Social Welfare & Social Services
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Placed at Risk by the System: The Educational Vulnerability of Children & Youth in Foster Care
Nova Science Publishers IncCurrent price €88.19Original price €97.99The book''''s premise is that not only do children and youth in foster care comprise a population very much at risk for school failure but also tha...
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Too Hurt to Stay: The True Story of a Troubled Boys Desperate Search for a Loving Home
Casey WatsonCurrent price €13.59Original price €15.99The fourth title from Sunday Times bestselling author Casey Watson. Eight-year-old Spencer takes himself to social services and demands t...
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Rehoming of Adopted Children: Addressing Unregulated Custody Transfers
Nova Science Publishers IncCurrent price €85.55Original price €91.99Parents have the legal responsibility to protect and care for their children. However, recent media reports have illuminated a practice involving u...
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Please Dont Take My Baby
Cathy GlassCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99Im going to love my baby and give her lots of attention, Jade said. Ill show my mum shes wrong. Jade, 17, is pregnant, homeless and alone...
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The Intercountry Adoption Debate: Dialogues Across Disciplines
Cambridge Scholars PublishingCurrent price €82.64Original price €86.99Meaningful discussion about intercountry adoption (the adoption of a child from one country by a family from another country) necessitates an under...
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Love and Mayhem: One Big Family''s Uplifting Story of Fostering and Adoption
John DeGarmoCurrent price €18.69Original price €21.99Many people say being a parent is the toughest job there is. John DeGarmo, foster and adoptive parent, tells us just how tough it can be, having pa...
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A Stolen Childhood: A dark past, a terrible secret, a girl without a future
Casey WatsonCurrent price €14.88Original price €17.50Bestselling author and teacher Casey Watson shares the horrifying true story of Kiera Bentley, a 12-year-old girl with a deeply shocking secret she...
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Imtiaz Sooliman and the Gift of the Givers: A mercy to all
Shafiq MortonCurrent price €30.59Original price €33.99Imtiaz Sooliman, a medical doctor practising in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, visited a Shaikh in Istanbul in 1992. The Sufi teacher gave him a m...
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Welfare Reform and Social Investment Policy in Europe and East Asia: International Lessons and Policy Implications
Bristol University PressCurrent price €84.59Original price €93.99Social investment policies have enjoyed prominence during recent welfare reforms across the OECD world, and yet there is insufficient long-term str...
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Social Security Benefits: Calculation, Taxation, Offsets & the Special Minimum
Nova Science Publishers IncCurrent price €88.19Original price €97.99With $812 billion in benefit outlays in 2013, Social Security is the largest program in the federal budget. It provides monthly cash benefits to re...
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Key Issues Facing Medicaid
Nova Science Publishers IncCurrent price €147.59Original price €163.99The Medicaid program marked its 50th anniversary on July 30, 2015. The joint federal-state program has grown to be one of the largest sources of he...
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Temporary Assistance for Needy Families: Provisions & Policy Options
Nova Science Publishers IncCurrent price €88.19Original price €97.99The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant helps states fund, among other benefits and services, cash assistance for needy fami...
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Social Security: Background, Issues & Proposals
Nova Science Publishers IncCurrent price €141.29Original price €156.99The Social Security program pays benefits to retired and disabled workers and their family members, and to family members of deceased workers. The ...
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Social Security Programs and Retirement around the World: Disability Insurance Programs and Retirement
David A. WiseCurrent price €124.99Original price €138.88Even as life expectancy in many countries has continued to increase, social security and similar government programs can provide strong incentives ...
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Implementing Innovative Social Investment: Strategic Lessons from Europe
Bristol University PressCurrent price €31.61Original price €33.99Introduction and conclusion available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. The turn towards a Social Investment approach to welfare implies deployin...
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SADC - The Southern Arrested Development Community?: Enduring Challenges to Peace and Security in Southern Africa
Michael AebyCurrent price €20.01Original price €21.99Current price €20.01Original price €21.99Save 9% -
Pandora''s Dilemma: Theories of Social Welfare for the 21st Century
David StoeszCurrent price €55.35Original price €61.50What are the challenges facing social welfare in America? Theories of stakeholders, the policy process, electoral politics, the precariat, child we...
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Understanding Social Security: Issues for Policy and Practice
Bristol University PressCurrent price €34.37Original price €39.50The political and economic landscape of UK social security provision has changed significantly since the 2008 financial crisis. This fully revised,...
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The Crisis of Democracy: In the Advanced Industrial Economies
Robert CorfeCurrent price €16.28Original price €18.50Problems confronting the financial-industrial system, or the ills of the casino economy, have never been more urgent than they are today. This is b...
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Informal Healthcare in Contemporary Russia: Sociographic Essays on the Post-Soviet Infrastructure for Alternative Healing Practices
Yulia KrasheninnikovaCurrent price €35.99Original price €39.99This volume deals with one of the most understudied aspects of everyday life in Russian society. Its main heroes are the providers of goods and ser...
