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Children in Society: Contemporary Theory, Policy and Practice

By Foley, Pam, Roche, Jeremy, Tucker, Stanley

Social Policy

By Baldock, John, Manning, Nick, Vickerstaff, Sarah

Social Divisions

By Payne, Geoff

Dictionary of Social Work: The Definitive A to Z of Social Work and Social Care

By John Pierson, Martin Thomas

The Student's Companion to Social Policy

By Alcock, Pete, Erskine, Angus, May, Margaret

The Blackwell Dictionary of Sociology: A User's Guide to Sociological Language

By Allan G. Johnson (Hartford College for Women)

Britain's War on Poverty

By Jane Waldfogel

The New Handbook of Children's Rights: Comparative Policy and Practice

By Franklin, Bob

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

By Naomi Eisenstadt, Carey Oppenheim

In Our Hands: The Struggle for U.S. Child Care Policy

By Elizabeth Palley, Corey S. Shdaimah

Red Families v. Blue Families: Legal Polarization and the Creation of Culture

By Naomi Cahn (Research Professor of Law, Research Professor of Law, George Washington University Law School, Washington, DC), June Carbone (Chair of Law, the Constitution and Society, Chair of Law, University of Missouri-Kan...

Child Protection Systems: International Trends and Orientations

By Neil Gilbert (Chernin Professor of Social Welfare, Chernin Professor of Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley), Nigel Parton (NSPCC Professor in Applied Childhood Studies, NSPCC Professor in Applied Childhood Studies, University of Hudders...

The Island of Extraordinary Captives: A True Story of an Artist, a Spy and a Wartime Scandal

By Simon Parkin

1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four (Collins Classics)

By George Orwell

More than Just Race: Being Black and Poor in the Inner City

By William Julius Wilson

Pathogenesis: How germs made history

By Kennedy, Jonathan

People Power: Why We Need More Migrants

By Giles Merritt (Friends of Europe, Brussels)

Foucault, Health and Medicine

By Bunton, Robin, Petersen, Alan

The Curse of Bigness: How Corporate Giants Came to Rule the World

By Tim Wu (Atlantic Books)

Shattered Nation: Inequality and the Geography of A Failing State

By Danny Dorling

The White Image in the Black Mind: African-American Ideas about White People, 1830-1925

By Mia Bay (Assistant Professor of History, and Co-Director of the Center for Historial Analysis, Assistant Professor of History, Rutgers University)

The Scramble for Europe: Young Africa on its way to the Old Continent

By Stephen Smith

Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam and the West

By Caldwell, Christopher

Justice for Animals: Our Collective Responsibility

By Martha C. Nussbaum

On Freedom

By Timothy Snyder

San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities

By Michael Shellenberger

Less: Stop Buying So Much Rubbish: How Having Fewer, Better Things Can Make Us Happier

By Patrick Grant

This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality

By Peter Pomerantsev

Couples, Sex and Power

By Dallos

My Mother, My Self

By Friday, Nancy