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  • Cruel Death, Heartless Aftermath
    Barbara Mancini
    Ninety-three-year-old Joseph Yourshaw knew his end was near and had carefully planned so that he would have a peaceful and dignified death. He completed an advance directive, appointed his daughter, Barbara Mancini, as his health care proxy, and enrolled in home hospice care. He made it clear -- he wanted to die at home, in comfort and with dignity, not at a hospital. But it wa...
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    14,68 €

  • When Darkness Reigns
    Wanda Covington
    Inevitably, dark times will wreak havoc in each person’s life without immunity. Struggles and hardships can become overwhelming and debilitating. Among those struggles lie the indelible effects of loss and death. Such tragedies and circumstances can leave one with a feeling of hopelessness. Sadly, loss can be a commonplace experience in the life of a caregiver.Caregiving is a c...
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    14,39 €

  • Bring It On Home
    Kait Nolan
    'That girl who got knocked up in high school.”Maggie Reynolds went all the way to Los Angeles to escape that label, but she hears the whispers every time she comes home to Eden's Ridge, Tennessee. She's been burning the candle at both ends for the last twelve years, trying to make something of her herself, trying to give people something else to say about her.Porter Ing...
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    11,53 €

  • Supervision for Mental Health Care
    Maureen Anderson / Paul Cassedy
    Supervision has been a major component of initial training and an important element for professional development in the very wide field of mental healthcare. Part of the Foundation of Mental Health Practice series, this new book guides the student through the supervision process and enables them to get the most out of it and improve their practice. ...
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    48,96 €

  • Searching for Mom
    Sara Easterly
    Searching for Mom is a “disarmingly honest” mother-daughter story. Sara Easterly spent a lifetime looking for the perfect mother. As an adoptee she had difficulties attaching to her mother, struggled with her faith, lived the effects of intergenerational wounding, and felt an inherent sense of being unwanted that drove her to perfectionism, suicidal ideations, and fantasy mothe...
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    12,27 €

  • Long-Awaited Child
    Kellie Harriden
    Long-Awaited Child is the true story of Kellie Harriden, an Australian woman who travelled across continents to beat the odds in order to fulfil her quest to be a mother.As Kellie and her partner, Ian, excitedly prepared to start a family, they battled one obstacle after another, determined to become the proud parents of their long-awaited child.After the heartbreak of being un...
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    16,24 €

  • Being With Dementia
    Miekka Zanders
    Individuals with dementia demonstrate presence every day, and they ask us to enter their world; they ask us to connect with them. Through my personal journey, I have learned that true connection is about giving our complete attention to the person sitting next to us. It's about being present—with our spouse or partner, children, friends, coworkers and even our pets. It take...
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    12,69 €

  • Effective Child Protection
    Eileen Munro
    This is the essential guide to strengthening analytic and intuitive reasoning skills in order to improve children’s safety. ...
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    181,94 €

  • Effective Child Protection
    Eileen Munro
    This is the essential guide to strengthening analytic and intuitive reasoning skills in order to improve children’s safety. ...
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    63,40 €

  • SCREEN-OBSESSED
    May Oo Lwin / Wonsun Shin / WONSUN SHIN & MAY OO LWIN
    Screen-obsessed: Parenting in the Digital Age is the first book solely focusing on parental supervision of children's media use. This book distills important information regarding how parents can effectively guide their offspring living in the multimedia environment. This book discusses an extensive range of theories, issues, and subjects of parental mediation. Readers will...
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    58,38 €

  • YOU BELONG HERE
    Willie Moore Jr.
    Have you ever wondered what the perfect adoption story looked like?Adopted by two ex-sharecroppers Willie Moore Jr. shares seven stories of his adoption experience that will make you laugh, cry and erase any negative stigma about adoption. This remarkable adoption story inspires adoptees and foster children to love and respect their new families and adjust with a winning attitu...
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    11,35 €

  • Foster Care and Me
    Judith A.M. Denton
    Please let me introduce you to Judith AM Denton. Placed in Foster Care at the age of 9, growing up through the system, Judith experienced exclusions from School and College, a run in with the Law, and then as a Care Leaver, she experienced a period of poor Mental Health.But thankfully her story doesn’t end there…. 3 ...
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    14,36 €

  • Putting Government in Its Place
    David R. Riemer / David RRiemer
    Putting Government In Its Place: The Case for a New Deal 3.0 tells the story of the House that FDR Built. Responding to the Great Depression, President Franklin Roosevelt and his New Deal team—most prominently, Frances Perkins and Harry Hopkins—created four new clusters of domestic  policy. Those policy clusters—(1) broad-based  economic security guarantees, (2) means-tested we...
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    33,56 €

  • Fortunate Son
    Brooks Eason
    Julie Francis was a beautiful, wealthy socialite from Tulsa with a golden future. But during the fall semester of her freshman year of college, she learned she was pregnant. She was only 17.Paul and Margaret Eason were a middle-class couple from Tupelo, Mississippi, who couldn't have children of their own. They had previously adopted a daughter, but they desperately wanted ...
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    33,74 €

  • Fortunate Son
    Brooks Eason
    Julie Francis was a beautiful, wealthy socialite from Tulsa with a golden future. But during the fall semester of her freshman year of college, she learned she was pregnant. She was only 17.Paul and Margaret Eason were a middle-class couple from Tupelo, Mississippi, who couldn't have children of their own. They had previously adopted a daughter, but they desperately wanted ...
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    15,93 €

