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New social work titles at JMU Libraries.

  • On the ethics of torture / Uwe Steinhoff.
  • A restorative justice reader / edited by Gerry Johnstone.
  • Protecting children in the age of outrage : a new perspective on child protective services reform / Radha Jagannathan, Michael J. Camasso.
  • Managing disasters through public-private partnerships / Ami J. Abou-bakr.
  • Management of team leadership in extreme context defending our homeland, protecting our first responders / edited by George B. Graen, Joan A. Graen.
  • Don't leave your friends behind : concrete ways to support families in social justice movements and communities / [edited by] Victoria Law and China Martens
  • Urban poverty in the global South : scale and nature / Diana Mitlin and David Satterthwaite
  • Why philanthropy matters : how the wealthy give, and what it means for our economic well-being / Zoltan J. Acs.
  • Ignorant yobs? : low attainers in a global knowledge economy / Sally Tomlinson.
  • Healthy aging in sociocultural context / edited by Andrew E. Scharlach and Kazumi Hoshino
  • Appalachia [videorecording] : a history of mountains and people / A James Agee Film Project Production ; a film series by Jamie Ross and Ross Spears ; producer, Jamie Ross ; director, Ross Spears ; written by Ross Spears and Jamie Ross ; science writer, George Constantz
  • Don't call me inspirational : a disabled feminist talks back / Harilyn Rousso.
  • Dignity in exile : stories of struggle and hope from a modern American shantytown / Eric Weissman ; photographs by Nigel Dickson ; foreword by Domenic A. Beneventi
  • Long-term care in Europe : improving policy and practice / edited by Kai Leichsenring, European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research, Austria, Jenny Billings, University of Kent, UK, and Henk Nies, Vilans, The Netherlands
  • With or without you : a memoir / Domenica Ruta
  • With charity for all : the terrible truth of charitable failure / by Ken Stern
  • Parenting and substance abuse : developmental approaches to intervention / edited by Nancy E. Suchman, Marjukka Pajulo, and Linda C. Mayes
  • Girls behind bars : reclaiming education in transformative spaces / Suniti Sharma
  • Finding a purpose in the pain : a doctor's approach to addiction recovery and healing / James L Fenley
  • Connecting with socially isolated seniors : a service provider's guide / Patricia Osage ; with Mary McCall ; foreword by Harry R. Moody
  • Exceptional life journeys : stories of childhood disorder / edited by Jac J.W. Andrews, Peter Istvanffy
  • Basic statistics in multivariate analysis / Karen A. Randolph, Laura L. Myers.
  • Culturally competent research : using ethnography as a meta-framework / Mo Yee Lee, Amy Zaharlick.
  • Alcohol : social drinking in cultural context / Janet Chrzan.
  • Alcohol and violence : the nature of the relationship and the promise of prevention / Robert Nash Parker and Kevin J. McCaffree
  • Designing & doing survey research / Lesley Andres
  • Child sexual abuse : best practices for interviewing and treatment / Monit Cheung
  • Professional writing for social work practice / Daniel Weisman, Joseph L. Zornado
  • Social workers and subpoenas / Carolyn Polowy, JD, Sherri Morgan, JD, Amber Khan, JD, Carol Gorenberg
  • Resiliency : an integrated approach to practice, policy, and research / Roberta R. Greene, editor
  • Natural disaster and nuclear crisis in Japan : response and recovery after Japan's 3/11 / edited by Jeff Kingston
  • Displaced : life in the Katrina diaspora / edited by Lynn Weber and Lori Peek ; with Social Science Research Council Research Network on Persons Displaced by Hurricane Katrina
  • Children's chances : how countries can move from surviving to thriving / Jody Heymann, with Kristen McNeill
  • Social work with HIV and AIDS : a case-based guide / Diana Rowan and contributors
  • The girl's guide to homelessness : a memoir / Brianna Karp
  • Fundraising and the next generation : tools for engaging the next generation of philanthropists / Emily Davis
  • Mobility impairment and the construction of identity / Heather Ridolfo, Brian W. Ward
  • Political institutions and elderly care policy : comparative politics of long-term care in advanced democracies / Takeshi Hieda
  • Get real : a practical guide to leading adolescent groups / Beth Harris Brandes and Judy B. Ingold
  • Social work research skills workbook : a step-by-step guide to conducting agency-based research / Jacqueline Corcoran and Mary Secret
  • Is it ethical? : 101 scenarios in everyday social work practice : a discussion workbook / by Thomas Horn
  • Invisible men : mass incarceration and the myth of Black progress / Becky Pettit
