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Lisa M Lawson
Thrive

A bold new argument for harnessing brain science to help young people realize their full potential, from the noted business and foundation leader"In the last decade, a growing body of longitudinal ne…

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Sally Becker
Where Angels Fear to Tread

'I was filled with apprehension about crossing the front line, but I would have risked my life to save just one child. Ivan was giving me a chance to save them all...'

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Laurent Bossavie, Daniel Garrote Sanchez, Mattia Makovec
The Journey Ahead

This book seeks to enhance the understanding of migration in Europe and Central Asia, and to propose policy solutions tailored to the diversity of migration experiences and challenges in the region, to be…

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How to End Family Policing

From leading abolitionist organizers, a much-needed intervention arguing that the systems that purport to protect children make them-and our communities-less safe.Based on decades of shared organizing, st…

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How to End Family Policing

From leading abolitionist organizers, a much-needed intervention arguing that the systems that purport to protect children make them-and our communities-less safe.Based on decades of shared organizing, st…

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Joanna Sokol
A Real Emergency

Introspective, richly layered, and surprisingly hopeful, A Real Emergency is a love letter from a paramedic to the best and worst parts of her career.For fifteen years, Joanna Sokol filled private noteboo…

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Stephen Starring Grant
Mailman

"Steve Grant was laid off in March of 2020. He was fifty and had cancer, so he needed health insurance, fast. Which is how he found himself a rural letter carrier in Appalachia, back in his old homet…

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Anna Di Lellio, Garentina Kraja
The Strongest Link

In The Strongest Link, Anna Di Lellio and Garentina Kraja present an oral history of women who survived weaponized rape during the Kosovo War. In their own voices, twenty women describe the war's terror, …

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Policing Not Protecting Families

"Policing Not Providing: The Child Welfare System as Poverty Governance critically analyzes how the U.S. child welfare system surveils and polices poor families, especially poor Black and Native fami…

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Yuanyuan Qu
Becoming Digital Citizens

This book explores the relationship between disability, citizenship, and information and communication technologies (ICTs) in the Chinese context. It offers new insights into the norms and practices of di…

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Abolition and Social Work

"A critical anthology exploring the debates, conundrums, and promising practices around abolition and social work in academia and within impacted communities. Within social work--a profession that ha…

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Kelley Fong
Investigating Families

How our reliance on Child Protective Services makes motherhood precarious for those already marginalizedIt's the knock on the door that many mothers fear: a visit from Child Protective Services (CPS), the…

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Stephen Starring Grant
Mailman

An uproarious and "utterly charming" (The Washington Post) memoir by a mailman in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, who found that working for the post office saved his life, taught him who …

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David Matthews
The Class Struggle and Welfare

A fresh look on the welfare system--with a view beyond the stateWith The Class Struggle and Welfare, David Matthews argues that we must understand the welfare state as a dialectical phenomenon--a product …

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Yvonne Vissing
Child Welfare in America

This one-stop resource explores the leading child welfare issues facing the USA today, as well as the laws, programs, and policy prescriptions that have been implemented or suggested to address pressing c…

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Maria Jouste, Ravi Kanbur, Jukka Pirttilä, Pia Rattenhuber
Poor Protection

An open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.This b…

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Katie Simon
Tell Me What You Like

Hopeful, groundbreaking, and anchored in true stories, this much-needed book from sexuality journalist and fellow sexual assault survivor Katie Simon delves into the challenges of moving from trauma to he…

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Paul Morrow
Seeing Atrocities

In the 21st century, it is impossible to avoid seeing atrocities. Pictures of grievous death populate the pages of newspapers and aggregators almost daily. Billboards and banner ads for humanitarian organ…

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Ugo Gentilini
Timely Cash

This book provides a historical overview of the 2,500-year history of cash transfers to better understand the roots of contemporary debates on whether and how such assistance should be provided.

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Alessandro Cigno, Furio C Rosati
The Economics of Child Labour

Children throughout the world are engaged in a variety of activities classifiable as work. These range from relatively harmless, even laudable, activities like helping parents in the home, to morally or p…

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