Podcast: Addicitve Personality - Myth or Reality? Legalising the drugs trade: reducing crime or increasing addiction? A guide to books, journals and websites relevant to debates about the formulation and enforcement of policies on the trade in illegal drugs.
This guide has been written to provide background information and sources for the Speakers Corner Trust Forum for Debate, titled 'Legalising the drugs trade: reducing crime or increasing addiction? '. Legalising the drugs trade: reducing crime or increasing addiction? (PDF Format, 131 KB) Forum for Debate The British Library is providing background information and sources for further reading about each topic featured in Speakers’ Corner Trust’s Forum for Debate . The focus of each bibliography will be on recent work that is accessible to someone with a general interest in the topic. Speakers’ Corner Trust is a registered charity which promotes free expression and public debate.
Podcast: Our ethcnicity and indentity - what does it all mean? Podcast: Growing old - somehting to fear or celebrate. Images of later life take two extremes, adverts featuring glowing post-retirement couples enjoying life vs lonely singletons in need of expensive care or support.
Many of us will live to a very ripe old age; in just 30 years since 1980, the numbers of centenarians have risen from 2,500 to over 12,500 and are predicted to rise to 160,000 in another 30 years. Longer lives are the result of improved standards of medical treatment, nutrition, housing and living... but most of us may fear rather than celebrate the prospect. Topical Bibliogrpahy: Charging for health care. A guide to books, journals and websites relevant to debates over funding and allocation of resources within the NHS.
This guide has been written to provide background information and sources for the Speakers Corner Trust Forum for Debate, titled 'The NHS and Finite Public Funds: The Case for Charging'. Charging for health care (PDF format, 111KB) Forum for Debate The British Library is providing background information and sources for further reading about each topic featured in Speakers’ Corner Trust’s Forum for Debate. The focus of each bibliography will be on recent work that is accessible to someone with a general interest in the topic. Topical bibliography: New politics and public services. A guide to books, journals and websites relevant to debates about community participation in public services, and local decision making in allocating public resources.
This guide has been written to provide background information and sources for the Speakers Corner Trust Forum for Debate, titled 'New politics and public services: localism or lottery? '. Podcast: Security and surveillance - has it gone too far? Bibliography: Society and the state: does size matter? A guide to books, journals and websites relevant to debates over the size of government and the role of volunteers in social care.
This guide has been written to provide background information and sources for the Speakers' Corner Trust's Forum for Debate, titled 'Society and the State: does size matter? '. Society and the State: does size matter? (PDF format, 121KB) Forum for Debate The British Library is providing background information and sources for further reading about each topic featured in Speakers’ Corner Trust’s Forum for Debate . The focus of each bibliography will be on recent work that is accessible to someone with a general interest in the topic. Speakers’ Corner Trust is a registered charity which promotes free expression and public debate. Corporate social responsibility (CSR) bibliography. This ' Corporate social responsibility (CSR) bibliography ' (PDF format) is an introductory guide to some of the material available to researchers via the British Library’s print, sound and electronic resources.
It also provides links to important UK-based research centres, collections and archives, plus useful websites, portals and other bibliographies. Interest in the social impact of business has increased markedly in the last 20 years or so. Concerns about the environmental impact of business and climate change, about standards of operating and reporting, - and a growing recognition of the potential of business as a force for good - have led governments to set up initiatives to promote notions of sustainable development and social responsibility, and companies to provide more information about their activities.
It is a popular subject of teaching, learning and research, with a significant and growing body of literature. Podcast: Young People - troubled, troublesome or terrific? Podcast. Podcast: We’ve never had it so good? Food and Diet in the UK. Podcast: Who Benefits form Benefits? Podcast: Manufacturing matters - doesn't it? Coal mining bibliography. The 'Coal mining bibliography' (PDF format) provides useful links and a select list of publications available in the British Library, relating to mining.
This bibliography is an introductory guide to some of the material available to researchers via the British Library's print, microfilm and electronic resources. It also provides links to UK-based research centres, collections and archives. Coal mining bibliography (PDF format, 178KB) Subjects covered include: coal industry management and finance trade union activity women and children in mining communities health & safety the Bevin boys of World War Two colliery closures.
Social Sciences Reference Service The British Library 96 Euston Road London NW1 2DB United Kingdom. Industrial relations bibliography. Useful links about Industrial Relations and a select list of publications available in the British Library.
