Social Services category: 2206 books
Infancias judicializadas
Itinerarios de niños bajo tutela judicial
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 16, 2012
Este libro trata de aportar una mirada social al problema del niño/niña sobre las respuestas institucionales creadas desde el Estado para resolver o paliar problemas sociales.
by Virginia Moreno García
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Adquirir los conocimientos necesarios para desarrollar las estrategias comunicativas adecuadas para favorecer el desenvolvimiento diario y la relación social de los usuarios con dificultades especiales de comunicación, manejando los recursos disponibles y los sistemas alternativos que procedan....
The extended self
Architecture, memes and minds
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
In this wide-ranging study of architecture and cultural evolution, the author argues that underlying the global environmental crisis is a general resistance to changing personal and social identities shaped by a technology-based culture and its energy-hungry products. The book traces the roots of...
Unaccompanied young migrants
Identity, care and justice
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2019
Taking a multi-disciplinary perspective, and one grounded in human rights, Unaccompanied young migrants explores in depth the journeys migrant youth take through the UK legal and care systems. Arriving with little agency, what becomes of these children as they grow and assume new roles and identities,...
by Michael Schmitz
Language: German
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Language: German
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Gewaltbereite Jugendliche: Ein Thema, das die deutsche Öffentlichkeit seit Jahren beschäftigt. Brennende Asylbewerber- heime, Tote bei Krawallen nach Fußballspielen und Streetgangs, die nächtens die Straßen unsicher machen. Und die Sozialarbeit? Was kann sie ausrichten,...
Infancias contemporáneas
Retos educativos
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 14, 2016
Los adultos que nos sentimos llamados a pensar en la educación de las infancias nos enfrentamos a la tarea de buscar referencias que nos permitan cierta orientación. Pensar las infancias es una tarea compleja que nos invita a detenernos y, al mismo tiempo, a hacer el esfuerzo de inscribirla en la...
by Collectif
Language: French
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Les théories de l'institution présentent aujourd'hui une assez grande confusion, oscillant entre la thèse de la désinstitutionalisation et celle du renforcement du contrôle social. Quelle théorie est-elle pertinente pour notre civilisation actuelle ? Telle est la question que traite cet ouvrage...
Taxing the Rich
A History of Fiscal Fairness in the United States and Europe
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
In today's social climate of acknowledged and growing inequality, why are there not greater efforts to tax the rich? In this wide-ranging and provocative book, Kenneth Scheve and David Stasavage ask when and why countries tax their wealthiest citizens—and their answers may surprise you.
Taxing...
This Chair Rocks
A Manifesto Against Ageism
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
From childhood on, we're barraged by messages that it's sad to be old. That wrinkles are embarrassing, and old people are useless. Author and activist Ashton Applewhite believed them too - until she realised where this prejudice comes from and the damage it does. Lively, funny, and deeply researched,...
by Gosta Esping-Andersen
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
Few discussions in modern social science have occupied as much attention as the changing nature of welfare states in western societies. Gosta Esping-Andersen, one of the most distinguished contributors to current debates on this issue, here provides a new analysis of the character and role of welfare...
Sweet Charity?
Emergency Food and the End of Entitlement
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1999
In this era of eroding commitment to government sponsored welfare programs, voluntarism and private charity have become the popular, optimistic solutions to poverty and hunger. The resurgence of charity has to be a good thing, doesn't it? No, says sociologist Janet Poppendieck, not when stopgap charitable...
by Christopher Handy
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
Obama is a tribute to the rise of a man who became the first African-American and 44th President of the United States of America. President Obama's years of public service are based around his unwavering belief in the ability to unite people around a politics of purpose. His story is the American...
Summary of Plunder and Deceit
by Mark R. Levin | Includes Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Plunder and Deceit: by Mark R. Levin | Includes Analysis Preview: Plunder and Deceit is about what author Mark R. Levin calls a threat to the United State’s experiment with democracy. At the heart of the threat is an executive branch of government that is running amok. Its...
American-Made
The Enduring Legacy of the WPA: When FDR Put the Nation to Work
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2008
If you’ve traveled the nation’s highways, flown into New York’s LaGuardia Airport, strolled San Antonio’s River Walk, or seen the Pacific Ocean from the Beach Chalet in San Francisco, you have experienced some part of the legacy of the Works Progress Administration (WPA)—one of the enduring...