Recipient of Significant Lifetime Achievement in Social Work Education Award 2025 by The Council on Social Work Education Social work ethics provide practitioners with guidance on how to promote social work values such as respect, social justice, human relationships, service, competence, and integrity. Students entering the profession need to develop a real-world understanding of how to apply these values in practice while also managing the dilemmas that arise when social workers,...

I hope you will find enjoyment reading these sci-fi stories. They include many diverse subjects. Travel to planets far from our own. A range of potential situations regarding the increase of robots among us. A massive variety of subjects to stimulate both thought and imagination. May you find aspects of these stories that deliver ideas that help bring a widening of the mind.

Reflections IIBy: Allan Edward Young, Ph.D.Reflections II is a continuation of Reflections I, the fact and fantasy of his life, as told by Allan Edward Young, Columbia University, 1967. There have been semi-interchangeable careers in the academic, government consulting, and business investment-advisory fields. There have been both lifelong and brief friendships and relations of both dubious and inestimable value. There's been extended work and travel on each of the world's ...

Reflections IBy: Allan Edward Young, Ph.D.His life, as told by Allan Edward Young, Ph.D., Columbia University, 1967. Reflections I is part fact, part fantasy, and part folly. There have been semi-interchangeable careers in the academic, government consulting, and business investment-advisory fields. There have been both lifelong and brief friendships and relations of both dubious and inestimable value. There's been extended work and travel on each of the world's continents,...

Immortalized in the spellbinding documentary Dear Zachary, this angry, raw, and brutally honest true crime memoir of murder and loss chronicles a system's failure to prevent the death of a child. In November 2001, the body of a young doctor named Andrew Bagby was discovered in Keystone State Park outside Latrobe, Pennsylvania, five bullet wounds in his face, chest, buttocks, and the back of the head. For parents Dave and Kate, the pain was unbearable? But Andrew's murder was only the first...

Together We Can recounts effective strategies for institutional change and focuses on collective leadership within the land-grant university system, with reflections on Hiler’s long and successful career in academic leadership, both at Texas A&M University and within the larger Texas A&M System.Although many books discuss leadership and organizational change in the private sector, there are relatively few dealing with public-sector entities—especially public land-grant univ...

An informed and supportive public at large is critical to the success of programs promoting physical and mental health, and the mass media are the most powerful means of reaching the public. Yet few human services professionals know how to tap into this power. First published in 1995, Human Services and the Media demonstrates how to work with newspapers, magazines, radio, and television to promote social programs and shape public policy. It includes numerous examples of how cooper...

**"Our commander in chief has to be able to defend our country, not embarrass it."*-Hillary Clinton"She doesn't have strength. She doesn't have the stamina. . . . I think she's an embarrassment."**-Donald Trump**In this presidential contest of diametric opposites, nothing is certain on the path to the polls-except that every word matters. Direct from the candidates, from point and counterpoint to wit and wisdom, an unvarnished conversation on the issues captivating the Amer...

Good qualitative research can help sport management researchers and industry professionals solve difficult problems and better understand their organisations, stakeholders and performance. Now in a fully revised and extended new edition, this book is a user-friendly introduction to qualitative methods in sport management. Covering the full research process from research planning to reporting results, this edition includes expanded coverage of cutting-edge areas including digital and social...

A New York Times bestseller.In a Paris cafe, American surgeon Paul Osborn looks across the room and spots the man who murdered his father 30 years before. In London, a grizzled L.A. homicide cop named McVey joins Scotland Yard to unravel the mystery of a severed head and seven headless corpses. Neither American knows the link between the long-ago killing and the recent murders. But Paul’s obsession to catch his father’s killer will send him careening across Europe at break...

Writer, poet, critic, and editor Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston, Massachusetts on January 19, 1809 and became a literary sensation in 1845 with the publication of his poem "The Raven," considered a great American literary work and one of the best of Poe's career. His creative talents led to the beginning of different literary genres, earning him the nickname "Father of the Detective Story" among other distinctions. He produced thrilling tales, such as “The Cask of Amontillado," and poe...

Satan worshiping Prince Prospero in 12th Century Italy holds a macabre masked ball in the midst of a deadly plague. The hedonistic nobles believe that Prospero's castle walls will keep out not only the countysides's peasants but the lethal Red Death as well. Dark and surreal fiction by Edgar Allan Poe whose name is synonymous with horror, mystery and the uncanny.. A performance reading by Oscar nominated Special Effects Makeup Artist Edward E. French