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“ruth gilbert”

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  • Writing Jewish

    Contemporary British-Jewish Literature

    by Ruth Gilbert ...
    British-Jewish writers are increasingly addressing challenging questions about what it means to be both British and Jewish in the twenty-first century. Writing Jewish provides a lively and accessible introduction to the key issues in contemporary British-Jewish fiction, memoirs and journalism, and explores how Jewishness exists alongside a range of other different identities in Britain today.By ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Confronting Global Gender Justice

    Women’s Lives, Human Rights

    Edited by Debra Bergoffen, Paula Ruth Gilbert, Tamara Harvey, Connie L. McNeely ...
    Confronting Global Gender Justice contains a unique, interdisciplinary collection of essays that address some of the most complex and demanding challenges facing theorists, activists, analysts, and educators engaged in the tasks of defining and researching women’s rights as human rights and fighting to make these rights realities in women’s lives.With thematic sections on Complicating Discourses ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Data in Society

    Challenging Statistics in an Age of Globalisation

    by Jim Ridgway, Ron Johnston, Liliana Bounegru, Jonathan Gray, Amy Sippitt, Spencer Hedger, Sinclair Sutherland, James Nicholson, Charlotte Brookfield, Luke Sloan, Malcolm Williams, Keiko Yasukawa, James Goodman, Nour Dados, Kate Bloor, Ludi Simpson, Neil Duncan-Jordan, Jay Ginn, Richard Cookson, Tim Doran, Roy Carr-Hill, David Walker, Prem Sikka, Rebecca Boden, Paul Bivand, Stewart Lansley, Christopher Deeming, Steve Fothergill, Christina Beatty, David Byrne, David Rhind, Richard Murphy, Alessio D'Angelo, Eleonore Kofman, Brad K Blitz, Adrian Tear, Gary Hearne, Ifan Shepherd, Ruth Gilbert, Harvey Goldstein, Kevin McConway ...
    Statistical data and evidence-based claims are increasingly central to our everyday lives. Critically examining ‘Big Data’, this book charts the recent explosion in sources of data, including those precipitated by global developments and technological change. It sets out changes and controversies related to data harvesting and construction, dissemination and data analytics by a range of private, ... Read more

    $55.79 USD

  • Eradicating Child Maltreatment

    Evidence-Based Approaches to Prevention and Intervention Across Services

    by Alayna Park, BRUCE F. CHORPITA, Jane Barlow, Ron Prinz, Jenny Woodman, Donald Findlater, Eric Daleiden, Ruth Gilbert ...
    Is it possible to overcome the enduring problem of child maltreatment?In Eradicating Child Maltreatment, leading international figures in the field of child welfare address this enduring and thorny question, setting out a public health approach to prevention. It draws on groundbreaking research and practice on prevention and early intervention from around the globe spanning health, social care, ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

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    Edited by Kerstin Knopf ...
    Series series International Canadian Studies Series
    Exploring a variety of topics—including health, politics, education, art, literature, media, and film—Aboriginal Canada Revisited draws a portrait of the current political and cultural position of Canada’s Aboriginal peoples. While lauding improvements made in the past decades, the contributors draw attention to the systemic problems that continue to marginalize Aboriginal people within Canadian ... Read more

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  • Life Story Therapy with Traumatized Children

    A Model for Practice

    by Richard Rose ...
    Life Story Therapy is an approach designed to enable children to explore, question and understand the past events of their lives. It aims to secure their future through strengthening attachment with their carers and providing the opportunity to develop a healthy sense of self and a feeling of wellbeing.This comprehensive overview lays out the theory underlying life story therapy, including an ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Jobs with Justice

    25 Years, 25 Voices

    by Larry Cohen ...
    The world today has no shortage of economic crises—or politicians and pundits who claim to have the vision that will get us out of the Great Recession. For 25 years, the labor-community coalition Jobs with Justice (JwJ) has endured the brutal vagaries of the global economy with a single alternative economic vision. By putting its ideas into practice, it has won powerful victories with working ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Claus Offe and the Critical Theory of the Capitalist State

    by Jens Borchert, Stephan Lessenich ...
    Series series Routledge Innovations in Political Theory
    Back in 1972, German political sociologist Claus Offe published a book on the Structural Problems of Late Capitalism which, for almost two decades, inspired and stimulated an international and transdisciplinary debate on the role of the state in contemporary capitalism. An academic debate which, paradoxically, began to wane as the issues about which Offe had been writing became even more prominent ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Prosecution and Courts: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

    by Brian Forst ...
    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

  • The Community Economic Development Movement

    Law, Business, and the New Social Policy

    by William H. Simon ...
    While traditional welfare efforts have waned, a new style of social policy implementation has emerged dramatically in recent decades. The new style is reflected in a panoply of Community Economic Development (ced) initiatives—efforts led by locally-based organizations to develop housing, jobs, and business opportunities in low-income neighborhoods.In this book William H. Simon provides the first ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Health Inequalities and People with Intellectual Disabilities

    by Eric Emerson, Chris Hatton ...
    People with intellectual disabilities die at a younger age and have poorer health than their non-disabled peers. This is largely avoidable and is unjust. This book uses concepts from contemporary public health to provide a comprehensive evidence-based overview of: the nature and extent of the health inequalities experienced by people with intellectual disabilities; why these inequalities occur and ... Read more

    $49.19 USD

  • The Hero's Fight

    African Americans in West Baltimore and the Shadow of the State

    by Patricia Fernández-Kelly, Patricia Fernández-Kelly ...
    A richly textured account of what it means to be poor in AmericaBaltimore was once a vibrant manufacturing town, but today, with factory closings and steady job loss since the 1970s, it is home to some of the most impoverished neighborhoods in America. The Hero's Fight provides an intimate look at the effects of deindustrialization on the lives of Baltimore’s urban poor, and sheds critical light ... Read more

    $25.99 USD