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New media and public activism

Neoliberalism, the state and radical protest in the public sphere

by Roberts, John Michael
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014

The Arab Spring, chat forums, political leaders tweeting, online petitions, and protestors in the Occupy Movement - new media public spheres have without doubt radically altered social and political activism in society. But to what extent is this new activist public sphere stifled by the neoliberal...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017

Supporting Bereaved Students at School provides educational professionals with essential information to support bereaved students. The book specifically targets helping children and adolescents cope with their emotional, physical, and social reactions during the period of grief, lasting for months...
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Tackling Child Poverty in Latin America

Rights and Social Protection in Unequal Societies

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Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017

This book highlights current debates about concepts, methods, and policies related to poverty in Latin America. It focuses on child and adolescent well-being and the issue of inclusive societies. Its goal is to promote new and critical thinking about these issues globally and in Latin America. The...
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by Mathieu Deflem
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012

This volume deals with important social-science issues of law and legal control pertaining to disasters and hazards in a variety of contexts. The orientation of this volume is driven by relevant recent occurrences, such as hurricanes Katrina and Irene in the United States; the 2010 BP oil spill, and...
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by Daisy Bogg
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2010

This book draws on both the historical context and contemporary research evidence to present the roles of the Mental Health Social Worker, the Approved Mental Health Professional and Best Interest Assessor, within an ethical framework. Codes of practice and statutory legal requirements, such as the...
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Taking Charge

A School-Based Life Skills Program for Adolescent Mothers

by Mary Beth Harris, Cynthia Franklin
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2007

Taking Charge is the first empirically tested program of its kind, designed specifically to improve academic achievement and self-sufficiency for adolescent and teenage mothers, who face increased risk of dropping out and experiencing poverty. This eight-session, in-school group intervention uses...
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International Health Worker Migration and Recruitment

Global Governance, Politics and Policy

by Nicola Yeates, Jane Pillinger
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2019

This book is the first comprehensive study of international health worker-migration and -recruitment from the perspective of global governance, policy and politics. Covering 70 years of history of the development of this global policy field, this book presents new and previously unpublished...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015

Many of the individual and social problems that are characterised as moral panics are, in reality, illustrations of a breakdown in the legitimacy of the state. This Byte picks up a number of case-study examples - internet pornography; internet radicalisation; ‘chavs’; the Tottenham riots; patient...
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by Guillermo Fernández, Lucía Martínez, Jesús Pérez
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 28, 2014

¿Qué hacemos para construir una sociedad más igualitaria y contra el aumento de la exclusión social y la pobreza? La crisis y las políticas de la crisis están aumentando las desigualdades y extendiendo la pobreza y las situaciones de exclusión social. La población en riesgo crece y se hace...
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Working with Substance Users

A Guide to Effective Interventions

by George Allan
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014

Social care and health professionals encounter people with drug and alcohol problems on a daily basis, but many feel ill-equipped to respond. Although people working across various professions will approach substance users from different perspectives, the knowledge and skills needed to intervene effectively...
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The Poverty Industry

The Exploitation of America's Most Vulnerable Citizens

by Daniel L. Hatcher
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016

The shocking truth about how state governments and their private industry partners are profiting from the social safety net Government aid doesn’t always go where it’s supposed to. Foster care agencies team up with companies to take disability and survivor benefits from abused and neglected...
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by Lawrence R. Jacobs, Theda Skocpol
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2010

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act signed by President Obama in March 2010 is a landmark in U.S. social legislation. The new law extends health insurance to nearly all Americans, fulfilling a century-long quest and bringing the United States to parity with other industrial nations. Affordable...
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The People's Home?

Social Rented Housing in Europe and America

by Michael Harloe
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011

The People's Home is a magisterial examination of the development of social rented housing over the last hundred years in six advanced capitalist countries - Britain, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark and the USA.
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by Peter Gay
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2013

THE ENLIGHTENMENT has long been the victim of uninformed or hostile criticisms. Even so respected a source as the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary defines the Enlightenment as “shallow and pretentious intellectualism, unreasonable contempt for authority and tradition,” thus collecting in one...
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