The Book Company: New Products - Public Policy

Young Disabled People (Aspirations, Choices and Constraints)

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 02:32:36 +0000

Recent policies and government initiatives in many Western countries have strengthened the expectation that young disabled people have the right to be involved in decisions affecting their futures. Sonali Shah uses a comparative study of young disabled students within mainstream and special educat..

Price: $233.99

Women and Urban Life in Eighteenth-Century England ('On the Town')

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 02:25:05 +0000

Focusing on the participation of middling women in urban life, Women and Urban Life in Eighteenth-Century England focuses on the relationship between urban change and shifts in the pattern of gender relations in the 18th century - a period of rapid transformations in English history. It explores ..

Price: $233.99

War and Peace (Observations on Our Times)

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 02:18:34 +0000

These essays examine the official violence inflicted on Nicaragua, El Salvador, Grenada, Panama and Iraq and the unofficial violence that is taking place in the cities of the United States, and offer a humane vision of what America and the rest of the world could be.

Price: $189.99

US Agricultural and Food Policies (Economic Choices and Consequences)

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 02:10:52 +0000

This text provides opportunities to "practice the craft" of policy analysis by engaging the reader in realistic case studies and problem-solving scenarios that require the selection and use of applicable investigative techniques. US Agricultural and Food Policies will assist undergraduat..

Price: $105.99

US Agricultural and Food Policies (Economic Choices and Consequences)

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 02:10:45 +0000

Price: $235.00

Urban Transformations: Centres, Peripheries and Systems

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 02:10:37 +0000

This book explores the role of cities, their influence and the transformations they have undertaken in the recent past, the ways in which cities regenerate, how plans change, how they are governed and how they react to the economic realities of the day. Bringing together studies from around the wo..

Price: $140.99

Urban Rhythms and Travel Behaviour (Spatial and Temporal Phenomena of Daily Travel)

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 02:10:27 +0000

This analysis of newly available longitudinal data on individual trip making and activity behaviour debates the most suitable methodological tools to represent the structures of long-term travel behaviour. Also discussed is what such data reveals about travellers' motives, and how planning should ..

Price: $233.99

Urban Informalities (Reflections on the Formal and Informal)

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 02:09:56 +0000

This book produced by a group of interdisciplinary and international researchers working on a wide variety of cities throughout Asia, Latin America and Europe, addresses, rethinks and, in some cases, abandons the notions of formal and informal urbanism. It critically interrogates both the ways in ..

Price: $233.99

UNHCR and the Struggle for Accountability (Technology, law and results-based management)

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 02:08:24 +0000

This multidisciplinary volume offers an in-depth exploration of accountability in humanitarian action. It explores how three contemporary narratives of global governance – human rights based approaches/international law, new public management, and technology – intersect with different dimension..

Price: $233.99

Undernutrition and Public Policy in India (Investing in the future)

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 02:05:57 +0000

Despite substantial economic growth, India still has one of the highest undernutrition rates in the world; it is home to almost 40 per cent of the world’s stunted children. This volume assesses the status and causes of undernutrition in India and examines the effectiveness of policies designed ..

Price: $280.00