Skip to main content

Panier

Vous profitez des avantages réservés aux VIP !

Article(s) non disponible(s) à la vente
Veuillez vérifier votre panier. Vous pouvez supprimer le ou les articles qui ne sont pas disponibles maintenant ou nous les supprimerons automatiquement au moment du règlement de la commande.
articlesarticle
articlesarticle

Recommandé pour vous

Loading...
  • In Sickness and in Health

    Love Stories from the Front Lines of America’s Caregiving Crisis

    par Laura Mauldin ...
    An urgent and deeply affecting account of America's failure to provide meaningful support to its chronically ill and disabled citizens and our resulting reliance on the unpaid caregiving labor of spouses and intimate partners.When twenty-seven-year-old Laura Mauldin moved to New York for graduate school, she fell headlong into love. But just months into the relationship, her partner’s leukemia ... En savoir plus

    $14.99 CAD

  • From Crisis to Catastrophe

    Care, COVID, and Pathways to Change

    Collections series Carework in a Changing World
    The COVID pandemic has shaken the material and social foundations of the world more than any event in recent history and has highlighted and exacerbated a longstanding crisis of care. While these challenges may be freshly visible to the public, they are not new. Over the last three decades, a growing body of care scholarship has documented the inadequacy of the social organization of care around ... En savoir plus

    $40.99 CAD

  • Made to Hear

    Cochlear Implants and Raising Deaf Children

    par Laura Mauldin ...
    Collections series A Quadrant Book
    A mother whose child has had a cochlear implant tells Laura Mauldin why enrollment in the sign language program at her daughter’s school is plummeting: “The majority of parents want their kids to talk.” Some parents, however, feel very differently, because “curing” deafness with cochlear implants is uncertain, difficult, and freighted with judgment about what is normal, acceptable, and right. Made ... En savoir plus

    $27.99 CAD

  • Disability in the Time of Pandemic

    Collections Livre 13 - Research in Social Science and Disability
    COVID-19 has once again illuminated the ways in which health risks and negative health outcomes are tied to economic and social inequalities. Disabled people rank among those most disadvantaged in terms of education, income, and social inclusion and this exacerbated their risk of negative pandemic-related outcomes. From the start, it was clear that disabled people would be disproportionately ... En savoir plus

    $145.99 CAD

  • Livre audio

    In Sickness and in Health

    Love Stories from the Front Lines of America’s Caregiving Crisis

    par Laura Mauldin ...
    Lu par Laura Mauldin ...

    Version Longue

    6 heure 49 min

    An urgent and deeply affecting account of America's failure to provide meaningful support to its chronically ill and disabled citizens and our resulting reliance on the unpaid caregiving labor of spouses and intimate partners.When twenty-seven-year-old Laura Mauldin moved to New York for graduate school, she fell headlong into love. But just months into the relationship, her partner’s leukemia ... En savoir plus

    $28.99 CAD

Les lecteurs de ces romans ont aussi aimé

  • Police Code of Silence in Times of Change

    Collections series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book explores the contours of the code of silence and provides policy recommendations geared toward creating an environment less conducive for police misconduct. It responds to the recent calls for police reform, in the wake of the perceived illegitimacy of police actions and the protection that the code of silence seems to provide to the police officers who violate the official rules.Using a ... En savoir plus

    Gratuit

  • Dream Hoarders

    How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That Is a Problem, and What to Do About It

    Dream Hoarders sparked a national conversation on the dangerous separation between the upper middle class and everyone else. Now in paperback and newly updated for the age of Trump, Brookings Institution senior fellow Richard Reeves is continuing to challenge the class system in America.In America, everyone knows that the top 1 percent are the villains. The rest of us, the 99 percent-we are the ... En savoir plus

    $20.99 CAD

  • Creating Safe and Supportive Learning Environments

    A Guide for Working With Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning Youth and Families

    The importance of creating safe spaces for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ) students in the school environment cannot be overstated. It is one of the most prominent issues facing school professionals today, and its success has lasting, positive effects on the entire student body. Drawing on the expertise of researchers and practitioners, Creating Safe and Supportive ... En savoir plus

    $116.99 CAD

  • Education Policies in the 21st Century

    Comparative Perspectives

    Modifié par Birol Akgün, Yusuf Alpaydın ...
    Collections series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book explores the agenda of education policies in the 21st century. In the first part of the book, education is handled from a historical and political framework, and the effects of the change of states and policies on education are examined. In the second part, the effects of changes in the economy on education policies and economies’ demands from educational institutions are ... En savoir plus

    Gratuit

  • Homelessness & Health in Canada

    Collections series Health and Society
    Homelessness & Health in Canada explores, for the first time, the social, structural, and environmental factors that shape the health of homeless persons in Canada. Covering a wide range of topics from youth homelessness to end-of-life care, the authors strive to outline policy and practice recommendations to respond to the ongoing public health crisis.This book is divided into three distinct but ... En savoir plus

    $23.99 CAD

  • Madness, Distress and the Politics of Disablement

    This book explores the challenges of applying disability theory and policy, including the social model of disability, to madness and distress. It brings together leading scholars and activists from Europe, North America, Australia and India, to explore the relationship between madness, distress and disability.Whether mental health problems should be viewed as disabilities is a pressing concern, ... En savoir plus

    $48.99 CAD

  • Poorly Understood

    What America Gets Wrong About Poverty

    What if the idealized image of American society—a land of opportunity that will reward hard work with economic success—is completely wrong? Few topics have as many myths, stereotypes, and misperceptions surrounding them as that of poverty in America. The poor have been badly misunderstood since the beginnings of the country, with the rhetoric only ratcheting up in recent times. Our current era of ... En savoir plus

    $31.19 CAD