Trousson, Raymond / Vercruysse, Jeroom (dir.), Dictionnaire general de Voltaire. (Champion classiques, references et dictionnaires 18) 1272 p. 2020:10 (Champion, FR) <670-9>
ISBN 978-2-38096-016-7 paper ¥7,064.- (税込) EUR 38.00

Brown, Nicole M., We Are Each Other's Business: Black Women's Intersectional Political Consumerism During the Chicago Welfare Rights Movement. 240 pp. 2024:8 (Columbia U. Pr., US) <727-250>
ISBN 978-0-231-20522-1 hard ¥28,028.- (税込) US$ 130.00 *
ISBN 978-0-231-20523-8 paper ¥6,899.- (税込) US$ 32.00 *

In the 1960s and 1970s, the Welfare Rights Movement organized at both local and national levels, advocating for poor people's inclusion, dignity, and autonomy. We Are Each Other's Business examines Black women's leadership within the Chicago Welfare Rights Movement, recasting their consumer activism as a form of Black feminist technology.Nicole M. Brown calls for understanding the Black women of the Welfare Rights Movement as sophisticated strategists who engaged the tensions among capitalism, consumerism, and economic liberation. She analyzes Black women's engagement with consumer credit, tracing how they linked consumption with citizenship and critiqued the state's treatment of the poor. Brown offers a radical reframing of the struggle between Black women and the state as a battle of technologies, showing how Black women challenged "algorithmic assemblages of race, class, and gender" and "analog algorithms of poverty." She also shows how racism, sexism, and classism stifled opportunities for alliances: although the Welfare Rights Movement converged with consumer and women's rights movements, white and middle-class activists were unwilling to recognize poor Black women as fellow political actors. Bringing together historical sociology, computational methods, and intersectional Black feminist theory, We Are Each Other's Business offers innovative and generative insights into Black women's struggle for political and economic equity.

Fisher, Matthew, How To Create Societies for Human Wellbeing: Through Public Policy and Social Change. 192 pp. 2024:10 (Policy Pr., UK) <727-251>
ISBN 978-1-4473-6946-2 hard ¥22,792.- (税込) GB￡ 80.00
ISBN 978-1-4473-6947-9 paper ¥6,549.- (税込) GB￡ 22.99

Wellbeing is a hot topic: governments, psychologists and a thousand self-appointed 'experts' all claim to promote it and yet our societies are experiencing record levels of mental distress and ill-health. Why? Matthew Fisher presents a compelling new perspective on psychological wellbeing informed by evidence on human stress responses. He shows how our mental health is shaped by the social and cultural conditions in which we all live. Developing arguments and strategies for a society truly committed to wellbeing, this book offers new ways to understand the problems facing modern societies and ways to respond through political and social change.

Hughes, Amanda J., A Guide to Commissioning for Health and Wellbeing. 272 pp. 2024:9 (Policy Pr., UK) <727-252>
ISBN 978-1-4473-7191-5 paper ¥7,119.- (税込) GB￡ 24.99 *

Are you a health and social care commissioner navigating the ever-changing commissioning landscape? With challenges such as limited funding, changing demands and global pandemics, we need to be clear on why, what and how we commission effectively. This book offers you a warm welcome into the often-complex world of healthcare commissioning. Amanda J. Hughes shares personal insights from her commissioning career and practical guidance that will demystify the commissioning cycle and ease the journey as you strive to achieve the best outcomes for the population. This book will help you to ensure valuable resources are directed to those with most need, that care is fair and accessible and that the solutions you put into place are sustainable for the longer term.

危機他を通じた社会政策とEUの政体構築
Kyriazi, Anna / Miro, Joan / Natili, M. et al., Social Policy and EU Polity-building Through Crises and Beyond. (Europa Perspectives on the EU Single Market) 200 pp. 2024:10 (Routledge, UK) <727-253>
ISBN 978-1-03-254514-1 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

This volume sets out to explain the conditions that have favoured the expansion of the European social dimension during the turbulent decade of 2010-20, when Europe was confronting strong countervailing pressures, including the euro crisis, the refugee crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic.The study begins by diagnosing a widespread, although slow-burning, crisis across the European Union (EU) resulting from the cumulation of social problems and the systemic tension between EU market integration on the one hand and nationally bounded welfare states and the other. Eight in-depth case studies analyse the political dynamics behind a variety of EU social initiatives aimed at addressing the consequences of free movement of workers, youth unemployment, poverty, eroding wages, environment and climate change, and the COVID-19 pandemic. To identify the specific drivers of EU social policymaking empirically, the authors have reconstructed the struggles over concrete policy proposals as they unfolded in the European multilevel setting.The volume introduces a novel analytical framework for interpreting the transformation of the EU social dimension in times of crisis, when some degree of social co-ordination becomes crucial to bond deeply different (welfare) states together. This in-depth study offers an invaluable analysis for researchers, academics and professionals interested in the functioning of the European polity.The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.

