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Creative Capitalism
Bill Gates is not only the world's most successful capitalist; he's the world's biggest philanthropist. Gates has approached philanthropy the same way he revolutionized computer software: with a fierce ambition...
Praise Song For The Butterflies
Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2019, a powerful, well-researched, fictional account exploring the trokosi tradition for the curious and the open-minded. Abeo Kata lives a comfortable, happy life...
Case Studies in Clinical Practice with Trans and Gender Non-Binary
Exploring clinical examples of the lived experiences of trans people across the lifespan, this unique and authoritative book addresses topics such as attending school, puberty, employment issues, suicide, bullying, autism...
Making a Difference in Families: Research that creates change
'This 'must read' volume will challenge every researcher to re-examine their assumptions and approach to research with families. Munford and Sanders emphasise the positive contribution research can make through the...
Promoting Family Change: The optimism factor
'This book heralds an exciting new chapter in the history of family-centred practice. It takes us a long way down the road toward the destination of strength-based family work.' From...
Making Progress: How Good Policy Happens
Learn about transformational reforms like paid parental leave, the NDIS, the Apology to the Stolen Generations, and revolutionising pensions from Labor's Jenny Macklin, with insights from Julia Gillard, Ross Garnaut,...
Down and Out: Surviving the Homelessness Crisis, by the 2023 Orwell
***Shortlisted for the 2023 Orwell Prize for Reporting Homelessness*** ***Winner of an RSL Giles St Aubyn Award for Non-Fiction*** 'Part memoir, part howl of fury' GUARDIAN 'Enrich[es] our impoverished sociological...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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?...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
A Family Friend: There was only one man Sammy could turn to...
The new fostering memoir from The Sunday Times bestselling author Casey Watson. With his young mother in and out of prison, Sammy has been in care since he was nine...
101 Career Myths Debunked: The Ultimate Career Planning Workbook
What if everything you know about careers is false? Bombarded by toxic misinformation about unemployment and failing career prospects, job hunters are often halted by fear. 101 Career Myths Debunked...
Assessing Adoptive Parents, Foster Carers and Kinship Carers, Second
Assessing prospective adoptive parents, foster carers, kinship carers and special guardians is an extremely complex task, and one that happens within a pressurized time frame. Currently, assessments draw substantially on...
Healing the Hurt, Retoring the Hope: How to Help Children and
Even when teenagers appear to be "doing well" at times of divorce, death or crisis in their lives, the truth is they are probably suffering in silence. This straight-talking and...
Infancy: The Basics
Infancy: The Basics offers an introduction to the developmental science behind the fascinating world of infant development. This book takes the reader from before birth through the moment infants come...
Understanding Women in Distress
Women are usually more in touch with their emotions than men and more readily seek help from professional sources when they encounter stress. The response they meet from doctors and...
The Depressed Mother: A Practical Guide to Treatment and Support
Depression in new mothers is very common, but it is often not simply a case of "the baby blues". Most mothers are suffering from general depressive disorders related to their...
Mission Control: How Nonprofits and Governments Can Focus, Achieve
In the last ten years the number of nonprofits and social sector organizations has grown by almost 25 percent, while charitable giving declined 30 percent over the same period. As...
Living in Sin?
Is celibacy the only moral alternative to marriage Should the widowed be allowed to form intimate relationships without remarrying Should the church receive people who identify as LGBTQ into its...