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  • Freiwillige Kinderlosigkeit. Gesellschaftliche Sicht Freiwillige Kinderlosigkeit. Gesellschaftliche Sicht
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    Freiwillige Kinderlosigkeit. Gesellschaftliche Sicht

    Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2019 im Fachbereich Soziale Arbeit / Sozialarbeit, Note: 2,0, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Arbeit befasst sich mit der gewollten Kinderlosigkeit in Deutschland, sowohl gegenwärtig als auch der letzten Jahre. In diesem...
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  • Medienpädagogik. Medienprojekt Medienpädagogik. Medienprojekt
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    Medienpädagogik. Medienprojekt

    Projektarbeit aus dem Jahr 2019 im Fachbereich Soziale Arbeit / Sozialarbeit, Note: 1,3, DIPLOMA Fachhochschule Nordhessen; Abt. Leipzig, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Eine Welt ohne Smartphone ist für viele Menschen unvorstellbar geworden. In fast allen...
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  • Manufacturing Threats Manufacturing Threats
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    Manufacturing Threats

    Canadian police provocateurs are as old as Canada itself...Manufacturing Threats tells the story of police provocateurs going back to the time of Canadian Confederation. Whether against communism or the FLQ, the Black Liberation Movement or the Muslim...
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  • Playing Cops and Other Stories that I Tell, Fairly Well Playing Cops and Other Stories that I Tell, Fairly Well
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    Playing Cops and Other Stories that I Tell, Fairly Well

    In the 1960's the Andy Griffith Show was a great hit. It followed the lives of a small-town sheriff and his family and friends. The show presented the soft side of a sheriff's life. It was funny, charitable, and gentle. The author of Playing Cops grew up...
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    The Conley Boys of Montana

    The three Conley boys, Jack, Jim and Frank were sons of an Irish immigrant family, raised along the banks of the Susquehanna River in Maryland. After the death of their father when Frank was but 18 months old, the family relocated to Carroll, Iowa.During...
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  • Throwing Stones in a Glass House Throwing Stones in a Glass House
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    Throwing Stones in a Glass House

    This is the story of Liam FitzGerald, who as a young man in the late-1960's, more or less stumbled into the exciting and often hazardous life of an avalanche worker. His attraction to this line of work led him to Little Cottonwood Canyon, in Utah's...
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  • All This I Saw, and Part of It I Was All This I Saw, and Part of It I Was
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    All This I Saw, and Part of It I Was

    John Suthers' memoir offers the reader his personal story with an insightful account of a public service career that balances what is right and what is necessary.Born out of wedlock and adopted as an infant, he lost his adoptive parents at a young age...
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  • Amalya's Beads Amalya's Beads
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    Amalya's Beads

    I watch from between slats in the wall of our house, shamelessly spying, yet I stare, breathless, and can't turn away. I sear this image into my brain-this moment, so special and beautiful. And so entirely ordinary. -Journal, August 21,...
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  • Mountain Lion Rises Mountain Lion Rises
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    Mountain Lion Rises

    Mountain Lion Rises is a memoir of grief and family tragedy due to the death of a child. The author struggles to recover from serious injury while parenting a challenging, traumatized adopted child. Both her husband and adoptive son were killed in the...
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  • A Kind of Mending A Kind of Mending
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    A Kind of Mending

    With their rich traditions of conflict resolution and peacemaking, the Pacific Islands provide a fertile environment for developing new approaches to crime and conflict. Interactions between formal justice systems and informal methods of dispute...
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  • The Centrelink Experiment The Centrelink Experiment
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    The Centrelink Experiment

    Centrelink was established in 1997 as part of the Howard government's bold experiment in re-framing social policy and re-shaping service delivery. Centrelink was the embodiment of a key tenet of the Howard vision for public service: a specialised service...
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  • The Indigenous Welfare Economy and the CDEP Scheme The Indigenous Welfare Economy and the CDEP Scheme
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    The Indigenous Welfare Economy and the CDEP Scheme

    In recent debates about the Indigenous welfare economy, the Community Development Employment Projects (CDEP) scheme has not been given the attention it deserves. It represents a major adaptation of the Australian welfare system to the particular social...
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  • Mental Health Work In The Community Mental Health Work In The Community
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    Mental Health Work In The Community

    A presentation of a comparative analysis of the work of mental health social workers and community psychiatric nurses, an issue of importance because of "community care" and also important as much of their work territory overlaps. The findings are more...
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  • THE FILTH THE FILTH
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    THE FILTH

    Duncan MacLaughlin was an elite officer at London's New Scotland Yard. The best of the best.In this explosive book, he breaks the code of silence among senior detectives and undercover agents to reveal the brutal, stark truth of life on the front-line of...
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  • Fire Wife Fire Wife
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    Fire Wife

    Practical and positive, empathetic and empowered, Fire Wife provides solid solutions for those who need answers to the unique challenges fire couples face. When Tara's husband told her he wanted to be a firefighter, she worried about the uncommon...
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  • Feed the Hungry Feed the Hungry
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    Feed the Hungry