The Industrial relations bibliography (PDF format, 154 KB) highlights material which explores more recent research strands within the field of industrial relations, such as: the nature of industrial relations in the contemporary workplace the impact of globalisation on labour relations the organisation and role of trade unions how issues of gender and diversity are played out and addressed within the labour movement itself. The financial crisis (credit crunch) bibliography. Anti-capitalism bibliography. The 'Anti-capitalism bibliography' (PDF format) provides an introduction for the study of anti-capitalism with useful links and a select list of publications available in the British Library.
The 'Anti-capitalism bibliography' (PDF format) was written by Ian Cooke, Lead Content Specialist for International & Political Studies at the British Library. Management and business studies datasets bibliography. Podcast: We're all middle class now, aren't we? Podcast: Educational Standards - Not as Good as in My Day.
PPP education bibliography. Podcast: Are we what we eat? The fourth in our series of public debates was held on Tuesday 9 March 2010.
"Are we what we eat? " investigates our relationship with food: what we eat, what we buy, what we cook, and the role of the food industry and government in shaping our attitudes to food. The event was chaired by Mr Geoff Watts, freelance writer and broadcaster on science and medicine. Listen to our speakers from the links below. Anne Murcott Listen: Family meals: myth, reality and the reality of myth (MP3, 16 min, 8MB) Presentation slides (PDF format, 0.3 MB) Anne Murcott identifies a common and persistent concern that the practice of eating meals together as a family is on the decline.
Martin Yeomans Listen: Attitudes, expectations and appetite control (MP3, 19 min, 9MB) Presentation slides (PDF format, 0.4 MB) Professor Yeomans argues that how much we eat, and our experience of hunger, is determined more by external factors than by how full our stomachs are or how much energy we have consumed. Podcast: Crime and punishment in the 21st century. The third in our series of Myths and Realities debates was held on Monday 8 February 2010. Listen to our speakers and download presentations about attitudes, policies and the media portrayal of crime and punishment.
The event was chaired by Professor Jon Silverman , Research Professor of Media and Criminal Justice, University of Bedfordshire and former BBC Home Affairs correspondent. Professor Mike Hough Listen: Explaining distrust in justice (MP3, 15 min, 10MB) Presentation slides (PDF format, 1.5MB) Mike Hough is the Director of the Institute for Criminal Policy, Kings College London. Professor Ian Loader Listen: Criminology in a hot climate (MP3, 24 min, 16MB) Presentation slides (PDF format, 110KB)
Topical Bibliography: Responses to terrorism. The 'Responses to terrorism bibliography' (PDF format) provides useful links and a select list of publications available in the British Library, relating to terrorism and national international responses. The 'Responses to terrorism bibliography' (PDF format) is a reading list, guide to electronic resources, and gateway to websites. Subjects covered include: terrorism political violence domestic (homeland) and international security.
It includes links to government information, human rights organisations, newspapers and other media sources. Government information is listed for the United Kingdom, United States, European Union and the United Nations. This bibliography was written by Ian Cooke, Lead Content Specialist for International & Political Studies at the British Library. Social Sciences Reference Service The British Library 96 Euston Road London NW1 2DB United Kingdom. Topical Bibilography: Legalising the drugs trade: reducing crime or increasing addiction?
Topical Bibliography: Knife Crime. Podcast: Making sense of risk. Download presentations from the public debate held at the British Library Conference Centre on 18 November 2009. The Myths and Realities series is sponsored by the Academy of Social Sciences and Economic and Social Research Council in conjunction with the British Library. The debate was chaired by Sir Bill Callaghan, Chair of the Legal Services Commission. Professor Bridget Hutter Professor Bridget Hutter, Professor of Risk Regulation and Director of the ESRC Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation, London School of Economics and Political Science. This presentation discusses the regulation of risk with reference to the financial crisis. Podcast: Migration and Integration. Listen to presentations and read our speakers' notes from our first Myths and Realities public debate, held on 15 September 2009. Migration bibliography. The 'Migration bibliography' (PDF format) provides an introductory guide for researchers to the British Library's print, sound, archive and electronic resources.
It also provides links to UK and international research centres, news sources and think-tanks. Migration is the movement of people from one locality to another. A timeline of resources on the British National Party.