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  • Ten Days in a Mad-House

    by Nellie Bly ...
    A courageous female journalist’s classic exposé of the horrific treatment of the mentally ill in nineteenth-century AmericaIn 1887, Nellie Bly accepted an assignment from publisher Joseph Pulitzer of the New York World and went undercover at the lunatic asylum on Blackwell Island, America’s first municipal mental hospital. Calling herself “Nellie Brown,” she was able to convince policemen, a judge ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Social Work Values and Ethics

    For decades, teachers and practitioners have turned to Frederic G. Reamer’s Social Work Values and Ethics as the leading introduction to ethical decision making, dilemmas, and professional conduct in practice. A case-driven, concise, and comprehensive textbook for undergraduate and graduate social work programs, this book surveys the most critical issues for social work practitioners.The fifth ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • EVALUACIÓN DEL DESEMPEÑO DOCENTE

    Expediente de Evidencias de Enseñanza

    Esta obra le ayudará a presentar con éxito la "Etapa 2. Expediente de Evidencias de Enseñanza", de la "Evaluación del Desempeño Docente". Contiene:- UN EJEMPLO de un texto de análisis de las evidencias.- Enunciados guía para la elaboración del texto de análisis de las evidencias.- Etapas de la Evaluación del Desempeño Docente.- Aspectos a evaluar en el Expediente de Evidencias de Enseñanza.- Tipos ... Read more

    Free

  • Team Human

    **Porchlight’s Management and Workplace Culture Book of The Year“[A] thoroughly fascinating exploration of the long interplay between power and the technologies of communication.” —Adam Frank, NPR**Team Human is a manifesto—a fiery distillation of preeminent digital theorist Douglas Rushkoff’s most urgent thoughts on civilization and human nature. In one hundred lean and incisive statements, he ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Garbage Bag Suitcase

    A Memoir

    Garbage Bag Suitcase is the true story of Shenandoah Chefalo’s wholly dysfunctional journey through a childhood with neglectful, drug-and alcohol addicted parents. She endured numerous moves in the middle of the night with just minutes to pack, multiple changes in schools, hunger, cruelty, and loneliness. Finally at the age of 13, Shen had had enough.After being abandoned by her mother for months ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Marriage and Lasting Relationships with Asperger's Syndrome (Autism Spectrum Disorder)

    Successful Strategies for Couples or Counselors

    by Eva A. Mendes ...
    Proven counseling strategies that will help improve the relationships of married, long-term or co-habiting couples with Asperger's Syndrome (Autism Spectrum Disorder).ASD relationship expert Eva A. Mendes provides advice straight from the couples' counselling room that can be applied in day-to-day living and help with the challenges that can arise in relationships where one or both partners are on ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • To the End of June

    The Intimate Life of American Foster Care

    by Cris Beam ...
    A New York Times Notable Book that “casts a searing eye on the labyrinth that is the American foster care system” (NPR’s On Point).Who are the children of foster care? What, as a country, do we owe them? Cris Beam, a foster mother herself, spent five years immersed in the world of foster care looking into these questions and tracing firsthand stories. The result is To the End of June, an ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Teeth

    The Story of Beauty, Inequality, and the Struggle for Oral Health in America

    by Mary Otto ...
    A debut in the tradition of Mary Roach by a prize-winning journalist: Mary Otto is the leading U.S. journalist covering oral health and dentistry, has won major industry awards, and is the recipient of national fellowships to support her work.Opportunities: Dental care access burst onto the scene following the passage of ACA (Obamacare), yet no book has covered the problem. Minnesota, Washington, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Capitalism and Disability

    Selected Writings by Marta Russell

    by Marta Russell ...
    Spread out over many years and many different publications, the late author and activist Marta Russell wrote a number of groundbreaking and insightful essays on the nature of disability and oppression under capitalism. In this volume, Russell’s various essays are brought together in one place in order to provide a useful and expansive resource to those interested in better understanding the ways ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Lifting the Veil of Secrets in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

    Saudi Arabia is an ancient culture as old as time itself, yet filled with all the modern conveniences that money provides. Restless and looking for something new and exciting, two nurses traveled to this ancient kingdom to ply their skills and practice close personal contact—along with modern medical care—with people for whom slavery, buying wives, and female subjugation is just a way of life ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Community Organizing and Community Building for Health and Social Equity, 4th edition

    The fourth edition of Community Organizing and Community Building for Health and Social Equity provides both classic and recent contributions to the field, with a special accent on how these approaches can contribute to health and social equity. The 23 chapters offer conceptual frameworks, skill- building and case studies in areas like coalition building, organizing by and with women of color, ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Without Contention: the Plight of Homeless Veterans

    by David Lefavor ...
    Downrange in America - Snapshots of Homeless VeteransAll across America, on any given night about 68,000 former American service men and women are on the streets without a place to call home. Many of these people that we see on the street corners once proudly wore the uniform of our nation’s military. These are brave men and women who have served their country, and have fallen on difficult times. ... Read more

