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Contrary to widely accepted stereotypes, evidence indicates that those who wish to use their skills and abilities for productive contributions may encounter significant barriers.

Bass, Caro, and Chen and the experts who contributed to the volume provide an original reassessment of the current options available to older people.

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Contrary to widely accepted stereotypes, evidence indicates that those who wish to use their skills and abilities for productive contributions may encounter significant barriers.

Bass, Caro, and Chen and the experts who contributed to the volume provide an original reassessment of the current options available to older people.

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Written by an extraordinary team of authors, including Danny Dorling and Kate Pickett, this book offers a compelling and achievable vision for a progressive future. It presents concrete policy proposals for the reform of welfare, health and social care, public utilities and more.

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Written by an extraordinary team of authors, including Danny Dorling and Kate Pickett, this book offers a compelling and achievable vision for a progressive future. It presents concrete policy proposals for the reform of welfare, health and social care, public utilities and more.

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Robert Wuthnow finds that those who are most involved in acts of compassion are no less individualistic than anyone else--and that those who are the most intensely individualistic are no less involved in caring for others.

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Regardless of your income, Adoption Assistance can show you how to adopt a IV-E eligible baby, child, or siblings with special needs at low or no cost. Learn how to navigate the state adoption bureaucracy and how to advocate for financial programs that make raising the children affordable.

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This annotated bibliography covers the literature published since 1900 suitable for children and young adults dealing with adoption. The 503 titles are divided into fiction and non-fiction by reading level and include bibliographic information, pagination, and OCLC number.

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With contributions from researchers, policy makers, practitioners, and advocates in adoption policy and practice, this volume covers topics including: adoption advocacy; race and adoption; placement of older and disabled children; adoption disruption; and federal adoption subsidies.

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This text examines the development of social policies affecting older people since the origins of the German welfare state under Bismarck, and looks at how policy makers have sought to cope with the growing numbers of elderly people over the years.

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This book sets the record straight about the nation's welfare programs, showing that the gloom and doom surrounding public discussion stem from false ideas about what these programs are and how they work.

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American Sociology has changed radically since 1945. This volume traces these changes to the present, with special emphasis on the feminization of sociology and the decline of the science ideal as well as the challenges sociology faces in the new environment for universities.

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Constructivism is based on the principle that our personalities, behaviour and society are organized by the ways in which we attribute meanings to events and act upon these meanings. This work explains constructivism as an epistemology and demonstrates its practical relevance for social work.

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' ... everyone should read this book and experience the reality of how some of our children are raised. Our children are our future - give them one, as this author has.

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Focuses on one of the most innovative aspects of Irish social partnership, the Community and Voluntary Pillar. It is the most thorough account of the dynamics of the Pillar to date and tackles the weaknesses in existing perspectives -- .

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Did the police lose control of themselves in dealing with demonstrators during the 1968 Democratic National Convention

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"Beach Nights and Blue Lights" chronicles the amusing adventures of law enforcement in a 1970s eastern North Carolina beach town. From beach brawls to baffling burglaries, these stories highlight the comedic side of keeping peace in a place where anything could happen and usually did.

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Offers students a comparative analytical framework for ways of thinking about fatherhood and new insights into why some welfare states have 'father-friendly' social policies and why others don't. -- .