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  • DOUBLE GENEALOGY
    Marilee Wein
    Surprise adoptee, Grandfather was a coal picker in Scotland, at 29, and Chief Inspector of Mines for British Columbia, at 43. He had shared his date and place of birth, or so, it seemed. This genealogy embraces late 18th to early 20th Century, Scotland, with US implications. His family is lovingly presented in “who done it”, under evaluation, as his potential birth parents. His...
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    20,57 €

  • Close to Forever
    Victoria D. Loggins / Victoria DLoggins
    Alexis had known since she was a young girl that if she wanted something she would have to work for it.  Not born with a silver spoon in her mouth, she knew the road to success and having it all would be a challenging and sometimes difficult path to take.  What Alexis didn't see coming was Oliver, the man who would take her heart almost from the second she met him.  Almost ...
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    21,13 €

  • ALL ABOUT ILYAS
    APRIL MARTIN
    I wonder what it would feel like to meet your family – your parents, siblings, aunts and uncles for the first time in the middle of your childhood? At a time when making friends, and being accepted is anxiety ridden and tenuous. What if you were damaged, fragile and angry? What if this was your last chance to be part of a family before being sent permanently to a group home for...
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    20,01 €

  • Caregiving 101
    Dave Leffmann
    This personal yet clinically relevant guide stands out as a must read for anyone faced with caregiving. These pages, penned from the heart and soul of a physical therapist turned caregiver, offers simple yet well thought through and medically accurate essays, external links, even video, to help you with most everything you will face on your journey. The links are written out so...
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    21,47 €

  • Sex Crimes
    Alice Vachss
    'NOBODY KNOWS RAPISTS BETTER'  After being fired from her post as Chief of the Special Victims Unit for refusing to 'go along to get along,' Alice Vachss published the incendiary Sex Crimes, described as 'a stark, passionate closing argument in [her] broader case against the criminal justice system' by the NY Times, which named it as a Notable Book of the Year. Nick (Goodfellas...
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    11,59 €

  • None Call Me Dad
    Ky Owen
    None Call Me Dad is the true, mesmerizing story of a 21st Century dad. On two weeks notice, Ky Owen becomes an adoptive father to a six-year-old son. Five years later, on two days notice, he becomes a father to a teenage daughter. Along the way he assumes the role of father figure to four other kids. “None call me dad,” Owen writes, “But they know that’s who I am.” Intriguing ...
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    11,12 €

  • Surviving Mother
    Gwen Head
    Just as Deb and her mother Estelle are learning how to mesh their individual lives together, nature’s destructive hand comes down, leaving them to wait for a new hope, and help from unexpected others.  In SURVIVING MOTHER Gwen Head has written a story of life struggles, tragedy, and getting one’s life back together to move forward. Written with the caregivers of the world in ...
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    11,15 €

  • ABC, Adoption & Me
    Casey Anne Swift / Gayle H. Swift
    A book about adoption that celebrates the miracle of family and addresses the difficult issues as well. With charming, exuberant illustrations and a diverse representation of families, ABC, Adoption & Me will warm hearts, deepen understanding of what it means to be an adoptive family and provide teaching moments that bring families closer, connected in truth, compassion, and jo...
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    10,16 €

  • A Life Let Go
    Patricia J Florin
    Closed adoption, heralded as the answer to the problem of unplanned pregnancy, shows its other side in A Life Let Go, A Memoir and Five Birth Mother Stories of Closed Adoption. These women tell how they experienced unplanned pregnancy in the restrictiveness of the last decades of the twentieth century. All gave up a child in closed adoption—the only option—understanding they wo...
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    10,55 €

  • Scattered
    Jana Panarites
    In November 2009 Jana Panarites was scrambling to make ends meet in LA, despite a lifetime of working hard and having recently earned a master’s degree from the University of Southern California. Her career spiraling out of control, she didn’t think life could get any worse until she learned of her father’s sudden death two days before Thanksgiving.She flew east for the funeral...
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    12,36 €

