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Milton Row (Hardcover)
Robert John Newlands
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A core function of social work is to assist, empower, and protect
the most vulnerable in society. Social workers make difficult
decisions in complex and challenging situations every day. They
work in organizations that have clear statutory duties. Therefore,
it is essential that social work students know what their
responsibilities are. Familiarity with law, legislation, and legal
processes is consequently fundamental to sound social work
practice. This best-selling book helps social work students gain
this foothold in understanding law as it applies to social work
practice. It avoids complicated legal jargon remote from the
everyday realities of practice, offering instead a grounding in
legally-appropriate, rights-based social work. It covers the full
range of social work law, including services for children and
families and child protection, adult care law, youth justice, court
work, professional regulation, and human rights.
Puzzled by terminology, skills, law, or theory? Revising for your
placement or exam? Then look no further! This series of concise and
easy-to-use A-Zs will be your guide. Designed for both students and
newly-qualified social workers, this book will introduce you to
over 300 key laws, legal terms, and legal processes in a concise
and no-nonsense way. It covers all areas of social work practice -
adults, children and families, mental health, and youth justice -
ensuring you have the knowledge you need to apply the law
appropriately, ethically and with confidence.
"Science Fiction "is a fascinating and comprehensive introduction
to one of the most popular areas of modern culture. This second
edition reflects how the field is rapidly changing in both its
practice and its critical reception. With an entirely new
conclusion and all other chapters fully reworked and updated, this
volume offers:
- A concise history of science fiction and the ways in which the
genre has been used and defined
- Explanations of key concepts in SF criticism and theory through
chapters such as Gender, Race, Technology and Metaphor
- Examines the interactions between Science Fiction and Science
Fact
- Anchors each chapter with a case study drawn from short story,
book or film, from Frank Herbert's Dune to Star Wars, from The Left
Hand of Darkness to Neuromancer.
Introducing the reader to nineteenth-century, Pulp, Golden Age, New
Wave, Feminist and Cyberpunk science fictions, this is the
essential contemporary guide to a major cultural movement.
"Science Fiction "is a fascinating and comprehensive introduction
to one of the most popular areas of modern culture. This second
edition reflects how the field is rapidly changing in both its
practice and its critical reception. With an entirely new
conclusion and all other chapters fully reworked and updated, this
volume offers:
- A concise history of science fiction and the ways in which the
genre has been used and defined
- Explanations of key concepts in SF criticism and theory through
chapters such as Gender, Race, Technology and Metaphor
- Examines the interactions between Science Fiction and Science
Fact
- Anchors each chapter with a case study drawn from short story,
book or film, from Frank Herbert's Dune to Star Wars, from The Left
Hand of Darkness to Neuromancer.
Introducing the reader to nineteenth-century, Pulp, Golden Age, New
Wave, Feminist and Cyberpunk science fictions, this is the
essential contemporary guide to a major cultural movement.
Boreal Shield Watersheds: Lake Trout Ecosystems in a Changing
Environment brings together the work of a renowned international
group of scientists who specialize in aquatic science and
environmental management. They explore the functioning of Boreal
Shield ecosystems, focusing on the lake trout, the classic
coldwater species of northern glaciated lakes, using it as an
indicator of environmental change and as a model to measure the
effectiveness of management actions. This book demonstrates how
boreal waters have served as a crucible for decades of
environmental research into the impacts of nutrient additions,
trace contaminants, acid rain, climate change, sport fishing,
invasive species, and watershed disturbances. The text builds on
this substantial research legacy and explores our ability to manage
human interactions with ecosystems across the vast Boreal Shield
ecozone of North America, and with other important ecosystems
worldwide. It also provides models and new methods of assessing the
risk to and the durability of ecosystems in relation to local,
regional, and global human activities. Maps and descriptions of
several important long-term monitoring sites and an atlas
describing more than 3,000 lake trout lakes in the region are
special components of the book.
