Social Services & Welfare Books


Social Work: A Profession of Many Faces This best-selling text continues to offer a comprehensive introduction to the field of social...	Counseling: Theory and Practice (4th Edition) Best Price: $59.99 I really liked how fast it shipped. I would def. buy from this user again.	Early Intervention Services for Infants, Toddlers, and Their Families Best Price: $59.98 B> This book combines a firm theoretical/philosophical orientation to both normal and...	Introduction to Human Services, An: Policy and Practice Best Price: $42.00 This is one of the leading texts in the introductory human services market. It is comprehensive...	Evaluation for Social Workers: A Quality Improvement Approach for the Social Services Best Price: $39.87



"So You Think I Drive a Cadillac?": Welfare Recipients' Perspectives on the System and Its Reform Best Price: $8.99 Finally, a book that discusses the subject of poverty, welfare dependency and our economic...	Procedures in Marriage and Family Therapy (3rd Edition) Best Price: $29.99 For grad students and others who are feeling a lack of learning practical, "how...	Microskills and Theoretical Foundations for Professional Helpers Best Price: $56.23 If the book were focusing on therapist skills to a larger extent, wouldn't it be called...	Ethical Leadership in Human Services: A Multi-Dimensional Approach Best Price: $59.97 Book was in good shape with no writting in it. It came in about one week which is fairly fast....	Diversity Perspectives for Social Work Practice Best Price: $49.99 This book examines the prevailing theoretical frameworks for viewing diversity in social work...



Choices: Counseling Skills for Social Workers and Other Professionals Best Price: $72.00 This reader-friendly practice text emphasizes intelligent decision-making in the use of...	Human Biology for Social Workers Best Price: $60.15 Human Biology for Social Workers nicely fits CSWE's mandate to include biological content in...	Family Therapy: A Systemic Integration (6th Edition) Best Price: $80.00 I felt that I learned a lot from this book. My problem with books like this is that they are...	Policy Practice for Social Workers: New Strategies for a New Era Best Price: $67.57 I bought this book for my SW Policy class, for which I need access to Pearson's [...]. This...	Understanding Social Welfare: A Search for Social Justice (7th Edition) Best Price: $40.00 Arrived really quickly, just in time for school. As to the content -- its very informative,...

Exploring Child Welfare: A Practice Perspective (Fourth Edition) Best Price: $17.50 This book is an excellent resource for the care of the child who is being abused or neglected...	Social Work: An Empowering Profession (6th Edition) Best Price: $17.00 Well, this is my major (Social Work) so I really needed this book within the first week of...	Generalist Social Work Practice: An Empowering Approach (5th Edition) Best Price: $14.00 Very informative, but would have been great to have a code for the online services.	American Social Welfare Policy: A Pluralist Approach with Research Navigator (5th Edition) Best Price: $34.00 This book has been a great help in my Social Work Class. It has covered everything that I have...	AIDS in the UK: The Making of Policy, 1981-1994 Best Price: $43.42 Berridges 'AIDS in the UK' is a thorough chronicle of political responses to the AIDS...

HIV and AIDS Testing, Screening, and Confidentiality (Issues in Biomedical Ethics) Best Price: $22.99 Testing and screening for HIV and AIDS give rise to ethical, legal, and social issues of the...	Sexed Work: Gender, Race, and Resistance in a Brooklyn Drug Market (Clarendon Studies in Criminology) Best Price: $42.51 In my research on drugs and sex work (prostitution to the politically incorrect) I have found...	Poverty and Undernutrition: Theory, Measurement, and Policy (Wider Studies in Development Economics) Best Price: $209.00 Almost 1 billion people suffer from undernutrition in developing countries. In this book,...	World Disasters Report 1998 Best Price: $45.99 Focusing on the plight of the world's cities, the 1998 Report examines urban...	The New Politics of the Welfare State Best Price: $44.19 The welfare states of affluent democracies now stand at the center of political discussion and...

Brief Interventions with Bereaved Children Best Price: $38.62 The contact between a health care professional and a bereaved child can often be very brief, and...	Community Mental Health Teams (Oxford Medical Publications) Best Price: $62.82 Community Mental Health Teams (CMHTs) have evolved over the last 30-40 years to serve patients...	Policy Analysis for the Real World Best Price: $48.16 Hogwood, Brian W.DESCRIP_ALLOWED	Blackstone's Police Investigators' Workbook 2007 Best Price: $77.42 "The Blackstone's Police Investigators' Workbook 2007" is the official...	Contaminated Sites and Environmental Cleanup: International Approaches to Prevention Best Price: $39.95 Toxic chemicals contaminate land and groundwater on hundreds of thousands of sites in...

