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  • Reusing Oral Histories

    From Archive to Analysis

    by Andrea Althaus, Linde Apel, Janine Schemmer, George J. Severs ...
    Series series Practicing Oral History
    Reusing Oral Histories is the first comprehensive guide available to scholars and students looking to analyse or reanalyse archived oral history interviews.Oral history scholarship to date has been primarily concerned with the analysis of oral histories conducted by the interviewer, despite the proliferation of archived oral history interviews. The reuse of interviews, some of which have been in ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

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  • If These Walls Could Talk: Nebraska Cornhuskers

    Stories From the Nebraska Cornhuskers Sideline, Locker Room, and Press Box

    by Jerry Murtaugh, Jimmy Sheil, Brian Rosenthal, George Achola, Brian Brashaw ...
    Series series If These Walls Could Talk
    Firsthand tales of the most memorable moments in Cornhusker football historyA traditional powerhouse, the Nebraska Cornhuskers are one of the most successful NCAA football teams, with five national championships and the highest winning percentage of any program over the last half century. Authors Jerry Murtaugh, an All-American linebacker at Nebraska in 1970, Jimmy Sheil, George Achola, Brian ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Radical Acts

    HIV/AIDS Activism in Late Twentieth-Century England

    by George Severs ...
    Drawing on activist campaign literature and materials, broadcast media, and new oral history interviews, Severs reconstructs and discusses the overlooked world of radical AIDS activism in England. This book provides one of the first detailed histories of the radical HIV/AIDS movement in England, following ACT UP's travels from New York to London via prominent queer intellectuals, and ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

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    'Before the current global era it is impossible to imagine that comparable events [like September 11] could have occurred, reflecting as they do our new-found interdependence. The rise of global terrorism, like world-wide networks involving in money-laundering, drug-running and other forums of organised crime, are all parts of the dark side of globalisation.' From the new Preface This book is ... Read more

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  • The Diversity Illusion

    What We Got Wrong About Immigration & How to Set It Right

    by Ed West ...
    2002 - ICM Research polling for the BBC: 47 per cent of white Britons believed immigration had damaged British society (a belief shared by 22 per cent of black and Asian Britons) and 28 per cent believed it had benefited it. 2012 - YouGov polling for the Sunday Times: 11 per cent of people believe that immigration in the past decade has been 'a good thing for Britain' - 67 per cent think it has ... Read more

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  • Influenza 1918

    Disease, Death, and Struggle in Winnipeg

    by Esyllt W. Jones ...
    The influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 killed as many as fifty million people worldwide and affected the vast majority of Canadians. Yet the pandemic, which came and left in one season, never to recur in any significant way, has remained difficult to interpret. What did it mean to live through and beyond this brief, terrible episode, and what were its long-term effects?Influenza 1918 uses Winnipeg as ... Read more

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  • Don't Go Back to Where You Came From

    by Tim Soutphommasane ...
    Offering an unflinching and informed defense of cultural diversity, this book boldly stakes a claim for the overwhelming success of multiculturalism in Australia. Arguing against European governments that declare multiculturalism a failure, it asserts that multicultural Australia has been a national success story. Creating a solid case for why multiculturalism works, it argues against those who ... Read more

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  • No Problem Here

    Understanding Racism in Scotland

    Edited by Neil Davidson, Minna Liinpää, Maureen McBride, Satnam Virdee ...
    Does Scotland have a problem with racism?With its 'civic nationalism' and 'welcoming' attitude towards migrants and refugees, Scotland is understood to be relatively free of structural and institutional racism. As the contributors to this book show, such generalisations fail to withstand serious investigation. Their research into the historical record and contemporary reality tells a very ... Read more

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  • Our NHS

    A History of Britain's Best Loved Institution

    by Andrew Seaton ...
    An engaging, inclusive history of the NHS, exploring its surprising survival—and the people who have kept it runningIn recent decades, a wave of appreciation for the NHS has swept across the UK. Britons have clapped for frontline workers and championed the service as a distinctive national achievement. All this has happened in the face of ideological opposition, marketization, and workforce crises ... Read more

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  • The NGO Moment

    The Globalisation of Compassion from Biafra to Live Aid

    by Kevin O'Sullivan ...
    Series series Human Rights in History
    This book is a study of compassion as a global project from Biafra to Live Aid. Kevin O'Sullivan explains how and why NGOs became the primary conduits of popular concern for the global poor between the late 1960s and the mid-1980s and shows how this shaped the West's relationship with the post-colonial world. Drawing on case studies from Britain, Canada and Ireland, as well as archival material ... Read more

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  • Understanding Theories and Concepts in Social Policy

    by Ruth Lister, Ruth Patrick, Kate Brown ...
    Series series Understanding Welfare: Social Issues, Policy and Practice
    Demonstrating the relevance of theory to political and policy debates and practice, this lively and accessible second edition helps students to grasp the real-life implications of social policy theory.The updated text includes consideration of contemporary shifts in welfare ideologies in the context of global austerity and the UK Coalition and Conservative governments since 2010. With a new ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Social Policy

    Theories, Concepts and Issues

    Edited by Michael Lavalette, Alan Pratt ...
    The Third Edition of this widely adopted textbook has been thoroughly revised and offers an authoritative and up-to-date coverage of the key theories, concepts and issues in social policy. The lively and readable text has been designed to provide students with the essential tools to gain a clear understanding of the theoretical debates surrounding the discipline.The book is organized into three ... Read more

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