Law for Social Workers has been supporting social work students and professionals for over 20 years. Written by a qualified social worker and experienced lecturer team, this book provides the perfect combination of legal explanation and practical insight and is the ideal book to see you through your course and career. The new edition continues to provide an accurate, jargon-free account of the law social workers need to know, with helpful diagrams and case studies included throughout to explain areas of difficulty and ensure understanding for students and professionals at all levels. The 13th edition also features 'The Social Worker's Toolkit', offering practical advice on topics such as going to court, preparing evidence, and writing reports, and provides the ideal support while on placement or in the workplace. The book is accompanied by a fully interactive Online Resource Centre featuring updates on recent cases and changes to legislation, guidance on answering exercises in the book, a glossary explaining essential legal terminology, and video podcasts. For lecturers, resources include suggested lecture discussion points and powerpoint slides, plus a test bank of over 200 multiple choice questions for class-testing. With its comprehensive coverage and practical focus, Law for Social Workers will be an invaluable guide throughout your degree and as you enter the workplace, equipping you with the essential legal knowledge to give you the confidence to practice.
A handy 3-in-1 French study book: grammar, verbs and vocabulary in one volume, ideal for beginners who need a clear and easy-to-understand French reference and revision guide.
This book gives you the essential tools to help you progress quickly in your study of French. The grammar, verb and vocabulary sections have been designed for all those learning French at school, in an evening class, for work or for leisure.
* Grammar: this section provides easily accessible information in an attractively presented layout. Key grammatical points are highlighted throughout the text as a means of reinforcement. Hundreds of examples of real French illustrate clearly the grammatical points being made. In addition, a full glossary gives clear and simple explanations of grammatical terminology.
* Verbs: you will find 112 fully conjugated regular and irregular verbs in this section. Each is self contained in a double-page spread showing all the major tenses. Major constructions and idiomatic phrases are given for all verb models, as well as hundreds of examples of real French to show you how verbs are used in context . An index contains thousands of verbs which are cross-referred to their conjugation model.
* Vocabulary: this handy section covering 50 topics (such as family, free time, careers, computing, education, food and drink, health, shopping) gives you all the vocabulary you need to communicate effectively in French.
With its clear, user-friendly grammar, all the most important French verbs shown in full, and an extensive vocabulary guide, this book gives you all the elements to start speaking and writing with confidence in French.
Treasure House Comprehension Pupil Books are aimed at ages 5-11. They cover all the text types specified in the 2014 National Curriculum, with follow-up activities that build the skills necessary to develop critical thinking.
This Treasure House pupil book: * covers a wide variety of fiction and non-fiction genres * builds enjoyment of comprehension skills on a range of top-quality texts * contains carefully tailored questions that cover all the statutory requirements of the 2014 National Curriculum * ensures pupils will become accomplished critical thinkers.
This pupil book can be used with Treasure House Teacher's Guide 5, Anthology 5 and activities on Collins Connect for an integrated approach to teaching English.
The study of the mind has always been one of the main preoccupations of philosophers, and has been a booming area of research in recent decades, with remarkable advances in psychology and neuroscience. Oxford University Press now presents the most authoritative and comprehensive guide ever published to the philosophy of mind. An outstanding international team of contributors offer 45 specially written critical surveys of a wide range of topics relating to the mind. The first two sections cover the place of the mind in the natural world: its ontological status, how it fits into the causal fabric of the universe, and the nature of consciousness. The third section focuses on the much-debated subjects of content and intentionality. The fourth section examines a variety of mental capacities, including memory, imagination, and emotion. The fifth section looks at epistemic issues, in particular regarding knowledge of one's own and other minds. The volume concludes with a section on self, personhood, and agency. The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Mind will be an invaluable resource for advanced students and scholars of philosophy, and also for researchers in neighbouring disciplines seeking a high-level survey of the state of the art in this flourishing field.
