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Price: $39.95
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Sale: $34.50
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Manufacturer: Sage Publications, Inc
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Joseph M. Wronka
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Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
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Dewey Decimal Number: 174.9361
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Publication Date: 2007-12-11
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Reading Level: 368
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Description: Human Rights and Social Justice: Social Action and Service for the Helping and Health Professions has a unique perspective that views human rights as the bedrock of social justice. It provides a clear blueprint how human rights and social justice concerns can serve as a conceptual framework for policy and practice interventions among the helping and health professions.
Key Features and Benefits
- Provides both historical and philosophical perspectives on human rights principles, with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as the centerpiece
- Succinctly summarizes for the educated layperson core principles of other major human rights documents, such as international conventions on: Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR); Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (CESCR); the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW); the Eradication of Racial Discrimination (CERD); the Rights of the Child (CRC); Torture (CAT); the Rights of Indigenous Peoples; Medical Ethics; and the Protection of Persons with Mental Illness
- Viewing social justice as struggle, advocates a multi-pronged approach dealing with whole, at-risk, and clinical populations to promote physical and mental well-being and eradicate social and individual pathology
- Examines social actions like human rights education, resolutions, and bills; the arts and the media; humanistic administration; grant writing; social entrepreneurship; clinical interventions; and quantitative and qualitative research that fcan promote human dignity, public health, human development, and the creation of a human rights culture, which is a "lived awareness" of human rights principles in mind, heart, and body
"Human rights and social justice is an important contribution to social justice theory and practice. Dr. Wronka presents a solid and sound argument that human rights, as proclaimed in 1948 by the United Nations in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights ought to serve as the foundation for socially just ways of life."
-David G. Gil
Professor, Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University
"Brilliantly demonstrates that human rights provides a powerful framework for the helping and health professions. Blending in-depth knowledge of human rights with theory and practice in the helping professions, Wronka presents a comprehensive model to guide actions from global to micro levels, and from professional to personal."
-Lynne M. Healy
Center for International Social Work Studies
"At once accessible and learned, theoretical and practical. Wronka’s groundbreaking text, reflecting comprehensive knowledge melded with a commitment to social action, is worthy of every professional’s library. It should be required reading in schools."
-Janice Wood Wetzel
International Association of Schools of Social Work
Intended Audience
This text is an excellent core or supplement test for social policy and practice courses encompassing social work, psychology, psychiatry, public health, medicine, nursing, ethics, law, theology, philosophy, the arts, peace studies, political science, and world citizenship. Scholars, activists, and practitioners will find it a valuable reference for years to come.
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Price: $173.00
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Sale: $138.40
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Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 032
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Publication Date: 2006-07-03
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Reading Level: 488
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Description: This work is the first complete English translation of the Latin Etymologies of Isidore, bishop of Seville (c. 560-636). Isidore compiled the work between c. 615 and the early 630s and it takes the form of an encyclopedia, arranged by subject-matter. It contains much lore of the late classical world beginning with the Seven Liberal Arts, including Rhetoric, and touches on hundreds of topics ranging from the names of God, the terminology of the Law, the technologies of fabrics, ships and agriculture to the names of cities and rivers, the theatrical arts, and cooking utensils. Isidore provides etymologies for most of the terms he explains, finding in the causes of words the underlying key to their meaning. This book offers a highly readable translation of the twenty books of the Etymologies, one of the most widely known texts for a thousand years from Isidore's time.
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Price: $22.00
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Sale: $13.93
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Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Dewey Decimal Number: 422
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Publication Date: 2005-12-08
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Reading Level: 208
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Description: English is incredibly rich language, full of colorful and unusual phrases and expressions. This entertaining book illuminates the question of why we say the things we say. The Real McCoy gives the fascinating stories behind hundreds of the most interesting and commonly used idioms in the English language-from 'black sheep' to 'mad hatter' they're all here. Each phrase has been thoroughly researched to uncover its origins and the way it has been used in the past. The book includes a section focusing on idioms linked by a common theme, such as phrases coined by Shakespeare, nautical phrases, or phrases with Biblical origin.
Written in a lively and approachable style,The Real McCoy includes specially commissioned cartoons to illustrate the idioms making this great book a truly entertaining look at the colorful side of the English language.
