Alice is a little tugboat that has a big problem—she can’t stop sneezing. She disturbs people that are fishing, gets in the way of larger ships, annoys the seagulls, and interrupts a huge whale. Where will Alice go? Find out what happens when Alice sails to a small island with dangerous rocks all around it. This adorable story, filled with captivating music and fun sound effects, will entertain young readers as Alice’s problem ends up being a huge help for everyone!

Alice is a little tugboat that has a big problem—she can’t stop sneezing. She disturbs people that are fishing, gets in the way of larger ships, annoys the seagulls, and interrupts a huge whale. Where will Alice go? Find out what happens when Alice sails to a small island with dangerous rocks all around it. This adorable story, filled with captivating music and fun sound effects, will entertain young readers as Alice’s problem ends up being a huge help for everyone!

Alice is a little tugboat that has a big problem—she can’t stop sneezing. She disturbs people that are fishing, gets in the way of larger ships, annoys the seagulls, and interrupts a huge whale. Where will Alice go? Find out what happens when Alice sails to a small island with dangerous rocks all around it. This adorable story, filled with captivating music and fun sound effects, will entertain young readers as Alice’s problem ends up being a huge help for everyone!

It is not lost on commercial organisations that where we live colours how we view ourselves and others. That is why so many now place us into social groups on the basis of the type of postcode in which we live. Social scientists call this practice "commercial sociology".Richard Webber originated Acorn and Mosaic, the two most successful geodemographic classifications. Roger Burrows is a critical interdisciplinary social scientist. Together they chart the origins of this practice an...

The problem of homelessness is deeply emblematic of the sort of society Britain has become. What other social phenomena could better epitomise the end of modernity than our seeming inability to adequately respond to the most basic needs - shelter, warmth, food - of substantial numbers of our 'citizens'? Homelessness and Social Policy offers a dispassionate analysis of the problem of homelessness and the policy responses it has so far invoked.By reviewing theoretical and leg...

The idea of the ‘enterprise culture’ has been much vaunted over the last few decades: the growth of self-employment and small business ownership has been an important feature of the restructuring of the British economy. Because it is a concept that is difficult to evaluate, controversial and politically sensitive, social scientists were slow to analyse it. Consequently, it had been caricatured and many questions about its impact on society and the economy had been left unanswered.T...

There is no doubt that significant socio-economic changes have occurred over the last twenty years in the UK and other advanced capitalist societies. Consequently, Fordism, a bureaucratic, hierarchical model of industrial development has matured into Post-Fordism, with its greater emphasis on the individual, freedom of choice and flexibility, generating fresh debate and analysis. Towards a Post-Fordist Welfare State represents leading authors from a number of disciplines - social ...

Promotion of health has become a central feature of health policy at local, national and international levels, forming part of global health initiatives such as those endorsed by the World Health Organisation. The issues examined in The Sociology of Health Promotion include sociology of risk, the body, consumption, processes of surveillance and normalisation and considerations relating to race and gender in the implementation of health programmes. It will be invaluable reading for...

Alice is a little tugboat that has a big problem—she can’t stop sneezing. She disturbs people that are fishing, gets in the way of larger ships, annoys the seagulls, and interrupts a huge whale. Where will Alice go? Find out what happens when Alice sails to a small island with dangerous rocks all around it. This adorable story, filled with captivating music and fun sound effects, will entertain young readers as Alice’s problem ends up being a huge help for everyone!

With social and community services coming under increasing pressure as austerity continues, Unfinished Business examines how social policy has operated in Ireland and how it has been affected by consistent government cutbacks. It examines a wide range of issues important to social care students, such as poverty, homelessness, disability, immigrants, mental health and many other issues pertinent to Irish society today. This book: Is the first Irish social po...

The reception of Michel Foucault's work in the social sciences and humanities has been phenomenal. Foucault's concepts and methodology have encouraged new approaches to old problems and opened up new lines of enquiry. This book assesses the contribution of Foucault's work to research and thinking in the area of health and medicine, and shows how key researchers in the sociology of health and illness are currently engaging with his ideas.Foucault, Health and Medicine explore...

Governments are encouraging later-life working and state pension ages are being raised. There is also a growing debate on intergenerational equity and on ageism/age discrimination. John Macnicol, one of Europe's leading academic analysts of old age and ageing, examines the effect of neoliberalism on the recent ageing and social policy agenda in the UK and the USA. He argues that the demographic and economic impulses behind recent policy changes are in fact less important than the effect of...