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It is in "Bleak House" that Dickens the realist and Dickens the modernist are often thought to meet. The essays collected in this "New Casebook" embody some of the approaches to Dickens, using deconstructive, feminist, Marxist and post-structuralist methods.

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This thematic and historical overview provides a guide to key welfare practices and developments in the public, private, voluntary and informal welfare sectors in twentieth-century Britain, outlining the dominant ideas about welfare in the period in question.

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The book argues that care management could create changes in the operation of British social services departments, but that it also embodies the values of the social work profession. It explores how the job of the front line social worker and line manager in social service departments might be changed by the implementation of care management.

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This text consists of cases of European Businesses in Asia Pacific, Asian Businesses in Asia Pacific and Asian Businesses in Global Competition. It covers topics including human resources, corporate culture, strategic planning, cross-cultural marketing, marketing strategy, manufacturing, alliances and partnership, and many more.

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This book provides a critical account of British social policy since 1945 from the perspective of the child. Using the UN convention on the Rights of the Child as a yardstick, it examines a range of policy areas including health, education, housing, social security, child care and protection.

(Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)

This edition of Clotel is the only one to include selections from the key texts and cultural documents that Brown drew upon when he wrote his novel. The streamlined second edition includes an updated introduction and features cultural documents which focus more directly on the texts about slavery and race that Brown used.

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Coding Techniques: An Introduction to Compression and Error Control provides a collation of compression, transmission, and error control coding techniques.

(Paperback, 2nd ed. 1997)

The articles are organised into four sections - Community, Care, Policy and Practice - and cover autobiographical and experiential accounts as well as writings drawn from sociology, psychology, social policy, history, social work and community activism.

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This text introduces the reader to the comparative study of housing policy. It looks at the benefits and limitations of the comparative method, as well as the reasons behind governmental involvement in housing and policy choices.

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This text pulls together the various analytical concepts, models and techniques of traditional corporate strategy against a backdrop of the service industry environment in the light of a new global context. It expounds the central role of the service industries and redefines them within a new international framework.

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Critical Psychology collects the thoughts and experiences of psychologists from around the world who have come to challenge the dominant frameworks and practices of their discipline.

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The author covers areas like economic methodology and economic thought and topics that have attracted interest in recent years, including game theory, the environment and economic growth.

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This book provides a survey of agricultural economics, including protectionism and trade issues in the industrialised world, policy reform in Eastern Europe and China and agriculture and the environment. Recent theoretical analysis is also covered in relation to agricultural research and development and agriculture and the macroeconomy.

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Cyberpsychology explores the connections between modes of information and the management of the individual in the context of new technologies. For anyone interested in critical psychology and the developing communications media.

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Psychology is caught in a conflict of paradigms. We all claim to be interactionists, yet we continue to accept the language and the thinking of traditional dichotomies. This text explores these confusions and moves on to offer an alternative view of development.

(Paperback, 4th ed. 1992)

Answers both the enduring questions which economists have considered for two centuries or more and the issues of the moment such as economic change in Europe, the problems of pollution or the prospects for greater freedom of trade. The book contains 2800 entries and a new subject index.

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This text provides coverage of the core elements of economic policy, from both microeconomic and macroeconomic approaches. The authors have placed policy in its historical and political context so that readers can appreciate the theoretical roots.

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This book provides an introduction to the role of economics in debates on the environment. The authors examine the contribution of economics to an understanding of the emergence and persistence of environmental problems and focus on the basic concepts that can be applied to the evaluation of damage and assessment of policy options.

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Examines the major plays of George Etherege and William Wycherley within the context of the cultural and historical changes that marked the early years of Charles II's reign, and addresses various issues such as marriage, manners, heroism and sovereignty that preoccupied late 17th-century Britain.

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A book about HRM and about ethics. Covering the subject of HR using ethical frameworks, the book also looks at areas of ethical concern in current trends and practice, as well as examples and methods for promoting good practice.

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This text examines the behaviour and performance of key European economies since the end of World War II. The unifying theme of the book is the way in which the economies concerned have experienced and dealt with growth, stagnation and structural change.

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A book, based on sound theoretical models, which explores the main criteria available for evaluating social care and health services. The book explains why the various criteria are used, identifies the problems inherent in using them, and offers specific guidance on how to use each of the criteria.

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This text covers three separate but related areas of family violence and abuse. It enables comparisons and contrasts to be made between child, adult and elderly abuse.

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...a good basic introduction...a valuable tool for students or those wishing to pursue an interest in this specialist area of work.' Social Work Today