Social Services category: 2206 books
American Dream
Three Women, Ten Kids, and a Nation's Drive to End Welfare
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2005
In this definitive work, two-time Pulitzer finalist Jason DeParle cuts between the mean streets of Milwaukee and the corridors of Washington to produce a masterpiece of literary journalism. At the heart of the story are three cousins whose different lives follow similar trajectories. Leaving welfare,...
Rich Democracies, Poor People
How Politics Explain Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2009
Poverty is not simply the result of an individual's characteristics, behaviors or abilities. Rather, as David Brady demonstrates, poverty is the result of politics. In Rich Democracies, Poor People, Brady investigates why poverty is so entrenched in some affluent democracies whereas it is a solvable...
Adoption and Disruption
Rates, Risks, and Responses
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
First Published in 2017. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.
by Janet Malcolm
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
War and Peace: Observations on Our Times
Observations on Our Times
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
In more than 100 essays, written over a three-year period for the "New York Observer", Howard Fast looks with horror at the official violence inflicted on Nicaragua, El Salvador, Grenada, Panama and Iraq and the unofficial violence that is taking place in the cities of the United States....
The Locked Ward
Memoirs of a Psychiatric Orderly
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2012
Dennis O'Donnell started work as an orderly in the Intensive Psychiatric Care Unit of a large hospital in Scotland in 2000. In his daily life he encountered fear, violence and despair but also a considerable amount of care and compassion. Recounting the stories of the patients he worked with, and...
Negotiating Claims
The Emergence of Indigenous Land Claim Negotiation Policies in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
Why do governments choose to negotiate indigenous land claims rather than resolve claims through some other means? In this book Scholtz explores why a government would choose to implement a negotiation policy, where it commits itself to a long-run strategy of negotiation over a number of claims and...
Law and Childhood Studies
Current Legal Issues Volume 14
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2012
Current Legal Issues, like its sister volume Current Legal Problems (now available in journal format), is based upon an annual colloquium held at Univesity College London. Each year leading scholars from around the world gather to discuss the relationship between law and another discipline of thought....
Storming Caesars Palace
How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2005
The inspirational and little-known story of welfare mothers in Las Vegas, America's Sin City, who crafted an original response to poverty-from the ground up
In Storming Caesars Palace, historian Annelise Orleck tells the compelling story of how a group of welfare mothers built one of this country's...
Say Nothing
The Harrowing Truth About Auntie's Children
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
Say Nothing is the moving true story of four neglected siblings who were taken into care following the breakdown of their parents' marriage. Sent to a small croft in the north-east of Scotland, they endured an onslaught of physical and mental abuse at the hands of an elderly, inexperienced foster...
by Shane Dunphy
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Four extraordinary true stories ...
Bobby and Micky, six and four, controlled from beyond the grave by their evil father ...
Mina, seventeen, who has Downs Syndrome, desperate to be like everyone else, falling into the hands of men who abuse her trust ...
Sylvie, a fourteen-year-old...
Complicated Lives
Girls, Parents, Drugs, and Juvenile Justice
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2017
Complicated Lives focuses on the lives of sixty-five drug-using girls in the juvenile justice system (living in group homes, a residential treatment center, and a youth correctional facility) who grew up in families characterized by parental drug use, violence, and child maltreatment. Vera Lopez situates...
The Promise of Welfare Reform
Political Rhetoric and the Reality of Poverty in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2006
Find out how-and why-legislation has made economic rights more important than human rights
Since 1996, politicians and public officials in the United States have celebrated the “success” of welfare reform legislation despite little, if any, evidence to support their claims. The Promise of Welfare Reform: Political
The Japanese Monarchy, 1931-91: Ambassador Grew and the Making of the Symbol Emperor System
Ambassador Grew and the Making of the "Symbol Emperor System"
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
"The Japanese Monarchy, 1931-1991", which created a sensation when first published in Japanese, clarifies US policies toward Japan's symbol emperor system before, during and after World War II. As American ambassador to Japan from 1932 to 1945, Joseph Clark Grew had contacts with groups...