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The Humanitarian Development Paradigm: Search for Global Justice
ISBN: 9780761827566 / Angielski / Miękka / 374 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Humanitarian Development Paradigm, Wilfred L. David makes a plea for the fundamental reorientation of the economics that guide conventional development discourse, moving toward an emancipatory conversation focusing on human well-being or people-centered liberation. His paradigm-altering vision elevates core human values, guaranteed rights, and global justice in development thinking, practice, and policy.
In Humanitarian Development Paradigm, Wilfred L. David makes a plea for the fundamental reorientation of the economics that guide conventional develop...
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The Evolution of Feminist Organizations: An Organizational Study
ISBN: 9780761831044 / Angielski / Miękka / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This fascinating study examines the changes in feminist organizations that were founded in the early 70s as alternatives to the traditional, bureaucratic human-service organizations. Through in-depth case studies, this book examines the life cycle of 15 feminist organizations and identifies, individually and collectively, various changes over ten or more years. The findings of this book reveal that over time these feminist organizations have evolved into bureaucratic structures that still retain their overarching feminist principles. Social scientists, gender / women's studies scholars, and...
This fascinating study examines the changes in feminist organizations that were founded in the early 70s as alternatives to the traditional, bureaucra...
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235,10 |
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Empowerment Evaluation: Knowledge and Tools for Self-Assessment and Accountability
ISBN: 9780761900252 / Angielski / Miękka / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Explores empowerment evaluation, a method for using evaluation concepts, techniques, and findings to foster improvement and self-determination. This book focuses on the various contexts in which empowerment evaluation is conducted, ranging from resistant environments to responsive environments.
Explores empowerment evaluation, a method for using evaluation concepts, techniques, and findings to foster improvement and self-determination. This b...
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329,99 |
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The Youth Relationships Manual: A Group Approach with Adolescents for the Prevention of Woman Abuse and the Promotion of Healthy Relationships
ISBN: 9780761901945 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Designed to combat physical and sexual aggression against women and children, this prevention programme manual is based on the premise that the best opportunity for promoting healthy, non-violent relationships is to intervene during adolescence, when peer relationships and interpersonal style become firmly established. The proactive, competency-enhancing programme is designed to build strengths, resilience and coping skills in young people. Carefully developed and tested in the field, the 18-session group training programme has three principal sections, covering informational, skill-building...
Designed to combat physical and sexual aggression against women and children, this prevention programme manual is based on the premise that the best o...
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773,84 |
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Control and Consolation in American Culture and Politics: Rhetoric of Therapy
ISBN: 9780761905073 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this perceptive analysis, Dana Cloud traces the replacement of social and political activism by the pursuit of personal, psychological change. She identifies the new movement as the rhetoric of therapy, where a persuasive cultural discourse that applies concepts such as coping and adapting replaces active attempts to reform flawed systems of social and political power. Cloud focuses on the therapeutic discourse that emerged after the Vietnam War and links its rise to specific political and economic interests. Critical case studies identify the extent to which therapeutic discourses... In this perceptive analysis, Dana Cloud traces the replacement of social and political activism by the pursuit of personal, psychological change. S... |
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558,34 |
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Understanding Disability: A Lifespan Approach
ISBN: 9780761905271 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Beginning with infancy and the diagnosis of congenital or early onset disabilities, this book identifies traditional developmental life stages for those with disabilities as well as the impact of disability at each of these periods. It then provides specific information for four different disabilities: Down's syndrome, visual impairment, cerebral palsy and spina bifida. Spinal cord injury at the young adult stage of development is also included. With this knowledge, the reader can determine expected age-appropriate activities and accomplishments as well as some adapted expectations.
In... Beginning with infancy and the diagnosis of congenital or early onset disabilities, this book identifies traditional developmental life stages for tho...
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651,40 |
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Woman Abuse on Campus: Results from the Canadian National Survey
ISBN: 9780761905660 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In post-secondary schools in North America, there are a number of women who become victims of physical, sexual and psychological assaults. This book overviews the Canadian National Survey on Woman Abuse in Dating Relationships, and exposes a 'hidden campus curriculum' that maintains the kinds of inequalities that can engender acts of violence.
In post-secondary schools in North America, there are a number of women who become victims of physical, sexual and psychological assaults. This book o...
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411,41 |
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Social Welfare in Global Context
ISBN: 9780761907879 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A textbook providing a broad overview of social welfare, outlining key institutions, terminology, historical research, and approaches. Details reasons for the existence of international social welfare and the challenges that arise from it. Includes a section on applied international social welfare t
A textbook providing a broad overview of social welfare, outlining key institutions, terminology, historical research, and approaches. Details reasons...
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940,36 |
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Thinking about Program Evaluation
ISBN: 9780761917649 / Angielski / Twarda / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Through the use of specific examples to illustrate evaluation research goals and methods, this book provides readers with an overview of the science and politics of evaluation research. The Second Edition includes coverage of meta-analysis, selection models and instrumental variables.
Through the use of specific examples to illustrate evaluation research goals and methods, this book provides readers with an overview of the science a...
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651,40 |
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Organizational Change in the Human Services
ISBN: 9780761922506 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Organizations today { whether public or private { exist in environment s where the pace of change is dizzying. Human service organizations fa ce both external and internal challenges: The public demands better se rvices at more reasonable costs. Clientele is more diverse, more strat ified, and more vocal than ever. The organizations themselves must kee p up with rapid changes in technological innovation and labor-manageme nt relationships. Organizational Change: The Human Services Challenge looks at the context of organizational change, describes how individua ls and systems change, and...
Organizations today { whether public or private { exist in environment s where the pace of change is dizzying. Human service organizations fa ce both ...
