Global Social Work: Crossing Borders, Blurring Boundaries is a collection of ideas, debates and reflections on key issues concerning social work as...

This book provides people who want to work systemically with a set of practical tools. It is above all a reference book full of specific and helpfu...

Head Start is a federal program that has provided comprehensive early childhood development services to low-income children since 1996. Services pr...

Ever since the Canadian prairies were first settled and the Mounties marched west to establish and maintain law and order, the names of individual ...

A house generally refers to a shelter or builing that is a dwelling or place for habitation by human beings. The term includes many kinds of dwelli...

Low-income families with housing problems are found in every section of the United States. They are located in large cities like Los Angeles and Ne...

This book explores the ability of persons with disabilities to live independently in affordable, accessible housing. This became a prominent issue ...

Human development is a relative concept and it needs to be understood from an interdisciplinary perspective. It includes widening of choices, expan...

"India is probably in the middle of the most reform-friendly phase in its history—open to conceptions that can help transform the nation faster, pu...

Transformation of a nation -- that too, with the size and complexity of India -- won’t happen in months. At the same time, if it took decades, it w...

Security forms an important component of the way international relations are played out. After Independence in 1947, India followed a policy of non...

Technology and informatics in the field of applied social work is at the cusp of development within the profession. For many years, other applied f...

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) reduces the average delivery time frame for emergency food aid by prepositioning food domesti...

Dr. Zvi Feine served the Jewish communities of Romania and Poland as country director for the Joint Distribution Community during those two countri...

The international donor community comprising the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, regional organisations such as the European Union,...

Landpower, defined here as "the ability -- by threat, force, or occupation -- to exploit control over land, resources, and people", offers policy-m...

This book presents counsellor education from a post-modern relational perspective. The relationally-oriented counsellor takes the attitude that in ...

The compelling story of how and why modern ocean lifeguarding emerged on the New Jersey shore is told through 298 rare, unpublished, primary source...

The Limits of State Action, by "Germany's greatest philosopher of freedom," as F. A. Hayek called him, has an exuberance and attention to principle...

The Limits of State Action, by "Germany's greatest philosopher of freedom," as F. A. Hayek called him, has an exuberance and attention to principle...

Firefighters are the unsung local heroes of every community. They protect our towns and cities, risk their lives, and give up their free time when ...

Demographic challenges posed by the growing elderly population and demands for greater public commitment to home and community-based care for perso...

Florida has the largest proportion of elderly in the nation- 2.8 million persons are over age 65, representing 17.6% of its total population. The d...