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  • The Heeding

    by Rob Cowen ...
    "Dazzling, moving... A book that will touch many, and be given often: here, take this, you must read this." —ROBERT MACFARLANE"So vivid... A call out to our elemental relationship with love and nature. Beautiful." WILLEM DAFOEThe world changed in 2020. Gradually at first, then quickly and irreversibly, the patterns by which we once lived altered completely.Across four seasons and a luminous series ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • School Choice around the World

    … And the Lessons We Can Learn

    by Christopher J. Counihan, Nick Cowen, Corey A. DeAngelis, Triin Lauri, Kaire Põder, M. Danish Shakeel, Patrick J. Wolf, Toby Young ...
    This volume of essays examines the empirical evidence on school choice in different countries across Europe, North America, sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. It demonstrates the advantages which choice offers in different institutional contexts, whether it be Free Schools in the UK, voucher systems in Sweden or private-proprietor schools for low-income families in Liberia. Everywhere experience ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Having Your Say

    Threats to Free Speech in the 21st Century

    by J. R. Shackleton, David S. Oderberg, Philip Booth, Nick Cowen, Stephen Davies, Claire Fox, Dennis Hayes, Victoria Hewson, Leo Kearse, Jacob Mchangama0 ...
    Today should be a Golden Age for free speech – with technology providing more ways of communicating ideas and opinions than ever before. Yet we’re actually witnessing a growing wave of restrictions on freedom of thought and expression. In Having Your Say a variety of authors – academics, philosophers, comedians and more – stress the fundamental importance of free speech, one of the cornerstones of ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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    Series series Routledge Studies in Governance and Public Policy
    The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com/, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license.There has been an enormous increase in interest in the use of evidence for public policymaking, but the vast majority of work on the subject has failed to engage with the political nature of decision making and how ... Read more

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  • What's Our Problem?

    A Self-Help Book for Societies

    by Tim Urban ...
    From the creator of the wildly popular blog Wait But Why, a fun and fascinating deep dive into what the hell is going on in our strange, unprecedented modern times.Between 2013 and 2016, Tim Urban became one of the world’s most popular bloggers, writing dozens of viral, long-form articles about everything from AI to colonizing Mars to procrastination. Then, he turned his attention to a new topic: ... Read more

    $22.54 CAD

  • Evidence-Based Policy-Making in Canada

    by Shaun P. Young ...
    Making policy is what governments do, but there are some fascinating and hotly debated issues associated with how government decisions get made in the interests of the people. The concept and practice of evidence-based policy-making insists that properly developed public policy draws on the best available evidence. This book considers how governments in Canada have historically interacted with ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Persona Non Grata

    The Death of Free Speech in the Internet Age

    by Tom Flanagan ...
    From an acclaimed professor and former advisor to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, a passionate and edgy defense of free speech in Canada, and the role the internet plays in the issue.In February 2013, Tom Flanagan, acclaimed academic, University of Calgary professor, and former advisor to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, made comments surrounding the issue of viewing child pornography that were ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Social Policy for Social Work

    Placing Social Work in its Wider Context

    by Karen Clarke, Lorraine Green ...
    Contemporary social work cannot be understood without an appreciation of the broader context of social policy in which it takes place. Such an understanding is increasingly important as social workers are expected to work across institutional, professional and even national boundaries in new ways profoundly affected by the changing global context.This insightful book examines how shifts in the ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • The Politics of Disability

    A Need for a Just Society Inclusive of People with Disabilities

    by Peter Gibilisco ...
    We are confronted by neoliberalism and the inhumane consequences of its economic policies. The claim that "there is no alternative" to profit-making simply denies basic features of everyday reality. The Politics of Disability asks: Just where does all of this leave people with disabilities? What are their alternatives? They are among the most downtrodden people, frequently treated as losers for ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Quarterly Essay 37 What's Right?

    The Future of Conservatism in Australia

    by Waleed Aly ...
    Series Book 37 - Quarterly Essay
    Where did the Right go wrong? With the departure of George W. Bush and John Howard, conservative parties in the US and Australia entered a period of turmoil. Foreign affairs, economics, the environment – all were issues to be avoided. Most profoundly, conservatives no longer seemed to have a compelling vision of the future – and arguably still don’t. How did the Right end up in this state? How ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of the Social Science of Poverty

    Edited by David Brady, Linda M. Burton ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Despite remarkable economic advances in many societies during the latter half of the twentieth century, poverty remains a global issue of enduring concern. Poverty is present in some form in every society in the world, and has serious implications for everything from health and well-being to identity and behavior. Nevertheless, the study of poverty has remained disconnected across disciplines. The ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • Social Policy

    Theory and Practice

    by Paul Spicker ...
    Social Policy: Theory and practice is a fully revised, updated and extended edition of a bestselling social policy textbook, extensively reworked and adapted to meet the needs of its international readership. The book lays out the architecture of social policy as a field of study, binding the discussion of theory to the understanding of social policy in practice. It aims to provide students and ... Read more

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