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The Art of Counselling: For anyone who needs to listen, support and
Whatever you do at work, if you interact with people - either as colleagues or clients - you will need the skills to have sensitive conversations. We cannot all be...
The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness
The Second Emancipation , a work of Odyssean dimension, recasts the liberation of post-World War II colonial Africa and the American civil rights struggle through the lens of Ghana's revolutionary...
Group Work: Skills and Strategies for Effective Interventions
Group Work: Skills and Strategies for Effective Interventions, Second Edition examines eclectic approaches to group work and discusses ways to help practitioners offer more successful services to clients. This edition...
Twelve Golden Gifts: Part lament, part love letter, part practical
How a mother's wisdom and grace helped one family come to terms with her dementia. Chrisoula had long been known for frying up honeyed Greek donuts anytime a guest arrived...
With Charity For All: Why Charities Are Failing and a Better Way to
Based on his experiences at NPR and other major nonprofits, Ken Stern exposes the flaw in the United States' charity model--organizations that raise millions of dollars without ever cracking the...
Best Practice in Professional Supervision: A Guide for the Helping
Best Practice in Professional Supervision is an authoritative guide to being an excellent supervisor, covering the role, functions and dispositions involved. The authors consider basic skills, the practicalities of forming...
The Birth of the Clinic
In this remarkable book Michel Foucault, one of the most influential thinkers of recent times, calls us to look critically at specific historical events in order to uncover new layers...
Signs of Hope
In April 1987 the World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED) issued the report "Our Common Future", which pointed out that the world could no longer afford to think of...
The Business of Philanthropy: Perspectives and Insights from Global
A collection of one-on-one discussions with 40 of the world's greatest thought and action leaders and prominent philanthropic figures. THE BUSINESS OF PHILANTHROPY features diverse insights into the power of...
Muhammad Ali Unfiltered: Rare, Iconic, and Officially Authorized
The fighter, the activist, the man, the icon. An officially authorized collection, Muhammad Ali Unfiltered is Jeter Publishing's intimate look at one of the most inspiring figures of our age....
The Cambridge Handbook of Stigma and Mental Health
The persistence of stigma of mental illness and seeking therapy perpetuates suffering and keeps people from getting the help they need and deserve. This volume, analysing the most up-to-date research...
Reflective Social Work Practice: Thinking, Doing and Being
Reflective Social Work Practice demonstrates how social workers can creatively and consciously combine 'thinking, doing and being' when working with individuals, families, groups, communities and organisations, and when undertaking research....
Making Social Spending Work
How does social spending relate to economic growth and which countries have got this right and wrong? Peter Lindert examines the experience of countries across the globe to reveal what...
Mummy Told Me Not to Tell: The true story of a troubled boy with a
ONE REMARKABLE WOMAN. OVER 30 YEARS OF FOSTERING. THE STORY OF ONE CHILD SHE COULD NEVER FORGET. Seven-year-old Reece is the last of six siblings to be taken into foster...
First Steps in Parenting the Child who Hurts: Tiddlers and Toddlers
This text approaches attachment and developmental issues arising when the child is in your care. It offers practical, sensitive guidance through the dark areas of separation, loss and trauma in...
The Stolen Year: How COVID Changed Children's Lives, and Where We Go
The onset of COVID broke a 150-year social contract between America and its children. Tens of millions of students lost what little support they had from the government-not just school...
Before and After: the incredible real-life story behind the
From the 1920s to 1950, Georgia Tann ran a corrupt baby business at the Tennessee Children's Home Society in Memphis. She offered up more than 5,000 orphans tailored to the...
The Big Smoke: History of Air Pollution in London Since Mediaeval
A fascinating insight into the development of air pollution controls against a changing social and economic background.
Poor Women in Rich Countries: The Feminization of Poverty Over the
The first book to study women's poverty over the life course, this wide-ranging collection focuses on the economic condition of single mothers and single elderly women--while also considering partnered women...
Giving Back: How to Do Good, Better
Do you wish you could do more to change the world but don't know how? Do you ever look around at the many charities asking for donations and feel overwhelmed?...
Women at the Ready: The Remarkable Story of the Women's Voluntary
From the summer of 1938, British women from all walks of life joined the Women's Voluntary Services (WVS). This disparate band of women came together for the common good -...
Our House Is on Fire: Scenes of a Family and a Planet in Crisis
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"A must-read ecological message of hope . . . Everyone with an interest in the future of this planet should read this book." --David Mitchell, The Guardian When climate activist...
Should I Stay Or Go?
Until now, couples facing the dilemma of deciding whether or not to stay in an unhappy marriage had three options: individual or couples therapy, separation, or divorce. "Should I Stay...
