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  • CHILDREN FORSAKEN
    STEVEN WALKER
    A shocking reminder of the cruel history of childhood that has been largely hidden and forgotten. Children Forsaken provides a long, historical, overarching examination of the phenomenon of child abuse. In the UK battered child syndrome was 'discovered' in the 1960s, whilst child sexual abuse gained attention in the early 1980s. Subsequent enquiries, legislation and practice de...

    $800.00

  • MODERN MENTAL HEALTH
    STEVEN WALKER
    The World Health Organisation recently confirmed that mental Illness was set to become the biggest threat to human well-being in the twenty first century. Mental illness accounts for more disability adjusted life years lost per year than any other health condition in the UK. No other health condition matches mental ill health in the combined extent of prevalence, persistence an...

    $760.00

  • SUPPORTING TROUBLED YOUNG PEOPLE
    STEVEN WALKER
    Supporting Troubled Young People provides a vital and much-needed resource for anyone involved with children and young people who are suffering from or at risk of developing, mental health problems. Problems such as self-harm, eating disorders, and anxiety and depression are increasing, while young men, in particular, are at increasing risk of suicide. This is against a backdro...

    $700.00

  • TOXIC LEADERSHIP
    STEVEN M. WALKER / DARYL WATKINS
    Toxic Leadership: Research and Cases presents research and cases on toxic leadership that emerged from qualitative research on the followers of toxic leaders. The goal is to help students, researchers, and academics understand how toxic leadership emerges, how leaders can spot toxic leadership within their organizations, and discuss what they can do to stop toxic leaders from d...

    $1,160.00

  • CRYPTIC SUBTEXTS IN LITERATURE AND FILM
    STEVEN F. WALKER
    One of the primary objectives of comparative literature is the study of the relationship of texts, also known as intertextuality, which is a means of contextualizing and analyzing the way literature grows and flourishes through inspiration and imitation, direct or indirect. When the inspiration and imitation is direct and obvious, the study of this rapport falls into the more r...

    $1,280.00

  • JUNG AND THE JUNGIANS ON MYTH
    STEVEN WALKER
    Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) was never more insightful and intriguing than when he discussed mythology. The key to understanding the Jungian approach to mythology lies in the concept of the image, which provides the basis for his theory of the unconscious. By emphasizing the image over the word, Jungian psychology distinguishes itself dramatically from Freudian, Lacanian, and o...

    $1,120.00

  • MIDLIFE TRANSFORMATION IN LITERATURE AND FILM
    STEVEN F. WALKER
    In this book, Steven F. Walker considers the midlife transition from a Jungian and Eriksonian perspective, by providing vivid and powerful literary and cinematic examples that illustrate the psychological theories in a clear and entertaining way. For C.G. Jung, midlife is a time for personal transformation, when the values of youth are replaced by a different set of values, and...

    $1,160.00

  • MICROBIOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF BIOFILMS AND DRINKING WATER
    STEVEN LANE PERCIVAL / JAMES TAGGARI WALKER / PAUL R. HUNTER
    The development of biofilms and their role in public health - particularly drinking water - is often overlooked. Ideal for anyone interested in water related issues, Microbiological Aspects of Biofilms and Drinking Water presents an overview of the public health effects associated with drinking water. It highlights the microbiological aspects relating to the development of biof...

    $1,380.00

  • ILLUMINATING HUMOR OF THE BIBLE
    STEVEN WALKER
    Humor smiles and chuckles and sometimes laughs so loud in virtually every book of the Bible, so it's remarkable how readers manage to overlook it. It's also unfortunate. Humor graces biblical texts at so many levels that to miss the humor is to miss not only much of the emotional impact of the Bible, but much of its meaning. Illuminating Humor of the Bible shows how--and how mu...

    $532.00

  • EFFECTIVE SOCIAL WORK WITH CHILDREN, YOUNG PEOPLE AND FAMILIES
    STEVEN WALKER
    This book looks at the changing context of children and young people′s services heralded by the structural, organisational and funding changes put forward in Eileen Munro′s Review of Child Protection. It is strongly grounded in research and theory, and gives specific consideration to how systems theory can help practitioners in understanding families. It highlights the need for...

    $1,432.57