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  • DOUBLE GENEALOGY
    Marilee Wein
    Surprise adoptee, Grandfather was a coal picker in Scotland, at 29, and Chief Inspector of Mines for British Columbia, at 43. He had shared his date and place of birth, or so, it seemed. This genealogy embraces late 18th to early 20th Century, Scotland, with US implications. His family is lovingly presented in “who done it”, under evaluation, as his potential birth parents. His...
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    20,57 €

  • Close to Forever
    Victoria D. Loggins / Victoria DLoggins
    Alexis had known since she was a young girl that if she wanted something she would have to work for it.  Not born with a silver spoon in her mouth, she knew the road to success and having it all would be a challenging and sometimes difficult path to take.  What Alexis didn't see coming was Oliver, the man who would take her heart almost from the second she met him.  Almost ...
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    21,13 €

  • ALL ABOUT ILYAS
    APRIL MARTIN
    I wonder what it would feel like to meet your family – your parents, siblings, aunts and uncles for the first time in the middle of your childhood? At a time when making friends, and being accepted is anxiety ridden and tenuous. What if you were damaged, fragile and angry? What if this was your last chance to be part of a family before being sent permanently to a group home for...
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    20,01 €

  • Caregiving 101
    Dave Leffmann
    This personal yet clinically relevant guide stands out as a must read for anyone faced with caregiving. These pages, penned from the heart and soul of a physical therapist turned caregiver, offers simple yet well thought through and medically accurate essays, external links, even video, to help you with most everything you will face on your journey. The links are written out so...
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    21,47 €

  • None Call Me Dad
    Ky Owen
    None Call Me Dad is the true, mesmerizing story of a 21st Century dad. On two weeks notice, Ky Owen becomes an adoptive father to a six-year-old son. Five years later, on two days notice, he becomes a father to a teenage daughter. Along the way he assumes the role of father figure to four other kids. “None call me dad,” Owen writes, “But they know that’s who I am.” Intriguing ...
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    11,12 €

  • Surviving Mother
    Gwen Head
    Just as Deb and her mother Estelle are learning how to mesh their individual lives together, nature’s destructive hand comes down, leaving them to wait for a new hope, and help from unexpected others.  In SURVIVING MOTHER Gwen Head has written a story of life struggles, tragedy, and getting one’s life back together to move forward. Written with the caregivers of the world in ...
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    11,15 €

  • ABC, Adoption & Me
    Casey Anne Swift / Gayle H. Swift
    A book about adoption that celebrates the miracle of family and addresses the difficult issues as well. With charming, exuberant illustrations and a diverse representation of families, ABC, Adoption & Me will warm hearts, deepen understanding of what it means to be an adoptive family and provide teaching moments that bring families closer, connected in truth, compassion, and jo...
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    10,16 €

  • A Life Let Go
    Patricia J Florin
    Closed adoption, heralded as the answer to the problem of unplanned pregnancy, shows its other side in A Life Let Go, A Memoir and Five Birth Mother Stories of Closed Adoption. These women tell how they experienced unplanned pregnancy in the restrictiveness of the last decades of the twentieth century. All gave up a child in closed adoption—the only option—understanding they wo...
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    10,55 €

  • Scattered
    Jana Panarites
    In November 2009 Jana Panarites was scrambling to make ends meet in LA, despite a lifetime of working hard and having recently earned a master’s degree from the University of Southern California. Her career spiraling out of control, she didn’t think life could get any worse until she learned of her father’s sudden death two days before Thanksgiving.She flew east for the funeral...
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    12,36 €

  • Família E Escola
    Aline Daise Teixeira Da Silva
    Esta Obra Considera O Tripé Família, Escola E Comunidade Como Aporte Fundamental Para A Socioeducação, E Principalmente Para A Construção De Projetos De Vida De Adolescentes A Quem São Atribuídos Autoria De Atos Infracionais. 10 ...
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    14,04 €

  • Há outro modo de construir a relação escola-família como uma experiência instituinte?
    Maria Angelita Djapoterama da Silva
    O presente livro compreende a análise de uma experiência instituinte no campo educacional, relacionada à extensão universitária, que objetivou a construção de relações entre a escola e a família que fortaleceram o trabalho da escola básica em contexto de intensa pobreza urbana. Tratou-se de experiência que uniu a Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) à Prefeitura Muni...
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    23,40 €

  • Alzheimer, Uma Visão Da Família
    Dr. Gilberto Paschoal Buccieri
    Esta obra foi inspirada em fatos e sentimentos causados por uma doença que abateu de forma silenciosa, devastadora e inesperada a família do autor, desencadeando uma série de situações de muita instabilidade, ocorridas devido à incerteza de como e a melhor forma de agir, desconhecimento sobre a doença e a necessidade de tomada de decisões importantes sem a base necessária, bem ...
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    16,59 €

  • Child Abuse and Social Work Practice (First)
    Samina Karim
    A comprehensive exploration of child abuse in the modern day with implications for social work practice. ...
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    191,04 €

  • Empty Hands
    Roy Hughes
    As a child, Roy Hughes made an excruciating decision to give up all he had to protect the people he loved most: his siblings. Born into a world of poverty, addiction, and violence, Roy learned early to survive with little else but instinct, determination, and faith. So, when the adults around him were too broken or exhausted to intervene on his behalf, he did the unthinkable by...
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    21,41 €

