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Social Theory, Social Change & Social Work
by Nigel Parton  Publisher Comments Social work is currently experiencing an important period of change--in its priorities, organization and day-to-day practices. Increasingly, notions of care management, monitoring and evaluation and inter-agency coordination have become more dominant...
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Special Stories for Disability Awareness: Stories and Activities for Teachers, Parents and Professionals
by Mal Leicester Publisher Comments Stories both educate and entertain. We learn from them and the learning is fun. They also stimulate our imagination and creativity. In this collection of short stories, the heroes and heroines are disabled children who defy the stereotypes associated...
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Social Problems (08 Edition)
by Joel Best Publisher Comments In his new textbook, Joel Best gives readers a complete set of tools for analyzing any social problem. Best helps readers think carefully about how activists, experts, and their opponents frame social problems through the logic that they use, the...
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The Privatization of Social Policy
by Michael Shalev Publisher Comments Occupational welfare is a distinctive solution to contemporary social policy dilemmas. Though it plays a substantial role in many countries, especially in pension provision, occupational welfare and its subtle links to the welfare state have been largely...
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Basic Income, Unemployment and Compensatory Justice
by Loek Groot Publisher Comments Basic income is a regularly debated topic in various scholarly disciplines (political philosophy, political theory, welfare economics, labour market economics and social policy) and in circles of policy makers, administrators and activists. Since the...
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A Mother's Job: The History of Day Care, 1890-1960
by Elizabeth Rose Publisher Comments Americans today live with conflicting ideas about day care. We criticize mothers who choose not to stay at home, but we pressure women on welfare to leave their children behind. We recognize the benefits of early childhood education, but do not provide...
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Childbirth in the Global Village
by Dawn Hillier Publisher Comments In this new book, Dawn Hillier compares the experiences of mothers and midwives in America and England with those in Africa and Malaysia. Through vivid descriptions of actual births and careful examination of the local, national and international...
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Polygamous Families in Contemporary Society
by Irwin Altman Publisher Comments In this intriguing book, social psychologist Irwin Altman and anthropologist Joseph Ginat examine husband-wife and wife-wife relationships in contemporary Mormon polygamous families. The authors describe how husbands and wives in plural families cope...
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Surviving Domestic Violence: Gender, Poverty and Agency
by Paula Wilcox Publisher Comments Surviving Domestic Violence follows a group of women on their journeys through and away from abusive relationships. Using a gendered lens, seven influential social dimensions are examined: power, emotion, children, home, economic resource, informal and...
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Minding the Children
by Geraldine Youcha Publisher Comments Beyond childcare theories and early childhood gurus, here is how children have actually been raised in America over the last four centuries. From wet nurses and Southern mammys, settlement houses and orphan trains, to rigid British nannies, foster care...
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Social Policy in East and Southeast Asia
by M. Ramesh Publisher Comments This book provides the first systematic comparison of the policy sectors of income maintenance, health, housing and education in Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore and Taiwan. It focuses particularly on the provision and financing arrangements of these...
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Community Disability Services: An Evidence-Based Approach to Practice
by Ian Dempsey Publisher Comments This book provides an integration of the principles, policy and practice of disability service provision in the twenty-first century. It demonstrates links between theory and practice, with an emphasis on "evidence-based practice," and is drawn from...
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Evolution of Feminist Organizations an Organizational Study
by Diane Metzendorf Synopsis This fascinating study examines the changes in feminist organizations that were founded in the early 70s as alternatives to the traditional, bureaucratic human-service organizations. Through in-depth case studies, this book examines the life cycle of 15...
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Choices and Constraints in Family Life (Canadian) (07 Edition)
by Maureen Baker Publisher Comments Compared to a few generations ago, our intimate relationships now involve more personal choices about our partners and sexual behavior. However, personal choices are also shaped by our family circumstances and events in the wider society, such as changes...
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On Their Own: What Happens to Kids When They Age Out of the Foster Care System
by Martha Shirk Publisher Comments Each year, as many as 25,000 teenagers "age out" of foster care, usually when they turn eighteen. For years, a government agency had made every important decision for them. Suddenly, they are on their own, with no one to count on. What does it mean to be...
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Odyssey of Hearing Loss: Tales of Triumph
by Michael A. Harvey Publisher Comments These 10 true stories document the assaults to self-esteem, the isolation, and the spiritual crises that are faced by individuals with hearing loss, giving an intimate account of how each person triumphed and how therapeutic dialogue offers growth and...
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Drugs, Runaways, and Teen Prostitution (Drug Abuse Prevention Library)
by Clare Tattersall Publisher Comments Accelerated Reader is a program based on the fact that students become more motivated to read if they are tested on the content of the books they have read and are rewarded for correct answers. Students read each book, individually take the test on the...
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Consuming Kids: Protecting Our Children from the Onslaught of Marketing & Advertising
by Susan Linn Publisher Comments The average American child sees about 40,000 television commercials every year. Companies target younger viewers all the time, selling everything from sugar cereals to minivans, and cross-promotional marketing influences everything from the food stocked...
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A Life of One's Own
by David Kelley Publisher Comments The welfare state rests on the assumption that people have rights to food, shelter, health care, retirement income, and other goods provided by the government. David Kelley examines the historical origins of that assumption, and the rationale used to...
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Simplified Divorce Kit 2ND Edition
by Daniel Sitarz 
Publisher Comments Clear and understandable instructions help ease the pain and confusion that often accompany divorce....
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