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Families, States and Labour Markets: Institutions, Causes and Consequences of Family Policy in Post-War Welfare States

By Tommy Ferrarini

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

By Franklin, Bob

Moving Toward Positive Systems of Child and Family Welfare: Current Issues and Future Directions

By Gary Cameron, Nick Coady, Gerald R. Adams

Why We Need a New Welfare State

By Gosta Esping-Andersen (, Professor of Sociology at Universidad Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain)

Learning from Sure Start: Working with Young Children and their Families

By Jo Weinberger, Caroline Pickstone, Peter Hannon

Improving Services for Young Children: From Sure Start to Children's Centres

By Angela Anning, Mog Ball

Children's Rights in the United States: In Search of a National Policy

By Nancy E. Walker, Catherine M. Brooks, Lawrence S. Wrightsman

Introducing Fascism and Nazism: A Graphic Guide

By Stuart Hood, Litza Jansz

Last Will and Testament Kit

By Leolin Price, Richard Dew, Neill, Clerk and Murray

Looking for the Lost: Journeys Through a Vanishing Japan

By Alan Booth

The Retreat of the State: The Diffusion of Power in the World Economy

By Susan Strange (University of Warwick)

A History of Contemporary Italy: Society and Politics: 1943-1980 (Penguin History)

By Ginsborg, Paul, Paul Ginsborg

Foucault, Health and Medicine

By Bunton, Robin, Petersen, Alan

The Black Echo (Harry Bosch Series)

By Michael Connelly, Connelly, Michael

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)

Couples, Sex and Power

By Dallos

Colonising Egypt

By Timothy Mitchell

From Heaven Lake : Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet

By Seth, Vikram

The Global Resurgence of Religion and the Transformation of International Relations: The Struggle for the Soul of the Twenty-First Century

By S. Thomas

The Princess and the Pea: Gift Edition (USBORNE Young Reading Series 1)

By Susanna Davidson

The Gardens and Parks at Hampton Court Palace

By Todd Longstaffe-Gowan, Vivian Russell

JESUS AMONG OTHER GODS: The Absolute Claims of the Christian Message

By Zacharias, Ravi

The Fate of Place: A Philosophical History (Centennial Books)

By Casey, Edward S

Kosova Express: A Journey in Wartime

By James Pettifer

Distance Learning: The Essential Guide

By Marcia L. Williams, Kenneth Paprock, Barbara G. Covington

Rules for the World: International Organizations in Global Politics

By Michael Barnett, Martha Finnemore

The United Nations and International Politics

By Stephen Ryan

The Group of 7/8

By Hugo Dobson (University of Sheffield, UK)

After Victory: Institutions, Strategic Restraint, and the Rebuilding of Order after Major Wars

By G. John Ikenberry

The United Nations since 1945: Peacekeeping and the Cold War

By Norrie MacQueen