Social Policy for Social Work

This book is a concise, accessible guide to help social workers understand how politics and policy making really work-and what they can do to help ...

Written by a leading expert, this book examines equality issues in the City of London, arguing that social hiring practices in the City favour affl...

Reducere. All the Feelings Under the Sun: How to Deal With Climate Change is a timely, thoughtful book that will help young readers work through their feelin...

America has a long history of diplomacy-ranging from Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, and Thomas Jefferson to Henry Kissinger, Ronald Reagan,...

This book unravels the lives, needs and experiences of Nigerian and Ghanaian women working in prostitution in Brussels. It will be of particular in...

This book chronicles the evolution of women's participation in the labour force in Ireland over the last five decades. It will be a valuable resour...

Reducere. The present enquiry is an Indo-centric approach to study the extension of Copenhagen School related to Securitisation of the Cyber domain and Cyber...

Reducere. How do ideas change practices and people? In Ideas That Changed Literacy Practices 32 influential scholars in literacy education get personal about...

Reducere. Health Care Social Work aims to directly empower health care social workers around the world by providing valuable new information about the breadt...

Reducere. The fourth edition of Community Organizing and Community Building for Health and Social Equity provides both classic and recent contributions to th...

Reducere. Right People, Right Skills, Right Time -- "This is the future of work"WorkforceRx is a collection of proven workforce development strategies refine...

Reducere. In this new and thoroughly revised edition of Career Diplomacy, Foreign Service veterans Harry W. Kopp and John K. Naland lay out what to expect in...

Reducere. This book goes deep behind the scenes of school privatization campaigns to expose the complex networks of funding that sustain these efforts - ofte...

In order to be well-governed, a democracy needs voters who are fluent in the language of economics and who can do some quantitative analysis of soc...

Reducere. How can we transform society in a way that unleashes its positive, creative potentials, instead of its violent, destructive ones? Unlearn shows how...

This Handbook shows that Business History is a wide-ranging and dynamic area of study, producing compelling empirical data, which has sometimes con...

Provides a comprehensive theoretical and practical guide to non-directive play therapy, which is an effective method of helping troubled children a...

Reducere. Christians in the United States are on a quest for good food. And yet, at every turn, they confront brokenness in the food system. Access to health...

This volume will look into some macro factors that have an impact on gender conceptualizations in China. First, China is a highly-centralized state...

Written from the perspective of an insider of the most prominent events in the Middle East over the last fifty years, this book examines Egypt's di...

Reducere. Democracy Unchained draws upon lessons from Professor Richard Dien Winfield's 2018 campaign for US Congress in Georgia to show how the United State...

Krumer-Nevo provides a new framework for people working with and for people in poverty: The Poverty-Aware Paradigm. This book details its extensive...

Transitions and the Lifecourse investigates and challenges dominant interpretations of transitions in late life. Amanda Grenier takes a cross-natio...

Reducere. Most people get information about child sexual abuse from media coverage, social movements, or conversations with family and friends. Confronting C...

This perceptive collection explores ableism in academia from the viewpoint of academics' personal and professional experiences and scholarship. Thr...

Reducere. As Protestant denominations are fracturing over whether to ordain gays and lesbians, this work looks at The United Methodist Church's conversations...

Reducere. A plea for the social efficacy of the neighborhood and its ecologyThe pressure is on: people move to cities in ever-growing numbers. So we build ne...

Reducere. Court of Injustice reveals how immigration lawyers work to achieve just results for their clients in a system that has long denigrated the rights o...

Reducere. Distinguished diplomat Ambassador Wendy Sherman brings readers inside the negotiating room to show how to put diplomatic values like courage, power...

Austerity has been at the center of political controversy following the 2008 financial crisis, invoked by politicians and academics across the poli...

Reducere. "One of the most important books on Israel/Palestine in this generation."--The New York Review of BooksSupport for Israel's occupation of Palestini...

This work presents an examination of the legal developments made in wage regulations within the United Kingdom. The period that has been chosen for...

Arts Integration and Special Education contributes to research, policy, and practice by providing a theory of action for studying how linguistic, c...

This attractive and accessible textbook analyses and examines the policies, services and practice skills needed for collaborative, effective and eq...

