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Social Work in Mental Health Settings

International Perspectives on Practice

by Fan Wu, Miao Jian, Shuting Yuan, Jim Campbell, Bodil Irene Høyer, Christos Panagiotpoulos, Jeanette Copperman, Anna Sklair, Laura Tucker, Hannah Jobling, Martin Webber, Ippokratis Efstathiou, Bill Penson, Darren Hill, Patricia Carlisle, Danielle McIlroy, Lorna Montgomery, Paul Best, Gloria Kirwan, Calvin Swords, Tali-Noy Hindi, Ayelet Gur, Cristina Tilli, Barbara Rosina, Maria Patrizia Favali, Alan Maddock, Jean Pierre Wilken, Simona Karbouniaris, Svetlana Kolpakova, Vicky Soutar, Damien Taylor, Lyndon Joel Gumbs, Yu-Ching Liu, Stefan Sjöström, Maria Lúcia T. Garcia, Rita C. Cavalcante Lima, Eduardo Mourão Vasconcelos, Fabiola Xavier Leal, Gary Spolander, Dagny Adriaenssen Johannessen, Joakim Finne ...

Series series Research in Social Work
Social Work in Mental Health Settings brings together leading academics and practitioners to explore how mental health social work is shaped and practised around the world. In so doing, it responds to a striking lack of comparative literature in the field and offers readers a timely, global perspective on this important area of practice.Combining macro-level analyses with in-depth country case ... Read more

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Social Work in Mental Health Settings brings together leading academics and practitioners to explore how mental health social work is shaped and practised around the world. In so doing, it responds to a striking lack of comparative literature in the field and offers readers a timely, global perspective on this important area of practice.Combining macro-level analyses with in-depth country case
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Phytoplasmas

Genomes, Plant Hosts and Vectors

by Sabrina Araujo, Assunta Bertaccini, Yi-Ching Chiu, Marina Dermastia, Matthew Dickinson, Christopher H. Dietrich, Marina Drcelic, Simone Egger, Jiancan Feng, Luciana Galetto, Jennifer Hodgetts, Katrin Janik, Barbara Jarausch, Wolfgang Jarausch, Shigeyuki Kakizawa, Yugo Kitazawa, Chih-Horng Kuo, Jidong Li, Helen Mae Mejia, Kensaku Maejima, Christa Malfertheiner, Carmine Marcone, Cristina Marzachì, Cecilia Mittelberger, Rita Musetti, Shigetou Namba, Kenro Oshima, Sabrina Palmano, Cecilia Parise, Martina Šeruga Music, Jonathan Shao, Mattia Tabarelli, Valeria Trivellone, Jun-Yi Yang, Shao-Shuai Yu, Yan Zhao, Xianbo Zheng ...

This is a comprehensive and up-to-date resource that delves into the world of phytoplasmas - tiny bacteria that infect plants, causing diseases with significant agricultural and horticultural implications. This new edition combines the latest scientific knowledge, cutting-edge methodologies, and practical insights to provide a complete picture of phytoplasma research, from taxonomy to disease ... Read more

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This is a comprehensive and up-to-date resource that delves into the world of phytoplasmas - tiny bacteria that infect plants, causing diseases with significant agricultural and horticultural implications. This new edition combines the latest scientific knowledge, cutting-edge methodologies, and practical insights to provide a complete picture of phytoplasma research, from taxonomy to disease
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Wrong's What I Do Best

Hard Country Music and Contemporary Culture

by Barbara Ching ...

