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  • Meaning and Action

    Community Planning and Conceptions of Change

    by Peter Marris ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1987, Meaning and Action’s central theme is the difficulty of matching an understanding of social problems to effective strategies, in a time of endemic fiscal constraints and profound changes in economic structure. Peter Marris explores the relationship between the way we conceive problems and the possibilities of action by examining two British policies – the National ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Family and Social Change in an African City

    A Study of Rehousing in Lagos

    by Peter Marris ...
    'This book is a study of the pattern of social life which developed in the slums of central Lagos; and of the effects of a compulsory slum clearance scheme on the lives of those who were removed. Both parts of the study are presented clearly and vividly and are enriched with numerous quotations of statements by the people concerned, as well as a quantity of information presented in statistical ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Widows and their families

    by Peter Marris ...
    One of the first books to be published in the UK on bereavement, this ground-breaking study presents the results of a survey of widows in London. Focussing on younger women whose husbands had died the book deals first with grief and mourning then examines the consequences of bereavement through the help of relatives and friends and the changes it brings about to the widow's family life. Throughout ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Dilemmas of Social Reform

    Poverty and Community Action in the United States

    by Peter Marris ...
    This title is a classic work on social reform. It is an account of the origins and development of community action from its beginnings in the Ford Foundation Gray Area Programs and the President's Committee on Juvenile Delinquency, through the rise and decline of the War on Poverty and the Model Cities program. In the ruthlessly impartial examination of various poverty programs, two social ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Loss and Change

    Revised Edition

    by Peter Marris ...
    Series series Psychology Revivals
    First published in 1974, then reissued in 1986 with a long introduction by the author, which developed the analysis in the light of recent theory and related it to work done in the field since its first publication.The late Peter Marris shows how understanding grief can help us to understand processes of change, both personal and social, and to handle them with more compassion for ourselves and ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Attachment Across the Life Cycle

    Edited by Colin Murray Parkes, Joan Stevenson-Hinde, Peter Marris ...
    To explain and understand the patterns that attachment play in psychiatric and social problems a body of knowledge has sprung up which owes much to the pioneering work of the late John Bowlby. This book draws together recent theoretical contributions, research findings and clinical data from psychiatrists, psychologists, sociologists and ethologists from Britain, America and Europe. ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • The Politics of Uncertainty

    Attachment in Private and Public Life

    by Peter Marris ...
    In The Politics of Uncertainty Peter Marris examines one of the most crucial and least studied aspects of social relationships: how we manage uncertainty, from the child's struggle for secure attachment to the competitive strategies of multinational corporations. Using a powerful synthesis of social and psychological theory, he shows how strategies of competition interact with the individual's ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • The Experience of Higher Education

    by Peter Marris ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Higher Education
    Originally published in 1964 The Experience of Higher Education reports the findings of about 400 intensive interviews with final year undergraduates at three universities – Cambridge, Leeds and Southampton – and a College of Advanced Technology in London. The discussion concentrates upon the aims and expectations with which students enter higher education; the relationship between teacher and ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

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    by Kieron O'Hara ...
    The real meaning of ‘conservative’ – today denoting groups as diverse and incompatible as the religious right, libertarian free-marketeers and free-spending neo-conservatives – has been lost to politics. Yet the original conservative ideology, first developed in the eighteenth century by Edmund Burke, was concerned with managing change. Kieron O’Hara argues that genuine conservatism has its own ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Time to Save Democracy

    How to Govern Ourselves in the Age of Anti-Politics

    by Henry B. Tam ...
    To govern ourselves or not to? This is the existential question of politics. With the rise of distrust, alienation, and extremism, it is all the more difficult to secure democratic self-rule when neither those in power nor the general public seem dependable when it comes to making decisions that can transform our lives, for better or worse.In the face of seemingly insurmountable challenges, Henry ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • The Problem of Political Marketing

    by Dr Heather Savigny ...
    Based upon analysis of existing theoretical literature and current political practice this book addresses both the use of marketing and its impact (real and potential) upon democracy by answering the following:* Why have politicians adopted political marketing? What are the contextual factors that have led to this?* How does the political marketing literature model this activity?* What are the ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • The Future of Politics

    with the demise of the left/right confrontational system

    by Robert Corfe ...
    The left/right confrontational system is coming to an end, since it is failing to further promote the interests of majorities worldwide. For 200 years it has acted as the linchpin of democracy, and politics is almost unthinkable without referring to the concepts of the Left or the Right.This book describes how the old confrontational system has fulfilled a vital function for the progress of ... Read more

    $10.13 USD