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  • REFORMING CAPITALISM, GOING DIGITAL AND GREEN
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    REFORMING CAPITALISM, GOING DIGITAL AND GREEN
    WHITTAKER, D. HUGH
    The book describes Japan’s efforts since 2015 to exit the deflationary ‘lost decades’ and chart a new economic course through digital and green transformation, as well as ‘new/ sustainable capitalism.’ Japan is attempting to revitalize and reorient its economy through digital and green transformation. At the same time it is seeking to make a more equitable and sustainable trans...

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  • PERSON-ENVIRONMENT PRACTICE
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    PERSON-ENVIRONMENT PRACTICE
    SUSAN P. KEMP / JAMES K. WHITTAKER / ELIZABETH M. TRACY
    Person-Environment Practice addresses a core but long- neglected dimension in social work and human services practice; accurate environmental assessment and strategic environmental intervention. Despite the centrality of "person-environment" as a key construct in direct practice, the domain of environmental assessment/intervention has received relatively little systematic atten...

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  • LOW VISION REHABILITATION
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    LOW VISION REHABILITATION
    STEPHEN WHITTAKER / MITCHELL SCHEIMAN / DEBRA SOKOL-MCKAY
    This Second Edition of Low Vision Rehabilitation: A Practical Guide for Occupational Therapists provides current, evidence-based information on low vision rehabilitation that contains several new and expanded chapters on ADLs, IADLs, and recreation, as well as new online resources and the latest in accessibility devices. Low vision rehabilitation is rapidly growing as a special...

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  • HISTORY AS FANTASY IN MUSIC, SOUND, IMAGE, AND MEDIA
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    HISTORY AS FANTASY IN MUSIC, SOUND, IMAGE, AND MEDIA
    JAMES COOK, ALEXANDER KOLASSA, ALEXANDER ROBINSON, AND ADAM WHITTAKER
    Exploring how music is used to portray the past in a variety of media, this book probes the relationship between history and fantasy in the imagination of the musical past. The volume brings together essays from multidisciplinary perspectives, addressing the use of music to convey a sense of the past in a wide range of multimedia contexts, including television, documentaries, o...

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  • GEOPOLITICS AND IDENTITY IN BRITISH FOREIGN POLICY DISCOURSE
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    GEOPOLITICS AND IDENTITY IN BRITISH FOREIGN POLICY DISCOURSE
    NICK WHITTAKER
    This is the first book to examine Britain’s geopolitical identity and how it is expressed in foreign policy discourse. It demonstrates how British imperial thought, related to its island status, has remained important for British Members of Parliament in their debates of contemporary issues. It presents an exciting and provocative new reading of modern British foreign policy th...

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  • A BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING
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    A BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING
    TIFFANY A. WHITTAKER / RANDALL E. SCHUMACKER
    A Beginner’s Guide to Structural Equation Modeling, fifth edition, has been redesigned with consideration of a true beginner in structural equation modeling (SEM) in mind. The book covers introductory through intermediate topics in SEM in more detail than in any previous edition. All of the chapters that introduce models in SEM have been expanded to include easy-to-follow, step...

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  • INTRODUCING SOCIAL STATISTICS
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    INTRODUCING SOCIAL STATISTICS
    RICHARD STARTUP / ELWYN T. WHITTAKER
    Originally published in 1982, this book describes those basic ideas and techniques of statistics which should be known to every social scientist. The explanations are given in careful detail at a level of mathematical sophistication which will be readily attainable by students meeting statistical methods for the first time. All the methods described are applied to, and sometime...

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  • PROFESSIONAL JUDGEMENT AND DECISION MAKING IN SOCIAL WORK
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    PROFESSIONAL JUDGEMENT AND DECISION MAKING IN SOCIAL WORK
    BRIAN TAYLOR / ‎ANDREW WHITTAKER
    Professional judgement and decision making are central to social work, both in everyday professional practice and in public perceptions of social work as a profession. This book examines key issues that are relevant today. The chapters cover child protection, mental health, and elder care settings in Europe, Australia and Canada. They discuss organisational and cultural context...

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  • RISK IN SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE
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    RISK IN SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE
    ANDREW WHITTAKER / ‎BRIAN TAYLOR
    The study of ‘risk’ in social work involves complex interplay between human behaviour, emotion, evidence of fact, professional values and organisational systems. This book brings together contributions from key social work researchers and theorists from the UK, USA, New Zealand and Italy, writing with a focus on aspects of risk within social work. It examines key debates concer...

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  • YOUNG CHILDREN, VIDEOS AND COMPUTER GAMES
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    YOUNG CHILDREN, VIDEOS AND COMPUTER GAMES
    JACK SANGER / JANE WILSON / BRYN DAVIES / ROGER WHITTAKER
    Debate ranges over the effects of the growing utilization by the young of interactive screen-based technologies and the effects of these on vulnerable young chldren. This text is based on two years' research on 100 children, with entertainment screen technology in their homes, following them from home to school and examining the difference in culture in the two environments. Th...

