Social Services category: 2206 books
Schizophrenic Women
Studies in Marital Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
Schizophrenic Women is a fascinating report on the lives of seventeen families that suffered the experiences associated with the hospitalization of the wife and mother for mental illness. A description and analysis of representative experiences is presented here in an attempt to investigate various...
The New Economics of Income Distribution
Introducing Equilibrium Concepts into a Contested Field
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
With the increased interest in the role of inequality in modern economies, this timely and original book explores income distribution as an equilibrium phenomenon. Though globalization tends to destroy earlier equilibria within industrialized and developing countries, new equilibria are bound to emerge....
State Politics and the Affordable Care Act
Choices and Decisions
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2019
After a great deal of discussion and debate across all levels of government, President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act (ACA) into law in March 2010. Since President Trump's election into office, the ACA has stayed in the headlines. Trump has continued to call for the replacement and repeal of...
La economía al alcance de todos
Claves para entender cómo afecta a tu vida y tu bolsillo
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 1, 2016
La Economía al alcance de todos intenta responder a buena parte de las interrogantes que todos nos hacemos y no tenemos a quién preguntar. Lo hace con precisión, en estilo ágil y directo, para explicar aquello que de una u otra forma nos tocará la puerta.
¿Hasta cuándo va a subir el...
El agua en México
Consecuencias de las políticas de intervención en el sector
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 30, 2012
México ha logrado realizar avances en el sector del agua, incluyendo un sistema legislativo equilibrado, una autoridad nacional del agua y un sistema funcional de derechos de agua, así como un naciente mercado del recurso. Sin embargo, el país todavía enfrenta desafíos significativos, relacionados...
Europa y el porvenir
Cómo preservar y fortalecer el modelo europeo de bienestar
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 8, 2016
La población europea se estanca y envejece, lo que está provocando un crecimiento progresivo de los gastos ligados a la edad, como las pensiones, la sanidad y los cuidados de larga duración. Si a ello unimos el hecho de que Europa presenta bajas tasas de actividad y ocupación, que limitan la capacidad...
Die hilflosen Helfer
Über die seelische Problematik der helfenden Berufe
Language: German
Release Date: November 20, 2018
Die Hilflosigkeit von Helfern entspringt ihrem überstrengen altruistischen Ideal der sozialen Hilfe. Was rigide Ideale im Leben des Einzelnen und im Zusammenleben von Gruppen und Völkern anrichten können, ist das Thema dieses erfolgreichen Klassikers. Helfen macht das Wesen zahlreicher Berufe aus....
Restlaufzeit
Wie ein gutes, lustiges und bezahlbares Leben im Alter gelingen kann
Language: German
Release Date: September 16, 2014
Rentenlücke, Einsamkeit, Wundliegen - unter den Babyboomern grassiert die Panik vor dem Altern. Gegen Pflegeangst und Demenzphobie gibt es nur ein Mittel: Heute anfangen, das Alter zu planen. Unterhaltsam, ehrlich und informativ erzählt Hajo Schumacher, welche Ruhestandsmodelle bezahlbar sind, die...
by Иван Дмитриевич Беляев, Shelkoper.com
Language: Russian
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Language: Russian
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Монография «Крестьяне на Руси» Беляева Ивана Дмитриевича – историческое расследование положения крестьян в русском обществе в период с XII по XIX вв. Рассматривается...
For Life, With Love
Training Tool for HIV Prevention and Safe Migration in Road Construction Settings and Affected Communities
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) adapted IOM's existing migrant-friendly tool called For Life, With Love---a video and life skills package on HIV prevention and safe mobility for migrant and mobile populations in the Greater Mekong Subregion---to...
by Gianni Cuperlo
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 24, 2013
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 24, 2013
Un affastellarsi di luoghi comuni, ecco come rischia d’essere dipinta l’Italia di oggi. Un’immagine del Bel Paese inventata da noi stessi, salvo restarne schiavi: il genio del lavoro e della creatività, isolate manifestazioni d’eroismo. Le maschere di Sordi e Villaggio. Le icone di Falcone...
A Spirit of Charity
Restoring the Bond Between America and Its Public Hospitals
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
Most Americans view the nation's great public hospitals as refuges of last resort for poor and uninsured people. But these iconic institutions -- some recently closed, some renamed, others rebuilt -- have also served as a safety valve for the nation's highly profitable medical industrial complex....
by G. Benvenuto, M. Di Menna
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 20, 2017
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 20, 2017
Nessuna decade ha segnato la storia del nostro Paese come gli anni '60. Un decennio ricco di contrasti, chiaroscuri, rinascita e caduta, speranze e disillusioni. Come in un film, gli italiani hanno assistito ad una rivoluzione epocale, che ha trasformato il loro stile di vita. Il boom economico e...
Et si on réinventait l’école ?
Chronique d'un prof idéaliste
Language: French
Release Date: April 13, 2016
« De toute urgence, il faut faire de l’éducation notre priorité nationale », affirme Jean-François Roberge. Plus encore, il faut carrément réinventer l’école parce que, de toute évidence, ça ne va plus. Écoles délabrées, taux de décrochage alarmant, analphabétisme grimpant : les...