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Generalist Social Work Practice: An Empowering Approach (Myhelpingkit)
by Karla K. Miley  Publisher Comments With its focus on empowerment and extensive coverage of ethics and values, Generalist Social Work Practice, 6/e, provides excellent coverage of: evidence-based practice, policy practice, social justice and human rights, end-of-life-care, diversity and...
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Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analys #25: Socioeconomic Differences in Old Age Mortality
by Rasmus Hoffmann Publisher Comments Social differences in health and mortality constitute a persistent finding in epidemiological, demographic, and sociological research. This topic is increasingly discussed in the political debate and is among the most urgent public health issues. However,...
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The Britannica Guide to the 100 Most Influential Scientists
by Encyclopedia Britannica Publisher Comments When Isaac Newton claimed that he only saw further because he stood on the shoulders of giants, he alluded to the long list of geniuses who came before him. The history of science is the story of great discoveries, flashes of intuition that changed the...
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Smallville: Institutionalizing Community in Twenty-First-Century America (Civil Society: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives)
by Carl Milofsky Publisher Comments Familiar organizational theories often do not fit comfortably when applied to community-level associations or small, local, nonprofit organizations. In Smallville, Carl Milofsky empirically and theoretically studies the organizational dynamics involved...
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From Charity to Social Change: Trends in Arab Philanthropy
by Barbara Ibrahim Synopsis A landmark study of philanthropic action in the modern Middle East...
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The Dividends of Dissent: How Conflict and Culture Work in Lesbian and Gay Marches on Washington
by Amin Ghaziani Publisher Comments Marching on Washington is a hallowed tradition of American political protest, and demonstrations led by the women’s rights, civil rights, and antiwar movements all endure in popular memory. Between 1979 and 2000 four major lesbian and gay...
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Migration and Vodou (New World Diasporas)
by Karen E. Richman Publisher Comments Using standard ethnographic methods, Richman’s work illuminates the connections among social organization, power, production, ritual, and aesthetics. With its transnational perspective, it shows how labor migration has become one of Haiti’s...
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Three Ecologies (Continuum Impacts)
by Felix Guattari Publisher Comments Just as rare species are disappearing at an alarming rate, so whole areas of human thought, feeling and sensibility are becoming extinct through the power of an infantalizing mass media and the social exclusion of the old, the young and the unemployed...
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Matters of Choice: Puerto Rican Women's Struggle for Reproductive Freedom
by Iris Ofelia Lopez Synopsis In Matters of Choice, Iris Lopez presents a comprehensive analysis of the dichotomous views that have portrayed sterilization either as part of a coercive program of population control or as a means of voluntary, even liberating, fertility control by...
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Interpretive Description
by Sally Thorne Publisher Comments This book is designed to guide both new and more seasoned researchers through the steps of conceiving, designing, and implementing coherent research capable of generating new insights in clinical settings. Drawing from a variety of theoretical...
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The Limits of Boundaries: Why City-Regions Cannot Be Self-Governing
by Andrew Sancton Synopsis Andrew Sancton combines his own broad knowledge of global changes with an outline and comparison of the viewpoints of prominent social scientists to argue that city regions in western liberal democracies will not and cannot be self-governing. Self...
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The Book of Skin
by Steven Connor Publisher Comments An exploration of the myriad functions, meanings and roles of skin within Western culture. Includes tattooing, disease and cosmetic surgery. 50 illus....
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Age of American Unreason (Wheeler Hardcover)
by Susan Jacoby Publisher Comments Combining historical analysis with contemporary observation, Susan Jacoby dissects a new American cultural phenomenon--one that is at odds with our heritage of Enlightenment reason and with modern, secular knowledge and science. With mordant wit, she...
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Crossing Empires Edge: Foreign Ministry Police & Japanese Expansionism in Northeast Asia (World of East Asia)
by Erik Esselstrom Publisher Comments For more than half a century, the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Gaimushō) possessed an independent police force that operated within the space of Japan's informal empire on the Asian continent. Charged with protecting and controlling local...
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The Art and Practice of Home Visiting:: Early Intervention for Children with Special Needs and Their Families
by Ruth E. Cook Publisher Comments Developed especially for today's working environment, this is the modern home visitor's complete introductory text to early intervention for children with disabilities and their families. Building on their extensive academic backgrounds and practical...
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The Neolithic Demographic Transition and Its Consequences
by Jean-pierre Bocquet-appel Publisher Comments Using cemetery data, it has been possible to identify the signature of a previously unknown demographic process associated with the transition from a hunter-gatherer to an agricultural economy. Characterized by a dramatic increase in the birth rate, and...
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Urban Transformation: Understanding City Design and Form
by Peter Bosselmann Publisher Comments How do cities transform over time? And why do some cities change for the better while others deteriorate? In articulating new ways of viewing urban areas and how they develop over time, Peter Bosselmann offers a stimulating guidebook for students and...
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The New Urban Renewal: The Economic Transformation of Harlem and Bronzeville
by Derek Hyra Publisher Comments Two of the most celebrated black neighborhoods in the United States—Harlem in New York City and Bronzeville in Chicago—were once plagued by crime, drugs, and abject poverty. But now both have transformed into increasingly trendy and desirable...
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Same-Sex Partners: The Social Demography of Sexual Orientation
by Amanda K. Baumle Synopsis A demographic portrait of gay and lesbian couples who live together in committed relationships....
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Voices from the Heart of the Land: Rural Stories That Inspire Community
by Richard L. Cates Publisher Comments From 2001 to 2006, Richard L. Cates Jr. interviewed senior members of more than 30 families living in and around Arena township, a small community in southern Wisconsin. He asked them about growing up in rural America and their connection to a way of...
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