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  • Unravelling Sussex

    Around the County in Riddles

    by Tony Ward ...
    If you enjoy puzzle solving you will enjoy the novel approach of Unravelling Sussex. Based on Tony Ward's Poetry+ series in Sussex Life, each famous Sussex person or place is introduced by a 'puzzle-poem'. The challenge is to unravel the embedded clues, solved by the chapter that follows. This innovative little book brings new life to the aims 'to inform, educate and entertain'. ... Read more

    $10.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Twelve Feet Tall

    by Tony Ward ...
    Ireland may be a powerhouse in international rugby in 2015, with its club teams of Leinster, Munster and Ulster perennially performing brilliantly in Europe, but to many people of a certain age the late 1970s and early 1980s were a golden period, too. Even though the sport was thrillingly amateurish in spirit as well as organisation, their most famous club win, arguably, was a thrilling ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • More Than Just Memories

    by Tony Ward ...
    Rites of passage, troubled voices, love and loss, nature, heroes, war, environmental crises. Tony Ward’s poems invite us to relive the experiences, triumphs, and tragedies that waymark our lives and that of our planet.This is a collection of two halves. Thirty-one of the poems have been previously published in various forms, broadcast on local radio, appeared on film, or won prizes, the other ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Whacker McCracker's Vineyard

    by Tony Ward ...
    In Whacker McCracker's Cafe we first met the utterly original ex-Auckland businessman who escaped his five predatory ex-wives by moving to Waiheke Island to open a simple little cafe and start a new life. Whacker's hilarious first year on the island created colourful mayhem - but that was nothing compared to what happens when his eccentric aunt moves to Waiheke from Gore and buys a new vineyard. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Sport in Australian National Identity

    Kicking Goals

    by Tony Ward ...
    Series series Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives
    For many Australians, there are two great passions: sport and ‘taking the piss’. This book is about national identity – and especially about Australia’s image as a sporting country. Whether reverent or not, any successful national image has to reflect something about the reality of the country. But it is also influenced by the reasons that people have for encouraging particular images – and by the ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • State Crime

    Governments, Violence and Corruption

    What is state crime? This book sets out the parameters of state crime and highlights the complex issues involved. The authors provide a clear chapter-by-chapter assessment of state violence, corruption, state involvement in organised and corporate crime, avoidable 'natural' disasters, torture, criminal policing, war crimes and genocide.Penny Green and Tony Ward put forward a powerful argument ... Read more

    $33.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cognitive Psychodynamics as an Integrative Framework in Counselling Psychology and Psychotherapy

    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This book proposes a novel method of combining the current approaches to counselling and psychotherapy into one coherent framework. The authors argue that the cognitive behavioural tradition (largely focused on thought patterns) and the psychodynamic approach (centred on the client’s experience and relationships), can be successfully integrated with insights from cognitive neuroscience, to form a ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • The Good Lives Model of Correctional Rehabilitation

    Integrating Theory, Research, and Practice

    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    The book examines the Good Lives Model (GLM) of correctional rehabilitation and its dual aims of risk reduction and well-being enhancement for individuals who have committed crimes. It describes the use of individuals’ prioritized values in intervention plans and to capitalize on and further develop their strengths and reduce the risk for future offending. The book directly addresses the ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Culture and Child Protection

    Reflexive Responses

    Providing services that are culturally relevant is an ongoing challenge for practitioners, managers, and policy-makers within the social services. Culture and Child Protection is a concise exploration of the close links between social service practices and cultural values which offers a culturally sensitive model of child protection practice.The authors demonstrate the ways in which a combination ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Transitions to Better Lives

    Offender Readiness and Rehabilitation

    Transitions to Better Lives aims to describe, collate, and summarize a body of recent research – both theoretical and empirical – that explores the issue of treatment readiness in offender programming. It is divided into three sections:part one unpacks a model of treatment readiness, and explains how it has been operationalizedpart two discusses how the construct has been applied to the treatment ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • State Crime and Civil Activism

    On the Dialectics of Repression and Resistance

    Series series Crimes of the Powerful
    State Crime and Civil Activism explores the work of non-government organisations (NGOs) challenging state violence and corruption in six countries – Colombia, Tunisia, Kenya, Turkey, Myanmar and Papua New Guinea. It discusses the motives and methods of activists, and how they document and criticise wrongdoing by governments. It documents the dialectical process by which repression stimulates and ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Rehabilitation

    Series series Key Ideas in Criminology
    Over the last two decades, empirical evidence has increasingly supported the view that it is possible to reduce re-offending rates by rehabilitating offenders rather than simply punishing them. In fact, the pendulum’s swing back from a pure punishment model to a rehabilitation model is arguably one of the most significant events in modern correctional policy. This comprehensive review argues that ... Read more

    $68.99 USD