Punctuated by gunshots and hoof beats, this engaging collection presents six biographies of hardened lawmen in Old California. Illustrating the dan...

This account of the struggle to bring law and order to a city rich with gold rush money, at odds with Mexican bandits, and teeming with forty-niner...

The symposium "Sleepers, Moles, and Martyrs: Secret Identifications, Societal Integration, and the Differing Meanings of Freedom" held in Reinhause...

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly called the Food Stamp Program, is designed primarily to increase the food purchasing...

The concept of disability over the last few decades has been defined in different ways, while the policies implemented demonstrate not only at the ...

The Social Security Administration has two income-maintenance programs that it administers: the Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance benefi...

Social Security, in the United States, currently refers to the Federal Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI) program. The original S...

With $812 billion in benefit outlays in 2013, Social Security is the largest program in the federal budget. It provides monthly cash benefits to re...

Social security is the nation's largest domestic program. It provides income support to 49 million beneficiaries, including retired workers, disabl...

The relationship between social support and health has attracted tremendous research interest during the past few decades. This book is the newest ...

Social scientists and philosophers alike have explored well-being and happiness. Well-being has been described as the "ultimate" dependent variable...

Social work and social development in the Asia-Pacific region continue to grow in new and exciting ways. Social work educators are an essential par...

A humanitarian profession as diverse as the population it serves, social work today has taken roots globally, as a profession that enables people t...

Social work has always embraced the service of helping people. But since its beginnings around the mid-1870's, two fronts within social work have b...

This book, which draws from fieldwork research and evidence, is provided to suggest a sense of emotional anxiety among social workers and case mana...

The State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) offers federal matching funds for states and territories to provide health insurance to unins...

An increasing number of states have adopted laws that legalise marijuana for medical or recreational purposes under state law, yet federal penaltie...

Addressing Greenlanders, the German minority, problem children, as well as immigrants and refugees. Through historical and sociological studies of ...

Fighting to survive on a police patrol launch during a typhoon, and investigating a murder by a Vietnamese gangster in a refugee camp. Battling rio...