First published in 1997. This is part of the Children of Poverty series, a collection of works on the effects of single parenthood, the feminisation of poverty and homelessness. This text looks at women, families and community development using case studies of tenant activists in Egleston Square and Boston.
This book examines some of the innovative new south-south financial arrangements and institutions that have recently emerged, as countries seek new ways to transform their economies and to shield themselves from economic turbulence. It will interest practitioners, researchers and students working on development finance.
The first social history to focus on Scottish policing in the 20th century
This book examines the relationships forged between police officers and the diverse urban and rural communities in which they have lived and worked in Scotland across the twentieth century, demonstrating patterns that were diverse and variegated. It considers both the formal rhetoric (and sets of structures) that defined and prescribed the policing ideal as well as the...
Tilman Spreckelsen ist seit seiner Kindheit ein Liebhaber von Märchen und ein ausgewiesener Kenner. Im vorliegenden Essay beschäftigt er sich hauptsächlich mit den Märchen der Brüder Grimm und stellt hierzu seine eigenen - wie sollte es anders sein - drei Thesen auf.
Der Band beschäftigt sich mit dem zunehmend kritischen Bereich der sozialen Infrastruktur, der ambulanten Pflege. Er nimmt eine Bestandsaufnahme dessen vor, was gegenwärtig bei der häuslichen Unterstützung längerfristig hilfe- bzw. pflegebedürftiger Personen geschieht bzw. geschehen kann und wie sich dies zu den Erwartungen und Versprechungen verhält, die den öffentlichen und fachwissenschaftlichen Diskurs prägen. Das Verhältnis von Anspruch u...
This book examines what might be described as the "pure" Réti Opening. White starts with 1 Nf3 and intends to meet 1...d5 with the "Réti" response 2 c4. One of the major advantages of playing these systems is that they rely far more on general strategic understanding than rote memorisation. However, this does not mean that Black is not set difficult problems to solve. In the modern era these lines have mainly been championed by Vladimir Kramni...
Russia's controversial annexation of Crimea in 2014 and its involvement in the conflict in Ukraine have left international audiences stunned. Russia now occupies a central place on the Western security agenda and has been recast as an important area of scholarly inquiry. The conflict has raised important questions about Russia's understanding of conflict management and its approach to contemporary European security. This book provides a timely...
Puts Deconstruction into conversation with Speculative Realism
Looking mainly at Derrida's early work - the three texts published in 1967, Of Grammatology, Speech and Phenomenon and Writing and Difference, Deborah Goldgaber shows that grammatology implies an original form of philosophical materialism and identifies the salience of deconstructive materialism to contemporary philosophical debates.
She demonstrates that Derrida's claims about w...
A Record of the Buddhist Religion - as practised in India and the Malay archipelago is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1896.
Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are a...
When nature and the government don''t want you to exist, every day becomes a fight for survival . . . And the truth. A chilling new Hi-Lo thriller in six parts for readers aged 12 plus.
Here, for the first time, is the true, detailed, down-and-dirty story of Tascosa, the "cowboy capital of the Texas Panhandle" and "the hardest place on the frontier." Here at last are the facts that connect the stories of the "beef bonanza, " Pat Garrett's "Home Rangers, " the 1883 Cowboy Strike and the relentless, undeclared war that ensued betwe...
This collection marks a phase in the scholarship on images of blacks that moves beyond undifferentiated binaries like ¿negative¿ and ¿positive¿ that fail to reveal complexities, contradictions, and ambiguities.
In the last 40 years, agriculture in the industrialized countries has undergone a revolution. This book explores whose interests are benefiting from sustainable agriculture and whose are suffering.