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Heritage eBook Series

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  • Social Work in the Hospital Organization

    by Margaret Brock ...
    Series series Heritage
    This book was written to fill a need for a basic text about medical social work. The material has specific reference to social work in the hospital organization, but much of it is applicable to social work within the broader context of health care.Any printed material now available on the subject is largely incidental and scattered reference. This book will be of great value to social workers, and ... Read more

    $22.39 CAD

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  • A Girl and Five Brave Horses (Rediscovered Books)

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    by Sonora Carver ...
    A Girl and Five Brave Horses is the story of Sonora Carver and was the basis for the movie Wild Hearts Can't be Broken. Carver answered the following want ad: Wanted: Attractive young woman who can swim and dive. Likes horses, desires to travel. See Dr. W. F. Carver, Savannah Hotel. From there she became the first woman to jump from forty and sixty feet into a pool of water with diving horses ... Read more

    $6.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • No Pity

    People with Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement

    by Joseph P. Shapiro ...
    “A sensitive look at the social and political barriers that deny disabled people their most basic civil rights.”—The Washington Post“The primer for a revolution.”—The Chicago Tribune“Nondisabled Americans do not understand disabled ones. This book attempts to explain, to nondisabled people as well as to many disabled ones, how the world and self-perceptions of disabled people are changing. It ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Unfinished Business

    Social Policy for Social Care Students in Ireland

    by Joe Moran ...
    With social and community services coming under increasing pressure as austerity continues, Unfinished Business examines how social policy has operated in Ireland and how it has been affected by consistent government cutbacks. It examines a wide range of issues important to social care students, such as poverty, homelessness, disability, immigrants, mental health and many other issues pertinent to ... Read more

    $12.33 CAD

  • Coming Out Asperger

    Diagnosis, Disclosure and Self-Confidence

    by Dennis Debbaudt, Jacqui Jackson, Jennifer Overton, Stephen Shore, Liane Holliday Willey, Dr Anthony Attwood, Wenn Lawson ...
    Coming Out Asperger explores the complexity of diagnosis for Asperger Syndrome, the drawbacks and benefits of disclosing a diagnosis of a 'hidden disability,' and how this impinges on self-esteem. The contributors include some of the best-known and most exciting writers in the field of Asperger Syndrome (AS) today, and include individuals on the autism spectrum, parents and professionals. The ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • The Book of Goodbyes

    by Jillian Weise ...
    Winner of the Isabella Gardner Poetry Award The Book of Goodbyes speaks to a certain deranged love that throws into question sex, legality, gender-politics, disability, and the end of an affair. The book shifts between lyric and narrative, hyper-realism and magical realism, fact and fiction, and is organized like a play with Act I, Intermission, Act II, and Curtain Call. ... Read more

    $10.69 CAD

  • Beauty is a Verb

    Edited by Sheila Black, Jennifer Bartlett, Michael Northen ...
    A ground-breaking anthology that will bring fresh understanding to the American experience of poetry, beauty, the body, and disability.Beauty is a Verb is a ground-breaking anthology of disability poetry, essays on disability, and writings on the poetics of both.Crip Poetry.Disability Poetry.Poems with Disabilities.This is where poetry and disability intersect, overlap, collide and make peace.For ... Read more

    $30.16 CAD

  • First, Do Less Harm

    Confronting the Inconvenient Problems of Patient Safety

    Edited by Ross Koppel, Suzanne Gordon ...
    Series series The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
    Each year, hospital-acquired infections, prescribing and treatment errors, lost documents and test reports, communication failures, and other problems have caused thousands of deaths in the United States, added millions of days to patients' hospital stays, and cost Americans tens of billions of dollars. Despite (and sometimes because of) new medical information technology and numerous well ... Read more

    $16.79 CAD

  • Emergency Department Design

    A Practical Guide to Planning for the Future, 2nd Edition

    by Jon Huddy ...
    Emergency Department Design: A Practical Guide to Planning for the Future, second edition, is a one-of-a-kind resource written by the nation's foremost authority on emergency department design and published by the world's largest emergency medicine organization. It explains the architectural design process specific to emergency departments and teaches emergency physicians, nurses, hospital ... Read more

    $109.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mental Health and Poverty

    by Rob Poole, Robert Higgo, Catherine A. Robinson ...
    There is strong scientific evidence that poverty is a cause of mental illness. This book brings together a body of knowledge from biomedical and social science literature that is of importance to both academics and practitioners. It explores a broad range of issues, including stigma, the recovery model and substance misuse. The role of childhood adversity is examined, together with other potential ... Read more

    $97.59 CAD

  • Acts of Conspicuous Compassion

    Performance Culture and American Charity Practices

    by Sheila C. Moeschen ...
    Charity has been a pervasive and influential concept in American culture, and has also served an important ideological purpose, helping people articulate their sense of individual and national identity. But what, exactly, compels our benevolence? In a social moment when countless worthy causes and deserving groups clamor for attention, it is worth examining how our culture generates the exchange ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Disability Politics and Care

    The Challenge of Direct Funding

    by Christine Kelly ...
    Disability Politics and Care examines a provincial direct-funding program to illuminate what happens when people with disabilities take control of their own care arrangements.In addition to investigating responses from a wide range of stakeholders, Christine Kelly reflects on the broader social and political implications of these types of programs. She probes the divide that exists between ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD