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Heroic Efforts: The Emotional Culture of Search and Rescue Volunteers
ISBN: 9780814751848 / Angielski / Miękka / 233 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winner of the 2006 Outstanding Recent Contribution Award from the American Sociological Association, Sociology of Emotions Section Many search and rescue workers voluntarily interrupt their lives when they are called upon to help strangers. They awake in the middle of the night to cover miles of terrain in search of lost hikers or leave work to search potential avalanche zones for missing skiers, snowboarders, and snowmobilers in blizzard conditions. They often put their own lives in danger to rescue stranded, hypothermic kayakers and rafters from rivers. Drawing on six years... Winner of the 2006 Outstanding Recent Contribution Award from the American Sociological Association, Sociology of Emotions Section Many searc... |
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136,53 zł |
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Volunteering as Leisure/Leisure as Volunteering: An International Assessment
ISBN: 9780851997506 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Volunteerism is a topic of increasing importance in this age of budget cuts, declining employment and amid the threat posed by other competing leisure pursuits. There are both social and economic benefits of volunteering. As we are becoming more reliant on volunteers, there is a need for a better understanding of why people take up volunteering, and how to recruit, manage, motivate, and support volunteers most effectively. In order for organisations that host volunteers to achieve the most from their volunteers, they must understand how to give them the best -leisure- experience. This book...
Volunteerism is a topic of increasing importance in this age of budget cuts, declining employment and amid the threat posed by other competing leisure...
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487,78 zł |
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Journey of the Heart: A Playscheme With The Orphans of Romania
ISBN: 9781411624948 / Angielski / Miękka / 91 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In July 2004, the author volunteered to work at a summer camp for Romanian orphans. "These children epitomized the word SURVIVOR. They were loving, energetic, and full of life despite the trauma of their existence. I found them needy, emotionally draining, and champions at overcoming their sorrow and loss. Etched in my heart are the stories of their lives." Journey of the Heart recounts the author's experience and the deeply moving stories of these children. All proceeds from this book will be donated to Children on the Edge.
In July 2004, the author volunteered to work at a summer camp for Romanian orphans. "These children epitomized the word SURVIVOR. They were loving, en...
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88,17 zł |
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The New Volunteerism: A Community Connection
ISBN: 9781412806855 / Angielski / Miękka / 211 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This unique volume is a case study of a successful and innovative program using case aide volunteers to deinstitutionalize mental patients. It will serve as an important reference for professionals, teachers, and administrators who are involved in the "business" of human services and require concrete information on how to develop effective volunteer programs to bridge the widening gap between services and needs.
This unique volume is a case study of a successful and innovative program using case aide volunteers to deinstitutionalize mental patients. It will se...
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224,33 zł |
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Leadership and Management of Volunteer Programs: A Guide for Volunteer Administrators
ISBN: 9781555425319 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Describes the knowledge, skills, and abilities required of professional managers to effectively involve volunteers in the work of organizations. Offers thorough guidance on how to perform key tasks such as staffing, recruitment, motivation, program evaluation, and managing relationships between paid staff and volunteers.
Describes the knowledge, skills, and abilities required of professional managers to effectively involve volunteers in the work of organizations. Offer...
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231,05 zł |
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Habitat for Humanity: Building Private Homes, Building Public Religion
ISBN: 9781566398039 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Habitat for Humanity "RM", a grassroots house-building ministry founded in 1976 by evangelical Christians, is one of the best-known and most widely popular nonprofit organizations in operation today. With approximately 1500 local Habitat affiliates in the United States and more than 250 abroad in fifty countries, the organization has constructed more than 85,000 homes primarily by mobilizing concerned citizens, who include about 250,000 American volunteers each year.
The author tells the story of Habitat's development and the special fervor it evokes among volunteers and those for whom it... Habitat for Humanity "RM", a grassroots house-building ministry founded in 1976 by evangelical Christians, is one of the best-known and most widely po...
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141,40 zł |
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Volunteer with the Poor in Peru
ISBN: 9781587213052 / Angielski / Miękka / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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53,46 zł |
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Deconstructing Service-Learning: Research Exploring Context, Particpation, and Impacts (PB)
ISBN: 9781593110703 / Angielski / Miękka / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work looks at service learning. It cover such topics as: challenges for service-learning research; enhancing theory-based research on service learning; dilemmas of service learning teachers; the diffusion of academic service learning in teacher education; and more.
This work looks at service learning. It cover such topics as: challenges for service-learning research; enhancing theory-based research on service lea...
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278,96 zł |
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Deconstructing Service-Learning: Research Exploring Context, Participation, and Impacts (Hc)
ISBN: 9781593110710 / Angielski / Twarda / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work looks at service learning. It cover such topics as: challenges for service-learning research; enhancing theory-based research on service learning; dilemmas of service learning teachers; the diffusion of academic service learning in teacher education; and more.
This work looks at service learning. It cover such topics as: challenges for service-learning research; enhancing theory-based research on service lea...
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562,23 zł |
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New Perspectives in Service-Learning: Research to Advnace the Field (PB)
ISBN: 9781593111571 / Angielski / Miękka / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Service-learning, a teaching and learning approach that uses the provision of community service as a vehicle for learning, continues to be of interest to those working in K-12 and higher education. Billig, director of a national study of the impact of service-learning, and Welch (service learning, University of Utah) present selected papers from a
Service-learning, a teaching and learning approach that uses the provision of community service as a vehicle for learning, continues to be of interest...
