Authors:Lesley Barcham, Jackie Pountney,
Publisher: Learning Matters Ltd.
Keywords: worker, disability, learning, supporting, role
Number of Pages: 56
Published: 2011-07-25
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 0857256378
ISBN-13: 9780857256379
For those who work within the UK’s learning disability sector and are studying for the QCF Diploma in Health and Social Care, this book will be an invaluable resource in helping to achieve the units on the role of the learning disability worker. The book is easy to navigate, with each chapter covering one of the learning outcomes within the unit. Each chapter begins with an example taken from real people’s stories. Numerous activities, photographs, and other illustrations are included throughout in order to understand the subject better.
Author: William Gibso
Publisher: Scribner
Keywords: worker, miracle
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2008-06-17
List price: $12.99
ISBN-10: 1416590846
ISBN-13: 9781416590842
Based on the remarkable true story of Helen Keller and her teacher Annie Sullivan, this inspiring and unforgettable play has moved countless readers and become an American classic.Young Helen Keller, blind, deaf, and mute since infancy, is in danger of being sent to an institution because her inability to communicate has left her frustrated and violent. In desperation, her parents seek help from the Perkins Institute, which sends them a "half-blind Yankee schoolgirl" named Annie Sullivan to tutor their daughter. Despite the Kellers’ resistance and the belief that Helen "is like a little
Author: William Hurst
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: socialism, worker, chinese
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2009-03-23
List price: $99.00
ISBN-10: 0521898870
ISBN-13: 9780521898874
While millions in China have been advantaged by three decades of reform, impressive gains have also produced social dislocation. Groups that had been winners under socialism find themselves losers in the new order. Based on field research in nine cities across China, this fascinating study considers the fate of one such group - 35 million workers laid off from the state-owned sector. The book explains why these lay-offs occurred, how workers are coping with unemployment, what actions the state is taking to provide them with livelihoods and re-employment, and what happens when workers mobilize
Author: Phillip Felli
Publisher: Brooks Cole
Keywords: worker, social, community
Number of Pages: 389
Published: 2000-01-01
List price: $94.95
ISBN-10: 0875814387
ISBN-13: 9780875814384
This text is intended to contribute to an understanding of human behavior in the social environment by providing social work students with an introduction to American communities. The primary focus is on local communities of place. Attention is also given to the communities of interest and identification that are intertwined with geographic communities. Ecological systems and social systems perspectives serve as conceptual and practical frameworks for examining the multiple communities in which people have membership, social identity, and social interaction. This edition begins with an exposit
Author: Nancy L. Robert
Publisher: State University of New York Pre
Keywords: worker, catholic, day, dorothy
Number of Pages: 226
Published: 1984-11-01
List price: $60.50
ISBN-10: 0873959388
ISBN-13: 9780873959384
Author: Steven Greenhouse
Publisher: Knopf
Keywords: worker, american, times, tough, squeeze
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2008-04-15
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 1400044898
ISBN-13: 9781400044894
The Big Squeeze takes a fresh, probing, and often shocking look at the stresses and strains faced by tens of millions of American workers as wages have stagnated, health and pension benefits have grown stingier, and job security has shriveled.Going behind the scenes, Steven Greenhouse tells the stories of software engineers in Seattle, hotel housekeepers in Chicago, call center workers in New York, and janitors in Houston, as he explores why, in the worlds most affluent nation, so many corporations are intent on squeezing their workers dry. We meet all kinds of workers: white collar and blue
Author: Draja Mickaharic
Publisher: Xlibris Corporatio
Keywords: book, spell, worker, spiritual
Number of Pages: 108
Published: 2003-02-07
List price: $20.99
ISBN-10: 1401084397
ISBN-13: 9781401084394
Many of the spells that spiritual workers give their clients to solve problems in their lives are given in this book. No knowledge or training in magic is necessary to perform thse spells, which have been taken from the successful folk magic of many of the ethnic spiritual practitioners of New York, as well as Draja Mickaharic
