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  • Social Work and Human Development

    by Janet Walker, Nigel Horner ...
    Series series Transforming Social Work Practice Series
    Social work engages with people across the life course, and social workers are expected to work with groups of people at very different stages of their life. Developing a thorough understanding of human growth to encompass the whole of the life course is therefore a central part of all qualifying social work training and practice.A clear favourite among students and lecturers, this bestselling ... Read more

    $45.89 USD

  • What You Didn't Learn in Trucking School

    The Trucker's Little Book of Etiquette

    by Janet Walker ...
    WHAT YOU DIDN'T LEARN IN TRUCKING SCHOOL is a refreshingly frank and delightful pocket guide that offers practical advice and etiquette tips for truck drivers.Being a truck driver is not easy. Truckers' challenges include working long hours, being hundreds of miles from home and constantly trying to avoid or prevent hazards on the roadway. The biggest complaint truck drivers have? Other truck ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Routledge International Handbook of Glocal Social Work

    Edited by Panagiotis Pentaris, Janet Walker ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    Global challenges, opportunities, and developing new social phenomena have always had an impact on and change the circumstances under which social work is practised. Whilst social work can take many "local" forms, it is also a global profession which strives to advance the causes of vulnerable and marginalised people with the aim of promoting human rights and social justice. In recent years, the ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Practice Education in Social Work

    A Handbook for Practice Teachers, Assessors and Educators

    by Janet Walker, Karin Crawford, Jonathan Parker ...
    Series series Post-Qualifying Social Work Practice Series
    Written specifically for practice educators, this book examines contemporary theories and knowledge in practice learning, teaching and education, with a clear emphasis on developing the skills and practice of the individual. Another key focus of the book is to help readers to reflect on the implications of this for their role as practice educators, giving them the time and space to make proactive ... Read more

    $69.29 USD

  • Social Work with Older People

    by Janet Walker, Karin Crawford ...
    Series series Transforming Social Work Practice Series
    This second edition looks in detail at the role of the social worker who engages with older people. It enables the reader to develop the key skills required to understand the mental and physical needs of older people in society while encouraging plenty of discussion and critical, independent thought. Furthermore, this book is a source of contemporary research and offers the reader insights into ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Westerns

    Films through History

    Edited by Janet Walker ...
    Series series AFI Film Readers
    The cowboys and Indians, sheriffs and outlaws, schoolmarms and barkeeps of Western films have wholly transformed our ideas about the reality of the American frontier. Westerns is the first book to consider seriously the historical meanings and functions of the Western film genre. In Westerns , leading scholars unpack the ways in which the form has embellished, mythologized, and erased past events. ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Sustainable Media

    Critical Approaches to Media and Environment

    Edited by Nicole Starosielski, Janet Walker ...
    Sustainable Media explores the many ways that media and environment are intertwined from the exploitation of natural and human resources during media production to the installation and disposal of media in the landscape; from people’s engagement with environmental issues in film, television, and digital media to the mediating properties of ecologies themselves. Edited by Nicole Starosielski and ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Documentary Testimonies

    Global Archives of Suffering

    Edited by Bhaskar Sarkar, Janet Walker ...
    Series series AFI Film Readers
    Documentary Testimonies examines documentary films that compel us to bear witness, move us to anger or tears, and possibly mobilize us to action.Comprising ten new essays and a substantive introduction, this interdisciplinary volume examines audiovisual testimonial practices, forms, and institutions. Topics include: technologies of capture, storage and circulation; problems of historical veracity ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

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    Under One Roof: The Complete Series 1-10

    A Full-Cast BBC Radio Comedy Drama

    by Michele Hanson, Jenny Landreth, Sally Worboyes, Mike Walker, Wendy Lee ...
    Narrated by Janet Maw, Edna Dore, Luisa Bradshaw-White, Paola Dionisotti ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 17 min

    A light-hearted comedy drama about a mother, daughter and grandmother living together under one roof – based on the stories by Guardian columnist Michele HansonWhat does it feel like to be middle-aged? For Gillian it feels like being twenty-seven in your own head, sixty-five in the mirror, ninety to your children and your mother still thinking you're twelve…Gillian lives with her 19-year-old ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

  • Oxford Handbook of Midwifery

    Edited by Janet Medforth, Linda Ball, Angela Walker, Sue Battersby, Sarah Stables ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks in Nursing
    Now in its third edition the Oxford Handbook of Midwifery continues to be the essential one-stop guide to the key principles of the care and management of pregnancy, birth and beyond. Concise yet comprehensive, with its recognisable and easy-to-use Oxford Handbook format, midwives will find this a treasure trove of clear, practical guidance. Whether you are a student needing a helping hand through ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

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    Sinking the Sultana

    A Civil War Story of Imprisonment, Greed, and a Doomed Journey Home

    by Sally M. Walker ...
    Narrated by Janet Metzger ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 7 min

    The worst maritime disaster in American history wasn’t the Titanic. It was the steamboat Sultana on the Mississippi River—and it was completely preventable.In 1865, the Civil War was winding down and the country was reeling from Lincoln’s assassination. Thousands of Union soldiers, released from Confederate prisoner-of-war camps, were to be transported home on the steamboat Sultana. With a profit ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Neuroqueer Heresies

    Notes on the Neurodiversity Paradigm, Autistic Empowerment, and Postnormal Possibilities

    by Nick Walker ...
    Narrated by Janet Metzger ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 16 min

    The work of queer autistic scholar Nick Walker has played a key role in the evolving discourse on human neurodiversity.Neuroqueer Heresies collects a decade's worth of Dr. Walker's most influential writings, along with new commentary by the author and new material on her radical conceptualization of Neuroqueer Theory.This book is essential for anyone seeking to understand the foundations, ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook