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  • Life After Welfare

    Reform and the Persistence of Poverty

    by Laura Lein, Deanna T. Schexnayder, Karen Douglas, Daniel Schroeder ...
    A Choice Outstanding Academic BookIn the decade since President Clinton signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 into law—amidst promises that it would "end welfare as we know it"—did the reforms ending entitlements and moving toward time limits and work requirements lift Texas families once living on welfare out of poverty, or merely strike their names ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Community Lost

    The State, Civil Society, and Displaced Survivors of Hurricane Katrina

    by Ronald J. Angel, Holly Bell, Julie Beausoleil, Laura Lein ...
    Neither government programs nor massive charitable efforts responded adequately to the human crisis that was Hurricane Katrina. In this study, the authors use extensive interviews with Katrina evacuees and reports from service providers to identify what helped or hindered the reestablishment of the lives of hurricane survivors who relocated to Austin, Texas. Drawing on social capital and social ... Read more

    $33.69 USD

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  • Heat Wave

    A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago

    by Eric Klinenberg ...
    The "compelling" story behind the 1995 Chicago weather disaster that killed hundreds—and what it revealed about our broken society ( Boston Globe).On July 13, 1995, Chicagoans awoke to a blistering day in which the temperature would reach 106 degrees. The heat index—how the temperature actually feels on the body—would hit 126. When the heat wave broke a week later, city streets had buckled; ... Read more

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  • Aboriginal Peoples in Canadian Cities

    Transformations and Continuities

    Edited by Heather A. Howard, Craig Proulx ...
    Series series Indigenous Studies
    Since the 1970s, Aboriginal people have been more likely to live in Canadian cities than on reserves or in rural areas. Aboriginal rural-to-urban migration and the development of urban Aboriginal communities represent one of the most significant shifts in the histories and cultures of Aboriginal peoples in Canada. The essays in Aboriginal Peoples in Canadian Cities: Transformations and ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Professional Boundaries in Social Work and Social Care

    A Practical Guide to Understanding, Maintaining and Managing Your Professional Boundaries

    by Frank Cooper ...
    Professional boundaries between worker and client underpin all areas of practice in social work and social care, and the mismanagement of these boundaries can lead to unprofessional conduct and negative consequences for both worker and client.This book is a no-nonsense guide to boundaries – what they are, why they are there and how to maintain them, from legal boundaries and policies governing ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Transition to Common Work

    Building Community at The Working Centre

    by Joe Mancini, Stephanie Mancini ...
    The Working Centre in the downtown core of Kitchener, Ontario, is a widely recognized and successful model for community development. Begun from scratch in 1982, it is now a vast network of practical supports for the unemployed, the underemployed, the temporarily employed, and the homeless, populations that collectively constitute up to 30 percent of the labour market both locally and across North ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

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  • Too Many Children Left Behind

    The U.S. Achievement Gap in Comparative Perspective

    by Bruce Bradbury, Miles Corak, Jane Waldfogel, Elizabeth Washbrook ...
    The belief that with hard work and determination, all children have the opportunity to succeed in life is a cherished part of the American Dream. Yet, increased inequality in America has made that dream more difficult for many to obtain. In Too Many Children Left Behind, an international team of social scientists assesses how social mobility varies in the United States compared with Australia, ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • A City in Civil War – Dublin 1921–1924

    The Irish Civil War

    by Padraig Yeates ...
    The long-awaited concluding volume of Pádraig Yeates' 'Dublin at War' trilogyIn A City in Civil War: Dublin 1921–1924, acclaimed historian Pádraig Yeates turns his attention to Ireland's bloody and hard-fought Civil War and its impact on the capital city and its inhabitants.The fascinating A City in Civil War tells the story of Dublin's troubled passage to independence amidst the acrimony and ... Read more

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  • The Year of Disappearances

    Political Killings in Cork 1921-1922

    by Gerard Murphy ...
    'Every spy who was shot in Cork was buried so that nothing was known about them. They just disappeared.' These are the words of an IRA commander recalling the War of Independence in Cork city. The Year of Disappearances examines this claim and others like it. It uncovers a web of suspicion and paranoia that led to scores of men and boys being abducted from their homes before being executed as ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Politics and Civics of National Service

    Lessons from the Civilian Conservation Corps, VISTA, and AmeriCorps

    by Melissa Bass ...
    In 1933 President Franklin D. Roosevelt created America's first domestic national service program: the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). As part of this program-the largest and most highly esteemed of its kind-nearly three million unemployed men worked to rehabilitate, protect, and build the nation's natural resources. It demonstrated what citizens and government could accomplish together. Yet ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • Field of Schemes

    How the Great Stadium Swindle Turns Public Money into Private Profit, Revised and Expanded Edition

    by Neil deMause, Joanna Cagan ...
    Field of Schemes is a play-by-play account of how the drive for new sports stadiums and arenas drains $2 billion a year from public treasuries for the sake of private profit. While the millionaires who own sports franchises have seen the value of their assets soar under this scheme, taxpayers, urban residents, and sports fans have all come out losers, forced to pay both higher taxes and higher ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • Obamacare: Healthcare Apocalypse

    by Jason Miller ...
    An Obamacare book like no other, Obamacare: Healthcare Apocalypse not only lays out all of the core components of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, but also provides a detailed analysis of the long-term impacts of this massive federal intrusion into healthcare.Whether by intentional design or as the byproduct of bad law, Obamacare will literally and figuratively tax the current, and ... Read more

    $5.99 USD