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Schooling Inequality: Aspirations, Opportunities and the Reproduction of Social Class (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Drawing on unique new research gathered from three contrasting secondary schools in England, this book explores the aspirations, opportunities and experiences of young people from different social-class backgrounds against a backdrop of continuing inequalities in education.
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Health Policy in the United States: Access, Cost and Quality (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Introducing the fundamentals of health policy and offering analysis of major health care programmes and reflections on issues around access,... Læs mere
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What Is History For? (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Gildea suggests that the more people who really understand what good history entails, the more likely history is to triumph over myth. He sees positive signs in public history,... Læs mere
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What Are the Olympics For? (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
While attention is on Olympic triumphs and tribulations, there is much that goes on behind the scenes that is deeply troubling. Boykoff tells us that radical steps are required if the Games are to be fixed and only then will they be truly 'athletes first'.
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What Are Prisons For? (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Hindpal Singh Bhui argues that we need to look at who is sent to prison and why to disentangle reality from ideology and myth. Including the voices of prisoners, prison staff and... Læs mere
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Landscapes of Hate: Tracing Spaces, Relations and Responses (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Providing a much-needed perspective on exclusion and discrimination, this book offers a distinct spatial approach to the topic of hate studies. It illustrates the role of specific spaces and places in shaping hate crime, and highlights efforts to challenge cultures of hate.
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What Matters and Who Matters to Young People Leaving Care: A New Approach to Planning (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
EPDF and EPUB are available open access under CC BY NC ND licence. This publication was supported by University of... Læs mere
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The Making of a Left-Behind Class: Educational Stratification, Meritocracy and Widening Participation (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Despite the high aspirations of young people from disadvantaged communities, they face barriers that... Læs mere
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The Enlightened Social Worker: An Introduction to Rights-Focused Practice (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
This text offers a new concept of Social Work that is an inspiring and practical vision of what Social Work is and should be, placing rights at the heart of practice, enabling students and workers to become more confident dealing with the uncomfortable realities of practice.
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White Supremacy and Racism in Progressive America: Race, Place, and Space (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
This book explores the connections between race, place and space, and their role in maintaining racial hierarchies. Focusing on... Læs mere
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Emotions in Crisis: Youth and Social Change in Spain (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Drawing on the experiences of young adults after the 2008 economic crisis in Spain, Emotions in Crisis analyses the impact of structural changes in society on individual and collective emotions.
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The Essence of Interstate Leadership: Debating Moral Realism (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Bringing together eminent International Relations (IR) scholars from China and the West, this book examines moral realism from a range of different perspectives. Through its analyses, it verifies the robustness of moral realism in IR theory.
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