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Competence in Social Work Practice
Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2007; US$ 34.95This practical text book covers all areas of the National Occupational Standards Framework including social work ethics, residential care practice, child protection, risk analysis and protecting adults with learning difficulties. Numerous case studies effectively convey competent practice in social work practice. more...
Clinical Topics in Addiction
The Royal College of Psychiatrists 2007; US$ 48.00This work brings together 23 papers from the College's popular journal 'Advances in Psychiatric Treatment', which are then updated to give systematic, authoritative and well-referenced accounts of key clinical topics relating to substance misuse. It includes papers on various substances of misuse: opioids, stimulants, hallucinogens, alcohol and nicotine.... more...
Good Practices in Social Services Delivery in South Eastern Europe
ILO Publications 2004; US$ 29.95Describes recent efforts to strengthen and expand social services provided at the community level. Covers restructuring of national social security schemes, social policy formulation and implementation of legislated reforms. Provides characteristics of services form selected EU countries and the experiences from countries of South Eastern Europe. Contains... more...
Rattled!
Crown Publishing Group 2009; US$ 14.95Warm, honest, funny, and empowering, Rattled! is an unforgettable memoir of a life that takes an unexpected turn?and a brave young woman who decides to follow where the road leads. Everything in twenty-six-year-old Christine?s life was going as planned?great friends, a promising job as a magazine assistant, New York City at her feet . . . even a... more...
Making Change
ECW Press 2001; US$ 11.95The Laidlaw Foundation was established in 1949 by Walter and Robert Laidlaw, sons of the founder of the R. Laidlaw Lumber Company. This book is a history of the Laidlaw family, how it amassed money, and why the brothers decided to disperse it as they did. more...
The Story of My Life
The Floating Press 1905; US$ 4.99Helen Keller's autobiography, The Story of My Life , tells of her early life and of her experiences with Annie Sullivan, her teacher and companion. It was first published in 1903. Keller was the first deaf-blind person to attain a Bachelor of Arts degree, became well traveled and a prolific author, and was outspoken in her campaigning against war... more...
The People of the Abyss
The Floating Press 1903; US$ 3.99The experiences related in this volume fell to me in the summer of 1902. I went down into the under-world of London with an attitude of mind which I may best liken to that of the explorer. I was open to be convinced by the evidence of my eyes, rather than by the teachings of those who had not seen, or by the words of those who had seen and gone before.... more...
The Politics of Justification
Amsterdam University Press 2002; US$ 43.25An investigation of welfare retrenchment in Denmark and the Netherlands in 1982-1998. more...
Father of the Year
Penguin Group US 2009; US$ 7.99The Father?s Day shocker of the year?this dad was so perfect, it was frightening. Bill Rundle may have won Las Vegas?s ?Father of the Year? award, but when his wife?s corpse was found, the other side of the all-American dad was revealed: a manipulative con man, professional thief, and savage killer whose crimes reached back through the decades. more...
Modern Social Work Practice
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2007; US$ 40.00Modern Social Work Practice is a substantially new text which builds upon the success and style of Social Work Practice (1993) and The New Social Work Practice (1998). Mark Doel and Steven M. Shardlow have reshaped the book to take account of the National Occupational Standards for Social Work, aiming to provide a creative, practical and up-to-date... more...









