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 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...

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...

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!

The last decade has seen the rise of urban design which has taken a central position in the new agendas for urban regeneration and renaissance. Urban design has moved from marginality to mainstream. The principles espoused by urban designers over the past thirty years are now accepted as key to a better urban environment and as we move towards greater sustainability, different ideas are emerging that are challenging some of the accepted urban design norms; urban design is at a watershed.

From the earliest periods of architecture and building, architects’ actions have been conditioned by rules, regulations, standards, and governance practices. These range from socio-cultural and religious codes seeking to influence the formal structure of settlement patterns, to prescriptive building regulations specifying detailed elements of design in relation to the safety of building structures. In Architectural Design and Regulation the authors argue that the rule and regulatory basis ...

Regenerating London explores latest thinking on urban regeneration in one of the fastest changing world cities. Engaging with social, economic, and political structures of cities, it highlights paradoxes and contradictions in urban policy and offers an evaluation of the contemporary forms of urban redevelopment.