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    Past, Present, and Future

    In recent months, much attention has been paid to Islam and the greater Muslim world. Some analysis has been openly hostile, while even more has been overly simplistic. Islam in Context goes behind the recent crisis to discuss the history of Islam, describe its basic structure and beliefs, explore the current division between Muslim moderates and extremists, and suggest a way forward.Authors Peter ... Read more

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  • Social Care, Service Users and User Involvement

    Series series Research Highlights in Social Work
    Social Care, Service Users and User Involvement provides a definitive introduction to practical, philosophical and theoretical issues at the heart of user involvement.This book provides an accessible account of the latest research findings regarding user involvement on three levels: the delivery and provision of services, practice and practitioners, and research and evaluation. It explores a wide ... Read more

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    A Survey of Competing Worldviews

    Your view of God determines your view of the world.You hold in your hands a landmark guide to understanding the ideas and forces shaping our times. Understanding the Times offers a fascinating, comprehensive look at the how the tenets of the Christian worldview compares with the five major competing worldviews of our day: Islam, Secular Humanism, Marxism, New Age, and Postmodernism.Understanding ... Read more

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  • At Risk

    Social Justice in Child Welfare and Other Human Services

    In At Risk, Karen J. Swift and Marilyn Callahan examine risk and risk assessment in the context of professional practice in child protection, social work, and other human services. They argue that the tools, technologies, and practices used to measure risk to the individual have gone unquestioned and unstudied and that current methods of risk assessment may be distorting the principles of social ... Read more

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    For a quarter of a century, Trappist monk Fr. Thomas Keating has been contributing articles on Centering Prayerthe contemporary manifestation of the ancient Christian contemplative traditionto the newsletter of Contemplative Outreach, the organization that he helped establish to promote this tradition. The Thomas Keating Reader gathers for the first time thirty of those articles (some never ... Read more

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  • Safeguarding Adults and the Law

    The safeguarding of vulnerable adults continues to increase in importance. Safeguarding Adults and the Law, now in its second edition, sets this complex area of work within an extensive legal framework and provides many useful pointers for practitioners and students.The book covers, for example, Department of Health guidelines, human rights, the regulation of health and social care providers, the ... Read more

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  • Understanding World Religions

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