Human Services
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Meet Me at the Library: A Place to Foster Social Connection and Promote Democracy
$24.00 Add to cartAmerica is facing an epidemic of loneliness and isolation, with troubling effects on our mental and physical health. We live in one of the most divisive times in our history, one in which we tend to w… [more below]
- Author: Hallman, Shamichael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1642833193
- Language: English
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Motivational Conversation: 25 Years of Practice
$10.00 Add to cartThis book aims not only to document reflections on personal growth, but also to share insights gained from shifting to a person-centered language. At the same time, I strive to maintain Motivational I
- Author: Andrew, Stephen R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 74
- Publish Date: August 22 2025
- ISBN10: 9798868927133
- Language: English
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Thrive: How the Science of the Adolescent Brain Helps Us Imagine a Better Future for All Children
$28.99 Add to cartA bold new argument for harnessing brain science to help young people realize their full potential, from the noted business and foundation leader
“In the last decade, a growing body of longitudinal ne- Author: Lawson, Lisa M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1620979691
- Language: English
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Design Thinking and Social Construction: A Practical Guide to Innovation in Research
$34.99 Read moreThe book introduces the Constructionist Research Design Process as a framework for research that is creative, transformative and innovative. It can be used by any professional and researcher who wants… [more below]
- Author: Camargo-Borges, Celiane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 9063696337
- Language: English
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Design Journeys Through Complex Systems: Practice Tools for Systemic Design
$44.99 Read moreDesign Journeys for Complex Systems is a designer’s handbook to learn systemic design tools to engage stakeholder groups in collaborative design to address complex societal systems.
Systemic design u- Author: Jones, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: August 30 2022
- ISBN10: 9063696345
- Language: English
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No Pity: People with Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement
$20.00 Read more“A sensitive look at the social and political barriers that deny disabled people their most basic civil rights.”–The Washington Post
“The primer for a revolution.”–The Chicago Tribune
“Nondisabled A… [more below]- Author: Shapiro, Joseph P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 25 1994
- ISBN10: 0812924126
- Language: English
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Against All Odds: A Memoir
$18.99 Add to cartA story of resilience, courage, and the power of dreams…
From a young age, Tristian’s life was marked by chaos and uncertainty. Witnessing his mother being taken away on a stretcher was a pivotal mom
- Author: Smith, Tristian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: July 16 2024
- ISBN10: 9.79899E+12
- Language: English
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Where’s Home?: People Experiencing Homelessness In La Crosse County Share their Stories On a Quest for Understanding, Belonging, and
$23.99 Add to cartWhere’s Home? People Experiencing Homelessness In La Crosse County Share their Stories On a Quest for Understanding, Belonging, and Stability.
Bobbi felt a strong pull to interview the people of the h
- Author: Rathert, Bobbi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 186
- Publish Date: July 08 2024
- ISBN10: 9798218465728
- Language: English
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Against All Odds: A Memoir
$27.99 Add to cartA story of resilience, courage, and the power of dreams…
From a young age, Tristian’s life was marked by chaos and uncertainty. Witnessing his mother being taken away on a stretcher was a pivotal mom
- Author: Smith, Tristian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: July 16 2024
- ISBN10: 9.79899E+12
- Language: English
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The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters
$23.99 Add to cartOne smart book…delving deep into the history and implications of a daily act that dare not speak its name.–Newsweek
Bodily waste is common to all and as natural as breathing. We prefer not to talk a- Author: George, Rose
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 09 2014
- ISBN10: 1250058309
- Language: English
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Native Americans and the Environment: Perspectives on the Ecological Indian
$30.00 Add to cartNative Americans and the Environment brings together an interdisciplinary group of prominent scholars whose works continue and complicate the conversations that Shepard Krech started in The Ecological… [more below]
- Author: Harkin, Michael E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 370
- Publish Date: March 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0803273614
- Language: English
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Housing Humans
$22.99 Add to cartEmpathetic and excellent advice from one of our nation’s leading Housing Authority experts, having served in leadership roles across eight major U.S. cities and one in Canada. In his book, Housing Hum
- Author: Jones, Eugene E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: October 12 2020
- ISBN10: 1735778117
- Language: English
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Hello Baby: Building an Oasis in a Play Desert
$19.95 Add to cartChild’s play is serious business. Experts know that the games babies and toddlers play, from make-believe and block-building to rough-and-tumble horseplay, are crucial to their physical, social, and e
- Author: Frisch, Debbie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 195394325X
- Language: English
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Dying to be Seen: The Race to Save Medicare in Canada
$24.99 Add to cartCanada’s public health care system is under attack. Defunding, deregulating, defrauding, and deliberate disintegration have manipulated Canadians into despising their once-beloved system as unsustaina… [more below]
- Author: MacNeil, Cathy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 372
- Publish Date: January 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1039161243
- Language: English
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Rebooting Capitalism: How We Can Forge a Society That Works for Everyone
$20.00 Add to cartSince the mid-twentieth century, free-market ideology has undermined the economic well-being and social fabric of American life. An unprecedented, extremely effective and largely invisible effort by a
- Author: Biglan, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: May 19 2020
- ISBN10: 057869090X
- Language: English
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Aging Into Poverty
$14.99 Add to cartWhile one in five of us will need significant assistance with the activities of daily living or long-term care for more than five years, costing as much as $100,000 per year, about 50% of women ages 5
- Author: Sharp, Kathy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 196
- Publish Date: August 08 2022
- ISBN10: 9798986329406
- Language: English
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To the End of June: The Intimate Life of American Foster Care
$16.99 Add to cartA New York Times Notable Book, this intimate, authoritative look at the foster care system examines why it is failing the kids it is supposed to protect and what can be done to change it.
Who are the c… [more below]
- Author: Beam, Cris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 02 2014
- ISBN10: 0544103440
- Language: English
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A Thousand Naked Strangers: A Paramedic’s Wild Ride to the Edge and Back
$18.99 Add to cartA former paramedic’s “thrilling, captivating” (Booklist), and mordantly funny account of a decade spent as a first responder in Atlanta saving lives and connecting with the drama and occasional beauty… [more below]
- Author: Hazzard, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 20 2016
- ISBN10: 1501110861
- Language: English
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Capitalism and Disability: Selected Writings by Marta Russell
$19.95 Add to cartThis book comprises a collection of groundbreaking writings by Marta Russell on the nature of disability and oppression under capitalism.
- Author: Russell, Marta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 06 2019
- ISBN10: 1608466868
- Language: English
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Care: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
$19.95 Add to cartAn eye-opening reckoning with the care economy, from its roots in racial capitalism to its exponential growth as a new site of profit and extraction.
Since the earliest days of the pandemic, care work- Author: Nadasen, Premilla
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 10, 2023
- ISBN10: 1642599662
- Language: English
