Social welfare & social services books

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Care Leaves and Care Time for All: Towards Caring Democracies, Economies, and Worlds

Care Leaves and Care Time for All: Towards Caring Democracies,...

Author: Andrea Doucet (Brock University) ,  Peter Moss (Institute of Education, University College London)
ISBN: 9781447375272
Format: Paperback
$26.95

What if care was at the heart of how we organise our societies and economies? This timely book challenges the narrow...  Read More >>

Strategic Management of Cooperatives: An Organizational Economics Approach

Strategic Management of Cooperatives: An Organizational...

Author: Jongick Jang
ISBN: 9789819574285
Format: Hardback
$316.77

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Normative Problems in the Conditional Model of Social Protection

Normative Problems in the Conditional Model of Social...

Author: Facundo García Valverde ,  Gottfried Schweiger
ISBN: 9783032152541
Format: Hardback
$284.60

This book discusses conditionality in social policy from normative, ethical, and philosophical perspectives. It...  Read More >>

Geringe Literalität, hohe Relevanz: Neue Wege für die Sozialforschung

Geringe Literalität, hohe Relevanz: Neue Wege für die...

Author: Nina Weimann-Sandig ,  Harald Wagner
ISBN: 9783658500580
Format: Paperback
$211.17

Wenngleich immer von „der“ geringen Literalität gesprochen wird, weisen die Befunde vieler Forschungsarbeiten, darunter...  Read More >>

Disability Inclusion & Rehabilitation in Modern India: Practical Approaches and Strategies for Inclusive Development

Disability Inclusion & Rehabilitation in Modern India:...

Author: Shalini Garg
ISBN: 9789819556236
Format: Hardback
$362.22

This book delves into the intricacies of disability inclusion and rehabilitation in modern India across all sectors....  Read More >>

Media Literacy and Mental Health Care Access

Media Literacy and Mental Health Care Access

Author: Jesse Scaccia
ISBN: 9781666965094
Format: Hardback
$160.00

In this book, Jesse Scaccia argues that while courses that teach students how news, media, and social media might...  Read More >>

Crises, Displacement, and Foreign Aid in the Horn of Africa

Crises, Displacement, and Foreign Aid in the Horn of...

Author: Dolapo Fakuade (University of Derby) ,  Erman Akilli (Ankara Haci Bayram Veli University)
ISBN: 9781666971576
Format: Hardback
$180.00

Analyzing the ongoing regional crises across Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Somalia, this book examines crisis-induced...  Read More >>

A Murderer's Guide to Cleaning: And Other Stories From My Life As A Probation Officer

A Murderer's Guide to Cleaning: And Other Stories From...

Author: Elizabeth Baxter
ISBN: 9781836431671
Format: Hardback
$39.99

Could you sit across from a murderer, listen to their crimes, empathise and help them change? Welcome to the Probation...  Read More >>

Schule an der Grenze der Toleranz: Soziologische Untersuchung demokratierelevanter Weltbeziehungen

Schule an der Grenze der Toleranz: Soziologische Untersuchung...

Author: Zoltan Peter ,  Ina Wilczewska
ISBN: 9783658498924
Format: Paperback
$184.77

Dieses Buch beleuchtet die Schule als Spiegelbild und Denkfabrik unserer Welt. Es fokussiert auf demokratierelevante...  Read More >>

Shout It Out! 28 Portraits for a Committed World: Lives That Have Transformed Me, From Antiquity To Today

Shout It Out! 28 Portraits for a Committed World: Lives...

Author: Roberto Saviano ,  Anne Milano Appel
ISBN: 9781644215425
Format: Paperback
$55.00

From the author of the groundbreaking expose Gomorrah comes a book that encourages and challenges the people to...  Read More >>

Hurricane Camille: When Natural Disasters Became National Disasters

Hurricane Camille: When Natural Disasters Became National...

