Across the range of social care, health and welfare professions, it is essential that students and practitioners engage meaningfully with the communities and service users they work with. This book offers a timely and practical guide to the methods and skills related to forming and developing such partnerships. Helping both aspiring and experienced practitioners to empower communities and service users, this book: • Explores how the developing roles of communities and service users influence policy, services and practice. • Highlights the different ethical, power and boundary tensions when working with communities and service users and suggests ways to overcome them. • Provides examples, case studies, activities and useful resources which help illustrate ways and methods of empowering people and enabling their voices to be heard. An accessible and wide-ranging book, Engaging Communities and Service Users is a must have text for students and practitioners in social care, health and welfare.

Engaging Communities and Service Users: Context, Themes and Methods

Politics & Social Sciences

Oliver, Billie

Pitt, Bob

Social Sciences

Red Globe Press

This hilarious unofficial scrapbook is a love letter to Lizzo, the queen of self-affirmation, soulful pop bangers, and, of course, the red carpet.\nTo many, it seemed as though Lizzo shot to fame overnight. But longtime fans, like author Billie Oliver, know this is hardly the case. Lizzo’s story is one of tireless persistence, in an industry and media landscape where she was often made to feel like she didn’t belong. Well, you better believe that never stopped Lizzo.\nLizzobangers, her debut album, dropped in 2014 and piqued interest. But it was from 2016 onwards, as Lizzo’s hilarious online presence grew in step with her status as a self-love advocate, that her ascent to global stardom began.\nAll the while, Lizzo maintained her brand of I-don’t-give-a-f **k sincerity that many of us now aspire to. Or at least enjoy watching. How many other artists can claim to have twerked on stages around the world while playing classical flute?\nThis book offers 50 pieces of Lizzo’s story, as a tribute to an icon who truly shines.

Let it Lizzo!: 50 Reasons Why Lizzo is Perfection

Literature & Fiction

Dramas & Plays

Smith Street Books

A love letter to Harry Styles, a pop star who’s a sign of the times.\nThe world may have had to say goodbye to One Direction, but that hasn’t stopped Harry Styles from stealing our hearts. From the swoop of his boy band bangs to his sheer Gucci look on the runway, the singer, actor, and all-around dreamboat is a tour de force of a cultural icon, but our love is deeper than his great choices in fashion and his dulcet tones. Did you know that Shania Twain is one of his idols? That he’s BFFs with Stevie Nicks? And that he’s generous with his money, donating to a long list of charities?\nThis book is packed with 50 titbits of Harry Styles trivia and some very serious collages. Billie can only pray that he one day sees it and graces her with an Instagram DM. (A girl can hope.)

We Heart Harry: 50 Reasons Your Dream Boyfriend Harry Styles Is Perfection

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

It’s Britney…!: 50 Reasons She's Our Forever Queen

A love letter to Harry Styles, a pop star who’s a sign of the times. Now with stickers!\nThe world may have had to say goodbye to One Direction, but that hasn’t stopped Harry Styles from stealing our hearts. From the swoop of his boy band bangs to his sheer Gucci look on the runway, the singer, actor and all-around dreamboat is a tour de force of a cultural icon. But our love is deeper than his great choices in fashion. Did you know that Shania Twain is one of his idols? That he knows how to knit? That he’s bffs with Stevie Nicks? And that he’s generous with his money, donating to a long list of charities?\nThis book is packed with 50 tidbits of Harry Styles trivia and some very serious collages. Billie Oliver can only pray that he one day sees it and graces her with a DM. (A girl can hope.) This Special Edition now includes totally heartable stickers!

We Heart Harry Special Edition: 50 Reasons Your Dream Boyfriend Harry Styles Is Perfection

From the swoop of his bangs and his runway fits, to his pop anthems and that press conference, the singer, actor and all-around dreamboat is a tour de force cultural icon.What better way to showcase your love for Harry than to plaster your walls with 22 pull-out posters that feature playful photocollages of the star's most iconic moments.

22 Pull-out Posters that Prove Harry Styles Is Perfection

This doting book is a beautifully illustrated celebration of the world's most beautiful boy--like the Tumblr account your Chalamet-filled heart has always wanted. This book is a chic love letter to the shaggy-haired, angelic-cheekboned heartthrob: Timothée Chalamet. It's author Billie Oliver's very own De Profundis that's not at all creepy--just celebratory. Well maybe a little creepy, but if it results in Timothée reaching out to Billie and her getting his number, that's certainly worth a little creeping. The world has fallen in love with Timothée Chalamet, thanks largely to his skillful performances in films like Lady Bird, Call Me By Your Name, and Beautiful Boy. But it isn't just Timothée's acting chops that have won him the world's--particularly, the Twitter and Instagram world's--devotion... Clearly, the aforementioned cheekbones go a long way, as does his floppy hair and dreamy grin. But do you know he speaks French? That he takes red-carpet selfies with Glenn Close? Or that he takes consistently bold risks on every red carpet, fashion-wise? (We all remember the Louis Vuitton sequined harness.) That he's happy to talk about that time he cried watching Interstellar for the first time because he thought his part was bigger? And that he brought his sister as his date to the Golden Globe Awards? There are so many reasons to be crushing on Timothée Chalamet right now, so let us indulge the Chalamania and count just fifty of the things we adore about him most. And Timothée, if you're reading this--call me.

Chalamania: 50 Reasons Your Internet Boyfriend Timothée Chalamet is Perfection

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

This book is a love letter to Keanu Reeves, the most meme-able and cherished man to have ever walked&nbsp;the earth. Never has a film star had so many renaissances as Keanu Reeves - well, at least not while still looking so good.&nbsp;He's beloved for his steely roles in high octane classics like&nbsp;Point Break,&nbsp;Speed, and&nbsp;The Matrix, and while&nbsp;there&nbsp;are less... beloved projects, we won't be discussing&nbsp;47 Ronin&nbsp;here. Now that the&nbsp;John Wick&nbsp;franchise has brought&nbsp;Keanu back into the spotlight,&nbsp;any cinematic flops in which he starred may now be considered as experimental&nbsp;performance art.&nbsp; So sure, we all know and love KR for his most iconic roles. But did you know that he was born in Beirut? Or that&nbsp;Keanu was on track for a career as a professional hockey player until he&nbsp;was derailed by an injury? Or that the "sad&nbsp;Keanu" meme was actually just a picture of the actor enjoying a sandwich alone? Well, this book is packed with&nbsp;these tidbits, told in the only&nbsp;appropriate way: photocollage.&nbsp;

Keanu Forever: 50 Reasons Your Internet Boyfriend Keanu Reeves Is Perfection

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