Aiming to help overcome difficulties arising from the lack of an agreed vocabulary, this reference work is useful for researchers, students and pol...

Reducere. From one of the leading policy experts of our time, an urgent rethinking of how we can better support each other to thrive Whether we realize it or...

Reducere. Verna J. Kirkness grew up on the Fisher River Indian reserve in Manitoba. Her childhood dream to be a teacher set her on a lifelong journey in educ...

Reducere. About the AuthorVic Brown enjoyed a 30-year career in the chemical industry with FMC Corporation, where he held a number of senior positions and wo...

They consider the role of ethical commitment in the philosophical analysis of contemporary political issues, and engage with matters of public poli...

Reducere. Now a National Bestseller.To get ahead today, you have to be a jerk, right?Divisive politicians. Screaming heads on television. Angry campus activi...

In this book, researcher Matthew Gibson reviews the role of shame and pride in social work, providing invaluable new insights from the first study ...

This book imaginatively explores ways in which practitioners and social work educators might develop more critical and radical ways of theorising a...

Advising in austerity provides a lively and thought-provoking account of the conditions, consequences and challenges of advice work in the UK. It e...

DescriptionTwo leading figures from the world of finance show how progressives can take their money away from conservative financial institutions a...

DescriptionWritten from the perspective of an insider of the most prominent events in the Middle East over the last fifty years, this book examines...

Packed full of case studies, activities and tools for real-life practice, this book covers all the main topics in the first year of both the underg...

Reducere. The battle of Tannenberg (August 27-30, 1914) opened World War I with a decisive German victory over Russia--indeed the Kaiser's only clear-cut vic...

This book updates and revalidates critical political economy of communication approaches. It is destined to become a work of reference for those in...

This book honors Cornelia Bodea, academician, scholar, professor, teacher, and, above all, friend and colleague to three generations of American an...

Reducere. Since it first appeared in 1978, this seminal work by one of the foremost American legal minds of our age has dramatically changed the way the cour...

Teachers and leaders from curriculum areas across the sector will find scenarios and anecdotes that resonate in this book; timetabling, accountabil...

To celebrate the 35th anniversary of the seminal text Radical Social Work (1975), this volume has been compiled to explore the radical tradition wi...

As many social inequalities widen, this is a crucial survey of local authorities' evolving role in health, social care and wellbeing. Health and so...

Allison Davis (1902-83), a preeminent black scholar and social science pioneer, is perhaps best known for his groundbreaking investigations into in...

Reducere. Essentials of Social Work Management and Leadership: A Competency-Based Approach helps students not only build critical knowledge but also cultivat...

DescriptionAmericans constantly make moral judgments about presidents and foreign policy. Unfortunately, many of these assessments are poorly thoug...

DescriptionOne thing the past year's public conversations about sexual assault have started to make clear is just how much energy women put into si...

Reducere. The social arrangements with which we are familiar work fairly well for most of us most of the time. We work, we earn, we pay taxes. We engage prof...

Reducere. Tools for Radical Democracy is an essential resource for grassroots organizers and leaders, students of activism and advocacy, and anyone trying to...

Reducere. Well before the creation of the United States, the Cherokee people administered their own social policy--a form of what today might be called socia...

Reducere. Clear, comprehensive, and accessible, this textbook presents an overview of the contemporary American mental health system and its impact on client...

Partisan warfare and gridlock in Washington threaten to squander America's opportunity to show the world that democracy can solve serious economic ...

Reducere. Emerging policy changes are encouraging adoption of a team-based approach to healthcare, yet most healthcare professionals receive little training ...

This work offers a new interpretation of the United Progressive Alliance's (2004-14) radical agenda for the religious minorities. It uses an instit...

This accessible book provides an overview of trauma-informed care and related neuroscience research across populations. The book explains how traum...

Reducere. This clear and accessible guide√>=written by social workers for social workers√>=describes the most current developments in neuroscience and their ...

Population Health: Management, Policy and Innovation, Second Edition builds upon the work in the First Edition. The institutions of healthcare and ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. This book is a testament to the power of collaborative, liberatory approaches to research, curriculum, and pedagogy. As scholars, educators, and ac...

Considered the classic source in its field, DIRECT SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE: THEORY AND SKILLS prepares you for effective real-world practice. Packed w...