  • Inside this place, not of it : narratives from women's prisons / compiled and edited by Robin Levi and Ayelet Waldman ; associate editor, Rebecca Silbert ; foreword by Michelle Alexander ; research editor, Alex Carp ; assistant research editor, Jessie Hawk
  • The sociology of care : exploring theory, policy, and practice : the case of aging / Jason L. Powell
  • When my mother no longer knew my name : a son's "course" in "rational" caregiving / Stephen L. Goldstein
  • Young adult offenders : lost in transition? / edited by Friedrich Lösel, Anthony Bottoms and David P. Farrington
  • Arts and humanities / Brenda Jo Brueggemann
  • Alcohol and illicit drug use in the workforce and workplace / Michael R. Frone
  • Social work practice in the addictions / Michael G. Vaughn, Brian E. Perron, editors
  • Housing the homeless / edited by Jon Erickson and Charles Wilhelm ; with a new introduction by Jon Erickson
  • Multiple dimensions of caregiving and disability : research, practice, policy / Ronda C. Talley, John E. Crews, editors
  • The story within us : women prisoners reflect on reading / edited by Megan Sweeney
  • Trends in the economic well-being of female-headed households / Gabrielle Young and Donald T. Green, editors
  • From exclusion to inclusion in old age [electronic resource] : a global challenge / edited by Thomas Scharf and Norah Keating
  • Dementia care with Black and Latino families [electronic resource] : a social work problem-solving approach / Delia J. González Sanders, Richard H. Fortinsky
  • Milestones / Robert L. Barker
  • Being with edgy youth / editor, Kiaras Gharabaghi
  • Bamboo women : stories from Ming Quong, a Chinese orphanage in California / Nona Mock Wyman
  • Alcohol and drug use among youth / Agatha M. Pichler, editor
  • Facilitative leadership in social work practice / Elizabeth M. Breshears and Roger Dean Volker
  • Mastering social work values and ethics / Farrukh Akhtar ; foreword by Hilary Tompsett
  • Community lost : the state, civil society, and displaced survivors of hurricane Katrina / Ronald J. Angel ... [et al.]
  • Children and the politics of cultural belonging / Alice Hearst, Smith College
  • Runaway girl : escaping life on the streets, one helping hand at a time / Carissa Phelps with Larkin Warren
  • Money for the cause : a complete guide to event fundraising / Rudolph A. Rosen ; fundraising art and illustrations by Katie Dobson Cundiff ; foreword by Andrew Sansom
  • Making a difference 2.0 : the ultimate guide to online charitable giving / Howard Freeman
  • A disability history of the United States / Kim E. Nielsen
  • Orphan care : a comparative view / edited by Jo Daugherty Bailey
  • Tag im Leben des 179212. English
  • Magdalene House : a place about mercy / Sarah VanHooser Suiter
  • Born, not raised : voices from Juvenile Hall / Susan Madden Lankford
  • H-unit : a story of writing and redemption behind the walls of San Quentin / Keith and Kent Zimmerman
  • Health and health promotion in prisons / Michael Ross
  • Dr. Bob and Bill W. speak : AA's cofounders tell their stories / Michael Fitzpatrick
  • Drinking with men / Rosie Schaap
  • Drinking diaries : women serve their stories straight up / edited by Leah Odze Epstein and Caren Osten Gerszberg
  • College student alcohol abuse : a guide to assessment, intervention, and prevention / [edited by] Christopher J. Correia, James G. Murphy, Nancy P. Barnett
  • Ninety days : a memoir of recovery / Bill Clegg
  • Spirituality in social work and education : theory, practice, and pedagogies / Janet Groen, Diana Coholic, and John R. Graham, editors
  • Stop the presses! I want to get off! : a brief history of the Prisoners' digest international / Joseph W. Grant ; edited by Ken Wachsberger
  • Women and recovery : finding hope / Kitty S. Harris with Jodie Gould
  • As I see it : my view from the inside-out / Tom Sullivan
  • Almost home : helping kids move from homelessness to hope / Kevin Ryan and Tina Kelley
  • Strengthening systems to prevent intimate partner violence and sexual violence / edited by Pat Conway ... [et al.]
  • The life and thought of Louis Lowy : social work through the Holocaust / Lorrie Greenhouse Gardella ; foreword by Joachim Wieler
  • Drunken angel / Alan Kaufman
  • We recovered too : the family groups' beginnings in the pioneers' own words : Hazelden celebrates Al-Anon's 60th anniversary / Michael Fitzpatrick
  • Analysis of multiple dependent variables / Patrick Dattalo
  • How to become a better manager in social work and social care : essential skills for managing care / Les Gallop and Trish Hafford-Letchfield
  • Addictions & substance abuse / editor, Robin Kamienny Montvilo
  • Reaffirming rehabilitation / Francis T. Cullen, Karen E Gilbert

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