Social Services & Welfare
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Way Home: Journeys Through Homelessness
$29.95 Add to cartCan one city’s solutions to homelessness help the United States face the issue nationally?
The United States grapples with a solution for the unhoused by employing a patchwork of uneven rhetoric and po
- Author: Ensign, Josephine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1421450232
- Language: English
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Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families–And How Abolition Can Build a Safer World
$21.99 Add to cartAn award-winning scholar exposes the foundational racism of the child welfare system and offers a “a brilliant and impassioned call for abolition” (Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow)
Ma- Author: Roberts, Dorothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1541675460
- Language: English
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They Just Need to Get a Job: 15 Myths on Homelessness
$18.95 Add to cartFor readers of Andrea Elliott and Matthew Desmond, the former CEO of the Coalition for the Homeless breaks through the highly destructive misinformation surrounding our homeless neighbors
Conservative- Series: Myths Made in America
- Author: Brosnahan, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 0807006971
- Language: English
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The Lost and the Found: A True Story of Homelessness, Found Family, and Second Chances
$28.99 Add to cartIn the tradition of Stephanie Land and Matthew Desmond, a powerful and deeply reported narrative of homelessness, despair, and hope.
Kevin Fagan’s The Lost and the Found, set in San Francisco–one of- Author: Fagan, Kevin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1668017113
- Language: English
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Effective Skills for Child-Care Workers: A Training Manual from Boys Town
$19.95 Read moreThis manual describes a rigorous preservice training program for child-care workers, one that entrusts considerable authority, autonomy, and accountability in them. Topics include professionalism issu… [more below]
- Author: Boys Town Press
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 185
- Publish Date: December 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0938510436
- Language: English
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The Housemates: Everything One Student Learnt about Love, Care and Dementia from Living in a Nursing Home
$16.95 Add to cartThe international bestseller – an uplifting story of cross-generational living and friendship.
Twenty-one-year-old nursing student Teun Toebes (both broke and curious) decided to move into a nursing ho… [more below]
- Author: Toebes, Teun
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1914613392
- Language: English
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The Stolen Year: How Covid Changed Children’s Lives, and Where We Go Now
$29.00 Read moreAn NPR education reporter shows how the pandemic disrupted children’s lives–and how our country has nearly always failed to put our children first
The onset of COVID broke a 150-year social contract- Author: Kamenetz, Anya
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 23 2022
- ISBN10: 1541700988
- Language: English
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Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
$27.95 Read moreA New York Times Bestseller
A Wall Street Journal Bestseller
A New York Times Notable Book of 2020
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
Shortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Bo- Author: Case, Anne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: March 17 2020
- ISBN10: 069119078X
- Language: English
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Reimagining the Revolution: Four Stories of Abolition, Autonomy, and Forging New Paths in the Modern Civil Rights Movement
$19.95 Read moreThese are the architects of the modern civil rights movement: 4 profiles of revolutionary groups making change beyond protest
A radically different approach to sustaining social justice movements–4 s- Author: Lehman-Ewing, Paula
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 23 2024
- ISBN10: 9.79889E+12
- Language: English
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A Nation of Takers: America’s Entitlement Epidemic
$12.95 Read moreIn A Nation of Takers: America’s Entitlement Epidemic, one of our country’s foremost demographers, Nicholas Eberstadt, details the exponential growth in entitlement spending over the past fifty years…. [more below]
- Series: New Threats to Freedom
- Author: Eberstadt, Nicholas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 19 2012
- ISBN10: 1599474352
- Language: English
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Early Detection: Catching Cancer When It’s Curable
$26.95 Add to cart“A lucid, persuasive case for overhauling diagnosis regimes to catch cancer early rather than late.”
—Kirkus ReviewsCatching cancer early remains the single best way to combat a disease that is the se
- Author: Ratner, Bruce
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 1682193519
- Language: English
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To Be a Problem: A Black Woman’s Survival in the Racist Disability Rights Movement
$24.95 Add to cartA searing critique of the disability rights movement from within, and a call for collective liberation that is pro-Black and centers disabled people of color
For over twenty years, Dara Baldwin has of- Author: Baldwin, Dara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: July 09 2024
- ISBN10: 0807013978
- Language: English
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When the Welfare People Come: Race and Class in the Us Child Protection System
$19.00 Read moreAnalyzes the history of the U.S. child welfare system and its implications today, offering ideas for reform and building solidarity.
- Author: Lash, Don
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 222
- Publish Date: February 07 2017
- ISBN10: 1608467430
- Language: English
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Something for Nothing: The Attitude That Turns the American Dream Into a Social Nightmare
$19.99 Add to cartAmerica’s greatness comes from people working hard to fulfill their dreams. But today that greatness is being undermined by people using the government to steal other people’s dreams (and money). Rath
- Author: Tracy, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 08 2023
- ISBN10: 1400248590
- Language: English
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Out of the Uniform, Back into Civilian Life: No Nonsense Veterans Benefits Guide
$9.99 Add to cartAn invaluable resource for veterans seeking clear, actionable guidance to navigate the often complex landscape of Department of Veterans Affairs benefits and assistance programs. When you hang up that… [more below]
- Author: Pike, Jason
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 78
- Publish Date: October 02 2023
- ISBN10: 9798988961017
- Language: English
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Many Ways to Be
$8.99 Read moreWe all do things in the way that works best for us. Learn with Sesame Street how to listen to our bodies and give them the tools they need.
- Series: Sesame Street (R) Celebrating You and Me
- Author: Peterson, Christy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 24
- Publish Date: August 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1728463734
- Language: English
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The Feminist Subversion of the Economy: Contributions for Life Against Capital
$22.00 Add to cartThe political response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the pressures on the global capitalist economies has, once again, imposed the priority of markets over life. Add to this the climate crisis and, und
- Author: Pérez Orozco, Amaia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1942173199
- Language: English
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Fixing America
$33.99 Add to cartHave you been wondering about the big issues dominating the news? Is climate change a massive threat or not? What is really going on with immigration? More importantly, how did American politics becom
- Author: Taggart, William M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 412
- Publish Date: January 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1954779879
- Language: English
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Race for the Exits: The Unraveling of Japan’s System of Social Protection
$46.58 Add to cartContrary to all expectations, Japan’s long-term recession has provoked no sustained political movement to replace the nation’s malfunctioning economic structure. The country’s basic social contract ha
- Author: Schoppa, Leonard J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 15 2008
- ISBN10: 801474450
- Language: English
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Where’s My Mummy
$17.99 Read more‘Mum and Dad. Gone?’ asked Louisa.
After a horrific car crash, thirteen-year-old Louisa is left fighting for her life in hospital. She wakes to find that her loving,
‘Yes, ‘ I nodded. ‘They’re gone.’- Author: Hartley, Maggie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 06, 2023
- ISBN10: 1399606573
- Language: English
