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  • A reggel, amikor eljöttek értünk

    Egy újságírónő feljegyzései Szíriából

    Janine di Giovanni több mint két évtizeden át dolgozott a Közel-Keleten. A szíriai forradalmat kitörése óta figyelemmel kíséri, 2012 és 2016 között többször is járt az országban. Könyvében elmeséli azoknak az ellenzéki aktivistáknak a történetét, akiket a legkisebb provokációért börtönbe vetettek, és beszámol a damaszkuszi elit szállodákban rendezett fényes fogadásairól, míg a közelben bombák ... Read more

    $8.07 USD

  • A reinvenção do desenvolvimento

    agências multilaterais e produção sociológica

    O livro analisa a circulação de ideias, a influência e as relações complexas entre as agências multilaterais e a agenda de pesquisas das Ciências Sociais, dando maior atenção para a Sociologia, nos últimos 20 anos. De caráter interdisciplinar, os artigos presentes na obra articulam experiências e conhecimentos dos seus autores com o campo da Sociologia, contribuindo para a renovação da agenda do ... Read more

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  • A Republic of Equals

    A Manifesto for a Just Society

    Why political inequality is to blame for economic and social injusticePolitical equality is the most basic tenet of democracy. Yet in America and other democratic nations, those with political power have special access to markets and public services. A Republic of Equals traces the massive income inequality observed in the United States and other rich democracies to politicized markets and ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • A Return to Social Justice

    Youth Justice, Ideology and Philosophy

    by Jessica Urwin ...
    Youth justice has always focused on criminal justice but this work argues that taking a social justice approach is the best way to reduce youth crime. Drawing on philosophy, new research, and practitioners’ views, a new organizational structure and approach is developed. Urwin outlines the philosophical and historical background of youth justice and clarifies how this has led to problems within ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

  • A Revolução Dos Bichos Comentada E Ilustrada

    by O Crítico ...
    A novela satírica, que faz uma analogia propositalmente nada sutil à Rússia stalinista, utiliza da figura de animais para retratar as fraquezas, a corrupção e a luta de classes humanas. Nela, após se verem cansados das explorações que sofrem nas mãos dos humanos, os animais da Granja do Solar rebelam-se contra seus donos e tomam posse da fazenda, com o intuito de instalar uma sociedade igualitária ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Rights-Based Approach to Social Policy Analysis

    Series series SpringerBriefs in Rights-Based Approaches to Social Work
    This brief resource sets out a rights-based framework for policy analysis that allows social workers to enhance their long-term vision as well as their current practice. It introduces the emerging P.A.N.E. (Participation, Accountability, Non-discrimination, Equity) model for evaluating social policy, comparing it with the traditional needs-based charity model in terms of not only effectiveness and ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • A Seriously Humorous Look at Dogs, Men and Sex.

    Series series More Than Enough
    Dogs and men do have a lot in common. They both need sex a lot and are willing to fight to get some unless they are bound by political correctness! Whether people believe it or not the world works on needs more than on wants. Men's basic instinctual needs are not exactly like most people think and were told by their mommies. In fact many think that the number one basic need of men is sex. Won't ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Sharing Economy

    How Social Wealth Funds Can Reduce Inequality and Help Balance the Books

    Britain is a society increasingly divided between the super-affluent and the impoverished. A Sharing Economy proposes radical new ways to close the growing income gap and spread social opportunities. Drawing on overseas examples, Stewart Lansley argues that mobilising the huge financial potential of Britain’s public assets could pay for a pioneering new social wealth fund. Such a fund would boost ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • A Short History of Reconstruction [Updated Edition]

    by Eric Foner ...
    From the “preeminent historian of Reconstruction” (New York Times Book Review), an updated abridged edition of Reconstruction**, the prize-winning classic work on the post-Civil War period which shaped modern America.**Reconstruction chronicles the way in which Americans—black and white—responded to the unprecedented changes unleashed by the war and the end of slavery. It addresses the qu... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • A Shrinking Society

    Post-Demographic Transition in Japan

    Series series SpringerBriefs in Population Studies
    This is the book to focus on a new phenomenon emerging in the twenty-first century: the rapidly aging and decreasing population of a well-developed country, namely, Japan. The meaning of this phenomenon has been successfully clarified as the possible historical consequence of the demographic transition from high birth and death rates to low ones. Japan has entered the post-demographic transitional ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • A Simple Man's Ideas to Fix a Complex World

    by Andrew Kirby ...

