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  • OLD PEOPLE'S HOMES AND THE PRODUCTION OF WELFARE
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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. During the 1970s a large research literature had developed on the subject, particularly in the United States. However, studies had been p...

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  • PRISONERS OF SOCIETY
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    PRISONERS OF SOCIETY
    MARTIN DAVIES
    Prison is seen by most people as an inevitable part of the penal system, but there is a growing awareness that its effects on offenders are rarely beneficial and may be positively harmful. In Prisoners of Society, originally published in 1974, Martin Davies argued that there was still the need in society for a commitment, not to reform its deviant members, but to provide a comp...

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  • SUPPORT SYSTEMS IN SOCIAL WORK
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    SUPPORT SYSTEMS IN SOCIAL WORK
    MARTIN DAVIES
    In the late 1970s the idea of volunteer ‘helping’ in social work had recently been brought to the forefront of public attention again as society had come to depend more and more on volunteer commitment to supplement, support or even replace the professional social worker. Originally published in 1977, the three self-contained essays presented in this book are all concerned with...

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  • NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS AND THE STATE IN LATIN AMERICA
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    NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS AND THE STATE IN LATIN AMERICA
    ANTHONY BEBBINGTON, GRAHAM THIELE, PENELOPE DAVIES, MARTIN PRAGER, HERNANDO RIVEROS
    This presents twenty specially commissioned case studies of farmer participatory approaches to agricultural innovation initiated by NGOs in Latin America. Beginning with a broad review of institutional activity at the grassroots, the authors set the case material within the context of NGO relations with the State and their contribution to democratisation and the consolidation o...

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  • THE ESSENTIAL SOCIAL WORKER
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    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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  • CLINICAL TUBERCULOSIS
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    CLINICAL TUBERCULOSIS
    LLOYD N. FRIEDMAN / MARTIN DEDICOAT / PETER D. O. DAVIES
    Entirely updated and revised, the 6th edition of Clinical Tuberculosis continues to provide the TB physician with a definitive and erudite account of the latest techniques in diagnosis, treatment and control of TB, including an overview of the latest guidelines from the CDC and WHO. With an increased emphasis on the clinical aspects and treatment, this book will be an invaluabl...

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  • THE ENLIGHTENMENT AND THE FATE OF KNOWLEDGE
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    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 is an essential component of modernity itself. In the course of the study, Martin Davies offers an original world-view and a critique of some recent interpretations of the Enlightenment. ...

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  • MEANING, QUANTIFICATION, NECESSITY
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    MEANING, QUANTIFICATION, NECESSITY
    MARTIN DAVIES
    Originally published in 1981. This is a book for the final year undergraduate or first year graduate who intends to proceed with serious research in philosophical logic. It will be welcomed by both lecturers and students for its careful consideration of main themes ranging from Gricean accounts of meaning to two dimensional modal logic. The first part of the book is concerned w...

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  • HEALTHCARE PERFORMANCE AND ORGANISATIONAL CULTURE
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    HEALTHCARE PERFORMANCE AND ORGANISATIONAL CULTURE
    TIM SCOTT / RUSSELL MANNION / HUW DAVIES / MARTIN MARSHALL
    People from different cultural backgrounds prefer adhering to their own religious beliefs which could restrict treatment options leading to the detriment of health especially if it involves the health of a disabled child. This comprehensive but concise work highlights the problems faced in managing the care of disabled children from different cultural backgrounds. It examines t...

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  • THINKING ABOUT THE ENLIGHTENMENT
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    THINKING ABOUT THE ENLIGHTENMENT
    MARTIN L. 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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  • HOW HISTORY WORKS
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    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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  • IMPRISONED BY HISTORY
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    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. It endorses and extends the argument that contemporary society is, in historical terms, already historicized, shaped by history – and thus history loses sight of the world, seeing it on...

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  • HISTORICS
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    HISTORICS
    MARTIN L. DAVIES
    From an author at the forefront of research in this area comes this provocative and seminal work that presents a unique and fresh new look at history and theory. Taking a broadly European view, the book draws on works of French and German philosophy, some of which are unknown to the English-speaking world, and Martin L. Davies spells out what it is like to live in a historicize...

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