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Price: $11.95
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Sale: $6.69
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Manufacturer: Hippocrene Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Hippocrene Books
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Publisher: Hippocrene Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 422
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Publication Date: 1998-11
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Reading Level: 109
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Price: $16.95
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Sale: $4.87
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Manufacturer: Dover Publications
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Ernest Weekley
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Publisher: Dover Publications
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Dewey Decimal Number: 422.03
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Publication Date: 1967-06-01
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Reading Level: 846
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Description: Volume 1 of 2. Classic contains most of the more common words, plus slang, archaic words and phrases, and common foreign words. Roots are identified, cross-references to words with similar roots are listed and colloquial usages and alternate spellings are given. "Notable for its readable historical discussions, apt citations and jargonless clarity" — Saturday Review.
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Price: $14.95
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Sale: $4.95
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Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Charles Hodgson
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Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
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Dewey Decimal Number: 611.0014
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Publication Date: 2007-08-07
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Reading Level: 272
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Description: From head to toe to breast to behind, Carnal Knowledge is a delightfully intoxicating tour of the words we use to describe our bodies. Did you know:
-eye is one of the oldest written words in the English language?
-callipygian means “having beautiful buttocks”?
-gam, a slang word for “leg,” comes from the French word jambe?
A treat for anyone who gets a kick out of words, Carnal Knowledge is also the perfect gift for anyone interested in the human body and the many (many, many) ways it’s been described.
“Delight your friends (or lose them rapidly) with this fabulous new knowledge presented with deftness and wit.”
---Lynn Truss, author of Eats, Shoots and Leaves and Talk to the Hand
“Master etymologist Charles Hodgson offers a passionate lesson...illuminates how just about every part of the amazing human chassis got its name.”
---Richard Lederer, author of Word Wizard
“A near-perfect body of work that will not only entertain your brain but tickle your funny bone, too.”
---Erin McKean, editor in chief, The New Oxford American Dictionary (2nd ed.)
“More than a list of anatomical words and their meanings, Hodgson's book fleshes out the meaning behind the words. This is a blood-and-guts encyclopedia, not some bone-dry dictionary…. Even misologists (haters of knowledge) will find pleasure in Carnal Knowledge.”
---Robert Hartwell Fiske, author of The Dictionary of Disagreeable English, Deluxe Edition
“And you thought you knew your own body! A captivating trove of facts and history that will amuse and fascinate.”
--- Jane Farrow, Wanted Words, CBC Radio
CHARLES HODGSON is an engineer by training and a logophile (word lover) by habit. He produces a daily blog and podcast for word lovers at www.podictionary.com.
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Price: $89.00
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Sale: $89.00
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Manufacturer: Avotaynu
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Lars Menk
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Publisher: Avotaynu
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Edition: Bilingual
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Dewey Decimal Number: 929.42089924043
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Publication Date: 2005-05-30
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Reading Level: 824
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Description: This dictionary identifies more than 13,000 German-Jewish surnames from the area that was pre-World War I Germany. From Baden-Wuerttemburg in the south to Schleswig-Holstein in the north. From Westfalen in the west to East Prussia in the east. In addition to providing the etymology and variants of each name, it identifies where in the region the name appeared, identifying the town and time period. More than 300 sources were used to compile the book. A chapter provides the Jewish population in many towns in the 19th century.
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Price: $12.95
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Sale: $2.00
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Manufacturer: Welcome Rain Publishers
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Lewis Thomas
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Publisher: Welcome Rain Publishers
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Dewey Decimal Number: 420
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Publication Date: 2000-08
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Reading Level: 197
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Description: One of the best writiers of short essays in English.--Newsweek
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Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: George Rippey Stewart
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Dewey Decimal Number: 929.403
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Publication Date: 1986-03-27
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Reading Level: 272
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Description: George Stewart, the world's foremost authority on place-naming, has written an engrossing dictionary that has become the standard work on the history of American first names. Stewart places names in historical and linguistic context, discussing, with his characteristic wit, each name's etymology and degree of use today.
A browser's delight--a treasure trove of fascinating facts--American Given Names is also an important contribution to the history of language and to Americana.
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Price: $12.95
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Sale: $17.50
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Manufacturer: Iron Mountain Press
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Virginia Madison::Hallie Stillwell
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Publisher: Iron Mountain Press
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Publication Date: 1997-05-01
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