Social Services category: 2206 books
Jilted Generation
How Britain Has Bankrupted Its Youth
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Why are so many adult children living still living with mum and dad? Why do young people seem so disinterested in politics? And what are the hidden threats to Britain’s long-term prosperity lurking in the next few decades?
First published in 2010, Ed Howker and Shiv Mailk’s Jilted Generation...
by Alain Guilloux
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2009
In this unique book, Alain Guilloux uses four major elements of governance - namely norms, actors, processes, and outcomes - to examine Taiwan’s national governance as well as its participation in global governance in relation to humanitarian aid.
Including case studies on Taiwan’s application...
Combating Poverty in Europe
The German Welfare Regime in Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Title first published in 2003. This informative volume addresses the impact of the EU on national policies to combat poverty in European member states. The editors bring together leading academics to discuss the issue of and fight against poverty in Germany in particular, within the context of ongoing trends and debates across other European states.
Technology and the Future of Work
The Impact on Labour Markets and Welfare States
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2017
Changes in the labour market demand new solutions to mitigate the potentially dramatic wiping away of jobs, and this important book offers both analysis and suggestions for change. Bent Greve provides a systematic and vigorous assessment of the impact of new technology on the labour market and welfare...
Active Ageing
Perspectives from Europe on a vaunted topic
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2015
Authors from across Europe consider the diverse theoretical and conceptual issues in understanding ageing in late modern society with an emphasis on active ageing. Integrated approaches are emphasised, without privilege one theoretical conception above others. The examples used will act as examples of positive contributions to ageing, even when physical and cognitive frailty looms large
by Georgios A Antonopoulos, Georgios Papanicolaou
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
For many people around the world, instances of what is described as organized crime may be part of their everyday experience; in their neighbourhoods, their streets, and the places they work and live. Policymakers, law enforcement, and the media rarely fail to bring up the issue when discussing the...
Questo non è amore
Venti storie raccontano la violenza domestica sulle donne
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 13, 2013
Dalle autrici del blog del Corriere.it "La 27ORA", il libro-denuncia sugli abusi e le violenze a cui moltissime donne sono sottoposte nel nostro paese. Sono troppe le donne uccise in Italia dal compagno o ex compagno. Numeri che raccontano un’emergenza nazionale. Anche perché gli omicidi,...
Exploiting Childhood
How Fast Food, Material Obsession and Porn Culture are Creating New Forms of Child Abuse
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013
Children deserve to live a life that is safe from exploitation and harm, but are we failing in our duty to protect them?
Childhood today is big business - it is impossible for any child growing up to avoid pervasive and intense marketing from companies. Whether it be for fatty foods resulting...
Policy for play
Responding to children's forgotten right
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2015
Play is fundamental to children’s health, wellbeing and development. Yet in the modern world, their space and opportunity to play is under threat. This is the first book to look in detail at children’s play within public policy. Using the UK government’s play strategy for England (2008-10) as...
by Lowell Green
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2012
In the unique style that has endeared him to one of Canada's largest and most loyal radio audiences, best-selling author Lowell Green launches an all-out exposé on those Canadians he says are wrecking our country. He tackles issues ranging from our dangerous refugee, immigration and...
Mao's Road to Power: Revolutionary Writings, 1912-49: v. 1: Pre-Marxist Period, 1912-20
Revolutionary Writings, 1912-49
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2015
Revolution in its Leninist guise has been a dominant force in the world for most of the 20th century, and the Chinese revolution has been, with the Russian revolution, one of its two most important manifestations. Mao Zedong, the architect of victory in China in 1949, stands out as one of the dominant...
After the Storm: Militarization, Occupation, and Segregation in Post-Katrina America
Militarization, Occupation, and Segregation in Post-Katrina America
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
More than a decade ago, Hurricane Katrina served to expose a well-engineered system of oppression, one which continues to privilege some groups and disadvantage others. In the wake of the natural disaster that hit New Orleans, it became clear that institutions such as residential segregation, mass...
Peasants Come Last
A Memoir of the Peace Corps at Fifty
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
'Peasants Come Last: A Memoir of the Peace Corps at Fifty' is an unforgettable account of renowned scholar and author Dr. J. Larry Brown's tenure as Peace Corps Country Director for Uganda. In an easy, captivating storyteller's voice, Brown takes us on an eye-opening journey into the heart of Africa...
Child Abuse and Neglect
Attachment, Development and Intervention
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2005
This exciting new book offers a survey of the field of child abuse and neglect from the perspective of modern developmental attachment theory. The book opens with an account of the theory and describes the ways in which attachment difficulties manifest themselves in children's behaviour. The following...