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Welcome to the latest 'Social policy and welfare' bulletin from The Policy
Press.
Please find our latest titles on Social policy and welfare below - I hope
they will be of interest. All are currently available on our new website -
http://www.policypress.co.uk - with a special website launch discount of
25%.
SOCIAL POLICY AND WELFARE SELECTION - AUGUST 2009
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A GENERATION OF CHANGE, A LIFETIME OF DIFFERENCE
Social policy in Britain since 1979
Martin Evans and Lewis Williams
"Adopting a truly original perspective Evans and Williams have provided an
immensely valuable book, demonstrating how social policy and taxation have
profound effects on all of us at different points during our lives." Jochen
Clasen, University of Edinburgh
September 2009 GBP 18.74 with 25% website discount (RRP GBP 24.99)
http://www.policypress.co.uk/display.asp?K=9781847423047
UNEQUAL AGEING
The untold story of exclusion in old age
Edited by Paul Cann and Malcolm Dean
"This is a book for our times: its wisdom and thoughtfulness will help us
all adjust to life's changing patterns." Dame Joan Bakewell, Voice of
Older People
September 2009 GBP 13.49 with 25% website discount (RRP GBP 17.99)
http://www.policypress.co.uk/display.asp?K=9781847424112
UNDERSTANDING SOCIAL WELFARE MOVEMENTS
Jason Annetts, Alex Law, Wallace McNeish and Gerry Mooney
"A perceptive, illuminating analysis of the extra-parliametary social
movements that have reshaped the political and cultural landscape of modern
Britain." Peter Tatchell, Human Rights Campaigner
July 2009 GBP 14.99 with 25% website discount (RRP GBP 19.99)
http://www.policypress.co.uk/display.asp?K=9781847420961
TEENAGE PREGNANCY
The making and unmaking of a problem
Lisa Arai
"This book exposes an unhealthy relationship between the media and policy
making leading to the distortion of research evidence. Lucid, analytic and
controversial, it is a must-read for policy makers in the present and of
the future." Professor Rachel Thomson, Faculty of Health and Social Care,
The Open University
July 2009 Currently available on our website for just GBP 16.00! (RRP GBP
22.99)
http://www.policypress.co.uk/display.asp?K=9781847420749
SUBVERSIVE CITIZENS
Power, agency and resistance in public services
Edited by Marian Barnes and David Prior
"This edited collection makes an outstanding contribution to the debate in
a provocative, compelling and original way." Professor Gordon Hughes,
Cardiff University
July 2009 GBP 20.24 with 25% website discount (RRP GBP 26.99)
http://www.policypress.co.uk/display.asp?K=9781847422071
THE IMPACT OF DEVOLUTION ON SOCIAL POLICY
Derek Birrell
"Derek Birrell has done an immense service by showing us how the British
welfare state as a whole can learn from the adaptations and divergences
that devolution has brought." Richard Parry, University of Edinburgh
September 2009 GBP 19.49 with 25% website discount (RRP GBP 25.99)
http://www.policypress.co.uk/display.asp?K=9781847422255
WOMEN IN-AND-OUT OF PAID WORK
Changes across generations in Italy and Britain
Cristina Solera
"This is an illuminating and exemplary piece of comparative research,
addressing - and answering - complex questions in understanding the
dynamics of women's labour force participation in the UK and Italy."
Richard Breen, Yale University
July 2009 GBP 48.75 with 25% website discount (RRP GBP 65.00)
http://www.policypress.co.uk/display.asp?K=9781861349309
WORK, FAMILIES AND ORGANISATIONS IN TRANSITION
European perspectives
Edited by Suzan Lewis, Julia Brannen and Ann Nilsen
"This thought provoking book raises compelling questions about how
contemporary ways of working can become compatible with socially
sustainable workplaces, families and communities." Rhona Rapoport, Former
Director of the Institute of Family and Environmental Research
July 2009 GBP 48.75 with 25% website discount (RRP GBP 65.00)
http://www.policypress.co.uk/display.asp?K=9781847422200
THE POLITICS OF PARENTAL LEAVE POLICIES
Children, parenting, gender and the labour market
Edited by Sheila Kamerman and Peter Moss
"Parental leave policy is on the agenda in many countries today. While the
variation across countries has been well documented, this timely book fills
an important gap by exploring the reasons behind that variation." Jane
Waldfogel, Columbia University School of Social Work
July 2009 GBP 48.75 with 25% website discount (RRP GBP 65.00)
http://www.policypress.co.uk/display.asp?K=9781847420671
SOCIAL WELFARE AND RELIGION IN THE MIDDLE EAST
A Lebanese perspective
Rana Jawad
"... a ground-breaking analysis of the contribution that religions make to
social welfare programmes in the Middle East and to their wider involvement
in social and economic development." James A. Beckford, University of
Warwick
July 2009 GBP 48.75 with 25% website discount (RRP GBP 65.00)
http://www.policypress.co.uk/display.asp?K=9781861349538
SOCIAL POLICY REVIEW 21
Analysis and debate in social policy, 2009
Edited by Kirstein Rummery, Ian Greener and Chris Holden
"An intriguing and sometimes challenging assessment of how Britain's
welfare state has managed and mutated, and how is continuing to evolve, 60
years on." Nicholas Timmins, Public Policy Editor, Financial Times
June 2009 GBP 48.75 with 25% website discount (RRP GBP 65.00)
http://www.policypress.co.uk/display.asp?K=9781847423733
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