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Changing Adolescence: Social Trends and Mental Health PDF Download

This unique volume brings together the main findings from the Nuffield Foundation's Changing Adolescence Programme and explores how social change may affect young people's behaviour, mental health and...

Social Justice and Social Policy in Scotland PDF Download

Social justice and social policy in Scotland offers a critical engagement with the state of social policy in Scotland, focusing on a diverse range of topics and issues, including income inequalities,...

Environmental Policy and Sustainable Development in China: Hong Kong in Global Context-Paul G. Harris PDF Download

Environmental Policy and Sustainable Development uses Hong Kong to explore environmental economic and social development in China, providing concepts of sustainability, contexts for environmental poli...

Global Social Policy in the Making: the Foundations of the Social Protection Floor-Bob Deacon PDF Download

This book by the world's leading authority on global social policy examines why and how the Social Protection Floor became ILO, UN and G20 policy and how the World Bank and IMF took steps to lay its f...

Critical Practice with Children and Young People PDF Download

This reader provides a critical perspective on work with children and young people at a time of change. It examines the ways that ideas inform practice, explores recent changes in the organisation of...

Environmental Harm: an Eco-Justice Perspective-Rob White PDF Download

A systematic and critical discussion of the nature of environmental harm from an eco-justice perspective, challenging conventional criminological definitions of environmental harm. It features example...

The New Politics: Liberal Conservatism or Same Old Tories?-Peter King PDF Download

ublished to coincide with the first anniversary of the election, this book looks at the Coalition government in the context of conservative ideas and seeks to assess what, if anything, is new about it...

Children Families and Social Exclusion: New Approaches to Prevention-Marian Barnes PDF Download

In this book the authors use evidence from the National Evaluation of the Children's Fund to explore the experiences of children and families who are most marginalised. They consider the historical co...

Reality Strikes Again-Jeff Morris PDF Download

If you've purchased this book, you can rest assured that 100 of the proceeds will be contributed to World Missions. Sometimes we need to be inspired by the regular Joes and Janes of this world because...

Making Modern Mothers-Mary Jane Kehily PDF Download

An exciting and timely book documenting the transition to motherhood over generations and time. Author: Thomson, Rachel Author: Kehily, Mary Jane Publisher: Policy Press Illustration: n Language: ENG...

Unfolding Lives: Youth Gender and Change-Rachel Thomson PDF Download

A unique approach to understanding the changing face of youth transitions, addressing the question of how gender identities are constituted in late modern culture. Author: Thomson, Rachel Publisher:...

This original book provides an overview of changes in social and fiscal policy since the 1970s, using a unique lifetime simulation approach to analyse how changes in these policies would affect people...

The Montana Vigilantes: Gold Guns and Gallows-Mark C. Dillon PDF Download

Historians and novelists alike have described the vigilantism that took root in the gold-mining communities of Montana in the mid-1860s, but Mark C. Dillon is the first to examine the subject through...

Street Photography: the Art of Capturing the Candid Moment-Gordon Lewis PDF Download

Since the advent of the camera, there have been photographers whose mission is to record and interpret the public sphere in all its aspects. Eugene Atget documented evidence of everyday life in the st...

Lousy Sex: Creating Self in an Infectious World-Gerald N. Callahan PDF Download

In Lousy Sex, Gerald Callahan explores the science of self, illustrating the immune system’s role in forming individual identity. Blending the scientific essay with deeply personal narratives, these p...

Nokia Smartphone Hacks: Tips & Tools for Your Smallest Computer-Michael Juntao Yuan PDF Download

Nokia's smartphones pack a powerful computer into a very small space. Unlike your desktop or laptop, your smallest computer can be connected to the Internet all the time, and can interact with the wor...

Learning Flash Media Server 3-William Sanders PDF Download

If you're interested in recording and streaming media using Flash Media Server 3 (FMS3) and Adobe's Real-Time Messaging Protocol, this unique 267-page PDF-only book is the perfect primer. It is not a...

Infrastructure as Code: Managing Servers in the Cloud-Kief Morris PDF Download

Virtualization, cloud, containers, server automation, and software-defined networking are meant to simplify IT operations. But many organizations adopting these technologies have found that it only le...

Rush of Blood: a Novel-Mark Billingham PDF Download

Perfect strangers. A perfect holiday. The perfect murder.In the standalone novel Rush of Blood, internationally bestselling author Mark Billingham puts a sinister twist on a deceptively innocent topic...

The Teachings for Victory Vol. 2-Daisaku Ikeda PDF Download

Nichiren Daishonin's writings provide a practical formula for enabling all people to achieve victory in every aspect of their lives and attain an unshakable state of happiness. This volume of Learning...

Crime Regulation and Control During the Blitz: Protecting the Population of Bombed Cities-David J. Cox PDF Download

Crime, Regulation and Control during the Blitz looks at the social effect of bombing on urban centres like Liverpool, Coventry and London, critically examining how the wartime authorities struggled to...

Desert Noir-Betty Webb PDF Download

With an introduction by Betty Webb. At the age of four, Lena Jones was found lying unconscious by the side of an Arizona Highway, a bullet robbing her of any memories. Now a private detective and scar...

Infinite Value: Accelerating Profitable Growth Through Value-Based Selling-Mark Davies PDF Download

During the recessionary period of 2008-9, many organizations followed a business model that was ill-suited to long-term prosperity and strong profits, instead focusing on cost-cutting initiatives in o...

Stories from the Front of the Room: How Higher Education Faculty of Color Overcome Challenges and Thrive in the Academy PDF Download

This book focuses on the boundaries which faculty of color encounter in everyday experiences on campus and presents a more complete picture of life in the academy - one that documents how faculty of c...