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  • Humanity Stories

    by Fred Powell ...
    HUMANITY STORIES IS INTRINSIC TO EVERY NATIONALITY, MEANING" THE HUMAN RACE. THESE STORIES SHOW WHAT WE ALL HAVE IN COMMON. THROUGH THIS JOURNEY OF ADVENTURE, THERE IS AN ANSWER, GOLD AT THE END OF THE RAINBOW, PRAISE GOD WE CAN TURN THIS AROUND!!! ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Making of a Left-Behind Class

    Educational Stratification, Meritocracy and Widening Participation

    by Fred Powell, Margaret Scanlon, Pat Leahy, Hilary Jenkinson, Olive Byrne ...
    Despite the high aspirations of young people from disadvantaged communities, they face barriers that are frustrating the realisation of their educational ambitions.This book analyses the ‘left-behind’ phenomenon and shows how education has become the new divide in Western society. It explains how denied educational equality and frustrated opportunity are undermining social cohesion and what we can ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

  • International Human Rights, Social Policy and Global Development

    Critical Perspectives

    by Fred Powell, Stephen McCloskey, Shivaun Quinlivan, Charles O’Mahony, Fiona Donson, Cathal O'Connell, Joe Finnerty, Dessie Donnelly, Ann Marie Gray, Benjamin Mallon, Fiona Dukelow, Birgit Schippers, Daniel Holder, Michal Cenker, Giovanni Farese, Diana Buttu, Peter Herrmann ...
    With international human rights under challenge, this book represents a comprehensive critique that adds a social policy perspective to recent political and legalistic analysis.Expert contributors draw on local and global examples to review constructs of universal rights and their impact on social policy and human welfare. With thorough analysis of their strengths, weaknesses and enforcement, it ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

  • Errors and Mistakes in Child Protection

    International Discourses, Approaches and Strategies

    by Jaclyn Chambers, Teresa Bertotti, Gilles Séraphin, Hélène Join- Lambert, Christine Gerber, Heinz Kindler, Clarissa Schär, Kay Biesel, Brigitte Müller, Staffan Höjer0, Inger Kjellberg1, Øyvind Tefre2, Marit Skivenes3, Tarja Pösö4, Essi Julin6, Mónica López López7, Tom Van Yperen8, Kirti Zeijlmans9, Fred Powell0, Caroline Shore1, Judith Masson2, Michelle Cottier4, Jill Duerr Berrick5, Nigel Parton6 ...
    This comprehensive international study provides a cross-national analysis of different understandings of errors and mistakes, as well as lessons to avoid and how to handle them in child protection practice, using research and knowledge from 11 countries in Europe and North America.Divided into country-specific chapters, each examines the pathways that lead to mistakes happening, the scale of their ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • Dark Secrets of Childhood

    Media Power, Child Abuse and Public Scandals

    by Fred Powell, Margaret Scanlon ...
    Over the last few decades, public opinion has been traumatised by revelations of child abuse on a mass scale. It has become the major human rights story of the 21st century in Western society.This ground-breaking book explores the relationship between the media, child abuse and shifting adult–child power relations which,in Western countries, has spawned an ever-expanding range of laws, policies ... Read more

    $54.89 USD

  • Continuing Professional Development in Social Work

    by Carmel Halton, Fred Powell, Margaret Scanlon ...
    Continuing professional development (CPD) has become a defining issue in twenty-first century social work. There is widespread consensus in favour of CPD. But what is it? Are there discernible international trends? What are the barriers to participating in CPD? What do social workers think about and want from CPD? This book seeks to answer these questions.Based on a survey and interviews with ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • The Politics of Civil Society

    Big Society and Small Government

    by Fred Powell ...
    The politics of civil society is an original, thought provoking analysis which challenges one-dimensional neoliberal thinking about civil society, and seeks to rediscover its radical roots. The original edition shifted the scholarly debate onto the new ground, offering an accessible and compelling analysis of one of the central issues of our times.In the second, revised edition of this ... Read more

    $47.69 USD

  • The Political Economy of the Irish Welfare State

    Church, State and Capital

    by Fred Powell ...
    The political economy of the Irish welfare state provides a fascinating interpretation of the evolution of social policy in modern Ireland, as the product of a triangulated relationship between church, state and capital.Using official estimates, Professor Powell demonstrates that the welfare state is vital for the cohesion of Irish society with half the population at risk of poverty without it. ... Read more

    $50.39 USD

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    A New Approach For Plotters, Pantsers and Everyone in Between

    by James Scott Bell ...
    Series Book 1 - Bell's Knockout Fiction Series
    A powerful secret and a fresh approach to writing bestselling fiction!What's the best way to write a "next level" novel? Some writers start at the beginning and let the story unfold without a plan. They are called "pantsers," because they write by the "seat of the pants."Other writers plan and outline and know the ending before they start. These are the "plotters."The two sides never seem to agree ... Read more

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  • That Day the Rabbi Left Town

    by Harry Kemelman ...
    Series Book 12 - The Rabbi Small Mysteries
    The rabbi looks into a professor's death in the New York Times –bestselling series that's "the American equivalent of the British cozy" ( Booklist ).Edgar Award–Winning AuthorRetired from his job at the synagogue in Barnard's Crossing, Massachusetts, Rabbi Small now teaches Judaic studies at a Boston college. Finally able to enjoy theological contemplatio... ... Read more

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  • How to Write Short Stories And Use Them to Further Your Writing Career

    by James Scott Bell ...
    Now, learn the master key for writing great short stories, and the strategies for using them to advance your writing career!As most writers will tell you, the hardest fiction form to master is the short story. To be successful, a short story needs to have "emotional wallop," and in under 7,000 words.Not easy to do.In this book, #1 bestselling writing teacher James Scott Bell explains the essential ... Read more

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  • The World's Greatest Collection of Clean Jokes

    by Bob Phillips ...
    This top-selling collection of pure fun (more than 295,000 copies sold) is back with a fresh and lively new cover to reach more readers eager to laugh. Puns, one-liners, jester-worthy jokes, and quirky quips will amaze and astound friends and family. Giggles are guaranteed as readers enjoy the crazy conversations and hilarious observations—“Daddy, the teacher was reading the Bible to us—all about ... Read more

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