Ciencias sociales / Ciencias políticas / Política social

The Torment of Secrecy: The Background and Consequences of American Secruity Policies

de Edward Shils

One of the few minor classics to emerge from the cold war years of McCarthyism-an essay in sociological analysis and political philosophy that considers the cold war preoccupation with espionage, sabotage, and...

ObamaCare Survival Guide: The Affordable Care Act and What It Means for You and Your Healthcare

de Nick Tate

When President Barack Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, he handed Americans one of the most sweeping pieces of social legislation in U.S. history. Now that the Supreme Court has upheld...

Until Tuesday

de Luis Carlos Montalvan

“We aren’t just service dog and master;

Tuesday and I are also best friends. Kindred souls. Brothers.

Whatever you want to call it. We weren’t made for each other,

but we turned out to be exactly what...

Development as Freedom

de Amartya Sen

By the winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Economics,  an essential and  paradigm-altering framework for understanding economic development--for both rich and poor--in the twenty-first century.

Freedom, Sen...

Helping Children and Adolescents with Chronic and Serious Medical Conditions: A Strengths-Based Approach

de Nancy Boyd Webb

Praise for Helping Children and Adolescents with Chronic and Serious Medical Conditions

A Strengths-Based Approach

"Helping Children and Adolescents with Chronic and Serious Medical Conditionsprovides a wellspring...

Working with Female Offenders: A Gender Sensitive Approach

de Katherine van Wormer

Praise for Working with Female Offenders

"Encyclopedic in scope and full of very relevant work drawn from the fields of biology, psychology, criminology, and corrections, this book is a must-read for those working...

Developing Practice Competencies: A Foundation for Generalist Practice

de D. Mark Ragg

Praise for

Developing Practice Competencies

A Foundation for Generalist Practice

"This is the textbook I have been waiting for. The author engages the reader from the very beginning. It includes comprehensive coverage...

Analyzing Social Policy: Multiple Perspectives for Critically Understanding and Evaluating Policy

de Mary Katherine O'Connor & F. Ellen Netting

From formulation to implementation, an approach to the analysis of social policy through the lens of research

Analyzing Social Policy prepares professionals and students to make better informed decisions related...

Managing Social Service Staff for Excellence: Five Keys to Exceptional Supervision

de Nancy Summers

An essential guide for those charged with supervision of nonclinical staffin programs, agencies, and units within social service organizations

"As someone who has worked in social service agencies, consulted...

Protecting Clients from Fraud, Incompetence and Scams

de Lance Wallach

Protect your clients – and yourself – from all kinds of financial chicanery and stupidity with this vital new book

It doesn't matter if a financial error was made because of malice or ignorance – the end...

Psychosocial Treatment of Schizophrenia

de Allen Rubin, David W. Springer & Kathi Trawver

Praise for the Clinician's Guide to Evidence-Based Practice Series

"A major stumbling block to the adoption of evidence-based practice in the real world of clinical practice has been the absence of clinician-friendly...

First, Do No Harm: The President's Cousin Explains Why His Hippocratic Oath Requires Him to Oppose ObamaCare

de Milton Wolf

New from Broadside Books' Voices of the Tea Party. The discussion what role—if any—the government should play in regulating and dictating the delivery of health care in the United States has become ground...

Yes We Can?

de Adia Harvey-Wingfield & Joe Feagin

For readers and scholars who are interested in a sociologically-grounded assessment of the historic presidential campaign of 2008, this book provides such an analysis.

One Nation, One Standard: An Ex-Liberal on How Hispanics Can Succeed Just Like Other Immigrant Groups

de Herman Badillo

Why aren’t Hispanics succeeding like Asians, Jews, and other immigrant groups in America? Herman Badillo's answer is as politically incorrect as the question: Hispanics simply don’t put the same emphasis...

Marginality and Crisis: Globalization and Identity in Contemporary Africa

de Akanmu Adebayo, Olutayo Adesina & Rasheed Olaniyi Olaniyi

Taking a multidisciplinary approach, this book evaluates the relations between globalization and Africa's multifarious challenges and identities. The nineteen chapters coalesce to demonstrate that the forces...

Repealing National Prohibition: Second edition

de David E. Kyvig

In this new edition of the most comprehensive study of the political reaction against the Eighteenth Amendment, a response that led to its reversal fourteen years later by the Twenty-first Amendment, David E....

An Uncertain Inheritance

de Nell Casey

In this eloquent collection of essays—from the editor of the national bestseller Unholy Ghost: Writers on Depression—contributors reveal their experiences in caring for family through illness and death

Today,...

Crime: How to Solve it - And Why So Much of What We're Told is Wrong

de Nick Ross

In a whirlwind demolition of dozens of misconceptions about crime, Nick Ross proposes what is arguably the most radical re-think of crime policy since the dawn of policing. Setting conventional thinking on its...

Mandate for Change: Policies and Leadership for 2009 and Beyond

de Chester W. Hartman

The incoming national administration has the opportunity to make a sharp break, in both domestic and international issues, with the failed, destructive policies of the past eight years.Mandate for Change provides...

Access to Health Care

de Martin Gulliford & Myfanwy Morgan

To what extent can we have truly universal, comprehensive and timely health services, equally available to all? Access to Health Care considers the meaning of 'access' in health care and examines the theoretical...