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Child Protection Practice by Harry Ferguson
RRP: €40.45Booksplease Price: €33.30How do practitioners step up to the professional challenge of keeping children safe? Leading author Harry Ferguson draws on his own research, personal experience and real-life case studies to... -
Making Child Protection Work Harry Ferguson 9781447378266
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €26.81Despite its huge public profile, surprisingly little is known about child protection work. Discussion focuses on failures that result in children dying, or on what social workers cannot do, due to... -
Making Child Protection Work Harry Ferguson 9781447378259
RRP: €101.15Booksplease Price: €83.05Despite its huge public profile, surprisingly little is known about child protection work. Discussion focuses on failures that result in children dying, or on what social workers cannot do, due to... -
Protecting Children in Time: Child Abuse, Child Protection and the Consequences of Modernity by Harry Ferguson 9781403906922
Booksplease Price: €107.77Protecting Children in Time provides a highly original analysis of the origins and development of the taken-for-granted notion that it is possible through social intervention to protect children from... -
Protecting Children in Time: Child Abuse, Child Protection and the Consequences of Modernity by Harry Ferguson 9781403906939
Booksplease Price: €107.77Protecting Children in Time provides a highly original analysis of the origins and development of the taken-for-granted notion that it is possible through social intervention to protect children from... -
Assessment and Intervention with Mothers and Partners Following Child Sexual Abuse: Empowering to Protect by Jenny Still
Booksplease Price: €37.28Assessment and Intervention with Mothers and Partners Following Child Sexual Abuse provides child protection professionals with the guidance they need to make the right decisions in cases of... -
Direct Work with Family Groups: Simple, Fun Ideas to Aid Engagement and Assessment and Enable Positive Change by Audrey Tait
RRP: €24.98Booksplease Price: €22.60Direct Work with Family Groups is full of great ideas to aid engagement, assessment and enable positive change through direct work with family groups. Working with families can be a challenging... -
Handbook for Practice Learning in Social Work and Social Care, Third Edition: Knowledge and Theory by Joyce Lishman
RRP: €39.26Booksplease Price: €32.12This fully updated and expanded third edition of a classic text provides a comprehensive introduction to key theory, knowledge, research and evidence relating to practice learning in social work and... -
Ollie and Harry's Marvelous Adventures by Ollie Ferguson 9781324003953
Booksplease Price: €16.77Ollie and Harry Ferguson have sailed a toy pirate ship across the Atlantic, engineered a giant catapult, and launched toy astronauts into space-and they haven't stopped there. They've created a list... -
Ollie and Harry's Marvellous Adventures by Ollie Ferguson 9781324005506
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €15.20Sail a toy ship across the ocean... Build an igloo... Ollie and Harry Ferguson did it-and you can too! Starting with a list of 500 "adventures", the Scottish brothers set out to live life to its... -
The Field Guide to Classic Farm Tractors, Expanded Edition: More Than 400 Models from 1900 to 1990 Robert N. Pripps 9780760368442
RRP: €30.93Booksplease Price: €26.95Featuring machines right up through more recently collectible models of the 1970s and 1980s, The Field Guide to Classic Farm Tractors, Expanded Edition features all the legends enthusiasts remember,... -
The Emotionally Intelligent Social Worker by David Howe 9780230202788
Booksplease Price: €41.29Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Titles, this key textbook offers an insight on the theory of emotional intelligence and its vital practical value. Elegantly and succinctly written, it makes... -
The Ferguson Tractor Story by Stuart Gibbard 9781912158447
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €15.05The little grey Fergie is Britain's best-loved tractor, the light user-friendly machine that finally replaced the horse on farms. This highly illustrated account covers the full history of Harry... -
From Dearth to Plenty: The Modern Revolution in Food Production by Sir Kenneth Blaxter 9780521403221
RRP: €130.90Booksplease Price: €118.68During the fifty-year period from 1936-86 the modern agricultural revolution occurred, in which, for the first time, science was properly harnessed to the improvement in agricultural productivity... -
Ferguson TE20 in Detail Michael Thorne 9780954998134
RRP: €59.50Booksplease Price: €40.40One of the world's best-loved farm tractors, the Ferguson T20 was built in huge numbers across the world. Harry Ferguson was a remarkable inventor and a man of vision and he is best remembered for... -
From Dearth to Plenty: The Modern Revolution in Food Production by Sir Kenneth Blaxter 9780521041959
RRP: €44.03Booksplease Price: €43.49During the fifty-year period from 1936-86 the modern agricultural revolution occurred, in which, for the first time, science was properly harnessed to the improvement in agricultural productivity... -
David Brown Tractors by Jonathan Whitlam
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €14.13Covering the whole history of David Brown tractors from 1939 to the closure of the company in 1988, Jonathan Whitlam describes the models developed at the factory in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, and how... -
Best Practice in Social Work: Critical Perspectives by Karen Jones 9781403985019
Booksplease Price: €53.26Social 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... -
Starting Social Work: Reflections of a Newly Qualified Social Worker by Rebecca Joy Novell 9781909682092
RRP: €24.98Booksplease Price: €23.97Social Work often receives a bad press but it is an intellectually, emotionally and practically challenging profession which, in order to help people effectively, needs to attract the best candidates... -
European Perspectives on Men and Masculinities: National and Transnational Approaches by J. Hearn 9780230594470
Booksplease Price: €55.62This book compares the state of knowledge on men and masculinities in 14 countries across Europe, examining the effects of social change, Europeanization, globalization and new post-socialist... -
Blue is the Night by Eoin McNamee 9780571278619