  • Speaking Out
    Alan Berman / Berman Alan / Shirleene Robinson
    Based on the largest survey of gay, lesbian, bisexual, intersex, transgender and queer reactions to violence and harassment ever undertaken in Australia, this book gives voice to the many victims who have suffered in the state once recognised as Australia’s most homophobic. It tells of the barriers people face in dealing with the legal system, the reasons why some do not report...
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    41,71 €

  • Família E Escola
    Aline Daise Teixeira Da Silva
    Esta Obra Considera O Tripé Família, Escola E Comunidade Como Aporte Fundamental Para A Socioeducação, E Principalmente Para A Construção De Projetos De Vida De Adolescentes A Quem São Atribuídos Autoria De Atos Infracionais. 10 ...
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    14,04 €

  • Há outro modo de construir a relação escola-família como uma experiência instituinte?
    Maria Angelita Djapoterama da Silva
    O presente livro compreende a análise de uma experiência instituinte no campo educacional, relacionada à extensão universitária, que objetivou a construção de relações entre a escola e a família que fortaleceram o trabalho da escola básica em contexto de intensa pobreza urbana. Tratou-se de experiência que uniu a Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) à Prefeitura Muni...
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    23,40 €

  • Alzheimer, Uma Visão Da Família
    Dr. Gilberto Paschoal Buccieri
    Esta obra foi inspirada em fatos e sentimentos causados por uma doença que abateu de forma silenciosa, devastadora e inesperada a família do autor, desencadeando uma série de situações de muita instabilidade, ocorridas devido à incerteza de como e a melhor forma de agir, desconhecimento sobre a doença e a necessidade de tomada de decisões importantes sem a base necessária, bem ...
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    14,04 €

  • Child Abuse and Social Work Practice (First)
    Samina Karim
    A comprehensive exploration of child abuse in the modern day with implications for social work practice. ...
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    191,04 €

  • Cumulative Childhood Harm in Family Law and Criminal Justice Systems
    Within family law and criminal justice systems, childhood harms are often addressed in isolation, despite their interconnectedness. When legal processes fail to prioritize relational and developmental realities, they increase trauma rather than mitigate it. Understanding cumulative childhood harm reveals how legal interventions shape life experiences, influence future justice s...
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    209,09 €

  • Empty Hands
    Roy Hughes
    As a child, Roy Hughes made an excruciating decision to give up all he had to protect the people he loved most: his siblings. Born into a world of poverty, addiction, and violence, Roy learned early to survive with little else but instinct, determination, and faith. So, when the adults around him were too broken or exhausted to intervene on his behalf, he did the unthinkable by...
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    21,41 €

  • Policing, Politics, and Faith
    Alan Billings
    As the elected police and crime commissioner for South Yorkshire, Alan Billings was in a unique position to witness how the criminal justice system worked for victims of crime. When Covid struck and the country went into lockdown, he began to publish a weekly diary chronicling how the police struggled to understand fast-changing government instructions and enforce the law witho...
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    25,68 €

  • 浮世百态
    Lynn Jia
    《浮世百态：加州故事》是一部立足现实、直面人性的纪实故事集。作者以多年在加州生活、工作的亲历与观察为基础，选取数十个真实事件，勾勒出'阳光之州'光影交错的社会图景：枪支暴力、路怒悲剧、司法轻判、疫情欺诈、家庭崩塌与人性失序；也有无名善举、医者仁心、普通人彼此托举的温暖瞬间。书中人物来自不同族裔与阶层，他们的命运在制度、欲望与偶然中急转直下或被善意照亮，呈现出当代美国社会的复杂肌理。作者以冷静克制的叙述，穿透新闻表层，追问制度漏洞与人性底色，既不猎奇，也不粉饰。读者既能从中看见风险与警示，学会自保与清醒，也能在绝境中的善意里重拾对生命的敬畏与希望。这是一本关于现实、选择与代价的书，也是一次对'美国梦'的理性回望。 ...
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    20,18 €

  • Living with Precariousness
    Precariousness has become a defining experience in contemporary society, as an inescapable condition and state of being. Living with Precariousness presents a spectrum of timely case studies that explore precarious existences - at individual, collective and structural levels, and as manifested through space and the body. These range from the plight of asylum seekers, to the tin...
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    50,81 €

