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Illustrated English Social History: 4

Everyone's Invited

'Read this and learn â ¿ this is what a force for good looks like' - Jess Phillips MP 'Her work has directly contributed to a groundswell...

The Race to the Top - Structural Racism and How to Fight it

A New Statesman `most anticipated title of the year¿ `Compelling.¿ David Lammy MP `Refreshing,¿ Pragya Agarwal A powerful intervention ro...

Becoming Abolitionists - Police, Protest, and the Pursuit of Freedom

How I became an abolitionist: a memoir of Black Lives Matter

Facing Reality - Two Truths about Race in America

In his newest book, Charles Murray fearlessly states two controversial truths about the American population: American whites, blacks, His...

Disembodied Brains - Understanding our Intuitions on Human-Animal Neuro-Chimeras and Human Brain Organoids

Until recently, brains in vats and animals with partly-human brains have been the realm of science fiction, but recent research is making...

White Sight - Visual Politics and Practices of Whiteness

"How whiteness has been constructed, naturalized, and wielded; and how we can unmake it. By a renowned visual culture scholar; grounded i...

Who Cares - The Hidden Crisis of Caregiving, and How We Solve It

"When Emily Kenway became the full-time caregiver for her terminally ill mother, her life was changed forever. While her friends outside ...

Hakim's Odyssey - Book 2: From Turkey to Greece

An account, in graphic novel format, of a young Syrian refugee and how war forced him to leave everything behind, including his family, h...

Social Work Theories in Context - Creating Frameworks for Practice

This best-selling text-book explores contemporary social work theories using an integrated and flexible framework to link context, theory...

Tears of Gold - Portraits of Yazidi, Rohingya, and Nigerian Women

"A celebrated young British artist uses her gift to convey the dignity and resilience of women survivors of violence in forgotten corners...

Occupational Wholeness for Health and Wellbeing - A Guide to Re-thinking and Re-planning Life

This practical book introduces a new, research-based model of occupational wholeness, a way of conceptualising satisfaction with what one...

Vienna - Still a Just City?

This book explores and debates the urban transformations that have taken place in Vienna over the past 30 years and their consequences in...

ISE Interpersonal Conflict

Interpersonal Conflict 11e examines the central issues that inform conflict and, in turn, make readers' personal and professional lives c...

Bereavement - Studies of Grief in Adult Life, Fourth Edition

Bereavement provides guidance on preparing for the loss of a loved one, and coping once they have gone. Long recognised as the most autho...

Restorative Justice at a Crossroads - Dilemmas of Institutionalisation

This book reflects on the institutionalisation of restorative justice over the last twenty years and offers a critical analysis of the qu...

Social Work Practice During Times of Disaster - A Transformative Green Social Work Model for Theory, Education and Practice in Disaster Interventions

Disasters affect people individually and collectively in their communities, national societies, and the international sphere and in any s...

Sport, Professionalism and Pain - Ethnographies of Injury and Risk

Are pain and injury managed appropriately in the environment of professional sport? Is sports medicine a tool to empower or to disempower...

The Golden Rule - Lessons in living from a doctor of ageing

Pre-order the latest book from Dr Lucy Pollock, a wise, compassionate and helpful guide to ageing with confidence__________Today, we are ...

The Art of Good Deeds

Discover the true power of philanthropy--how generosity and small acts of kindness in your everyday life can make a huge impact.

Humanitarianism 2.0 - New Ethics for the Climate Emergency

This book spells out a new framework for humanitarian aid in the long emergency of climate change. Looking ahead to the massive needs of ...

Abortion in the Age of Unreason - A Doctor's Account of Caring for Women Before and After Roe v. Wade

This vivid account by a prominent doctor reports the challenges of offering and receiving abortion services through stories from the fron...

Your Journey, Your Way - How to Make the Mental Health System Work For You

The mental health system is in trouble. Most people who need help are receiving inadequate treatment, years behind the latest thinking. T...

Body Phobia - The Western Roots of Our Fear of Difference

"Body Phobia is an examination of the American fear of the body, how it permeates all parts of culture, alienates us from one another, ma...

Racial Domination

Race is arguably the single most troublesome and volatile concept of the social sciences in the early 21st century. It is invoked to expl...

Disabled Ecologies - Lessons from a Wounded Desert

"Brimming with insight and wisdom, Sunaura Taylor builds a strong case for her profound central idea: that disabled bodies and environmen...

Poverty for Profit - How Corporations Get Rich off America's Poor

"A devastating investigation into the "corporate poverty complex"-the myriad businesses that profit from the poor"--

Down the COVID-19 Rabbit Hole - Independent Scientists and Physicians Unmask the Pandemic

A detailed examination of the COVID-19 pandemic. Down the COVID-19 Rabbit Hole discusses the widespread misuse of science during the pand...

In These Streets - Reporting from the Front Lines of Inner-City Gun Violence

"Inspired by what he learned as a journalist and grounded in his own lived experience, the author explores the roles of poverty, policing...

Living Well with Bipolar Disorder - Practical Strategies for Improving Your Daily Life

People with bipolar disorder (BD) face loads of everyday challenges as they work to build the full lives they want. No one is better suit...

