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  • Social Work and Human Development

    by Janet Walker, Nigel Horner ...
    Series series Transforming Social Work Practice Series
    Social work engages with people across the life course, and social workers are expected to work with groups of people at very different stages of their life. Developing a thorough understanding of human growth to encompass the whole of the life course is therefore a central part of all qualifying social work training and practice.A clear favourite among students and lecturers, this bestselling ... Read more

    $45.89 USD

  • The Routledge International Handbook of Glocal Social Work

    Edited by Panagiotis Pentaris, Janet Walker ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    Global challenges, opportunities, and developing new social phenomena have always had an impact on and change the circumstances under which social work is practised. Whilst social work can take many "local" forms, it is also a global profession which strives to advance the causes of vulnerable and marginalised people with the aim of promoting human rights and social justice. In recent years, the ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Documentary Testimonies

    Global Archives of Suffering

    Edited by Bhaskar Sarkar, Janet Walker ...
    Series series AFI Film Readers
    Documentary Testimonies examines documentary films that compel us to bear witness, move us to anger or tears, and possibly mobilize us to action.Comprising ten new essays and a substantive introduction, this interdisciplinary volume examines audiovisual testimonial practices, forms, and institutions. Topics include: technologies of capture, storage and circulation; problems of historical veracity ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Sustainable Media

    Critical Approaches to Media and Environment

    Edited by Nicole Starosielski, Janet Walker ...
    Sustainable Media explores the many ways that media and environment are intertwined from the exploitation of natural and human resources during media production to the installation and disposal of media in the landscape; from people’s engagement with environmental issues in film, television, and digital media to the mediating properties of ecologies themselves. Edited by Nicole Starosielski and ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Westerns

    Films through History

    Edited by Janet Walker ...
    Series series AFI Film Readers
    The cowboys and Indians, sheriffs and outlaws, schoolmarms and barkeeps of Western films have wholly transformed our ideas about the reality of the American frontier. Westerns is the first book to consider seriously the historical meanings and functions of the Western film genre. In Westerns , leading scholars unpack the ways in which the form has embellished, mythologized, and erased past events. ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • What You Didn't Learn in Trucking School

    The Trucker's Little Book of Etiquette

    by Janet Walker ...
    WHAT YOU DIDN'T LEARN IN TRUCKING SCHOOL is a refreshingly frank and delightful pocket guide that offers practical advice and etiquette tips for truck drivers.Being a truck driver is not easy. Truckers' challenges include working long hours, being hundreds of miles from home and constantly trying to avoid or prevent hazards on the roadway. The biggest complaint truck drivers have? Other truck ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Contemporary Issues in Family Studies

    Global Perspectives on Partnerships, Parenting and Support in a Changing World

    by Angela Abela, Janet Walker ...
    This volume tackles key issues in the changing nature of family life from a global perspective, and is essential reading for those studying and working with families.Covers changes in couple relationships and the challenges these pose; parenting practices and their implications for child development; key contemporary global issues, such as migration, poverty, and the internet, and their impact on ... Read more

    $74.00 USD

  • Practice Education in Social Work

    A Handbook for Practice Teachers, Assessors and Educators

    by Janet Walker, Karin Crawford, Jonathan Parker ...
    Series series Post-Qualifying Social Work Practice Series
    Written specifically for practice educators, this book examines contemporary theories and knowledge in practice learning, teaching and education, with a clear emphasis on developing the skills and practice of the individual. Another key focus of the book is to help readers to reflect on the implications of this for their role as practice educators, giving them the time and space to make proactive ... Read more

    $69.29 USD

  • Social Work with Older People

    by Janet Walker, Karin Crawford ...
    Series series Transforming Social Work Practice Series
    This second edition looks in detail at the role of the social worker who engages with older people. It enables the reader to develop the key skills required to understand the mental and physical needs of older people in society while encouraging plenty of discussion and critical, independent thought. Furthermore, this book is a source of contemporary research and offers the reader insights into ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

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    Ethics and the Law

    by Peter Jenkins ...
    Developing and maintaining a secure framework for professional practice is a core part of any counselling and psychotherapy training, as all therapists need to understand the key values, ethics and laws that underpin the profession today. But what does being a member of a ′profession’ actually mean, and what does being a ‘professional’ actually involve?Structured around the BACP Core Curriculum, ... Read more

    $67.49 USD

  • Social Work, Social Justice, and Human Rights

    A Structural Approach to Practice, Second Edition

    by Colleen Lundy ...
    Social workers take pride in their commitment to social and economic justice, peace, and human rights, and in their responses to related inequalities and social problems. At a time when economic globalization, armed conflict, and ecological devastation continue to undermine human rights and the possibilities for social justice, the need for linking a structural analysis to social work practice is ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • What Technology Wants

    by Kevin Kelly ...
    From the author of the New York Times bestseller The Inevitable— a sweeping vision oftechnology as a living force that can expand our individual potentialThis provocative book introduces a brand-new view of technology. It suggests that technology as a whole is not a jumble of wires and metal but a living, evolving organism that has its own unconscious needs and tendencies. Kevin Kelly looks out ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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