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The End of Poverty: How We Can Make it Happen in Our Lifetime

By Sachs, Jeffrey

My Name Is Leon (171 POCHE)

By Waal, Kit de

Essentials of Human Nutrition

By Jim Mann, A. Stewart Truswell, Jim Mann (Professor of Human Nutrition, University of Otago, New Zealand), A. Stewart Truswell (Professor of Human Nutrition, University of Sydney, Australia)

Alphaville: New York, 1988: Welcome to Heroin City

By Michael Codella, Bruce Bennett

Russia's Torn Safety Nets: Health and Social Welfare During the Transition

By Mark G. Field, Judyth L. Twigg

The Welfare State in Crisis

By Ramesh Mishra

Remaking the Welfare State: Swedish Urban Planning and Policy-making in the 1990s

By A. Khakee, etc., I. Elander, S. Sunesson (all of the Department of Political Science, University of Umea, Sweden)

Does Foreign Aid Really Work?

By Roger C. Riddell (Non-Executive Director, Oxford Policy Management, and Principal, The Policy Practice)

Aid on the Edge of Chaos: Rethinking International Cooperation in a Complex World

By Ben Ramalingam (Independent consultant and writer)

Motivational Interviewing: Theory, Practice and Applications with Children and Young People

By Eddie McNamara

Towards a Social Investment Welfare State?: Ideas, Policies and Challenges

By Nathalie Morel (Sciences Po, France), Bruno Palier (Centre d'etudes europeennes, SciencesPo., France.), Joakim Palme (Director, Institute for Future Studies, Sweden.)

The Inclusive Society?: Social Exclusion and New Labour

By Ruth Levitas

Quality of Life: Concept, Policy and Practice

By David Phillips (University of Sheffield, UK)

Social Happiness: Theory into Policy and Practice

By Neil Thin (School of Social Policy and Political Studies, University of Edinburgh.)

Next: The Road to the Good Society - an Agenda for the New Center

By Amitai Etzioni

The European challenge: Innovation, policy learning and social cohesion in the new knowledge economy

By Graham Room, in collaboration with, Jacob Dencik, Nick Gould, Richard Kamm

Inclusion matters: the foundation for shared prosperity

By World Bank

Austerity: The Demolition of the Welfare State and the Rise of the Zombie Economy

By Kerry-Anne Mendoza

Social Quality: from Theory to Indicators

By Laurent J. G. Van Der Maesen, Alan Walker

The Stasi: Myth and Reality

By Mike Dennis, Norman Laporte

Make-a-gift Book

By Oxfam

The Politics Of Social Protest: Comparative Perspectives On States And Social Movements

By Craig Jenkins

Limits of State Action

By Wilhelm Von Humboldt

A Class Act: The Myth of Britain's Classless Society

By Adonis, Andrew, Pollard, Stephen

Post-Modernism and the Social Sciences: Insights, Inroads, and Intrusions

By Rosenau, Pauline Marie

The Dark Sides of Virtue: Reassessing International Humanitarianism

By David Kennedy

Constituting Human Rights: Global Civil Society and the Society of Democratic States

By Mervyn Frost (King's College London, UK)

Rebellion, Rascals, and Revenue: Tax Follies and Wisdom through the Ages

By Michael Keen, Joel Slemrod

A Bed for the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis

By David Rieff

Analysing Health Policy: A Sociological Approach

By Judith Green, Nicki Thorogood