Social Welfare & Social Services

An engaging and enlightening account of taxation told through lively, dramatic, and sometimes ludicrous stories drawn from around the world and acr...

Slow and delay the symptoms of Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia, from memory loss to disorientation, with this practical activity bo...

Occurrences of disasters are becoming more frequent and serious. Other than natural disasters, humanity is faced with new challenges of city fires,...

It is common for adoptive families to need support and services after adoption. Postadoption services can help families with a wide range of issues...

Bethlem Hospital is the oldest mental institution in the world, to many famously known as Bedlam: a chaotic madhouse that brutalised its patients. ...

The only book to focus on implementing public policy, this state-of-the-art text offers a comprehensive and lively account of the major insights fo...

A moving, cross-national account of working mothers daily livesand the revolution in public policy and culture needed to improve themThe work-famil...

This innovative book is a theoretical, reflexive and critical overview of the key issues connected to aging in contemporary society. The book explo...

With the failure of market reform to generate sustained growth in many countries of the Global South, poverty reduction has become an urgent moral ...

Todays workplace is fast-paced, highly complex, and sometimes even life-threatening. Yet it is possible to thrive in the pressure cooker of modern ...