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Accommodating Diversity

Ideas and Institutional Practices
Gurpreet Mahajan
$74.00
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Hardback,  Jan 2012 ISBN13: 9780198075035ISBN10: 0198075030 Examines the Indian experience of diversity by delineating the policies and institutional arrangements that have been designed to accommodate different kinds of diversities
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Zoopolis

A Political Theory of Animal Rights
Sue Donaldson, Will Kymlicka
$29.95
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Hardback,  Dec 2011 ISBN13: 9780199599660ISBN10: 0199599661 A new agenda for the theory and practice of animal rights
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New Paradigms in Social Policy

Peter Taylor-Gooby
$75.00
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Hardback,  Nov 2011 ISBN13: 9780197264935ISBN10: 019726493X Reviews some of the most challenging developments in British society as they are understood by policy-makers and by academics
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Democracy and Public Space

The Physical Sites of Democratic Performance
John Parkinson
$45.00
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Hardback,  Nov 2011 ISBN13: 9780199214563ISBN10: 0199214565 Offers an alternative vision for democratic public space, and evaluates 11 cities--from London to Tokyo--against that ideal
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Managed by the Markets

How Finance Re-Shaped America
Gerald F. Davis
$21.95
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Paperback,  Oct 2011 ISBN13: 9780199691920ISBN10: 0199691924 A penetrating account of the transformation from manufacturing to finance that has revolutionized society and placed Americans on unsteady ground
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Social Policy

Fourth Edition
John Baldock, Nick Manning, Sarah Vickerstaff, Lavinia Mitton
$50.00
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Paperback,  Oct 2011 ISBN13: 9780199570843ISBN10: 0199570841 An excellent introduction to social policy in the twenty-first century
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Progress for the Poor

Lane Kenworthy
$75.00
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Hardback,  Sep 2011 ISBN13: 9780199591527ISBN10: 0199591520 Aims to enhance our understanding of how to improve the absolute living standards of the least well-off
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Red Families v. Blue Families

Legal Polarization and the Creation of Culture
Naomi Cahn, June Carbone
$18.95
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Paperback,  Sep 2011 ISBN13: 9780199836819ISBN10: 0199836817 An important new work showing how family law forms the basis for our culture wars
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A Match on Dry Grass

Community Organizing as a Catalyst for School Reform
Mark R. Warren, Karen L. Mapp, The Community Organizing and School Reform Project
$99.00
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Hardback,  Sep 2011 ISBN13: 9780199793594ISBN10: 019979359X Based on a comprehensive national study, the book presents richly detailed case studies of six prominent efforts by organizing groups working to transform their schools.
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A Match on Dry Grass

Community Organizing as a Catalyst for School Reform
Mark R. Warren, Karen L. Mapp, The Community Organizing and School Reform Project
$24.95
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Paperback,  Sep 2011 ISBN13: 9780199793587ISBN10: 0199793581 Based on a comprehensive national study, the book presents richly detailed case studies of six prominent efforts by organizing groups working to transform their schools.
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