Blood Dynamics This book offers a logical approach to understanding the science of blood spatter...	Natural Hazards: Earth's Processes as Hazards, Disasters, and Catastrophes Best Price: $22.99 A book designed for readers interested in the environment, this is an excellent source for Earth...	Retail Best Practices and Quick Reference to Food Safety and Sanitation Best Price: $36.60 The Quick Reference Guide is an entertaining, easy to read color cartoon and industry rich text...	Policing and Training Issues Best Price: $29.12 With each chapter written by an authority in a specific field, this first-of-its-kind book...	Social Problems

To Protect and to Serve: A History of Police in America Best Price: $55.00 This readable book provides a comprehensive and detailed survey of the development of police...	Social Problems (2nd Edition) Best Price: $13.95 Macionis books are always a pleasure to read. However, there is a factual innacuracy in on p....	Human Service Practice with the Elderly Best Price: $19.99	Test Prep Guide for Supervision of Police Personnel Best Price: $25.35 PREPARE FOR A TOP SCORE ON YOUR POLICE PROMOTIONAL EXAM Prentice Hall, the leading criminal...	Diversity Perspectives for Social Work Practice Best Price: $49.99 This book examines the prevailing theoretical frameworks for viewing diversity in social work...

Choices: Counseling Skills for Social Workers and Other Professionals Best Price: $72.00 This reader-friendly practice text emphasizes intelligent decision-making in the use of...	Human Biology for Social Workers Best Price: $60.15 Human Biology for Social Workers nicely fits CSWE's mandate to include biological content in...	Family Therapy: A Systemic Integration (6th Edition) Best Price: $80.00 I felt that I learned a lot from this book. My problem with books like this is that they are...	Policy Practice for Social Workers: New Strategies for a New Era Best Price: $67.57 I bought this book for my SW Policy class, for which I need access to Pearson's [...]. This...	Understanding Social Welfare: A Search for Social Justice (7th Edition) Best Price: $40.00 Arrived really quickly, just in time for school. As to the content -- its very informative,...

Exploring Child Welfare: A Practice Perspective (Fourth Edition) Best Price: $17.50 This book is an excellent resource for the care of the child who is being abused or neglected...	Social Work: An Empowering Profession (6th Edition) Best Price: $17.00 Well, this is my major (Social Work) so I really needed this book within the first week of...	Generalist Social Work Practice: An Empowering Approach (5th Edition) Best Price: $14.00 Very informative, but would have been great to have a code for the online services.	American Social Welfare Policy: A Pluralist Approach with Research Navigator (5th Edition) Best Price: $34.00 This book has been a great help in my Social Work Class. It has covered everything that I have...	Setting Limits Fairly: Can We Learn to Share Medical Resources? Best Price: $39.98 The central idea for this book is that we lack consensus on principles for allocating resources...

The Nazi Connection: Eugenics, American Racism, and German National Socialism Best Price: $21.17 This is a valuable book that explores the role of American intellectual and psuedo-scientific...	More than Ramps: A Guide to Improving Health Care Quality and Access for People with Disabilities Best Price: $39.99 Nearly twenty percent of Americans live today with some sort of disability, and this number will...	Child Welfare Research: Advances for Practice and Policy Best Price: $18.98 Research has already been a significant factor in child welfare policy in recent years, but this...	A Different Kind of State?: Popular Power and Democratic Administration Best Price: $7.49 This book introduces the possibilities of reforming the government in order to enhance public...	Structural Social Work: Ideology, Theory, and Practice This new edition has been substantially rewritten and includes new sections on globalized...

Health Social Science: A Transdisciplinary and Complexity Perspective This book is one of few texts, appropriate for a wide audience, which clearly explains why...	Living Decently: Material Well-Being in Australia	Heritage Management in New Zealand Heritage conservation and management are vital concerns in Australia and New Zealand. Increasing...	Water: A Matter of Life and Health: Water Supply and Sanitation in Village India Best Price: $18.29 This reviewer should really keep his big mouth shut, since he has a stake of sorts in this, the...	Social Treatment: An Introduction to Interpersonal Helping in Social Work Practice (Modern Applications of Social Work) Best Price: $25.94 The book has two principal purposes: To provide an introduction to interpersonal helping in the...

