Examines how inventions as various as the linotype, the typewriter, the subway, and the computer altered the way the world was viewed and depicted, in readings of works by writers including Pound, Joyce, Beckett, and Eliot

Product Description: In this lively introduction suitable for students at any level, Lena Dominelli explores the extraordinary scope and importance of social work. Using engaging examples from contemporary social work practice, she clearly answers questions about what social work is, how social workers work in a variety of settings and the clients they are likely to deal with...read more

Product Description: Anti-Racist Social Work has been completely revised for the third edition. It contextualises and considers changes in anti-racist practice since the first edition to situate its narratives within the globalising world that social work is currently embedded...read more

Product Description: "Revitalizing Communities" is designed around the exciting premise of exploring the opportunities and constraints that the dynamics of globalization present for human development in a range of different countries and situations. Arguing that globalization currently is a system of organizing social relations along neoliberal lines, it examines practical examples of how people respond to significant social changes in their communities...read more

Product Description: Women have long been the mainstay of communities and heavily involved in community initiatives in various guises. Though often the unsung heros of community action, women's role in a community's growth and development has become increasingly important in a globalising world that has changed considerably since the first edition of this classic text was published...read more

Product Description: This is the third and final volume in the trilogy begun by Social Work: Themes, Issues and Critical Debates and Critical Practice in Social Work. Edited by the same highly regarded team and bringing together a mix of established scholars and newer voices

Product Description: Social work is facing fundamental changes and challenges. Neo-liberalism, globalization, corporate management and the mixed economy of welfare have transformed the profession by undermining former certainties of practice. 'Clients' have added their own voice to the need for new models of service delivery...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: While the remit of social work professionals is, in general, locality-based, social work has a long tradition of concern about international issues. Broadening Horizons provides an engaging and original contribution to the debate on how to tackle social work problems on a global scale...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Focusing on social work values, on areas of particular practice (children, families and vulnerable adults) and on management issues relevant to all social workers, this work offers an overview both of the practicalities of social work and the principles underpinning practice.

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Product Description: This text argues that the focus on child protection as the way to assure child welfare is inappropriate for many children. Posing community approaches to child welfare as a more appropriate alternative to children whose family has failed to provide adequate care, it argues that these can be more child-centred and contribute more fully to the development of children as well-adjusted individuals who can become better prepared to assume their roles as good citizens once they reach adulthood...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: TRABAJO SOCIAL FEMINISTA

Addressing the relevance of sociological concepts to social work practice, this work argues that lack of understanding of the ways in which social work fits into society's structures and is informed by its relationship with these can lead to impoverished social work practice.

Product Description: This work examines the issues of racism and anti-racism within the probation practice. It looks at racism in prison and throughcare, different working relationships, opportunities and dilemmas, and the concept and development of equal opportunities.

Product Description: This book explores the development of truly feminist social work, setting out the progress to date in establishing a feminist presence in the four central areas of social work: the definition of social problems for intervention, therapy and counselling, statutory social work and community action...read more