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Spike, Mike, Slackers & Dykes

A Guided Tour Across a Decade of American Independent Cinema

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"A fast-moving account of the era bookended by Stranger Than Paradise and Pulp Fiction . . . [a] Baedeker of off-Hollywood where all roads lead to Park City." — InterviewThe legendary figure who launched the careers of Spike Lee, Michael Moore, and Richard Linklater offers a no-holds-barred look at the deals and details that propel an indie film from a dream to distribution. At the epicenter of ... Read more

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"A fast-moving account of the era bookended by Stranger Than Paradise and Pulp Fiction . . . [a] Baedeker of off-Hollywood where all roads lead to Park City." — InterviewThe legendary figure who launched the careers of Spike Lee, Michael Moore, and Richard Linklater offers a no-holds-barred look at the deals and details that propel an indie film from a dream to distribution. At the epicenter of
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Understanding Social Work

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This essential book covers the history and evolution behind social work, helping students new to social work understand how the field has been shaped. ... Read more

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This essential book covers the history and evolution behind social work, helping students new to social work understand how the field has been shaped.
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Going Local

Working in Communities and Neighbourhoods

by John Pierson ...

Series series The Social Work Skills Series
Going Local explains how social work students and practitioners can develop approaches to neighbourhood work, to engage communities and neighbourhoods more purposefully and to work with citizens and other mainstream and community service providers to build the capacity of neighbourhoods to tackle social problems on their own. Each chapter includes objectives and key points, as well as case studies ... Read more

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Going Local explains how social work students and practitioners can develop approaches to neighbourhood work, to engage communities and neighbourhoods more purposefully and to work with citizens and other mainstream and community service providers to build the capacity of neighbourhoods to tackle social problems on their own. Each chapter includes objectives and key points, as well as case studies
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The Social Worker'S Guide To The Social Sciences: Key Concepts

by John Pierson, Ann Langston ...

This is an A-Z guide to the various social science disciplines that inform and impact on social work practice. This book will complement and build on the success of the Dictionary of Social Work. 350 - 400 entries will outline the key concept being discussed, and the impact it has on social work practice. ... Read more

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This is an A-Z guide to the various social science disciplines that inform and impact on social work practice. This book will complement and build on the success of the Dictionary of Social Work. 350 - 400 entries will outline the key concept being discussed, and the impact it has on social work practice.
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Tackling Poverty and Social Exclusion

Promoting Social Justice in Social Work

by John H. Pierson ...

In highly unequal Britain, poverty and social exclusion continue to dominate the lives of users of social work and social care services. At the same time, years of austerity combined with welfare reform have changed the context in which services are delivered in a society roiled by Brexit, Covid, Black Lives Matter and women rallying under the banner, “Me‑too”.This fourth edition lays out the ways ... Read more

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In highly unequal Britain, poverty and social exclusion continue to dominate the lives of users of social work and social care services. At the same time, years of austerity combined with welfare reform have changed the context in which services are delivered in a society roiled by Brexit, Covid, Black Lives Matter and women rallying under the banner, “Me‑too”.This fourth edition lays out the ways
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Tackling Poverty and Social Exclusion

Promoting Social Justice in Social Work

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In our highly unequal Britain poverty and social exclusion continue to dominate the lives of users of social work and social care services. At the same time, spending cuts and welfare reform have changed the context within which services are delivered. The third edition of this unique textbook seeks to capture the complexity and diversity of practice relating to social exclusion as social workers ... Read more

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In our highly unequal Britain poverty and social exclusion continue to dominate the lives of users of social work and social care services. At the same time, spending cuts and welfare reform have changed the context within which services are delivered. The third edition of this unique textbook seeks to capture the complexity and diversity of practice relating to social exclusion as social workers
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A New History of Social Work

Values and Practice in the Struggle for Social Justice

by John H. Pierson ...

