Community Organization and Social Administration presents a unique constellation of perspectives from scholars, researchers, and practitioners grounded in macro theories, practice, and education. Drawing upon the knowledge and experiences of social workers and other community-based professionals, this book provides a rich cross-section of models and strategies for those engaged in social change in the community, agency, and school or university. The chapters include data-based practice pri...

Virtual reality beats Jess's real life any day.Jess is trapped: in a loveless relationship, in a small village with no family to count on. Trapped in her own chronically ill body, her only escape lies within the game and with her friends—MourningStar, Quietek, and Minxy.When an unexpected heat strikes, Jess turns to her virtual friends for help. The real-life personas of her online allies come to her rescue, blurring the lines between fantasy and reality.

A brief introduction to major sections of the Bible, with a summary chapter explaining the larger story that ties it all together. Introductory chapters by the late John Halford; overview chapter by Michael D. Morrison, PhD, who also edited the book.

Managing the climate transition will be one of the biggest challenges ever faced by business and government.While the technical and financial elements of climate transition are vast, the social challenges are even greater. If local populations and workers feel the transitions are not “just” they will resist, and that social opposition now represents one of the greatest barriers to reaching Net Zero by 2050. While the phrase ‘Just Transition’ was in the preamble to the 2015 Paris Cl...

The newest volume in the Film Theory in Practice Series, Auteur Theory and My Son John offers a concise introduction to authorship and auteur theory in jargon-free language. The book goes on to show this theory can be deployed to interpret Leo McCarey's notorious but undervalued film My Son John, which critics deemed a clear-cut failure, and the auteurists declared a masterpiece.James Morrison traces the development of auteur theory through its emergence in the pa...

`Upon her neck and breast was blood, and upon her throat were the marks of teeth having opened the vein: - to this the men pointed, crying, simultaneously struck with horror, "a Vampyre, a Vampyre!"' John Polidori's classic tale of the vampyre was a product of the same ghost-story competition that produced Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Set in Italy, Greece, and London, Polidori's tales is a reaction to the dominating presence of his employer Lord Byron, and transfo...

Business is at a sustainability crossroads. There is pressure from some shareholders and elected politicians to dial back on environmental and social issues, sustainability being "too woke" and a constraint on economic growth. However, there are competing pressures that mean that these same issues are now increasingly material to the bottom line; businesses ignore them at their peril as they threaten the true longer-term value of the company.This book sets out the case for the "Sus...

Our "Foundations of Mental Health Care 6th Edition Morrison Valfre" document is compiled into multiple-choice questions to help students, students and teachers look up documents quickly, conveniently and accurately.

Before you consider a chiropractor, arm yourself with the facts in John Morrison's eye-opening book, The Chiropractor Hoax.Crafted to challenge the status quo, this enlightening read delves deep into the origins and practices of chiropractic medicine, a field that surprisingly boasts a 100% acceptance rate in many schools and extends its practices to infants and animals.John Morrison's investigative narrative explores the birth of chiropractic theory, stemming from...

――――――――――――The Theory of Evolution Is In a Crisis――――――――――――Updated 2nd edition is packed with new proof, new chapters, and includes sources to all information!"In China we can criticize Darwin, but not the government. In America, you can criticize the government, but not Darwin."- Jun-Yuan Chen (Paleontologist)In this gro...

Legendary drummer and founding member of The Doors, John Densmore, unpacks the intersection of art and commerce in this deeply principled middle finger to greed"The Doors drummer Densmore rockets through his tumultuous six-year lawsuit against former bandmates Ray Manzarek and Robby Krieger in this no-holds-barred account . . . Throughout, the author's initial question—at what point does money cheapen art's original message?—remains salient, even if he ham...

This is a paraphrase, designed for easy reading, not for serious study. Paraphrases are commentaries in disguise – people put their own ideas into the text. This is unavoidable – even a translation must make choices about the meaning of words. But in a paraphrase, we must often ask, What does this mean? We want to say the same thing, in the way that we might explain it to a child who lives in a city, not the agricultural world of first-century Judea. In this paraphrase, we explain theologi...