This is the first study of "hard" country music as well as the first comprehensive application of contemporary cultural theory to country music. Barbara Ching begins by defining the features that make certain country songs and artists "hard." She compares hard country music to "high" American culture, arguing that hard country deliberately focuses on its low position in the American cultural ... Read more

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This is the first study of "hard" country music as well as the first comprehensive application of contemporary cultural theory to country music. Barbara Ching begins by defining the features that make certain country songs and artists "hard." She compares hard country music to "high" American culture, arguing that hard country deliberately focuses on its low position in the American cultural
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30 Years of Social Change

by Jan Lees, Nisha Dogra, Paul Cooper, Michael Mandelstam, Martin Barrow, Carola Beresford-Cooke, CJ Atkinson, Barbara Kelly, Dawn Brooker, Luke Beardon, Marian Liebmann, Belinda Hopkins, Charles Buck, Harriet Ward, Rex Haigh, Sarah Carr, Nigel Ching, Nick Luxmoore, Joyce Lishman, Grace Watts, Lorraine Nicolle, Winnie Dunn, Christiane Sanderson, Sally Donovan, Peter Beresford, Priscilla Alderson, Matthew J. Taylor, Vanessa Rogers, Jennifer Peace Peace Rhind, Dr Anthony Attwood, Dr Gwen Adshead, Kim S. Golding ...

What social change has been achieved over the past 30 years?What have been the main barriers to progress?What great achievements can we identify and celebrate today?Marking Jessica Kingsley Publishers' 30th year of publishing books on social and behavioural issues, this book gathers together over 30 leading thinkers from diverse disciplines - from autism specialists and social workers through to ... Read more

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What social change has been achieved over the past 30 years?What have been the main barriers to progress?What great achievements can we identify and celebrate today?Marking Jessica Kingsley Publishers' 30th year of publishing books on social and behavioural issues, this book gathers together over 30 leading thinkers from diverse disciplines - from autism specialists and social workers through to
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Reimagining Rural

Urbanormative Portrayals of Rural Life

by Gregory M. Fulkerson, Alexander R. Thomas, Leanne M. Avery, Karl A. Jicha, Brian M. Lowe, Pilar Erin McKay, John W. Sipple, Barbara Ching, Karen E. Hayden0 ...

Series series Studies in Urban–Rural Dynamics
Reimagining Rural: Urbanormative Portrayals of Rural Life examines the ways in which rural people and places are being portrayed by popular television, reality television, film, literature, and news media in the United States. It is also an examination of the social processes that reinforce urbanormative standards that normalize urban life and render rural life as something unusual, exotic, or ... Read more

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Reimagining Rural: Urbanormative Portrayals of Rural Life examines the ways in which rural people and places are being portrayed by popular television, reality television, film, literature, and news media in the United States. It is also an examination of the social processes that reinforce urbanormative standards that normalize urban life and render rural life as something unusual, exotic, or
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Studies in Urbanormativity

Rural Community in Urban Society

by Alexander R. Thomas, Brian Lowe, Polly Smith, Elizabeth Seale, Stephanie Bennett, Chris Stapel, Gretchen Thompson, R. V. Rikard, Curtis Stofferahn0, Gerald Creed1, Robert Moxley2, Thomas Gray3, Laura McKinney4, Karl A. Jicha5, Karen E. Hayden6, Aimee Vieira7, Barbara Ching8 ...

The world has been witnessing a long unfolding process of urbanization that not only has altered the structural basis of society in terms of political economy, but has also symbolically relegated rural people and life to a secondary or deviant status through an ideology of urbanormativity. Both structural and cultural changes rooted in urbanization are connected in complex ways to spatial ... Read more

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The world has been witnessing a long unfolding process of urbanization that not only has altered the structural basis of society in terms of political economy, but has also symbolically relegated rural people and life to a secondary or deviant status through an ideology of urbanormativity. Both structural and cultural changes rooted in urbanization are connected in complex ways to spatial
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Old Roots, New Routes

The Cultural Politics of Alt.Country Music

Edited by Pamela Fox, Barbara Ching ...

Old Roots, New Routes takes an in-depth look at the many influences, meanings, and identities of this contemporary music form. Because the definition of the term alt.country changes continually, even the genre's own mouthpiece, the Web site nodepression.com, declared its terrain to be "alternative country (whatever that is)." Despite alt.country's murky parameters, its origins, indeed, its patron ... Read more

$53.99 USD

Old Roots, New Routes takes an in-depth look at the many influences, meanings, and identities of this contemporary music form. Because the definition of the term alt.country changes continually, even the genre's own mouthpiece, the Web site nodepression.com, declared its terrain to be "alternative country (whatever that is)." Despite alt.country's murky parameters, its origins, indeed, its patron
... Read more
Knowing Your Place

Rural Identity and Cultural Hierarchy

Edited by Barbara Ching, Gerald W. Creed ...

