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  • MEANING AND ACTION
    PETER MARRIS
    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 – t...

    $860.00

  • THE EXPERIENCE OF HIGHER EDUCATION
    PETER MARRIS
    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 bet...

    $960.00

  • DILEMMAS OF SOCIAL REFORM
    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...

    $1,240.00

  • LOSS AND CHANGE (PSYCHOLOGY REVIVALS)
    PETER MARRIS
    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...

    $1,280.00

  • WIDOWS AND THEIR FAMILIES
    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 fam...

    $1,240.00

  • FAMILY AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN AN AFRICAN CITY
    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 present...

    $660.00

  • ATTACHMENT ACROSS THE LIFE CYCLE
    PARKES, COLIN MURRAY / STEVENSON-HINDE, JOAN / MARRIS, PETER
    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 Eu...

    $1,200.00

  • THE POLITICS OF UNCERTAINTY
    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 ...

    $1,160.00