Product Description: In an age of globalization, the most pressing social policy challenges (such as climate change, ageing populations and flagging economies) require international responses if they are to be overcome. Drawing on a wide range of policy examples from around the world, this important new book provides a fresh framework for the study of human wellbeing...read more

Product Description: Studying Public Policy organizes an impressive number of contributions—nineteen in all—from diverse scholars all around the world to bring to life the realities of policy making. The contributors use international case studies to demonstrate the challenges of public policy implementation and measurements of its success...read more

Product Description: Is your dental practice underperforming? Are you concerned that you are not doing enough to stay profitable? With this book you will learn 20 incredible tactics for transforming your struggling dental practice into a fully booked, highly profitable business in your community...read more

Product Description: “As a long time prosecutor, law school professor, business man and political operative, I’ve noticed repeatedly that certain skills and traits are indispensable to succeed in any field or endeavor. In, “How to Succeed in Business By Really Trying”, Mike Hill presents many of these in a comprehensive, memorable and entertaining way...read more

Product Description: A superbly researched and illustrated account of country houses in eastern Dorset. It contains numerous plans, architectural drawings, information on owners’ architects and craftsmen, and covers the whole social and historical background which lead to their creation...read more

Product Description: This collection brings together disparate but individually significant papers on the subject of public policy, ensuring that all the developing threads in this field of work are identified and contextualised by a newly-written introductory essay.

Product Description: The Public Policy Process is essential reading for anyone trying to understand the process by which public policy is made. Explaining clearly the importance of the relationship between theoretical and practical aspects of policy-making, the book gives a thorough overview of the people and organisations involved in the process...read more

Product Description: “If I Was You I Wouldn’t Be Startin From Here” This is the story of a working class boy born before the last war and tells the story of his life. His early life living in Ireland and the tumultuous times in Ireland before and after the war...read more

Product Description: The study of public policy has a long history. It is rooted in the study of politics and of public administration as having developed from the former into a discipline of its own. This collection focuses on the scholarly analysis of public policy, drawing on the various originating threads...read more

Product Description: The North Carolina Gazetteer first appeared to wide acclaim in 1968 and has remained an essential reference for anyone with a serious interest in the Tar Heel State, from historians to journalists, from creative writers to urban planners, from backpackers to armchair travelers...read more

Product Description: This collection focuses on the relationship between social care, community and citizenship, linking them in a way relevant to both policy and practice. It explores key concepts, policies, issues and relationships and draws on contrasting illustrations from England and Scotland...read more

Product Description: This book provides a much-needed introductory guide to the issues surrounding pension policy, not just in the UK but worldwide, and offers a critique of some of the dominant ideas and assumptions. Noting the intense debate that currently surrounds the subject, the book explores a wider view of the continuing issues about pension policy...read more

Product Description: Competitive sport is today about winning and training to win. Many athletes are professionals, with careers managed by teams of specialist staff working towards the ultimate goal of world-class, medal-winning performances. This entry-level text offers new students a comprehensive introduction to the phenomenon of the pursuit of excellence in sport, covering the key issues and talking points including: the history and tradition of sporting excellence comparisons of elite high-performance sport programmes in Australia, the USA, East Germany and France the historical, social, political and economic impacts of sporting excellence in the UK current issues and debates, including drugs in sport the future for high-performance sport...read more