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231,05 zł |
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New Perspectives in Service-Learning: Research to Advance the Field (Hc)
ISBN: 9781593111588 / Angielski / Twarda / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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410,76 zł |
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Improving Service-Learning Practice: Research on Models to Enhance Impacts (PB)
ISBN: 9781593114572 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This fifth book in the Advances in Service-Learning Research series continues to expand the discussion of service-learning research andpractice. The chapters were selected through a refereed, blind-review process from papers presented at the 4th Annual International K-HService-Learning Research Conference held October 2004 in Greenville, South Carolina. The chapters focus on topics that address a varietyof issues in higher education and teacher education and are organized into four sections.This volume in the series presents new paradigms that can lead practitioners to create more powerful...
This fifth book in the Advances in Service-Learning Research series continues to expand the discussion of service-learning research andpractice. The c...
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205,38 zł |
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Improving Service-Learning Practice: Research on Models to Enhance Impacts (Hc)
ISBN: 9781593114589 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This fifth book in the Advances in Service-Learning Research series continues to expand the discussion of service-learning research andpractice. The chapters were selected through a refereed, blind-review process from papers presented at the 4th Annual International K-HService-Learning Research Conference held October 2004 in Greenville, South Carolina. The chapters focus on topics that address a varietyof issues in higher education and teacher education and are organized into four sections.This volume in the series presents new paradigms that can lead practitioners to create more powerful...
This fifth book in the Advances in Service-Learning Research series continues to expand the discussion of service-learning research andpractice. The c...
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385,09 zł |
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From Passion to Objectivity: International and Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Service-Learning Research (PB)
ISBN: 9781593118457 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume is the seventh in the Advances in Service-Learning Research series, and presents a collection of papers selected from those presented at the Sixth International Service-learning Research, hosted by Portland State University in Portland, Oregon in October 2006. The theme of the conference, which is also the title of this volume, was "From Passion to Objectivity: International and Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Service- Learning Research." This theme was selected to showcase several important topics in contemporary servicelearning and community engagement research. Of key...
This volume is the seventh in the Advances in Service-Learning Research series, and presents a collection of papers selected from those presented at t...
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231,05 zł |
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From Passion to Objectivity: International and Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Service-Learning Research (Hc)
ISBN: 9781593118464 / Angielski / Twarda / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume is the seventh in the Advances in Service-Learning Research series, and presents a collection of papers selected from those presented at the Sixth International Service-learning Research, hosted by Portland State University in Portland, Oregon in October 2006. The theme of the conference, which is also the title of this volume, was "From Passion to Objectivity: International and Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Service- Learning Research." This theme was selected to showcase several important topics in contemporary servicelearning and community engagement research. Of key...
This volume is the seventh in the Advances in Service-Learning Research series, and presents a collection of papers selected from those presented at t...
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410,76 zł |
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Amid Social Contradictions: Towards a history of Social Work in Europe
ISBN: 9783866491502 / Angielski / Miękka / 263 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How does social work keep its balance between the requirements of its clients and its role as an agency of state and society? In historical analyses from various countries, international experts show how social work has succeeded in keeping conflicting demands at bay. Their contributions look at historical situations in Finland, Germany, Hungary, the Netherlands, Poland, the Republic of Ireland, Russia, the former Soviet Union, Switzerland, and the former Yugoslavia.~Table of contents include: Youth Care in Austria: The Politics of Child Removal Professional Social Work after the Second World...
How does social work keep its balance between the requirements of its clients and its role as an agency of state and society? In historical analyses f...
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117,84 zł |
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The Insider's Guide to the Peace Corps: What to Know Before You Go
ISBN: 9781580089708 / Angielski / Miękka / 1 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. So, you want to join the Peace Corps . . . If you are interested in joining the Peace Corps, you probably have questions that run the gamut from "What is the application process like?" to "Is the Peace Corps effective as a development agency?" In this updated second edition, former Peace Corps volunteer Dillon Banerjee shares candid facts and insights about the experience in a practical question-and-answer format. With input from recently returned volunteers who served across the globe, this thorough guide presents valuable information including: - What Peace Corps recruiters look for in your...
So, you want to join the Peace Corps . . . If you are interested in joining the Peace Corps, you probably have questions that run the gamut from "What...
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73,02 zł |
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Community Service: Encounter with Strangers
ISBN: 9780275941864 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Radest reviews the history and present practice of community service in the United States. While appreciative of the genuine contributions of community service programs to the development of schools and society, the author believes that hidden behind good intentions and willing energies there is a strain of ambivalence that cannot be ignored (such as when a citizen is sentenced by the court to perform a number of hours of community service). He analyzes philosophically and psychologically this ambivalence, employing his experience in the field, his observations of school and... Radest reviews the history and present practice of community service in the United States. While appreciative of the genuine contributions of commu... |
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359,42 zł |
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Older People Giving Care: Helping Family and Community
ISBN: 9780865692336 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One of the few studies of how the elderly help others through formal and informal volunteerism. While a large number of studies focus on the help older people receive from relatives and friends, this work examines the many ways in which older people are involved in giving care to others. Written by a sociologist and based on a stratified sample of hundreds of individuals, this study assesses a number of dimensions of care giving. While much of this labor goes unnoticed, it is central to the building and maintenance of family and community ties, and reveals ways in which social life is... One of the few studies of how the elderly help others through formal and informal volunteerism. While a large number of studies focus on the help o... |
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282,40 zł |
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Volunteering: Why We Can't Survive Without It
ISBN: 9780868409863 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Timely, lively and unflagging in its coverage of an extraordinary range of organisations and individuals, Volunteering takes the first comprehensive look at why Australians give so much of their time for free.
Timely, lively and unflagging in its coverage of an extraordinary range of organisations and individuals, Volunteering takes the first comprehensive l...
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92,37 zł |
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