    $2.99 USD

  • A Sociology of Culture, Taste and Value

    by S. Stewart ...
    This book explores sociological debates in relation to culture, taste and value. It argues that sociology can contribute to debates about aesthetic value and to an understanding of how people evaluate. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • A Sociology of Shame and Blame

    Insiders Versus Outsiders

    This book presents a novel approach to framing the concept of stigma, and understanding why and how it functions.Graham Scambler extends his analysis beyond common social interactionist understandings of stigma by linking experiences to the larger social structure—the political economy. A Sociology of Shame and Blame contends that stigma is being ‘weaponised’ as part of a calculated political ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • A Sourcebook for Engaging with Civil Society Organizations in Asian Development Bank Operations

    With their unique strengths and specialized knowledge of their communities and constituencies, civil society organizations (CSOs) have an essential role to play in creating a more prosperous, inclusive, resilient, and sustainable Asia and the Pacific. This publication provides guidance on how CSOs can be more effectively engaged in Asian Development Bank (ADB) operations to maximize the benefits ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • A State of Emergency: The Story of Ireland’s Covid Crisis

    The incendiary untold story of Ireland’s response to the most significant public health emergency of the past century, woven from a wealth of original research and dozens of interviews with ministers, politicians, public health experts, essential workers, and ordinary people on whom the crisis exacted a personal toll.Ranging from the halls of Government Buildings, where a new Cabinet riven by ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • A Study on Child Development in Contemporary China

    Translated by Simin Tan ...
    Series series Research Series on the Chinese Dream and China’s Development Path
    This book is devoted to the description and analysis of child population, rights to survival and development, culture and policies that Chinese government made in contemporary China. The book pursues three major objectives: firstly, to objectively describe child development in contemporary China ; secondly, to analyze characteristics of child development in contemporary China; and thirdly, to ... Read more

    $134.99 USD

  • A Submission to the Government of Canada on the Subject of Poverty Reduction

    by Louis Shalako ...
    This is the one they don't want you to read. It has been suppressed on the government website. A submission to the Government of Canada on the subject of poverty reduction and housing. No one is better qualified to consult with this government than Louis Shalako, a client of ODSP, (the Ontario Disability Support Program). A highly-trained Canadian journalist, Louis has been embedded in this story ... Read more

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  • A Sustainable Economy for the 21st Century

    by Juliet Schor ...
    Series series Open Media Series
    In this groundbreaking pamphlet, Juliet Schor, author of The Overworked American, examines how Americans can begin making the shift away from a resource-destructive society to one that values the environment, community, and quality of life above business and profit. She a traces back how after W.W.II, Americans had hoped that technology and social investment would yield shorter work weeks, more ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • A Symbolic Approach to Humanitarian Action

    It Takes One to Know One

    by Diego Otegui ...
    Series series Contemporary Humanitarian Action and Emergency Management
    This book aims to present an alternative view of humanitarian action. It adds to current conversations and dilemmas within the humanitarian sphere by departing from traditional views that consider humanitarian interventions as a concrete human activity aimed at providing relief to disaster victims. Much differently, it invokes the idea that humanitarian action is also a cognitive process. In this ... Read more

    $89.99 USD $80.99 USD

  • A Systematic Review of Key Issues in Public Health

    This wide-ranging study reviews the state of public health worldwide and presents informed recommendations for real-world solutions. Identifying the most urgent challenges in the field, from better understanding the causes of acute diseases and chronic conditions to reducing health inequities, it reports on cost-effective, science-based, ethically sound interventions. Chapters demonstrate bedrock ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • A Thorn in Transatlantic Relations

    American and European Perceptions of Threat and Security

    by M. Hampton ...
    Series series Governance, Security and Development
    Americans and Europeans perceive threat differently. Americans remain more religious than Europeans and generally still believe their nation is providentially blessed. American security culture is relatively stable and includes the deeply held belief that existential threat in the world emanates from the work of evil-doers. The US must therefore sometimes intervene militarily against evil. The ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • A Treatise on Abundance (1638) and Early Modern Views on Poverty and Famine

    by Carlo Tapia ...
    Series Book 2 - Anthem Other Canon Economics
    ‘A “Treatise on Abundance” (1638) and Early Modern Views of Poverty and Famine’ is an edited English translation of Carlo Tapia’s ‘Trattato dell’abondanza’. First published in Naples in 1638, the treatise offered the earliest systematic attempt to develop and publicize the most effective tools available to governments to fight famine and poverty. In particular, Tapia moved the discussion of these ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • A Versatile American Institution

    The Changing Ideals and Realities of Philanthropic Foundations

    America's grantmaking foundations have grown rapidly over the course of recent decades, even in the face of financial and economic crises. Foundations have a great deal of freedom, enjoy widespread legitimacy, and wield considerable influence. In this book, David Hammack and Helmut Anheier follow up their edited volume, American Foundations, with a comprehensive historical account of what American ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • A Watershed Moment for Social Policy and Human Rights?

    Where Next for the UK Post-COVID

    With the ideological shift to neoliberalism and the introduction of austerity measures following the Global Recession, the UK has experienced divestment in the National Health Service, growing food bank use, increasing housing problems and growing inequities in access to digital services. These inequities have been both highlighted and compounded by the COVID-19 pandemic. Questioning the ideology ... Read more

    $14.99 USD