The book subjects the largely hidden phenomenon of benefit sanctions in the UK to sustained examination and critique. It comprises twelve chapters dealing with the terms ‘cruel’, ‘inhuman’ and ‘degrading’ that are used as a benchmark for assessing benefit sanctions; benefit sanctions as a matter of public concern; the historical development of benefit sanctions in the UK; changes in the scope and severity of benefit sanctions; conditionality and the changing relationship between the citize...

First Published in 1994. Discourse, Power and Justice is a distinctive and theoretically informed empirical study of the administration of the Scottish prison system. It is based on extensive research and combines theoretical innovation with detailed empirical evidence. The book is located at the confluence of two academic traditions and their associated literatures, socio-legal studies and the sociology of knowledge, which are combined to produce a novel theoretical framework. The authors...

Work and the Welfare State places street-level organizations at the analytic center of welfare-state politics, policy, and management. This volume offers a critical examination of efforts to change the welfare state to a workfare state by looking at on-the-ground issues in six countries: the US, UK, Australia, Denmark, Germany, and the Netherlands.An international group of scholars contribute organizational studies that shed new light on old debates about policies of workfare and a...

Discover the secret to transformative success with "Harnessing Serendipity."This compelling book is tailored for visionary leaders such as event organizers, business executives, diplomats, politicians, artists, musicians, and forward-thinking individuals ready to unlock the true potential of artful collaboration.In "Harnessing Serendipity," you'll gain invaluable insights from 65 thought-leaders and change-makers across multiple industries, providing a uniq...

This book honors the diverse and path-breaking work of Michael Adler, a pioneer of socio-legal scholarship in the UK. The book brings together an international group of scholars—established and emerging researchers from across the globe—to develop key ideas generated by Adler’s scholarship. Building on his rich portfolio of creative work at the interface of law and social science, the book explores themes that continue to resonate in contemporary debates about how best to understand the re...

What is really going on here? For decades Renata Adler has been asking and answering this question with unmatched urgency. In her essays and long-form journalism, she has captured the cultural zeitgeist, distrusted the accepted wisdom, and written stories that would otherwise go untold. As a staff writer at The New Yorker from 1963 to 2001, Adler reported on civil rights from Selma, Alabama; on the war in Biafra, the Six-Day War, and the Vietnam War; on the Nixon impeachment inqui...

A powerful rethinking of resilience through the lens of Pueblo history, this work reveals how Tiwa communities in the Northern Rio Grande used culturally intentional strategies to adapt, transform, and endure across a millennium of change. Anthropologist Michael A. Adler introduces the concept of transilience—culturally intentional acts that address existential threats and enable transformation—as a framework for interpreting the long-term persistence of Tiwa communities.Focusing o...

Die Erfolgsserie geht weiter: Tankred kämpft weiter gegen die Wikinger zwischen Rhein und Maas, für seine Familie und für den Kaiser.Herbst 884. Tankred, inzwischen zum Grafen ernannt, lebt auf seinen Besitzungen bei Maastricht. Doch die Dänen fallen – mit Duldung des Fürsten Gottfried – immer wieder ins Binnenland ein und verwüsten ganze Landstriche zwischen Maas und Rhein. Als eine Bande eines Nachts Tankreds Anwesen überfällt und versucht, seine Kinder zu entführ...

Einer der letzten, die noch davon erzählen könnenMichael – Mischa – erlebt eine behütete Kindheit in Prag. Er spielt gern Fußball, der Vater ist erfolgreicher Anwalt. Doch als Mischa gerade acht Jahre alt ist, marschieren die Deutschen ein. Die Repressionen nehmen zu, bis zur Gründung des Prager Ghettos, in dem Mischa mit seiner Familie landet. Aber das ist nicht die Endstation: 1942 wird er mit Mutter und Schwester ins Konzentrationslager Theresienstadt gebracht. Dort lebt er mit v...

First Published in 1973, The Writing Machine presents a comprehensive history of the typewriter. Michael Adler not only investigated the history of the machine but also started collecting typewriters, because of the difficulty of discovering what these old machines looked like. Then he found there were other collectors all over the world who supplied him with such a wealth of data that he had eventually to limit the scope of his ‘history’. There are hundreds and hundreds of makes ...

Vorliegendes Buch ist für Landwirte und die Bevölkerung des ländlichen Raumes konzipiert. Die Landwirte bekommen derzeit für die landwirtschaftlichen Produkte nicht den preislichen Gegenwert für ihre geleistete Arbeit. Die Bevölkerung im ländlichen Raum leidet unter der Abwanderung junger Leute und dem Zusammenbruch der Infrastrukturen. Beide Gruppen können durch eigenständiges Handeln diese Situation selbstständig und nachhaltig verbessern, denn die Ackerfläche bietet das Potenzial für zu...

From an acclaimed music journalist, the gripping story of Los Angeles rock from its fifties beginnings to its eighties prime, told through its most influential pacesetter: Lou Adler.From the fifties through the eighties, Joe Adler was the key architect of Los Angeles rock—from the birth of soul to surf music to rock festivals and rock films, no one else had Adler’s reach or his success. In California Dreamin’, music journalist Michaelangelo Matos introduce...