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Prejudice in Harry Potter's World
Crisp, insightful, engaging, and thoroughly researched, "Prejudice in Harry Potter's World" turns the tables on literary critique. Brown shows uncommon, in-depth knowledge of the Harry Potter canon. And she delves straight into her analysis of social themes in J.K. Rowling's work without pulling any punches. First, the book provides a detailed outline of the social hierarchy in the so-called "wizarding world." Then, the author offers perceptive and highly relevant commentaries. Each chapter focuses on how a select group contributes to wizarding society and helps to maintain the social order.whether by embracing their own oppression or by oppressing others. What are some of the consequences of institutional discrimination in Harry Potter's world and how do they compare with social trends in the real world? This book provides all the answers. Not authorized by J.K. Rowling.
Best Practice in Social Work
Social work has laboured too long under a 'deficit' model that focuses on failings and problems of practice. Emphasising best practice, strengths and collaborative partnership this ambitious book seeks to redress the balance. Undergraduate and post-qualifying social work students alike will find it a useful resource.
The Potter Pensieve
Trivial Delights from the World of Harry Potter.In the world of Harry Potter, a pensieve is a receptacle for random thoughts. And in this little book you'll find a huge variety of random thoughts, facts, statistics and secrets about Harry's magic universe, about the woman who created him, the books, the movies, the actors... In fact, about everything Harry Potter!So if you think you know all there is to know about the boy wizard, think again and delve into The Potter Pensieve – the ultimate Harry companion.(Not approved or endorsed by JK Rowling)
The Extraordinary Journey of Harry Forth
January 1950 - A small boy, his brother, and his father abandon their car in a blizzard near Albuquerque, New Mexico. Evening approaches and he fears being left behind. As they push on towards a distant highway, they hear a vehicle behind them. It stops and the driver offers a lift. They climb in and he returns them to the motel where his mother anxiously awaits them. The experience leaves a deep impression on the boy that stays with him into old age. January 1960 - Now a junior in high school, the young man struggles to fit in. He's attracted to several girls but is too shy to ask them out. Instead, he concentrates on his after-school jobs. His church and membership in Explorer Scouts remin...
Charlestown
Charlestown is a fictional story about the plight of Boston Taxi Cab drivers in the early 1980's and their struggle to form a Union as their answer to achieving better earnings and working conditions. Harry Sharpstone, Union organizer, is dispatched by the Teamster's Union of Chicago to orchestrate this union organization. Conflict, coalitions and struggle result. Is resolve achieved? Typically, Management and Unions never achieve permanent resolve, just a temporary platform for a truce. The coalitions are the Taxi Cab owners and Taxi Medallion owners who are frequently from Charlestown and the North End and are supported by the enforcement of local Mafia types associated with known racketee...
Image of the Beast
Western Coastal Insurance ("WCI"), an affluent and prominent California liability insurance company, is enjoying a tide of prestige and profits generated from manipulated public and judicial opinion. Then, on a LA crosswalk adjacent to a hotel building site, a blue sedan crashes into construction worker Tony Alvarez. The driver of the car is a claims agent for WCI. With Tony left a paraplegic from the crash and unable to support his young family, he and his wife, Anna Lisa, find themselves in the fight of their lives for both their marriage and their family's future. When WCI employs its vast legal muscle to escape responsibility, Tony's attorney Matt Macado is pitted against hardened defens...
Working with Family Carers
Care-giving transcends race, gender and age and most people will be a care giver or receiver (often both) at some point in their lives. This book explores the extent of caregiving in the UK and discusses its impact on individuals, groups and communities, as well as health and social care professionals. It covers ways of identifying carers and providing information and advice and, given the likelihood of practitioners themselves providing care, a discussion regarding maintaining resilience and the extent to which personal experiences guide and inform practitioners response to work with carers is included. Exercises allow the reader to explore ways practitioners can engage with and support carers. The recent legislative changes brought about by the Care Act 2014 is discussed, as well as relevant policies. Caregiving has the potential to transcend disciplines, so this text will appeal to students of a variety of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, and across the professional arena including social work, nursing, occupational and physiotherapy. The author is donating her royalties on this book to Carers UK and Carers Trust.
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The Boy That Never Was
'Stunning' Simon Mayo Radio 2 Book Club 'A twist-filled page-turner' Closer Three-year-old Dillon vanished in the middle of the night. His father Harry can't forgive himself for not protecting his only child. Yet Harry isn't blamed by his wife Robin: she bares her own secret guilt. Five years later, thousands of miles away, Harry spots an eight-year-old boy in a crowd - a boy he is convinced is Dillon. Desperate to find his missing son, Harry's obsession tears apart his marriage, exposing shameful secrets and shattering the one thing he and Robin had left - trust. Why won't Robin believe Harry? What is she hiding? Can the boy really be Dillon? And how far will Harry go to find their lost son...
The Night Before Christmas
A classic poem is presented in a format for deaf children, utilizing American Sign Language and rhyme for vocabulary and grammar building as well as holiday enjoyment, accompanied by full-color illustrations. UP.
