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Illustrated English Social History: 4

The Race to the Top - Structural Racism and How to Fight it

A New Statesman `most anticipated title of the year¿ `Compelling.¿ David Lammy MP `Refreshing,¿ Pragya Agarwal A powerful intervention ro...

ISE Interpersonal Conflict

Interpersonal Conflict 11e examines the central issues that inform conflict and, in turn, make readers' personal and professional lives c...

Wörterbuch für Sozialberufe · Dictionary for Social Professions - Deutsch - Englisch / English - German

Für die Konzeption zur 3. Auflage des Fachwörterbuchs sollten folgende Aspekte berücksichtigt werden: 1. Veränderungen im Aufgabenfeld un...

Everyone's Invited

'Read this and learn â ¿ this is what a force for good looks like' - Jess Phillips MP 'Her work has directly contributed to a groundswell...

Tears of Gold - Portraits of Yazidi, Rohingya, and Nigerian Women

"A celebrated young British artist uses her gift to convey the dignity and resilience of women survivors of violence in forgotten corners...

Restorative Justice at a Crossroads - Dilemmas of Institutionalisation

This book reflects on the institutionalisation of restorative justice over the last twenty years and offers a critical analysis of the qu...

The Contemporary International Committee of the Red Cross - Challenges, Changes, Controversies

"Decisions made by the ICRC are often crucial to humanitarian protection. This book analyses the challenges confronting the organization ...

Who Cares - The Hidden Crisis of Caregiving, and How We Solve It

"When Emily Kenway became the full-time caregiver for her terminally ill mother, her life was changed forever. While her friends outside ...

Occupational Wholeness for Health and Wellbeing - A Guide to Re-thinking and Re-planning Life

This practical book introduces a new, research-based model of occupational wholeness, a way of conceptualising satisfaction with what one...

Facing Reality - Two Truths about Race in America

In his newest book, Charles Murray fearlessly states two controversial truths about the American population: American whites, blacks, His...

Disembodied Brains - Understanding our Intuitions on Human-Animal Neuro-Chimeras and Human Brain Organoids

Until recently, brains in vats and animals with partly-human brains have been the realm of science fiction, but recent research is making...

White Sight - Visual Politics and Practices of Whiteness

"How whiteness has been constructed, naturalized, and wielded; and how we can unmake it. By a renowned visual culture scholar; grounded i...

Bereavement - Studies of Grief in Adult Life, Fourth Edition

Bereavement provides guidance on preparing for the loss of a loved one, and coping once they have gone. Long recognised as the most autho...

Social Work Theories in Context - Creating Frameworks for Practice

This best-selling text-book explores contemporary social work theories using an integrated and flexible framework to link context, theory...

Vienna - Still a Just City?

This book explores and debates the urban transformations that have taken place in Vienna over the past 30 years and their consequences in...

Social Work Practice During Times of Disaster - A Transformative Green Social Work Model for Theory, Education and Practice in Disaster Interventions

Disasters affect people individually and collectively in their communities, national societies, and the international sphere and in any s...

Sport, Professionalism and Pain - Ethnographies of Injury and Risk

Are pain and injury managed appropriately in the environment of professional sport? Is sports medicine a tool to empower or to disempower...

Hakim's Odyssey - Book 2: From Turkey to Greece

An account, in graphic novel format, of a young Syrian refugee and how war forced him to leave everything behind, including his family, h...

Becoming Abolitionists - Police, Protest, and the Pursuit of Freedom

How I became an abolitionist: a memoir of Black Lives Matter

Social Work Skills and Knowledge: A Practice Handbook - A Practice Handbook

Synthetic and Novel Drugs - Emerging Issues, Legal Policy and Public Health

Emerging drugs such as synthetic marijuana and bath salts present critical problems not only for the public but also for law enforcement,...

From Skepticism to Competence - How American Psychiatrists Learn Psychotherapy

"While many doctors can examine the body for cut-and-dry data-a cardiologist can take a scan of the heart, an endocrinologist can measure...

A Good Reputation - How Residents Fight for an American Barrio

A historic Houston barrio provides an illuminating lens on neighborhood reputation. Neighborhoods have the power to form significant part...

Dalit Ecologies - Caste and Environmental Justice

Explores the ecological experiences, histories, and perspectives integrated within Dalit writing, art, and culture and studies the relati...

Racial Domination

Race is arguably the single most troublesome and volatile concept of the social sciences in the early 21st century. It is invoked to expl...

The Other Child - The Exceptional Siblings of Special Needs Children

In The Other Child, Linda Scotson looks at the impact on a child at the arrival of a handicapped sibling. Lili, Linda Scotson's daughter,...

Domestic Violence and Abuse as a Shadow Pandemic - An International and Interdisciplinary View

Domestic Violence and Abuse as a Shadow Pandemic investigates, analyses and presents statistics to assess the claim by UN WOMEN that dome...

Data-Driven Policing

Government entities and private organizations regularly use data and analytics to maximize efficiency. Law enforcement agencies are incre...

Poverty for Profit - How Corporations Get Rich off America's Poor

"A devastating investigation into the "corporate poverty complex"-the myriad businesses that profit from the poor"--

In These Streets - Reporting from the Front Lines of Inner-City Gun Violence

"Inspired by what he learned as a journalist and grounded in his own lived experience, the author explores the roles of poverty, policing...

