Social Services Welfare category: 1103 books
by Collective
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2009
This book explores the social, economic and environmental forces that may combine to attract migrants of various types and backgrounds to OECD countries, as well as those that may persuade migrants to leave their countries or to stay at home. By analysing different pull and push factors and constructing...
Housing Vouchers
A Comparative International Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
Outside the United States, the idea of a consumer housing subsidy is a highly developed concept. Housing allowances, shelter allowances, rent allowances - or rent rebates as they are called - have been paid out on a larger scale for longer periods of time on an entitlement basis, with a much greater...
Suicide
A Modern Obsession
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
When is it okay for a person to kill themself? How have ideas about this changed over time, and how do they differ across cultures? How do Ireland's suicide rates, especially among its young men, compare to rates in other countries in Europe and beyond? Are we obsessed today with the idea of suicide?...
Adoption and Disruption
Rates, Risks, and Responses
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
First Published in 2017. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.
by Janet Malcolm
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
War and Peace: Observations on Our Times
Observations on Our Times
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
In more than 100 essays, written over a three-year period for the "New York Observer", Howard Fast looks with horror at the official violence inflicted on Nicaragua, El Salvador, Grenada, Panama and Iraq and the unofficial violence that is taking place in the cities of the United States....
The Locked Ward
Memoirs of a Psychiatric Orderly
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2012
Dennis O'Donnell started work as an orderly in the Intensive Psychiatric Care Unit of a large hospital in Scotland in 2000. In his daily life he encountered fear, violence and despair but also a considerable amount of care and compassion. Recounting the stories of the patients he worked with, and...
Negotiating Claims
The Emergence of Indigenous Land Claim Negotiation Policies in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
Why do governments choose to negotiate indigenous land claims rather than resolve claims through some other means? In this book Scholtz explores why a government would choose to implement a negotiation policy, where it commits itself to a long-run strategy of negotiation over a number of claims and...
Law and Childhood Studies
Current Legal Issues Volume 14
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2012
Current Legal Issues, like its sister volume Current Legal Problems (now available in journal format), is based upon an annual colloquium held at Univesity College London. Each year leading scholars from around the world gather to discuss the relationship between law and another discipline of thought....
Say Nothing
The Harrowing Truth About Auntie's Children
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
Say Nothing is the moving true story of four neglected siblings who were taken into care following the breakdown of their parents' marriage. Sent to a small croft in the north-east of Scotland, they endured an onslaught of physical and mental abuse at the hands of an elderly, inexperienced foster...
by Shane Dunphy
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Four extraordinary true stories ...
Bobby and Micky, six and four, controlled from beyond the grave by their evil father ...
Mina, seventeen, who has Downs Syndrome, desperate to be like everyone else, falling into the hands of men who abuse her trust ...
Sylvie, a fourteen-year-old...
Complicated Lives
Girls, Parents, Drugs, and Juvenile Justice
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2017
Complicated Lives focuses on the lives of sixty-five drug-using girls in the juvenile justice system (living in group homes, a residential treatment center, and a youth correctional facility) who grew up in families characterized by parental drug use, violence, and child maltreatment. Vera Lopez situates...
The Japanese Monarchy, 1931-91: Ambassador Grew and the Making of the Symbol Emperor System
Ambassador Grew and the Making of the "Symbol Emperor System"
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
"The Japanese Monarchy, 1931-1991", which created a sensation when first published in Japanese, clarifies US policies toward Japan's symbol emperor system before, during and after World War II. As American ambassador to Japan from 1932 to 1945, Joseph Clark Grew had contacts with groups...
The Politics and Civics of National Service
Lessons from the Civilian Conservation Corps, VISTA, and AmeriCorps
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013
In 1933 President Franklin D. Roosevelt created America's first domestic national service program: the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). As part of this program-the largest and most highly esteemed of its kind-nearly three million unemployed men worked to rehabilitate, protect, and build the nation's...