Funding Sources for Community and Economic Development
ISBN: 9780983762201 / Angielski / Miękka / 1182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This essential guide offers countless tips and resources that citizen groups, government agencies, non-profits, community foundations and trusts, and individuals can access for grants.
This essential guide offers countless tips and resources that citizen groups, government agencies, non-profits, community foundations and trusts, and ...
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678,67 zł |
Social Measurement through Social Surveys: An Applied Approach
ISBN: 9780754674870 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How do academic social scientists and survey professionals use social measurement techniques? How are these techniques applied to specific concepts in empirical research? This book is an important resource for students, academic and professional researchers, offering an overview of both new and practiced methods of social measurement for quantitative survey research. It will provide readers looking to investigate "hot" social science topics with a way of learning how key measurement techniques can be utilised in that topic in a practical way. Emerging from the editors' widely used work on an...
How do academic social scientists and survey professionals use social measurement techniques? How are these techniques applied to specific concepts in...
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756,45 zł |
Children, Changing Families and Welfare States
ISBN: 9781847209870 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book explores the implications of changes to the welfare state for children in a range of countries. Children, Changing Families and Welfare States: examines the implications of social policies for children; sets the discussion in the broader context of both family change and welfare state change, exploring the nature of the policy debate that has allowed the welfare of the child to come to the fore; tackles policies to do with both the care and financial support of children; looks at the household level and how children fare when both adult men and women must seek to combine paid and...
The book explores the implications of changes to the welfare state for children in a range of countries. Children, Changing Families and Welfare State...
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224,88 zł |
Knowledge-In-Practice in the Caring Professions: Multidisciplinary Perspectives
ISBN: 9780754672845 / Angielski / Miękka / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Knowledge-in-Practice in the Caring Professions explores the nature and role of knowledge in the practical work of the caring professions. It focuses on knowledge of the practical over the theoretical, looking at the application of theory and the implementation of skill, judgment and discretion. Containing contributions from experts in a variety of fields, the research within this book offers a unique perspective on professional practice as multi-disciplinary, illustrating shared and overlapping understandings in knowledge-in-practice between the different professions as well as...
Knowledge-in-Practice in the Caring Professions explores the nature and role of knowledge in the practical work of the caring professions. It focuses ...
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224,28 zł |
Happiness and Social Policy in Europe
ISBN: 9781848445741 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Using data from the European Social Survey, the researchers analyse the relation between happiness and social policy across Europe. This title demonstrates that research on happiness can inform welfare choices and policies and help promote job creation, social inclusion and to some degree, a higher level of equality.
Using data from the European Social Survey, the researchers analyse the relation between happiness and social policy across Europe. This title demonst...
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521,69 zł |
Knowledge-in-Practice in the Caring Professions: Multidisciplinary Perspectives
ISBN: 9780754672821 / Angielski / Twarda / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Knowledge-in-Practice in the Caring Professions explores the nature and role of knowledge in the practical work of the caring professions. It focuses on knowledge of the practical over the theoretical, looking at the application of theory and the implementation of skill, judgment and discretion. Containing contributions from experts in a variety of fields, the research within this book offers a unique perspective on professional practice as multi-disciplinary, illustrating shared and overlapping understandings in knowledge-in-practice between the different professions as well as...
Knowledge-in-Practice in the Caring Professions explores the nature and role of knowledge in the practical work of the caring professions. It focuses ...
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756,45 zł |
Social Justice and Children in Care
ISBN: 9781856283724 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Can justice be achieved in voluntary cases a or is it purely a matter for courts to determine? Using a multi-disciplinary framework, which has at its centre a philosophical/anthropological view of social work as a moral practice, the author explores the notion of justice in public child care. The problem of parentsa and childrena s rights is addressed, first of all in the legal context of care proceedings and then in the social work setting of voluntary care. Forty-six difficult cases are examined to see how decisions are made and implemented. In the final analysis the dimensions of social...
Can justice be achieved in voluntary cases a or is it purely a matter for courts to determine? Using a multi-disciplinary framework, which has at its ...
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704,29 zł |
Rethinking Policing and Justice : Exploring Alternatives to Law Enforcement
ISBN: 9780415697767 / Angielski / Twarda / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It has become somewhat axiomatic to refer to the police as the 'gatekeepers' of the criminal justice system and thus as a mechanism for the provision of justice. And yet, when we conceptualize the police in this way, what is often taken for granted is the exact nature of that role and its larger social meaning. Indeed, we know that police deliver justice more efficiently to some and injustice to others. Rethinking Policing and Justice critically examines the role of policing (both state and non-state forms) in the provision of justice (and injustice). In essence, it presents work that...
It has become somewhat axiomatic to refer to the police as the 'gatekeepers' of the criminal justice system and thus as a mechanism for the provision ...
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187,76 zł |
Magdalene House: A Place about Mercy
ISBN: 9780826518378 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Women come to Magdalene House in Nashville when they are ready to leave the streets. They live together--unsupervised and free of charge--for two years. During that time, the women are given time, space, and the resources they need to heal from what have often been lifelong experiences with suffering. (Of the twenty-two women now in residence, 80 percent have a diagnosed mental illness other than addiction, 40 percent are receiving treatment for hepatitis C, and one-third are HIV positive.)
