthorpe, Jill

£19.99 15 Nov 2008 Paperback Jessica Kingsley Publishers

For the increasing number of people diagnosed with dementia each year, treatment in the early stages can make a significant difference to their quality of life. This book provides examples of psychosocial interventions: taking into consideration the individual, social and environmental aspects of the person's life.

Development and the African Diaspora

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Rethinking the Politics of Belonging

By Claire Mercer, Ben Page, Martin Evans

£18.99 15 Nov 2008 Paperback Zed Books Ltd

There has been much celebration of the success of African 'civil society' in forging global connections through an ever-growing diaspora. Against the background of such celebrations, this book focuses on the diasporic networks - 'home associations' - whose economic contributions are being used to develop home.

Development and the African Diaspora

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Rethinking the Politics of Belonging

By Claire Mercer, Ben Page, Martin Evans

£60.00 15 Nov 2008 Hardback Zed Books Ltd

Becoming Roman, Being Gallic, Staying British

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Research and Excavations at Ditches Hillfort and Villa 1984-2006

By Stephen Trow, Tom Moore, Simon James

£25.00 15 Nov 2008 Paperback Oxbow Books

Excavations carried out from 1984-1985 at Ditches in Gloucestershire identified a large, late Iron Age enclosure which contained a remarkably early Roman villa. This excavation report extends our understanding of the Ditches-Bagendon-Cirencester oppida complex, and corroborates the thinking on the nature of Romanisation.

Mythical Creatures Bible

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Definitive Guide to Beasts and Beings from Mythology and Folklore

By Brenda Rosen

£12.99 15 Nov 2008 Paperback Hamlyn

A guide to mythical beasts and beings from a variety of cultures around the world, including Mesopotamian, ancient Greek, ancient Egyptian and Chinese, Japanese, Nordic, Celtic and Native American. It includes dragons, giants, zombies, house spirits, shape-shifters and gods that take on animal forms.

Exploration of Space, Technology, and Spatiality

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Interdisciplinary Perspectives

By Phil Turner, Susan Turner, Elisabeth Davenport

£125.50 15 Nov 2008 Hardback IGI Global

The study of technology in space has been shaping human interaction with physical, social, and technological worlds. This book offers research that bridges the areas of space, spatiality, and technology. It is suitable for researchers and scholars working at the intersection of physical, social, and technological space.

Battles of the Red River War

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Archeological Perspectives on the Indian Campaign of 1874

By J.Brett Cruse

£25.50 15 Nov 2008 Hardback Texas A & M University Press

In 1874, US forces led by Col Ranald S Mackenzie carried out a surprise attack on several Cheyenne, Comanche, and Kiowa bands that had taken refuge in the Palo Duro Canyon of the Texas panhandle and destroyed their winter stores and horses. This title unearths a record of the collision of two cultures.

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Population, Nature, and What Women Want

By Robert Engelman

£34.50 15 Nov 2008 Hardback Island Press

Offers a vision that celebrates women's widespread desire for smaller families. This book shows that the three-way dance between population, women's autonomy, and the natural world is as old as humanity itself. It also explores how population growth has shaped modern civilization - and humanity as we know it.

Postmodern cowboy : C. Wright Mills and a new 21st century sociology

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Kerr, Keith.

£39.56 15 Nov 2008 Hardback Paradigm Publishers, US

Telling Young Lives

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Portraits of Global Youth

By Craig Jeffrey, Jane Dyson

£13.99 15 Nov 2008 Paperback Temple University Press,U.S.

Presents ethnographically informed portraits of young people facing rapid changes in society and politics from different parts of the world. This work provides insights into the active and creative ways these youths address social and political challenges such as war, hunger and homelessness.

Telling Young Lives

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Portraits of Global Youth

By Craig Jeffrey, Jane Dyson

£45.00 15 Nov 2008 Hardback Temple University Press,U.S.

Women's Activism and Feminist Agency in Mozambique and Nicaragua

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Jennifer Disney

£31.00 15 Nov 2008 Hardback Temple University Press,U.S.

Examining two socialist revolutions in the global South, this book investigates the contours of women's emancipation outside the framework of liberal democracy and market economy. It discusses military struggles against colonialism and imperialism in fostering feminist agency.

Race and Class Matters at an Elite College

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Elizabeth Aries

£14.99 15 Nov 2008 Paperback Temple University Press,U.S.

Offers a glimpse into the challenges faced by black and white college students from widely different class backgrounds as they come to live together as freshmen. This book chronicles what they learned from racial and class diversity - and what colleges might do to help their students learn more.

Race and Class Matters at an Elite College

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Elizabeth Aries

£48.00 15 Nov 2008 Hardback Temple University Press,U.S.

Selling Anxiety

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

How the News Media Scare Women

By Caryl Rivers

£17.50 15 Nov 2008 Paperback University Press of New England

Exposes how the media distorts news about women.

Andersonvilles of the North

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Myths and Realities of Northern Treatment of Civil War Confederate

By James M. Gillispie

£21.50 15 Nov 2008 Hardback University of North Texas Press,U.S.

