Service learning and social work education comprise an exciting, yet underutilized, partnership. This book represents the first comprehensive overview of this active and empowering approach to learning in social work. Both educators and practitioners will discover conceptual and practical guidance for developing productive community-based projects.Often envisioned as located at the midpoint on a continuum from volunteer work to internship, service learning combines the opportunity ...

Aux âmes citoyens ! est un cri d'alarme.Il dévoile les nombreuses menaces qui pèsent sur la société actuelle et sur le monde.Après sa conversion fulgurante racontée dans le best-seller Pour ses beaux yeux, la cinéaste Natalie Saracco brandit sa plume pour réveiller les consciences en vue du combat contre celui qui veut notre perte : l'ennemi juré de Dieu et des hommes, Satan. Plongeant l'homme dans le coma avant de lui voler son âme, sous « mort fine...

This book describes the state of the art of pediatric complex care, sharing the authors' decades of experience in an academic health center to illustrate points. The authors are pediatric generalist and subspecialist providers, among others, who care for children with medical complexity in a Pediatric Complex Care program.Children with medical complexity (CMC) are a small yet impactful pediatric population, a subset of children with special healthcare needs that include multi-syste...

Bruce Springsteen might be the quintessential American rock musician but his songs have resonated with fans from all walks of life and from all over the world. This unique collection features reflections from a diverse array of writers who explain what Springsteen means to them and describe how they have been moved, shaped, and challenged by his music.Contributors to Long Walk Home include novelists like Richard Russo, rock critics like Greil Marcus and Gillian Gaar, and o...

The essays that comprise Elusive Archives raise a common question: how do we study material culture when the objects of study are transient, evanescent, dispersed or subjective? Such things resist the taxonomic protocols that institutions, such as museums and archives, rely on to channel their acquisitions into meaningful collections. What holds these disparate things together here are the questions authors ask of them. Each essay creates by means of its method a provisional colle...

On ne connaît pas Natalie Bauer-Lechner. Et pour cause : le nom de cette talentueuse altiste a été effacé par l’entourage de Mahler. Pourtant, c’est bien elle qui la première a cru en Gustav Mahler, lorsqu’en 1876, elle rencontre le musicien, âgé de seize ans, au Conservatoire de Vienne. Jusqu’à son mariage avec Alma, elle fut sa confidente, la première lectrice de ses compositions, sa compagne de randonnées, la baigneuse du lac au petit matin… Son âme sœur. Elle a rédigé des Souvenirs...