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Getting Tough: Welfare and Imprisonment in 1970s America
Julilly Kohler-HausmannCurrent price €47.69Original price €52.99The politics and policies that led to America's expansion of the penal system and reduction of welfare programs In 1970s America, politicians bega...
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Bread for All: The Origins of the Welfare State
Chris RenwickCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50SHORTLISTED FOR THE LONGMAN-HISTORY TODAY PRIZE 2018LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2018 'Makes a gripping human story out of the wisest and most p...
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The New Structural Social Work: Ideology, Theory, and Practice
Bob MullalyCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99The New Structural Social Work presents a coherent and consistent theory of progressive social work. With oppression as its central focus, the text...
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Social Security Sense: A guide to claiming benefits for those age 60-70
Dana AnspachCurrent price €13.27Original price €15.99Current price €13.27Original price €15.99Save 17% -
Social Security Benefits for Spouses & Survivors: Elements, Considerations & Adjustments
Nova Science Publishers IncCurrent price €159.29Original price €176.99Social Security auxiliary benefits were established in 1939 when Congress extended benefits to the dependents and survivors of workers covered by S...
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Medicare: A Primer
Nova Science Publishers IncCurrent price €88.19Original price €97.99Congress continues to register concern about the rapid rise in Medicare spending and the ability of existing funding mechanisms to support the prog...
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The Undeserving Poor: America''s Enduring Confrontation with Poverty: Fully Updated and Revised
Michael B. KatzCurrent price €32.85Original price €36.50First published in 1989, The Undeserving Poor was a critically acclaimed and enormously influential account of America's enduring debate about pove...
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Housing Policy and the Dynamics of Housing Delivery in Nigeria: Lagos State as Case Study
Lanre Towry-CokerCurrent price €18.39Original price €19.99Current price €18.39Original price €19.99Save 8% -
Adoption Records & Postadoption Contact Agreements: State Statutes
Nova Science Publishers IncCurrent price €167.39Original price €185.99In nearly all States, adoption records are sealed and withheld from public inspection after an adoption is finalised. This book discusses state law...
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What Every Manager Should Know About Safeguarding Children - A Handbook
Reg PengellyCurrent price €16.14Original price €16.99Reg Pengelly has gained considerable experience of managing arrangements to safeguard children in both the police service and the NHS. This short ...
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Social Security''s Special Minimum Benefit Provision
Nova Science Publishers IncCurrent price €71.24Original price €74.99This book provides an overview of the current Social Security special minimum benefit provision workings; explains how the Retirement Earnings Test...
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International Social Security: Agreements & Select Retirement Comparisons
Nova Science Publishers IncCurrent price €141.29Original price €156.99International Social Security agreements are bilateral agreements primarily intended to eliminate dual Social Security taxation based on the same w...
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Social Security 101: From Medicare to Spousal Benefits, an Essential Primer on Government Retirement Aid
Alfred MillCurrent price €14.53Original price €17.50Learn about Social Security and plan for your future with the help of this comprehensive and accessible guide to everything you need to know about ...
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Discours Prononcé À l''Assemblée Générale Constitutive Du 10 Novembre 1918
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Identity, Democracy and Sustainability: Facing Up To Convergent Social, Economic And Environmental Challenges
Janet McIntyre-MillsCurrent price €43.56Original price €49.50Current price €43.56Original price €49.50Save 12% -
Down and out: Poverty and exclusion in Australia
Peter SaundersCurrent price €27.89Original price €30.99This landmark study provides the first comprehensive assessment of the nature and associations between the three main forms of social disadvantage ...
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Les Asiles de Laforce (Dordogne): La Famille Évangélique
John BostCurrent price €16.63Original price €17.50Current price €16.63Original price €17.50Save 5% -
Ma Justification, Dédiée Au Président de la République Française, Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte
Abbe PoujalCurrent price €15.19Original price €15.99Current price €15.19Original price €15.99Save 5% -
The House on Union Hill: The Story of Truro Union Workhouse
Lin EudenCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99Current price €14.44Original price €16.99Save 15% -
Gheel, Ou Une Colonie d''Aliénés Vivant En Famille Et En Liberté: Étude Sur Le Meilleur Mode d''Assistance Et de Traitement Dans Les Maladies Mentales
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The Welfare State We''re In
James BartholomewCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99Winner of the Institute of Economic Affairs' Arthur Seldon Award and the Atlas Foundation's Sir Antony Fisher Memorial Award The welfare state is ...
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Unleashed: What Destroys Democracy is Unmanaged Democracy
Mehran VajdiCurrent price €17.02Original price €18.50Current price €17.02Original price €18.50Save 8% -
Intimate Partner Violence Among Adolescents: Causes and Correlates
Valerie a ClarkCurrent price €47.83Original price €51.99Current price €47.83Original price €51.99Save 8% -
Benefit Scroungers: Life with chronic illness or disability in modern Britain
Stef BensteadCurrent price €14.71Original price €15.99Current price €14.71Original price €15.99Save 8% -
Why I Watch People Die: And Other Futile Explanations
Barry GrahamCurrent price €14.93Original price €17.99Current price €14.93Original price €17.99Save 17%