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  • THE CHILD WELFARE CHALLENGE
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    THE CHILD WELFARE CHALLENGE
    PETER J. PECORA / JAMES K. WHITTAKER / RICHARD P. BARTH / SHARON BORJA / WILLIAM VESNESKI
    Using both historical and contemporary contexts, The Child Welfare Challenge examines major policy practice and research issues as they jointly shape child welfare practice and its future. This text focuses on families and children whose primary recourse to services has been through publicly funded child welfare agencies, and considers historical areas of service—foster care an...

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  • HUMAN GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT
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    HUMAN GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT
    JOHN SUDBERY / ANDREW WHITTAKER
    Social workers work with people at all stages of life, tackling a multitude of personal, social, health, welfare, legal and educational issues. As a result, all social work students need to understand human growth and development throughout the lifespan. This fully revised and expanded second edition of this introductory text for social workers provides a knowledge base about h...

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  • ESSENTIAL TIPS FOR THE INCLUSIVE SECONDARY CLASSROOM
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    ESSENTIAL TIPS FOR THE INCLUSIVE SECONDARY CLASSROOM
    PIPPA WHITTAKER / RACHAEL HAYES
    This go-to resource provides practitioners with quick, easy and cost-effective ways of improving inclusive practices in educational settings. Addressing the needs of children with various disabilities, from ADHD, dyslexia and low literacy skills, to physical disabilities, mental health and social needs, the book offers practitioners tips and ideas for ensuring that each and eve...

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  • BEHAVIORAL METHODS IN SOCIAL WELFARE
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    BEHAVIORAL METHODS IN SOCIAL WELFARE
    STEVEN PAUL SCHINKE / JAMES. K WHITTAKER / SCOTT BRIAR
    "Behavioral Methods in Social Welfare" offers positive proof that behaviorism has come of age in social work. Steven Paul Schinke and the contributors to this volume are social work practitioners who document their attempts to extend the basic tenets of behavioral psychology from the laboratory, clinic, and classroom to the full range of client groups and social problems that m...

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  • GHOSTS ON THE ROOF
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    GHOSTS ON THE ROOF
    WHITTAKER CHAMBERS / TERRY TEACHOUT / MILTON HINDUS
    Whittaker Chambers is one of the most controversial figures in modern American history a former Communist spy who left the party, testified against Alger Hiss before the House Un-American Activities Committee, and wrote a classic autobiography, Witness. Dismissed by some as a crank, reviled by others as a traitor, Chambers still looms as a Dostoevskian figure over three decades...

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  • THE OTHER 23 HOURS
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    THE OTHER 23 HOURS
    ALBERT E TRIESCHMAN / JAMES K WHITTAKER / LARRY BRENDTRO
    Among other revolutionary developments of today's world is the so-called "knowledge explosion". So much is being written so fast about so many things that it is becoming well-nigh ir--retrievable. One consequently can never be sure that he knows what there is to know about many kinds of phenomena or types of problems existing in the modern world due to the chance that something...

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  • PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC CHANGE THROUGH THE GROUP PROCESS
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    PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC CHANGE THROUGH THE GROUP PROCESS
    DOROTHY STOCK WHITTAKER
    Psychotherapeutic Change through the Group Process discusses the relation between the properties of groups and therapeutic change. The purpose is to develop a view of groups that accounts for the diversity, complexity, and fluidity of the group situation. The view examines the group in depth, attending not only to overt events, but also to covert aspects of specific situations....

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  • MAGAZINE PRODUCTION
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    MAGAZINE PRODUCTION
    JASON WHITTAKER
    Magazine Production presents a guide to the practical processes of taking a magazine from initial idea to final product. This second edition provides important revisions on these production processes by examining the technological and business advancements which have reshaped the magazine industry in the last decade. Brand new chapters document the rise of digital media and ide...

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  • UNDERSTANDING AND SUPPORTING PUPILS WITH MODERATE LEARNING DIFFICULTIES IN THE SECONDARY SCHOOL
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    UNDERSTANDING AND SUPPORTING PUPILS WITH MODERATE LEARNING DIFFICULTIES IN THE SECONDARY SCHOOL
    RACHAEL HAYES / PIPPA WHITTAKER
    Are you working with students who have Moderate Learning Difficulties? Do you want to know how best to help them? Are you confused about what helps and what hinders? Learners with MLD form one of the largest categories of special educational need in mainstream secondary schools. In most schools, the vast majority of learners with MLD will be taught in mainstream classes much of...

