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  • DOUBLE GENEALOGY
    Marilee Wein
    Surprise adoptee, Grandfather was a coal picker in Scotland, at 29, and Chief Inspector of Mines for British Columbia, at 43. He had shared his date and place of birth, or so, it seemed. This genealogy embraces late 18th to early 20th Century, Scotland, with US implications. His family is lovingly presented in “who done it”, under evaluation, as his potential birth parents. His...
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    20,57 €

  • Close to Forever
    Victoria D. Loggins / Victoria DLoggins
    Alexis had known since she was a young girl that if she wanted something she would have to work for it.  Not born with a silver spoon in her mouth, she knew the road to success and having it all would be a challenging and sometimes difficult path to take.  What Alexis didn't see coming was Oliver, the man who would take her heart almost from the second she met him.  Almost ...
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    21,13 €

  • ALL ABOUT ILYAS
    APRIL MARTIN
    I wonder what it would feel like to meet your family – your parents, siblings, aunts and uncles for the first time in the middle of your childhood? At a time when making friends, and being accepted is anxiety ridden and tenuous. What if you were damaged, fragile and angry? What if this was your last chance to be part of a family before being sent permanently to a group home for...
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    20,01 €

  • Caregiving 101
    Dave Leffmann
    This personal yet clinically relevant guide stands out as a must read for anyone faced with caregiving. These pages, penned from the heart and soul of a physical therapist turned caregiver, offers simple yet well thought through and medically accurate essays, external links, even video, to help you with most everything you will face on your journey. The links are written out so...
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    21,47 €

  • Lasting Touch
    Jean-François Pinsonnault
    For nearly ten years Jean-François visited his widowed and unwell mother every other week, to ensure her comfort. Regularly, he invited her to come and live with him. Each time Lise, his mother, kindly refused saying she was not ready. One spring day, she called and asked: “Is the offer still good?” Not long after that life changing conversation began a journey of joy, challeng...
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    17,48 €

  • None Call Me Dad
    Ky Owen
    None Call Me Dad is the true, mesmerizing story of a 21st Century dad. On two weeks notice, Ky Owen becomes an adoptive father to a six-year-old son. Five years later, on two days notice, he becomes a father to a teenage daughter. Along the way he assumes the role of father figure to four other kids. “None call me dad,” Owen writes, “But they know that’s who I am.” Intriguing ...
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    11,12 €

  • Surviving Mother
    Gwen Head
    Just as Deb and her mother Estelle are learning how to mesh their individual lives together, nature’s destructive hand comes down, leaving them to wait for a new hope, and help from unexpected others.  In SURVIVING MOTHER Gwen Head has written a story of life struggles, tragedy, and getting one’s life back together to move forward. Written with the caregivers of the world in ...
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    11,15 €

  • Gabrielle’s Gift
    Lerone Landis
    The premise of Gabrielle’s Gift is a simple one - a child’s wish for a very special birthday gift. It is a gift that that nearly every kid will ask for at some point in their childhood, the gift of a pet! This everyday typical scenario is coupled with an atypical family dynamic in which Gabrielle’s parents are two dads. The unique family is never explicitly mentioned. The visu...
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    19,65 €

  • ABC, Adoption & Me
    Casey Anne Swift / Gayle H. Swift
    A book about adoption that celebrates the miracle of family and addresses the difficult issues as well. With charming, exuberant illustrations and a diverse representation of families, ABC, Adoption & Me will warm hearts, deepen understanding of what it means to be an adoptive family and provide teaching moments that bring families closer, connected in truth, compassion, and jo...
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    10,16 €

  • A Life Let Go
    Patricia J Florin
    Closed adoption, heralded as the answer to the problem of unplanned pregnancy, shows its other side in A Life Let Go, A Memoir and Five Birth Mother Stories of Closed Adoption. These women tell how they experienced unplanned pregnancy in the restrictiveness of the last decades of the twentieth century. All gave up a child in closed adoption—the only option—understanding they wo...
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    10,55 €

  • The House by the Marsh
    William Blyghton
    One morning just before lunch, Caroline stopped breathing. Bereft and alone, a small madness fell upon William. Fleeing to his flat in London, he locked himself away and grew a beard. Some months later, whilst reluctantly attending a dinner party, William saw her, and felt that perhaps Providence had plans for him after all. Jennifer, however, saw things differently.Then, quite...
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    14,22 €

