Meeting the needs of children at the same time as promoting family life is more than a question of resources: it needs a culture change in social services: a rediscovery and a modernization of the social action and community development traditions in social work. In Social Action with Children and Families ... more »

The work of Gilles Deleuze has had an impact far beyond philosophy. He is among Foucault and Derrida as one of the most cited of all contemporary French thinkers. This searching new collection considers Deleuze's relation to the philosophical tradition and beyond to the future of philosophy, science ... more »

Votes for Women examines the importance of the suffrage movement to women's general emancipation in the twentieth century, and discusses its role as catalyst to women's social and political equality... more » more »

A challenging and provocative book that contests the liberal assumption that the rule of law will go hand in hand with a transition to market-based economies and even democracy in East Asia. more » more »

Examines the technical issues of the effect of assessment on curriculum and teaching, and the relationship with learning criterion, and teacher and performance assessment is provided in this book. Joining analyses, it offers a framework for educational assessment. more »

A survey and analysis of major old industrial regions - the Ruhr, South Wales, the Great Lakes and Ontario - in terms of their economic regeneration and their re-emergence as centres of thriving industrial activity of the new kind. more »

Examines the impact of war on Greek society from Homeric times to the age of Alexander and his successors. Discusses the causes and profits of war, links between war, piracy, slavery and trade and the ideology of warfare in literature and art. more »

For most of the twentieth century, modernity has been characterised by the formalisation of social relations as face to face interactions are replaced by impersonal bureaucracy and finance. As we enter the new millennium, however, it becomes increasingly clear that it is only by stepping outside these ... more »

The theoretical arguments and ethnographic perspectives of this book place it at the cutting edge of contemporary anthropological scholarship on identity with respect to the study of ethnicity, nationalism, localism and gender. more »

Newly available - an important student textbook re-issued by Routledge: Beyond Westminster and Whitehall provides the first comprehensive account of the range of sub-central government institutions that are responsible for the delivery of services to citizens. These bodies are the warp and weft of the ... more »

This collection analyzes the potential challenge to the welfare state from postmodern ideas. Contributors explore the relevance of theories of diversity and difference to mainstream and critical soc... more » more »

This book provides a comprehensive look at the way the Union has affected Anglo-Irish and Catholic - Protestant relations and also considers its social, cultural and economic effects on Irish and Br... more » more »