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Single Parents and Child Welfare in the New Russia

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Price: $17.48

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan: 2001-06-18

Seller ID: 0333773608-01

ISBN: 0333773608

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America at Century's End

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Publisher: University of California Press: 1991-08-16

Seller ID: 0520074777-01

ISBN: 0520074777

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Liberty and Hard Cases

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Price: $3.00

Publisher: Hoover Press: 2002-05-01

Seller ID: 0817928022-01

ISBN: 0817928022

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Whose Welfare?

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Price: $3.00

Publisher: Cornell University Press: 1999-10-20

Seller ID: 0801486203-01

ISBN: 0801486203

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Balancing Family-Centered Services and Child Well-Being: Exploring Issues in Policy, Practice, Theory, and Research

By: N/A

Price: $8.83

Publisher: Columbia University Press: 2001-08-15

Seller ID: M0231112831Z3

ISBN: 0231112831

Condition: Good

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Managing Disaster: Strategies and Policy Perspectives (Duke Press Policy Studies)

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Price: $19.99

Publisher: Duke University Press Books: 1988-04-07

Seller ID: 0822308002-01

ISBN: 0822308002

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Managing Disaster: Strategies and Policy Perspectives (Duke Press Policy Studies)

By: N/A

Price: $19.99

Publisher: Duke University Press Books: 1988-04-07

Seller ID: 0822308002-02

ISBN: 0822308002

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Children, Youth, and Families: The Action-Research Relationship

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Price: $12.48

Publisher: Cambridge University Press: 1985-10-31

Seller ID: 0521301432-01

ISBN: 0521301432

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Single Parents and Child Welfare in the New Russia

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Price: $9.31

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan: 2001-06-18

Seller ID: M0333773608Z2

ISBN: 0333773608

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With the transition to a market economy, a rising number of single-parent families in Russia are being placed under an intensified threat of poverty. Single Parents and Child Welfare in the New Russia provides new evidence and analysis of the effects of this phenomenon of child welfare and assesses the social policy responses of the Russian government. The authors emphasize the urgent need for detailed country-level analysis of the situation at a time of great change and increased risk.
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International Social Policy: Welfare Regimes in the Developed World

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Price: $2.95

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan: 2001-08-25

Seller ID: M0333748662Z2

ISBN: 0333748662

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International Social Policy is a major new contribution to the growing literature on the study of comparative social policy. The book is genuinely international with each chapter written by a social policy expert, or experts, from that country. An overview of themes and issues is provided by the editors in a wide-ranging introduction. Written in a clear and accessible style, this book will be essential reading for all students of comparative social policy.
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America at Century's End

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Price: $2.95

Publisher: University of California Press: 1991-08-16

Seller ID: M0520074777Z2

ISBN: 0520074777

Condition: VeryGood

Life in America today bears little resemblance to that of 40 or 50 years ago. AIDS, crack, homelessness, latchkey children and surrogate mothers are all indicators that the pace of change has outstripped the ability of our institutions to adapt. In America at Century's End the contributors have written essays tracing the feel and pulse of American life. The result is a candid snapshot of America approaching the 21st century.
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Balancing Family-Centered Services and Child Well-Being: Exploring Issues in Policy, Practice, Theory, and Research

By: N/A

Price: $8.72

Publisher: Columbia University Press: 2001-08-15

Seller ID: M0231112831Z2

ISBN: 0231112831

Condition: VeryGood

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Managing Disaster: Strategies and Policy Perspectives (Duke Press Policy Studies)

By: N/A

Price: $33.90

Publisher: Duke University Press Books: 1988-04-07

Seller ID: M0822308002Z3

ISBN: 0822308002

Condition: Good

This book reflects an important shift in society's definition of disaster. For centuries catastrophic events have been considered "acts of God" and therefore uncontrollable by definition. Managing Disaster is international in scope, covering such natural and man-made calamities as tornadoes in western Pennsylvania, earthquakes in Peru, flooding in the Netherlands, and toxic waste disasters.

Centers for hazard studies have only recently examined the interrelated aspects of disastrous events and recognized the interaction between natural hazards and human systems. As society attempt...
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Whose Welfare?

By: N/A

Price: $2.95

Publisher: Cornell University Press: 1999-10-20

Seller ID: M0801486203Z4

ISBN: 0801486203

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Child welfare and social policy: An essential reader

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Price: $8.54

Publisher: Policy Press: 2005-03-16

Seller ID: M1861345666Z2

ISBN: 1861345666

Condition: VeryGood

This book provides an essential one-stop introduction to the key concepts, issues, policies and practices affecting child welfare, with particular emphasis on the changing nature of the relationship between child welfare and social policy. No other book brings together such a wide selection of material to form an attractive and indispensable teaching and learning resource. Child welfare and social policy provides readers with an historical overview of child welfare in England and Wales; high quality contributions from leading authorities in the field; discursive introductions to each section t...
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Research in Social Care and Social Welfare: Issues and Debates for Practice

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Price: $2.95

Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers: 2000-12-03

Seller ID: M1853029009Z3

ISBN: 1853029009

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This important book explores the links between research, 'evidence-based' practice and policy in social care and social welfare. Basing their chapters in case-study material, the contributors examine the issues arising from qualitative and quantitative methodologies, critique orthodox views of ethics and language and offer examples of innovative social research methods. Research in Social Work and Social Welfare highlights and questions the assumptions that underpin social research and examines the notions of power, ethics, language and representation in research. It questions, for example, th...
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Angles Of Vision: How To Understand Social Problems

By: Beeghley, Leonard

Price: $2.95

Publisher: Perseus: 1998-07-31

Seller ID: M0813329493Z2

ISBN: 0813329493

Condition: VeryGood

Angles of Vision is a compact text that provides students with basic information about social problems and teaches them a strategy for understanding these issues. Students learn how to distinguish between individual and structural analyses and the importance of placing issues in a historical and international context to gain a clearer understanding. In so doing, students come to appreciate that sociology is a hypothesis-testing discipline. The author uses metaphors, vignettes, and humor to convey the fundamental concepts, key findings, and methods by which sociologists understand social proble...
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Disability and Social Policy in Britain since 1750: A History of Exclusion

By: Borsay, Anne

Price: $96.82

Publisher: Red Globe Press: 2005-06-04

Seller ID: M0333912543Z1

ISBN: 0333912543

Condition: LikeNew

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Nurturing the One, Supporting the Many

By: Botsko, Michael,McGowan, Brenda,Hess, Peg

Price: $39.00

Publisher: Columbia University Press: 2002-11-15

Seller ID: M0231115946Z3

ISBN: 0231115946

Condition: Good

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Key Issues in Housing: Policies and Markets in 21st Century Britain

By: Bramley, Glen,Pawson, Hal,Munro, Moira,Gurran, N.

Price: $71.26

Publisher: Red Globe Press: 2005-03-02

Seller ID: 0333969138-01

ISBN: 0333969138

Condition: Good

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Category: Human Services