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Shook! A Black Horror Anthology
Bradley Golden, Marcus Roberts, John Jennings; Illustrated by Roberto Castro, Alessio Nocerino
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Three Kingdoms tells the story of the fateful last reign of the Han
dynasty (206 B.C.-A.D. 220), when the Chinese empire was divided
into three warring kingdoms. This decisive period in Chinese
history became a subject of intense and continuing interest to
historians, poets, and dramatists. Writing some 1,200 years later,
the Ming author Luo Guanzhong drew on this rich literary heritage
to fashion a sophisticated, compelling narrative that has become
the Chinese national epic. Luo's novel offers a startling and
unsparing view of how power is wielded, how diplomacy is conducted,
and how wars are planned and fought; it has influenced the ways the
Chinese think about power, diplomacy, and war even to this day. As
important for Chinese culture as the Homeric epics have been for
the West, this Ming dynasty masterpiece continues to be widely
influential in China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam, and remains a
great work of world literature. The University of California Press
is pleased to make the complete and unabridged translation
available again.
How great groups make great schools Training leaders how to conduct
effective meetings is important, but it's not enough to ensure that
the professional development process is valuable. This field book
shows educators how to develop group culture, enhance facilitators'
skills, and optimize the group's most precious resource-its
members. The authors describe how to form working committees, task
forces, grade-level, and department teams, and faculties that are
more effective and better equipped to resolve complex issues around
student learning. Specific topics include Understanding eight
principles that underlie effective groups Learning the five
standards for effective meetings Setting clear goals and roles
Practicing new ways of talking for improved collaboration Examining
perceptions and mental models Enhancing energy sources Working with
conflict Developing basic facilitation skills This practical
guide's special features include the newly updated seven norms of
collaboration, a sample team assessment survey, instruments for
assessing meeting effectiveness, an extensive bibliography, and
practical examples embedded throughout the text. Practitioners will
find a valuable road map for leading effective, student-focused
school improvement efforts.
Boreal Shield Watersheds: Lake Trout Ecosystems in a Changing Environment brings together the work of a renowned international group of scientists who specialize in aquatic science and environmental management. They explore the functioning of Boreal Shield ecosystems, focusing on the lake trout, the classic coldwater species of northern glaciated lakes, using it as an indicator of environmental change and as a model to measure the effectiveness of management actions.
This book demonstrates how boreal waters have served as a crucible for decades of environmental research into the impacts of nutrient additions, trace contaminants, acid rain, climate change, sport fishing, invasive species, and watershed disturbances.
The text builds on this substantial research legacy and explores our ability to manage human interactions with ecosystems across the vast Boreal Shield ecozone of North America, and with other important ecosystems worldwide. It also provides models and new methods of assessing the risk to and the durability of ecosystems in relation to local, regional, and global human activities. Maps and descriptions of several important long-term monitoring sites and an atlas describing more than 3,000 lake trout lakes in the region are special components of the book.
A core function of social work is to assist, empower, and protect
the most vulnerable in society. Social workers make difficult
decisions in complex and challenging situations every day. They
work in organizations that have clear statutory duties. Therefore,
it is essential that social work students know what their
responsibilities are. Familiarity with law, legislation, and legal
processes is consequently fundamental to sound social work
practice. This best-selling book helps social work students gain
this foothold in understanding law as it applies to social work
practice. It avoids complicated legal jargon remote from the
everyday realities of practice, offering instead a grounding in
legally-appropriate, rights-based social work. It covers the full
range of social work law, including services for children and
families and child protection, adult care law, youth justice, court
work, professional regulation, and human rights.
By the middle of the nineteenth century, the North-West Passage, a
trade route from the Atlantic to the Pacific, had been sought for
centuries without success. The Franklin expedition of 1845 became
the latest victim, and Irish naval officer Sir Robert John Le
Mesurier McClure (1807-73) took part in the attempts to ascertain
its fate. His ship, H.M.S. Investigator, spent the years 1850-4 in
the Arctic, and in the course of their search for the lost
expedition, the crew discovered the North-West Passage. Upon his
return to England, following the loss of the Investigator to pack
ice, McClure handed over his journals to author and fellow officer
Sherard Osborn (1822-75), who prepared this narrative of the
pioneering expedition. First published in 1856, the work remains a
compelling account of Arctic exploration, revealing how McClure and
his men survived four forbidding winters.
