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Comparative Health Policy

By Robert Blank (Professor of Public Policy, Brunel University), Viola Burau (Assistant Professor of Public Policy, University of Aarhus, Denmark)

Social Policy in Britain

By Pete Alcock

The Health Care Policy Process

By Carol E Barker

Social Exclusion

By David Byrne

Welfare States in Transition: National Adaptations in Global Economies

By Gosta Esping-Andersen

Understanding Social Statistics

By Jane L. Fielding, Nigel Gilbert

The Blackwell Dictionary of Social Policy

By Pete Alcock (University of Birmingham), Angus Erskine (University of Stirling), Margaret May (London Metropolitan University)

Classical and Modern Social Theory

By Heine Anderson (University of Copenhagen), Lars Bo Kaspersen (University of Copenhagen)

Birth By Design: Pregnancy, Maternity Care and Midwifery in North America and Europe

By Raymond De Vries, Cecilia Benoit, Edwin van Teijlingen, Sirpa Wrede

Ritual and Remembrance: Responses to Death in Human Societies

By Jon Davies

Ritual and Remembrance: Responses to Death in Human Societies

By Jon Davies

Evaluating Social Work Effectiveness

By Juliet Cheetham, ROGER FULLER, Gill McIvor, Alison Petch

The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State

By Noah Feldman

The Perfect Day: 40 Years of "Surfer Magazine"

By Sam George

Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health

By Marion Nestle

Secure Accommodation in Child Care: 'Between Hospital and Prison or Thereabouts?'

By Robert Harris (University of Hull, UK), Professor Noel W Timms, Noel Timms

The Doubly Green Revolution: Food for All in the Twenty-First Century

By Gordon Conway

Social Capital

By Halpern, David

The Information Society: A Sceptical View

By May, Christopher T.

Gender (Polity Short Introductions)

By Raewyn W. Connell

Modern Political Communication: Medicated Politics in Uncertain Times: Mediated Politics In Uncertain Terms

By Stanyer, James

Decline of the Public: The Hollowing Out of Citizenship

By Marquand, David

Against Management: History, Politics, Rhetoric: Organization in the Age of Managerialism

By Martin Parker

The Global Transformations Reader, 2nd Edition

By Held, Prof David

Wasted Lives: Modernity and Its Outcasts

By Bauman, Zygmunt

Manuel Castells: The Theory of the Network Society (Key Contemporary Thinkers)

By Stalder, Dr Felix

Sociology

By Giddens, Anthony

A Social History of the Media: From Gutenberg to the Internet

By Burke, Peter, Briggs, Asa

International Security: The Contemporary Agenda

By Roland Dannreuther

Introducing Sociology for AS Level

By Browne, Ken