Author: Andrew Morris
ISBN: 9781512829365
Format: Hardback
$104.00

The story of how Hurricane Camille, which struck the Mississippi Gulf Coast in 1969 as a Category 5, changed the...  Read More >>

Nathan Straus: From Macy's Magnate to International Humanitarian

Nathan Straus: From Macy's Magnate to International...

Author: Andrew Fisher
ISBN: 9781978843479
Format: Hardback
$66.00

Nathan Straus (1848-1931), a German-Jewish immigrant and self-made Macy's retailing magnate, used his wealth to...  Read More >>

A Journey of Service

A Journey of Service

Author: Mary Joy Langdon
ISBN: 9781836156444
Format: Paperback
$50.13

""A Journey of Service"" is a faith-filled memoir of Britain's first female firefighter, tracing courage, vocation,...  Read More >>

Housing Inequality in the 21st Century: Social Policy and the Political Economy of Housing in the UK

Housing Inequality in the 21st Century: Social Policy...

Author: Steve Iafrati (University of Nottingham) ,  Lee Gregory (University of Nottingham)
ISBN: 9781447376774
Format: Paperback
$57.95

This book exposes how deep-rooted political and economic forces continue to shape unequal housing outcomes in the...  Read More >>

Sanctioned by the Legal System: A Systems Approach to Women, Child Contact, and Intimate Partner Violence and Abuse

Sanctioned by the Legal System: A Systems Approach to...

Author: Mia Scally
ISBN: 9783032149985
Format: Hardback
$284.60

This book considers women’s child contact experiences in the context of abuse and comes from a feminist epistemology....  Read More >>

Trajectories of Change in Child Protection Systems

Trajectories of Change in Child Protection Systems

Author: Marie Connolly ,  Ilan Katz
ISBN: 9783032269874
Format: Hardback
$448.77

This book is about development, reform and sustainability in child protection systems. Tackling deep and enduring...  Read More >>

Killing Radicalism: Anti-Rape Advocacy Reimagined

Killing Radicalism: Anti-Rape Advocacy Reimagined

Author: Melinda Chen
ISBN: 9781479828234
Format: Hardback
$206.00

A radical challenge to the ways anti-rape advocates work with the survivors of sexual assault What is ""victim...  Read More >>

Black Britons, Race, and Policing: The Long Shadow

Black Britons, Race, and Policing: The Long Shadow

Author: Bisi Akintoye
ISBN: 9783032116611
Format: Hardback
$284.60

This book explores the historical and contemporary policing of Black communities in Britain, revealing how much...  Read More >>

It Is What It Is: Walking Beside My Mother Through Dementia

It Is What It Is: Walking Beside My Mother Through Dementia...

Author: Chantal Patenaude
ISBN: 9781069818409
Format: Paperback
$50.13

Having recently returned home after decades living abroad, Chantal persuades her seventy-nine-year-old mother to...  Read More >>

Acting Correctly During Cardiac Arrest: Why Immediate Resuscitation Is So Important: Check – Call – Compress

Acting Correctly During Cardiac Arrest: Why Immediate...

Author: Jan C. Behmann ,  Bernd Böttiger
ISBN: 9783662729908
Format: Paperback
$64.66

A sudden cardiac arrest can strike anyone—and anyone might be the one standing nearby. There’s nothing worse than...  Read More >>

Reclaiming Humanity: Revolutionary Pathways to Beloved Community

Reclaiming Humanity: Revolutionary Pathways to Beloved...

Author: Beth Roy
ISBN: 9798216374787
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Explores the psychological and political ways modern individuals become dehumanized, even as we are recruited into...  Read More >>

Social Inequalities Within and Among Countries: Achieving SDG 10 Through Social Interventions

Social Inequalities Within and Among Countries: Achieving...

Author: Nicolette V. Roman ,  Shewli Kumar
ISBN: 9783032087409
Format: Hardback
$362.22

This contributed volume sits at the intersection of social work and SDG 10. It provides a variety of cases from...  Read More >>

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