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Social Security in Britain provides an analysis of the social security system in Britain. As well as covering the historical and comparative context, the book explains today's complex system in simple terms. Current issues, such as the policy debate around welfare reform and the effects of the social security system, are also discussed.

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Focusing on nursing, remedial therapy and social work, this book examines core social values expressed through policy. The implications of these ideas for the caring professions in social welfare are explored, as are questions about the use of industrial and commercial metaphors in health and human services.

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Social Work and Community Care makes a case for the involvement of social work skills, knowledge and values as part of the development of policy and multi-professional practice in community care. Malcolm Payne shows how ideas of community and community care are entwined with the development of social work and the social services.

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Staging Masculinities is a critical history of the ways in which changing concepts of masculinity have been represented, explored and critiqued on mainstream Western - and particularly English - stages. The study analyses a wide variety of plays and performances.

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This edition reprints the centenary text together with historical documents, an historical and critical introduction to the novel, a bibliography, notes, chronology, maps and illustrations.

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The Economics of Education covers developments in this field. Aspects of labour economics and industrial economics are blended together in the study of the education sector. The book also provides a perspective from which to study a selection of advanced topics in economic theory.

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This text focuses upon the growing interest in the economic behaviour of households and families and examines the microeconomic behaviour of household units and their place in the macroeconomic environment.

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This study of the German Revolution of 1848-9 examines the 'failure' of the revolution, its repression and the attempts to come to terms with this repression.

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This edition of a literary work reprints the text together with five essays that approach the work from five contemporary critical perspectives: cultural studies, Marxist, feminist, deconstructionist and psychoanalytic. The editorial apparatus introduces students to both the text and the critical perspectives presented.

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The Making of the Modern English State traces the changes in politics and religion over the two hundred years that helped to form a new English identity. It is both an up-to-date narrative of the growth of the English state and a guide to recent historiography.

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People's capabilities form the most crucial of all mankind's resources. Topics covered include prodigies, geniuses, the acceleration of development in young people, and the influences of family backgrounds on young people.

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This book is an up-to-date analysis and review of the trends and events which marked the slow and uncertain progress of Britain towards representative parliamentary democracy from 1830 to 1918.

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'The search for health needs' was first identified in the 1970s as a principle that informs and underpins the practice of health visiting. This book draws together research in this area, and presents it to draw out the practical implications. The aim is to further good practice from an informed and evidence-based perspective.

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An overview of theories and studies which contribute to the project of a sociology of art, ranging from sociology to art history, literary theory, feminism and media studies. The author addresses the key questions of the role of the reader/viewer, the nature of authorship, and the possibility of cultural politics.

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The Social Psychology of Adolescence introduces and reviews major themes in adolescent development, including such topics as sexuality and the risk of HIV/AIDS, school life, teenagers in the work place, mental health issues, and others. It is a review of scientific evidence of the different factors that help shape and mould adolescent behaviours.

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Adam Joinson provides a summary of the psychology of the Internet, while at the same time drawing lessons from previous technologies as diverse as the early telephone, telegraph and even radio hams. This book provides a vision of the psychology of the Internet, and the implications for the design of future technologies.

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This book brings together papers by voluntary sector scholars which were commissioned to celebrate the 15th Anniversary of the LSE's Centre for Voluntary Organisation. The papers address key issues currently facing UK voluntary sector managers.

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Nicolas Tredell explores the critical material generated by these two works of modernist fiction. From the initially mixed critical responses to the novels in the early 1930s, the Guide follows the growth of interest in Faulkner's work across six decades.

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This text examines the experience of feminists working with the effects of men's violence in a range of key areas: with rape survivors, with battered wives, with women whose children have been sexually abused, with prostitutes and with male abusers.

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This book looks at how youth homelessness is variously defined, measured and explained, as well as discussing the solutions which are usually proposed for it.

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An account of how commercial culture in Britain and America has been viewed, since its inception during the Industrial Revolution, as a force likely to undermine national morals.

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Hedge fund manager Scott Fearon explains why failure in business is not only common, but necessary - and how spotting it early can pay off.

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The director of the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative looks at the alarming rise in violence against doctors and aid workers, and how to stop it.

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This new book is designed for second and final year economics undergraduates taking an introductory or applied course in econometrics. Covering the essential elements of the subject, the author also introduces and explains techniques that are now widely used in applied work.