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Lost Boys
Why our Sons Turn Violent and How We Can Save Them
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 1999
In the first book to help parents truly understand youth violence and stop it before it explodes, national expert Dr. James Garbarino reveals how to identify children who are at risk and offers proven methods to prevent aggressive behavior.
After more than a decade of relentless increase in the urban...
Adoption Life Cycle
The Children and Their Families Through the Years
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Adoption remains a subject of intense controversy. Some groups call for the abolition of adoption altogether as an outmoded social institution that fails to meet the needs of any of the members involved, while others propose major changes in our social and legal systems. Yet few reformers have been...
Adult Psychopathology, Second Edition
A Social Work Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 1999
The most comprehensive textbook for students in advanced social work and mental health courses is now completely revised and updated for a new generation
When Adult Psychopathology: A Social Work Perspective was first published in 1984, this pioneering text was the first to conceptualize and organize...
by Francis J. Turner
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
The demographic shift to a much older population is having a large impact on social work professionals who have traditionally been the primary caretakers of the elderly. As more people are living into advanced old age, it is becoming increasingly important to understand and treat the wide range of...
From Poor Law to Welfare State, 6th Edition
A History of Social Welfare in America
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Over twenty-five years and through five editions, Walter I. Trattner's From Poor Law to Welfare State has served as the standard text on the history of welfare policy in the United States. The only comprehensive account of American social welfare history from the colonial era to the present, the new...
Civilizations
Culture, Ambition, and the Transformation of Nature
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2001
In Civilizations, Felipe Fernández-Armesto once again proves himself a brilliantly original historian, capable of large-minded and comprehensive works; here he redefines the subject that has fascinated historians from Thucydides to Gibbon to Spengler to Fernand Braudel: the nature of civilization.
To...
by Martin Van Creveld
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2009
At a time when unprecedented change in international affairs is forcing governments, citizens, and armed forces everywhere to re-assess the question of whether military solutions to political problems are possible any longer, Martin van Creveld has written an audacious searching examination of the...
by James Davidson Hunter
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 1994
Addressing America's cultural conflict about such issues as abortion, homosexuality, and family values, the author presents a plan in which America can achieve a renewed democracy, despite these differences.
by Vladimir Tismaneanu
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2000
Reinventing Politics gives an account of East European politics from the time of Soviet domination to the 1989-90 revolutions, and considers the effect of tyranny on East European culture and politics, the chances for successful and harmonious development in the region, and its relationship with the...
by Brian Burrell
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2011
At one time, this nation held a profound and simple faith in the power of words. Today we have become so engulfed in public cynicism that the whole notion of "words to live by" seems to us impossibly naive.
Brian Burrell's splendid collection shows that many of the phrases we once lived by...
by Jehan Sadat
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2009
From the distinguished educator, international crusader for humanitarian causes, and widow of the Nobel Peace Prize-winner President Anwar Sadat comes a foolproof plan for peace in the Middle East.
In 1979, the Camp David Accords, brokered by Jimmy Carter between Israeli Prime Minister Menachem...
The Whale Warriors
The Battle at the Bottom of the World to Save the Planet's Largest Mammals
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2007
Author of the New York Times bestselling novel The Dog Stars
For the crew of the eco-pirate ship the Farley Mowat, any day saving a whale is a good day to die. In The Whale Warriors, veteran adventure writer Peter Heller takes us on a hair-raising journey with a vigilante crew on their mission...
by William C. Davis
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
All Americans, not just Texans, remember the Alamo. But the siege and brief battle at that abandoned church in February and March 1836 were just one chapter in a much larger story -- larger even than the seven months of armed struggle that surrounded it. Indeed, three separate revolutionary traditions...
A Season in Bethlehem
Unholy War in a Sacred Place
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2003
*Newsweek'*s Jerusalem bureau chief Joshua Hammer arrived in the West Bank in October 2000 -- just after Ariel Sharon made his inflammatory visit to the Haram al-Sharif, otherwise known as the Temple Mount. Sharon's trip ignited the worst violence the Middle East had seen in decades. Overnight, the...