Books by Peter Marris

This provocative and important book makes a convincing case for strategies of co-operation at both personal and political levels to ensure our economic and social survial in the twenty-first century.

This title is a classic work on social reform. It is an account of the origins and development of community action from its beginnings in the Ford Foundation Gray Area Programs and the President's Committee on Juvenile Delinquency, through the rise and decline of the War on Poverty and the Model Cities program

This title is a classic work on social reform. It is an account of the origins and development of community action from its beginnings in the Ford Foundation Gray Area Programs and the President's Committee on Juvenile Delinquency, through the rise and decline of the War on Poverty and the Model Cities program

One of the first books to be published in the UK on bereavement, this ground-breaking study presents the results of a survey of widows in London.

This book is a study of the pattern of social life which developed in the slums of central Lagos; and of the effects of a compulsory slum clearance scheme on the lives of those who were removed.