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  • COUNTER-TERRORISM AND HUMAN RIGHTS
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    COUNTER-TERRORISM AND HUMAN RIGHTS
    DAVID J. WHITTAKER
    The ever-present threat of terrorism and the growing human-rights backlash against anti-terrorist policies are becoming ever more significant on the international stage. Constant media-coverage and public concern have characterised the debate over the last ten years. This book is a fair and objective assessment of counter-terrorist policy and human rights worldwide, and covers ...

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  • AMERICAN FLINTKNAPPERS
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    AMERICAN FLINTKNAPPERS
    JOHN C. WHITTAKER
    "An important resource for students of modern replication studies . . . Of interest to anyone studying folk technologies in general." ― The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute   Making arrowheads, blades, and other stone tools was once a survival skill and is still a craft practiced by thousands of flintknappers around the world. In the United States, knappers gather...

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  • TERRORISM
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    TERRORISM
    DAVID WHITTAKER
    What is terrorism and where does it come from? Who are the people who perpetrate terror? What are their motives? Terrorism is now everybody's major and constant fear. This easy-to-read, concise account of terrorism provides the essential global guide to understanding what the threat is and exactly where it comes from. Without this knowledge, argues David Whittaker, there can be...

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  • THE IMPACT AND LEGACY OF EDUCATIONAL SLOYD
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    THE IMPACT AND LEGACY OF EDUCATIONAL SLOYD
    DAVID J. WHITTAKER
    Originating in Finland in eighteen-sixty-five, Educational Sloyd used handicrafts practised in schools to promote educational completeness through the interdependence of the mind and body. These radical ideas spread throughout Europe and America and had a significant impact on the early development of manual training, manual arts, industrial education and technical education. T...

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  • WILLIAM BLAKE AND THE DIGITAL HUMANITIES
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    WILLIAM BLAKE AND THE DIGITAL HUMANITIES
    ROGER WHITSON / JASON WHITTAKER
    William Blake’s work demonstrates two tendencies that are central to social media: collaboration and participation. Not only does Blake cite and adapt the work of earlier authors and visual artists, but contemporary authors, musicians, and filmmakers feel compelled to use Blake in their own creative acts. This book identifies and examines Blake’s work as a social and participat...

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  • WOMEN'S HEALTH IN MAINLAND SOUTHEAST ASIA
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    WOMEN'S HEALTH IN MAINLAND SOUTHEAST ASIA
    ANDREA WHITTAKER
    A thought-provoking look at women’s health in developing nations! This book shows how war, military regimes, industrialization, urbanization, and social upheaval have all affected the choices Southeast Asian women make about their health and health care. When you read these first-person accounts from Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, and Burma, you’ll be drawn into the lives of wome...

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  • SENSORY AWARENESS AND SOCIAL WORK
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    SENSORY AWARENESS AND SOCIAL WORK
    MICHELLE EVANS / ANDREW WHITTAKER
    Understanding sensory needs is fundamental for social work and care management practice. Social workers are trained to reflect on their own practice, make useful application of theory and promote anti-discriminatory practice at all times. This book will assist students in identifying people who have a sensory need and enable them to have the knowledge, skills and values to addr...

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  • PRODUCING FOR WEB 2.0
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    PRODUCING FOR WEB 2.0
    JASON WHITTAKER
    Praise for the previous edition: 'Gives an excellent insight into the main issues of creating a website and offers a good foundation of knowledge.' – i.net Producing for Web 2.0 is a clear and practical guide to the planning, set up and management of a website in web 2.0. It gives readers an overview of the current technologies available for online communications and shows how ...

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  • CHINUA ACHEBE'S THINGS FALL APART
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    CHINUA ACHEBE'S THINGS FALL APART
    DAVID WHITTAKER / MPALIVE-HANGSON MSISKA
    Offering an insight into African culture that had not been portrayed before, Things Fall Apart is both a tragic and moving story of an individual set in the wider context of the coming of colonialism, as well as a powerful and complex political statement of cross-cultural encounters. This guide to Chinua Achebe’s compelling novel offers: an accessible introduction to the text a...

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  • UNITED NATIONS IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD
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    UNITED NATIONS IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD
    DAVID J. WHITTAKER
    Fifty years after the creation of the United Nations, there exists a vigorous debate as to its limitations and possibilities. In United Nations in the Contemporary World, David J. Whittaker examines how the UN works and assesses its position as a world organisation. The author explores the nature of the UN as a regime in contemporary international relations. He considers the ch...

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  • ASYLUM SEEKERS AND REFUGEES IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD
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    ASYLUM SEEKERS AND REFUGEES IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD
    DAVID J. WHITTAKER
    Examining a number of case studies, including Palestinian, Afghan and Iraqi refugees, David J. Whittaker’s book provides a balanced introduction to this very controversial subject. Fuelled by extensive coverage in the media, the issue of asylum seekers and refugees is one of the most talked about subjects in contemporary politics. Whittaker cuts through the emotive language to ...

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