Social Services category: 2206 books
Helping Children with Troubled Parents
A Guidebook
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
This book is designed to enable practitioners to help children whose emotional wellbeing is being adversely affected by troubled parents. These are children who live with the burden of having to navigate their parent's troubled emotional states, often leaving them with a mass of painful feelings about...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2006
This book is intended for four intersecting groups of readers. If you are a philosopher, closet or sanctioned, then you cannot ponder the nature of being without due consideration for vision, and cannot contemplate the role of seeing in our lives without listening to the stories of those who are blind....
The Risk of a Lifetime
How, When, and Why Procreation May Be Permissible
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Having children is probably as old as the first successful organism. It is often done thoughtlessly. This book is an argument for giving procreating some serious thought, and a theory of how, when, and why procreation may be permissible. Rivka Weinberg begins with an analysis of the kind of act procreativity...
Le sel de la terre
Confessions d’un enfant de la classe moyenne
Language: French
Release Date: August 16, 2013
La classe moyenne est instrumentalisée par les politiciens et les commentateurs médiatiques, qui la dépeignent tantôt comme une immense cohorte de pauvres en devenir, tantôt comme une communauté martyrisée de contribuables parasités par l’État. Des prophètes de malheur annoncent même...
Niet alles is te koop
de morele grenzen van marktwerking
Language: Dutch
Release Date: June 11, 2012
Spraakmakende filosoof ontketent debat over grenzen marktwerking Mag een verzekeraar of een werkgever iemand een bonus geven om af te vallen? Moeten we kinderen betalen om boeken te lezen of goede cijfers te halen? Kun je met een prijskaartje aangeven hoeveel een mensenleven het milieu belast? En...
L'aula vuota
Come l'Italia ha distrutto la sua scuola
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 6, 2019
Grazie non poco alla sua scuola – in particolare grazie alle sue maestre che per prime affrontarono l’ignoranza nazionale – l’Italia del Novecento, partita da condizioni miserabili, arrivò a essere tra le principali economie del mondo. Ma oggi quella stessa scuola è lo specchio del declino...
The Blindness Revolution
Jernigan in His Own Words
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2006
This book recounts the dramatic story of the transformation of the Iowa Commission for the Blind from a verifiably ineffective service agency to perhaps the most outstanding and effective adult service program in the nation in the span of 10 short years. What happened in Iowa was revolutionary, and...
The “New-Age America” & President Trump’S Invisible Politics in World Governance
The Future & the Security of You & I
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
This book is a policy-review piece. It strives to review some long-standing and herculean issues of concerns within the United States and around the world. It attempts a realistic second look into a few of the delicate and hellacious questions of governance that nations around the world are currently...
Health at a Glance 2017
OECD Indicators
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
This new edition of Health at a Glance presents the most recent comparable data on the health status of populations and health system performance in OECD countries. Where possible, it also reports data for partner countries (Brazil, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, India, Indonesia, Lithuania, Russian...
Health at a Glance: Europe 2018
State of Health in the EU Cycle
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2018
Health at a Glance: Europe 2018 presents comparative analyses of the health status of EU citizens and the performance of the health systems of the 28 EU Member States, 5 candidate countries and 3 EFTA countries. It is the first step in the State of Health in the EU cycle of knowledge brokering. This...
by Martin Gellen
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
As the reproduction cost of housing has increased, consumers have made intensive use of existing dwellings. Conversions of the housing stock have regained prominence as a source of supply. This book introduces the accessory apartment and assesses its potential as an emerging resource for meeting local...
by Torsten Ermel
Language: German
Release Date: March 7, 2016
Language: German
Release Date: March 7, 2016
Beamte genießen zahlreiche Privilegien, von denen "normale" Arbeitnehmer nur träumen können. Sei es beim Ruhestandsgehalt, bei der Altersteilzeit, Gesundheitsvorsorge, bei Lohn- und Einkommenssteuer oder dem Eltern- und Kindergeld. Torsten Ermel rechnet die Privilegien der Beamten in...
Indicativo futuro: le cose da fare
Materiali per una politica alternativa
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Difficile, nella stagione della crisi e della disuguaglianza, trovare qualcuno che creda nella politica. Anche il voto, quando c’è, è dettato dalla rabbia e dal risentimento assai più che dalla speranza di un cambiamento. Che fare dunque? Costruire e praticare una politica alternativa, all’insegna...
Casino capitalism
with an introduction by Matthew Watson
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Originally released by Basil Blackwell in 1986, and then re-released by Manchester University Press in 1998, Casino capitalism is a cutting-edge discussion of international financial markets, the way they behave and the power they wield. It examines money's power for good as well as its terrible disruptive,...