From Child Abuse to Permanency Planning: Child Welfare Services Pathways and Placements (Modern Applications of Social Work) Best Price: $8.98 "An important contribution to the literature on child welfare, recommended for scholars and...	Troubled Youth, Troubled Families Best Price: $30.00 The 1970s witnessed a growing concern and awareness regarding child abuse, an awareness which...	The Child Welfare Challenge: Policy, Practice, and Research (Modern Applications of Social Work) Best Price: $40.82 The volume emphasizes families and children whose primary recourse to services has been through...	Rehabilitation for the Unwanted: Patients and their Caretakers Best Price: $15.14 This book is a study detailing what happens to people and what life is like in a rehabilitation...	Research Methods for Social Work: Being Producers and Consumers of Research (Updated Edition), Books a la Carte Plus MySocialWorkLab (2nd Edition) Best Price: $78.76

Policy Practice for Social Workers: New Strategies for a New Era (Updated Edition) (Connecting Core Competencies) Best Price: $76.44 Introduction to Policy Practice shows future social work practitioners how...	The MyHelpingLab -- Standalone Access Card -- for Expanded Family Life Cycle: Individual, Family, and Social Perspectives (4th Edition) Best Price: $46.64	The Expanded Family Life Cycle: Individual, Family, and Social Perspectives Best Price: $134.19 Now featured in a Classics Edition with a new Foreword by Donald Boch, The Expanded Family Life...	Administering Day Care and Preschool Programmes	Essentials of Fire Fighting and Fire Department Operations (5th Edition) Best Price: $60.50 As we all know, over the years any Essentials to Firefighting manual has pretty much been the...

Social Problems	The Invisible Cure: Africa, the West and the Fight Against AIDS. Helen Epstein Best Price: $11.48 In 1993, Helen Epstein, a scientist working with a biotechnology company searching for an AIDS...	Orwell & the Dispossessed (Penguin Modern Classics) Best Price: $75.96 This volume brings together Orwell's powerful writings of his personal experiences of...	From the Bush: The Front Line of Health Care in a Caribbean Village (Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology) Best Price: $35.98 I recently used Dr. Quinlan's book for a 100 level "global diversity" requirement...	Federal Register, V. 70, No. 141, Monday, July 25, 2005: (Contains Proposed Changes to the Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System and Calendar Year 2006 Payment Rates) Reprinted because it contains: Pt. 3, Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for...

A Place of Healing: Working with Suffering in Living and Dying Best Price: $253.78 Anyone who works with or cares about end of life issues should read this book. Kearney, an MD...	Three Great Novels: Hard Times; A Tale of Two Cities; Great Expectations Best Price: $79.86 These three very different novels show the remarkable scope of Dicken's work. Hard Times...	Global Warming: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) Best Price: $1.31 The information contained in these 148 pages is worth more than the bloviating and obfuscating...	A Cause for Our Times: Oxfam: The First 50 Years Oxfam is one of the best known and most successful charities in Britain. It is also one of the...	Psychosocial Issues in Palliative Care Best Price: $46.99 Caring for patients with a terminal illness and their families requires the skills of many...

Social Indicators: The EU and Social Inclusion Best Price: $53.99 The European social agenda is at a crucial stage. This book describes the Action Plans on Social...	Environmental Governance in Europe: An Ever Closer Ecological Union? Best Price: $41.40 Over the last thirty years, the European Union has created a system of environmental governance...	The Future of the Welfare State: Crisis Myths and Crisis Realities Best Price: $10.46 Written by one of the world's leading policy researchers, this book seeks to assess the...	Inequality and the State Best Price: $39.05 Since the late 1970s, Britain has become a more unequal society. This book analyzes the dramatic...	Social Policy Best Price: $66.28 The third edition of this textbook remains a key book for students of social policy and other...

Man in Adaption: The Cultural Present Best Price: $34.95	Constructionist Controversies: Issues in Social Problems Theory (Social Problems and Social Issues) Best Price: $29.95 Constructionist Controversies reviews the substantial con- tributions to social problems theory...	Community Psychology: Perspectives and Applications Best Price: $28.00 This text provides a coherent and balanced presentation of the principles and practices of...	The Visible Poor: Homelessness in the United States Best Price: $3.99 This is a very good source for somebody new to this interest because it offers a lot of facts in...	Ethnicity and Social Work Practice Best Price: $14.99 This volume offers a broad conceptual model of ethnic identity which enables social workers to...

International Social Work: Professional Action in an Interdependent World Best Price: $28.99 International Social Work: Professional Action in an Interdependent World is a comprehensive...	Primary Care: Balancing Health Needs, Services, and Technology This book provides innovative methods to evaluate the attainment and contributions of primary...	Raising and Educating a Deaf Child Best Price: $3.19 This is a most practical, sensitive book that is appealing for educators as well as families of...	Institutional Selves: Troubled Identities in a Postmodern World Best Price: $24.00 Today, identities are created and selves are constructed in more organizational settings than...	The Alcoholic Empire: Vodka & Politics in Late Imperial Russia Best Price: $40.98 The Alcoholic Empire examines the prevalence of alcohol in Russian social, economic, religious,...

The Welfare of Children Best Price: $64.55 According to the United Nations' latest data, the United States has more children living in...	Community Practice: Theories and Skills for Social Workers Best Price: $7.59 this is an excellent textbook With practical uses. I plan to save it in my library.

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