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Food Aid After Fifty Years
Taylor and Francis 2005; US$ 69.95This book analyzes the impact food aid programmes have had over the past fifty years, assessing the current situation as well as future prospects. Issues such as political expediency, the impact of international trade and exchange rates are put under the microscope to provide the reader with a greater understanding of this important subject matter.... more...
Social Work Practice and Psychopharmacology
Springer Publishing Company 2001; US$ 60.00A working knowledge of psychotropics is a must for all in clinical practice today. This book supplies social workers with a basic understanding of psychotropic drugs, including medication use and misuse. Readers will also learn how to identify side effects and adverse reactions, and how to tailor treatment for clients who are taking antipsychotics,... more...
A Guide for Nursing Home Social Workers
Springer Publishing Company 2001; US$ 55.00This book clearly distinguishes the function of beginning nursing home social workers and provides information and resources essential for them. Topics covered include: assessment; the intake and discharge processes; interventions; resource allocation; medication; diagnosis and treatment of depression; dementias; and legal issues, ethics, and confidentiality... more...
Crime, Social Control and Human Rights
Willan Publishing 2007; US$ 99.95The work of Stanley Cohen over four decades has come to acquire a classical status in the fields of criminology, sociology and human rights. His writing, research, teaching and practical engagement in these fields have been at once rigorously analytical and intellectually inspiring. It amounts to a unique contribution, immensely varied yet with several... more...
Crime and Justice, 1750-1950
Willan Publishing 2005; US$ 94.95This book provides an introductory text for students taking courses in recent criminal justice history. Chapters cover the key issues central to an understanding of the historical background to the current criminal justice system, covering the crime of murder, the emergence, establishment and development of the police, crime and criminals, criminals... more...
Crime Reduction Community Safety
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 40.95This book analyses Labour's policies of local crime control from 1997 through to 2006. Picking up on the Conservative legacy, it follows the establishment of local crime and disorder reduction partnerships and tracks developments from Labour's attempts to subject them to a centrally-imposed performance management regime, through to the emergence of... more...
Crime, Law and Popular Culture in Europe, 1500-1900
Willan Publishing 2008; US$ 84.95This book explores the relationship between crime, law and popular culture in Europe from the sixteenth century onwards. How was crime understood and dealt with by ordinary people and to what degree did they resort to or reject the official law and criminal justice system as a means of dealing with different forms of criminal activity? Overall, the... more...
Evidence-Based Interventions for Social Work in Health Care
Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 41.95Social work practice in health care requires that practitioners be prepared to meet the interdisciplinary and managed care demands for best practices in efficacious, time-limited, and culturally competent interventions, with populations across the lifespan. This text is designed to meet that demand for evidence-based practice. The result of extensive... more...
Mental Health Social Work in Context
Taylor and Francis 2009; US$ 37.95There has been a re-energising of interest in social work in mental health services in recent years and mental health is now a core part of all qualifying social work students? training. Grounded in the social models of mental health particularly relevant to qualifying social workers, but also familiarising students with social aspects of medical... more...
Food Security for the Faint of Heart
New Society Publishers 2008; US$ 16.95Simple techniques for securing your food supply in an insecure world. more...









