Social category: 205239 books
by LUIS EDUARDO DÍAZ
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 16, 2017
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 16, 2017
¿El mínimo social es capaz de superar el obstáculo de la pobreza, realizar los fines de la seguridad social y compensar todos sus principios? La expresión protección social como continente de la seguridad social, moviliza recursos librados con menos complicaciones que la última. Pero, el mínimo...
Pedagogía social-Educación social
Construcción científica e intervención práctica
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 17, 2017
Esta obra se dirige a los interesados por la 'Pedagogía Social' y la 'Educación Social' tanto desde la reflexión como desde el amplio campo de la acción social, abordando su evolución histórica, concepto, métodos y diferentes áreas de intervención. Su principio orientador es la búsqueda...
Connecting the Dots
A Social Work Academician’S Memoir of Intellectual and Career Development
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
Richard K. Caputo, an under-the-radar social work scholar, shares lessons about finding his voice as a scholar, overcoming obstacles, and navigating the rigors and expectations of academia in this memoir.
From his days as an undergraduate to a graduate student; from being a paraprofessional...
by Professor Daniel Miller, Professor of Anthropology, Dr Elisabetta Costa
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
How the World Changed Social Media is the first book in Why We Post, a book series that investigates the findings of anthropologists who each spent 15 months living in communities across the world. This book offers a comparative analysis summarising the results of the research and explores the impact...
How to Change the World:Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas, Updated Edition
Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas, Updated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2007
Now published in more than twenty countries, David Bornstein's How to Change the World has become the bible for social entrepreneurship--in which men and women around the world are finding innovative solutions to a wide variety of social and economic problems. Whether delivering solar energy to Brazilian...
Building Social Business
The New Kind of Capitalism That Serves Humanity's Most Pressing Needs
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
The Nobel Peace Prize winner and bestselling author shows how entrepreneurial spirit and business smarts can be harnessed to create sustainable businesses that can solve the world's biggest problems.
Muhammad Yunus, the practical visionary who pioneered microcredit and, with his Grameen Bank,...
Lean Impact
How to Innovate for Radically Greater Social Good
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
Despite enormous investments of time and money, are we making a dent on the social and environmental challenges of our time? What if we could exponentially increase our impact?
Around the world, a new generation is looking beyond greater profits, for meaningful purpose. But, unlike business,...
Social Media in an English Village
(Or how to keep people at just the right distance)
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
Daniel Miller spent 18 months undertaking an ethnographic study with the residents of an English village, tracking their use of the different social media platforms. Following his study, he argues that a focus on platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram does little to explain what we post...
The Social Atom
Why the Rich Get Richer, Cheaters Get Caught, and Your Neighbor Usually Looks Like You
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2008
The idiosyncrasies of human decision-making have confounded economists and social theorists for years. If each person makes choices for personal (and often irrational) reasons, how can people's choices be predicted by a single theory? How can any economic, social, or political theory be valid? The...
Writing on the Wall
Social Media - The First 2,000 Years
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
From the bestselling author of A History of the World in 6 Glasses, the story of social media from ancient Rome to the Arab Spring and beyond.
Social media is anything but a new phenomenon. From the papyrus letters that Cicero and other Roman statesmen used to exchange news, to the hand-printed...
Expand Social Security Now!
How to Ensure Americans Get the Retirement They Deserve
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Why Social Security is not only sustainable but should be substantially expanded
Social Security is bankrupting us. It’s outdated. It’s a Ponzi scheme. It’s stealing from young people. These are some of the biggest myths and lies about one of the most successful programs in our nation’s...
Using R for Data Analysis in Social Sciences
A Research Project-Oriented Approach
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2018
Statistical analysis is common in the social sciences, and among the more popular programs is R. This book provides a foundation for undergraduate and graduate students in the social sciences on how to use R to manage, visualize, and analyze data. The focus is on how to address substantive questions...
Developing Practice Competencies
A Foundation for Generalist Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2011
Praise for
Developing Practice Competencies
A Foundation for Generalist Practice
"This is the textbook I have been waiting for. The author engages the reader from the very beginning. It includes comprehensive coverage of EPAS standards and practice behaviors that any social work instructor...
Social Theory
Twenty Introductory Lectures
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2009
Social theory is the theoretical core of the social sciences, clearly distinguishable from political theory and cultural analysis. This book offers a unique overview of the development of social theory from the end of the Second World War in 1945 to the present day. Spanning the literature in English,...