Product Description: For the first time, a book exists that compiles all the information candidates need to apply for their first Stenocaptioners job, or to apply for a better job. What you'll find especially helpful are the worksheets. It is so much easier to write about a work experience using these outlines...read more

Product Description: Toe was a political cartoonist living and working in Alaska's capital city when a little-known, small-town mayor named Sarah Palin began a run for statewide office. The satirical cartoons that would follow over the next several years would garner national attention and become a reader favorite...read more

Product Description: This text explores the impact of parental disability on children, especially where lack of support to families results in significant restrictions to children's day-to-day lives. It reviews the literature on parental disability and its impact on children; considers why concern for the children of disabled parents has emerged at this particular juncture of history; explores whether the presence of parental disability affects the self-reported health and well-being of children; discusses how children's strengths as well as their vulnerabilities can be identified and promoted; and suggests how more effective social care services can be delivered to children in families affected by disability or chronic illness...read more

Product Description: With contributions from leading experts in the child welfare field, this book provides an overview of the best current evidence from research on 'what works' in social care services for children and families. The research reviews are helpfully laid out in sections covering services for children who are looked after away from home; interventions aimed at reducing the social exclusion of children and young people; and interventions aimed at protecting children or promoting their health...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)