(Hardback)

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.

(Paperback)

Dying on the Job looks at the variety of reasons people take the lives of coworkers or themselves and offers explanations for their behavior. Some are pathological; others are simply stretched to limits they cant sustain. The author offers real stories throughout and ends with a consideration of trends, responses, and prevention strategies.

(Paperback)

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.

(Paperback)

Despite depictions to the contrary, the mafia is not a cadre of noble and righteous warriors, a class of citizens working in the shadows but upholding traditional values. Instead, the authors argue, it is a brutal, violent, and ignoble organization that ultimately violates the boundaries of acceptable behavior both within the family and without.

A landmark three-volume reference work documenting philanthropy and the nonprofit sector throughout American history, edited by the field's most widely recognized authority.

(Paperback)

The contributors to this book examine the issues involved in what direction British policing should take. Should it promote itself as a police force, dedicated to the attack on crime and public disorder, or should it adopt the mantle of police service, devoted to providing reassurance

(Paperback)

Relief workers face rapidly changing and complex environments, new disease patterns, enormous humanitarian needs and relatively limited resources. The authors of this book use their experience in the area to produce an operational manual of the issues involved in refugee health programmes.

(Hardback)

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.

(Hardback)

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.

(Hardback)

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.

(Hardback)

Salbi presents a riveting collection of letters and first-person narratives by amazing women who survived wars devastation

(Hardback)

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.

(Paperback)

This text considers the roles played by the key political parties, lobby groups and ideologies in determining Australia's welfare- related outcomes. It looks at the influence of economic rationalism and social democracy, and the values and assumptions that underpin social welfare policies.

(Paperback, Export/Airside)

A shocking and darkly funny account of the reality of Britain's prisons.

(Paperback, Main)

Bringing great writing back into print - a Faber Finds book.

(Paperback)

(Paperback, Export - Airside ed)

On Saturday 23 November 2013 ten children were shot dead. It was just another day in the death of America, where on average seven children and teens are killed by guns daily. Younge picked this day at random, searched for their families and tells their stories.

(Paperback, Main)

Bringing great writing back into print - a Faber Finds book.

(Paperback, Second Edition)

GIS Tutorial for Crime Analysis, second edition presents state-of-the-art crime mapping and analysis methods that can be incorporated into any police departments current practices.

Golden-age Hollywood, modern Las Vegas, JFK-era scandal and international intrigue...

(Paperback)

A fascinating and insightful book on the world of forensic science, by the UK's most respected forensic scientist and author of When the Dogs Don't Bark

(Paperback)

For the first time ever, the world's foremost private investigator enables readers to confidently perform surveillance, detect lies, secure their homes and finances, and disappear off the grid.

(, Main)

Mafia State: How one reporter became an enemy of the brutal new Russia is a brilliant and haunting account of the insidious methods used by a resurgent Kremlin against its so-called "enemies" - human rights workers, western diplomats, journalists and opposition activists.

(Paperback)

Tells the fascinating behind-the-scenes stories of the science used in analysing Ned Kelly's remains.