Social Services category: 2206 books
by Howard Husock
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
In Philanthropy Under Fire, author Howard Husock defends the American tradition of independent philanthropy from significant political and intellectual challenges which threaten it today. Although the U.S. continues to be the most charitable nation in the world, serious efforts seek to discourage traditional,...
Undeserving
SNAP Reform and Conceptions of the Deserving Poor
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
This book explores attempts to reform the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as food stamps. It argues that a growing focus on punitive policies attempts to characterize SNAP recipients as undeserving of governmental assistance. The book explores three areas of reform...
The Inequality Trap
Fighting Capitalism Instead of Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
US President Barack Obama has called economic inequality the “defining issue of our time.” It has inspired the “Occupy” movements, made a French economist into a global celebrity, and given us a new expression – the “one percent.” But is our preoccupation with inequality really justified?...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2011
This Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) independent training course manual from the Emergency Management Institute (EMI) introduces the basics of emergency management exercises. It also builds a foundation for subsequent exercise courses, which provide the specifics of the Homeland Security...
Health Care Systems
Efficiency and Policy Settings
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
People in OECD countries are healthier than ever before, as shown by longer life expectancy and lower mortality for diseases such as cancer. At the same time, total spending on health care now absorbs over 9% of GDP on average in the OECD. Achieving value for money in the health care sector is an...
by Jane Gilgun
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2010
This small book outlines steps parents can take to teach children how to be sex offenders. It's easy. This part is satire. Next I discuss what parents and a concerned public can do to prevent children from becoming sex offenders. Prevention is hard. People must really want to do it. Apparently,...
by Vanessa E. Kelman
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Life can be discouraging. But taking charge can be empowering! By pinpointing what it is you're unhappy with -- and making goals to turn things around -- you can create a life you want. This short e-book focuses on the changes you may want to make when it comes to your impact on the world, and offers...
Beyond Survival: Wage Labour and Capital in the Late Twentieth Century
Wage Labour and Capital in the Late Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
This text uses an innovative approach to the dynamics of labour's decline and proposes policy initiatives necessary for its revitalization. The book emphasises the need for restructuring of capitalism on a global scale and challenges traditional economic and industrial relations wisdom.
Getting India Back on Track
An Action Agenda for Reform
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2014
India has fallen far and fast from the runaway growth rates it enjoyed in the first decade of the twenty-first century. In order to reverse this trend, New Delhi must seriously reflect on its policy choices across a wide range of issue areas.
Getting India Back on Track broadly coincides...
Viking Economics
How the Scandinavians Got It Right-and How We Can, Too
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Liberals worldwide invoke Scandinavia as a promised land of equality, while most conservatives fear it as a hotbed of liberty-threatening socialism. But the left and right can usually agree on one thing: that the Nordic system is impossible to replicate elsewhere. The US and UK are too big, or too...
España se escribe con E de Endeudamiento
Radiografía de un país abocado al abismo
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Dicen que la deuda es como una droga. La primera década del sigo XXI ha estado marcada por una borrachera de deuda en la que todos hemos participado. nos hemos atiborrado de ella porque hemos sido incapaces de dar la espalda a los efectos placenteros que nos daba a corto plazo. Ahora, el panorama...
by Muhammad Abd al-Hameed
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
This study was written before the new Local Government system was introduced in Pakistan in 2001. It analyzes various components of a City District and proposes how three provincial capitals might be converted into City Districts. The geographical and other features of Quetta, Peshawar and Lahore...
Treating Health Care
How the Canadian System Works and How It Could Work Better
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Canada has been among the world leaders in recognizing the multiple factors that impact health. Focusing on Canada’s health care system, Raisa B. Deber provides brief descriptions of some key facts and concepts necessary to understand health care policy in Canada and place it in an international...
by Capitol Reader
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013
This ebook consists of a summary of the ideas, viewpoints and facts presented by Devra Davis in her book “The Secret History of the War on Cancer”. This summary offers a concise overview of the entire book in less than 30 minutes reading time. However this work does not replace in any case Devra...