Social category: 205239 books
China's Development
Social Investment and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
China has made remarkable yet uneven progress in social development. This book analyses China's achievements and problems in social development from the perspective of social investment. Social investment has gained popularity in Europe as a new social policy paradigm. It seeks to use government budget...
by Jonny Bell
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2014
Social Intelligence Provides the Single Greatest Path to Reach Your Ultimate Potential.
With an enhanced social intelligence, you can live a vibrant, enhanced, and successful version of your life. You can live like the best version of yourself: with greater empathy, with social skills, and...
by Laurie Mook, Jack Quarter, Ann Armstrong
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
Understanding the Social Economy of the United States is a comprehensive introduction to the operation and study of organizations with social goals – public sector nonprofits, civil society organizations, social enterprises, cooperatives and other organizations with a social mission – under...
Leading from Within
Conscious Social Change and Mindfulness for Social Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
A roadmap for integrating mindfulness into every aspect of social change: how to lead transformation with compassion for the needs and perspectives of all people.
Gretchen Steidle knows first-hand the personal transformation that mindfulness practice can bring. But she doesn't believe that...
The Social Organism
A Radical Understanding of Social Media to Transform Your Business and Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
"A must-read for business leaders and anyone who wants to understand all the implications of a social world."****---Bob Iger, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Walt Disney Company
From tech visionaries Oliver Luckett and Michael J. Casey, a groundbreaking, must-read theory...
How I Overcame Social Anxiety (And How You Can Too!)
An Introvert’s Guide to Recovering From Social Anxiety, Self-Doubt and Low Self-Esteem
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
"If you've ever suffered from anxiety problems, you will find the answers in this excellent book." - 5-star review
DO YOU FEEL NERVOUS AROUND PEOPLE & DON’T KNOW WHY?
Are you tired of worrying what others are thinking of you all the time?
Do you feel uncomfortable...
Social Work Leaders Through History
Lives and Lessons
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2018
Vividly portraying the personal and professional lives of social work luminaries from the 19th to the present century, this text links their groundbreaking contributions in social work to current CSWE core competencies. The book focuses on leaders who shaped the field across modern American history...
by Michael Novak, Paul Adams
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
What is social justice? For Friedrich Hayek, it was a mirage-a meaningless, ideological, incoherent, vacuous cliché. He believed the term should be avoided, abandoned, and allowed to die a natural death. For its proponents, social justice is a catchall term that can be used to justify any progressive-sounding...
The Crisis in Modern Social Psychology (Psychology Revivals)
and how to end it
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
In the late 1960s a ‘crisis’ erupted in social psychology, with many social psychologists highly critical of the ‘old paradigm’, laboratory-experimental approach. Originally published in 1989, The Crisis in Modern Social Psychology was the first book to provide a clear account of the complex...
by Professor Donald M. MacRaild, Dr Avram Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2004
The expansion of social history that took place in the twentieth century has produced some of the most exciting works in the field of historical studies. As the range of the social historian's concerns has grown, so has the range of methodologies and theoretical approaches they employ. Historians have...
A Social Laboratory for Modern France
The Musée Social and the Rise of the Welfare State
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2002
As a nineteenth-century think tank that sought answers to France’s pressing “social question,” the Musée Social reached across political lines to forge a reformist alliance founded on an optimistic faith in social science. In A Social Laboratory for Modern France Janet R. Horne presents the...
Sport and Social Exclusion
Second edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
Tackling social exclusion should be a central aim of any civilised social policy. In this meticulously revised and updated new edition of his groundbreaking study, Sport and Social Exclusion, Mike Collins has assembled a vast array of new evidence from a range of global sources to demonstrate how...
Heritage and Social Media
Understanding heritage in a participatory culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
Heritage and Social Media explores how social media reframes our understanding and experience of heritage. Through the idea of ‘participatory culture’ the book begins to examine how social media can be brought to bear on the encounter with heritage and on the socially produced meanings and values...
Understanding the Social Economy
A Canadian Perspective, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
Suitable for courses addressing community economic development, non-profit organizations, co-operatives and the social economy more broadly, the second edition of Understanding the Social Economy expands on the authors’ ground-breaking examination of organizations founded on a social mission –...