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A Century of Social Work and Social Welfare at Penn
by Ram A. Cnaan  Publisher Comments The University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy and Practice is an acknowledged leader in cultivating theoretical and practical social work knowledge. Celebrating the School's centennial, this volume heralds the progressive thinking of its leaders...
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Global Health Watch 2008
by Global Health Watch Publisher Comments In an increasingly integrated and globalized world characterized by new cross-border threats to health, widening disparities in access to health care, and an unacceptable level of human suffering and premature mortality in developing countries, civil...
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The Limits of Voluntarism: Charity and Welfare from the New Deal Through the Great Society
by Andrew J. F. Morris Publisher Comments The Depression and the New Deal forced charities into a new relationship with public welfare. After opposing public relief for a generation, charities embraced it in the 1930s as a means to save a crippled voluntary sector from collapse. Welfare was to...
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Approaches and Methodologies in the Social Sciences: A Pluralist Perspective
by Donatella Della Porta Publisher Comments A revolutionary new textbook introducing masters and doctoral students to the major research approaches and methodologies in the social sciences. Written by an outstanding set of scholars, and derived from successful course teaching, this volume will...
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You Are Still Being Lied to: The New Disinformation Guide to Media Distortion, Historical Whitewashes and Cultural Myths
by Russ Kick Publisher Comments A must-have revised and expanded edition of The Disinformation Company's classic anthology, You Are STILL Being Lied To contains more than a dozen all-new essays from contributors like Norman Solomon, Graham Hancock, Alex Jones, John Major Jenkins...
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The Rise of True Crime: 20th-Century Murder and American Popular Culture
by Jean Murley Publisher Comments During the 1950s and 1960s True Detective magazine developed a new way of narrating and understanding murder. This publication was more sensitive to context, gave more psychologically sophisticated accounts, and was more willing to make conjectures about...
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Society and Culture in Contemporary Europe
by William Outwaite Publisher Comments Does it make sense to speak of a European society, above and beyond its component states and regions? In this major new book William Outhwaite argues that it does. He goes beyond the study of individual states and specific regions of Europe to examine...
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Good Practice in the Law and Safeguarding Adults: Criminal Justice and Adult Protection (Good Practice in Health, Social Care and Criminal Justice)
by Jacki Pritchard Synopsis Good Practice in the Law and Safeguarding Adults provides an up to date and topical overview of developments in the legislative framework relevant to the area of adult protection work. The book aims to broaden knowledge about legislation surrounding...
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Theories on Law and Ageing: The Jurisprudence of Elder Law
by Israel Doron Synopsis The fundamental idea of a oelaw and ageinga as a discrete category of legal principle and theory is controversial: What special feature and characteristics of a oeolder adultsa justify and even require a particular theoretical approach? Is it possible to...
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Situating Social Theory
by Tim May Publisher Comments Praise for first edition: "... a very substantial and reliable introduction to social theory, imaginatively written and extremely readable. The new edition contains two valuable additional chapters." William Outhwaite, Professor of Sociology, University...
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Racial Fault Lines: The Historical Origins of White Supremacy in California
by Tomas Almaguer Synopsis This book unravels the ethnic history of California since the late nineteenth-century Anglo-American conquest and the institutionalization of white supremacy in the state. Drawing from an array of primary and secondary sources, Tomas Almaguer weaves a...
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Clublife: Thugs, Drugs, and Chaos at New York City's Premier Nightclubs
by The Bouncer Rob Publisher Comments In Clublife, Rob takes readers on a harrowing tour of the seedy, dangerous, and often deranged world of New York's hottest nightclubs. In the tradition of Kitchen Confidential and The Tender Bar, Clublife is a remarkable memoir of the nightclub business...
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Sociology Now: The Essentials (Mysoclab)
by Michael S. Kimmel Publisher Comments Sociology Now reflects the discipline today and explores the big questions about multiculturalism and globalization that sociologists ask. Sociology has always offered a way to make sense of the complex and sometimes contradictory forces that shape our...
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Fabricating the Absolute Fake: America in Contemporary Pop Culture
by Jaap Kooijman About the Author Jaap Kooijman is senior lecturer in media and culture, as well as American studies, at the University of Amsterdam....
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Growing Greener Cities: Urban Sustainability in the Twenty-First Century (City in the 21st Century)
by Eugenie L. Birch Publisher Comments Nineteenth-century landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted described his most famous project, the design of New York's Central Park, as a democratic development of highest significance. Over the years, the significance of green in civic life has grown....
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Generalist Social Work Practice with Groups
by Stephen J. Yanca Publisher Comments This text provides a comprehensive approach to generalist practice with diverse families using an integreated ecosystems and strengths-based approach. It includes schemas for developing family and subsystem social histories and case examples for...
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Tulia: Race, Cocaine, and Corruption in a Small Texas Town
by Nate Blakeslee Synopsis Playaway is the simplest way to listen to audio on the go. Each Playaway comes with the digital content already pre-loaded on it and a battery to make it play. Simply plug in earbuds and enjoy. Each ultra-portable Playaway weighs only two ounces and...
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Police and the Liberal State (Critical Perspectives on Crime and Law)
by Markus Dubber Publisher Comments Police and the Liberal State advances a broad interdisciplinary and international project to refocus attention on the scope and function of modern governance through the lens of the police power in its multiple manifestations—from the family to the...
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Global Health Watch 2008
by Global Health Watch Publisher Comments In an increasingly integrated and globalized world characterized by new cross-border threats to health, widening disparities in access to health care, and an unacceptable level of human suffering and premature mortality in developing countries, civil...
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Studies in the Catholic Social Movement
by Henry Somerville Publisher Comments Written in 1933 during the heyday of the Catholic Social Movement, this text provides a primary-source snapshot that cannot be achieved by historical retrospectives written years later. It offers an eye-opening account of the response of...
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