Valerie Martin: 26 books
Trespass
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2007
Two women, Chloe Dale, an artist comfortably ensconced in bucolic suburbia, and Salome Drago, a wily, seductive refugee from a country that no longer exists, confront each other in a Manhattan restaurant, and the battle lines are drawn. Toby Dale, son of the artist and ardent suitor of the refugee,...
by Fiction River, Anthea Sharp, Diana Deverell
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2018
The relentless ticking of a clock as time slips away marks the breathless pace of these remarkable stories. In Fiction River’s third edition of its Pulse Pounders series, these sixteen authors push the envelope of the thriller form. From a man desperately searching for his missing little girl to...
Supporting Children and Families
Lessons from Sure Start for Evidence-Based Practice in Health, Social Care and Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2007
Supporting Children and Families gathers together the lessons learned from perhaps the largest scale social experiment ever undertaken in England - Sure Start, the programme designed to improve the emotional development, health and education of children.
It boils down the huge amount of knowledge...
by Marielle Martin, Christophe Aubertin, Olivier Delbard
Language: French
Release Date: October 3, 2018
Language: French
Release Date: October 3, 2018
Ce manuel propose un cours structuré et une analyse de la législation illustrée de nombreux exemples jurisprudentiels et de nombreux renvois aux sources du droit.
Cette nouvelle édition est à jour des dernières réglementations.
Cet ouvrage complet est rédigé...
Civic Media
Technology, Design, Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Examinations of civic engagement in digital culture—the technologies, designs, and practices that support connection through common purpose in civic, political, and social life.
Countless people around the world harness the affordances of digital media to enable democratic participation,...
by Kevin Aho, Robert Audi, Peter A. French
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
It is a platitude that most people, as they say, 'work to live' rather than 'live to work.' And in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, work weeks have expanded and the divide between work time and personal time has significantly blurred due to innovations in such things as electronic...
The Dictionary of Alternatives
Utopianism and Organization
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
'There is no alternative to free market liberalism and managerialism', is the orthodoxy of the twenty-first century. All too often, ordinary people across the world are being told that the problem of organization is already solved, or that it is being solved somewhere else, or that it need not concern...
Global Women Leaders
Studies in Feminist Political Rhetoric
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
Global Women Leaders: Studies in Feminist Political Rhetoric demonstrates the ways in which women have used political rhetoric and political discourse to provide leadership, or assert their right to leadership, on a global level. This collection fits into the robust research area of international...
Genial geschützt!
Raffinierte Verpackungen in der Natur
Language: German
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Ob Baumrinde oder Eierschale, ob Pflanzenpollen oder Samenkapseln, ob Bienenwaben oder die Erdkruste: Die Natur ist ein großartiger Erfinder, wenn es darum geht, sich zu schützen. Viele dieser Verpackungen der Natur sind verblüffende und spannende chemische, architektonische oder physikalische...
The Therapeutic Milieu Under Fire
Security and Insecurity in Forensic Mental Health
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
This groundbreaking book explores the psychodynamics and socio-politics of the forensic therapeutic milieu, addressing some of the most difficult and complex issues facing practitioners. It sets out a psycho-social framework for understanding the predicament and the needs of those who live in and...
Small Group Research
Implications for Peace Psychology and Conflict Resolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2011
Small group research is of particularly wide interest to people working in a fairly broad variety of areas concerned with understanding conflict, especially for practitioners and researchers concerned with conflict resolution, peace, and related areas.
The editors will focus on six main topical...
Vater, Mutter, Kind?
Acht Trends in Familien, die Politik heute kennen sollte
Language: German
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Familien sind heute vielfältiger als noch vor zehn oder zwanzig Jahren. Auch das Familienleben hat sich verändert und ist mit wachsenden Herausforderungen verbunden: Die Lebenslagen von Familien, ihre finanziellen und kulturellen Ressourcen, driften immer weiter auseinander. Zu viele Kinder und...
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