Argues that the image of Union prison officials as negligent and cruel to Confederate prisoners is severely flawed. This study presents a less negative, picture of Northern prison life.

Colors of the Robe

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Religion, Identity, and Difference

By Ananda Abeysekara

£27.95 15 Nov 2008 Paperback University of South Carolina Press

Probes the Sri Lankan world of Buddhism and politics and suggests innovative directions for the global study of religion, culture, and violence. This volume illuminates the shifting configurations that animate the relations connected with postcolonial religious identity and culture.

Self and Secrecy in Early Islam

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Ruqayya Yasmine Khan

£34.50 15 Nov 2008 Hardback University of South Carolina Press

Presents an inquiry into the meanings of concealment and revelation in early Arabo-Islamic texts. This book presents a comparative analysis of the significance of keeping and revealing secrets in early Islamic culture. It draws from a broad range of Arabo-Islamic texts to map interconnections between concepts of secrecy and identity.

Humanitarian Crises and Intervention

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Reassessing the Impact of Mass Media

By Walter C. Soderlund, E.Donald Briggs, Kai Hilldebrandt, Abdel Salam Sidahmed

£25.50 15 Nov 2008 Paperback Kumarian Press

As the Cold War began to wind down in the early '90s, former colonies were besieged by a string of humanitarian crises that killed millions of people and forced many millions to leave their homes. This book looks at how the international community, led by the US, responded to ten humanitarian crises.

African Identity in Asia

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Cultural Effects of Forced Migration

By Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya

£21.50 15 Nov 2008 Paperback Markus Wiener Publishing Inc

Combining historical accounts, both documented and oral, this book explores - through case studies, and through the processes of assimilation, social mobility, and marginalization - the silent history and conflicting identity of Asia's Africans. It shows how African music and dance contributed to the Middle Eastern and South Asian arts scene.

Agriculture, Human Security, and Global Peace

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Taeb, Mohammad

£25.50 15 Nov 2008 Paperback Purdue University Press

Covers more than the conventional 'food-only' role of the agriculture. This book details how the solution to agricultural problems can lead to the general socioeconomic and political development of impoverished countries.

Hope in shadows : stories and photographs of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Cran, Brad, 1972-

£10.96 15 Nov 2008 Paperback Arsenal Pulp Pr, CN/Perseus Distribution, US

Vancouver, host of the 2010 Olympics, is a city of startling contrasts. A prosperous urban center, it is also home to the Downtown Eastside, Canada's poorest neighborhood and one of North America's most notorious districts, a bleak landscape transformed by addiction and poverty. But many of its residents defy these surroundings, driven by a sense of community, kinship, and, above all, hope. This book is a project of the Pivot Legal Society, which supplied cameras to the Downtown Eastside's residents to document their own lives; the result, accompanied by moving first-person narratives, is an intimate social documentary of an at-risk urban community that will change one's view of society as we know it, and of those who are forced to live in its shadows.

Providential Democracy

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

An Essay on Contemporary Equality

By Dominique Schnapper

£21.50 15 Nov 2008 Paperback Transaction Publishers,U.S.

Democracy posits the universality of the equality principle: a community of citizens is governed by the principle of the formal equality of all individuals, whatever their real social, cultural, or other inequalities. Focusing on France, this book examines the dilemmas of the search for equality in society and politics.

Property Rights and Eminent Domain

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Ellen Frankel Paul

£25.50 15 Nov 2008 Paperback Transaction Publishers,U.S.

Arguing that private property is a fundamental liberty whose protection deserves the highest priority, the author challenges one of the dominant trends of the past half century: the erosion of property rights via zoning and land use restrictions, carried on by government exercising its 'police power' or promoting 'the public interest'.

Jewish Power in America

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Myth and Reality

By Henry L. Feingold

£34.50 15 Nov 2008 Hardback Transaction Publishers,U.S.

Presents the reader with a comprehensive and informative picture of American Jewish participation in the American polity.

The Necessity of God

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Ontological Claims Revisited

By R.T. Allen

£34.50 15 Nov 2008 Hardback Transaction Publishers,U.S.

Every person acquires a worldview, a picture of reality. Within that picture, the existence of some things will be taken wholly for granted as the background to, and support of, everything else. Their existence will rarely be questioned. This volume sets the valid core of previous ontological arguments.

Transnational Ties

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Michael Peter Smith, John Eade

£25.50 15 Nov 2008 Paperback Transaction Publishers,U.S.

Cities are key sites of transnational ties that connect people, places, and projects across the globe. This book brings together a series of ethnographic studies that suggest ways to situate and historicize transnationalism, identify pathways to transnational urbanism, and map the contours of translocal, interregional, and diasporic connections.

Death Row

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Bruce Jackson, Diane Christian

£25.50 15 Nov 2008 Paperback Transaction Publishers,U.S.

Presents a sample of the things inmates say on Death Row.

The French Revolution in Russian Intellectual Life

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

1865-1905

By Dmitry Shlapentokh

£25.50 15 Nov 2008 Paperback Transaction Publishers,U.S.

