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  • Old People’s Homes and the Production of Welfare
    Bleddyn Davies / Martin Knapp
    In 1980 old people comprised over half the clients of Local Authority Social Services Departments and accounted for about half of their resources, yet until then residential care of the aged had been a backwater of both research and practice. First published in 1981, the authors filled that gap in this book. ...
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    55,58 €

  • Prisoners of Society
    Martin Davies
    An awareness that the effects of prison on offenders were rarely beneficial and may be positively harmful. In this title, first published in 1974, it is argued that there was still the need in society for a commitment, not to reform its deviant members, but to provide a compassionate service in those situations where it was most needed. ...
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    55,81 €

  • Study Skills for International Postgraduates
    Martin Davies
    This is the definitive guide to successful study as an international postgraduate student. Chapters cover all the core academic skills, including time management, reading, referencing, critical thinking, doing research, and writing and speaking for assessment. The book features a wealth of examples, activities and checklists to help students hone their skills. The 2nd edition f...
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    47,73 €

  • The Enlightenment and the Fate of Knowledge
    Martin Davies
    The Enlightenment is generally painted as a movement of ideas and society lasting from the late seventeenth to the early nineteenth century, but this book argues that the Enlightenment can be seen to have lasted from the late sixteenth century to the present day. ...
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    82,84 €

  • Meaning, Quantification, Necessity
    Martin Davies
    Originally published in 1981. This book brings together related ideas surrounding the crucial concepts of meaning, truth, and semantic structure. Throughout, while assuming some familiarity with philosophical logic and elementary formal logic, the text provides a clear exposition. ...
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    66,26 €

  • How History Works
    Martin L. Davies
    How History Works assesses the social function of academic knowledge in the humanities, exemplified by history, and offers a critique of the validity of historical knowledge. The book focusses on history’s academic, disciplinary ethos to offer a reconception of the discipline of history, arguing that it is an existential liability: if critical analysis reveals the sense that hi...
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    92,44 €

  • Thinking about the Enlightenment
    Martin Davies
    Thinking about the Enlightenment looks beyond the current parameters of studying the Enlightenment, to the issues that can be understood by reflecting on the period in a broader context. Each of the thirteen original chapters, by an international and interdisciplinary team of contributors, illustrates the problematic legacy of the Enlightenment and the continued ramifications o...
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    89,28 €

  • Doing a Successful Research Project
    Martin Davies / Nathan Hughes
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    48,26 €

  • World Christianity in the 20th Century
    Martin Conway / Noel Davies
    The SCM Core Text to 'World Christianity in the 20th Century', and the accompanying 'Reader in World Christianity in the 20th Century', are a genuine introduction to the subject. The Core Text is made up of seventeen chapters on key topics in twentieth century Christianity, together with an extended Introduction and a reflective Conclusion. The editors have consulted friends an...
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    53,88 €

  • Imprisoned by History
    Martin L. Davies
    Imprisoned by History: Aspects of Historicized Life offers a controversial analysis, grounded both in philosophical argument and empirical evidence, of what history does in contemporary culture. ...
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    104,23 €

  • Social Work with Adults
    Martin Brett Davies
    This best-selling book explores the crucial role of social workers in securing a better future for vulnerable and disadvantaged adult service users. Tacking the problems most common to this branch of social work it focuses on four major themes: personalization; mental health; substance use; and old age. Edited by the highly respected Martin Davies, and with contributions from s...
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    66,24 €

  • Social Work with Children and Families
    Martin Brett Davies
    Social workers are constantly making decisions under pressure. How do policy, law, research and theory influence what they do? This important book provides the answers with a crystal-clear map of the field of social work with children and families.Focused on four major themes - family support work, child protection, adoption and fostering, and residential child care, and reveal...
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    80,61 €

  • Historics
    Martin L. Davies
    This provocative and seminal work takes a fresh look at the behaviours and practices that constitute history. Challenging and explaining complex ideas on historical thought and its function in society, this is a highly recommended student resource. ...
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    77,26 €

  • The Essential Social Worker
    Martin Davies
    The third edition of The Essential Social Worker has been radically revised and updated and contains an entirely new chapter providing a clear outline of the historical and policy-related framework within which social work operates in areas of particular practice - child care, disability, mental health, old age and criminal justice. The Essential Social Worker defends the idea...
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    92,23 €

  • Small Group Research
    A. Paul Hare / APaul Hare / Herbert Blumberg / Martin Davies
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    69,11 €