This bestselling text introduces students and practitioners to a wide range of theories for direct social work practice, offering a generalist-eclectic framework that integrates the scientific and artistic elements of practice. Now in its fourth edition, it has been fully updated, reorganized, and expanded with nine new chapters, including coverage of dialectical behavior therapy, eye movement desensitization and r...

The study of materials is a major field of research that supports and drives innovation in technology. Using modern scientific techniques, materials scientists and engineers explore and manipulate materials, and create new ones with remarkable strength and extraordinary optical and electrical properties. In this Very Short Introduction, Christopher Hall looks at a wide range of materials, from steel, wood, and rubber, to gold, silicon, and graphene, describing how materials are used, how t...

Christianity Today 2014 Book Award WinnerHow can I know God if he is incomprehensible? Is it possible to know God in a way that takes seriously the fact that he is beyond knowledge? Steven Boyer and Christopher Hall argue that the "mystery of God" has a rightful place in theological discourse. They contend that considering divine incomprehensibility invites reverence and humility in our thinking and living as Christians and clarifies a var...

Let’s Meet Dai the DragonA Chi Education Meditation and Mindfulness BookBy Nick Clement | Illustrated by Chris HallsMeet Dai the Dragon — a kind-hearted, retired Welsh dragon who lives high in the majestic mountains of Wales. In this charming, interactive mindfulness story, children are invited to breathe deeply, stretch their wings, and go on a magical journey of calm, curiosity, and kindness.As readers climb the misty mountain, expl...

This book brings together contributions from a range of social welfare settings, including child welfare, unemployment, mental health and substance abuse treatment, to examine how interprofessional collaboration and service user participation are realised or challenged in multi-agency meetings.It provides empirically grounded analyses of specific aspects of multi-agency work and offers a distinctive conceptual framework for understanding and analysing interaction during meetings in...

LETO: A Mindfulness Adventure for Young ExplorersBy Nick Clement | Illustrated by Chris HallsBreathe in... breathe out... and dive into LETO — a soothing, story-based mindfulness book designed to help children aged 3–6 find calm, confidence, and connection.Follow Max and Susie as they journey beneath the waves with Captain Finn on The Deep Explorer. Along the way, children are invited to move like jellyfish, count playful d...

Women with fish tails are among the oldest and still most popular of mythological creatures, possessing a powerful allure and compelling ambiguity. They dwell right in the uncanniest valley of the sea: so similar to humans, yet profoundly other. Mermaids: Art, Symbolism and Mythology presents a comprehensive, interdisciplinary and beautifully illustrated study of mermaids and their influence on Western culture. The roots of mermaid mythology and its metamorphosis through the centu...

About the BookAt the Bottom of the Ocean follows the fictional character Smokes Ships as he narrates poems about being unable to find love. The place is Jade Marks, a secret town in North America, and the time is the year 2023. Smokes cannot find love throughout the latter part of his life, and these poems are to create an ethereal world of images and ideas through the use of war imagery, sailing references, airplanes, and the events of the made-up country Forsythelus.Written...

My Angel Unaware and other Devotionals is a collection of devotionals written over a period of several years. Some were written as meditations to be offered at my home church. Many of the devotionals were first shared online during the pandemic to help people dealing with anxiety and depression. This book is devoted to the memory of my mother, my very own angel unaware, and reminds us all to be thankful for the people whose love first connected us with our Christian faith.

Moisture dynamics in brick, stone and concrete has a controlling influence on the durability and performance of the built environment. Water Transport in Brick, Stone and Concrete provides a unified description of transport processes involving saturated and unsaturated flow in porous inorganic materials and structures. It sets out fundamental physics and materials science, mathematical description and experimental measurement as a basis for engineering design and construction prac...

The impetus for this book is the shift in welfare policy in Western Europe from state responsibilities to individual and community responsibilities. The book examines the ways in which policies associated with advanced liberalism and New Public Management can be identified as influencing professional practices to promote personalisation, participation, empowerment, recovery and resilience. In examining the concept of ‘responsibilisation’ from the point of view of both the ‘responsibilised ...

With communication and relationships at the core of social work, this book reveals the way it is foremost a practice that becomes reality in dialogue, illuminating some of the profession’s key dilemmas. Applied discourse studies illustrate the importance of talk and interaction in the construction of everyday and institutional life.This book provides a detailed review and illustration of the contribution of discourse approaches and studies on professional interaction to social work...