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  • Women, Work and the Everyday Politics of Welfare

    Work, Care and Civil Society

    by Helen Blakely ...
    Series series Civil Society and Social Change
    Available open access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.The restructuring of the welfare state in the UK has marked a significant change in the way contemporary society is ordered and understood. This research monograph explores the implications of this restructuring for women and their attachments to unpaid care, paid work and activism over time.Drawing on longitudinal research involving ethnographic and ... Read more

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  • Working in the Context of Austerity

    Challenges and Struggles

    by Jill Rubery, Steve Davies, Helen Blakely, Patrick Gunnigle, Tom Turner, Mike O'Brien, Caroline Murphy, Jonathan Lavelle, Michelle O’Sullivan, Lorraine Ryan, Juliette Macmahon, Alina Baluch, Pauric O’Rourke, Jennifer Zelnick, Mimi Abramovitz, Doug Young, Dora Scholarios, Eva Jendro, Feng Xu, Kendra Strauss, Geraldina Polanco, Pat Armstrong, Philip James, Niels Van Doorn, Wayne Lewchuk ...
    Austerity was presented as the antidote to sluggish economies, but it has had far-reaching effects on jobs and employment conditions.With an international team of editors and authors from Europe, North America and Australia, this illuminating collection goes beyond a sole focus on public sector work and uniquely covers the impact of austerity on work across the private, public and voluntary ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Narrative Therapy and Older People

    Challenging Stigma, Supporting Connection and Building Hope

    by Rebecca Scullion, Sara Banks, Peter Ord, Jane Grant, Daniel Blake, Karen Gibbs, Helen Carter, Liz Jennings, Gemma Barry, Diane Clare, Chris Norris ...
    Healthcare for older people tends to focus on physical limitations and cognitive decline, and the person's own perspective and strengths are often overlooked. Narrative therapy centres a person as the expert in their own story, and is particularly effective when combined with an older person's wealth of life experience. It highlights the way their views have been shaped by their cultural and ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Selling Your Value Proposition

    How to Transform Your Business into a Selling Organization

    by Cindy Barnes, Helen Blake, Tamara Howard ...
    A value proposition is created from the combination of a company's products and services, and the value gained by the customer. It is used to drive better business, and is essential to success for any business - without it, companies are at risk of losing customers and being drowned out in crowded marketplaces. ***Selling Your Value Proposition***is a practical, user-friendly guide to establishing ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Move Freely

    Get Your Life Back After Injury

    by Helen M. Blake ...
    Whether someone was injured at work, struck in a motor vehicle accident, or threw their back out while at home, once pain strikes, people need to get back to feeling their best—and back to work—as quickly as possible.Pain after an injury can be limiting and make a person feel helpless, uncertain, and fearful about the future. It is difficult to achieve one's dreams when pain is preventing doing ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Monday Rent Boy

    by Susan Doherty ...
    Narrated by Simon Blake, Helen Taylor ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 33 min

    **FINALIST FOR THE PARAGRAPHE HUGH MACLENNAN PRIZE FOR FICTIONCANADIAN BOOK CLUB AWARD WINNERWORD GUILD AWARDS BEST FICTION BOOK OF THE YEARIn the mid-1980s Somerset countryside, two brilliant, misfit teenagers forge a bond that defies their harsh reality.**Arthur Barnes, a dreamer who finds sanctuary in literature, and Ernie Castlefrank, a mathematical prodigy with a fierce empathy for animals, ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Creating and Delivering Your Value Proposition

    Managing Customer Experience for Profit

    by Cindy Barnes, Helen Blake, David Pinder ...
    In recent years, developing a value proposition has become a prime consideration for businesses. A value proposition is an analysis and quantified review of the business benefits, costs and value that a company can deliver to prospective customers and customer segments. Creating and Delivering your Value Proposition provides guidance for business leaders - demonstrating why having a strong value ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • The Tale of Kitty-in-Boots

    by Beatrix Potter ...
    Illustrated by Quentin Blake ...
    Series series Peter Rabbit
    From the creator of Peter Rabbit comes the tale of a serious, well-behaved young black cat, who leads a daring double life defeating vile villains.Beatrix Potter created some of the world's most beloved characters, and they will be coming to life in a movie slated for Spring 2018. And this book, written in 1941 but never illustrated, introduces the charming Kitty-in-Boots, who has been imagined by ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    Hum

    by Helen Phillips ...
    Narrated by Ariel Blake ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 16 min

    A Most Anticipated Book for The New York Times, The Washington Post, Time, Goodreads, LitHub, and Book RiotA Best Book of the Summer for Esquire, Electric Lit, and Town & CountryA People Book of the WeekFrom “one of our most profound writers of speculative fiction” (The New York Times),this “tense dystopian thril... ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    Pray You, Sir, Whose Daughter? (UNABRIDGED)

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    by Helen H. Gardener ...
    Narrated by Deanna Blake, Jeremy Blair, Tara Carr, Jerry Mailes ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 42 min

    Twenty-year-old Gertrude Foster has had the sheltered upbringing typical of women of her class. Yet, she questions the restrictive norms with which she has been raised and does not wish to marry a man who will not see her as an equal. Gertrude receives a rude awakening to the state of society when she is brought face to face with poverty in her community, and she is further disturbed when she ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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    Past Crimes

    by Jason Pinter ...
    Narrated by Ellen Quay ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 24 min

    Welcome to Earth+. The year is 2037, and nearly all human interactions have migrated to the virtual world. Now, true-crime fans don't just listen to podcasts or watch documentaries—they participate in hyper-realistic simulations and hunt for clues to solve the most famous and gruesome crimes in history. Criminal entertainment is a multibillion-dollar industry, and at the forefront is Past Crimes: ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    The Road to the Salt Sea

    A Novel

    by Samuel Kolawole ...
    Narrated by Atta Otigba ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours

    WINNER OF THE 2025 WHITING AWARD FOR FICTIONPEN/HEMINGWAY AWARD FINALIST • ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE LONGLISTAs wrenching and luminous as Omar El Akkad’s What Strange Paradise and Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West, a searing exploration of the global migration crisis that moves from Nigeria to Libya to Italy, from an exciting new literary voice.Able God works for low pay at a four-star hotel where he must ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook