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A lifespan approach presenting evidence-informed interventions for working with individuals and families Social Work Practice with Individuals and Families covers assessment of and intervention with children, adolescents, adults, the elderly, and families. It offers an...
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Wiley
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2012-12-27
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The Handbook for Pandemic and Mass-Casualty Planning and Response offers the disaster medicine professional community the information and tools to better prepare, individually and collaboratively, to mitigate mortality and morbidity when catastrophe occurs. It captures...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2012-12-15
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Policy dismantling is a distinctive form of policy change, which involves the cutting, reduction, diminution or complete removal of existing policies. The perceived need to dismantle existing policies normally acquires particular poignancy during periods of acute...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-12-13
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A review of the literature on environmental taxes, focusing on European experiences, and analysing how such taxes can contribute to green causes as well as reducing the tax burden from "ordinary" taxation. The authors examine the potential 'double dividend' from tax...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2012-11-30
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The favelas (slums) of Rio de Janeiro provide an ideal case study since they are renowned for high levels of police and gang violence resulting in high death rates among young black men, causing both outrage and fear. This book foregrounds women's experiences and how...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2012-11-29
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Die Beziehungen zwischen der Türkei und der Europäischen Union waren bis zu Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts von großer Skepsis auf beiden Seiten geprägt. Seit der Regierungsübernahme der islamisch-konservativen AK-Partei 2002 näherte sich die Türkei durch relevante...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-11-29
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Could regional integration be a first step toward joining the global market? In a context where liberalizing trade has not produced the expected gains in developing countries and growth in global trade has not led to the expected economic growth, an alternative...
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Springer
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2012-11-28
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Insight and Innovation in International Development
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Some of the nation's wealthiest philanthropic organizations, including the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Walton Family Foundation, and the Broad Foundation, have invested hundreds of millions of dollars in education reform. With vast wealth and a political...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2012-11-28
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Unter dem Begriff «Generation Praktikum» wird die Praxis von Unternehmen verstanden, arbeitsuchende Fach- und Hochschulabsolventen als Praktikanten oder Volontäre einzustellen und sie schlecht oder gar nicht zu bezahlen. Dabei wird in der betrieblichen Praxis nicht...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-11-27
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The need has never been more crucial for community health providers, programs, and organizations to have access to training in addressing the unique behavioral health challenges facing our veterans, active duty military, and their families. Handbook of Military Social...
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Wiley
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2012-11-27
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The current economic crisis has presented itself as a formidable challenge to the welfare states of Europe. It is more relevant than ever to ask: do existing minimum income protection schemes succeed in adequately protecting citizens, be it whether they are excluded...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-11-19
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The events taking place in several of South Mediterranean countries since December 2010 show that multiple deprivations may be powerful drivers of political instability. Though improvements of the living conditions have been regularly principal demands along with civil...
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Springer
Parution :
2012-11-15
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Crime and Social Policy provides an invaluable examination of the relationship between social policy and crime. It draws on recent empirical research to offer important insights into the impact of current social policy trends on the lives of offenders. Provides an...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2012-11-07
Collection :
Broadening Perspectives in Social Policy
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The publication aims to familiarize students of public policy with the precautionary principle, which plays a vital role in the European Union’s approach toward regulating risks.The precautionary principle contends that policy makers should refrain from actions having a...
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Springer
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2012-11-05
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In the first study of comparative direct-democracy, Laurent Bernhard explores the nature of direct-democratic campaigning in Switzerland. The author examines four policy areas: immigration, healthcare, welfare and economic liberalism focussing on interviews with...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-10-30
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Interculturalism is a new concept for managing community relations in a world defined by globalization and 'superdiversity'. This book argues that as countries become more diverse a new framework of interculturalism is needed to mediate these relationships and that this...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-10-19
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In most countries around the world, women continue to lag behind men in an array of political orientations and activities. Understanding why this is the case and why some countries have been more successful than others at moderating gender gaps in political involvement...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2012-10-18
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Since the early 1990s, European welfare states have undergone substantial changes, in terms of objectives, areas of intervention, and instruments. Traditional programmes, such as old age pensions have been curtailed throughout the continent, while new functions have...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2012-09-27
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Over the last twenty or so years, it has become standard to require policy makers to base their recommendations on evidence. That is now uncontroversial to the point of triviality--of course, policy should be based on the facts. But are the methods that policy makers...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2012-09-20
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