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One of Canada's first social workers, Jane B. Wisdom had an active career in social welfare that spanned almost the first half of the twentieth century. Competent, thoughtful, and trusted, she had a knack for being in important places at pivotal moments. Wisdom's transnational career took her from Saint John to Montreal, New York City, Halifax, and Glace Bay, as well as into almost every field of social work. Her story offers a remarkable opportunity to uncover what life was like for front-line social workers in the profession's early years.In Wisdom, Justice, and Charity, historian Suzanne Morton uses Wisdom's professional life to explore how the welfare state was built from the ground up by thousands of pragmatic and action-oriented social workers. Wisdom's career illustrates the impact of professionalization, gender, and changing notions of the state – not just on those in the emergent profession of social work but also on those in need. Her life and career stand as a potent allegory for the limits and possibilities of individual action

ALLEVIATING FOOD INSECURITY WITH SNAP OVERVIEW AND IMPACTS OF THE SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM -- ALLEVIATING FOOD INSECURITY WITH SNAP OVERVIEW AND IMPACTS OF THE SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM -- Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1 SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM (SNAP): A PRIMER ON ELIGIBILITY AND BENEFITS -- SUMMARY -- INTRODUCTION -- ELIGIBILITY -- The SNAP Household -- Financial Eligibility -- The Traditional Path to Eligibility -- Income and SNAP Deductions -- Assets -- Categorical Eligibility

Brazilian indigenous peoples : history, challenges, threats and conquests / Eunice M.L. Soriano de Alencar and Nívea Pimenta Braga -- Children's skills, expectations and challenges facing changing environments : an ethnographic study in Mbya indigenous communities (Argentina) / Carolina Remorini -- Tradition and transformation of Eastern James Bay Eeyou (Cree) foodways in pregnancy : implications for health care / Helen Vallianatos and Noreen Willows -- Disparities in medication use among elder American Indians : evidence, causes, and implications / Jane R. Mort and Chamika Hawkins-Taylor -- Mental health disparities, historical realities, and sociocultural barriers of American Indians and Alaska natives : a focus on suicide prevalence and prevention / Paula T. McWhirter and Elizabeth Terrazas-Carrillo.

Macht durch Disziplin! Macht durch Gemeinschaft! Macht durch Handeln! Wie entsteht Faschismus? Ein junger Lehrer entschließt sich zu einem ungewöhnlichen Experiment. Er möchte seinen Schülern beweisen, dass Anfälligkeit für faschistoides Handeln und Denken nicht etwas ist, das nur andere Menschen betrifft – Faschismus ist hier mitten unter uns und in jedem von uns. Doch die "Bewegung", die er auslöst, droht ihn und sein Vorhaben zu überrollen: Das Experiment gerät außer Kontrolle. Morton Rhues Klassiker DIE WELLE beschreibt eindringlich und gegenwartsbezogen, wie leicht Menschen verführt, manipuliert und instrumentalisiert werden können. Der Roman basiert auf wahren Begebenheiten an einer Highschool im kalifornischen Palo Alto.

Using a rich variety of historical sources, Suzanne Morton traces the history of gambling regulation in five Canadian provinces - Nova Scotia, Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, and B.C. - from the First World War to the federal legalization in 1969. This regulatory legislation, designed to control gambling, ended a long period of paradox and pretence during which gambling was common, but still illegal.Morton skilfully shows the relationship between gambling and the wider social mores of the time, as evinced by labour, governance, and the regulation of 'vice.' Her focus on the ways in which race, class, and gender structured the meaning of gambling underpins and illuminates the historical data she presents. She shows, for example, as "Old Canada" (the Protestant, Anglo-Celtic establishment) declined in influence, gambling took on a less deviant connotation - a process that continued as charity became secularized and gambling became a lucrative fundraising activity eventually linked to the welfare state.At Odds is the first Canadian historical examination of gambling, a complex topic which is still met by moral ambivalence, legal proscription, and volatile opinion. This highly original study will be of interest to the undergraduate history or social science student, but will also hold the attention of a more general reader

"Barack Obama came into office in the midst of one of the worst financial crises in American history and had to extract the US from two grinding foreign wars. He succeeded in enacting the most progressive legislative agenda since the Great Society years, and has pivoted American foreign policy toward East Asia. In The Obama Presidency, political historian Morton Keller provides the first major historical assessment of the still-unfolding Obama presidency, examining his presidential persona and governing style, his domestic and foreign policies, and his place in the larger context of modern American politics. Obama came into the presidency with a unique set of assets: the first African-American president, with a transformative, messianic view of what he hoped to accomplish as President; and the capacity to excite the hopes of large segments of the electorate. That expectation has been tempered not only by his Republican opposition, but by larger realities: the play of interests and contingency, and the institutional weight of the presidency. The major tension in Obama's presidency has been between his strong commitment to an active federal government and the powerful counter-forces in contemporary American public life. Obama is in a sense haunted by his presidential predecessors in the twentieth century Democratic reform tradition, and constantly either looks to them or invokes them. But he has had to contend with the unique set of difficulties surrounding the active, centralized, bureaucratic state in our time. The eventual outcome of Obama's presidency, and its place in the American political tradition, has still to be determined. But this pioneering attempt at a historical assessment of the Obama presidency highlights the tensions, achievements, and failures that are sure to influence future interpretations"--

Children leaving out-of-home care for adoption or other family permanency require preparation and support to help them understand the past events in their lives and to process feelings connected to their experiences of abuse and neglect, separation, loss, rejection, and abandonment. Child welfare, foster care, and adoption agencies often assume that permanent families will provide the healing environment for these children and youth, and these agencies spend considerable resources to recruit, train, and support foster and adoptive parents to provide legal permanency and well-being for these ch

Intro -- Dedication -- Foreword -- Prologue -- Part I: Pain -- Chapter One -- Chapter Two -- Chapter Three -- Chapter Four -- Chapter Five -- Chapter Six -- Chapter Seven -- Chapter Eight -- Chapter Nine -- Chapter Ten -- Chapter Eleven -- Chapter Twelve -- Part II: Prison -- Chapter Thirteen -- Chapter Fourteen -- Chapter Fifteen -- Chapter Sixteen -- Chapter Seventeen -- Chapter Eighteen -- Chapter Nineteen -- Chapter Twenty -- Chapter Twenty-One -- Chapter Twenty-Two -- Part III: Peace -- Chapter Twenty-Three -- Chapter Twenty-Four -- Chapter Twenty-Five -- Chapter Twenty-Six -- Epilogue -- Author's Note -- Acknowledgments -- About the Innocence Project -- About the Author -- Copyright.

Imtiaz Sooliman, a medical doctor practising in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, visited a Shaikh in Istanbul in 1992. The Sufi teacher gave him a message that would dramatically change the lives of countless people.'To my absolute astonishment he told me I would help people for the rest of my life. He then instructed me to form a humanitarian organisation called the ""Gift of the Givers"", and repeated the phrase ""the best among people are those who benefit mankind"".'Over 20 years later Gift of the Givers, Africa's largest disaster agency, has a reputation for speedy responses to floods, war