Social Services category: 2206 books
The Transition from Welfare to Work
Processes, Challenges, and Outcomes
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
How well do you understand the sweeping welfare reforms of the mid-1990s?
The Transition from Welfare to Work: Processes, Challenges, and Outcomes provides a comprehensive examination of the welfare-to-work initiatives that were undertaken just prior to and following the major reform of United...
Freedom of Angels
Childhood in Goldenbridge Orphanage
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
'I entered Goldenbridge orphanage in my Communion outfit. I had absolutely no idea what I was doing there.'
At age seven, Bernadette Fahy was delivered with her three brothers to Goldenbridge Orphanage. She was to stay there until she was sixteen.
Goldenbridge has come to represent some...
Navigating Gender-Inclusive Resettlement
The Experience of the Song Bung 4 Hydropower Project in Viet Nam
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
This case study report describes the comprehensive approach to gender inclusiveness resettlement in the Song Bung 4 Hydropower Project in a remote mountainous region of Quang Nam Province, Viet Nam. Based on discussions with people in affected villages, the report illustrates how the project is promoting...
Healthcare in transition
Understanding key ideas and tensions in contemporary health policy
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2017
Health policy thinking must change. This book explores the fundamental currents and tensions that lie behind recent trends such as shared decision-making, co-production, and personalisation. These are often discussed in relation to an epidemiological transition but this text argues that they embody...
by David B. Muhlhausen
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Addressing an issue of burning interest to every taxpayer, a Heritage Foundation scholar brings objective analysis to bear as he responds to the important—and provocative—question posed by his book's title.
Civil Society and Activism in Europe
Contextualizing engagement and political orientations
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2010
This book examines the role of civil society organizations in several advanced European democracies: Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Specifically the book focuses on how voluntary organizations contribute to civic and democratic health and assesses the impact of...
Hidden Cameras
Everything You Need to Know About Covert Recording, Undercover Cameras and Secret Filming
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2016
The complete and authoritative guide to the use of hidden cameras to expose abuse or wrongdoing.
Secret filming is no longer the preserve of specialists, professional journalists and private investigators. Drawing on the author's own experience producing undercover documentaries and wearing...
Bourdieu's Politics
Problems and Possiblities
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2006
In the last decade of his career, the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu became involved in a series of high-profile political interventions, defending the cause of striking students and workers, speaking out in the name of illegal immigrants, the homeless and the unemployed, challenging the incursion...
by Dr. Robert A Brown
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
Written specifically for Approved Mental Health Professionals (AMHPs), this book brings together key elements of the legislation, Code of Practice, Memorandum, Government Circulars and relevant case law and policy. It also discusses the role of an AMHP in the revised Mental Health Act, as well as...
Poverty in Common
The Politics of Community Action during the American Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2012
After the Second World War, the idea that local community action was indispensable for the alleviation of poverty was broadly embraced by US policymakers, social scientists, international development specialists, and grassroots activists. Governmental efforts to mobilize community action in the name...
Transforming Technology
A Critical Theory Revisited
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2002
Thoroughly revised, this new edition of Critical Theory of Technology rethinks the relationships between technology, rationality, and democracy, arguing that the degradation of labor--as well as of many environmental, educational, and political systems--is rooted in the social values that preside...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
This book explores the challenges of applying disability theory and policy, including the social model of disability, to madness and distress. It brings together leading scholars and activists from Europe, North America, Australia and India, to explore the relationship between madness, distress and...
by Per-Olof H. Wikström
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of criminology find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data...
by Lynn A. Addington
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of criminology find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data...