  • Behind the Badge
    MARCUS REILLY
    Behind the Badge: A Police Officer’s Unfiltered Story of Justice and Moral CompromiseA Raw, Unflinching Account of Policing in AmericaMarcus Reilly joined the police force with a simple dream: to be one of the good ones. Growing up Black in a neighborhood where police were viewed with suspicion and fear, he believed he could bridge the divide between law enforcement and communi...
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    22,44 €

  • História Da Polícia No Brasil: Dos Quadrilheiros À Chefatura De Polícia
    Elisandro Carvalho
    Indicado ao Prêmio Jabuti Acadêmico 2024,História da Polícia no Brasil: dos quadrilheiros à Chefatura de Políciaexplora a evolução do aparato de segurança e ordem pública brasileiro, traçando o percurso desde os quadrilheiros coloniais e a Guarda Nacional até a estrutura contemporânea das instituições policiais.A análise começa com os quadrilheiros, responsáveis pela vigilância...
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    23,40 €

  • After the Mafia
    William Kergroach
    For decades, the Mafia served as the dominant symbol of criminal power: visible, territorial, hierarchical, and culturally identifiable. It provided a reassuring narrative-an enemy with a name, a face, and a mythology. Yet focusing on this image has obscured a deeper transformation. The most effective forms of criminal domination today no longer resemble the mafias of the twent...
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    17,92 €

  • Terra Prometida
    E.l.nunes
    Este livro reportagem relata a histórias de trabalhadores sem-terra do assentamento Agrovila de Campinas na cidade de Promissão a 398 km da capital de São Paulo. Sua luta e sofrimentos para conquistar a terra, suas experiências de vida, dramas e alegria.Não é uma análise profunda sobre a questão agrária no Brasil, mas, apenas pretende mostrar que quando a terra fica nas mãos de...
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    14,56 €

  • Marxist Ideology and Soviet Criminal Law
    R.W. Makepeace
    Marxist Ideology and Soviet Criminal Law (1980) is about differences between theory and practice in the Soviet Union. It looks at the ways in which the theory of Marx has changed and been changed, through the lens of criminal law- the major way in which social controls are exercised by the State. ...
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    56,67 €

  • The Criminalisation of Stalking
    Emily Finch
    First published in 2001, The Criminalisation of Stalking fills a much-needed gap by drawing upon a range of methodologies to present a thorough examination of the way in which stalking became perceived as a pressing and prevalent social problem in need of legal intervention. ...
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    56,46 €

  • Social Science and Social Pathology
    Barbara Wootton
    Originally published in 1959, this book critically examines, in the light of numerous research, both the relation between unacceptable behaviour and economic and social status and the validity of several popular hypotheses of the 20th Century. ...
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    56,28 €

  • Policies Against Fraud and Cybercrime
    As digital ecosystems expand, fraud and cybercrime have become increasing threats that undermine trust and inflict significant financial and reputational damage on organizations worldwide. Combating these risks requires a multifaceted approach that blends strategic planning and advanced technological solutions. From implementing cybersecurity policies and regulatory compliance ...
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    227,24 €

  • International Drug Control Law
    Khalid Tinasti
    The international drug control regime, built on three conventions (1961, 1971, and 1988), prohibits non-medical drug production and use while ensuring access for medical purposes. Despite nearly universal ratification and efforts focused on demand and supply reduction, the illegal drug market has expanded, with drug use increasing by 20% and problematic use by 45% in just a dec...
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    35,57 €

  • Humanidade , Guerra E Natureza.
    Carlinhos Columbia
    Após chegar de maneira inusitada em lugar estranho. O garoto de onze anos, na companhia de seu melhor amigo, busca uma forma de retornar ao seio da família. Em tentativas fracassadas, entre devaneios, visita lugarejos e personagens simbólicos. Descobre que sua missão, é se transformar no maior defensor da natureza. Ao renegar o que foi determinado por mentores, se percebe na mo...
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    22,83 €


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