This groundbreaking new book illustrates how the internet and other electronic resources are currently affecting social work practice. Rapidly emerging technologies have facilitated economic globalization and created a host of new issues for social workers to address. At the same time these technologies have become key tools for social activism and advocacy. Practitioners must understand the changes in social policy advocacy and community activism that these technological advances bring and learn to formulate new skills to utilize them to their advantage. Advocacy, Activism, and the Internet discusses the use of the internet as a tool for instigating social change at the local, state, national, and international levels. The authors show how technology affects social work practice directly through new methods and indirectly by affecting the communities that practitioners serve. It provides channels for e-advocacy as well as a thorough exploration of the major theoretical, practice, and research perspectives that inform electronic activism. This book solidly integrates new on-line advocacy skills with traditional methods and unites research on internet communities with macro social work theory.

This magnificent book is a tribute to the wild dogs of Africa, once treated as vermin in African game reserves and shot on sight. Conservationists have only recently taken note of the plight of these animals, but it is almost too late to save this African carnivore, now firmly on the endangered list. By emphasising the close social interactions of a pack of wild dogs, this book goes a long way towards reversing their negative image. The photographs and text document closely the life of a particular pack in northern Botswana, celebrating their untamed existence and pointing out their vulnerability in Africa. Written by scientists, the text is authoritative and interesting and readers share in the authors' daily observations as they uncover extraordinary new facts about the life and habits of the African wild dogs