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Comparative Social Policy

By: Patricia Kennett

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* What are the social policy processes and outcomes across different societies? * How are these shaped by social and economic conditions? * What are the limitations and potential of cross-national research? Comparative Social Policy explores the new context of social policy and considers how cross-national theory and research can respond to the challenges facing welfare. These challenges include changing demographic trends and economic conditions which have been accompanied by the emergence of new needs and risks within and across societies. This book extends and deepens cross-national research by exploring the theoretical and conceptual frameworks through which social policy and welfare systems have been understood. It critically examines different policy processes and welfare outcomes, as well as the ethnocentricism and cultural imperialism which has permeated cross-national epistemology and methodology. The author concludes by reflecting on how cross-national research can illuminate the complex and diverse processes leading to discrimination and inequality across borders. This leads to a consideration of how it can contribute to the implementation of welfare provision appropriate to the social and economic conditions of contemporary societies. Comparative Social Policy is an essential text for undergraduate and masters level students of social policy, and an invaluable reference for researchers embarking on cross-national social research.

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McGraw-Hill Education (UK)

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0335232000

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Home Ownership in Crisis?

The British Experience of Negative Equity

By: Ray Forrest,Patricia Kennett,Philip Leather

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Home Ownership in Crisis?

The British Experience of Negative Equity

By: Ray Forrest,Patricia Kennett,Philip Leather

First published in 1999, this book brings together the findings from research projects funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions. The programme of research examined the problems faced by home owners with the collapse of the property market in the late 1980s. The book focuses on households with negative equity and uses analyzes of secondary data sets, social surveys and in-depth interviews to explore the implications of the fall in property values for both households and the wider economy. In particular it examines the kinds of coping strategies adopted by home owners in relation to debt and mobility. Home Ownership in Crisis? thus gets beyond aggregate estimates and offers the reader a detailed understanding of what negative equity actually means for the individuals concerned. Moreover, by exposing a range of circumstances in which negative equity arises, the book also informs debates about the kinds of policy initiatives which may be appropriate in dealing with a more volatile economic environment in Britain and elsewhere.

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Routledge

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0429837739

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Fire Cracker

By: Shirley Kennett

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Fire Cracker

By: Shirley Kennett

DIVPJ Gray plays a high-stakes game of computer cat-and-mouse—with a man who doesn’t exist/divDIV Someone has hacked into the St. Louis Hospital, and not merely to steal information. The hacker alters patient results and drug dosages in the hospital’s computer network, with fatal consequences. Who better for the police to have on the case than PJ Gray, psychologist and master of forensic computer simulation? As Gray gets to work with her old-school partner Leo Schultz, the pair discover the killer’s trail to be far more opaque than usual: They’re chasing someone who’s successfully manufactured his own death. When they start to untangle his plot, they become part of it, as the brilliant murderer puts Gray to the toughest test she’s ever faced. /divDIV /divDIVAn outstanding follow-up to Gray Matter, and featuring a techno-hunt worthy of Patricia Cornwell, Fire Cracker sizzles with suspense. /div

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Open Road Media

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1453286837

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Sherman

A Soldier's Life

By: Lee B. Kennett

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Sherman

A Soldier's Life

By: Lee B. Kennett

In Sherman, acclaimed military historian Lee Kennett offers a bold new interpretation of William T. Sherman as civilian, solider, and postwar army commander. This vividly detailed picture follows Sherman from his education at West Point to his abortive career as a San Francisco banker to his triumphant role as Civil War hero. Sherman’s actions during the Civil War were not without controversy, and he was at one point accused of mental incompetence. But with a blend of drive, determination, and mastery of detail, he would go on to become a remarkable leader, capture Atlanta and Savannah in the Great March, and help end the war. Drawing on previously unexplored research, Kennett presents a comprehensive portrait of this singular individual who had so much impact on American history. Lee Kennett is a Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Georgia and the author of G.I.: The American Soldier in World War II and Marching Through Georgia. He lives in North Carolina. “A lively account ... Well-researched, well-reasoned, well-written, and highly recommended.” — Providence Journal

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Harper Collins

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0061943614

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Agency and Responsibility

A Common-Sense Moral Psychology

By: Jeanette Kennett

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Agency and Responsibility

A Common-Sense Moral Psychology

By: Jeanette Kennett

Is it ever possible for people to act freely and intentionally against their better judgement? Is it ever possible to act in opposition to one's strongest desire? If either of these questions are answered in the negative, the common-sense distinctions between recklessness, weakness of will and compulsion collapse. This would threaten our ordinary notion of self-control and undermine our practice of holding each other responsible for moral failure. So a clear and plausible account of how weakness of will and self-control are possible is of great practical significance. Taking the problem of weakness of will as her starting point, Jeanette Kennett builds an admirably comprehensive and integrated account of moral agency which gives a central place to the capacity for self-control. Her account of the exercise and limits of self-control vindicates the common-sense distinction between weakness of will and compulsion and so underwrites our ordinary allocations of moral responsibility. She addresses with clarity and insight a range of important topics in moral psychology, such as the nature of valuing and desiring, conceptions of virtue, moral conflict, and the varieties of recklessness (here characterised as culpable bad judgement) - and does so in terms which make their relations to each other and to the challenges of real life obvious. Agency and Responsibility concludes by testing the accounts developed of self-control, moral failure, and moral responsibility against the hard cases provided by acts of extreme evil.