Describes the role that the French democratic revolution played in Russia's intellectual development. This work argues the French Revolution was only a phenomenon of Western civilization and hence transitory. It explains why Russia turned away from democratic to autocratic styles.

Collected papers of Kotaro Suzumura : welfare economics and social choice

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Suzumura, Kotaro.

£109.89 15 Nov 2008 Hardback John Wiley & Sons

Jade Dragon

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Sarah Milledge Nelson

£13.99 15 Nov 2008 Paperback RKLOG

Clara begins work at an excavation at the Temple, only to discover the problems of contemporary looting, government meddling, and excavation interpersonal dynamics.

Eurest Services Eating at Work Report 2008

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

£30.00 15 Nov 2008 Paperback Compass Group UK and Ireland

Gentlewomen and Learned Ladies

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Women and Elite Formation in Eighteenth-century Philadelphia

By Sarah Fatherly

£40.50 15 Nov 2008 Hardback Associated University Presses

When the American Revolution launched its democratic challenge to aristocratic and imperial structures, women's commitment to the elite social rank they had helped create ensured its survival. This study explores women's central involvement in the creation of an elite class in colonial Philadelphia.

Prehistoric Woodworking

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Analysis and Interpretation of Bronze and Iron Age Toolmakers

By Rob Sands

£26.99 15 Nov 2008 Paperback University of London,Institute of Archaeology

Speaking Through Aspens

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Basque Tree Carvings in Nevada and California

By J. Mallea-Olaetxe

£25.50 15 Nov 2008 Paperback University of Nevada Press

Hikers in the mountains of the Far West have long known about mysterious carvings found on aspen trees but few have researched their intent or significance. This title analyzes the content of thousands of arboglphs in the mountains of Nevada and California. It is suitable for scholars and those interested in the Basque experience.

Antisemitism and Philosemitism in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Representing Jews, Jewishness, and Modern Culture

By Phyllis Lassner, Laura Trubowitz

£49.95 15 Nov 2008 Hardback Associated University Presses

Features essays that provide a reappraisal of discussions of antisemitism and philosemitism. This title features contributors from political theory, film, English and history who demonstrate that analysis of philosemitic attitudes is as crucial to the history of representations of Jews and Jewish culture as are investigations of antisemitism.

Revelations

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Photographs of Cleveland's African American Churches

By Michael S. Levy

£24.95 15 Nov 2008 Hardback Kent State University Press

A collection of images celebrating African American faith communities. It captures the spirit of the African American worship experience through images of congregants' facial expressions and body language, their colorful uniforms and dress, and the solemnity of their worship.

Yankees in Michigan

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Brian C. Wilson

£11.50 15 Nov 2008 Paperback Michigan State University Press

Shows how New Englanders forged Michigan's identity.

Copts in Michigan

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Eliot Dickinson

£11.50 15 Nov 2008 Paperback Michigan State University Press

The Copts, or Egyptian Christians, are a relatively small and tight-knit ethno-religious group, numbering perhaps three thousand people and living mostly in the Detroit metropolitan area. Drawing on personal interviews, this book offers readers a view into this vibrant community.

Views of Seaside : connentaries and observations on a city of ideas

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A City of Ideas

By Seaside Institute

£25.00 15 Nov 2008 Hardback Rizzoli Intl Pubns

Seaside, Florida, is a town designed as an "ideal" community, where houses have front porches and verandas, picket fences, sleeping porches, where streets are carved and paved with brick, and sidewalks are made of pebbles and seashells. This resort town on Florida's panhandle coast has had an extraordinary impact on the thinking of architects, developers, planners, traffic engineers, sociologists, environmentalists, and even political thinkers. As the first, the most widely published, and now at twenty-five by far the most esteemed and well-known example of the revival of traditional neighborhood design, Seaside has become the icon of the New Urbanism movement, and has been emulated extensively.

Playing the Past

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

History and Nostalgia in Video Games

By Zach Whalen, Laurie N. Taylor

£23.95 15 Nov 2008 Paperback Vanderbilt University Press

Brings together an eclectic group of young scholars to examine the complementary notions of history and nostalgia as they are expressed through video games and in gaming culture. By focusing on specific games, historical periods and media ecologies, this work looks at the related topics of nostalgia for classic gaming.

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Making Sense of Death, Dying and Bereavement

Death and Dying

Death and Dying

Outliers

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Online Counselling and Guidance Skills

Social Work Theories and Methods

Social Work Theories and Methods

Post-qualifying Social Work Practice

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Essential Skills for Youth Work Practice

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Key Concepts in Ethnography

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Child Social Work Policy and Practice

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Early Psychosocial Interventions in Dementia

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Mythical Creatures Bible

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Women's Activism and Feminist Agency in Mozambique and Nicaragua

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Race and Class Matters at an Elite College

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Andersonvilles of the North

Colors of the Robe

Self and Secrecy in Early Islam

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African Identity in Asia

Agriculture, Human Security, and Global Peace

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Property Rights and Eminent Domain

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The Necessity of God

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