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.701949. Lance Curran is set to prosecute a young man for a brutal murder, in the 'Robert the Painter' case, one which threatens to tear society apart. In the searing July heat, corruption and... -
Applying Research Evidence in Social Work Practice by Martin Webber 9781137276100
Booksplease Price: €41.02This key textbook explores how good social work practice draws upon relevant and current research to ensure that interventions are as effective as possible. Social workers are increasingly required... -
Traction for Sale: The Story of Ferguson Formula Four-Wheel Drive by Bill Munro 9780993101861
RRP: €65.44Booksplease Price: €51.63Four-wheel drive cars and trucks are commonplace today; luxury off-roaders and utilities of all shapes and sizes are seen everywhere, but it was not always so. The Ferguson name is as important in... -
Strengthening Child Protection: Sharing Information in Multi-Agency Settings Kellie Thompson (Liverpool Hope University) 9781447322511
RRP: €29.74Booksplease Price: €25.04Following high-profile Serious Case Reviews into the tragic deaths of children, including Victoria Climbie, Peter Connelly and Daniel Pelka, information sharing has now become a moral and political... -
Family Troubles?: Exploring Changes and Challenges in the Family Lives of Children and Young People Jane Ribbens McCarthy 9781447304449
RRP: €34.50Booksplease Price: €31.63As the everyday family lives of children and young people come to be increasingly defined as matters of public policy and concern, it is important to raise the question of how we can understand the... -
Evidence and Knowledge for Practice by Tony Evans 9780745643397
RRP: €65.45Booksplease Price: €58.37Evidence and knowledge are fundamental in professional practice. A key skill for social workers is understanding how to use the range of sources available. Being able to explain the evidence... -
Evidence and Knowledge for Practice by Tony Evans 9780745643403
Booksplease Price: €21.63Evidence and knowledge are fundamental in professional practice. A key skill for social workers is understanding how to use the range of sources available. Being able to explain the evidence... -
Footwork: Urban Outreach and Hidden Lives by Tom Hall 9780745330570
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €18.14Footwork is an original street-corner ethnography drawing on the themes of urban regeneration, lost space and the 24-hour city. From the rough sleeping homeless to street drinkers and sex workers, it... -
Footwork: Urban Outreach and Hidden Lives by Tom Hall 9780745330587
Booksplease Price: €131.11Footwork is an original street-corner ethnography drawing on the themes of urban regeneration, lost space and the 24-hour city. From the rough sleeping homeless to street drinkers and sex workers, it... -
Trust, Risk and Uncertainty by Sean Watson 9781403906991
Booksplease Price: €107.77The themes 'trust', 'risk ' and 'uncertainty' seem especially pertinent in the context of the post-9/11 world. This book brings together a range of new research with a focus on the 'risk society'... -
Understanding Research for Social Policy and Social Work: Themes, Methods and Approaches Saul Becker (University of Sussex, Deputy Vice-Chancellor) 9781847428158
RRP: €35.69Booksplease Price: €32.53It is vital for students, policy makers and practitioners engaged in social policy, social work and other related academic disciplines and fields of practice to understand the importance of research... -
Family Troubles?: Exploring Changes and Challenges in the Family Lives of Children and Young People by Jane Ribbens McCarthy 9781447304432
RRP: €101.15Booksplease Price: €83.42As the everyday family lives of children and young people come to be increasingly defined as matters of public policy and concern, it is important to raise the question of how we can understand the... -
Attachment Theory, Child Maltreatment and Family Support: A Practice and Assessment Model by David Howe 9780333749784
Booksplease Price: €52.73This ground-breaking text offers a comprehensive and penetrating account of how social developmental perspectives and attachment theory can illuminate practice in the field of child protection and... -
The Complete Book of Classic Ford Tractors: Every Model 1917-1996 by Andrew Morland
RRP: €38.08Booksplease Price: €27.49Here's your beautifully photographed one-stop source for everything you ever wanted to know about the immensely popular classic Ford tractors. First manufactured in 1917, Ford tractors (initially... -
In Whose Interest?: The Privatisation of Child Protection and Social Work Ray Jones 9781447351283
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €21.69What is the social cost of privatising public services? And what effect has the failure of previous privatisations had on their provision? This book, by best-selling author and expert social... -
The Emotional Politics of Social Work and Child Protection by Joanne Warner 9781447318422
RRP: €101.15Booksplease Price: €83.05For several decades, social work and child protection systems have been subject to accelerating cycles of crisis and reform, with each crisis involving intense media and political scrutiny. In... -
The Emotional Politics of Social Work and Child Protection by Joanne Warner 9781447318439
RRP: €30.93Booksplease Price: €28.61For several decades, social work and child protection systems have been subject to accelerating cycles of crisis and reform, with each crisis involving intense media and political scrutiny. In... -
Counselling Skills for Social Workers by Hilda Loughran
RRP: €47.59Booksplease Price: €43.53Counselling skills are very powerful. Really listening and providing compassionate empathy without judging is a core part of social work practice with service users. This book provides a... -
Observation in Health and Social Care: Applications for Learning, Research and Practice with Children and Adults by Clare Pauline Parkinson
Booksplease Price: €33.93Examining and exploring new approaches to therapeutic observation in health and social care, this multidisciplinary guide discusses and analyses its uses in a range of practical contexts with... -
Motivational Interviewing for Working with Children and Families: A Practical Guide for Early Intervention and Child Protection by Donald Forrester
RRP: €30.93Booksplease Price: €27.36Drawing on 20 years of practical experience, research and teaching in the field, this book is a comprehensive guide on the use of Motivational Interviewing (MI) in child protection and family social...