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At a time of change and review within social care, it is relevant to explore traditional skills, knowledge and values associated with assessment in the context of changing practice. This book introduces and explores assessment in social work in a user-friendly, yet...
Editeur :
Learning Matters
Parution :
2010-05-11
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Understanding sensory needs is fundamental for social work and care management practice. Social workers are trained to reflect on their own practice, make useful application of theory and promote anti-discriminatory practice at all times. This book will assist students...
Editeur :
Learning Matters
Parution :
2010-05-11
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Utilizing innovative ethnographic research, Swept Up Lives? challenges conventional accounts of urban homelessness to trace the complex and varied attempts to care for homeless people Presents innovative ethnographic research which suggests an important shift in...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2010-05-11
Collection :
RGS-IBG Book Series
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Equality and Diversity is a key theme on all policing degree courses. The book starts by contextualising equality and diversity within the legislative and policy framework. It then examines the recent historical context by outlining some of the difficulties and...
Editeur :
Learning Matters
Parution :
2010-05-10
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This book provides a detailed and comprehensive guide to working with risk. It begins by looking at notions of need, vulnerability and protection and looks at the theoretical concepts of each before applying them to practice. By using this combination of theory and...
Editeur :
Learning Matters
Parution :
2010-05-06
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Noise is usually defined as unwanted sound: loud music from a neighbor, the honk of a taxicab, the roar of a supersonic jet. But as Garret Keizer illustrates in this probing examination, noise is as much about what we want as about what we seek to avoid. It has been a...
Editeur :
PublicAffairs
Parution :
2010-05-04
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How does feminism relate to motherhood, how has it changed over time, and what does the future of motherhood and feminism look like? These are just some of the questions Amber E. Kinser, PhD, tackles in this latest addition to the Seal Studies Series. Motherhood...
Editeur :
Seal Press
Parution :
2010-05-04
Collection :
Seal Studies
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"A brave foray into the interdisciplinary and a serious attempt to cover city life in all its complexity... Franklin's optimism about the city is refreshing. He revels in the growing human and cultural diversity and the 're-emergence and spread of a more tolerant,...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2010-05-01
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When did you know you were a feminist? Whether it happened at school, at work, while watching TV, or reading a book, many of us can point to a particular moment when we knew we were feminists. In Click, editors Courtney E. Martin and J. Courtney Sullivan bring us a...
Editeur :
Seal Press
Parution :
2010-04-27
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This book is a starter 'DIY' text for practitioners who are looking to conduct evaluation studies and research as part of their own professional practice.
The growing emphasis on evidence-based practice means that there is an increasing need for practitioners to have at...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2010-04-22
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Psychology is an important part of the social work syllabus, usually studied as a separate module in the first year, but also integrated within the academic curriculum. This fully updated edition will help students understand the concepts of psychology and apply them to...
Editeur :
Learning Matters
Parution :
2010-04-22
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Over recent years, the governance of crime - from policing and crime prevention to sentencing and prison organization - has moved away from a focus on reforming offenders toward preventing crime and managing behaviour using predictive and distributional (such as risk)...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2010-04-22
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As a career sociologist I ?rst became interested in neurosociology around 1987 when a graduate student lent me Michael Gazzaniga’s The Social Brain. Ifthe biological human brain was really social, I thought sociologists and their students should be the ?rst, not the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2010-04-19
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This text provides an accessible and up to date guide to study skills for all those undertaking degrees and foundation degrees in policing. It will also be relevant to degree courses in criminology and criminal justice. Efficient study skills pave the way to successful...
Editeur :
Learning Matters
Parution :
2010-04-19
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'The book is completely student focused. I envisage students having the text on their desks when they attempt their written work, and this is very much how a study guide should be used' - Professor Keith Popple, London South Bank University Study Skills for Social...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2010-04-16
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Landscape modelling integrates the differing perspectives of the many disciplines that deal with the landscape. It is motivated not only by the desire for scientific understanding, but also by the real-time demands of 21st century postindustrial society, which include...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2010-04-11
Collection :
Urban and Landscape Perspectives
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The book is a collection of essays exploring the potential of multimedia to enrich and transform the planning field. By multimedia the authors refer to a broad range of new information and communication technologies (from film and video to digital ethnography and the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2010-04-10
Collection :
Urban and Landscape Perspectives
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This book investigates the experiences of older people who remain at home with care. It examines the transition points for the important life changes faced by family members who take on a greater care-giving role.
The book draws on demographic analyses and qualitative...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2010-04-06
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There has been a revolution. The God who ruled over us for five hundred years has been overthrown. The soul of England has been transformed, almost without anybody noticing. Gone are the shared values and confidence of a nation that seemed so sure of itself and what it...
Editeur :
Abacus
Parution :
2010-04-01
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Every day we make choices. Coke or Pepsi? Save or spend? Stay or go?Whether mundane or life-altering, these choices define us and shape our lives. Sheena Iyengar asks the difficult questions about how and why we choose: Is the desire for choice innate or bound by...
Editeur :
Abacus
Parution :
2010-04-01
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