Oxford University Press

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Inferior Politics explores how social policy was created in Britain in a period when central government was not active in making it. Despite the lack of consensus, there was a lively and inclusive 'politics' of social policy-making, in which 'inferior' officers of government (what we might call 'local authorities') figured prominently....

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Coping with Aging    is the final project of the late Richard S. Lazarus, the man whose landmark book  Emotion and Adaptation  put the study of emotion in play in the field of psychology. Lazarus examines the experience of aging from the standpoint of the individual, rather than merely as a collection of statistics and charts. Drawing on his five...