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Death Rites
A timely and provocative collection which surveys the legal and ethical issues surrounding the medical and legal management of death and dying. Aimed to be accessible to those from both the worlds of law and medicine, this volume focuses uniquely upon questions increasingly significant for both sets of practitioners, as new medical technologies are used more often to intervene to save and extend lives, sometimes without regard for the quality of life of those who are being kept alive.
Business Cycles and Depressions
First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Complexity and Planning
Complexity, complex systems and complexity theories are becoming increasingly important within a variety disciplines. While these issues are less well known within the discipline of spatial planning, there has been a recent growing awareness and interest. As planners grapple with how to consider the vagaries of the real world when putting together proposals for future development, they question how complexity, complex systems and complexity theories might prove useful with regard to spatial planning and the physical environment. This book provides a readable overview, presenting and relating a range of understandings and characteristics of complexity and complex systems as they are relevant to planning. It recognizes multiple, relational approaches of dynamic complexity which enhance understandings of, and facilitate working with, contingencies of place, time and the various participants' behaviours. In doing so, it should contribute to a better understanding of processes with regard to our physical and social worlds.
When the Sea Gives Up Its Dead (Mystery Novel)
Annie Cory is a woman in love but also a feisty detective on a mission to solve a peculiar case involving—diamond, murder and of course villains! Excerpt: "Confound that upset! I shall be two minutes behind time—I wish I had walked all the way, instead of trusting to the supposed extra speed of a 'bus, when the streets are so slippery that horses cannot keep their feet." Thus soliloquised Harley Riddell, ruefully, as he hurriedly picked his way through the somewhat aggressive conglomeration of wagons, hansoms, 'buses and fourwheelers, which threatened to still further belate his arrival at the establishment of his employers, Messrs. Stavanger, Stavanger and Co., diamond merchants, of Hatton Garden..."
Social Policy and Social Change
A timely examination of social policy through a social constructivist and economic lens, Social Policy and Social Change illuminates the root causes of common social problems and how policy has attempted to ameliorate them. In so doing, the book focuses on how social policies in the United States can be transformed to promote social justice for all groups. The book uniquely offers both an historical analysis of social problems and social policies, and an economic analysis of how capitalism and the market economy have contributed to social problems and impacted social policies. The book goes beyond the U.S. borders to examine the impact of globalization in the United States and in the Global ...
Collaboration Across the Disciplines in Health Care
Bringing together seasoned professionals from many disciplines of medicine, this timely resource helps readers develop communication skills and prepares them to work inter-professionally with those who have different perspectives and thought processes.
