Social Services & Welfare

Ten years ago one of America's most important public figures, First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, chronicled her quest both deeply personal and, in the truest sense, public to help make our society into the kind of village that enables children to become able, caring resilient adults. IT TAKES A VILL... More

States, Markets and Inequalities fills a major gap in the study of human development in India by addressing the role of social sector planning in alleviating deprivation. It highlights the extent of deprivation across states and amongst social groups. It also analyses the causes -- inadequate alloca... More

The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders reports that more than 28 million Americans are deaf or hard of hearing over 30 million more are exposed to dangerous levels of noise. Levels of hearing impairment vary from mild but important loss of sensitivity to a total loss of... More

About the Book The book is a validated presentation of the central theme: Risk management and insurance provide essential solutions to personal, management, and societal problems. It emphasizes the business aspects of risk management and insurance, and also the numerous consumer applications of the ... More

From the renowned and bestselling business guru, a new collection of biographies in the same vein as The New Alchemists. From Niall Mellon, who made his millions in the property boom in Ireland but is now working in South Africa to replace all the shacks in that country with breeze-block houses in t... More

The most influential account available of the policies needed to achieve sustainability in a national economy. A winner of the Guiseppe Mazzoti prize for literature, it is widely referred to by policy makers throughout the world, and has been adopted as a student text on a number of courses.... More

The book exemplifies the vital role of environmental geology and geological processes in understanding the physical environment and the influence and fundamental importance of engineering geology in our modern world, particularly the infrastructure--whether it be foundations, roads, or reservoirs. T... More

Recognizing that millions of people in the less-developed countries continue to go hungry while there is more than enough food in the world to feed them, the authors of The World Food Problem tackle the question of why-and what can be done about it. Entirely new to the third edition are chapters on ... More

* An enormous contribution to the understanding of climate negotiations - the most complex and challenging international regime to date* Explains how governments need to organize ever more demanding multilateral negotiations successfully* Essential reading for those involved in climate negotiations ... More

Any piece of primary research ought to be preceded by a systematic review. The kay advantage of a systematic review over the traditional narrative review is its ability to identify all the available eveidence in a systematic and replicable manner. This book will describe a) the kay steps to undertak... More

As a recognized scientific field, forensic science is a relative newcomer that represents an expansion of existing disciplines, including chemistry, biology, geology, medicine, and anthropology. The scope and depth of forensic science grow daily, as new technologies are discovered and as society bec... More

For most people, the threat of global warming seems a contemporary one. For Christianson, it is an absorbing historical and scientific process intertwined with two centuries of civilisation and 300 billion years in the life of the planet. He blends the research of a scholar with a novelist’s story... More

This book tells the story of the ozone layer and how the Montreal Protocol averted a grave threat to the whole of humanity through the destruction of this layer. In 1974, scientists Mario Molina and Sherwood Roland warned that chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) refrigerants, solvents, aerosol product propella... More

Why do we need a science that studies people after they are dead? Talking Bones answers this question by introducing readers to the study of using human bones to solve crimes. It covers the history, technology, and importance of this new science and includes actual forensic cases to illustrate how f... More