Social Policy for Social Work

Drawing together a team of expert contributors from across the sector to offer contemporary descriptions and critical reflection of practice in hig...

Practical Pedagogy expands the universe of teaching and learning. It provides an accessible guide to new and emerging innovations in education, wit...

Using real-life examples, this book enables practitioners and students to consider the ethics and assess the impact of social media on their profes...

In this work, Amrita Narlikar argues that, contrary to common assumption, modern-day politics displays a surprising paradox: poverty - and the powe...

Reducere. A Space for Race engages in a critical examination of some of the major discourses related to original/settler/immigrant and, particularly, raciali...

City planning is a practice and a profession. It is also a set of goals and--sometimes utopian--aspirations. Formal thought about the shaping of ci...

Ranging from Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, and Thomas Jefferson to Henry Kissinger, Ronald Reagan, and James Baker, America in the World t...

This publication collects contributions to understanding and addressing migration flows from Africa to Europe and supporting social coexistence in ...

DescriptionThis book is a collection of work on aging and development from authors from the global south. Aging is steadily evolving as a public he...

DescriptionProviding insight into current research, and comprehensive guidance on recent legislation and policy, this key text offers anyone workin...

This new and fully updated second edition of Critical Issues in Contemporary Japan provides undergraduate and graduate students with an interdiscip...

This book challenges the current child protection culture and calls for family-minded humane practice where children are understood as relational b...

DescriptionCompassion traces the ways in which various societies across the globe have responded to the vulnerable among them from early human hist...

Reducere. DescriptionThis book explores how Diasporic Black women engage in politics, highlighting three dimensions--citizenship, power, and justice--that ar...

Reducere. This volume explores how consumption and entertainment change cities, but it reverses the 'normal' causal process. That is, many chapters analyze h...

Reducere. The third edition of this landmark work adds forty new documents, which cover the significant developments in American Indian affairs since 1988. A...

DescriptionIf you are embarking on a university nursing or midwifery degree, the books in this series will help you acquire and develop the knowled...

This exciting and practical book is filled to the brim with useful ideas for busy practitioners. Building on the work of Paulo Freire, theories are...

DescriptionA moving, cross-national account of working mothers' daily lives--and the revolution in public policy and culture needed to improve them...

Reducere. DescriptionPlato's most famous work and one of the most important books ever written on the subject of philosophy and political theory, "The Republ...

First published in 1976, Supervision in Social Work has become an essential text for social work educators and students, detailing the state of the...

Reducere. This unique edited collection addresses issues impacting the well-being of LGBTQ individuals with diverse identities to help students, practitioner...

This is the first book about the intermediary scheme, criminal justice's untold 'good news story'. It provides a comprehensive explanation of how i...

An introduction to the diverse settings of social work, detailing the relevant policy context, methods and approaches.Publisher: Open University Pr...

Written for the HNC in Social Care, this work covers the six mandatory units and three SVQ units. It focuses on supporting students with completing...

Reducere. This second edition of the authoritative Readings in Arkansas Politics and Government brings together in one volume some of the best available scho...

Reducere. The papers on psychoanalytic technique by Ella Sharpe (1875 -1947) are reprinted. There are five original clinical essays by Eric Rayner, Victor Se...

Reducere. Elinor C. Ostrom won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2009, with recognition for her path-breaking work on institutions organized to address common-...

Reducere. The Council on Foreign Relations is the most influential foreign-policy think tank in the United States, claiming among its members a high percenta...

Why should some have the right to pass power? What would happen without government? How much power should the state have? An ideal introduction for...

DescriptionDisability Studies in Education (DSE) provides a useful and compelling framework for re-envisioning the possibility of education for all...

Reducere. DescriptionSocial factors, signals, and biases shape the health of our nation. Racism and poverty manifest in unequal social, environmental, and ec...

Authoring a PhD is a complex process. It involves having creative ideas, working out how to organize them, writing up from plans, upgrading the tex...

This new text illuminates the essential information about health and social work critical to understanding today's complex health care systems and ...

Reducere. As older adults and their families opt out of nursing homes, a range of home and community-based services (HCBS) have risen up to provide care. HCB...

DescriptionIn Ensuring Poverty, Felicia Kornbluh and Gwendolyn Mink assess the gendered history of welfare reform. They foreground arguments advanc...