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Clarendon Press

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0191037001

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The Island Chumash

Behavioral Ecology of a Maritime Society

By: Douglas J. Kennett

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The Island Chumash

Behavioral Ecology of a Maritime Society

By: Douglas J. Kennett

Kennett explores trends in demography, dietary expansion, economic intensification, and increasing sociopolitical sophistication evident in the archaeological record. By combining empirical findings based on new archaeological and paleoclimatic work and a thorough synthesis of earlier studies, Kennett argues that the social and political complexity evident among the island Chumash historically was ultimately a product of individual responses to demographic expansion, human impact on marine habitats, and periods of rapid climatic change."--BOOK JACKET.

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Univ of California Press

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0520243021

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Ride

The Story of Cycling in New Zealand

By: Jonathan Kennett

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Ride

The Story of Cycling in New Zealand

By: Jonathan Kennett

Every branch of New Zealand's cycling history, from Sarah Ulmer's Olympic ride in 2004 back to the boneshakers of the 1860s, is celebrated in this book.

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095834907X

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Gray Matter

By: Shirley Kennett

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Gray Matter

By: Shirley Kennett

A celebrated pianist has been found dead, decapitated by a sharp instrument. Tracking the murdering maniac is psychologist and single mother PJ Gray, who has developed an amazing virtual reality computer program that recreates crimes. Along with veteran homicide cop Leo Schultz, PJ is determined to trap the most unstoppable killer in history. Reissue.

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Kensington Publishing Corporation

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1575660792

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Chameleon

By: Shirley Kennett

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Chameleon

By: Shirley Kennett

A string of seemingly unrelated murders baffles the St. Louis police until PJ Gray, psychologist and pioneer in forensic computer simulation, detects a pattern. As head of the Computerized Homicide Investigations Department, PJ has already cracked a number of cases using an innovative virtual reality program that allows her to "see" the murders from the victim's or killer's perspective. But the truth is shocking. For the killer is a friend of PJ's son--and he's 12. His name is Columbus, and although in reality he is a seventh grade misfit, in virtual reality, he's the ruler of a gruesome alternate universe, where he rehearses his brutal murder. And PJ's son may be his next victim.

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Pinnacle Books

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0786006382

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Homelessness

Exploring the new terrain

By: Kennett, Patricia,Marsh, Alex

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Homelessness

Exploring the new terrain

By: Kennett, Patricia,Marsh, Alex

The issue of homelessness has become extremely important in policy debates during the 1990s. Yet analysis that links the phenomenon of homelessness to wider debates about the changing social and economic environment remains relatively underdeveloped. This important new book brings together contemporary theoretical debates and original empirical research in order to explore the nature, experience and impact of social change in the new 'landscape of precariousness', in which new sets of risks and uncertainties have emerged. It adopts a multi-disciplinary approach, which is essential in developing a more subtle understanding of both the complex processes leading to, and the experience of, homelessness. Central to contemporary theory and practice is the enhancement of our understanding of how homelessness, disadvantage and social exclusion impact differently on various social groups. Homelessness provides a strong contribution to the academic debate, and is essential reading for students and researchers in a range of subject areas, including housing studies, social policy, socio-legal studies and public administration.

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Policy Press

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1847425038

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Social Policy and Change in East Asia

By: James Lee,James Midgley,Yapeng Zhu

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Social Policy and Change in East Asia

By: James Lee,James Midgley,Yapeng Zhu

Social Policy and Change in East Asia is a collection of essays from a group of indigenous East Asian social policy researchers who met bi-annually to discuss social development issues. The book’s focus is the policy responses of respective East Asian government since the 2008 financial tsunami struck the region. Together, the essays in Social Policy and Change in East Asia argue that traditional social policy approach has failed to account for the problem of economic volatility and to devise policy measures that can promote long-term stability. Avoiding a static and Eurocentric approach, the authors of this book seek to unravel the meaning of the social development approach in various policy contexts. This book supports a dynamic understanding of social policy formulation that does not neglect the problem of economic turbulence in policy and planning.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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Home Ownership in Crisis?

The British Experience of Negative Equity

By: Ray Forrest,Patricia Kennett,Philip Leather

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The British Experience of Negative Equity

By: Ray Forrest,Patricia Kennett,Philip Leather

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Fire Cracker

By: Shirley Kennett

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