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Dead end lives - Drugs and violence in the city shadows
Daniel Briggs and Rubén Monge Gamero
RRP Paperback: £16.99/PP Website discount: £13.59 ISBN: 978-1447341697
"Wow! This book is an ethnographic tour de force." - Professor Philippe Bourgois, author of Righteous Dopefiend and In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio
Welcome to the city shadows in Valdemingómez: a lawless landscape of drugs and violence. Through vivid testimonies and images, Briggs and Monge tell the stories of the people who live there….
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Reframing global social policy - Social investment for sustainable and inclusive growth
Edited by Christopher Deeming and Paul Smyth
RRP Hardback: £75.00/PP Website discount: £60.00 ISBN: 978-1447332497
"Gathering excellent contributors, this edited volume is a must read for students of social policy interested in inclusive growth and social investment." Daniel Béland, Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy
Capability-promoting policies - Enhancing individual and social development
Edited by Hans-Uwe Otto, Melanie Walker and Holger Ziegler
RRP Hardback: £80.00/PP Website discount: £64.00 ISBN: 978-1447334316
"The capability approach has the remarkable ability to bring thinkers from substantially different places in this world together - and so does this book." René Lehwess-Litzmann, Soziologisches Forschungsinstitut Göttingen an der
Georg-August-Universität (SOFI), Germany
Poverty and social exclusion in the UK Vol I – The nature and extent of the problem
Edited by Esther Dermott and Gill Main
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“Comprehensive, shocking and revealing. How the UK declined and poverty rose as economic inequality spread across the land." Danny Dorling, University of Oxford
Poverty and social exclusion Vol II – The dimensions of disadvantage
Edited by Glen Bramley and Nick Bailey
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Broken Benefits
- Sam Royston
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The new fundraisers - Beth Breeze
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Social Policy and Welfare Pluralism
- John Offer and Robert Pinker
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