DescriptionNorth America's Indigenous population is a vulnerable group, with specific psychological and healing needs that are not widely met in th...

Reducere. DescriptionIt is a curious situation that technologies we now take for granted have, when first introduced, so often stoked public controversy and ...

DescriptionIt's been called the root of all evil, and many other things besides, but what exactly does money mean? Where does it come from, and how...

Reducere. DescriptionIn Working the Planning Table, Ronald M. Cervero and Arthur L. Wilson offer a theory that accounts for planners' lived experience and pr...

Description"Powerful as well as highly engaging--a brilliant book."--Amartya SenA Times Higher Education Book of the WeekIt may sound crazy to pay ...

DescriptionAmerica's criminal justice policy reflects irrational fears stoked by politicians seeking to win election. A preeminent legal scholar ar...

Reducere. In the Bernie Sanders Guide to Political Revolution, Independent congressman, presidential candidate and activist Bernie Sanders continues his figh...

Contributor(s): Author: Zbigniew BrzezinskiBestselling author and eminent foreign policy scholar Zbigniew Brzezinski's classic book on American's s...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Mr Craig MurrayCraig Murray's tale of his Ambassadorship to Tashkent became an instant bestseller and is now a classic in s...

DescriptionIn a classic work, Samuel P. Huntington challenges most of the old assumptions and ideas on the role of the military in society. Stressi...

Contributor(s): Editor: Lois BraggTo many who hear, the deaf world is as foreign as a country never visited. Deaf World thus concerns itself less w...

A deftly crafted insider account of how congressional committees really work, updated for 2021Publisher: The University of Michigan PressAuthor(s):...

Political Communication and Social Theory presents an advanced and challenging text for students and scholars of political communication and mass m...

In What We Made, Tom Finkelpearl examines the activist, participatory, coauthored aesthetic experiences being created in contemporary art. He sugge...

What happens when students actually choose to learn outside the classroom? They become independent, lifelong learners, who never need to be told: `...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Alison Weir"Prodigiously documented... Alison Weir must be highly commended for throwing such a brilliantly hard light on t...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Bs MR David Marx JdWe're going to hurt each other ... It's a fact of life, a cost of doing business. On the bright side, we...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Daniel WeismanAuthor: Joseph ZornadoThis invaluable guide helps social workers develop the writing skills necessary for a s...

Martin Davies brings together contributors from a range of universities and practice backgrounds to provide incisive perspectives on this complex f...

Reducere. If the confusion following the last presidential election is any indication, the average citizen knows precious little about the democratic system ...

Reducere. Originally published in June of 1850, this book which is now more than one-hundred fifty years old is still one of the most popular books published...

Reducere. When the stability of American life was threatened by the Great Depression, the decisive and visionary policy contained in FDR's New Deal offered A...

Reducere. Renowned social justice advocate john a. powell persuasively argues that we have not achieved a post-racial society and that there is much work to ...

This is the first part of a two-volume work which will provide an authoritative UK-wide account from the initial settlement under New Labour in 199...

Reducere. One of the most talked-about books in years, A Nation of Victims established Charles Sykes as a persuasive, witty, and controversial commentator on...

In the eighth century, Wu Jing selected exchanges between Emperor Taizong and his ministers that he deemed key to good governance. This collection ...

Reducere. Diversity, Oppression, and Change, Third Edition provides a culturally grounded approach to practice, policy, and research in social work and allie...

DescriptionHospital Social Work introduces the reader to the world of medicine and social work as seen through the eyes of actual social workers. A...

DescriptionWhat is it like to live a life that is impossible? For many sex workers, life is lived at the crossroads of exclusion and assimilation, ...

Reducere. Over the past several decades, the Social Security Administration has tested many new policies and programs. These demonstrations have covered most...

Franklin D. Roosevelt is frequently described as one of the greatest presidents in American history, remembered for his leadership during the Great...

This book describes version 4 of CATS CM(R). This methodology for contract managementcan be used in both private and public sector organizations, a...

Reducere. How social security disability law is out of touch with the contemporary American labor market Passing down nearly a million decisions each year, m...

As the planet's human numbers grow and environmental concerns proliferate, natural scientists, economists, and policy-makers are increasingly turni...