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773,84 |
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Practicing Evaluation: A Collaborative Approach
ISBN: 9780761925460 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Using actual cases from educational, health-related, and business settings, the author shows readers how to do evaluation using a collaborative approach - an approach which actually involves stakeholders in the evaluation process.
Using actual cases from educational, health-related, and business settings, the author shows readers how to do evaluation using a collaborative approa...
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Rethinking Welfare: A Critical Perspective
ISBN: 9780761964186 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. I would encourage undergraduates students to read it, for it does summarise well a classical Marxist analysis of social policy and welfare' - Social Policy
The anti-capitalist movement is increasingly challenging the global hegemony of neo-liberalism. The arguments against the neo-liberal agenda are clearly articulated in Rethinking Welfare. The authors highlight the growing inequalities and decimation of state welfare, and use Marxist approaches to contemporary social policy to provide a defence of the welfare state. Divided into three main... I would encourage undergraduates students to read it, for it does summarise well a classical Marxist analysis of social policy and welfare' - So...
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Welfare States under Pressure
ISBN: 9780761971986 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Exerpt from the Financial Times Comment & Analysis Europe takes on reform of the welfare state: A new study indicates that while the UK has transformed its social policies, the rest of Europe has been far from idle -
A] stimulating new book on European welfare states Welfare States under Pressure] suggests that the view of Britain as the only great welfare state reformer is overstated. And it adds that the game across Europe is about to change.... This new study argues that, particularly in the late 1990s, there has been more reform in the rest of Europe... Exerpt from the Financial Times Comment & Analysis Europe takes on reform of the welfare state: A new study indicates that while the ...
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842,40 |
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Welfare States Under Pressure
ISBN: 9780761971993 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Exerpt from the Financial Times Comment & Analysis Europe takes on reform of the welfare state: A new study indicates that while the UK has transformed its social policies, the rest of Europe has been far from idle -
A] stimulating new book on European welfare states Welfare States under Pressure] suggests that the view of Britain as the only great welfare state reformer is overstated. And it adds that the game across Europe is about to change.... This new study argues that, particularly in the late 1990s, there has been more reform in the rest of Europe... Exerpt from the Financial Times Comment & Analysis Europe takes on reform of the welfare state: A new study indicates that while the ...
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235,04 |
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California's Social Problems
ISBN: 9780761987130 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. PLEASE UPDATE SAGE INDIA AND SAGE U.K. ADDRESSES ON IMPRINT PAGE.
PLEASE UPDATE SAGE INDIA AND SAGE U.K. ADDRESSES ON IMPRINT PAGE.
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Learning from International Public Management Reform
ISBN: 9780762307593 / Angielski / Twarda / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Governments around the world are criticized as inefficient, ineffective, too large, too costly, overly bureaucratic, overburdened by unnecessary rules, unresponsive to public needs, secretive, undemocratic, invasive into rights of citizens, self-serving, and failing in provision of the quantity and quality of services desired by the taxpaying public. Fiscal stress has plagued many governments, increasing the cry for less costly or just less government. Critics have exerted sustained pressure on politicians and public managers for transformational reform. Recommendations for change have...
Governments around the world are criticized as inefficient, ineffective, too large, too costly, overly bureaucratic, overburdened by unnecessary rules...
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1004,48 |
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Research on Employment for Persons with Severe Mental Illness
ISBN: 9780762311293 / Angielski / Twarda / 142 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over the centuries work for persons with severe mental illness has ranged from virtual slave labor to institutional peonage to contemporary rehabilitative programs that seek to assist individuals in re-entering the workplace. How best to do this remains an open question however, and has captured the attention of researchers from a broad range of disciplines, from rehabilitation research to labor economics. This volume provides a sense of this diversity and an overview of research perspectives in this critically important area. Included are chapters discussing important new theoretical...
Over the centuries work for persons with severe mental illness has ranged from virtual slave labor to institutional peonage to contemporary rehabilita...
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484,56 |
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Hard Labor
ISBN: 9780765603326 / Angielski / Twarda / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An in-depth view of the world of low-wage women workers, this expert presentation by authors actively involved in the field provides a realistic picture of the women and the issues as well as suggested strategies and innovations. The book covers a wide range of topics, including getting and keeping a job, struggling to balance the demands of work and family, health care, child care, and unemployment. It is set in the context of both welfare reform and the low-wage labor market and incorporates both self-employment and micro-business enterprise.
An in-depth view of the world of low-wage women workers, this expert presentation by authors actively involved in the field provides a realistic pictu...
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Hard Labor
ISBN: 9780765603333 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An in-depth view of the world of low-wage women workers, this expert presentation by authors actively involved in the field provides a realistic picture of the women and the issues as well as suggested strategies and innovations. The book covers a wide range of topics, including getting and keeping a job, struggling to balance the demands of work and family, health care, child care, and unemployment. It is set in the context of both welfare reform and the low-wage labor market and incorporates both self-employment and micro-business enterprise.
An in-depth view of the world of low-wage women workers, this expert presentation by authors actively involved in the field provides a realistic pictu...
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141,98 |
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Transformational Public Service: Portraits of Theory in Practice
ISBN: 9780765609472 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Everyone who aspires to more effective public service should read this book. It provides a compelling antidote to the managerial focus of theory and practice in public administration. Written with the aim of inspiring and rekindling a mission for public service, Transformational Public Service weaves together theory and stories from actual practice to show that public service can (and does) advance the goals of democracy, inclusiveness, and social and economic justice. Eight practitioners from government and non-governmental organizations at all levels - from the street to the executive...
Everyone who aspires to more effective public service should read this book. It provides a compelling antidote to the managerial focus of theory and p...
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