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“howard husock”

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  • Death of the Blues

    Or Who Killed Fred Davis?

    by Howard Husock ...
    In Cleveland, 1969, a young white teenage blues enthusiast, at work at a summer factory job in the polluted Cuyahoga River Valley, meets a fellow shop floor worker named Fred Davis--who turns out to be an authentic Kansas City blues singer just-released from prison. Young Jon Levine dreams of addressing racial injustice and helping to revive Fred's career. The effort proves tragically complicated, ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Philanthropy Under Fire

    by Howard Husock ...
    In Philanthropy Under Fire, author Howard Husock defends the American tradition of independent philanthropy from significant political and intellectual challenges which threaten it today. Although the U.S. continues to be the most charitable nation in the world, serious efforts seek to discourage traditional, personal charitable giving by changing the tax code, and directing philanthropy toward ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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    How Big Government Enslaves America's Poor and What We Can Do About It

    by Star Parker ...
    America has two economic systems: capitalism for the rich and socialism for the poor. This double-minded approach seems to keep the poor enslaved to poverty while the rich get richer. Let's face it, despite its $400 billion price tag, welfare isn't working.The solution, asserts Star Parker, is a faith-based, not state-sponsored, plan. In Uncle Sam's Plantation, she offers five simple yet profound ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • The Individual Service Funds Handbook

    Implementing Personal Budgets in Provider Organisations

    by Robin Miller, Helen Sanderson ...
    The Individual Service Funds Handbook is the definitive guide to one of the most innovative forms of personal budget in health and social care.It gives a clear explanation of what Individual Service Funds (ISFs) are, how to use them effectively and includes all the information you need in order to implement them in your organisation. The Handbook spans a range of settings, including a dementia ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Domestic Violence and Protecting Children

    New Thinking and Approaches

    by Joanne Westwood, Nicola Farrelly, Lorraine Radford, Marianne Hester, Nicole Westmarland, Stephanie Holt, Sue Alderson, Liz Kelly, Anita Morris, Kelsey Hegarty, Per Moum Hellevik, Christine Barter, Marsha Wood, Nadia Aghtaie, Cath Larkins, Jane Ellis, Soo Downe, Sandra Hollinghurst, Paula Wilcox, Michelle Pooley, Zahra Alijah, Khatidja Chantler, Cathy Sharp, Jocelyn Jones, Neil Blackenlock, Gene Feder, William Turner, Ruth Phillips, Carolina Øverlien, Dr. Wendy Bunston, Dr Ravi Thiara ...
    In this volume, the authors present an overview of the innovative work taking place in relation to domestic violence and child protection.This book looks at new prevention initiatives and how interventions for children exposed to domestic violence have been developed. It shows how services for abusive fathers have evolved and provides discussion and critique of a number of new initiatives in the ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Struggle Within

    Prisons, Political Prisoners, and Mass Movements in the United States

    by Dan Berger, dream hampton ...
    The Struggle Within is an accessible yet wide-ranging historical primer about how mass imprisonment has been a tool of repression deployed against diverse left-wing social movements over the last fifty years. Berger examines some of the most dynamic social movements across half a century: black liberation, Puerto Rican independence, Native American sovereignty, Chicano radicalism, white antiracist ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Multicultural Social Work Practice

    A Competency-Based Approach to Diversity and Social Justice

    by Derald Wing Sue, Mikal N. Rasheed, Janice Matthews Rasheed ...
    A thorough exploration of diversity and social justice within the field of social workMulticultural Social Work Practice: A Competency-Based Approach to Diversity and Social Justice, 2nd Edition has been aligned with the Council on Social Work Education's 2015 Educational Policy and Standards and incorporates the National Association of Social Workers Standards of Cultural Competence. New chapters ... Read more

    $90.00 USD

  • Why Prison?

    Edited by David Scott ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
    Prison studies has experienced a period of great creativity in recent years, and this collection draws together some of the field's most exciting and innovative contemporary critical writers in order to engage directly with one of the most profound questions in penology - why prison? In addressing this question, the authors connect contemporary penological thought with an enquiry that has received ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • A Beginner's Guide to Being Mental

    An A-Z

    by Natasha Devon ...
    **A comprehensive guide to mental health from one of the UK's foremost experts. An A-Z from Anxiety to Zero F**ks Given.‘Am I normal?’**‘What’s an anxiety disorder?’‘Does therapy work?’These are just a few of the questions Natasha Devon is asked as she travels the UK campaigning for better mental health awareness and provision. Here, Natasha calls upon experts in the fields of psychology, ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Transnational Crime: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

    by Jay S. Albanese ...
    Series series Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guides
    This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of criminology find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook provides ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Child Welfare Research

    Advances for Practice and Policy

    by Aron Shlonsky ...
    Research has already been a significant factor in child welfare policy in recent years, but this essential new volume demonstrates that it has taken a leading role in the field to spur and guide change. In the incisive chapters gathered here, some of the field's top investigators present their work and assess its effect on the full spectrum of child welfare services. Future generations of ... Read more

    $60.29 USD

  • Performing Governance

    Partnerships, Culture and New Labour

    by H. Dickinson ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    Performing Governance sets out a new framework to assess the performance of partnerships and examines what these actually deliver. This is applied to three areas of New Labour's welfare policy; child safeguarding, urban regeneration and the modernisation of health and social care. This book contributes to understanding governance under New Labour. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD