Brian F Nolan

Tested Mettle: Canada's Peacekeepers at War

The untold story of the Canadian Army's fight for survival on two fronts: the volatile bullet-riddled war zones of the world and the equally treacherous political battleground here at home. Tested Mettle takes over where the controversial bestseller "Tarnished Brass" left off. "Esprit de Corps" maga...

Changing Inequalities in Rich Countries: Analytical and Comparative Perspectives

There has been a remarkable upsurge of debate about increasing inequalities and their societal implications, reinforced by the economic crisis but bubbling to the surface before it. This has been seen in popular discourse, media coverage, political debate, and research in the social sciences. The ce...

Changing Inequalities and Societal Impacts in Rich Countries: Thirty Countries' Experiences

There has been a remarkable upsurge of debate about increasing inequalities and their societal implications, reinforced by the economic crisis but bubbling to the surface before it. This has been seen in popular discourse, media coverage, political debate, and research in the social sciences. The ce...

Social Indicators: The EU and Social Inclusion

The European social agenda is at a crucial stage. This book describes the Action Plans on Social Inclusion submitted to the European Union by national governments in June 2001 and investigates the indicators that can be used to assess social progress. It deals in a new way with key issues for social...

Poverty and Deprivation in Europe

Research on poverty in rich countries relies primarily on household income to capture living standards and distinguish those in poverty, and this is also true of official poverty measurement and monitoring. However, awareness of the limitations of income has been heightening interest in the role tha...

The Great Recession and the Distribution of Household Income (Report for the Fondazione Rodolfo DeBenedetti)

The so-called Great Recession that followed the global financial crisis at the end of 2007 was the largest economic downturn since the 1930s for most rich countries. To what extent were household incomes affected by this event, and how did the effects differ across countries? This is the first cross...

The Structure of Modern Irish: A Functional Account (Discussions in Functional Approaches to Language)

Modern Irish is a VSO language, in common with the other Celtic languages, and the order of elements in the structure of transitive sentences is verb-subject-object. This book provides a characterisation of the nominal, verb, clause and information structure of the Irish language from a functional p...

The Oxford Handbook of Economic Inequality (Oxford Handbooks)

The Oxford Handbook of Economic Inequality presents a new and challenging analysis of economic inequality, focusing primarily on economic inequality in highly developed countries. Bringing together the world's top scholars this comprehensive and authoritative volume contains an impressive array of o...

Brian Nolan

Brian Nolan (born November 28, 1979) is an American actor, best known for starring as Frankie on all current seasons of Here! TV's The Lair. He has appeared...

Resources, Deprivation and Poverty

Social Indicators: The Eu and Social Inclusion

Social Indicators: The Eu and Social Inclusion

Income Distribution and the Macroeconomy

King's War: Mackenzie King and the Politics of War, 1939-1945

Low Pay in Ireland

The Financial Assets of Households in Ireland

Charging for Public Health Services in Ireland: Why and How