The management of small water supplies presents a unique challenge globally, in countries at all stages of development. A combination of lack of resources, limited understanding of the risks and poor expertise means that individuals and communities may face serious health risks from these supplies. This is not only due to microbiological contamination, but also from contamination by metals, either due to natural or man-made contamination of the source water or through leaching from plumbing materials due to inadequate conditioning and corrosion inhibition and use of inappropriate materials.
This Best Practice Guide aims to share best practice and experience from around the world on a practical level. It looks at general issues relating to small supplies and ways of managing these, adopting a Water Safety Plan approach to deliver sound and lasting improvements to quality. Management techniques and treatment relating to specific metals will be covered, from a theoretical and practical perspective, to deliver a publication that will act as an authoritative guide for all those faced with the problem of ensuring the quality of a small water supply. Varied case-studies will help to illustrate issues and ways in which they have been resolved.
Table of contents
The Difficulties of Managing Water Quality in Small Water Supplies; What are Small Supplies?; The Management and Regulation of Small Water Supplies; The Vulnerability of Small Water Supplies to Contamination by Metals; Water Safety Plans for Small Water Supplies; Making WSPs Work for Small Supplies; Teamwork- The Value of a WSP Team; A Practical Guide to Developing a WSP for a Small Supply; Practical Guidance for Risk Assessments; Establishing the Metals Problem: Risk Assessment, Sampling and Analysis; The Range of Possible Problems; Metal Solubility and Influencing Factors; Risk Assessment of Small Water Supply Systems; Sampling and Analysis; Consumer Awareness; Sources of Metals in Small Water Supplies; Origin of Contaminants; Contamination of Surface Waters; Contamination of Ground Water; Contamination from Treatment Processes; Contamination in Distribution Pipework; Contamination from Plumbing Fittings; Water Treatment Processes Available for Use on Small Water Systems; Process Selection; Types of Treatment; Practical Considerations of Treatment for Metals in Small Water Supplies; Iron; Manganese; Conditioning of Water to Prevent Dissolution of Plumbing Materials or Post-treatment Contamination; Treatment is Only Part of the Story; Indications and Effects of Post-treatment Metal Contamination in Small Water Supplies; Establishing the Source of the Problem; Factors Controlling the Corrosion of Metals into Small Water Supplies; The Conditioning of Water to Minimise Corrosion; Manual of Individual Metals in Small Water Supplies, Aluminium, Antimony, Arsenic, Barium, Beryllium, Boron, Cadmium, Chromium, Cobalt, Copper, Iron, Lead, Manganese, Mercury, Nickel, Selenium, Tin, Tungsten, Uranium, Vanadium, Zinc; Case Studies; Arsenic removal in Small Supplies in Italy; A New Borehole Supply with Iron Removal for a Single Property in England, UK; Metals in Small Water Supplies in Areas of Water Scarcity in African Regions; Unexplained Lead Contamination of a Small Water Supply in Northern Scotland
EDITORS
Matt Bower, Drinking Water Quality Regulator for Scotland, UK
«Pilling es un guía sabio, informado y viajado. Su escepticismo respecto al PIB representa un inestimable primer paso si de lo que se trata es de hacer las cosas mejor. Un verdadero logro.» Angus Deaton, premio Nobel de Economía
Los economistas y su culto al crecimiento se han apoderado de la política. Según su sistema de medida por antonomasia, el producto interior bruto, deberíamos ser más ricos o felices que nunca. David Pilling, uno de los más prestigiosos y premiados periodistas económicos, demuestra la insensatez de nuestra dependencia de ese concepto arbitrario, limitado y engañoso que nos empeñamos en tomar como signo de bienestar.
Muchos de los aspectos clave de nuestro bienestar, desde el aire limpio hasta la estabilidad laboral, están fuera del alcance de nuestra medida estándar de éxito. Durante demasiado tiempo, la economía se ha basado en un lenguaje que no resuena con la experiencia real de las personas. Según Pilling, nuestra devoción por el PIB conforma las políticas equivocadas, contribuye a la desconfianza creciente de los ciudadanos y sacude los cimientos de nuestra democracia.
