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Edward Bellamy is also famous for his utopian novel set in the year 2000, Looking Backward from 2000 to 1887, published in 1888. It is one of the few books ever published that created almost immediately on its appearance a political mass movement. It was the third largest bestseller of its time. It...

This hands-on manual offers a clear introduction to play and drama work for professionals working with adults at risk. Many adults feel nervous about drama and think that play is childish. Sue Jennings shows that by participating in play and drama people can make a difference to how they feel about...

Erklärung in Anbetracht der Niederlage Deutschlands und der Übernahme der obersten Regierungsgewalt hinsichtlich Deutschlands durch die Regierungen des Vereinigten Königreichs, der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika und der Union der Sozialistischen Sowjet-Republiken und durch die Provisorische...

This book is designed to enable practitioners to help children whose emotional wellbeing is being adversely affected by troubled parents. These are children who live with the burden of having to navigate their parent's troubled emotional states, often leaving them with a mass of painful feelings about...

This book is intended for four intersecting groups of readers. If you are a philosopher, closet or sanctioned, then you cannot ponder the nature of being without due consideration for vision, and cannot contemplate the role of seeing in our lives without listening to the stories of those who are blind....

La classe moyenne est instrumentalisée par les politiciens et les commentateurs médiatiques, qui la dépeignent tantôt comme une immense cohorte de pauvres en devenir, tantôt comme une communauté martyrisée de contribuables parasités par l’État. Des pro­phètes de malheur annoncent même...

Spraakmakende filosoof ontketent debat over grenzen marktwerking Mag een verzekeraar of een werkgever iemand een bonus geven om af te vallen? Moeten we kinderen betalen om boeken te lezen of goede cijfers te halen? Kun je met een prijskaartje aangeven hoeveel een mensenleven het milieu belast? En...

Grazie non poco alla sua scuola – in particolare grazie alle sue maestre che per prime affrontarono l’ignoranza nazionale – l’Italia del Novecento, partita da condizioni miserabili, arrivò a essere tra le principali economie del mondo. Ma oggi quella stessa scuola è lo specchio del declino...

This book recounts the dramatic story of the transformation of the Iowa Commission for the Blind from a verifiably ineffective service agency to perhaps the most outstanding and effective adult service program in the nation in the span of 10 short years. What happened in Iowa was revolutionary, and...

This book is a policy-review piece. It strives to review some long-standing and herculean issues of concerns within the United States and around the world. It attempts a realistic second look into a few of the delicate and hellacious questions of governance that nations around the world are currently...

This new edition of Health at a Glance presents the most recent comparable data on the health status of populations and health system performance in OECD countries. Where possible, it also reports data for partner countries (Brazil, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, India, Indonesia, Lithuania, Russian...

Health at a Glance: Europe 2018 presents comparative analyses of the health status of EU citizens and the performance of the health systems of the 28 EU Member States, 5 candidate countries and 3 EFTA countries. It is the first step in the State of Health in the EU cycle of knowledge brokering. This...

As the reproduction cost of housing has increased, consumers have made intensive use of existing dwellings. Conversions of the housing stock have regained prominence as a source of supply. This book introduces the accessory apartment and assesses its potential as an emerging resource for meeting local...

Beamte genießen zahlreiche Privilegien, von denen "normale" Arbeitnehmer nur träumen können. Sei es beim Ruhestandsgehalt, bei der Altersteilzeit, Gesundheitsvorsorge, bei Lohn- und Einkommenssteuer oder dem Eltern- und Kindergeld. Torsten Ermel rechnet die Privilegien der Beamten in...