"Social Policy for Social Work provides a comprehensive, critical and engaging introduction to social policy for students and practitioners of social work. The text is clearly structured into three parts that cover contexts, policies and issues. The first part explores changing perspectives on social policy and social work and provides an introduction to the broad range of specific policy aspects discussed in part two which include: soc ..."
"This study uses documentary evidence to demonstrate that prison riots in Britain and the USA have shifted from traditional riots in which prisoners made no specific demands, to consciousness-raising riots where they often challenge the ..."
"'This is among the handful of prison books - they include George Jackson's Soledad Brother andBB Michael Ignatieff's A Just Measure of Pain - which moves and informs."
"This volume draws together specially commissioned pieces by a range of experts on the key knowledge, theories and skills needed for professional social work practice. Carefully structured to reflect the way in which social work courses are generally taught, it offers a handbook for all beginning social work students, giving them not just a flavour of what being a social worker entails but also a critical sense of the debates (practical ..."
"This book offers a practical approach to maximising quality in social work that is based on developing a working culture that empowers key stakeholders in the delivery of services, whether these are managers, practitioners, service users or ..."
"First published well over ten years ago, Social Work and Empowerment offers a succinct and clear account of the literature on empowerment and a thorough examination of its relevance to social work. This timely third edition offers a fuller and more thoroughly updated overview of theories, models, and methods associated with empowerment. It covers self-empowerment and empowering work with individuals, groups, communities, and organizatio ..."
"Mass paperback reprint of 1985 trade paper first edition. Collection of fantasy stories set against a common backdrop. First in series, followed by Magic in Ithkar 2, Magic in Ithkar 3, and Magic in Ithkar 4. Contents: Prologue, essay by Robert Adams; The Goblinry of Ais, by Lin Carter; To Take a Thief, by C. J. Cherryh; Jezeri and Her Beast Go to the Fair and Find More Excitement Than They Want, by Jo Clayton; Fletcher Found, by Morgan ..."
"Ithkar, site of the Temple of the Three Lordly Ones and the scene of an annual celebration, is the setting for a rich collection of fantasy tales by Lin Carter, Andre Norton, Nancy Springer, Morgan Llywelyn, C.J. Cherryh, and other masters of the genre"
Art Can Help (Paperback) by RobertAdams Paperback, 92 Pages, Published 2021 by Yale University Press, United States ISBN-13: 978-0-300-26024-3, ISBN: 0-300-26024-5
"The rest of this compilation contains texts--more than half of which have never before been published--that contemplate one or two works by an individual artist."
Calculus A Complete Course by RobertAdams, Christopher Essex Hardcover, Published 2021 by Addison Wesley ISBN-13: 978-0-13-573258-8, ISBN: 0-13-573258-1
Swords of the Horseclans (Paperback or Softback) by Bob Mclain, RobertAdams Paperback, Published 2020 by Pulp Hero Press, United States ISBN-13: 978-1-68390-294-2, ISBN: 1-68390-294-7
"Progress is measured by survival... IN THE BRUTAL WORLD OF THE HORSECLANS, EITHER YOU RIDE OR YOU DIE. "Among the best adventure stories." --Andre Norton "One of the best science fiction/fantasy series ever conceived." --Dragon magazine"
The Coming of the Horseclans (Paperback or Softback) by RobertAdams, Bob Mclain Paperback, 222 Pages, Published 2020 by Pulp Hero Press, United States ISBN-13: 978-1-68390-267-6, ISBN: 1-68390-267-X
"Milo Morai, the Undying High Lord of the Horseclans returns to lead his people to thier homeland but first must overcome the army of the Ehleenee and the evil scientists called the Witchmen."
Social Work with and within Groups Associated Materials by RobertAdams Paperback, 80 Pages, Published by British Association Of Social Workers ISBN-13: 978-1-873878-45-3, ISBN: 1-873878-45-1
"Photographs by Robert Adams, Harry Callahan, Bruce Davidson, Larry Fink, Danny Lyon, Sally Mann, Eudora Welty, and moreEssays by Tillie Olsen and Estelle JussimProse and poetry by Sharon Olds, Adrienne Rich, Anne Sexton, Alice Walker,and Eudora WeltyIn this extraordinary volume, Mothers & Daughters: An Exploration in Photographs with essays by Tillie Olsen and Estelle Jussim, the most basic and the most mysterious of relationships -- as ..."
"Every five years or thereabouts, the renowned Fraenkel Gallery in San Francisco finds itself with a number of unrelated works of photography that stand out as special, and which ultimately get collected in one of the gallery's award-winning and sought-after quintannual publications. These publications, every one of which has been a masterpiece of photography publishing, and swiftly becomes a rarity, constitute a kind of ultimate connois ..."
Child of God or Child of the Devil? The Bible Says We Are One or the Other! (Hardback) by RobertAdams Hardcover, Published 2019 by Westbow Press, United States ISBN-13: 978-1-973666-59-2, ISBN: 1-973666-59-6