Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: william jordan

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  • THE SOCIAL WORKER IN FAMILY SITUATIONS
    WILLIAM JORDAN
    First published in 1972, The Social Worker in Family Situations sets out to provide a theoretical basis for the practice of the family casework approach. William Jordan studies those families whose members flee from emotional involvement with each other, stressing their individual autonomy and the dangers of close family ties. He concentrates on the problems of working with the...

    $1,400.00

  • IDEOLOGY AND ROYAL POWER IN MEDIEVAL FRANCE
    WILLIAM CHESTER JORDAN
    Ideology and Royal Power is a collection of essays describing and assessing the ways in which royal publicists in medieval France conceived the authority of the crown, especially with regard to protecting and defending its Christian subjects from their alleged enemies at home and abroad--corrupt officials, Jews (particularly moneylenders), heretics, and Muslims. A number of the...

    $1,480.00

  • THE SPIRITUAL HORIZON OF PSYCHOTHERAPY
    WILLIAM S. SCHMIDT AND MERLE R. JORDAN
    This book explores the wise and conscious use of spiritual resources within counselling and psychotherapy. Written by veteran clinicians from different spiritual perspectives, and from various therapeutic schools of thought, this book provides a broad view of how the spiritual is present within therapeutic practice. The work of counselling and psychotherapy is increasingly seek...

    $1,320.00

  • DEVASTATING LOSSES
    WILLIAM FEIGELMAN / JOHN JORDAN / JOHN MCINTOSH / BEVERLY FEIGELMAN
    This book fills a critical gap in our scientific understanding of the grief response of parents who have lost a child to traumatic death and the psychotherapeutic strategies that best facilitate healing. It is based on the results of the largest study ever conducted of parents surviving a child's traumatic death or suicide. The book was conceived by William and Beverly Feigelma...

    $1,064.00

  • ANCIENT CONCEPTS OF PHILOSOPHY
    WILLIAM JORDAN
    For Socrates, philosophy, was the study of how to lead one's life, and for Wittgenstein, `philosophy leaves everything as it is.' Throughout this book, the work of the ancients is set in the context of the most recent thinking about the nature and value of philosophy, and the author questions how much there is to be learnt from the ancient philosophers' differing conceptions of...

    $1,160.00

  • PLATO'S ARGUMENTS FOR FORMS
    ROBERT WILLIAM JORDAN
    If we are to understand why Plato had a theory of Forms, we must explain, firstly, why he thought it necessary to depart from the ontology of the Socratic dialogues; secondly, why he then posited the existence of entities that have the characteristics that he ascribes to Forms (entities that are 'unmixed', 'unchanging', 'in every way being' and so on); and thirdly, why Plato to...

    $511.75

  • CLIENT-WORKER TRANSACTIONS
    WILLIAM JORDAN
    First published in 1970, Client-Worker Transactions challenges some aspects of current thinking about the client-worker relationship in social work. Traditionally, the worker’s treatment of the client’s social problems has been seen as something like a doctor’s treatment of a patient's illness. William Jordan argues that clients’ social problems often consist in their ability t...

    $2,000.00

  • A CAT NAMED DARWIN
    WILLIAM JORDAN
    A scientist contemplates his bond with a sick stray cat in this "gripping and powerful" memoir ( The San Diego Union-Tribune).   Bill Jordan's life changed forever the day a stray cat nesting under his bougainvillea bit him on the hand. Trained in biology, Jordan had no particular love for animals and felt vaguely contemptuous of those who did—until the cat, beckoning with a wi...

    $229.00