  • Living with Precariousness
    Precariousness has become a defining experience in contemporary society, as an inescapable condition and state of being. Living with Precariousness presents a spectrum of timely case studies that explore precarious existences - at individual, collective and structural levels, and as manifested through space and the body. These range from the plight of asylum seekers, to the tin...
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    50,81 €

  • Terra Prometida
    E.l.nunes
    Este livro reportagem relata a histórias de trabalhadores sem-terra do assentamento Agrovila de Campinas na cidade de Promissão a 398 km da capital de São Paulo. Sua luta e sofrimentos para conquistar a terra, suas experiências de vida, dramas e alegria.Não é uma análise profunda sobre a questão agrária no Brasil, mas, apenas pretende mostrar que quando a terra fica nas mãos de...
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    15,55 €

  • Humanidade , Guerra E Natureza.
    Carlinhos Columbia
    Após chegar de maneira inusitada em lugar estranho. O garoto de onze anos, na companhia de seu melhor amigo, busca uma forma de retornar ao seio da família. Em tentativas fracassadas, entre devaneios, visita lugarejos e personagens simbólicos. Descobre que sua missão, é se transformar no maior defensor da natureza. Ao renegar o que foi determinado por mentores, se percebe na mo...
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    25,48 €

  • Human Services and the Media
    Edward Allan Brawley
    First published in 1995, Human Services and the Media demonstrates how human services professionals can work with newspapers, magazines, radio, and television to promote social programs and shape public policy. This book is a must read for students of social work. ...
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    63,10 €

  • Lessons from the Past
    Richard Roberts
    First published in 1990, Lessons from the Past demonstrates the need for a more refined theory and practice to benefit social workers, their clients, and their agencies, as well as influencing government legislation and policies. ...
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    55,44 €

  • Caring Under Pressure
    Andrea Freeman / Roland Chaplain
    First published in 1994, this book examines neglected area of stress and coping strategies of children and staff in residential settings who must function within contradictory expectations of the public and policy makers. It is particularly valuable for professionals involved in the education and care of children in residential environments. ...
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    55,98 €

  • Comparative Development in Social Welfare
    E. W. Martin
    Social welfare history has needed historical reconsideration since the growth of regional research. Pivoting on a central theme of the development of public provision for social welfare, this book (originally published in 1972) investigates how elements of social policy have evolved in Great Britain and the US from 16th to 20th century. ...
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    55,68 €

  • When Vulnerability Meets Power
    This essential safeguarding guide provides insight to operational, organisational and cultural challenges within the international aid and development sector. ...
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    46,21 €

  • The American Red Cross Magazine
    American National Red Cross
    'The American Red Cross Magazine, Vol. 8, No. 2, April 1913,' offers an invaluable glimpse into the vital humanitarian aid, philanthropy, and social welfare efforts of the American Red Cross at the turn of the 20th century. This meticulously preserved periodical stands as a primary source, illuminating the organization’s multifaceted activities both domestically and as part of ...
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    20,11 €

  • A Cityless AND Countryless World
    Henry Olerich
    Delve into Henry Olerich’s groundbreaking treatise, 'A cityless and countryless world: An outline of practical cooperative individualism.' This seminal work lays out a meticulously envisioned future society, one that boldly transcends the conventional divides of urban and rural existence.Olerich’s ambitious proposal offers a comprehensive framework for a harmonious social struc...
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    27,96 €

  • Homelessness in America
    Michele Wakin
    A one-stop resource for understanding the crisis of homelessness in the United States, this book covers risk factors for homelessness, societal attitudes about the homeless, and public and private resources designed to prevent homelessness and help those in need.There are a number of questions to be answered when addressing the subject of homelessness in the United States. What...
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    37,30 €

  • Religion, Class, and the Postwar Development of the Dutch Welfare State
    Dennie Oude Nijhuis
    This book examines how the Netherlands managed to create and maintain one of the world’s most generous and inclusive welfare systems despite having been dominated by Christian-democratic or conservative rather than socialist-dominated governments for most of the post-war period. ...
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    82,27 €

  • Contemporary Issues in Human Services
    James C. Wadley
    This text informs human services students and practitioners on complex contemporary issues in the human services, public health, and clinical social work fields, allowing them to be more agile and better-prepared agents and leaders of change. ...
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    65,69 €

  • Developing Innovative Community-Based Long-Term Care Systems and Services
    Asian Development Bank
    Showcasing innovative community-based long-term care (LTC) models in Indonesia, Mongolia, and Viet Nam, this publication looks at ways integrated and holistic care and support services can underpin aging in place and improve health outcomes.The publication highlights policy changes the three countries have made to scale up cost-effective, community-based LTC. It shows how incre...
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    36,26 €

  • Interprofessional Ethics Across the Life Course in Health and Social Care
    Interprofessional teams of Health and social care professionals encounter, and respond to, significant ethical challenges and complexity in their everyday work. This scenario-based book explores how to enact ethical values and virtues, while working across the four pillars of professional activity. ...
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    77,51 €

  • Creative Approaches to Social Work Practice and Risk
    This book bridges together theory and practice to provide practitioners with a creative toolkit to navigate practice, risk, safety and supervision in day-to-day situations. ...
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    51,83 €


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