Knowing Your Place directs groundbreaking attention to the role of rural and urban places in identity construction. Written to redress the longstanding neglect and denigration of the rural, this book argues that the cultural dominance of the city has been reinforced by postmodern theory's near fixation on the urban and the sophisticated.The essays explore rural identity in a number of cultures and ... Read more

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Knowing Your Place directs groundbreaking attention to the role of rural and urban places in identity construction. Written to redress the longstanding neglect and denigration of the rural, this book argues that the cultural dominance of the city has been reinforced by postmodern theory's near fixation on the urban and the sophisticated.The essays explore rural identity in a number of cultures and
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The Scandal of Susan Sontag

Edited by Barbara Ching, Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor ...

Series series Gender and Culture Series
Susan Sontag (1933–2004) spoke of the promiscuity of art and literature-the willingness of great artists and writers to scandalize their spectators through critical frankness, complexity, and beauty. Sontag's life and thought were no less promiscuous. She wrote deeply and engagingly about a range of subjects-theater, sex, politics, novels, torture, and illness-and courted celebrity and controversy ... Read more

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Susan Sontag (1933–2004) spoke of the promiscuity of art and literature-the willingness of great artists and writers to scandalize their spectators through critical frankness, complexity, and beauty. Sontag's life and thought were no less promiscuous. She wrote deeply and engagingly about a range of subjects-theater, sex, politics, novels, torture, and illness-and courted celebrity and controversy
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The Narrow Road to the Deep North

A novel

by Richard Flanagan ...

Series series Vintage International
**NATIONAL BESTSELLER • MAN BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • A magisterial novel of love and war that traces the life of one man from World War II to the present.Available now on Prime Video: Justin Kurzel’s highly anticipated series based on this Booker Prize–winning novel by Richard Flanagan; starring Jacob Elordi, Ciarán Hinds, Odessa Young, Olivia DeJonge and Simon Baker."Magnificent." —*The New York ... Read more

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**NATIONAL BESTSELLER • MAN BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • A magisterial novel of love and war that traces the life of one man from World War II to the present.Available now on Prime Video: Justin Kurzel’s highly anticipated series based on this Booker Prize–winning novel by Richard Flanagan; starring Jacob Elordi, Ciarán Hinds, Odessa Young, Olivia DeJonge and Simon Baker."Magnificent." —*The New York
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Secret Daughter

A Novel

by Shilpi Somaya Gowda ...

“Moving and thought-provoking and informative and imaginative and beautifully executed. What a wonderful story!”—Mary Jane Clark“This book is a must for anyone touched by adoption, or India, or the delicate dynamic between adolescent girls and their mothers.”—Sujata Massey, author of Shimura TroubleSecret Daughter, a first novel by Shilpi Somaya Gowda, explores powerfully and poignantly the ... Read more

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“Moving and thought-provoking and informative and imaginative and beautifully executed. What a wonderful story!”—Mary Jane Clark“This book is a must for anyone touched by adoption, or India, or the delicate dynamic between adolescent girls and their mothers.”—Sujata Massey, author of Shimura TroubleSecret Daughter, a first novel by Shilpi Somaya Gowda, explores powerfully and poignantly the
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The Politics of Evidence

From evidence-based policy to the good governance of evidence

by Justin Parkhurst ...

Series series Routledge Studies in Governance and Public Policy
The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com/, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license.There has been an enormous increase in interest in the use of evidence for public policymaking, but the vast majority of work on the subject has failed to engage with the political nature of decision making and how ... Read more

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The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com/, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license.There has been an enormous increase in interest in the use of evidence for public policymaking, but the vast majority of work on the subject has failed to engage with the political nature of decision making and how
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