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  • The Child Welfare Challenge

    Policy, Practice, and Research

    by Peter J. Pecora, James K. Whittaker, Richard P. Barth, Sharon Borja, William Vesneski ...
    Series series Modern Applications of Social Work Series
    Using both historical and contemporary contexts, The Child Welfare Challenge examines major policy practice and research issues as they jointly shape child welfare practice and its future. This text focuses on families and children whose primary recourse to services has been through publicly funded child welfare agencies, and considers historical areas of service—foster care and adoptions, in-home ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Evaluating Family-Based Services

    Edited by Peter J. Pecora ...
    Family-based service (FBS) programs have been developing rapidly across the country at a time of increasingly scarce human resources and in a politically volatile climate. Such a context has made evaluation of such programs imperative. The present volume reviews basic elements of evaluation in the light of current knowledge and then highlights the most useful research instruments for measuring ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

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    by Jimmy Holland ...
    Jimmy Holland was born into a family suffering at the hands of their drunk and abusive father. At the age of just two weeks, he was placed into care. The beginning of a life lived in a constantly changing environment of homes, authorities and institutions began. Let down and frequently abused, it wasn't long before Jimmy strayed onto the wrong side of the tracks. Before long, the mould for a ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • The Great Leveler

    Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century

    by Walter Scheidel ...
    Series series The Princeton Economic History of the Western World
    How only violence and catastrophes have consistently reduced inequality throughout world historyAre mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To judge by thousands of years of history, the answer is yes. Tracing the global history of inequality from the Stone Age to today, Walter Scheidel shows that inequality never dies peacefully. Inequality ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

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  • Child Poverty in New Zealand

    by Jonathan Boston ...
    Jonathan Boston and Simon Chapple have written the definitive book on child poverty in New Zealand. Dr Russell Wills, Children’s CommissionerBetween 130,000 and 285,000 New Zealand children live in poverty, depending on the measure used. These disturbing figures are widely discussed, yet often poorly understood. If New Zealand does not have ‘third world poverty’, what are these children actually ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Social Work

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Sally Holland, Jonathan Scourfield ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Social workers spend their time trying to ease social suffering. They encounter the extreme casualties of social inequality: the victims of poverty, illness, addiction, and abuse; they work with abusers and offenders; and operate in the space between the State and the poor or marginalized. Social work is replete with vivid human stories: the troubled teenage boy who cannot settle in a foster home; ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Divided

    The Perils of Our Growing Inequality

    by Adam Smith, Elizabeth Warren, Barbara Ehrenreich, Joseph E. Stiglitz, Paul Krugman, Barack Obama ...
    Essays on the dangers of the wealth and income gap, collected by the New York Times–bestselling author of It's Even Worse Than You Think.This collection includes writings by a wide range of voices—including Adam Smith, Elizabeth Warren, Barbara Ehrenreich, Joseph E. Stiglitz, Studs Terkel, Paul Krugman, Barack Obama, and David Cay Johnston—illuminating the reality of economic inequality in America ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Understanding Autism

    Parents, Doctors, and the History of a Disorder

    by Chloe Silverman ...
    How the love and labor of parents have changed our understanding of autismAutism has attracted a great deal of attention in recent years, thanks to dramatically increasing rates of diagnosis, extensive organizational mobilization, journalistic coverage, biomedical research, and clinical innovation. Understanding Autism, a social history of the expanding diagnostic category of this contested ... Read more

    $41.79 USD

  • Do Americans Believe Capitalism and Government are Working?: Religious Left, Religious Right and the Future of the Economic Debate

    by Robert P. Jones ...
    Greed, lack of equal opportunity, poverty and lasting inequality are the reasons more than 4-in-10 (42 percent) Americans say capitalism is not working well, a major new national survey finds. The survey, which explores Americans' views on faith, values and the economy, also finds that only the oldest Americans believe they are better off than their parents' generation. ... Read more

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  • A Practical Guide to Caring for Children and Teenagers with Attachment Difficulties

    by Chris Taylor ...
    This book guides childcare professionals through attachment theory and provides techniques for caring for children with attachment difficulties.It explains what attachment is, what different patterns of attachment look like in children and young people, how early attachment experiences affect their lives, and how this understanding can help childcare workers to develop therapeutic ways of caring. ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Police Culture in a Changing World

    by Bethan Loftus ...
    Series series Clarendon Studies in Criminology
    This fascinating new title offers an ethnographical investigation of contemporary police culture based on extensive field work across a range of ranks and units in the UK's police force. By drawing on over 600 hours of direct observation of operational policing in urban and rural areas and interviews with over 60 officers, the author assesses what impact three decades of social, economic and ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • Eating Disorder Recovery Handbook

    A Practical Guide to Long-Term Recovery

    by Emma Bacon, Nicola Davies ...
    This empathetic handbook has been created for people affected by any form of disordered eating. Thoughtfully compiled by experienced authors, it will be a comprehensive guide through every stage of your recovery, from recognising and understanding your disorder and learning fully about treatment, to self-help tools and practical advice for maintaining recovery and looking to the future.Each ... Read more

    $20.49 USD