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Aids Sutra
Random House Group Ltd 2009; US$ 12.00India is home to almost three million HIV cases. But AIDS is still a disease stigmatized and shrouded in denial. It is stigma that prevents people from openly discussing the facts around HIV, and keeps them from getting treatment. Stigma leads to discrimination against HIV positive people in hospitals, schools and even among families. ... more...
The Crime Factory
Mainstream Publishing 2012; US$ 13.34Welcome to the Criminal Investigation Department, aka the Crime Factory. Where the cops take and sell drugs (or steal them from the police storeroom), where they fit up, 'verbal' and harrass criminals, fight each other, drink-drive, abuse search warrants, have sex with sources, stab one another in the back (metaphorically), put each other under... more...
A Concise Introduction to Existential Counselling
SAGE Publications 2013; US$ 30.00'A concise introduction to existential counselling is a superb addition to the literature on existential counselling and psychotherapy. Martin Adams provides an excellent overview of the field for those who are new to it at the same time as distilling key features in a way which will be valuable for experienced practitioners' - Meg Barker, Senior Lecturer... more...
Men Who Sell Sex
Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 57.95Men Who Sell Sex is the first comprehensive international account of male prostitution and AIDS. While much is known about female prostitution and sex work, relatively little is known about men who sell sex - either to women or other men. This book brings together an authoritative collection of essays from different countries and examines sexual... more...
Work and the Workplace
Columbia University Press 2001; US$ 29.99For more than twenty years Sheila H. Akabas and Paul A. Kurzman have written extensively about workers and work organizations, and given leadership to the occupational social welfare movement worldwide. Recognized as leaders in their field, Akabas and Kurzman offer an invaluable and comprehensive look at the innovative ways in which management, labor... more...
Improving Children's Services Networks
Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2006; US$ 39.95This book details and evaluates expert research into the developing role of family centres in the light of current political and social trends including. A vital addition to the literature on child care services, Improving Children's Services Networks is essential reading for social care practitioners and students, and government policy makers. more...
Illegal Leisure Revisited
Taylor and Francis 2011; US$ 42.50This book updates the progress into adulthood of the cohort of fourteen-year-olds who were recruited and tracked until they were eighteen years old. Illegal Leisure (1998) described their adolescent journeys and lifestyles, focusing on their early regular drinking and extensive ?recreational? drug use. This new edition revisits these original... more...
Delivering Home-Based Services
Columbia University Press 2010; US$ 34.99Service providers are increasingly called upon to serve clients at home, a setting even a seasoned professional can find difficult to negotiate. From monitoring the health of older populations to managing paroled offenders, preventing child abuse, and reunifying families, home-based services require models that ensure positive outcomes and address... more...
Rural Social Work Practice
eContent Management Pty Ltd 2005; US$ 99.00?Rural Social Work Practice? emerged in the lead up to the 2004 International Social Work Conference held in Adelaide in October where several of the articles in this title were initially presented. As they were gathered and refereed, others were commissioned to establish a solid focus on rural social work practice in the twenty-first century. more...
When Marriage Ends
Edward Elgar Publishing 2009; US$ 40.00Focusing on both economic and social aspects, this volume explores the consequences of partnership dissolution at the individual level. It contains four cross-national comparative studies addressing the impacts of divorce including labour force participation, residential mobility and housing, household income and poverty and lifestyle deprivation. more...









