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Please see details of all new Policy Press titles below. For more
information on all of our titles, along with news and special offers,
please visit:
https://www.policypress.org.uk
NEW TITLES THIS MONTH
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Fracture
Adventures of a broken body
Ann Oakley
Fracturing her arm in the grounds of a hotel in the USA leads Ann Oakley on
a journey into some critical themes of modern Western culture. View
extracts in our reading room at
https://www.policypress.org.uk/general/reading_room.php
Rethinking palliative care
A social role valorisation approach
Paul Sinclair
Applying Social Role Valorisation, this book argues for the
de-institutionalisation of palliative care and recommends an alternative
framework to current approaches. For more information, please see
https://www.policypress.org.uk/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=&products_id=1275
Sexual issues in social work
Steve Myers and Judith Milner
This book provides busy practitioners with a ready reference for the
day-to-day problems that they are likely to face in matters relating to sex
and sexuality in their work.
Extracts from this title are available in our reading room,
https://www.policypress.org.uk/general/reading_room.php
Transforming society?
Social work and sociology
Vicky Price and Graeme Simpson
This book explores the sociological basis of contemporary society and shows
how social workers experience tensions and contradictions in practice. A
sample chapter can be viewed in our reading room,
https://www.policypress.org.uk/general/reading_room.php
The new bureaucracy
Quality assurance and its critics
Max Travers
This study, by a qualitative sociologist, uses interpretive methods to
examine the impact of auditing and inspection on professional work in
schools, hospitals, local government and the police. Please see
https://www.policypress.org.uk/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=10135&products_id=1269
NEW REPORTS THIS MONTH
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Our new reports published in association with the JRF this month are:
Migration and socioeconomic change: A 2001 Census analysis of Britain's
larger cities
Tony Champion, Mike Coombes, Simon Raybould and Colin Wymer
Population turnover and area deprivation
Nick Bailey and Mark Livingston
Social interactions in urban public places
Caroline Holland, Andrew Clark, Jeanne Katz and Sheila Peace
Rediscovering mixed-use streets
The contribution of local high streets to sustainable communities
Peter Jones, Marion Roberts and Linda Morris
Ethnic minorities in the labour market
Dynamics and diversity
Ken Clark and Stephen Drinkwater
Long-term ill health, poverty and ethnicity
Sarah Salway, Lucinda Platt, Punita Chowbey, Kaveri Harriss and Elizabeth
Bayliss
Poverty and ethnicity in the UK
Lucinda Platt
The role of higher education in providing opportunities for South Asian
women
Paul Bagguley and Yasmin Hussain
More information on all reports can be found at
https://www.policypress.org.uk
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