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!

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 ...

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 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...

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...

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...

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 elderly and ill fourth Viscount Longstreet summons Darius Lindsey to a discreet meeting, where he proposes the means for Darius to extricate himself from a life of shame and repay his family's debts. William offers him a chance at redemption: Spend a month with his wife, Lady Vivian; get her with child; and he can retire from his life of degradation.As weeks pass, Darius makes love to Vivian but also teaches her how to deal with the world after William has died. Vivian cannot c...

Tiberius Flynn travels to Scotland with orders to snatch his young niece away from her Highland relations. He thinks it's going to be an easy task, until he meets the feisty little girl and her fiercely protective step-aunt. A smart, headstrong beauty, Hester Daniels has no use for an English lord with high-handed ways, no matter how handsome or beguiling he may be.Tye sets out to seduce Hester and win over Fiona, only to discover that he's losing his heart to a woman who's as unta...

Ian MacGregor is wooing a woman who's wrong for him in every way. As the new Earl of Balfour, though, he must marry an English heiress to repair the family fortunes.But in his intended's penniless chaperone, Augusta, Ian is finding everything he's ever wanted in a wife.