Ruth Wood: 11 books
by Joyce Handsel, Keith Quillen, Pat Smith
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
The Stanley Creek community, named for a gold prospector, began in the mid-1700s as one of the earliest settlements in Gaston County. Gold was mined in the area until the California Gold Rush. Among the prominent people visiting the area was André Michaux, botanist and adventurer, who discovered...
The Struggle for Free Speech in the United States, 1872-1915
Edward Bliss Foote, Edward Bond Foote, and Anti-Comstock Operations
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
Passed in 1873, the Comstock Act banned 'obscene' materials from the mail without defining obscenity, leaving it open to interpretation by courts that were hostile to free speech. Literature that reflected changing attitudes toward sexuality, religion, and social institutions fell victim to the Comstock...
The Fear of Breathing: Stories from the Syrian Revolution
Stories from the Syrian Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
As thousands have been tortured, jailed, maimed or killed by the Syrian regime, The Fear of Breathing is not only a new play based entirely on verbatim reports from inside Syria itself, but is also a hard-hitting evocation of a life or death fight for freedom, experienced from the inside. To uncover...
The Structural Approach to Direct Practice in Social Work
A Social Constructionist Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2006
This classic text introduces students to the structural approach of social work practice, which assumes that many clients' problems arise from harmful social forces. By focusing on the construction of such realities as poverty, racism, and domestic violence, the structural approach counters the focus...
Lolita in Peyton Place
Highbrow, Middlebrow, and LowBrow Novels of the 1950s
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Transforming Campus Culture
Frank Aydelotte's Honors Experiment at Swarthmore College
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
At a time in American history when football ruled the American campus and fraternities dominated student life, Frank Aydelotte, through his determination to specialize exclusively in initiating an Honors program of study, accomplished a feat virtually unknown in American higher education. That is,...
Domestic Violence and Protecting Children
New Thinking and Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2015
In this volume, the authors present an overview of the innovative work taking place in relation to domestic violence and child protection.
This book looks at new prevention initiatives and how interventions for children exposed to domestic violence have been developed. It shows how services...
by Ruth Kedzie Wood
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2016
...The hereditary principalities of Flanders, Hainaut, Artois, Namur, Brabant, Limburg, Antwerp and Malines were established in the Middle Ages. The geographical divisions of these feudal states, with the Prince-Bishopric of Liège, were subjected to little change throughout succeeding centuries,...
Good Practice in Assessing Risk
Current Knowledge, Issues and Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
Maintaining a balance between managing and assessing risk and upholding the required high standards of practice in health and social care can be demanding, particularly in the current climate of increased preoccupation with the difficult tensions between rights, protection and risk-taking.
Good...
Teaching Secrets
The Technology in Social Work Education
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Teachers and student teachers in social work will gain valuable insight into the artistry that makes truly great teaching from the accounts found in this new book. Master teachers examine the processes they use in the classroom and present them in a format that facilitates the practical application...
by Christin Thomas, Sabrina Schuh, Ney Sceatcher
Language: German
Release Date: December 10, 2018
Language: German
Release Date: December 10, 2018
Zwölf zauberhafte Kurzgeschichten bringen euch in winterliche Welten, die so vielfältig sind wie die Schneeflocken am Himmel. Findet euer ganz eigenes Winterwunder, trefft auf mythische Geschöpfe und erlebt magische Abenteuer. Schließt mit uns unwahrscheinliche Freundschaften und begegnet im Winter...