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Social Work With Adults

by Georgina Koubel

A definitive textbook on adult services, bringing the topic alive for students with a perspective and depth of understanding.


The Social Work Interview

by Alfred Kadushin & Goldie Kadushin

For twenty-five years, The Social Work Interview has been the textbook of choice in social work and other human service courses, as well as an essential professional resource for practitioners. This new edition,...


The Last Hunger Season: A Year in an African Farm Community on the Brink of Change

by Roger Thurow

The story of a group of Kenyan farmers working to transcend lives of dire poverty and hunger illuminates the challenges, and vital necessity, of transforming Africa’s agriculture sector


Alzheimer's Day Care: A Basic Guide

by David A. Linderman, Nancy H. Corby & Rachel Downing

A book whose purpose is to offer guidance to individuals, organizations and agencies on how to develop day care programmes for patients with Alzheimer's disease or a related dementia.

A range of programme aspects...


The Wages of Relief: Cities and the Unemployed in Prairie Canada, 1929-39

by Eric Strikwerda

The Wages of Relief examines the Depression experiences of three municipal governments-Edmonton, Saskatoon, and Winnipeg-and the individuals and families who relied on them for unemployment relief through the...


Teen Suicide Risk: A Practitioner Guide to Screening, Assessment, and Management

by Cheryl A. King, Cynthia Ewell Foster & Kelly M. Rogalski

Meeting a vital need, this book helps clinicians rapidly identify risks for suicidal behavior and manage an at-risk teen's ongoing care. It provides clear guidelines for conducting suicide risk screenings and...


Social Justice and the Urban Obesity Crisis: Implications for Social Work

by Melvin Delgado

Urban America is in the midst of an obesity crisis caused by more than just biology and diet. A number of economic, cultural, and contextual factors are causing this epidemic, which can create chronic health...


Learning to Play With a Lion's Testicles: Unexpected Gifts From the Animals of Africa

by Melissa Haynes

Melissa visits Africa for animal conservation, but a cast of unlikely characters teaches her about grief, fear, and ultimately life.


Working for Justice: A Handbook of Prison Education and Activism

Cancer in the Community: Class and Medical Authority

by Martha Balshem

Focusing on deep conflicts between the medical establishment and the working class, Martha Balshem chronicles a health education project in “Tannerstown,” a pseudonym for a blue-collar neighborhood in northeast...


Second Line Rescue: Improvised Responses to Katrina and Rita

by Barry Jean Ancelet & Marcia Gaudet

Second Line Rescue: Improvised Responses to Katrina and Rita chronicles the brave and creative acts through which Gulf Coast people rescued their neighbors during the chaotic aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina...


Reflective Practice For Social Workers: A Handbook For Developing Professional Confidence

by Linda Bruce

Reflective practice is at the heart of becoming a competent and confident social work professional. This book demystifies the reflective process and provides a straight forward knowledge base to enhance professional...


Poor Relief and Community in Hadleigh, Suffolk 1547-1600

by Marjorie Keniston McIntosh

At the cutting edge of new social and demographic history, this book provides a detailed picture of the most comprehensive system of poor relief operated by any Elizabethan town. Well before the Poor Laws of...


How the Other Half Dies

by Susan George

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Elderescence: The Gift of Longevity

by Jane Thayer & Peggy Thayer

Thirty-five million Americans are living beyond the age of sixty-five, a twenty-five year increase in life expectancy since 1900. This longevity, once the gift of a few, has become the destiny of many. This...


Migrants and Health: Political and Institutional Responses to Cultural Diversity in Health Systems

by Christiane Falge & Carlo Ruzza

This volume seeks to understand patterns of changing institutional practices and public policies where the challenges of including cultural diversity into the social fabric are most pronounced: namely the health...


Constructions of Childhood and Youth in Old French Narrative

by Phyllis Gaffney

Examining the portrayal of childhood and youth in a large sample of medieval French verse narratives, this study analyzes representations of childhood in two genres: chansons de geste, or Old French epic poems,...


Disability in the Middle Ages: Reconsiderations and Reverberations

by Joshua R. Eyler

What do we mean when we talk about disability in the Middle Ages? This volume brings together dynamic scholars working on the subject in medieval literature and history, who use the latest approaches from the...


Kipling's Children's Literature: Language, Identity, and Constructions of Childhood

by Sue Walsh

Despite Kipling's popularity as an author and his standing as a politically controversial figure, much of his work has remained relatively unexamined due to its categorization as 'children's literature.' Sue...


Oceania and the Victorian Imagination: Where All Things Are Possible

by Richard D. Fulton & Peter H. Hoffenberg

Focusing on Oceania's impact on Victorian culture, most notably travel writing, photography, international exhibitions, literature and the culture of childhood, this collection examines the Victorians' engagement...