Product Description: What are the concepts and principles that underpin the design and delivery of social policies?    This thoroughly revised edition of a trusted text provides an authoritative introduction to the theoretical framework of social policy...read more

Product Description: This Train: An Artist's Journal is like no other book written by Mr. Fitzpatrick. Unlike previous works, this book will include both high quality drawing collage images accompanied by corresponding essays produced over a sixteen-month period...read more

Product Description: This fascinating fictional account introduces the reader to key ideas in social and political philosophy. It provides key skills of philosophical investigation in an accessible and rigorous yet light-hearted way. The novel is comical, informative, and entertaining, allowing students to experience often complex ideas from the 'inside' by using skills that they will have acquired unconsciously from films, television series, and novels...read more

Product Description: Designed to address practical questions, applied ethics is one of the most exciting areas in contemporary philosophy. Yet the relevance of ethical theories to social policy has been under-explored. Until now. In "Applied Ethics and Social Problems" Tony Fitzpatrick presents introductions to the three most influential moral philosophies: Consequentialism, Kantianism and Virtue Ethics...read more

Product Description: Designed to address practical questions, applied ethics is one of the most exciting areas in contemporary philosophy. Yet the relevance of ethical theories to social policy has been under-explored. Until now. In "Applied Ethics and Social Problems" Tony Fitzpatrick presents introductions to the three most influential moral philosophies: Consequentialism, Kantianism and Virtue Ethics...read more

Product Description: This is the final of the series on Chicago, the culmination of Tony Fitzpatrick's interpretations of his hometown. Along with the first two volumes, we see a full vision as Fitzpatrick intended it.

Product Description: This milestone work is the first to offer in-depth treatment of all aspects of the discipline and practice of social policy globally. Supported by a distinguished international advisory board, the editors have compiled almost 900,000 words across 734 entries written by 284 leading specialists to provide authoritative coverage of concepts, policy actors, welfare institutions and services along a series of national, regional and transnational dimensions...read more

Product Description: Fitzpatrick spins magical tales from his own history and that of his beloved city via drawingcollages, vivid combinations of drawing, text and applied elements like matchbooks, postcards, gambling slips and ballgame stubs. In this gorgeous book, Fitzpatrick introduces the first set of drawingcollages as chapters in an ongoing project that is both personal diary and chronicle of Chicago...read more

Product Description: In this sequel to the acclaimed Welfare Theory (Palgrave, 2001), Tony Fitzpatrick examines the most recent, influential and cutting edge ideas influencing policy studies today. Subjects covered include modern conservatism, social democracy, the new radicalism, agency and community risk, information technology, new genetics, social psychology, emotions and bodies, governance, crime and surveillance, culture and media...read more

Product Description: Extraordinary images of Chicago, its people, stories, and mysteries -- and their influences on the artist's life -- fill these amazing folk collages. Fitzpatrick serves up fantasy and fact, great architectural landmarks and obscure neighborhood bars, and his own great heroes, real and imagined...read more

Product Description: Social democracy has made a political comeback in recent years, especially under the influence of the Third Way. However, not everyone in convinces that Third Way social democracy is the best means of reviving the Left's project. This book explains why and offers an alternative approach...read more

Product Description: Social policies of the future will have to be Green. As environmental problems multiply, and as welfare reform becomes more vital, so the debate concerning ecological social policies grows in importance. Yet what has been missing is a comprehensive review of the main questions, problems and themes that brings together the principal contributors to this debate...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This topical collection examines a wide variety of themes and topics which links the environment to social policy and welfare.Represents the best current work on the realignment of social policy to confront environmental issues.Presents a challenging socio-environmental agenda for social policy...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Social policy debates often get lost in highly technical discussions and in the squabbles of day-to-day politics. This book engages at an introductory level with a tradition of thought that offers an alternative approach. It reviews the concepts of welfare, equality, liberty and citizenship, key political and sociological themes, old and new welfare ideologies, as well as recent theoretical developments including globalization, postmodernism and risk society. It will be of interest to Social Policy undergraduates and to those Politics, Sociology and Philosophy undergraduates who are studying the welfare state. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Chicago artist Tony Fitzpatrick--who is also a character actor, former boxer and radio disc jockey--creates colorful and intriguing works that layer imagery from his Chicago childhood, advertising, comic books, and science and nature texts...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In Bum Town, a multi-talented artist and writer pays poetic tribute to his father and the city of Chicago.

Product Description: This book offers a refreshing alternative to most texts on the welfare state. The author provides an introduction to the Basic Income debate, while examining a range of arguments. A Basic Income would be an income paid periodically and unconditionally to every man, woman and child as a fundamental right of citizenship and without reference to employment, marital and household status...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This series of drawings is a frantic telling of the tragic tale of too many lives shaped and circumscribed by the misguided war on drugs waged daily in the streets of our cities.

Relates the activities and profiles those people in Illinois and Missouri who are concerned in changing, keeping, studying, and analyzing the local environment