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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “lai ching leung”
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  • Lone Mothers, Social Security and the Family in Hong Kong

    by Lai Ching Leung ...
    Series series Social and Political Studies from Hong Kong
    This book is the first study with feminist analysis on lone mothers’ economic dependency in Hong Kong. The implications of this study are considerable; it challenges both conventional thinking about families and the political and academic debates about social policy. This book sets out to examine the relationship between social security benefits and lone mothers’ labour supply in Hong Kong. Two ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • The Crisis of Welfare in East Asia

    by Beng-huat Chua, Chyong-Fan Ko, Kyeung-Mi Oh, Tetsuso Ogawa, Connie Pui-yee Tang, Wan-I Lin, Wen-Chi Grace Chou, Raymond Man-hung Ngan, Ping-kwong Kam, Jacky Chau-kiu Cheung, Lai-ching Leung, Ho-lup Fung, Ya-peng Zhu ...
    The Crisis of Welfare in East Asia adopts a unique and critical perspective on contemporary social welfare policies in East Asia. This edited volume reflects on current welfare theories and challenges the dominant productivist ideology that overemphasizes the influence of work and family. James Lee and Kam-Wah Chan bring together authors from different social policy domains to provide an updated ... Read more

    $48.59 USD

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  • Equality

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    The sequel to Bellamy's Looking Backward where a young man falls asleep in 1887 and wakes in a utopian year 2000, where all social ills are solved. This novel continues the thread of his utopian vision.Equality begins when Julian West returns to the year 2000 to continue his education. The book describes an ideal society in that year. ... Read more

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  • Evaluating Outcomes in Health and Social Care

    by Helen Dickinson, Janine O'Flynn ...
    Series series Better Partnership Working
    In recent years collaborative working has moved from being an optional extra of public service practice to being a core competency for individuals and teams. Has this led to better outcomes for those who use services? How to understand and to measure these outcomes and demonstrate these to a variety of different audiences remains a significant challenge for many.This revised edition of this ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Economics in the Twenty-First Century

    A Critical Perspective

    by Robert Chernomas, Ian Hudson ...
    Series series UTP Insights
    Economics has always been nicknamed the “dismal science,” but today the field seems a little more dismal than usual as governments, social movements, and even students complain that the discipline is failing to make sense of the major economic problems of the day.In Economics in the Twenty-First Century, Robert Chernomas and Ian Hudson demonstrate how today’s top young economists continue to lead ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Social Care, Service Users and User Involvement

    by Philip Cotterell, Jason Lim, Zemikael Habte-Mariam, Karen Newbigging, Jennie Fleming, Patsy Staddon, Victor Forrest, Colin Barnes, Louca-Mai Brady, Mandy Paine, Jennifer Taylor, Anita Wilkins, Helen Bowers, Beverley French, Maggie Brennan, Martin Hoban, Mick McKeown, Arne Kristiansen, Kath Browne, Leela Bakshi, Alastair Roy, Angela Sweeney ...
    Series series Research Highlights in Social Work
    Social Care, Service Users and User Involvement provides a definitive introduction to practical, philosophical and theoretical issues at the heart of user involvement.This book provides an accessible account of the latest research findings regarding user involvement on three levels: the delivery and provision of services, practice and practitioners, and research and evaluation. It explores a wide ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • The Vertical Mosaic

    An Analysis of Social Class and Power in Canada, 50th Anniversary Edition

    by John Porter ...
    John Porter’s landmark study of social and ethnic inequality, The Vertical Mosaic, became an instant classic when it was first published in 1965. A national best seller that sold more than 100,000 copies, the book was the first major study of Canada’s class structure and one of the foundational texts in Canadian sociology. Sociologist Irving Louis Horowitz described it as “the sociological study ... Read more

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  • The Child's Own Story

    Life Story Work with Traumatized Children

    by Terry Philpot, Richard Rose ...
    Series series Delivering Recovery
    Helping traumatized children develop the story of their life and the lives of people closest to them is key to their understanding and acceptance of who they are and their past experiences. The Child's Own Story is an introduction to life story work and how this effective tool can be used to help children and young people recover from abuse and make sense of a disrupted upbringing in multiple ... Read more

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  • Street Robbery: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

    by Richard Wright, Scott Jacques ...
    Series series Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guides
    This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of criminology find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook provides ... Read more

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  • Health at a Glance 2009

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    by Collective ...
    This fifth edition of Health at a Glance provides the latest comparable data on different aspects of the performance of health systems in OECD countries. It provides striking evidence of large variations across countries in the costs, activities and results of health systems. Key indicators provide information on health status, the determinants of health, health care activities and health ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Asylum Seekers, Social Work and Racism

    by S. Masocha ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book analyses social work through the concept of 'xenoracism' to challenge the outdated concepts of racism that still pervade social work. It illustrates how, through their discursive practices, social workers are able to counteract the dominant anti asylum seeking discourses. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD