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Hardback. Beginning with the Communist Saur Revolution of 1978 and continuing through Gen. David Petraeus's 2010 appointment replacing Stanley McChrystal as commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, this book is an inside account of one of the most vicious conflicts fought between the two Cold War superpowers: the Soviet war in Afghanistan (1979-89). Num Pages: 256 pages, maps. BIC Classification: JPWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 518.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Potomac Books Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781597975308
- ISBN
- 9781597975308
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 26.24
€ 29.99
€ 26.24
Paperback. Mindfulness: A Kindly Approach to Being with Cancer offers people with cancer a means to bring mindfulness and kindliness into their lives, to help them cope with the challenge of a life-threatening illness. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: JM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 228 x 16. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781118926284
- ISBN
- 9781118926284
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.11
€ 26.99
€ 20.11
paperback. Editor(s): Gibbon, Trish. Num Pages: 180 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 277.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- African Minds
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781920677435
- ISBN
- 9781920677435
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 14.21
€ 15.99
€ 14.21
Hardcover. This volume explores the vital contribution of case study as an evaluation approach that links methodology and political purpose, and opens up new ways of seeing. Editor(s): Greenhalgh, Trish; Russell, Jill; Kushner, Saville. Series: Advances in Program Evaluation. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: JNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 232 x 18. Weight in Grams: 532.
- Publisher
- Emerald Group Publishing Limited
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784410643
- ISBN
- 9781784410643
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 137.87
€ 137.87
Paperback. This handbook covers the essential skills social work and social care managers need to be excellent managers. Topics include time management, recruitment, managing meetings, involving service users, conflict management and mentoring. A self-assessment tool is included and the book features learning activities, case examples, and practical tools. Series Editor(s): Hafford-Letchfield, Dr. Trish. Series: Essential Skills for Social Work Managers. Num Pages: 240 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JKSN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 152 x 228 x 15. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Publisher
- Jessica Kingsley Publishers
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781849052061
- ISBN
- 9781849052061
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.24
€ 41.24
Paperback. This critical and reflexive book looks closely at the pivotal but demanding role that leadership and management play in promoting social work and social care. Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JKSN; KJM. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 239 x 171 x 13. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Publisher
- Bristol University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781447300250
- ISBN
- 9781447300250
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 32.78
€ 33.99
€ 32.78
Paperback. This book is a comprehensive guide to strategic social care management, covering all the knowledge and skills that managers in the 21st century must have, and showing how to make theory a practical reality. It will be essential reading for anyone involved in managing or leading practice either in the front line or at a more strategic level. Num Pages: 240 pages, 21 figures/tables. BIC Classification: JKSN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Jessica Kingsley Publishers
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843109860
- ISBN
- 9781843109860
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.42
€ 38.42
Hardback. This critical and reflexive book looks closely at the pivotal but demanding role that leadership and management play in promoting social work and social care. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: JKSN; KJM. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 172 x 18. Weight in Grams: 535.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Bristol University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781447300267
- ISBN
- 9781447300267
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 92.45
€ 92.45
Hardback. Offers a history of the early republic and its antebellum aftermath. Challenging the idea that print culture created a sense of national connection among different parts of the early American union, this book reveals the early republic as a series of local and regional reading publics with distinct political and geographical identities. Num Pages: 568 pages, 26 illus. BIC Classification: HBJK; J; KNTP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 169 x 243 x 43. Weight in Grams: 952.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 568
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780231139083
- ISBN
- 9780231139083
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 109.33€ 82.87
€ 109.33
€ 82.87
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780470559079
- ISBN
- 9780470559079
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 24.74
€ 27.99
€ 24.74
Hardback. Looks in detail at the growth in popularity and profile of the English folk arts in the first decade of the twenty-first century Series Editor(s): Smith, Alexander. Series: New Ethnographies. Num Pages: 200 pages, Illustrations, black & white. BIC Classification: AVA; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 159 x 20. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719085390
- ISBN
- 9780719085390
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.37
€ 149.37
Hardback. With the biography of Anna Howard Shaw (1847-1919), this book focuses on an important woman suffrage leader who has too often been overlooked and misunderstood. It shows how circumstances and choices both impacted Shaw's role in the woman suffrage movement and set her apart from her native-born, middle- and upper-class colleagues. Series: Women in American History. Num Pages: 296 pages, 11 black and white photographs. BIC Classification: JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 30. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252038150
- ISBN
- 9780252038150
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 118.73
€ 118.73
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781138797659
- ISBN
- 9781138797659
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 30.87
€ 30.99
€ 30.87
Paperback. Two abandoned children join a foster family, finding love for the first time, but their mother returns for them and so begins an emotional struggle Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: BM; JKSF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130. .
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Paperback Original
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781471138522
- ISBN
- 9781471138522
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.71
€ 13.99
€ 10.71
Paperback. Literacy work can provide a therapeutic context in which to support children with emotional and behavioural difficulties in mainstream schools. This text provides a clear theoretical rationale for therapeutic storywriting. Num Pages: 128 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JMC; JNU; YQCS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 279 x 209 x 8. Weight in Grams: 328.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 130
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843121169
- ISBN
- 9781843121169
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 55.74
€ 55.74
Paperback. Psychopaths seem to be everywhere. They are on the news and at the movies. People who lack empathy, be they ruthless entrepreneurs or crazed spree killers are frequently labeled psychopathic; the charming socialiser is just as suspect as the awkward anti-social loner. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: JMH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 197 x 19. Weight in Grams: 150.
- Publisher
- Repeater
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781910924402
- ISBN
- 9781910924402
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.95
€ 11.99
€ 9.95
Paperback. The University of Notre Dame's Research Initiative on the Resolution of Ethnic Conflict explored three significant challenges of the postwar landscape. This work examines the dilemmas each of the three challenges presents for postwar reconstruction and the difficulties in building a sustainable peace in societies destabilized by deadly violence. Num Pages: 128 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: GTJ; JWLP; LBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 9. Weight in Grams: 216.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268022044
- ISBN
- 9780268022044
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.32
€ 26.99
€ 25.32
Paperback. Examining the contributions of truth-telling mechanisms, such as truth commissions, to long-term sustainable peace, this book argues that to ensure a future that does not reiterate the past, the atrocities of war and conflict must be brought to light and addressed. It highlights the intersection of peace building and transitional justice. Editor(s): Borer, Tristan Anne. Series: RIREC Project in Post-accord Peacebuilding S. Num Pages: 252 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: GTJ; JWLP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 435.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268021979
- ISBN
- 9780268021979
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.12
€ 37.99
€ 34.12
Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HBG; HBTB; JFCV; WBXN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Chicago Review Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781613747223
- ISBN
- 9781613747223
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 20.55
€ 20.99
€ 20.55
Hardcover. Divided Nations and European Integration is a timely and authoritative collection that demonstrates how the expansion of pan-European institutions is affecting nations divided by sovereign borders, affording political opportunities to some but denying the aspirations of others. Editor(s): Mabry, Tristan James; McGarry, John; Moore, Margaret; O'Leary, Brendan. Series: National and Ethnic Conflict in the 21st Century Series. Num Pages: 416 pages, 21 illus. BIC Classification: JPVH1; LNDA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 38. Weight in Grams: 794.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812244977
- ISBN
- 9780812244977
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 96.43
€ 96.43