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  • Inventing the Feeble Mind

    A History of Intellectual Disability in the United States

    by James Trent ...
    Pity, disgust, fear, cure, and prevention--all are words that Americans have used to make sense of what today we call intellectual disability. Inventing the Feeble Mind explores the history of this disability from its several identifications over the past 200 years: idiocy, imbecility, feeblemindedness, mental defect, mental deficiency, mental retardation, and most recently intellectual disability ... Read more

    $42.29 USD

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  • Lost in Care - The True Story of a Forgotten Child

    by Jimmy Holland ...
    Jimmy Holland was born into a family suffering at the hands of their drunk and abusive father. At the age of just two weeks, he was placed into care. The beginning of a life lived in a constantly changing environment of homes, authorities and institutions began. Let down and frequently abused, it wasn't long before Jimmy strayed onto the wrong side of the tracks. Before long, the mould for a ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • Switching Time

    A Doctor's Harrowing Story of Treating a Woman with 17 Personalities

    by Richard Baer ...
    In 1989, a woman walked into Dr. Richard Baer’s office asking for help with memory loss. Thus begins the first and only complete account of Dissociative Identity Disorder treatment told from inside the consulting room.“An absorbing journey through a psychiatrist’s dauntingly challenging first case—from the beginning of therapy to stable integration and recovery. Vivid, loaded with fascinating ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Gray's Anatomy

    by Henry Gray ...
    Written in the 1850s when its author was a young doctor, Gray's Anatomy was the most comprehensive and accessible medical textbook of its time. This edition comprises an abridged version of the classic 1860 text - the last to be published during Gray's lifetime - and the masterly wood-block illustrations that ensured the runaway success of the original book.A national and international treasure, ... Read more

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  • Portfolios of the Poor

    How the World's Poor Live on $2 a Day

    by Daryl Collins, Jonathan Morduch, Stuart Rutherford, Orlanda Ruthven ...
    Nearly forty percent of humanity lives on an average of two dollars a day or less. If you've never had to survive on an income so small, it is hard to imagine. How would you put food on the table, afford a home, and educate your children? How would you handle emergencies and old age? Every day, more than a billion people around the world must answer these questions. Portfolios of the Poor is the ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Maggie - A Girl of the Streets (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Tale of New York

    by Stephen Crane, Imogen Brackenwell ...
    Maggie: A Girl of the Streets is Stephen Crane's stark novella of urban poverty, tracing the brief, tragic life of Maggie Johnson amid the violence, alcoholism, and moral hypocrisy of New York's Bowery slums. Written in a compressed, impressionistic style, the book blends naturalism with vivid street dialect and almost pictorial scenes of degradation. Published in 1893, it stands among the ... Read more

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  • International Social Work

    Issues, Strategies, and Programs

    by Manohar Pawar, David R. Cox ...
    International Social Work: Issues, Strategies, and Programs, Second Edition draws together the practice wisdom emerging within the broad scope of international social work practice and its role in contributing to the international community′s efforts in combating the major global social problems of poverty, conflict and postconflict reconstruction, the development of countries and disadvantaged ... Read more

    $100.79 USD

  • The Blackwell Companion to Social Work

    Edited by Martin Davies ...
    Fully revised and restructured, this fresh edition offers students and trainee social workers an incisive and authoritative introduction to the subject. As well as entirely new sections on theory and practice, the expert contributions which have shaped the companion’s leading reputation have been updated and now include innovative standalone essays on social work theory.Comprehensively reworked ... Read more

    $75.00 USD

  • International Issues in Social Work and Social Welfare

    Selections From CQ Researcher

    by CQ Researcher ...
    International Issues in Social Work and Social Welfare is now available through CourseSmart**.**What is human trafficking, and where does it occur?How have other nations exploited children as child soldiers, and what can be done about it?Have violence and discrimination against women increased or decreased globally over the past decade?The collection of articles in International Iss... ... Read more

    $70.19 USD

  • The Treatment

    The Story of Those Who Died in the Cincinnati Radiation Tests

    by Martha Stephens ...
    The Treatment is the story of one tragedy of medical research that stretched over eleven years and affected the lives of hundreds of people in an Ohio city. Thirty years ago the author, then an assistant professor of English, acquired a large set of little-known medical papers at her university. These documents told a grotesque story. Cancer patients coming to the public hospital on her campus ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Planning, Markets and Hospitals

    by John Mohan ...
    Improving access to hospital services has been a goal of public policy in Britain for over seventy years, but the means by which this goal is to be attained have changed significantly over time. Drawing substantially on original research, lanning, Markets and Hospitals represents a systematic attempt to access the strengths and weaknesses of different forms of planning and coordination of hospital ... Read more

    $95.99 USD

  • Tackling Child Neglect

    Research, Policy and Evidence-Based Practice

    by Jane Barlow, Jan Horwath, Jenny Woodman, Andrew Turnell, Hilary Kennedy, Sarah Gorin, Amanda Bunn, Debra Allnock, Jan McAllister, Wendy Lee, Marian Brandon, Pippa Belderson, Dan Koziolek, Leigh Taylor, Maeve Macdonald, Whitney R. Rostad, Katelyn M. Guastaferro, John R. Lutzker, Paul Whalley ...
    With contributions from internationally recognized experts, this edited volume presents original thinking on the theory, research and practice surrounding child neglect.Comprehensive and current, the book takes an expansive look at how we can better address this prevalent issue. It explores the effects of neglect on the developing child and makes recommendations on how to identify neglect at the ... Read more

    $32.79 USD