Series series Routledge Advances in Social Work
This book provides an overview of the main developments in social work over its 200-year history. From its beginnings in the early 19th century through to the present day, it recounts the efforts to create a fairer, socially just society through its work with individuals and families.Throughout, by focusing on individual cases as well as major ideas behind practice, this book invites the reader to ... Read more

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This book provides an overview of the main developments in social work over its 200-year history. From its beginnings in the early 19th century through to the present day, it recounts the efforts to create a fairer, socially just society through its work with individuals and families.Throughout, by focusing on individual cases as well as major ideas behind practice, this book invites the reader to
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Bronco Pilots

A Romantic and Tragic Journey of Determination and Drive to Success from Grace to Hell and Back

by John H. Pierson Jr. ...

BRONCO PILOTSA Tale of Determination & Drive through Hell and BackA biographical narrative, 'Bronco Pilots', covers the period 1959 to 1981, with flashbacks of growing up in Oklahoma, in college; in flight school in Florida, and while serving a career in the United States Marine Corps.Stories from the Oklahoma bible belt through eventual retirement from the Marine Corps and finding sobriety, ... Read more

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BRONCO PILOTSA Tale of Determination & Drive through Hell and BackA biographical narrative, 'Bronco Pilots', covers the period 1959 to 1981, with flashbacks of growing up in Oklahoma, in college; in flight school in Florida, and while serving a career in the United States Marine Corps.Stories from the Oklahoma bible belt through eventual retirement from the Marine Corps and finding sobriety,
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Winner-Take-All Politics

How Washington Made the Rich Richer--and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class

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We all know that the very rich have gotten a lot richer these past few decades while most Americans haven't. In fact, the exorbitantly paid have continued to thrive during the current economic crisis, even as the rest of Americans have fallen behind. Why do the "have-it-alls" have so much more? Lots of so-called experts claim to have solved this great mystery, but no one has really gotten to the ... Read more

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We all know that the very rich have gotten a lot richer these past few decades while most Americans haven't. In fact, the exorbitantly paid have continued to thrive during the current economic crisis, even as the rest of Americans have fallen behind. Why do the "have-it-alls" have so much more? Lots of so-called experts claim to have solved this great mystery, but no one has really gotten to the
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The Party Is Over

How Republicans Went Crazy, Democrats Became Useless, and the Middle Class Got Shafted

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There was a time, not so very long ago, when perfectly rational people ran the Republican Party. So how did the party of Lincoln become the party of lunatics? That is what this book aims to answer. Fear not, the Dems come in for their share of tough talk—they are zombies, a party of the living dead.Mike Lofgren came to Washington in the early eighties—those halcyon, post–Nixonian glory days—for ... Read more

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There was a time, not so very long ago, when perfectly rational people ran the Republican Party. So how did the party of Lincoln become the party of lunatics? That is what this book aims to answer. Fear not, the Dems come in for their share of tough talk—they are zombies, a party of the living dead.Mike Lofgren came to Washington in the early eighties—those halcyon, post–Nixonian glory days—for
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The Obama Hate Machine

The Lies, Distortions, and Personal Attacks on the President—and Who Is behind Them

by Bill Press ...

Narrated by Joe Barrett ...

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In Toxic Talk, Bill Press exposed the ways in which the extreme right-wing media has done an end run around the American voting populace by exerting a disproportionate control over open political debate. In The Obama Hate Machine, Press returns to show how the Right has taken rhetoric to slanderous new levels in attacking the nation’s forty-fourth president.But presidents have always been attacked ... Read more

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In Toxic Talk, Bill Press exposed the ways in which the extreme right-wing media has done an end run around the American voting populace by exerting a disproportionate control over open political debate. In The Obama Hate Machine, Press returns to show how the Right has taken rhetoric to slanderous new levels in attacking the nation’s forty-fourth president.But presidents have always been attacked
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Predator Nation

Corporate Criminals, Political Corruption, and the Hijacking of America

by Charles H. Ferguson ...

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Charles H. Ferguson, who electrified the world with his Oscar-winning documentary Inside Job, now explains how a predator elite took over the country, step by step, and he exposes the networks of academic, financial, and political influence, in all recent administrations, that prepared the predators’ path to conquest.Over the last several decades, the United States has undergone one of the most ... Read more

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Charles H. Ferguson, who electrified the world with his Oscar-winning documentary Inside Job, now explains how a predator elite took over the country, step by step, and he exposes the networks of academic, financial, and political influence, in all recent administrations, that prepared the predators’ path to conquest.Over the last several decades, the United States has undergone one of the most
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