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For Whose Benefit?
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 272

For Whose Benefit?

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-04-12
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  • Publisher: Policy Press

Welfare reform in the United Kingdom has been underway for years now, but there has been little reflection on how it has been experienced and thought about by the people who are directly affected by it. This book draws on extended, repeat interviews with single parents, disabled people, and young job seekers to consider how they experience the rights and responsibilities of citizenship, and whether the welfare state still offers meaningful protection and security for those who rely on it. This analysis enables the author to highlight the gap between the lived experience of welfare and the policy rhetoric surrounding it.

Understanding Theories and Concepts in Social Policy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 364

Understanding Theories and Concepts in Social Policy

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2024-02-27
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  • Publisher: Policy Press

Demonstrating the relevance of theory to political and policy debates and practice, this dynamic and fully updated second edition helps students to grasp the real-life implications of social policy theory. It includes a new chapter featuring debates around disability, sexuality and the environment.

COVID-19 Collaborations
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 256

COVID-19 Collaborations

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2022-05-31
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  • Publisher: Policy Press

This book synthesises the challenges of researching everyday life for families on low incomes during the COVID-19 pandemic to improve future policy and practice.

A Year Like No Other
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 260

A Year Like No Other

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2022-09-13
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  • Publisher: Policy Press

Telling the stories of low-income families, this book exposes the ways that pre-existing inequalities, insecurities and hardships were amplified during the pandemic in the UK and offers key policy recommendations for change.

Catherwood Foundation Peruvian-Amazon Expedition
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 510

Catherwood Foundation Peruvian-Amazon Expedition

This expedition to study the aquatic life in certain sections of rivers that are part of the Peruvian headwaters of the Amazon was funded by the Catherwood Fdn., & the Amer. Philosophical Soc. The purpose of this expedition was to compare the pattern of aquatic life in rivers in the tropical zone with the pattern of aquatic life in rivers in the temperate zone in eastern & southern U.S. Contents: Introduction, by Ruth Patrick; Limnological Observations & Discussion of Results, by Ruth Patrick; Chemical, Physical, & Bacterial Characteristics, by Yvonne H. Swabey; & Systematic Studies: Essays by John Cairns, Jr., Frederick A. Aldrich, Selwyn S. Roback, Paul J. Spangler, Francis Drouet, H. Skuja, L.A. Whitford, & Matthew H. Hohn. Illustrations.

Women in Infrastructure
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 535

Women in Infrastructure

The status of America’s infrastructure is graded every four years by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and reports are provided on the various categories. In this book, prominent women engineers discuss many of the eighteen infrastructure categories from the 2021 ASCE Infrastructure Report Card providing background, analysis of the issues facing the category and projections for the future. Categories covered include aviation, bridges, dams, water and wastewater, energy, hazardous waste, inland waterways, levees, ports, public parks, rail, roads, solid waste, and transit. Case studies from the authors’ work are included throughout. These topics touch on many of the challenges facing the world today and these solutions by women researchers and practitioners are valuable for their technical excellence and their non-traditional perspective. As an important part of the Women in Engineering and Science book series, the work highlights the contribution of women leaders in many of the infrastructure categories, inspiring women and men, girls and boys to enter and apply themselves to secure our future infrastructure.

Women in Water Quality
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 209

Women in Water Quality

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-06-29
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  • Publisher: Springer

This volume captures the impact of women’s research on the public health and environmental engineering profession. The volume is written as a scholarly text to demonstrate that women compete successfully in the field, dating back to 1873. Each authors’ chapter includes a section on her contribution to the field and a biography written for a general audience. This volume also includes a significant representation of early women’s contributions, highlighting their rich history in the profession. The book covers topics such as drinking water and health, biologically-active compounds, wastewater management, and biofilms. This volume should be of interest to academics, researchers, consulti...

The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: L-Z
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 812
A to Z of Biologists
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 401

A to Z of Biologists

Profiles more than 150 scientists from around the world who made important contributions to the field of biology, including Claude Bernard, Alexander Fleming, Mary-Claire King, Ronald Ross, and Tetsuko Takabe.

Wealth's Fair Measure
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 88

Wealth's Fair Measure

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2003
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Inheritance tax has become extremely unfair. It is paid by the moderately affluent - especially those in the Southeast of England where house prices have risen above the 250,000 tax threshold - but not by the very wealthy, who can largely choose to avoid it. Here, Ruth Patrick and Michael Jacob's argue that reform is needed as the current rules, exempting gifts made more than seven years before death and providing reliefs for private businesses and agricultural land, make avoidance easy for the wealthy.