Social Services & Welfare
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Training Your Own Service Dog AND Training Your Own Psychiatric Service Dog 2021: (2 Books IN 1)
$29.99 Add to cartAre you suffering from PTSD?
Do you find it hard to go outside your home and do the things you have missed and loved doing in the past?
Have you been dealing with anxiety and panic attacks which leave y
- Author: Matthews, Max
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 412
- Publish Date: February 04 2021
- ISBN10: 1954182791
- Language: English
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Almost Home: Helping Kids Move from Homelessness to Hope
$19.99 Add to cartInside the lives of homeless teens–moving stories of pain and hope from Covenant House
Almost Home tells the stories of six remarkable young people from across the United States and Canada as they con
- Author: Ryan, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 01 2012
- ISBN10: 1118230477
- Language: English
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Broken: Transforming Child Protective Services–Notes of a Former Caseworker
$16.99 Add to cart“It’s an invaluable insider account of a pressing social issue.” – Publishers Weekly
Joining the ranks of Evicted and The New Jim Crow, a former caseworker’s searing, clear-eyed investigation of the c
- Author: Pryce, Jessica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 0063036207
- Language: English
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Dirty Truths
$26.95 Add to cartEssays are enjoying renewed popularity, from the personal essays of Lewis Thomas, to the intellectual treats of Marguerite Yourcenar, to the political and social commentary of Michael Parenti in this
- Author: Parenti, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 282
- Publish Date: January 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0872863174
- Language: English
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We’re Coming for You and Your Rotten System: How Socialists Beat Amazon and Upended Big-City Politics
$24.95 Add to cartFrom inside Kshama Sawant’s historic tenure in Seattle City Hall comes a blueprint for 21st-century socialists, a counterpoint to the strategies favored by The Squad and other progressive activists.
Se
- Author: Rosenblum, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1682196364
- Language: English
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Tell Them Who I Am: The Lives of Homeless Women
$24.00 Add to cart“One of the very best things ever written about homeless people in the nation.”–Jonathan Kozol.
- Author: Liebow, Elliot
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 01 1995
- ISBN10: 014024137X
- Language: English
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Unlearning Ableism: The Ultimate, No-Nonsense Guide to Understanding Disability and Unlearning Ableism
$24.95 Add to cart“Ableism is everywhere, and we cannot continue just burying our heads in the sand. To not stand up to ableism is to contribute to the exclusion and discrimination of Disabled People.”
Think you know w- Author: Shields, Jamie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1805018752
- Language: English
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Stand by Me: A Guide to Navigating Modern, Meaningful Caregiving
$19.99 Add to cart“Warm, compassionate, and brimming with wisdom and expert advice” (Kate Washington, author of Already Toast), Stand By Me provides caregivers with new ways to juggle the responsibilities and emotional… [more below]
- Author: Applebaum, Allison J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1668005816
- Language: English
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The Black Panther Party: Service to the People Programs
$24.95 Add to cartThe Black Panther Party has responded to the needs of various communities underserved by government agencies by providing social services ranging from food and educational programs to medical care.
Aut… [more below]
- Author: Huey P Newton Foundation
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 170
- Publish Date: May 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0826343945
- Language: English
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In Sickness and in Health: Love Stories from the Front Lines of America’s Caregiving Crisis
$30.00 Add to cartAn urgent and deeply affecting account of America’s failure to provide meaningful support to its chronically ill and disabled citizens and our resulting reliance on the unpaid caregiving labor of spou
- Author: Mauldin, Laura
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 10 2026
- ISBN10: 0063339137
- 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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How to End Family Policing: From Outrage to Action
$19.95 Add to cartFrom leading abolitionist organizers, a much-needed intervention arguing that the systems that purport to protect children make them–and our communities–less safe.
Based on decades of shared organi
- Author: Cloud, Erin Miles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 9798888904565
- Language: English
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Black Disability Politics
$37.43 Add to cartIn Black Disability Politics Sami Schalk explores how issues of disability have been and continue to be central to Black activism from the 1970s to the present. Schalk shows how Black people have long… [more below]
- Author: Schalk, Sami
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 31 2022
- ISBN10: 147802500X
- Language: English
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College Girl, Missing: The True Story of How a Young Woman Disappeared in Plain Sight
$17.99 Add to cart**INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**
“This book is the heartbreaking story that every parent dreads… Cohen sheds light on what really happened the night Lauren was never seen again.” –David Crow, a
- Author: Cohen, Shawn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 28 2024
- ISBN10: 1728272998
- Language: English
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Nephew: A Memoir in 4-Part Harmony
$26.99 Add to cartAs urgent, resonant, and essential as The Fire Next Time and Between the World and Me, a poetic, raw, and inspirational love letter from the bestselling author of Buck, written to a nephew who was sho
- Author: Asante, M. K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 21 2024
- ISBN10: 0063275287
- Language: English
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Training Your Own Service Dog: Step By Step Guide To An Obedient Service Dog (Revised 3rd Edition!)
$29.95 Add to cartHi, I’m Max Matthews, and training dogs, specifically Service Dogs, is my life and passion. I have been training Service Dogs for over 30 years, and I put all of my knowledge and experience into this
- Author: Matthews, Max
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 242
- Publish Date: December 24 2019
- ISBN10: 1951764102
- Language: English
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Parenting Children of Trauma: A Foster-Adoption Guide to Understanding Attachment Disorders
$14.95 Add to cartDo you ever feel confused about what went wrong in your foster or adoption story? Are you fearful about the future of your marriage and your children? Do you ever feel overwhelmed and desperate for he
- Author: Pusey, Marcy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 28 2019
- ISBN10: 1948283077
- Language: English
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Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better
$19.99 Add to cartNamed one of NPR’s Best Books of 2023
Learn more about Jennifer Pahlka’s work at recodingamerica.us. “The book I
Named one of Ezra Klein’s “Books That Explain Where We Are in 2023,” The New York Times- Author: Pahlka, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1250342732
- Language: English
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Mailman: My Wild Ride Delivering the Mail in Appalachia and Finally Finding Home
$29.99 Add to cartAn exuberant, hilarious, and profound memoir by a mailman in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, who found that working for the post office saved his life, taught him who he was, gave him purpose, a… [more below]
- Author: Grant, Stephen Starring
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1668018047
- Language: English
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Wards of the State: The Long Shadow of American Foster Care
$28.00 Add to cartTold through the stories of six former foster youth, a jolting exploration of a broken system from an award-winning journalist
By the time Maryanne was 16 years old, she had been arrested for murder.- Author: Rowe, Claudia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 1419763156
- Language: English
