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  • 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

  • Zdravje na barikadah

    Dileme promocije zdravja

    by Tanja Kamin ...
    Series series Knjižna zbirka Psihologija vsakdanjega življenja
    Avtorica proučuje temeljne mehanizme promocije zdravja nasploh inposebej v Sloveniji. Razpravlja o diskurzu javnega zdravstva, odnosih močiv njem, identitetah, ki jih določa, družbenih vlogah, problemih in njihovihmožnih rešitvah, odgovornosti za identificiranje javno zdravstvenihproblemov ter za reševanje problemov zdravja. Množične medije izpostavikot osrednji prostor razširjanja in ... Read more

    $1.34 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

  • Social Work, Social Justice, and Human Rights

    A Structural Approach to Practice, Second Edition

    by Colleen Lundy ...
    Social workers take pride in their commitment to social and economic justice, peace, and human rights, and in their responses to related inequalities and social problems. At a time when economic globalization, armed conflict, and ecological devastation continue to undermine human rights and the possibilities for social justice, the need for linking a structural analysis to social work practice is ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • Myths and Lies about Dads

    How They Hurt Us All

    by Linda Nielsen ...
    Myths and Lies About Dads: How They Hurt Us All is a groundbreaking book that destroys more than 100 of the most damaging beliefs about fathers. Using the most recent research, this pioneering work exposes these baseless beliefs and the toll they take on children’s relationships with their fathers, parents’ relationships with one another, and the physical and mental health of fathers and mothers ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • The SAGE Handbook of Coaching

    The SAGE Handbook of Coaching presents a comprehensive, global view of the discipline, identifying the current issues and practices, as well as mapping out where the discipline is going.The Handbook is organized into six thematic sections:Part One: Positioning Coaching as a DisciplinePart Two: Coaching as a ProcessPart Three: Common Issues in CoachingPart Four: Coaching in ContextsPart Five: ... Read more

    $109.99 USD

  • Love and Loss

    The Roots of Grief and its Complications

    Loving and grieving are two sides of the same coin: we cannot have one without risking the other. Only by understanding the nature and pattern of loving can we begin to understand the problems of grieving. Conversely, the loss of a loved person can teach us much about the nature of love.Love and Loss, the result of a lifetime's work, has important implications for the study of attachment and ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Challenging Conceptions

    Children Born of Wartime Rape and Sexual Exploitation

    by Dipali Anumol ...
    Governments, international organizations, and international laws and courts increasingly pay attention to conflict-related sexual violence. The core of the UN Women Peace and Security Agenda is stopping conflict-related sexual violence against women. Yet, with over two decades of grappling with conflict-related sexual violence and its legacies, there is only passing mention of the potential and ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Treating Trauma in Trans People

    An Intersectional, Phase-Based Approach

    by Reese Minshew ...
    Treating Trauma in Trans People brings together key concepts from both gender-affirming treatment and trauma-focused care, with interventions focused on resolving physiological, intrapsychic, and interpersonal disruptions. Symptoms related to trauma and stress manifest in bodies, psyches, and interpersonal interactions. Gender, too, is impacted by bodies, psyches, and interpersonal interactions. ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • 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

  • A Thousand Naked Strangers

    A Paramedic's Wild Ride to the Edge and Back

    by Kevin Hazzard ...
    A former paramedic’s "thrilling, captivating" (Booklist), and mordantly funny account of a decade spent as a first responder in Atlanta saving lives and connecting with the drama and occasional beauty that lies inside catastrophe.In the aftermath of 9/11 Kevin Hazzard felt that something was missing from his life—his days were too safe, too routine. A failed salesman turned local reporter, he ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea

    One Refugee's Incredible Story of Love, Loss, and Survival

    "Urgently required reading." —People"Deeply affecting... Fleming brings a moral urgency to the narrative." —The New Yorker"Fleming deftly illustrates the pain of those who choose to leave Syria...and her book is ultimately a story of hope." —NewsweekThe stunning story of a young woman, an international crisis, and the triumph of the human spirit.Adrift in a frigid se... ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Queen

    The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth

    by Josh Levin ...
    Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in BiographyIn this critically acclaimed true crime tale of "welfare queen" Linda Taylor, a Slate editor reveals a "wild, only-in-America story" of political manipulation and murder (Attica Locke, Edgar Award-winning author).On the South Side of Chicago in 1974, Linda Taylor reported a phony burglary, concocting a lie about stolen furs and jewelry. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • 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

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  • Voces de Chernóbil

    Crónica del futuro

    La escritora bielorrusa Premio Nobel de Literatura 2015 da voz a aquellas personas que sobrevivieron al desastre de Chernóbil y que fueron silenciadas y olvidadas por su propio gobierno. Este libro les da la oportunidad de contar su historia.Chernóbil, 1986. «Cierra las ventanillas y acuéstate. Hay un incendio en la central. Vendré pronto.» Esto fue lo último que un joven bombero dijo a su esposa ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • 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

  • When Generations Collide

    Who They Are. Why They Clash. How to Solve the Generational Puzzle at Work

    If your workplace feels like a battle zone and colleagues sometimes act like adversaries, you ore not alone. Today four generations glare at one another across the conference table, and the potential for conflict and confusion has never been greater.Traditionalist employees with their "heads down, onward and upward" attitude live out a work ethic shaped during the Great Depression.Eighty million ... Read more

    $7.99 USD $1.99 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

  • Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors

    Overcoming Internal Self-Alienation

    by Janina Fisher ...
    Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors integrates a neurobiologically informed understanding of trauma, dissociation, and attachment with a practical approach to treatment, all communicated in straightforward language accessible to both client and therapist. Readers will be exposed to a model that emphasizes "resolution"—a transformation in the relationship to one’s self, replacing ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • The Big Necessity

    The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters

    by Rose George ...
    "One smart book . . . delving deep into the history and implications of a daily act that dare not speak its name." —NewsweekAcclaimed as "extraordinary" (The New York Times) and "a classic" (Los Angeles Times), The Big Necessity is on its way to removing the taboo on bodily waste—something common to all and as natural as breathing. We prefer not to talk about it, but we should—even those of us who ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Just Food

    Where Locavores Get It Wrong and How We Can Truly Eat Responsibly

    We suffer today from food anxiety, bombarded as we are with confusing messages about how to eat an ethical diet. Should we eat locally? Is organic really better for the environment? Can genetically modified foods be good for you?Just Food does for fresh food what Fast Food Nation did for fast food, challenging conventional views, and cutting through layers of myth and misinformation. For instance, ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Cómo recuperar a tu pareja

    Guía práctica para reconquistar a tu ex

    En este libro descubrirás cómo volver con tu ex sin perder tu cabeza ni tu dignidad en el intento.Además encontrarás información y ejemplos reales de personas que vivieron situaciones similares, lo cual te permitirá conseguir esa oportunidad que tanto necesitas para hacer las cosas bien.Con la información de estas páginas aprenderás lo que debes hacer en esos primeros días después de romper con tu ... Read more

    $2.07 USD