  • Social Action and Self-Directed Groupwork
    Authors give attention to the theory and practice of social action and self-directed groupwork. These papers present a range of perspectives and experiences to provide a vivid account of social action as a values‑based approach committed to social justice and empowerment. In addition, they contain a wealth of ideas and practices, a detailed resource which we hope will inspire a...
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    44,01 €

  • Tread the City’s Streets Again
    Donn Mitchell
    Tread the City’s Streets Again is the first book to explore the theology and vocation of Frances Perkins, the settlement house worker who went on to lift millions of Americans out of poverty through the creation of the Social Security system. From the slums of Chicago to the brothels of Philadelphia; from the tenements of New York to the halls of power in Albany and Washington,...
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    13,35 €

  • Managing Evaluations
    CGG
    The Centre for Good Governance (CGG) was established in 2001 by the state government in collaboration with the Department for International Development (DFID), UK to achieve the State’s goal of Transforming Governance. The Chief Minister of the Telangana State is Chairman of Board of Governors of CGG and works with functional and financial independence. CGG undertakes action re...
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    37,97 €

  • The Book on Ending Homelessness
    Iain De Jong
    The Book on Ending Homelessness provides insights for those in the industry, elected officials, policy makers, funders, public servants and the general public on the best ways to move from managing homelessness to ending homelessness. While ending homelessness may seem to be a whacky or even preposterous idea, Iain De Jong takes more than two decades of experience as an award w...
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    46,11 €

  • The Book on Ending Homelessness
    Iain De Jong
    The Book on Ending Homelessness provides insights for those in the industry, elected officials, policy makers, funders, public servants and the general public on the best ways to move from managing homelessness to ending homelessness. While ending homelessness may seem to be a whacky or even preposterous idea, Iain De Jong takes more than two decades of experience as an award w...
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    38,83 €

  • Unfinished Business
    Theresa W. Bennett-Wilkes
    Unfinished Business: A Celebration of Black Life, Love, and Institutional Memory explores the lives and interactions of a blended African-American family confronted with the re-emergence of a biological parent driven by previously suppressed needs which have unexpectedly come full circle. The parent has an agenda which ultimately destroys relationships and wreaks havoc in her l...
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    34,59 €

  • The Strength of Eggshells
    Kirsty Powell
    She’s six feet tall and handles a motorbike like a professional. But Kate has insecurities that match her height and she ignores the past by pushing her fingers firmly into her ears. Who is her mother and why did she abandon her? What became of her grandmother who travelled up the Whanganui River on a paddle steamer to an ill-fated valley, beyond the Bridge to Nowhere? And who ...
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    13,56 €

  • Social Justice Advocacy 101
    HowExpert / Selys Rivera
    People have been advocating and standing up for social justice issues throughout history. From one social movement to the next, from one influential person to another, we as an American society are constantly attempting to progress towards a better tomorrow.If you’ve ever found yourself passionate or upset about any or all of the issues and causes going on in the United States,...
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    36,89 €

  • Building Strong Communities
    Steve Skinner
    Building Strong Communities is an introductory textbook that contains practical tools, down-to-earth frameworks and useful methods, a valuable resource for working with communities. A key focus of the book is on empowering the grass roots - building people, groups, organisations, partnerships and networks. In particular, it describes how strong communities might look with seven...
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    47,37 €

  • What's the Deal With Retirement Planning for Women
    Marcia Mantell
    Women are completely comfortable talking about many “M-word” topics: their marriages, motherhood and their mothers; merlots and martinis; mammograms and menopause. But bring up money and the conversations screech to a halt. In this thought-provoking, but non-traditional, fun approach to planning for a woman’s retirement, Marcia Mantell guides women through the ten key question...
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    10,84 €

  • MacBook Air (Retina) with macOS Catalina For Seniors
    Scott La Counte
    NOTE: This book is based off of 'MacOS Catalina: Getting Started with MacOS 10.15 for Macbooks and iMacs' and contains additional content on the MacBook Air specs and accessibility features.MacBook Air is an amazing and powerful computer…if you know how to use it. For many people—a large percentage of people—the MacBook Air will be their first MacOS computer. This guide is inte...
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    14,66 €

  • Mental Health and Wellbeing
    Charles Watters
    Mental Health and Wellbeing is a timely new book that explores these increasingly important subjects from an intercultural perspective. This is essential reading for anyone studying or working in mental health at this time of unprecedented levels of human migration and when mutual understanding of diverse cultural perspectives is of vital importance. ...
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    51,63 €

  • iPadOS For Seniors
    Scott La Counte
    iPadOS can help you be more productive than ever...if you know how to use it! The iPad has been around for several years, but that doesn't make it any easier to use. It doesn't help that every year there are changes and features added to it.This book walks you through what you need to know step-by-step--including how navigation works now that the Home button is...
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    13,87 €

  • The Care Act 2014
    Takes students through a step-by-step approach into the Care Act 2014 by bringing key legislation into the focus of social work law. ...
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    138,01 €

  • The Care Act 2014
    Takes students through a step-by-step approach into the Care Act 2014 by bringing key legislation into the focus of social work law. ...
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    48,30 €