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This book charts the history of Ireland's Jewish community at a time of rapid growth and cultural, political and social transition, from British rule to Irish independence, exploring the relationship between Jews, Irish society and Irish Jewish communal tradition.

First published in 1982, this title presents the results of a study of the experiences and attitudes of over 350 elderly widowed men and women, their GPs, relatives, friends, and neighbours, and considers the implications of the help the widowed received, or failed to receive, from those it was most likely that they would turn for support.

This book argues that today's climate change science undersells what we know with huge confidence and oversells what we know with little confidence, thereby misleading both the public and policy makers during important international debates and negotiations. Crucial reading for environmentalists and oil tycoons alike.

First published in 1982, this book defines sheltered housing, traces its development in Western society and analyses its success under variations in Great Britain. The analysis focuses on those aspects of the sheltered housing programme that had relevance to the development of housing policy in Europe and North America.

First published in 1981, this book presented an important contribution toward the necessity for a multidisciplinary, international approach to both public policy-making and practice for an ageing population. The continued social functioning of the ageing community as a whole was dependent upon a combination of factors.

The care of elderly people is a major task facing society. Originally published in 1981, this book considers the challenge of caring from a social work perspective. It locates social work with elderly people firmly within the mainstream of social work ethics, knowledge and skills.

To understand the Labour Party today one needs to appreciate how people in the party have reacted to the New Labour legacy. Karl Pike examines the efforts each of the three leaders have made in reforming the party's ideology, its democracy and organization and their political style and approach to the leadership.

Frontmatter -- Introduction -- Part I: Theoretical Framework -- 2 Culture, Power and Individual Agency -- 2.1 Power and Individual Agency -- 2.1.1 The Reproduction of Power Structures -- 2.1.2 Questions of Power between Agency and Limitations -- 2.2 Culture, Identity and Representation -- 2.3 Stereotypes and the 'Underclass' Discourse -- 2.3.1 Stereotyping as a Limiting and Exclusionary Signifying Practice -- 2.3.2 'Underclass' as a Racialised Discourse -- Part II: Pervasive Stereotypes and their Limiting Effects on Identity Constructions -- Interconnections: Intersecting Factors of Identity Construction -- 3 Grappling with Stereotypical Constructions of Black Men as Violent and Criminal -- 3.1 Black Men as 'Violent Avengers' -- 3.1.1 Struggling to Escape from the Stereotype in The Scholar and East of Acre Lane -- 3.1.2 Challenging Dominant Discourses on the 1981 Brixton Riots in East of Acre Lane -- 3.1.3 Longing to Become a 'Badman' and the Normalisation of Violence in The Dirty South -- 3.2 Hypersexual Black Masculinities -- 3.3 'Black Youths' Pitted against a 'Noble Tom' in Pigeon English -- 3.4 Alternative Identity Constructions -- 4 The Splitting of the Black Female Subject into 'Irresponsible Single Mother' and 'Superwoman' -- 4.1 The Treatment of the 'Irresponsible Single Mother' -- 4.2 The Challenges of Escaping from the 'Irresponsible Single Mother' -- 4.3 Questioning the Celebration of the Black 'Superwoman' -- Part III: Spatial and Narrative Strategies of Representing Limitations -- Groundwork and Contexts: The Bildungsroman Varieties -- 5 Marginalising Spaces and the Limits of Spatial Development -- 5.1 The Representation of Neighbourhoods and Council Estates -- 5.2 The Journey Motif in the Female Black British Bildungsroman.

In The Geography of Injustice, Barak Kushner argues that the war crimes tribunals in East Asia formed and cemented national divides that persist into the present day. In 1946 the Allies convened the Tokyo Trial to prosecute Japanese wartime atrocities and Japan's empire. At its conclusion one of the judges voiced dissent, claiming that the justice found at Tokyo was only "the sham employment of a legal process for the satisfaction of a thirst for revenge." War crimes tribunals, Kushner shows, allow for the history of the defeated to be heard. In contemporary East Asia a fierce battle between memory and history has consolidated political camps across this debate. The Tokyo Trial courtroom, as well as the thousands of other war crimes tribunals opened in about fifty venues across Asia, were legal stages where prosecution and defense curated facts and evidence to craft their story about World War Two. These narratives and counter narratives form the basis of postwar memory concerning Japan's imperial aims across the region. The archival record and the interpretation of court testimony together shape a competing set of histories for public consumption. The Geography of Injustice offers compelling evidence that despite the passage of seven decades since the end of the war, East Asia is more divided than united by history