    The number of people in the world who suffer from lack of nutrition or food as a result of poverty is constantly increasing. This book will guide the reader from the very beginning of creating a food program to the moment the food is placed in front of...
    $37.00

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  • Doing Critical Social Work Doing Critical Social Work
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    Doing Critical Social Work

    Critical social work encourages emancipatory personal and social change. This text focuses on the challenge of incorporating critical theory into the practice of social workers and provides case studies and insights from a range of fields to illustrate...
    $97.00

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  • Older People, Ageing and Social Work Older People, Ageing and Social Work
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    Older People, Ageing and Social Work

    'Essential reading for practitioners, educators and researchers within the general field of social work with older people.' - From the foreword by Mark Lymbery, Associate Professor of Social Work, University of NottinghamThe reality of our ageing...
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  • Housing Humans Housing Humans
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    Housing Humans

    An Urgent Call-to-ActionEugene E. Jones, Jr. has the formula, passion and expertise to revamp and strengthen our nation's housing policy and unequal access to affordable housing. The author is an experienced housing practitioner who has successfully led...
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  • Since I Lost My Baby Since I Lost My Baby
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    Since I Lost My Baby

    When what you believe turns out to be a lie, how far will you go for the truth?"Just go home and pretend it never happened," is the advice given to 17-year-old Selimah as she departs a Los Angeles home for unwed mothers where she's been...
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  • Successful Journey Through Foster Care Successful Journey Through Foster Care
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    Successful Journey Through Foster Care

    Over 20 years ago a vision was seen. A mission began. That journey today is to bring peace, joy, love, and light into the lives of millions. Terry Azzouz has worked as a therapist within the foster care system. She has worked with countless children,...
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  • The Never-Ending Joys of Parenting The Never-Ending Joys of Parenting
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    The Never-Ending Joys of Parenting

    Get a behind-the-scenes glimpse into Jim and June McConnell's adoption and foster parenting journey-the joys, sorrows, challenges, and everything in between. When Jim and his wife, June, decided to become foster parents, they had no idea of the journey...
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  • Finding Home, Hope, and a Future Finding Home, Hope, and a Future
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    Finding Home, Hope, and a Future

    Finding Home, Hope, and a Future: Achieving Integrated Social Services at Harbor Care tells the story of a trail blazing nonprofit in Nashua, New Hampshire. Originally named Harbor Homes, in July 1982 the newly incorporated organization began work in its...
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    Twisted But True

    Retired Phoenix Police Sergeant Darren Burch captivates you on another wild police ride-along with outrageously macabre and compelling stories from his thirty-year career as a rookie cop, sex crime detective, and night detective sergeant in the Phoenix...
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  • Help! I'm a Foster Parent Help! I'm a Foster Parent
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    Help! I'm a Foster Parent

    Foster families are unsung heroes, willing to stand on the front lines for children who can't stand up for themselves. But fostering can also be a lonely journey as friends and family members pull away from the fear of the unknown. We all have a job to...
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  • S.O.L.E Survivor S.O.L.E Survivor
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    S.O.L.E Survivor

    This is a real-life account of a cancer journey through the eyes of a police officer. It is no secret that law enforcement officers view the world through different eyes than general society because they are shaped by an environment of hypervigilance and...
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  • Love has no Borders Love has no Borders
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    Love has no Borders

    Love Has No Borders is a nonfiction account of forty years of work with refugees and immigrants who have come to the United States to begin a new life.One can hear the desperation of many as they have crossed the desk of a social worker. Immigrants from...
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  • HISTORY OF THE OKLAHOMA STATE PENITENTIARY RODEO HISTORY OF THE OKLAHOMA STATE PENITENTIARY RODEO
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    HISTORY OF THE OKLAHOMA STATE PENITENTIARY RODEO

    The History of the Oklahoma State Penitentiary Rodeo contains historic illustrations of rodeo events beginningat the inception in 1940, led by Warden Jess F. Dunn. The rodeo was advertised as the largest rodeo behindprison walls. The book contains...
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  • The Riot of '73 Oklahoma State Penitentiary The Riot of '73 Oklahoma State Penitentiary
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    The Riot of '73 Oklahoma State Penitentiary

    On Friday, July 27, 1973, two records were set that day.The temperature climbed to 96 degrees, the hottest day recorded that year, and a riot at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary became the worst prison riot in U.S. history. Read the true accounts: four...
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  • Care of the Aged Care of the Aged
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    Care of the Aged

    In virtually all the developed countries of the Western world, people are living longer and reproducing less. At the same time, costs for the care of the elderly and infirm continue to rise dramatically. Given these facts, it...
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    I Wore It With Pride

    This book is my true story. A story of a child born to an unemployed Puerto Rican musician and a feisty Puerto Rican woman who migrated to New York City in her early twenties (1946) from a small town in Puerto Rico called Fajardo. Dad was born in New...
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