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The Sociology of the Caring Professions, Second Edition
Routledge 2002; US$ 95.00This updated and substantially revised second edition of a key textbook, provides students with a comprehensive introduction to the sociology of professions including social work, probation, nursing, midwifery and health visiting. The authors discuss the changing role of the caring professions, focussing on their status and the strategies used... more...
Silent Sons
Touchstone 2008; US$ 15.99A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader. more...
Reclaiming Class
Temple University Press 2009; US$ 30.95Reclaiming Class offers essays written by women who changed their lives through the pathway of higher education. Collected, they offer a powerful testimony of the importance of higher learning, as well as a critique of the programs designed to alleviate poverty and educational disparity. The contributors explore the ideologies of welfare and American... more...
Philanthropy, Patronage, and Civil Society
Indiana University Press 2004; US$ 30.35In Philanthropy, Patronage, and Civil Society, Thomas Adam has assembled a comparative set of case studies that challenge long-held and little-studied assumptions about the modern development of philanthropy. Histories of philanthropy have often neglected European patterns of giving and the importance... more...
Buying Respectability
Indiana University Press 2009; US$ 33.10In 19th-century Leipzig, Toronto, New York, and Boston, a newly emergent group of industrialists and entrepreneurs entered into competition with older established elite groups for social recognition as well as cultural and political leadership. The competition was played out on the field of philanthropy,... more...
Handbook to Service the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
BRILL 2004; US$ 65.95A rich and compelling study of Deaf resources and culture! more...
Social Policy for Social Work
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2002; US$ 50.00This text provides a comprehensive and critical introduction to the relationship between social policy and social work. It examines a range of social policy sectors as they impact on the work of professionals in the particular fields of social work, social care, community care and residential care. more...
Everyday Technology for Independence and Care
IOS Press 2011; US$ 280.00Numbers of the elderly and people with disabilities in our society are growing. Technological solutions have an increasingly important role in supporting this group of individuals in their daily life, to ensure both independence and adequate care. For this reason the 11th European Conference of the Association for the Advancement of Assistive Technology... more...
Palliative Care, Social Work and Service Users
Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2006; US$ 47.95This unique book provides a rare look at social work and palliative care from the perspective of service users. Drawing on new original research, the authors examine service users' experiences, tracking their journeys through it, exploring the care they receive and the effects of culture and difference through their first hand comments and ideas. more...
Children, Gender and Families in Mediterranean Welfare States
Springer 2010; US$ 129.99The study of welfare states and social policy has enjoyed growing popularity in the last three decades. This field has been characterized by a growing level of theorization, richer case study analyses, inclusion of additional sources of welfare provision (non-profit, market-based, informal, family), and fields of study (globalization, gender, ethnicity,... more...









