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Families & Change
Coping With Stressful Events and Transitions
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2015
Learn how contemporary families respond to and handle common stressful life circumstances. Integrating research, theory, and applications, Families & Change: Coping With Stressful Events and Transitions, Fifth Edition offers students an in-depth understanding of family change. Each chapter...
Dismantling Solidarity
Capitalist Politics and American Pensions since the New Deal
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Why has old-age security become less solidaristic and increasingly tied to risky capitalist markets? Drawing on rich archival data that covers more than fifty years of American history, Michael A. McCarthy argues that the critical driver was policymakers' reactions to capitalist crises and their political...
Where the Other Half Lives
Lower Income Housing in a Neoliberal World
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2009
Housing has become a hot topic. The media is filled with stories of individual housing hardship and of major property-related financial crises: of crippling personal debts, rundown social housing, homelessness, mass demolition, spiralling prices, unaffordability and global recession.*BR**BR*This book...
by Dickinson, Helen, Carey
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2016
Although leadership and management are seen as central to developing effective integrated working, there is relatively little thoughtful work analysing the relationship between the two sets of ideas. Until now. This updated edition of this essential textbook provides a robust guide to the leadership...
Pension Reform in Europe
Politics, Policies and Outcomes
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2007
This new book provides a cross-country comparative analysis of the key issues shaping the latest pension reforms in Europe: political games, welfare models and pathways, population reactions, and observed and expected outcomes.
Pension reform has been a top policy priority for European governments...
The Path of Labor
Theme: Christianity and The World’s Workers
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2017
Those who labored with such desire and earnestness for the selection of a theme for the textbooks for 1918–1919, that should present not only a vital but a paramount issue to the church at this time when only great realities and issues claim serious thought, chose better than they knew when they...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2012
This Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) independent training course manual from the Emergency Management Institute (EMI) discusses the steps to establish public-private partnerships and the importance of joint planning.
Public-private partnerships enhance all aspects of emergency management:...
A Place at the Table
The Crisis of 49 Million Hungry Americans and How to Solve It
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
Forty-nine million people-including one in four children-go hungry in the U.S. every day, despite our having the means to provide nutritious, affordable food for all. Inspired by the acclaimed documentary A Place at the Table, this companion book offers powerful insights from those at the front lines...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
This issues-based reference work (available in both print and electronic formats) shines a spotlight on health care policy and practice in the United States. Impassioned debates about the best solutions to health care in America have perennially erupted among politicians, scholars of public policy,...
U.S. Development Policy in an Aging World
New Challenges and New Priorities for a New Demographic Era
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013
The demographic transformation sweeping the emerging world has profound implications for U.S. development policy. The challenge is no longer helping countries overcome the obstacles to development posed by high birthrates and rapid population growth, but leveraging the opportunities created by falling...
by Bernardo Zacka
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Bernardo Zacka probes the complex moral lives of street-level bureaucrats—the frontline social and welfare workers, police officers, and educators who represent government’s human face to ordinary citizens. Too often dismissed as soulless operators, these workers wield significant discretion and make decisions that profoundly affect people’s lives.
The Power to Heal
Civil Rights, Medicare, and the Struggle to Transform America's Health Care System
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
In less than four months, beginning with a staff of five, an obscure office buried deep within the federal bureaucracy transformed the nation's hospitals from our most racially and economically segregated institutions into our most integrated. These powerful private institutions, which had for a half...
Economics in the Twenty-First Century
A Critical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Economics has always been nicknamed the “dismal science,” but today the field seems a little more dismal than usual as governments, social movements, and even students complain that the discipline is failing to make sense of the major economic problems of the day.
In Economics in the Twenty-First...
by Sumita Dawra
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
The difficulty of finding solutions After six decades of policy-making and planning that appear perfect on paper, vast pockets of poverty persist across the country, accompanied by low human development indices. In Poor but Spirited in Karimnagar, Sumita Dawra recounts her experiences as collector...