Political Science - Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare

Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2025 - THE WASHINGTON POST'S 5 BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF 2025 - THE ATLANTIC'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF 2025 - THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY'S BEST BOOKS...

In October 1996, one hundred and thirty nine girls were abducted from St Mary's College, in northern Uganda. In an act of extraordinary courage, Sister Rachele, the Italian deputy headmistress, followed the abductors. Her journey took her to the Lord's Resistance Army, led by...

A critical anthology exploring the debates, conundrums, and promising practices around abolition and social work in academia and within impacted communities. Within social work--a profession that has been intimately tied to and often complicit in the building and sustaining of the carceral state--abolitionist thinking,...

Inside the lives of homeless teens--moving stories of pain and hope from Covenant HouseAlmost Home tells the stories of six remarkable young people from across the United States and Canada as they confront life alone on the streets. Each eventually finds his or her...

WINNER: The 2019 Lillian Smith Book Award, 2018 McGannon Center Book Prize, and shortlisted for the Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice Astra Taylor, author of The People's Platform: "The single most important book about technology you will read this year."Dorothy...

In Black Disability Politics Sami Schalk explores how issues of disability have been and continue to be central to Black activism from the 1970s to the present. Schalk shows how Black people have long engaged with disability as a political issue deeply tied to...

**INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**"This book is the heartbreaking story that every parent dreads... Cohen sheds light on what really happened the night Lauren was never seen again." --David Crow, author of The Pale-Faced LieShe visited friends. She walked to a bar. She was...

Spend a day with social workers in 62 different settings, and learn about the many career paths available to you. Did you ever wish you could tag along with a professional in your chosen field, just for a day? DAYS IN THE LIVES OF...

A New York Times BestsellerA Wall Street Journal BestsellerA New York Times Notable Book of 2020A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceShortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the YearA New Statesman Book to Read From economist Anne Case and...

Essays are enjoying renewed popularity, from the personal essays of Lewis Thomas, to the intellectual treats of Marguerite Yourcenar, to the political and social commentary of Michael Parenti in this superb collection. Parenti covers the myth of the liberal media, terrorist hype, John F....

An urgent examination of how violence against women is inextricably linked to other issues that stoke our greatest passions. Every 90 seconds a woman is sexually assaulted. In that same minute and a half, another is a victim of domestic violence at the hands...

In Feminist, Queer, Crip Alison Kafer imagines a different future for disability and disabled bodies. Challenging the ways in which ideas about the future and time have been deployed in the service of compulsory able-bodiedness and able-mindedness, Kafer rejects the idea of disability as...

Now in its fourth edition, Foundations of Orientation and Mobility remains the classic reference and textbook for O&M professionals and students alike. A comprehensive work spread across two volumes, Foundations of O&M, 4th ed., contains contributions from over 50 of the leading scholars, teachers,...

Healing Growing Hearts is a practical, story-driven resource for those working closely with children and youth affected by trauma, violence, and systemic injustice. Designed for social workers, educators, mental health professionals, medical staff, support workers, and community advocates, this book offers culturally rooted, multidisciplinary...

An urgent, data-driven framework for understanding--and repairing--America's fractured social fabric, written by the progressive leader, public health expert, and host of Crooked Media's America Dissected.In Healing Politics, epidemiologist and public health leader Dr. Abdul El-Sayed diagnoses the underlying driver of modern political polarization. It...

From leading abolitionist organizers, a much-needed intervention arguing that the systems that purport to protect children make them-and our communities-less safe. Based on decades of shared organizing, study, and lived experience, the contributors to How to End Family Policing argue that the child welfare...

An urgent and deeply affecting account of America's failure to provide meaningful support to its chronically ill and disabled citizens and our resulting reliance on the unpaid caregiving labor of spouses and intimate partners.When twenty-seven-year-old Laura Mauldin moved to New York for graduate school,...

A groundbreaking study challenges basic tenets of US social welfare policy with proof that raising Black children in two-parent families does not close racial gaps in life outcomes. Ever since Daniel Patrick Moynihan's controversial 1965 report on "The Negro Family," the disadvantages of the...

Thomas K. Holcomb's highly successful textbook on Deaf culture has been fully revised and updated in this second edition. The changes reflect those in the field and include three new chapters focusing on the impact of technology on the Deaf experience, the roles of...

"An urgent spotlight on a dire injustice."--Publishers WeeklyA revealing account of parenting in a country that neglects the needs of poor families--through the humble diaper. Many of us take diapers for granted. Yet diaper insecurity is a common, often hidden consequence of poverty in...