  • Scattered
    Jana Panarites
    In November 2009 Jana Panarites was scrambling to make ends meet in LA, despite a lifetime of working hard and having recently earned a master’s degree from the University of Southern California. Her career spiraling out of control, she didn’t think life could get any worse until she learned of her father’s sudden death two days before Thanksgiving.She flew east for the funeral...
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    12,36 €

  • Chicken and Hen
    Aefa Mulholland
    In the heartwarming and heartbreaking 'Chicken and Hen,' Aefa Mulholland recounts the story of her family's adoption of a tiny, talkative three-year-old from the other side of town, from his first words to her to his final goodbye. ...
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    4,90 €

  • Forjando historias, tejiendo comunidad - LatAm
    Elibeth López Villar
    A inicios de los 80 un grupo de más de seiscientas familias de escasos recursos se reunieron alrededor del proyecto semiilegal de vivienda Centro de Inquilinos #4en Villavicencio (Barrio Las Américas), proyecto liderado por los comunistas colombianos desde la Central Nacional de Vivienda CENAPROV y por lo tanto blanco de la lucha anticomunista adelantada a escala mundial. Este ...
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    19,71 €

  • En Busca De La Felicidad
    Victor Perez Velasco
    A veces, la vida nos empuja a soltar el pasado para poder respirar.Un soldador, marcado por las perdidas y las dudas, emprende un viaje que no sale en los mapas. A lo largo de su viaje, descubrirá que la verdadera libertad nace del valor de mirar dentro.En un pequeño pueblo al sur de Cantabria, encontrará: amistad, nuevos comienzos y inesperado vinculo con la comunidad. Pero ta...
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    17,63 €

  • The Everyday Politics of Food Co-ops
    Celia Plender
    National politics has a significant impact on organizing and accessing community welfare. This book engages with notions of everyday politics within two London-based food co-ops emerging from different political environments and ideologies. It provides a careful and engaging examination of the experiences of political and economic change in Austerity Britain, revealing how nati...
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    184,35 €

  • Cuidando Do Idoso Em Casa
    Gustavo Rangel
    Com uma reflexão pessoal inicial, este guia sensível aborda os múltiplos aspectos do envelhecimento, explorando desde a pré-senescência até a senilidade e as necessidades específicas dessa fase. Um ponto central é a inversão de papéis, discutindo perda de autonomia, vulnerabilidade e abalo na autoestima, ressaltando a importância da empatia, respeito e apoio familiar e social p...
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    21,32 €

  • Estudante-trabalhador E A Socialização Profissional
    Daniel Machado Da Conceição
    A pesquisa pretendeu compreender a contradição inerente à condição do estudante-trabalhador – mais especificamente, o jovem trabalhador em regime de contrato especial com base na Lei 10.097/2000, conhecida como a Lei da Aprendizagem. As contradições intrínsecas ao objeto se apresentam como uma problemática que deve ser identificada e analisada, pois, se por um lado, a autonomia...
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    20,75 €

  • Reimagining Development in Southeast Asia
    This volume consolidates chapters from across Southeast Asia as a means of discussing alternative development pathways. It presents radical re-imaginings of how development might look, considered alongside the growing disillusionment over mainstream development models. In suggesting alternative models of development, it reframes participatory processes from the developing world...
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    209,04 €

  • A Importância Do Serviço Social Para A Missiologia
    Gustavo Maders De Oliveira
    A missão primária da igreja é a evangelização do mundo, cumprindo oIdede Marcos 16:15. Pregar o evangelho da graça a quem tem fome ou outras necessidades emergentes não é eficaz, conforme sustentou Tiago em sua epístola, no capítulo 2, versículos 15 a 18, onde expõe que a fé sem obras é morta. Este livro faz um diálogo entre a Missiologia e o Serviço Social, aproximando as duas...
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    16,59 €