Exploring Humor in Child Welfare Casework - Laugh to Get Through It or Cry Forever

This book explores how gallows humor is used among child welfare caseworkers and what the use of humor, and gallows humor, reveals about ...

Systemic - How Racism Is Making Us Ill

A ground-breaking investigation into how racism corrodes science and medicine - leading to worse treatment for everyone. 'A work of tower...

Fatal Denial - Racism and the Political Life of Black Infant Mortality

"Grounded in political theory, Fatal Denial is a deeply interdisciplinary and passionately argued study of Black infant and maternal mort...

Biolegality - A Critical Introduction

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the empirical and theoretical problems posed by the encounter between law and biology in t...

Disabled Ecologies - Lessons from a Wounded Desert

"Brimming with insight and wisdom, Sunaura Taylor builds a strong case for her profound central idea: that disabled bodies and environmen...

Girls, Youth Justice and the Regulation of Sexualities

Girls, Youth Justice, and the Regulation of Sexualities shows historically and contemporarily the complexities in responding to girls' se...

Qualitative Social Research - Critical Methods for Social Change

This text provides an easy-to-read introduction to qualitative research methods in social work, taking into account contemporary contexts...

Working En Comunidad - Service-Learning and Community Engagement with U.S. Latinas/Os/Es

This edited volume showcases examples of service-learning practices and pedagogies for working alongside Latina/o/e communities. The cont...

Match-Striking for Beginners - Activating individual and collective power for a more just world

Ignite your PERSONAL POWER for a better self and better world. How do you take what is breaking your heart and turn that into action, ach...

A Culture of Promise - The True Story of a Small Company's Quest to Transform the Senior Living Industry

Growing up near Lehman Hot Springs, which his family owned and maintained in Oregon, Fee Stubblefield saw the power of its healing waters...

The Routledge International Handbook of Disability and Global Health

This handbook will raise awareness about the importance of health and well-being of people with disabilities in the context of the global...

The Boy Who Sees with His Fingers

Kamil is a cheerful, lively five-year-old, who goes to kindergarten and loves to make silly jokes. Is he a boy like anyone else? Yes and ...

The Last Plantation - Racism and Resistance in the Halls of Congress

"In the Last Plantation, James Jones uses the plantation metaphor to investigate how Congress operates as a racialized governing institut...

Family Care, Development, and Health Communication in Rural China - Who's Left Behind?

Drawing upon the theoretical framework of the culture-centered approach, this book examines the conditions of care in the changing living...

Trustonomics - How to Boost Profits and Growth Through Trust, Transparency and Authenticity

A fascinating insight into data privacy and transparency, as well as a practical guide for business leaders seeking to prioritise trust f...

The Minneapolis Reckoning - Race, Violence, and the Politics of Policing in America

Challenges to racialized policing, from early reform efforts to BLM protests and the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder The eruption of B...

The Golden Rule - Lessons in living from a doctor of ageing

Pre-order the latest book from Dr Lucy Pollock, a wise, compassionate and helpful guide to ageing with confidence__________Today, we are ...

Contextuality of Healthcare Choices in Pakistan

This book offers a detailed analysis of the social, cultural, and institutional influences on healthcare decision-making and explores the...

Education and Resilience in Crisis - Challenges and Opportunities in Sub-Saharan Africa

Transactional Analysis Proper-and Improper - Selected and New Papers

Transactional Analysis Proper-and Improper: Selected and New Papers offers a critical reading of transactional analysis (TA), which analy...

Feminism, Violence and Nonviolence - An Anthology

Examines how feminists have engaged with nonviolence as a means of addressing violence from the 1970s to the 2000s

Glass Ceilings and Ivory Towers - Gender Inequality in the Canadian Academy

Glass Ceilings and Ivory Towers amasses vital, data-driven research that both corroborates enduring accounts of inequality for women acad...

Policing Rape - The Way Forward

This book addresses the question of why police investigations continue to fail most rape victim-survivors and puts forward a framework fo...

Emergency - COVID-19 and the Uneven Valuation of Life

"The COVID-19 pandemic inaugurated a state of emergency unprecedented for most Americans. Some could observe this emergency from the rela...

Yet Another Costume Party Debacle - Why Racial Ignorance Persists on Elite College Campuses

How the policies of elite colleges allow racially themed parties to continue by perpetuating the status quo. On a cold February evening, ...

Violence at the Intersection - The Interlocking Impact of Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Class on Risk and Resilience

builds upon and expands recent scholarship on the intersectionality of race, ethnicity, gender/gender identity, and class and their multi...

LGBTQ+ Intimate Partner Violence - A Guide for Mental Health Practitioners

This book explores the unique issues involved in assessing, diagnosing, intervening, and treating intimate partner violence (IPV) in the ...

Better Crime Prevention

Better Crime Prevention provides a critical guide to theory, research, ethics and politics in relation to crime prevention policy and pra...

Therapy - The Basics

Therapy: The Basics is an introductory book to psychotherapy and its different theoretical approaches. It attempts to demystify and de-st...