The Minneapolis Reckoning - Race, Violence, and the Politics of Policing in America

Challenges to racialized policing, from early reform efforts to BLM protests and the aftermath of George Floyd's murder The eruption of B...

Mindfulness for Life

Mindfulness is exceptionally easy to get started with, and people often experience benefits almost immediately. Why, then, do many initia...

Trustonomics - How to Boost Profits and Growth Through Trust, Transparency and Authenticity

A fascinating insight into data privacy and transparency, as well as a practical guide for business leaders seeking to prioritise trust f...

The Last Plantation - Racism and Resistance in the Halls of Congress

"In the Last Plantation, James Jones uses the plantation metaphor to investigate how Congress operates as a racialized governing institut...

Multicultural Britain - A People's History

A new history of how we became multicultural, revealing the personal and community relationships that underpin Britain's post-imperial tr...

Match-Striking for Beginners - Activating individual and collective power for a more just world

Ignite your PERSONAL POWER for a better self and better world. How do you take what is breaking your heart and turn that into action, ach...

Social Work Skills and Knowledge: A Practice Handbook - A Practice Handbook

Since its first publication in 2000, this best-selling text has been an invaluable resource for thousands of social workers preparing for...

Abolition and Social Work - Possibilities, Paradoxes, and the Practice of Community Care

A critical anthology exploring the debates, conundrums, and promising practices around abolition and social work in academia and within i...

Structural Injustice and the Law

Inequality, Economic Growth and Business Decision-Making

This book explores the relationship between rising inequality of income and wealth on the one hand and a slowdown in the rate of economic...

The Endowment Effect and Housing Markets - Theory and Evidence from Poland

This book aims to provide a comprehensive analysis of the so-called "endowment effect" in the housing market. In a nutshell, the phenomen...

Sexual Trauma among Girls in Educational Settings - Intersectional Identities and Trauma-Informed Care

This book uses an intersectional lens to explore the lived experiences of sexually traumatized girls in school. It provides a deep unders...

Synthetic and Novel Drugs - Emerging Issues, Legal Policy and Public Health

Emerging drugs such as synthetic marijuana and bath salts present critical problems not only for the public but also for law enforcement,...

A Sociological Perspective on Blood Plasma Donation During the Pandemic - Convalescent Gifts and Liminality

Shim and Baek examine the evolving existential meanings of gift-making by interviewing donors of convalescent blood plasma during the Cov...

Girl Power - Sustainability, Empowerment, and Justice

This Element harnesses new data about gender and sustainability, presents inspiring stories of empowerment, and introduces a framework of...

Policing's Problems in the Twenty-First Century - Misconduct, Malfeasance, and Murder

This is a critical analysis of law enforcement misconduct, malfeasance, and murder as occupational forms of deviance and outlines the pat...

Criminalized Lives - HIV and Legal Violence

Criminalized Lives profiles people charged in Canada with the crime of not disclosing their HIV-positive status to sex partners. Examinin...

Queering Professionalism - Pitfalls and Possibilities

Bringing together authors from diverse fields such as child and youth care, education, and social work, this book seeks to challenge conv...

Education and Resilience in Crisis - Challenges and Opportunities in Sub-Saharan Africa

Dwarfism Arts and Advocacy - Creating Our Own Positive Identity

Disability arts and the media are important tools in challenging problematic stereotypes of disability, as well as giving disabled people...

Advances in Disability Research Ethics

Considering important aspects of general ethical research principles, this volume establishes an inspiring vision for both present and fu...

Accessibility, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the Cultural Sector - Initiatives and Lessons Learned from Real-life Cases

Advocating for the immersion of ADEI practices into the heart of art organizations, this title links theory, practice and context as a wa...

Child Abuse and Neglect - Cross-Cultural Perspectives

"The pioneering nature of this work greatly enhances its importance for prevention and treatment. The average child abuse professional is...

Social Movements and the Law - Talking about Black Lives Matter and #MeToo

"Historians of social movements will often caution readers about attempting to understand any period of significant protest or collective...

Authority and Delinquency in the Modern State - A Criminological Approach to the Problem of Power

In this title, originally published in 1950, Alex Comfort discusses the relationship between crime and power, and traces the mechanisms w...

From Fate to Choice - Private Bobbies, Public Beats

In the 1990s private security patrols in public places were occurring in many areas of the UK and moving closer to that traditional domai...

Working En Comunidad - Service-Learning and Community Engagement with U.S. Latinas/Os/Es

This edited volume showcases examples of service-learning practices and pedagogies for working alongside Latina/o/e communities. The cont...

Poverty, Disadvantage, and the Promise of Enterprise - A Capabilities Perspective

This book explores entrepreneurship as both a pathway out of poverty and a vehicle for enhancing personal well-being.

Counselling Children - A Practical Introduction

The market leading textbook for trainees and practitioners counselling children. It contains lots of short chapters offering practice fra...

Living with Chronic Illness - The Experience of Patients and Their Families

First published in 1988, the book presents a vivid account of the reality of life with chronic illness-from perspective of patients and t...