  • The Rise and Fall of the Privatized Pension System in Chile
    Andrés Solimano
    ’The Rise and Fall of the Privatized Pension System in Chile’ analyses the Chilean experience with a privatised pension system and examines its impact on pension levels for the ageing population, differences in benefits across different groups, impact on local capital markets, savings redistribution to big corporations and foreign countries, and high profit rates for pension fu...
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    50,66 €

  • A Caminho Do Lar
    Mirela Cristina Leite Mothé
    Em À Caminho do Lar, acompanhamos a jornada de um menino que, ao lado dos (agora) pais, embarca em uma viagem cheia de descobertas, cores e sons. Ao observar o mundo pela janela do carro, ele encontra tratores brincalhões, aviões que cortam o céu e barcos que cruzam mares — uma aventura repleta de encantamento e esperança. Mais do que um simples trajeto, essa é uma viagem rumo ...
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    7,80 €

  • Fostering Changes®
    Caroline Bengo / Karen Bachmann / Kathy Blackeby
    In Deutschland leben etwa 90.000 Kinder und Jugendliche in Pflegefamilien. Viele dieser Kinder und Jugendlichen weisen psychische Störungen, erhebliche Verhaltensauffälligkeiten oder körperliche Einschränkungen auf. Hierdurch können Pflegeeltern schnell an ihre emotionalen und erzieherischen Grenzen kommen; dies führt oft zu einem Abbruch der Platzierung. Ein 'Fostering Changes...
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    75,24 €

  • ’Hilfe wäre es, wenn es mir was bringt’
    Franziska Schneider
    Dieses Buch bietet einerseits Handlungsempfehlungen zur Verbesserung der Situation drogenkonsumierender Inhaftierter und des Allgemeinen Vollzugsdienstes und andererseits einen Zukunftsausblick für zukünftige Haftanstalten, mit diesem Themenbereich besser umgehen zu können.  Das Spannungsfeld zwischen Strafe und Hilfe resultiert aus der Diskrepanz zwischen der strikten Vorgabe,...
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    116,10 €

  • Broken Homes
    Joanna C. (Joanna Carver) Colcord
    'Broken Homes: A Study of Family Desertion and its Social Treatment,' by Joanna C. Colcord, offers a powerful examination of desertion and non-support and its devastating impact on families. This important work delves into the complex social issues surrounding family desertion, divorce, and abandonment. Through detailed observation, Colcord sheds light on the challenges faced b...
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    33,87 €

  • Broken Homes
    Joanna C. (Joanna Carver) Colcord
    'Broken Homes: A Study of Family Desertion and its Social Treatment,' by Joanna C. Colcord, offers a powerful examination of desertion and non-support and its devastating impact on families. This important work delves into the complex social issues surrounding family desertion, divorce, and abandonment. Through detailed observation, Colcord sheds light on the challenges faced b...
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    20,21 €

  • Jukes-Edwards
    Albert E. (Albert Edward) Winship
    'Jukes-Edwards: A Study in Education and Heredity' by A. E. Winship explores the profound influence of heredity and environment on family lineage. This foundational work in social science examines the Edwards family, offering a detailed exploration of their history as a case study in social reform and the burgeoning field of eugenics.Delving into family studies, Winship investi...
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    17,17 €

  • Report of the Juvenile Delinquency Committee
    R. M. (Ronald Macmillan) Algie
    'Report of the Juvenile Delinquency Committee,' authored by Ronald Macmillan Algie, presents a vital historical examination of juvenile delinquency in New Zealand. This meticulous republication offers readers a crucial insight into the social issues surrounding youth crime and child welfare during the period. The report delves into the causes and consequences of juvenile offend...
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    15,69 €

  • Advancing Global Social Work
    Rajendra Baikady
    This book provides a machine-generated overview of social work across the globe, providing an in-depth understanding on social work education, practice and research. It shows the latest developments in social work, curriculum, pedagogy, practice, research and clinical social work. Each chapter is organized by the book editor with a human-written introduction. In a time when the...
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    232,25 €

  • Global Social Work
    Rajendra Baikady
    This book is a product of human-machine collaboration in social work and is a premier in global social work education and practice. Each chapter is organized by the book editor with a human-written introduction. Chapters focus on contemporary issues, providing an updated, comprehensive and in-depth understanding of the latest developments in the field of social work, including ...
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    219,19 €


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