A uniquely hybrid approach to welfare state policy, ecological sustainability and social transformation, this book explores transformative models of welfare change. Using Ireland as a case study, it addresses the institutional adaptations needed to move towards a sustainable welfare state.

'Dancing in the Streets is a genuine triumph of popular critical scholarship - the punchy elegance of [Ehrenreich's] prose makes this an essential purchase' Independent

Death and Dying is an important core text for students and professionals interested in developing a holistic understanding of death and dying.

This book replaces the Dickenson: Death, Dying and Bereavement 2ED as the set text for the OU course Death and Dying (K260), which means guaranteed sales of 800 copies per year through the bookshops.

Written by luminaries who have shaped the field, this capstone book distils the collective wisdom of foremost scholars and practitioners, who together have nearly a millennium of experience in the death and dying movement. The book bears witness to the discipline's evolution and presents the insights of its pioneers, eyewitnesses, and major contributors past and present.

In diesem Open-Access-Buch geht Marco Lunich der Annahme verbreiteter Glaubensuberzeugungen von der Qualitat und Wirkmachtigkeit von Big Data nach und analysiert die miteinander in Bezug stehenden gesellschaftlichen UEberzeugungen von Erkenntnis- und Nutzengewinnen aus Big Data.

With brand new chapters on ethics and mixed methods, this indispensable guide continues to provide readers with everything they need to develop effective and successful research proposals.

Do Funerals Matter? is a creative interweaving of historical, sociocultural, and research-based perspectives on death rituals, drawing from myriad sources to create a picture of what death rituals have been, and where, especially in the Western world, they are going.