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The Future for Health Promotion

By Colin Palfrey

The Social Quality of Europe

By Wolfgang Beck, etc., Laurent van der Maesen, Alan Walker

Social Justice and Social Policy in Scotland

By Gerry Mooney (The Open University (Scotland)), Gill Scott (Faculty of Law and Social Sciences, Glasgow Caledonian University)

Exploring social policy in the 'new' Scotland

By Gerry Mooney (The Open University (Scotland)), Gill Scott (Faculty of Law and Social Sciences, Glasgow Caledonian University)

Parents, Poverty and the State: 20 Years of Evolving Family Policy

By Naomi Eisenstadt, Carey Oppenheim

The politics of parental leave policies: Children, parenting, gender and the labour market

By Sheila Kamerman, Peter Moss

An Equal Start?: Providing Quality Early Education and Care for Disadvantaged Children

By Ludovica Gambaro (Institute of Education, University of London), Kitty Stewart (London School of Economics and Political Science), Jane Waldfogel (School of Social Work, Columbia University)

Including the excluded: From practice to policy in European community development

By Paul Henderson (Community Development Consultant)

Making spaces for community development

By Michael Pitchford, with, Paul Henderson

Contested communities: Experiences, struggles, policies

By Paul Hoggett (Director of the Centre for Psycho-Social Studies, Faculty of Humanities, Languages)

Managing Community Practice: Principles, Policies and Programmes

By Sarah Banks, Hugh L. Butcher, Paul Henderson, Jim Robertson

ASBO nation: The criminalisation of nuisance

By Peter Squires (School of Applied Social Science, University of Brighton)

Community Development: A Critical Approach

By Margaret Ledwith

Understanding Community: Politics, Policy and Practice

By Peter Somerville

The Short Guide to Gender

By Kath Woodward

Injustice: Why Social Inequality Persists

By Daniel Dorling

Where next for criminal justice?

By David Faulkner, Ros Burnett

A more equal society?: New Labour, poverty, inequality and exclusion

By John Hills, Kitty Stewart (London School of Economics and Political Science)

Critical perspectives on user involvement

By Marian Barnes (University of Brighton), Phil Cotterell (School of Health Sciences, University of Southampton)

Researchers and their 'subjects': Ethics, power, knowledge and consent

By Marie Smyth, Emma Williamson

Participatory Research: Working with Vulnerable Groups in Research and Practice

By Jo Aldridge

Partnership Working in Health and Social Care

By Jon Glasby, Helen Dickinson

Citizens at the centre: Deliberative participation in healthcare decisions

By Celia Davies (Professor of Health Care, Open University), Margaret Wetherell (Department of Social Sciences, Elizabeth Barnett (Former Research Associate in Health, Faculty of Health and Social Care

Contemporary social evils

By Joseph Rowntree Foundation

Diminished rights: Danish lone mother families in international context

By Valerie Polakow, Therese Halskov, Per Schultz Jorgensen

Understanding Social Citizenship: Themes and Perspectives for Policy and Practice

By Peter Dwyer

Making Sense of Child Sexual Exploitation: Exchange, Abuse and Young People

By Sophie Hallett

Explaining Ethnic Differences: Changing Patterns of Disadvantage in Britain

By David Mason

Why We Can't Afford the Rich

By Andrew Sayer

The National Evaluation of Sure Start: Does Area-based Early Intervention Work?

By Jay Belsky, Edward Melhuish, Jacqueline Barnes