Mummy, Please Don't Leave
A heartbreaking true story of a broken family and the foster carer who wants to keep them together... The Watsons are no strangers to sibling placements but when Casey takes...
Nothing Green: The Sequel to the Bestselling 'Evelyn'
After the heady days of the trial which released her from the care of the State Industrial schools and succeeded in changing the law, Evelyn returns to the same grinding...
Eight Weeks: Looking Back, Moving Forwards, Defying the Odds
A deeply moving and inspiring memoir that tells the remarkable life story of Baroness Young of Hornsey, from her childhood in foster care, to becoming one of the first Black...
Hard to Go Bung: World War II Soldier Settlement in Victoria 1945-1962
The book titled Hard to Go Bung: World War II Soldier Settlement in Victoria 1945-1962 by the author Rosalind Smallwood. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more...
Countryside in Trust: Land Management by Conservation, Recreation and
The development of agriculture has caused rapid changes to the rural environment. Today, with growing awareness and concern for environmental issues, there is a movement to stem further damage to...
In Search of Civil Society
Civil society as a concept is currently much discussed in the political arena and now frequently referred to in academic texts. But what does it mean in practice and how...
Household's Work
This book is intended for students and researchers in gender studies, economics, soacila and welfare policy and the socilogy of the family.
Philanthro-capitalism: How the Rich Can Save the World
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An examination of how today's leading philanthropists are revolutionizing the field, using new methods to have a vastly greater impact on the world. For philanthropists of the past, charity was...
The Brightness of Stars: Stories from Care Experienced Adults to
In this poignant book, Lisa Cherry brings together a collection of candid and personal reflections on the care system in the UK, offering alternative ways of thinking about the care...
Crimeson: From the Dark Streets of Death and Crime in the UNDERBELLY
CrimeSon is the extraordinary story of Justin Gardner's life. Saved from the dark streets of death and crime in Melbourne, he was called by God to reach out to the...
Family Matters: Parents Living with Children in Old Age
The book titled Family Matters: Parents Living with Children in Old Age by the author Judith Healy. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...
Emerging Perspectives on Anti-Oppressive Practice
This book consists of a selection of papers from at a recent conference on anti-oppressive practice in social work. Dr Shera has gathered expert contributors to discuss, define, and analyse...
The Essential Dick Gregory
A soulful, generation-defining collection of thought-provoking, agitating, and liberating works from Dick Gregory, the activist and author of sixteen books, including the classic bestseller Nigger: An Autobiography and the 2017...
Third World America: How our politicians are abandoning the ordinary
It's not an exaggeration to say that "middle-class" Americans, the hard-working, average citizen on an average income, are an endangered species and that the American Dream of a secure, comfortable...
Spinning Out: Climate Change, Mental Health and Fighting for a Better
In 2019, climate activist Charlie Hertzog Young attempted suicide, following a succession of breakdowns. He jumped off a six-storey building, resulting in the loss of both legs. He spent a...
Mummy Told Me Not to Tell: The true story of a troubled boy with a
ONE REMARKABLE WOMAN. OVER 30 YEARS OF FOSTERING. THE STORY OF ONE CHILD SHE COULD NEVER FORGET. Seven-year-old Reece is the last of six siblings to be taken into foster...
Living Places: Twenty Houses
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The book titled Living Places: Twenty Houses by the author . This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Community Profiling: A Practical Guide
The new edition of this popular book has been substantially revised and provides a practical step-by-step guide to community profiling, invaluable for students and practitioners involved in community-based research. The...
Needs Assessment
In today's rapidly changing world, new social and human service problems emerge constantly, and in order to make good use of resources that are often limited, social service agencies must...
Paris: The Memoir
PARIS: A MILLION MEANINGS IN A SINGLE NAME Heiress. Party girl. Problem child. Selfie taker. Model. Reality star. Self-created. The labels attached to Paris Hilton. Founder. Entrepreneur. Pop Culture Maker....
Saving Danny
The fifteenth fostering memoir by Cathy Glass. Danny was petrified and clung to me in desperation as I carried him to my car. Trapped in his own dark world, he...
The Golden Rule: Lessons in living from a doctor of ageing
In a society obsessed with staying young, how can we age with confidence? We are living longer lives, and have choices now as never before about how we will age....
Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and
"Frostbite is a perfectly executed cold fusion of science, history, and literary verve . . . As a fellow nonfiction writer, I bow down. This is how it's done." -Mary...
Twelve Golden Gifts: Part lament, part love letter, part practical
How a mother's wisdom and grace helped one family come to terms with her dementia. Chrisoula had long been known for frying up honeyed Greek donuts anytime a guest arrived...