El delirio del crecimiento revela las tendencias ocultas de nuestra tradición económica y explora alternativas al PIB, desde medidas de riqueza, igualdad y sostenibilidad hasta el concepto de bienestar subjetivo. Provocador, autorizado y tremendamente revelador, ofrece propuestas ingeniosas e inesperadas sobre cómo podemos responder a las necesidades reales en lugar de perseguir el crecimiento a cualquier precio.
La crítica ha dicho: «Una respuesta perspicaz e ingeniosa a una pregunta esencial: ¿qué es exactamente el crecimiento y cómo puede aprovecharse para mejorar las vidas de las personas?» Kofi Annan
«De lectura obligada para cualquier interesado en hacer del mundo un lugar mejor. Casi un milagro.» Ha-Joon Chang
«Directo al corazón del problema, capta con todos los matices por qué el PIB es una estadística tan estrafalaria -y algunos dirían, incluso, francamente engañosa-.» Felix Martin, The Financial Times
«Potente y cautivador. Pilling comenzó a cuestionar el culto al PIB y no pudo parar. Tiene razón: el maleficio debe romperse.» Philip Aldrich, The Times
«El bienvenido antídoto contra el evangelio según el PIB.» David Smith, The Sunday Times
«Rara vez, por no decir nunca, me veo recomendando un libro de economía que sea al mismo tiempo importante y francamente divertido.» Jared Bernstein, The Washington Post
«Ágil y adictivo. Una investigación maravillosamente cosmopolita.» Adam Tooze, The Guardian
«Excelente. La defensa de la búsqueda de mejores formas de medir la prosperidad va cobrando cada vez más fuerza.» Rohan Silva, The Evening Standard
«Un bicho raro: un libro de economía bien escrito, accesible y -no lo digan muy alto- ¡entretenido! Ingenioso y bien documentado, es una excelente guía para eludir las trampas y deficiencias del PBI.» New Internationalist
«Magistral. Es sorprendente cómo un estudio sobre el PIB y el crecimiento puede brillar con tal ingenio y agudeza. David Pilling logra semejante hazaña.» Nature
«Si intuían que el PIB no se traduce necesariamente en mayor bienestar, Pilling les demostrará convincentemente por qué tenían razón. Uno de los columnistas más brillantes de The Financial Times ha escrito un libro que se convertirá en un clásico.» Jagdish Bhagwati
«Fascinante y revelador, El delirio del crecimiento no se limita a contar por qué el emperador va desnudo, sino que también revela que, de entrada, ni siquiera se trata del emperador.» David Mitchell, autor de El atlas de las nubes
Molecular Biology of Cancer: Mechanisms, Targets, and Therapeutics offers an accessible, engaging, and optimistic account of cancer biology for undergraduate and graduate students.
Using the hallmarks of cancer as a starting point, the book looks at the cellular and molecular mechanisms underpinning the transformation of cells into cancer cells. After discussing the theory, each chapter then demonstrates how this knowledge can be directly applied to the development of new targeted therapies, giving the reader a clear appreciation of how the theory translates to tackling the disease.
Drawing on the latest research in this dynamic field, the author makes cutting edge science readily accessible. The book features a variety of learning features - 'Pause and think', 'How do we know that?', self-tests and activities - to help students engage with, and master, the concepts presented. The emphasis is not on exhaustive coverage of the subject to the point of overwhelming with detail, but on acquiring a solid understanding of the essentials and an appreciation of how a theoretical understanding can be transformed into therapeutic benefit.
Online Resource Centre
The Online Resource Centre features:
For registered adopters of the book: - Figures from the book, ready to download. - A test bank of multiple choice questions, with feedback linked to the book.
For students: - Web links to a range of additional cancer biology resources on the internet.