It is essential for social work students to know about social
policy, to know why studying social policy is important in the
social work degree, and to understand how social policy, when
implemented, has a real impact on the everyday life of vulnerable
people. This book provides plenty of examples of this impact,
tracing the development of welfare provision for older people right
through the twentieth century, leading up to an analysis of
contemporary developments, which students will need to know about
in order to practice effectively.
Based on international research, this collection incorporates a critical analysis of World Health Organization cross-cultural findings. Contributors share an interest in subjective and interpretive aspects of illness, while maintaining the concept of schizophrenia that addresses its biological aspects. The volume is of interest to scholars in the social and human sciences, and of practical relevance not only to psychiatrists, but all mental health professionals encountering the clinical problems bridging culture and psychosis.
In much of Melanesia, the process of social reproduction unfolds as
a lengthy sequence of mortuary rites - feast making and gift giving
through which the living publicly define their social relations
with each other while at the same time commemorating the deceased.
In this study Robert J. Foster constructs an ethnographic account
of mortuary rites in the Tanga Islands, Papua New Guinea, placing
these large-scale feasts and ceremonial exchanges in their
historical context and demonstrating how the effects of
participation in an expanding cash economy have allowed Tangans to
conceive of the rites as 'customary' in opposition to the new and
foreign practices of 'business'. His examination synthesizes two
divergent trends in Melanesian anthropology by emphasizing both the
radical differences between Melanesian and Western forms of
sociality and the conjunction of Melanesian and Western societies
brought about by colonialism and capitalism.
How do social workers in the UK legal context act ethically? What
do we understand by ethics and how does social work law relate to
it? Social work practice in all countries incorporates a clear,
unstinting commitment to social justice, but what is social
justice? Using an applied, practice-based and refreshingly 'real'
approach, this text bridges the gap between law and ethics. Each
chapter opens with a case study which considers ethical dilemmas in
real life practice. Chapters have been designed to help students
strengthen their critical reflection skills, encouraging
consideration of the legal and ethical dimensions of social work
generally and in personal practice. Topics such as care
proceedings, adoption, community care, youth justice, mental
capacity and accountability explore how understanding and
application are equally important.
Puzzled by terminology, skills, law, or theory? Revising for your
placement or exam? Then look no further! This series of concise and
easy-to-use A-Zs will be your guide. Designed for both students and
newly-qualified social workers, this book will introduce you to
over 300 key laws, legal terms, and legal processes in a concise
and no-nonsense way. It covers all areas of social work practice -
adults, children and families, mental health, and youth justice -
ensuring you have the knowledge you need to apply the law
appropriately, ethically and with confidence.
Multiple Regression: A Practical Introduction is a text for an
advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate course in statistics
for social science and related fields. Also, students preparing for
more advanced courses can self-study the text to refresh and
solidify their statistical background. Drawing on decades of
teaching this material, the authors present the ideas in an
approachable and nontechnical manner, with no expectation that
readers have more than a standard introductory statistics course as
background. Multiple regression asks how a dependent variable is
related to, or predicted by, a set of independent variables. The
book includes many interesting example analyses and
interpretations, along with exercises. Each dataset used for the
examples and exercises is small enough for readers to easily grasp
the entire dataset and its analysis with respect to the specific
statistical techniques covered. A website for the book includes
SPSS, Stata, SAS, and R code and commands for each type of analysis
or recoding of variables in the book. Solutions to two of the
end-of-chapter exercise types are also available for students to
practice. The instructor side of the site contains editable
PowerPoint slides, other solutions, and a test bank.
Critical Race Theory (CRT) explains and challenges the persistence
of racial discrimination throughout the world today, addressing
issues such as racism, post-colonialism and systems of apartheid.
