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  • Extending Canadian Health Insurance

    Options for Pharmacare and Denticare

    by R.G. Evans, M.F. Williamson ...
    Series series Heritage
    This study explores the policy options a provincial government might consider in extending health care coverage to the purchase of prescription drugs and dental care. It examines the major public policy objectives involved, such as spreading risk, redistributing wealth, and reducing the barriers to care, and evaluates alternative programs in terms of their costs and efficiency as well as their ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Post-Modernism and the Social Sciences

    Insights, Inroads, and Intrusions

    by Pauline Marie Rosenau ...
    Post-modernism offers a revolutionary approach to the study of society: in questioning the validity of modern science and the notion of objective knowledge, this movement discards history, rejects humanism, and resists any truth claims. In this comprehensive assessment of post-modernism, Pauline Rosenau traces its origins in the humanities and describes how its key concepts are today being applied ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Social Development

    The Developmental Perspective in Social Welfare

    by James O. Midgley ...
    The social development approach seeks to integrate economic and social policies within a dynamic development process in order to achieve social welfare objectives. This first comprehensive textbook on the subject demonstrates that social development offers critically significant insights for the developed as well as the developing world.James Midgley describes the social development approach, ... Read more

    $81.99 USD

  • The Color of Welfare

    How Racism Undermined the War on Poverty

    by Jill Quadagno ...
    Thirty years after Lyndon Johnson declared a War on Poverty, the United States still lags behind most Western democracies in national welfare systems, lacking such basic programs as national health insurance and child care support. Some critics have explained the failure of social programs by citing our tradition of individual freedom and libertarian values, while others point to weaknesses within ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Welfare States in Transition

    National Adaptations in Global Economies

    Edited by Gosta Esping-Andersen ...
    This wide-ranging comparative analysis of contemporary and future changes in welfare states looks at the different trajectories of the welfare states of Europe, North America, the Antipodes, and the emerging scenarios in Latin America, East Asia and Central and Eastern Europe.Leading experts on each of these regions examine the current structures of social protection, consider the causes of the ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • The New Paternalism

    Supervisory Approaches to Poverty

    Edited by Lawrence M. Mead ...
    If government tells dependent people how to live today, will we have a more self-reliant society tomorrow? That's the critical question as government increasingly seeks to supervise the lives of poor citizens who are dependent on it, often in return for supporting them. This trend is most visible in welfare policy, where "welfare reform" largely means attempts to require adults receiving ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • In Defense of Single-Parent Families

    by Nancy E Dowd ...
    An expert in family law and policy presents a thought-provoking examination of the stereotypes, realities, and possibilities of single-parent families.Single-parent families succeed. Within these families children thrive, develop, and grow, just as they do in a variety of family structures. Tragically, they must do so in the face of powerful legal and social stigma that works to undermine them. As ... Read more

    $21.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Adoption Experience

    Families Who Give Children a Second Chance

    by Ann Morris ...
    This is a book of real life stories of adopters which takes the reader through every stage of the adoption process starting with the moment when they decide that adoption is the right option for them to the stories of adoptees brought up by adoptive parents.In between, the book looks at all the different types of adoption that are carried out by all sorts of families from all sorts of children of ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Women, Policy and Politics

    The Construction of Policy Problems

    by Carol Lee Bacchi ...
    This book offers a powerful new approach to policy studies. Drawing on recent perspectives from social constructionism, discourse analysis, the sociology of social problems and feminism, Carol Bacchi develops a step-by-step analytical tool for deconstructing policy problems. Her `What′s the Problem?′ approach encourages students to reflect critically upon the ways in which policy problems get ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Child Abuse

    Implications for Child Development and Psychopathology

    by David A. Wolfe ...
    Series series Developmental Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry
    "Everyone knows that child abuse is morally wrong. David A. Wolfe goes beyond this to explore how and why it affects the development of children. This is the story professionals need to know to plan their helping strategy." —James Garbarino, Ph.D.Co-Director, Family Life Development Center, Cornell UniversityChild Abuse, Second Edition is devoted to a topic of major social and clinical ... Read more

    $105.99 USD

  • Next Steps in Parenting the Child Who Hurts

    Tykes and Teens

    by Caroline Archer ...
    Written by an experienced adoptive parent, this clear, sensitive and practical handbook is designed to encourage and support adoptive and long-term foster parents, their children and adolescents. An adopted child may well have suffered abuse, neglect or inconsistent parenting in the past; he or she will certainly have experienced painful separations and losses. These early traumatic experiences, ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Sweet Charity?

