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  • Beyond GDP

    Measuring Welfare and Assessing Sustainability

    by Marc Fleurbaey, Didier Blanchet ...
    In spite of recurrent criticism and an impressive production of alternative indicators by scholars and NGOs, GDP remains the central indicator of countries' success. This book revisits the foundations of indicators of social welfare, and critically examines the four main alternatives to GDP that have been proposed: composite indicators, subjective well-being indexes, capabilities (the underlying ... Read more

    $75.59 USD

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  • The Girl Who Couldn't Smile

    by Shane Dunphy ...
    When Shane Dunphy starts work at Little Scamps crèche, he has no idea what he has let himself in for. He had not worked in an early years setting for many years and on arriving for his first day he found that two members of staff, Susan and Tush, are at the end of their tether and on the verge of resigning. The children themselves are completely out of control. At the centre of this chaos Shane ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Sophia's Story

    A story of the unspeakable horror of child abuse

    by Susan McKay ...
    In 1995, Sophia McColgan's father was sentenced to prison for the serial rape and abuse of his children over many years. He had first raped Sophia when she was only six. It had taken immense courage on the part of Sophia and her family to bring the murky, hidden world of family child abuse to the public gaze. Then, in 1998, Susan McKay published Sophia's Story, one of the most acclaimed Irish ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Mighty Purpose

    How Jim Grant Sold the World on Saving Its Children

    by Adam Fifield ...
    The inspiring story of how the iconoclastic humanitarian Jim Grant succeeded in saving the lives of tens of millions of children through his extraordinary ability to win over world leadersNicholas Kristof hailed Jim Grant as a man who “probably saved more lives than were destroyed by Hitler, Mao, and Stalin combined.” Nominated by President Jimmy Carter to head UNICEF, Grant ran the United Nations ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Life Story Therapy with Traumatized Children

    A Model for Practice

    by Richard Rose ...
    Life Story Therapy is an approach designed to enable children to explore, question and understand the past events of their lives. It aims to secure their future through strengthening attachment with their carers and providing the opportunity to develop a healthy sense of self and a feeling of wellbeing.This comprehensive overview lays out the theory underlying life story therapy, including an ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Green Social Work

    From Environmental Crises to Environmental Justice

    by Lena Dominelli ...
    Social work is the profession that claims to intervene to enhance people's well-being. However, social workers have played a low-key role in environmental issues that increasingly impact on people's well-being, both locally and globally.This compelling new contribution confronts this topic head-on, examining environmental issues from a social work perspective. Lena Dominelli draws attention to the ... Read more

    $24.00 USD

  • Jobs with Justice

    25 Years, 25 Voices

    by Larry Cohen ...
    The world today has no shortage of economic crises—or politicians and pundits who claim to have the vision that will get us out of the Great Recession. For 25 years, the labor-community coalition Jobs with Justice (JwJ) has endured the brutal vagaries of the global economy with a single alternative economic vision. By putting its ideas into practice, it has won powerful victories with working ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Obesity and the Economics of Prevention

    Fit not Fat

    by Collective ...
    Obesity has risen to the top of the public health policy agenda worldwide. Before 1980, rates were generally well below 10%. They have since doubled or tripled in many countries, and in almost half of the OECD, 50% or more of the population is overweight. A key risk factor for numerous chronic diseases, obesity is a major public health concern.There is a popular perception that explanations for ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Happiness Around the World

    The paradox of happy peasants and miserable millionaires

    by Carol Graham ...
    For centuries the pursuit of happiness was the preserve of either the philosopher or the voluptuary and took second place to the basic need to survive on the one hand, and the pressure to conform to social conventions and morality on the other. More recently there is a burgeoning interest in the study of happiness, in the social sciences and in the media. Can we really answer the question what ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Early Intervention

    How Canada's social programs can work better, save lives, and often save money

    by James Hughes ...
    Governments and social agencies tackle the toughest social problems their citizens face -- poverty, homelessness, mental and physical illness, violence, abuse, and more. Yet these problems persist in Canada -- in many cases, they are worsening -- and the costs of the social safety net continue to rise.New approaches have been developed by innovators frustrated by the failure of traditional ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • After Welfare

    The Culture of Postindustrial Social Policy

    by Sanford F. Schram ...
    Do contemporary welfare policies reflect the realities of the economy and the needs of those in need of public assistance, or are they based on outdated and idealized notions of work and family life? Are we are moving from a "war on poverty" to a "war against the poor?" In this critique of American social welfare policy, Sanford F. Schram explores the cultural anxieties over the putatively ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Caring for Abused and Neglected Children

    Making the Right Decisions for Reunification or Long-Term Care

    by Nina Biehal, Jim Wade, Nicola Farrelly, Ian Sinclair ...
    Series series Safeguarding Children Across Services
    The decision whether or not to reunify a child in care with their birth family is one of the most serious taken by children's services, and often involves considerable risk.This book examines the long-term consequences of this decision for children who entered public care for abuse or neglect. It compares the experiences and progress of children who remained in care or returned to their birth ... Read more

    $36.99 USD