Despite claims we live in a post-racial era, equality laws are
under threat in the UK and evidence of racism persists in life and
work. This collection is the result of ongoing work in this area by
a group of UK based academics: the CRT in the UK discussion group,
convened by Namita Chakrabarty, John Preston and Lorna Roberts. The
aim of this book is to examine the practical application of CRT
within a specifically English context. Encompassing a range of
fields, from education to civil defense, it considers the tools and
techniques of CRT (including CRT feminist thought), from
counter-narrative to the role of political positioning, but above
all it analyzes the workings of on-going racism within English
institutions and structures. Key aspects of post- 9/11 culture are
also critiqued and explored, including an analysis of Islamophobia
and antiracism, how counter-terror measures may reinforce racist
beliefs, the role of race and the BME academic, and the
manipulation of race in debates surrounding education and class.
These new perspectives offer greater insight into the crucial area
of race without which any understanding of 21st century England is
incomplete. This book was originally published as a special issue
of Race, Ethnicity and Education.
Docu-drama about the internet video sensation of the sneezing baby
panda, directed by Lesley Hammond. Australian zoologist Marnie
(Amber Clayton) is fearful of the fate of her struggling zoo and
sets out to find a solution in the form of a star-attraction. When
Marnie sees the video of Chi Chi (voice of Jane Ubrien) the baby
panda on the internet, she embarks on a journey to China to track
down the famous animal to save her zoo.
Based on international research, this collection incorporates a critical analysis of World Health Organization cross-cultural findings. Contributors share an interest in subjective and interpretive aspects of illness, while maintaining the concept of schizophrenia that addresses its biological aspects. The volume is of interest to scholars in the social and human sciences, and of practical relevance not only to psychiatrists, but all mental health professionals encountering the clinical problems bridging culture and psychosis.
How do voters in Britain decide which party to vote for in
elections? Have age and education replaced class as the social
basis for voting? Are elections now 'presidentialised', with voters
simply choosing between party leaders? What role do the media, new
and old, play in all of this? The authors examine these and other
questions in the fourth edition of this popular text. The core of
the text is devoted to examining and explaining theories of party
choice, including the debate about whether voters are driven more
by issues and ideology or simply by which party and leader looks
least likely to make a mess of things in office. The authors also
devote separate chapters to turnout trends and patterns, the media,
electoral systems, the geography of party support, and - new to
this edition - referendums. Fully revised and with detailed
analysis of the 2019 election and the electoral fallout of Brexit,
the text incorporates the latest research on elections and voting
behaviour, and includes analysis of recent trends and developments
- such as the effect of digital media on electoral politics and
where recent misfires leave the opinion polls.
"Three Kingdoms" tells the story of the fateful last reign of the
Han dynasty (206 B.C.-A.D. 220), when the Chinese empire was
divided into three warring kingdoms. This decisive period in
Chinese history became a subject of intense and continuing interest
to historians, poets, and dramatists. Writing some 1,200 years
later, the Ming author Luo Guanzhong drew on this rich literary
heritage to fashion a sophisticated, compelling narrative that has
become the Chinese national epic. Luo's novel offers a startling
and unsparing view of how power is wielded, how diplomacy is
conducted, and how wars are planned and fought; it has influenced
the ways the Chinese think about power, diplomacy, and war even to
this day. As important for Chinese culture as the Homeric epics
have been for the West, this Ming dynasty masterpiece continues to
be widely influential in China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam, and
remains a great work of world literature. The University of
California Press is pleased to make the complete and unabridged
translation available again.
A core function of social work is to assist, empower, and protect
the most vulnerable in society. Social workers make difficult
decisions in complex and challenging situations every day. They
work in organizations that have clear statutory duties. Therefore,
it is essential that social work students know what their
responsibilities are. Familiarity with law, legislation, and legal
processes is consequently fundamental to sound social work
practice. This best-selling book helps social work students gain
this foothold in understanding law as it applies to social work
practice. It avoids complicated legal jargon remote from the
everyday realities of practice, offering instead a grounding in
legally-appropriate, rights-based social work. It covers the full
range of social work law, including services for children and
families and child protection, adult care law, youth justice, court
work, professional regulation, and human rights.
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