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'This engaging and stimulating book is well placed to become a key text in many student social workers' redaing lists' - Journal of Interprofessional Care
`[An] excellent book, abounding with conceptual insights, bursting with research and evidence-based reasoning, and...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2007-03-29
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"In the age of globalization we are no longer home alone. Migration brings other worlds into our own just as the global reach of the media transmits our world into the hearts and minds of others. Often incommensurate values are crammed together in the same public...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2007-03-27
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The Cultures and Globalization Series
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Criminology and Social Policy systematically examines the relationship between social policy and crime.
In this lively and engaging text, Paul Knepper discusses the difference social policy makes, or can make, in any response to crime. He also considers the...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2007-03-26
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Many of our questions about religion, says the internationally renowned anthropologist Pascal Boyer, were once mysteries, but they no longer are: we are beginning to know how to answer questions such as "Why do people have religion?" and "Why is religion the way it is?"...
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Basic Books
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2007-03-21
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'The book gives a comprehensive overview of what research and the research experience encompass....This book makes an interesting read for everyone who has carried out qualitative research or is planning to do so in the future. It is well-written, and very clearly...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2007-03-20
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`This primer on the global politics of social policy … is essential reading for students as well as others seriously interested in improving the human condition. Nuanced and critical, Deacon's book offers a much needed and constructive guide to the complex...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2007-03-16
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Digg^f^g it up Down Under is the first book in a new series of Global Cultural Heritage Manuals being published by Springer. The aim of this series is to provide the essential information needed to conduct archaeological fieldwork in various parts of the world. This...
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Springer
Parution :
2007-03-14
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Doing Ethnographies is an introductory and applied guide to ethnographic methods. It focuses on those methods - participant observation, interviewing, focus groups, and video/photographic work - that allow us to understand the lived, everyday world.
Informed by the...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2007-03-12
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This book, the first comprehensive, accessible review of housing in Ireland for many years, introduces key housing developments and also reports on the findings of the latest research on the transformation of the sector in the past decade. Topics include:
-the impact of...
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Springer
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2007-03-11
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Recent years have witnessed a rapidly growing interest in the use and construction of "qualitative" indicators of labour standards.
Qualitative indicators, while generally having numerical values, are based on such methods as grading by experts, the coding of...
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Springer
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2007-03-11
Collection :
Social Indicators Research Series
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Play Money explores a remarkable new phenomenon that's just beginning to enter public consciousness: MMORPGs, or Massively MultiPlayer Online Role-Playing Games, in which hundreds of thousands of players operate fantasy characters in virtual environments the size of...
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Basic Books
Parution :
2007-03-09
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Doing Practitioner Research focuses on helping practitioners conduct research in their own organisations, and attention is given to the best methods for doing this effectively and sensitively. The authors also attend to the theoretical, political and organisational...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2007-02-22
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`Ageing in Society brings forth exciting new questions, fresh perspectives, and a necessary critical approach to key issues - this is indeed an authoritative introduction. The authors not only have made significant contributions to gerontology, but offer the reader...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2007-02-22
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"This book overturns the conventional thinking about organization and identity and puts in its place a wholly new theoretical synthesis. It is not just an extraordinarily incisive commentary on modern life but it is also a key to thinking about identity in new ways...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2007-02-15
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Helen Boyd's husband, who had long been open about being a cross-dresser, was considering living as a woman full time. Suddenly, Boyd was confronted with the reality of what it would mean if her husband were actually to become a woman socially, legally, and...
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Seal Press
Parution :
2007-02-15
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`As research guides go, this is probably the best, most readable and encouraging books for nurses that I have come across....I recommend this volume to students and researchers at all levels, and at all stages of their professional careers. It is an excellent read' -...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2007-02-08
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'Immersing himself in the whirling uncertainty of late modernity, confronting its odd deformities of essentialism and exclusion, Jock Young has produced a comprehensive account of contemporary trouble, anxiety, and transgression. If this is criminology-and it's surely...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2007-01-31
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Getting Started in Research is for people in the earlier stages of development as a researcher. In contrast to the many books available on techniques of data collection and analysis, this volume deals with the many other practical considerations around actually doing...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2007-01-30
Collection :
The Academic's Support Kit
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Writing for Publication deals with a number of generic issues around academic writing (including intellectual property rights) and then considers writing refereed journal articles, books and book chapters in detail as well as other, less common, forms of publication for...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2007-01-30
Collection :
The Academic's Support Kit
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Teaching and Supervision looks at issues you might face in both teaching undergraduates and in the supervision of graduate research students. This book is not a pedagogical instruction manual - there are plenty of those around, both good and bad. Rather, the focus is on...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2007-01-30
Collection :
The Academic's Support Kit
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