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The English legal system in the area of social work with children and families can be bewildering and complex and it is vital therefore that any textbook on the subject uses case law, case studies and research to critically-engage social workers and students alike. ...
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Domestic violence affects all areas of social work. This book shows how social workers can intervene in everyday practice with victims, their families and perpetrators of domestic abuse. It provides students with knowledge of theory, research and policy to put directly...
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This book offers an extensive and detailed look at the geographies of Canada, one of the largest countries in the world. The contributors consider subjects such as energy, resources, the rise of communications and the knowledge infrastructure, and the ever-expanding...
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The Second Edition of Qualitative Research provides a refreshing introduction to doing and debating qualitative research.The author uses updated content, ranging from photographs to novels and newspaper stories, to demonstrate how getting to grips with qualitative...
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Queer Impact and Practices brings together chapters arising from the third annual Queering Paradigms conference.Queer Theory is still evolving and extending the range of its enquiry. It maps out new territories via radical contestations of the categories of gender and...
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The work of «editing» is by and large something that happens behind the scenes, noticed only when it is done badly, or not done at all. There is not much information about what editors do.The result is that editing is not often talked about in its own right – not even...
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Heimat- und Identitätslosigkeit – diese Themen beschäftigen Schriftsteller, die ihr Geburtsland verlassen haben, seit jeher. Manche Autoren nehmen eine passive, resignierte Haltung gegenüber der Unmöglichkeit eines Ankommens im neuen Land ein, andere beharren auf der...
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The area of 19th-century German travel writing on Ireland has received widespread scholarly attention over the years in treatises in both English and German, but these efforts were directed largely at fellow-scholars and formed part of an academic discourse on travel,...
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Over the last 250 years, the global capitalist system has been responsible for rapid economic growth and technological change. The consequent increase in production of an ever-changing and expanding range of products and services has lifted hundreds of millions of...
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It is hard to find another two concepts which would be more significant in the European integration discourse than «democracy» and «solidarity» and at the same time more ambiguous in the political practice of integration. Currently European integration discourse is...
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Social exclusion is one of the most significant problems facing individuals with mental illness in contemporary Ireland. In the era of the growing secular medical-industrial complex and its alienating effects, it is important to strengthen confidence in mental health...
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This book investigates the social construction and reconstruction of Tokunbo meanings and how these impact on the second-hand economy in Nigeria. Qualitative data were collected at Abeokuta, Ibadan and Lagos in Nigeria and at Cotonou in Benin Republic. The research...
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Mit der Arbeit wird in Form einer integrativen geschichtswissenschaftlichen Darstellung erstmals eine interdisziplinäre Studie vorgelegt, in der versucht wird, den Stand der Forschung über die Herkunft der Kurden durch Erkenntnisse der Evolutionären Anthropologie,...
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Many students and qualified workers in all areas of social work feel apprehension at the prospect of writing a formal report for a court or tribunal. Writing may be a fundamental skill, but it is one that students and practitioners cannot afford to take for granted....
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Die ambivalente Spiegelsymbolik, ein integraler Bestandteil der feministischen Reflexion, taucht auch konstant in Prosatexten zeitgenössischer österreichischer Autorinnen auf. Einerseits versinnbildlicht der Spiegel ein mehrdimensionales Gefängnis für das weibliche...
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This volume explores the connection between two phenomena usually thought to be utterly incongruous, even antithetical: ‘utopia’ and ‘everyday life’. It presents a series of essays, written over the last twenty years, which rethink the nature and prospects of utopianism...
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This book aims to contribute to the debate on European cultural policy and cultural diplomacy as well as to fill in the gap that exists in this under-researched field. Europe is still struggling in formulating its common cultural policy that will present Europe as a...
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Die gewerbsmäßige Überlassung von Arbeitnehmern ist eine volkswirtschaftlich bedeutende Branche, die in den letzten zwei Jahrzehnten stetig gewachsen und sehr heterogen ist.Die Qualität dieser Dienstleistung zu messen und sicherzustellen, dass eine gewünschte Qualität...
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Sind Geben und Schenken immer reziproke Handlungen oder gibt es das «Ideal» der Gabe und worin liegt es? Die Arbeit zeigt anhand einer Literaturstudie den klassischen wie aktuellen Diskurs um das Geben und Schenken unter Einbezug der historischen, soziologischen,...
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The formation of new countries after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European block necessarily brings about an increased awareness of national identity and has given rise to more urgent attempts to define national literary and cultural facts. Among the...
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