Product Description: This critical and highly topical introduction to the current debates and politics surrounding welfare reform in the United Kingdom and the United States explains the origins and main tenets of the new Blair-Clinton orthodoxy. Central to the book is an examination of this orthodoxy's appeal to the concept of social justice...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A guide to flowering bonsai, combining practical information with photographs and step-by-step "re-creations" of bonsai species such as: cotoneaster; crab apple; firethorn; white and red hawthorn; deciduous holly; pomegranate; quince; wisteria; and Japanese flowering apricot. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The deterioration in the living standards of the worst-off members of all kinds of societies has coincided with the resurgence of free-market utopianism as a political creed. Yet there is as yet no convincing theory to link these two phenomena...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Bill Jordan seeks to fill a gap in social scientific theory by accounting for why a deterioration in the living standards of the worst-off members of societies tends to coincide with the resurgence of free-market utopianism as a political creed. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A study of identity, rational choice and citizenship which makes a significant theoretical and methodological contribution to our understanding of family processes. It focuses on improvisations and running repairs to the fabric of social relations...read more

Discusses grips, calibers, loads, and the care and fitting of a holster, and looks at the keys to the fast draw and successful gunfighting

Product Description: In the late 1980s there has been a political battle for the`moral high ground'. The winners appear to be those who claim that the essence of morality is individual choice. One of them, Margaret Thatcher, has even claimed that `there is no such thing as society...read more

Product Description: This book is designed for all those teaching or undertaking training for social work and on university and polytechnic courses in social services. Writing for the uninitiated, the author traces the historical development of social work from the charitable work of Victorian ladies to the present...read more

Product Description: Using practical examples from the experience of politicians, administrators and workers involved in social services this book examined the political dimensions of social work. It brings together articles by a wide variety of people from urban and rural settings, and reflects the political perspectives of trade unionists and of client groups as well as those of social work professionals...read more