Mainstone Cotton, Sonia, Wellbeing Explained. (Key Concepts in Early Childhood) 140 pp. 2024:10 (Routledge, UK) <727-254>
ISBN 978-1-03-269291-3 hard ¥37,037.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00
ISBN 978-1-03-269283-8 paper ¥4,840.- (税込) GB￡ 16.99

Nurturing children and supporting their wellbeing is vitally important, along with looking after the wellbeing of the staff who support them. Wellbeing Explained highlights the importance of wellbeing and explains key terms associated with wellbeing and mental health needs. Unpicking terms such as holistic development, self-esteem, SEMH, and anxiety, it uses practical examples and case studies to explain what these mean and how we can promote wellbeing through policy and practices.Divided into two parts, the first provides a brief overview of the key terms associated with wellbeing in early childhood alongside examples of what they mean in practice. Part two then shares the principles that underpin promoting good wellbeing, such as prioritising staff wellbeing, adopting a loving pedagogy, keeping the child and family central to provision, and creating an enabling environment explaining the underlying ethos of a child-centred approach.Part of the Key Concepts in Early Childhood Series, this is essential reading for early years practitioners and students that want to know and understand what they can do to support their own wellbeing and the children they work with.

McHale, Jean / Noszlopy, Laura, Adult Social Care Law and Policy: Lessons from the Pandemic. (Law, Society, Policy) 304 pp. 2024:11 (Bristol U. Pr., UK) <727-255>
ISBN 978-1-5292-2986-8 paper ¥7,973.- (税込) GB￡ 27.99

Available Open Access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This book provides an in-depth socio-legal examination of adult social care law and policy during the COVID-19 pandemic. It explores the tensions between legislation, policy, economy, and practice in what was already an under-resourced and overstretched sector. The authors interrogate the vision and utility of the Care Act 2014 and explore the impact of emergency legislation and operational changes implemented during the pandemic. Detailing what happened to social care provision during this time of intense stress and turbulence for people who draw on services, for informal carers, and for those who work in the sector, the book highlights fault-lines in the system. This is an invaluable resource offering timely lessons for social care reform and future pandemic preparedness planning.

O'Hara, Mary, Austerity Bites 10 Years On: A Journey to the Sharp End of Cuts in the UK. 272 pp. 2024:9 (Policy Pr., UK) <727-256>
ISBN 978-1-4473-7452-7 paper ¥3,700.- (税込) GB￡ 12.99 *

Austerity has proven deadly. Over the last decade, the damage caused by austerity measures in the UK has had a long-lasting and profound effect on many lives. The first edition of Austerity Bites offered on-the-ground reportage of one of the most significantly regressive economic strategies of any post-war government. Over a year Mary O'Hara toured the UK to gauge the immediate impact - and expectations of people affected - and found many clinging to the hope that austerity cuts would not last long as the damage became increasingly apparent. Alas, this was not how things unfolded. Instead, much of the Welfare State had its vital support systems systematically undermined. The public sector, including the NHS, is now on its knees. Schools are buckling under multiple structural and budgetary pressures. Councils - even big ones - are going broke. Homelessness is rampant. While Brexit, the pandemic, and war have no doubt impacted the economic health of the country, previous austerity cuts left the UK less prepared to weather such extraordinary events. With new commentary, Austerity Bites 10 Years On assesses on the true scale of the damage these policies have inflicted on the country's most vulnerable groups, public institutions and on the wider society. It reflects on where we have been, where we are now and what needs to happen next to undo the damage and avoid the same mistakes again.

成年の保護の実践ハンドブック　第2版
Spreadbury, Kate / Hubbard, Rachel, The Adult Safeguarding Practice Handbook. 2nd ed. 272 pp. 2024:10 (Policy Pr., UK) <727-257>
ISBN 978-1-4473-7481-7 paper ¥6,549.- (税込) GB￡ 22.99 *

The second edition of this best-selling book provides an essential guide to best practice in adult safeguarding. It has been updated to include recent legislative, guidance and research-based developments and relates them to useful practice examples. Featuring new support materials and key case studies, it includes: *a focus on working with marginalised groups under the safeguarding and prevention duties, including 'transitional' safeguarding; *an exploration of best practice in light of changes to national guidance and research; *findings from a range of Safeguarding Adults Reviews with reflections on the outcomes of two national (England) Safeguarding Review Audits; and *an expansion of the concepts of professional curiosity and trauma-informed/-aware approaches. Students and practitioners are guided to reflect on practice and to extend their skills, knowledge and values to become confident and competent in the complex area of adult safeguarding.

Wood, Jason, The Kindness Fix: How and Why We Must Build a More Compassionate Society. 192 pp. 2024:11 (Policy Pr., UK) <727-258>
ISBN 978-1-4473-7088-8 paper ¥3,700.- (税込) GB￡ 12.99

If a measure of our humanity is how we treat the most vulnerable, our report card is bleak. Our politics is divided, people in need are too often treated with cruelty, and the systems we built to support others are creaking. Welfare too often fails, sometimes with tragic consequences. Yet, the help we give to others can be more effective, more accepted, and more just if we cultivate greater levels of compassion to put it at the heart of public life and potentially resolve these challenges. In this book, Jason Wood reviews the research and talks to experts from across the world to make the moving case for greater compassion in public life.