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  • Come, Holy Spirit

    Sermons

    by Karl Barth, Eduard Thurneysen ...
    Translated by George Richards, Elmer G. Homrighausen, Karl Ernst ...
    "These sermons were prepared from 1920 to 1924. Professor Barth preached some of them while he was minister of the Reformed congregation in Safenwil, Canton Aargau, Switzerland; others in the Reformed Church in Goettingen while he was professor of theology in the University. Pastor Thurneysen at that time preached to the congregation in Bruggen, near St. Gall, Switzerland. The sermons were written ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Jumper

    A Mystery

    by Richard Barth ...
    Richard Barth departs from his popular series featuring elderly sleuth Margaret Binton to introduce Dr. Samuel Garvey, the best and most daring roller coaster designer in the country, and to take his readers on the ride of their lives.Garvey is now at work on his masterpiece, the Jumper, for the Angelus Corporation in Texas. The Jumper will do just that-the two cars will jump tracks with each ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD

  • Jealousy and In the Labyrinth

    Two Novels

    by Alain Robbe-Grillet ...
    Translated by Richard Howard ...
    Two novels by the pioneering French author and founder of the Nouveau Roman literary movement—with essays by Roland Barthes and others.In Jealousy, a man living on a banana plantation obsessively watches everything around him, from the landscape and insects to his wife's every move. In the Labyrinth follows a an increasingly desperate soldier as he carried a mysterious package through an unknown ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Understanding Child Welfare

    by Richard P. Barth, Jill Duerr Berrick, Melissa Jonson-Reid, Antonio R. Garcia, Johanna K.P Greeson, John R. Gyourko, Brett Drake ...
    Series series Understanding series
    Co-authored by eminent scholars in the field, this book surveys the processes and outcomes of child welfare services in the US, drawing global parallels in order to capture the challenges, tensions, and opportunities facing child welfare services.Written in a clear and accessible manner, the book outlines which child welfare system reforms are likely to have the greatest benefit for at-risk and ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Grand Challenges for Social Work and Society

    Edited by Rowena Fong, James Lubben, Richard P. Barth ...
    The Grand Challenges for Social Work Initiative (GCSWI), which is spearheaded by the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare (AASWSW), represents a major endeavor for the entire field of social work. GCSWI calls for bold innovation and collective action powered by proven and evolving scientific interventions to address critical social issues facing society. The purpose of GCSWI was ... Read more

    $54.39 CAD

  • From Child Abuse to Foster Care

    Child Welfare Services Pathways and Placements

    by Richard P. Barth, Mark E. Courtney, Jill Duerr Berrick, Vicky N. Albert ...
    More than two million child abuse reports are filed annually on behalf of children in the United States. Each of the reported children becomes a concern, at least temporarily, of the professional who files the report, and each family is assessed by additional professionals. A substantial number of children in these families will subsequently enter foster care. Until now, the relationships between ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Adoption and Disruption

    Rates, Risks, and Responses

    Edited by Richard P. Barth, Marianne Berry ...
    First Published in 2017. In this book the authors move easily and often between the worlds of policy, practice, and research in child and family welfare. Their own research delineates— better than any other to date— the particular factors associated with success>ful and unsuccessful older, special-needs adoptions. ... Read more

    $76.94 CAD

  • Therapeutic Residential Care for Children and Youth

    Developing Evidence-Based International Practice

    by Hans Grietens, Erik Knorth, Richard Barth, Megan Cummings, Mike Stein, Mark Courtney, Christopher Bellonci, Ronald Thompson, Charles Izzo, Amaia Bravo, Patricia McNamara, Sigrid James, James Anglin, Susan Ramsey, Frank Ainsworth, Annemiek Harder, June Thoburn, Turf Jakobsen, Nathanael Okpych, Bethany Lee, Iriana Santos, Martha Holden, Daniel Daly, Ana Sainero, Michael Nunno, Anat Zeira, Mette Lausten, Nicole Obeid, Lauren Schmidt, Richard Small, John Lyons ...
    Series series Child Welfare Outcomes
    Therapeutic Residential Care For Children and Youth takes a fresh look at therapeutic residential care as a powerful intervention in working with the most troubled children who need intensive support.Featuring contributions from distinguished international contributors, it critically examines current research and innovative practice and addresses the key questions: how does it work, what are its ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • Mourning Diary

    by Roland Barthes ...
    Translated by Richard Howard ...
    Intimate and deeply moving, Mourning Diary is a profound study of grief and solitude, drawn from the lost diary of influential philosopher Roland Barthes.The day after his mother's death in October 1977, Roland Barthes began a diary of mourning. Taking notes on index cards as was his habit, he reflected on a new solitude, on the ebb and flow of sadness, and on modern society's dismissal of grief. ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Beyond Common Sense

    Child Welfare, Child Well-Being, and the Evidence for Policy Reform

    by John Landsverk, Fred Wulczyn, Richard P. Barth, Ying-Ying T. Yuan, Brenda Jones Harden ...
    Helping vulnerable children develop their full potential is an attractive idea with broad common-sense appeal. However, child well-being is a broad concept, and the legislative mandate for addressing well-being in the context of the current child welfare system is not particularly clear. This volume asserts that finding a place for well-being on the list of outcomes established to manage the child ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • How Does Foster Care Work?

    International Evidence on Outcomes

    by Nancy Sampson, Robert Flynn, Robbie Gilligan, Elaine Farmer, Eva Franzen, Lee Ann Murdock, Mónica López, Fred Wulczyn, Harriet Ward, Frank Lindblad, Anders Hjern, Robyn Marquis, Ronald Kessler, Lijun Chen, Tine Egelund, Piet Strijker, Peter Pecora, June Thoburn, Marie-Pierre Paquet, Irving Hwang, Lajla Knudsen, Kirk O'Brien, Ian Sinclair, Fiona Daly, Anne-Dorthe Hestbaeck, Bo VINNERLJUNG, E. Christopher Lloyd, Paul Delfabbro, CATHERINE ROLLER ROLLER WHITE, Jorge Fernandez del del Valle ...
    Series series Child Welfare Outcomes
    How Does Foster Care Work? is an international collection of empirical studies on the outcomes of children in foster care. Drawing on research and perspectives from leading international figures in children's services across the developed world, the book provides an evidence base for programme planning, policy and practice.This volume establishes a platform for comparison of international systems, ... Read more

    $104.49 CAD

  • The Child Welfare Challenge

    Policy, Practice, and Research

    by Peter J. Pecora, James K. Whittaker, Richard P. Barth, Sharon Borja, William Vesneski ...
    Series series Modern Applications of Social Work Series
    Using both historical and contemporary contexts, The Child Welfare Challenge examines major policy practice and research issues as they jointly shape child welfare practice and its future. This text focuses on families and children whose primary recourse to services has been through publicly funded child welfare agencies, and considers historical areas of service—foster care and adoptions, in-home ... Read more

    $92.99 CAD