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  • Centrifugal Disasters

    Trajectories of Vulnerability, Recovery and Resilience

    by Jacquleen Joseph, Surinder Jaswal ...
    This book focuses on centrifugal disasters that impact a group of seemingly unconnected people congregated temporarily often by chance, unlike centripetal disasters that strike an extant community of people. In India as well as in South Asia, centrifugal disasters have increased significantly in the last few decades; however, the research remains limited as such incidents are often categorized as ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Counter-Memory, Hope and Aspirations

    A Case Study of 26/11 Mumbai Terror Attack

    by Jacquleen Joseph, Surinder K. P. Jaswal, Allan Mathew Alex, Lavanya Shanbhogue Arvind ...
    This book explores the voices of terror-attack survivors, focusing on their experiences of hope and hopelessness, memory and counter-memory, and aspirations and counter aspirations. It establishes linkages between the three to understand how they can be structured into a framework to aid terror survivors.Focusing on the survivors of the 26/11 Mumbai attacks of 2008, the book explores how hope, ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Social Exclusion in Cross-National Perspective

    Actors, Actions, and Impacts from Above and Below

    Edited by Robert J. Chaskin, Bong Joo Lee, Surinder Jaswal ...
    Series series International Policy Exchange Series
    Global processes have an increasing influence on local contexts and the nature and distribution of opportunities among populations across the globe. While capital and population mobility, advances in information and communications technology, and economic liberalization have fostered economic development, industrialization, and wealth for some, they have also engendered growing inequalities in ... Read more

    $62.09 USD

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  • Big Gods

    How Religion Transformed Cooperation and Conflict

    by Ara Norenzayan ...
    How did human societies scale up from small, tight-knit groups of hunter-gatherers to the large, anonymous, cooperative societies of today--even though anonymity is the enemy of cooperation? How did organized religions with "Big Gods"--the great monotheistic and polytheistic faiths--spread to colonize most minds in the world? In Big Gods, Ara Norenzayan makes the surprising and provocative ... Read more

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  • Interprofessional Ethics

    Collaboration in the Social, Health and Human Services

    by Donna McAuliffe ...
    The social work, health and human services sectors employ a variety of professionals to provide care to people. There is an increasing need for practitioners to be skilled in ethical decision making as the professional practice context becomes more complex and concerned with risk management. Interprofessional Ethics explores the ethical frameworks, policies and procedures of professional practice ... Read more

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  • The Right to Maim

    Debility, Capacity, Disability

    by Jasbir K. Puar ...
    Series series ANIMA
    In The Right to Maim Jasbir K. Puar brings her pathbreaking work on the liberal state, sexuality, and biopolitics to bear on our understanding of disability. Drawing on a stunning array of theoretical and methodological frameworks, Puar uses the concept of “debility”—bodily injury and social exclusion brought on by economic and political factors—to disrupt the category of disability. She shows how ... Read more

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  • Diversity, Culture and Counselling

    A Canadian Perspective

    by M. Honore France, Mara del Carmen Rodriguez, Geoffrey G. Hett ...
    A uniquely Canadian approach to multicultural counsellingIn a country as diverse as Canada, a multicultural counselling approach provides an essential starting point for working with people from different ethnicities, sexualities, gender identities, abilities and religious backgrounds. Bringing Canadian perspectives to the field of multicultural counselling, this collection provides practical ... Read more

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  • Life Skills Education for Youth

    Critical Perspectives

    Edited by Joan DeJaeghere, Erin Murphy-Graham ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This open access volume critically reviews a diverse body of scholarship and practice that informs the conceptualization, curriculum, teaching and measurement of life skills in education settings around the world. It discusses life skills as they are implemented in schools and non-formal education, providing both qualitative and quantitative evidence of when, with whom, and how life skills do or ... Read more

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  • Terror, Love and Brainwashing

    Attachment in Cults and Totalitarian Systems

    by Alexandra Stein ...
    This book explains how people can be radically manipulated by extreme groups and leaders to engage in incomprehensible and often dangerous acts through psychologically isolating situations of extreme social influence. These methods are used in totalitarian states, terrorist groups and cults, as well as in controlling personal relationships.Illustrated with compelling stories from a range of cults ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

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  • Psychosocial Capacity Building in Response to Disasters

    by Joshua Miller, , Ph.D. ...
    Disaster responders treat more than just the immediate emotional and psychological trauma of victims: they empower individuals and families to heal themselves long into a disaster's aftermath. This requires helping survivors to rebuild their ability to meet their emotional and psychological needs, not only for themselves but also for others, which necessitates a careful consideration of survivors' ... Read more

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  • The Diversity Of Worldviews Among Young Adults

    Contemporary (Non)Religiosity And Spirituality Through The Lens Of An International Mixed Method Study

    Edited by Peter Nynäs, Ariela Keysar, Janne Kontala, Ben-Willie Kwaku Golo, Mika T. Lassander, Marat Shterin, Sofia Sjö, Paul Stenner ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This open access volume features a data-rich portrait of what young adults think about the world. It collects the views of students in higher education from various cultural regions, religious traditions, linguistic groups, and political systems. This will help readers better understand a generation that will soon rise to power and influence.The analysis focuses on 12 countries. These include ... Read more

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