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  • Connecting Civic Engagement and Social Innovation

    Toward Higher Education's Democratic Promise

    Edición de Amanda Moore McBride, Eric Mlyn ...
    This book offers a much-needed appraisal of two key social change movements within higher education: civic engagement and social innovation. The authors critically explore the historical and contemporary contexts as well as democratic foundations (or absence thereof) of both approaches, concluding with a discussion of possible future directions that may make the approaches more effective in ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Striving to Save

    Creating Policies for Financial Security of Low-Income Families

    de Margaret Sherrard Sherraden, Amanda Moore McBride ...
    "Striving to Save will inform and inspire social policy with its breakthrough approach in understanding how low-income families make ends meet while striving to make a better life for themselves and their families. Scholarly work in savings, debt, household finance, and behavior economics will benefit from this pioneering study that provides real-life context for some of the most important issues ... Leer más

    $43.99 USD

  • Civic Service Worldwide

    Impacts and Inquiry

    de Amanda Moore McBride, Michael Sherraden ...
    This comprehensive collection of the latest research and policy developments in civic service worldwide provides an informed assessment of what works and what doesn't work in the field. With contributions from some of the discipline's best-known global leaders, it presents a conceptualization and operational definition of civic service that allows for variations across nations and cultures. "Civic ... Leer más

    $57.99 USD

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  • Wednesday's Child

    One year in the life of an Irish child protection worker

    de Shane Dunphy ...
    Shane Dunphy was involved in social care for fifteen years. This book is a distillation of some of the cases he encountered in that time into a single, year-long narrative. In spite of the narrative's compression, and allowing for the necessary change of identifying details, everything in this book is true. And what the truth reveals! Here are the cases of three dysfunctional families, struggling ... Leer más

    $3.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Portfolios of the Poor

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

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $25.19 USD

  • At Risk

    Social Justice in Child Welfare and Other Human Services

    de Karen Swift, Marilyn Callahan ...
    In At Risk, Karen J. Swift and Marilyn Callahan examine risk and risk assessment in the context of professional practice in child protection, social work, and other human services. They argue that the tools, technologies, and practices used to measure risk to the individual have gone unquestioned and unstudied and that current methods of risk assessment may be distorting the principles of social ... Leer más

    $33.99 USD

  • Taxing the Rich

    A History of Fiscal Fairness in the United States and Europe

    de Kenneth Scheve, David Stasavage ...
    A groundbreaking history of why governments do—and don't—tax the richIn today's social climate of acknowledged and growing inequality, why are there not greater efforts to tax the rich? In this wide-ranging and provocative book, Kenneth Scheve and David Stasavage ask when and why countries tax their wealthiest citizens—and their answers may surprise you.Taxing the Rich draws on unparalleled ... Leer más

    $17.29 USD

  • Observing Children with Attachment Difficulties in School

    A Tool for Identifying and Supporting Emotional and Social Difficulties in Children Aged 5-11

    de Helen Worrall, Sian Templeton, Netty Roberts, Ann Frost, Eleanor Durrant, Jane Fain, Cathy Mills, Kim S. Golding ...
    Emotional difficulties in children aged 5-11 can display themselves in a range of different behaviours, and it is important for staff in schools to be able to identify and address these problems, and to provide appropriate help.This easy-to-use tool provides an observation checklist which enables staff to identify behavioural patterns in children with social and emotional difficulties, analyse the ... Leer más

    $29.49 USD

  • Making Volunteers

    Civic Life after Welfare's End

    de Nina Eliasoph ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology
    An inside look at how community service organizations really workVolunteering improves inner character, builds community, cures poverty, and prevents crime. We've all heard this kind of empowerment talk from nonprofit and government-sponsored civic programs. But what do these programs really accomplish? In Making Volunteers, Nina Eliasoph offers an in-depth, humorous, wrenching, and at times ... Leer más

    $51.89 USD

  • Confronting Suburban Poverty in America

    de Elizabeth Kneebone, Alan Berube ...
    It has been nearly a half century since President Lyndon Johnson declared war on poverty. Back in the 1960s tackling poverty ""in place"" meant focusing resources in the inner city and in rural areas. The suburbs were seen as home to middle- and upper-class families-affluent commuters and homeowners looking for good schools and safe communities in which to raise their kids. But today's America is ... Leer más

    $25.69 USD

  • Eradicating Child Maltreatment

    Evidence-Based Approaches to Prevention and Intervention Across Services

    de 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, ... Leer más

    $45.99 USD

  • Alice in Westminster

    The Political Life of Alice Bacon

    de Rachel Reeves ...
    Alice Bacon was one of the twentieth-century's most remarkable female politicians. Born and raised in the Yorkshire town of Normanton, she defied the odds to be elected Labour MP for Leeds North East in the 1945 General Election. Famed in her home town for her unlikely love of sports cars, she was a much-respected, no-nonsense, hard-working representative for her beloved Yorkshire home in ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD