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Pocketbook guide full of practical advice for social workers for conducting home visits in child protection.

If you’re lucky enough to come from a long line of women who have aged spectacularly, well bully for you. If you’re like me, and are descended from a bunch of overweight, sedentary alcoholics, you might have to work a bit harder to create your own anti-aging success story. As a 55 year old...

This completely revised and updated second edition of Geography in the Early Years presents a lively and comprehensive overview of teaching and learning in geography. Theoretical aspects of early years teaching in geography are complemented by up-to-date research findings and illustrated with...

Graphs on Surfaces: Dualities, Polynomials, and Knots offers an accessible and comprehensive treatment of recent developments on generalized duals of graphs on surfaces, and their applications. The authors  illustrate the interdependency between duality, medial graphs and knots; how this interdependency...

A vividly imagined new novel from award-winning Scott. In the mid-1950s, an American family travels to an island off the coast of Italy to make a fortune in gemstones.

"This is a compelling story that will leave readers haunted by Scott's powerful moral vision." -- *Publishers' Weekly*** When four-year-old Bo is orphaned in the car accident that kills his mother, he becomes the focus of a fierce custody struggle and flees into himself--away from...

Deepen your understanding of every aspect of the veterinary field withthe Workbook for McCurnin’s Clinical Textbook for Veterinary Technicians, 9th Edition. Corresponding to Bassert’s comprehensive text chapter for chapter, this engaging Workbook features case presentations, matching questions,...

Mindful Therapeutic Care for Children is an accessible guide to using mindfulness and reflection to improve the quality of care for vulnerable children. Drawing on ideas from attachment theory and neuroscience, Mindful Therapeutic Care for Children explains terms like mindfulness and reflective...

Students and newly qualified staff make up much of the workforce delivering end-of-life care but, because end-of-life care can be both technically challenging and emotionally demanding, it is an aspect of nursing that can cause considerable anxiety. This very accessible, straightforward book...

Deliver the best patient care before, during, and after surgery with this straightforward, step-by-step guide to surgical skills and operating room procedures. It provides comprehensive coverage of all the updated AST Core Curriculum, 6th Edition components — health care sciences, technological...

Biographical research methods have become a useful and popular tool for contemporary social scientists. This book combines an exploration of the historical and philosophical origins of this important field of qualitative research with comparative examples of the different ways that biographical methods...

The liver is an incredibly important organ in your body. While it has the ability to grow, and parts of one person’s liver can be successfully transplanted into another person’s body, this can only be done with a healthy liver. Maintaining liver health is therefore imperative, not just for the purposes...

Spanning the seasons of Lent, Easter and to Pentecost, this Ebook describes the rich heritage of customs and traditions long practiced by Catholics down the ages, up to today. Shrovetide, ashes, pancakes, mardi gras, fasting, almsgiving, pilgrimage, special saints days, simnel cake, palms, Easter...

This handy ebook sets out the rich heritage of customs long practised by Catholics during the seasons of Advent and Christmas. The Church makes sense of the natural seasons of the year through her own liturgical seasons. Advent's four weeks, cribbing, St Nicholas, carols, the 12 days of Christmas,...