Women come to Magdalene House in Nashville when they are ready to leave the streets. They live together--unsupervised and free of charge--for two year...
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495,21 zł |
Magdalene House: A Place about Mercy
ISBN: 9780826518385 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Women come to Magdalene House in Nashville when they are ready to leave the streets. They live together--unsupervised and free of charge--for two years. During that time, the women are given time, space, and the resources they need to heal from what have often been lifelong experiences with suffering. (Of the twenty-two women now in residence, 80 percent have a diagnosed mental illness other than addiction, 40 percent are receiving treatment for hepatitis C, and one-third are HIV positive.)
Women come to Magdalene House in Nashville when they are ready to leave the streets. They live together--unsupervised and free of charge--for two year...
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250,60 zł |
Effective Interventions for Children in Need
ISBN: 9780754628255 / Angielski / Twarda / 412 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book sets out the current state of knowledge about what works in reducing impairments to children's health and development. Little and Maughan's book applies a high standard of proof and reproduces only the work of the leading intervention scientists from around the world. After discussing the real world challenges to more effective children's services, the book goes on to cover policy and practice proven to change the lives of all children, and extends also to effective programmes targeted at children with specific disorders. Examples include changes in household income, early years...
This book sets out the current state of knowledge about what works in reducing impairments to children's health and development. Little and Maughan's ...
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Bryce Bevill's TOTAL FOCUS of Character, Academy, Discipline, and Faith: Life lessons for tomorrow's youth today
ISBN: 9781419694417 / Angielski / Miękka / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The TOTAL FOCUS discusses some of the sociological, personal, family and political issues facing students and student-athletes in America today. Written by two former Syracuse University student-athletes from the Washington DC area, TOTAL FOCUS gives historical, contemporary, scriptural, and anecdotal information to benefit any parent, child, educator, coach and minister.
The TOTAL FOCUS discusses some of the sociological, personal, family and political issues facing students and student-athletes in America today. Writt...
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77,92 zł |
Restoring Power to Parents and Places
ISBN: 9781462048717 / Angielski / Miękka / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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65,30 zł |
Restoring Power to Parents and Places
ISBN: 9781462048724 / Angielski / Twarda / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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108,98 zł |
York Gardens: A Dream Fulfilled
ISBN: 9781466456556 / Angielski / Miękka / 90 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. York Gardens: A Dream Fulfilled tells the assisted living story of Ebenezer Society and 7500 York Cooperative from the beginning of the dream in 2005, through many trials of bringing the dream into reality, to the celebration of the opening of York Gardens in 2011. The 76-unit York Gardens, with its 47 assisted living apartments, 15 memory care apartments, and 14 care suites, allows the many 7500 York residents close access to additional services without having to leave the 7500 York community.
York Gardens: A Dream Fulfilled tells the assisted living story of Ebenezer Society and 7500 York Cooperative from the beginning of the dream in 2005,...
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50,22 zł |
Understanding Human Races: The Restoration of the lost African Race and the Final Solution to the Problems of Humanity
ISBN: 9781469155135 / Angielski / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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91,69 zł |
Understanding Human Races: The Restoration of the lost African Race and the Final Solution to the Problems of Humanity
ISBN: 9781469155142 / Angielski / Twarda / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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165,06 zł |
Hungry for Peace: How You Can Help End Poverty and War with Food Not Bombs
ISBN: 9781937276065 / Angielski / Miękka / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The de facto how-to manual of the international Food Not Bombs movement, which provides free food to the homeless and hungry and has branches in countries on every continent except Antarctica, this book describes at length how to set up and operate a Food Not Bombs chapter. The guide considers every aspect of the operation, from food collection and distribution to fund-raising, consensus decision making, and what to do when the police arrive. It contains detailed information on setting up a kitchen and cooking for large groups as well asa variety ofdelicious recipes. Accompanying numerous...
The de facto how-to manual of the international Food Not Bombs movement, which provides free food to the homeless and hungry and has branches in count...
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87,14 zł |
New Welfare States in East Asia: Global Challenges and Restructuring
ISBN: 9781849807524 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The fast changing economic climate is creating substantial pressure for welfare state restructuring worldwide. Yet the discussion regarding challenges faced and the responses required has been confined to the 'standard welfare states' in the West. This book examines whether these challenges also apply to the countries in the East, whether these countries have generated different responses to their Western counterparts, and whether they have undergone a process of regime transformation while responding to these pressures.
The fast changing economic climate is creating substantial pressure for welfare state restructuring worldwide. Yet the discussion regarding challenges...
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494,24 zł |
An Introduction to Social Entrepreneurship: Voices, Preconditions, Contexts
ISBN: 9780857933720 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This timely book sets social entrepreneurship in a historical context, from its philanthropic beginnings in the Victorian era to the present day, against the backdrop of contemporary global capitalism. Starting with contributions from social entrepreneurs and innovators, this anthology describes the workings of social entrepreneurship and explores its import as a gauge of contemporary social, environmental and economic conditions. Drawing on perspectives from cultural theory, history and sociology, the authors investigate the theory of entrepreneurship, the culture of management and the...
This timely book sets social entrepreneurship in a historical context, from its philanthropic beginnings in the Victorian era to the present day, agai...
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213,90 zł |