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  • What Men with Asperger Syndrome Want to Know About Women, Dating and Relationships

    by Maxine Aston ...
    Positive, practical and realistic, this book offers a wealth of information on women, dating and relationships for men with Asperger Syndrome (AS).Many AS men are totally confused and bewildered by women and relationships and find it hard to know what to do, what to say and how to get it right. For these men, understanding the emotional side to relationships and women's needs can be a complete ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Social Work Interview

    Fifth Edition

    The only textbook to outline the skills social workers need to conduct effective client interviews, this volume synthesizes recent research on interviewing and demonstrates its value in unique settings and with a variety of clients and issues. Connecting evidence-based approaches to the quality of practitioner-client relationships and the achievement of different objectives at each phase of the ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Supporting Transgender Autistic Youth and Adults

    A Guide for Professionals and Families

    Providing advice on how professionals working with autistic trans youth and adults can tailor their practice to best serve their clients and how parents can support their trans autistic children, this book increases awareness of the large overlap between trans identities and autism.By including chapters on gender diversity basics, neuroqueer trauma and how to support neuroqueer individuals, this ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • The Gambling Disorder Treatment Handbook

    A Guide for Mental Health Professionals

    This handbook provides mental health professionals with a thorough understanding of the biopsychosocial nature of disordered gambling and shares current evidence-based theories, interventions and strategies to use in clinical practice.It provides guidance for working with individuals of any age and covers different gambling modes, activities and subtypes, including new forms of gambling through ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Moment of Truth

    The Nature of Catastrophes and How to Prepare for Them

    “Miami Beach Devastated by Monster Category 5 Hurricane”“Times Square Incinerated by Homemade Nuclear Bomb”“Magnitude 9.0 Earthquake Reduces Downtown Seattle to Rubble”These aren’t actual headlines—but they could be. Even though they sound like next summer’s blockbuster movies, each of these worst-case scenarios is a real threat—a threat for which America is hugely underprepared. But it doesn’t ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Trauma-Informed Treatment: The Restorative Approach

    Author Patricia Wilcox has written the essential guide to trauma-informed care with at-risk youth. Wilcox provides a foundational understanding of trauma’s impact on the developing brain, then details its implications for treatment, the promotion of pro-social behaviors, and improving the culture among clients and staff. Incorporating the key concepts of compassionate understanding, validation, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Aspergers in Love

    by Maxine Aston ...
    Asperger syndrome (AS) has often been considered to be incompatible with love and relationships, but as the number of people who are diagnosed with the disorder increases, it is becoming apparent that people with AS can and do have full and intimate relationships. Comparing and contrasting both AS and non-AS partners' viewpoints, this book frankly examines the fundamental aspects of relationships ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Administrative Burden

    Policymaking by Other Means

    Winner of the 2020 Outstanding Book Award Presented by the Public and Nonprofit Section of the National Academy of ManagementWinner of the 2019 Louis Brownlow Book Award from the National Academy of Public AdministrationBureaucracy, confusing paperwork, and complex regulations—or what public policy scholars Pamela Herd and Donald Moynihan call administrative burdens—often introduce delay and ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Asperger Syndrome (Autism Spectrum Disorder) and Long-Term Relationships

    Fully Revised and Updated with DSM-5® Criteria Second Edition

    Happily married to her husband with Asperger Syndrome for 25 years, Ashley Stanford is an expert on how Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) can affect a relationship and her bestselling book has helped thousands of couples.Brought fully up to date, this second edition clarifies the new DSM-5 diagnostic criteria and explains how, without a solid awareness of the condition, ASD behaviors can easily be ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • In Living Color

    An Intercultural Approach to Pastoral Care and Counseling Second Edition

    Series series Practical Theology
    The meaning of pastoral care in modern multicultural societies is challenged and reexamined from a pluralistic, global perspective in this book. Emmanuel Lartey stresses the importance of recognizing different cultural influences on individuals in order to effectively counsel, guide and empower them. He provides a clear and concise history of pastoral care and considers its relationship to ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Summary of The New Jim Crow

    by Michelle Alexander | Includes Analysis

    Summary of The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander | Includes AnalysisPreview:The New Jim Crow argues that the ongoing “War on Drugs” and the resulting mass incarceration of African Americans is the moral equivalent of Jim Crow.Beginning in the seventeenth century, institutions emerged in colonial America that contributed to the creation of a racial caste system. America’s current racial caste ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Critical Suicidology

    Transforming Suicide Research and Prevention for the 21st Century

    Globally, suicides account for a significant number of premature deaths every year. Traditional approaches to suicide research and prevention are not working for everyone, but why is this? And what can be done about it?In Critical Suicidology, a team of international scholars, practitioners, and people directly affected by suicide argue that the field of suicidology has become too focused on the ... Read more

    $29.99 USD