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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “christa hoffmann riem”
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  • The Adopted Child

    Family Life with Double Parenthood

    by Christa Hoffmann-Riem ...
    Series series Marriage and Family Studies Series
    This exploration of the experiences of adopting parents and children offers unusual insight into adoption's complexity and its profound impact on family life. Based on the author's research in Germany, where she lived and taught, The Adopted Child has a great deal to say about child rearing and identity, as well as offering insights into similarities and differences in family life and adoption in ... Read more

    $67.32 CAD

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  • Social Work

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Sally Holland, Jonathan Scourfield ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Social workers spend their time trying to ease social suffering. They encounter the extreme casualties of social inequality: the victims of poverty, illness, addiction, and abuse; they work with abusers and offenders; and operate in the space between the State and the poor or marginalized. Social work is replete with vivid human stories: the troubled teenage boy who cannot settle in a foster home; ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • A Tragedy Waiting to Happen – The Chaotic Life of Brendan O'Donnell

    The true story of an abandoned orphan who became a psychotic killer

    by Tony Muggivan, JJ Muggivan ...
    For years, Tony Muggivan urged the Irish social system to offer appropriate treatment to the desperately sick Brendan O'Donnell. A Tragedy Waiting to Happen is the harrowing story of his doomed attempts and the awful consequences of that failure: a triple murder. Tony Muggivan is a farmer. One wet night in February 1989, Brendan O'Donnell entered his life and that of his family. He had absconded ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Confronting Suburban Poverty in America

    by Elizabeth Kneebone, Alan Berube ...
    It has been nearly a half century since President Lyndon Johnson declared war on poverty. Back in the 1960s tackling poverty ""in place"" meant focusing resources in the inner city and in rural areas. The suburbs were seen as home to middle- and upper-class families-affluent commuters and homeowners looking for good schools and safe communities in which to raise their kids. But today's America is ... Read more

    $31.69 CAD

  • Adaptive Mentalization-Based Integrative Treatment

    A Guide for Teams to Develop Systems of Care

    by Dickon Bevington, Peter Fuggle, Liz Cracknell, Peter Fonagy ...
    Socially excluded youth with mental health problems and co-occurring difficulties (e.g. conduct disorder, family breakdown, homelessness, substance use, exploitation, educational failure) attract the involvement of multiple agencies. Poorly coordinated interventions often multiply in the face of such problems, so that a young person or family is approached by multiple workers from different ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Put Away Ils 265

    by Pauline Morris ...
    Series series International Library of Sociology
    This is Volume VI in a series of seven on the Sociology of Mental Health. Originally published in 1969, and using language of the time, this is a sociological study of institutions and hospitals for those with mental health conditions. ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Children, Welfare and the State

    Edited by Barry Goldson, Michael Lavalette, Jim McKechnie ...
    `A good foundation for those intent on further research′ - ChildRight`It is intelligent, lively, clear, and well written′ -Professor Hugh Cunningham, University of Kent at Canterbury`This is an excellent source book which is up-to-date and covers key debates on childhood in an accessible way′ - Professor Andy Furlong, University of GlasgowIn recent years there has been a growing interest in the ... Read more

    $108.79 CAD

  • From Right to Reality: Incentives, Labor Markets, and the Challenge of Universal Social Protection in Latin America and the Caribbean

    by Helena Ribe, David Robalino, Ian Walker ...
    This study highlights the interaction between social protection (SP) programs and labor markets in the Latin America region. It presents new evidence on the limited coverage of existing programs and emphasizes the challenges caused by high informality for achieving universal social protection for old age income, health, unemployment risks and anti-poverty safety nets. It identifies interaction ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Combating Poverty

    Quebec's Pursuit of a Distinctive Welfare State

    by Axel van den Berg, Charles Plante, Hicham Raiq, Christine Proulx, Sam Faustmann ...
    Series series Studies in Comparative Political Economy and Public Policy
    Combating Poverty critically analyses the growing divergence between Quebec and other large Canadian provinces in terms of social and labour market policies and their outcomes over the past several decades. While Canada is routinely classified as a single, homogeneous ‘liberal market’ regime, social and labour market policy falls within provincial jurisdiction resulting in a considerable ... Read more

    $48.99 CAD

  • Indonesia

    Country Water Assessment

    by Asian Development Bank ...
    Series series Country Sector and Thematic Assessments
    The Country Water Assessment (CWA) evaluates the balance between reliable and available water supplies and future demands for sustainable economic development in Indonesia. Articulated around the water,food, and energy nexus, the CWA explores technical, institutional, and policy options to improve planning, management, and development of water resources. The 2015-2019 midterm government ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Socialist Literature

    Theory and Practice

    by Abdulla M. Al-Dabbagh ...
    Series Book 39 - American University Studies
    Socialist Literature studies the relationship between the development of socialist literary theory and the process of cultural transformation in modern society by tracing the outline of the theory in the works of Marx, Lenin, and Mao, and examining its reflection in actual works of literature. This analysis is set alongside a detailed examination of the literary part of the cultural superstructure ... Read more

    $113.99 CAD

  • The Social Fund 20 Years On

    Historical and Policy Aspects of Loaning Social Security

    by Chris Grover ...
    In 2008 the Social Fund had been in operation for 20 years. This has provided a timely opportunity to not only critically reflect upon its introduction in 1988 and its operation in the past two decades, but also to place it within its historical context. There is a particular need to engage with the argument that was made in the 1980s that relieving need by way of loan was new in social security ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD