Social science / Social Work

Creative Questions about Abortion

von Kim Michaels

The purpose of this book is to raise a series of questions that go beyond the paradigms of both mainstream Christianity and materialistic science. In doing so, the book suggests an entirely new - non-confrontational...

A Thousand Small Sparrows

von Jeff Leeland & Marcus Brotherton

In 1992, Jeff and Kristi Leeland's infant son, Michael, needed a bone marrow transplant. It cost $200,000 they didn’t have. That’s when Dameon, the most picked-on kid in the junior high where Jeff taught,...

Before You Say Yes ...

von Doreen Pendgracs

In a conversational style, Doreen Pendgracs shares valuable information from her 25 years of experience sitting on various boards. Pendgracs leads the reader through the intricacies of management style, board...

Design to Survive: 9 Ways an IKEA Approach Can Fix Health Care and Save Lives

von Pat Mastors

The U.S. spends the most in the world on health care and research, yet our outcomes are among the worst in industrialized nations. Hundreds of thousands die every year from medical harm. Imagine a world where...

Watermelon Days and Firefly Nights: Heartwarming Scenes from Small Town Life

von Annette Smith

Meet the quirky and lovable characters of Ella Louise, Texas, in this charming collection of short stories.

The Way of the Dog

von Sam Savage

A disillusioned artist looks for meaning in the wreckage of his life, and finds it in unexpected places.

The Costco Experience 2011, Revised and Updated Edition

von Larry Gerston

THE COSTCO EXPERIENCE REVISED AND UPDATED EDITION! Ever wonder what itís really like to be a kid in a candy store? Go to a nearby Costco and youíll find out. THE COSTCO EXPERIENCE REVISED AND UPDATED EDITION:...

A Practical Guide to Drugs and Alcohol Testing: Everything you wanted to know about drugs and alcohol testing but were afraid to ask

von Dr Dan Hegarty & Mike Stallard

Drugs and alcohol problems are commonplace within society and have significant impacts within the workplace. Workplace consequences include increased sickness absence, reduced productivity, the potential for...

Towards Collective Liberation: Anti-Racist Organizing, Feminist Praxis, and Movement Building Strategy

von Chris Crass, Chris Dixon & Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Organized into four sections, this collection of essays is geared toward activists engaging with the dynamic questions of how to create and support effective movements for visionary systemic change. These essays...

Watering the Greyhound Garden: Stories from the Streets of San Francisco

von Warren B. Smith

In Watering the Greyhound Garden, Warren B. Smith recounts his job as a Travelers Aid social worker at the San Francisco Greyhound Bus Terminal. In fifty-one heartfelt stories, Smith describes some of the many...

Dancing With Dynamite: Celebrating Against The Odds

von Tim J Huff

The winner of the 2011 Grace Irwin Award for Best Christian Book of the Year. In the follow-up to his best-seller Bent Hope: A Street Journal, Tim Huff invites readers to join him on a soulful journey into a...

Bent Hope: A Street Journal

von Tim J Huff

The winner of 3 book awards as best book in it's category, Bent Hope was born out of Tim Huff's first twenty years of unique and extensive work among homeless and street-involved youth and adults, in one of...

Sidewalk

Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest 1999

von Mitchell Duneier, Hakim Hasan & Ovie Carter

An exceptional ethnography marked by clarity and candor, Sidewalk takes us into the socio-cultural environment of those who, though often seen as threatening or unseemly, work day after day on “the blocks”...

Scurvy

von Stephen R. Bown

Scurvy took a terrible toll in the Age of Sail, killing more sailors than were lost in all sea battles combined. The threat of the disease kept ships close to home and doomed those vessels that ventured too...

Not All of Us Are Saints

von David Hilfiker, M.D.

Not All of Us Are Saints: A Doctor's Journey with the Poor is a book by David Hilfiker, M.D.

The Invisible Cure

von Helen Epstein

A New York Times Notable Book of 2007

The Invisible Cure is an account of Africa's AIDS epidemic from the inside--a revelatory dispatch from the intersection of village life, government intervention, and international...

Global Girlfriends

von Stacey Edgar

Start small, dream big, change lives— how one woman harnessed the power of fair trade to help women in poverty help themselves

Seven years ago, Stacey Edgar had a $2,000 tax return and a deep desire to help...

The Pain Chronicles

von Melanie Thernstrom

Each of us will know physical pain in our lives, but none of us knows when it will come or how long it will stay. Today as much as 10 percent of the population of the United States suffers from chronic pain....

Too Late to Die Young

von Harriet McBryde Johnson

With a voice as disarmingly bold, funny, and unsentimental as its author, a thoroughly unconventional memoir that shatters the myth of the tragic disabled life

Harriet McBryde Johnson isn't sure, but she thinks...

And the Band Played On

von Randy Shilts

Upon it's first publication twenty years ago, And The Band Played on was quickly recognized as a masterpiece of investigatve reporting. An international bestseller, a nominee for the National Book Critics...