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Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself
DescriptionAn expert guide for codependents on how to stop controlling others and begin caring for themselves.
RatingCustomer rating is 4 of 5
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ManufacturerHazelden Publishing & Educational Services
Categories Codependency   Personal Transformation   General   Social Services & Welfare   Hardcover   Printed Books   Deluxe Edition  
The 36-Hour Day: A Family Guide to Caring for People with Alzheimer Disease, Other Dementias, and Memory Loss in Later Life, 4th Edition
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Revised in 2006 for its twenty-fifth anniversary, this excellent-selling book is the "bible" for families caring for people together with Alzheimer disease, offering luxury and support to millions worldwide. In addition to the practical and compassionate guidance this have made The 36-Hour Day invaluable to caregivers, the fourth edition is the only edition ...

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ManufacturerThe Johns Hopkins University Press
Categories Textbooks Trade-In   Alzheimer's Disease   Nervous System   General   Caregiving   Geriatrics   Social Services & Welfare   Eldercare   Family Health   Paperback   Printed Books  
A Framework for Understanding Poverty
DescriptionA Framework for Understanding Poverty was Dr. Ruby Payne's first book, written for teachers together with adaptations for work and community members. Its purpose is to educate people concerning the differences this separate economic classes and then teaching them strategies to bridge those gulfs. Ruby discusses at length the social cues or "concealed rules" ...
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ManufacturerRFT Publishing Co.
Categories Social Services & Welfare   General   Socially Handicapped   Paperback   Printed Books  
Nickel and Dimed: Undercover in Low-wage America
DescriptionMillions of Americans work full-time, year-round, for poverty altitude wages. Journalist Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them in order to locate out how anyone survives on six dollars an hour. So began a gruelling, hair-raising and darkly funny odyssey though the underworld of working America.
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ManufacturerGranta Books
Categories Labor & Industrial Relations   Unemployment   Labor Policy   General   Social Services & Welfare   Paperback   Printed Books  
Out of the Shadows: Understanding Sexual Addiction
DescriptionThis book is the first work ever published on sexual addiction, examines the tangled web of love, addictive sex, hate and fear often found in family relationships. Patrick Carnes proposes a way for addicts to deal together with their sexual compulsions and become whole humam beings
RatingCustomer rating is 4 of 5
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ManufacturerCompcare Publications
Categories Substance Abuse   Abuse   Social Services & Welfare   Paperback   Printed Books  
Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America
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What would it get?

This was the question this Geoffrey Canada found himself asking. What would it get to modify the lives of poor kids—not one by one, throughout heroic interventions and occasional miracles, but in big numbers, and in a way this could be replicated nationwide? The question led him to make the Harlem Kids’s ...
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ManufacturerMariner Books
Categories Textbooks Trade-In   African-American & Black   Educators   Social Services & Welfare   General   Aims & Objectives   Assessment   Leadership   Philosophy & Social Aspects   Policy   African-American Studies   Paperback   Printed Books  
Grant Writing for Dummies
DescriptionGrant writing skills are necessary in gaining funding from government and foundation grants for a nonprofit organization. In the past, there were no college degrees in grant writing and very few, if any, books on how to put in writing a grant. The process of learning how to put in writing a grant was mostly trial and error, but times have changed. Today, grant ...
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ManufacturerFor Dummies
Categories Textbooks Trade-In   Nonprofit Organizations & Charities   Social Services & Welfare   Philanthropy & Charity   General   Paperback   Printed Books  
The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time
DescriptionJeffrey Sachs draws on his remarkable 25 years' experience to propose a thrilling and inspiring vision of the keys to economic success in the world today. Marrying vivid storytelling together with acute analysis, he sets the stage by drawing a conceptual map of the world economy and explains why, over the past 200 years, wealth and poverty have diverged and ...
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ManufacturerAllen Lane
Categories Unemployment   Social Services & Welfare   General   Hardcover   Printed Books  
How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas, Updated Edition
DescriptionHow to Modify the World offers vivid profiles of social entrepreneurs. The book is an In Search of Quality for social initiatives, intertwining personal stories, anecdotes, and analysis. Readers will discover how one person can do an astonishing difference in the world.
The case studies in the book contain Jody Williams, who ...
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ManufacturerOxford University Press, USA
Categories General AAS   Entrepreneurship   Sociology   Textbooks Trade-In   Volunteer Work   Decision-Making & Problem Solving   New Business Enterprises   General   Social Services & Welfare   Activism   Social Work   Paperback   Printed Books  
It's So Much Work to Be Your Friend: Helping the Child with Learning Disabilities Find Social Success
Description

ADHD • Anxiety • Nonverbal • Communication • Disorders • Visual/Spatial • Disorders • Executive Functioning Difficulties

As any parent, teacher, coach, or caregiver of a learning disabled kid recognizes, each learning disability has a social component. The ADD kid continuously interrupts and doesn't follow directions. The ...

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ManufacturerTouchstone
Categories Textbooks Trade-In   Special Needs Children   General   Interpersonal Relations   Social Services & Welfare   Behavioral Disorders   Learning Disabled   Socially Handicapped   Relations   Disabilities   Paperback   Printed Books  
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