    Emergency Food and the End of Entitlement

    by Janet Poppendieck ...
    In this era of eroding commitment to government sponsored welfare programs, voluntarism and private charity have become the popular, optimistic solutions to poverty and hunger. The resurgence of charity has to be a good thing, doesn't it? No, says sociologist Janet Poppendieck, not when stopgap charitable efforts replace consistent public policy, and poverty continues to grow.In Sweet Charity?, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • First Steps in Parenting the Child who Hurts

    Tiddlers and Toddlers Second Edition

    by Caroline Archer ...
    `This excellent book looks at the attachment and development of very young children in the fostering and adoption situation. It deals sensitively and practically with the young child's "hurts" to help adopters and foster carers understand and cope with the many traumas they may experience in integrating a young child into their family. Caroline Archer is a real adoptive parent speaking from ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Social Work Practices

    Contemporary Perspectives on Change

    by Karen Healy ...
    `Karen Healy has written a very interesting and worthwhile book that explores the relevance and significance of postmodern theory to social work. It provides a well-argued account of recent developments in social work theory… However, it is not simply an account of theory, as considerable effort goes into making links between the theory and its implications for practice. …[I]t offers a sound ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • After Welfare

    The Culture of Postindustrial Social Policy

    by Sanford F. Schram ...
    Do contemporary welfare policies reflect the realities of the economy and the needs of those in need of public assistance, or are they based on outdated and idealized notions of work and family life? Are we are moving from a "war on poverty" to a "war against the poor?" In this critique of American social welfare policy, Sanford F. Schram explores the cultural anxieties over the putatively ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Changing Politics of Canadian Social Policy

    by Michael J. Prince, James J. Rice ...
    No one is content with the state of health and social programs in Canada today. The Right thinks that there is too much government involvement, and the Left thinks there is not enough. In Changing Politics of Canadian Social Policy James Rice and Michael Prince track the history of the welfare state from its establishment in the 1940s, through its development in the mid 1970s, to the period of ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Alternatives to Exclusion from School

    by Pamela Munn, Gwynedd Lloyd, Mairi Ann Cullen ...
    `... an excellent volume, one which should become essential reading for students of education, especially those at the start of their careers. Incidentally, not only is the book concise; unusually for a jointly-authored book it is also hard to see the joins; it really does read well′ - Scottish Affairs`An interesting comparison of pairs of schools which differed in the extent to which they ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Surviving Post-Natal Depression

    At Home, No One Hears You Scream

    by Cara Aiken ...
    Research indicates that at least one in ten new mothers experience post-natal depression, yet there is little help available to sufferers. Cara Aiken's book will help them, and the professionals who work with them, to understand this illness. The book tells the stories of ten women from very different backgrounds - including the author - who have suffered post-natal depression. Their stories, told ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Childhood Experiences of Domestic Violence

    by Caroline McGee ...
    Based on the first-hand accounts of children and their mothers regarding their experiences of both domestic violence and support services, this is the first book to examine children's experiences of a range of service provision in response to domestic violence. It seeks to encourage a more effective and professional approach in the services that aim to support and protect children, highlighting ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Compassionate Conservatism

    What It Is, What It Does, and How It Can Transform America

    by Marvin Olasky ...
    Compassionate conservatism is a new political force in the land, sweeping the grassroots of people of all faiths, races, and ethnicities. In its parts it offers solutions to many of our most intractable problems; in its whole it is nothing less than an innovative philosophy of government. No author is more qualified to explain its power and promise than Marvin Olasky, described by The New York ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Welfare State as Piggy Bank

    Information, Risk, Uncertainty, and the Role of the State

    by Nicholas Barr ...
    Of the many functions of the welfare state, two are particularly prominent: the 'Robin Hood' function - the provision of poverty relief, the redistribution of income and wealth, and the reduction of social exclusion; and the 'piggy bank' function - ensuring mechanisms for insurance and for redistribution over the life cycle. The piggy-bank function, unlike the redistributive purpose of the welfare ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

  • Starving in the Shadow of Plenty

    by Ellen Levine, Loretta Schwartz-Nobel ...
    President Ronald Reagans chief advisor on domestic affairs announced in December 1980 that poverty has been virtually wiped out in the United States and the systems of government aid have been a brilliant success. Now, Starving in the Shadow of Plenty lays bare the horrifying truth. For the first time since Robert Kennedy traveled the muddy back roads of Mississippi and the war on poverty rose and ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • John Stuart Mill on Liberty and Control

    by Joseph Hamburger ...
    John Stuart Mill is one of the hallowed figures of the liberal tradition, revered for his defense of liberal principles and expansive personal liberty. By examining Mill's arguments in On Liberty in light of his other writings, however, Joseph Hamburger reveals a Mill very different from the "saint of rationalism" so central to liberal thought. He shows that Mill, far from being an advocate of a ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Caring for the Disabled Elderly

    Who Will Pay?

    by Joshua M. Wiener, Alice M. Rivlin, Mary Beth Celio ...
    Caring for the Disabled Elderly analyzes the major options for reforming the way long-term care is financed. It first explores the potential market for private long-term care insurance and other private sector initiatives. Then it turns to the advantages and disadvantages of various public sector programs. The study recommends both a greatly expanded role for the private sector in financing long ... Read more

    $24.99 USD