This book provides an informative, practical, and critical resource useful to social workers, educators, foster parents, case aides, and nurses providing direct service to those affected by Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and Effects (FAS/E) and challenges program planners and policymakers to recognize the seriousness of the problem.

Fetal Alcohol Syndrome/Effect: Developing a Community Response

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Fernwood Publishing Co., Ltd.

This book reveals the stigma attached to disabled persons in Canadian society and continues the debate surrounding Robert Latimer and Tracy Latimer. A Voice Unheard shows the positive options for Canadians with disabilities and reveals the opinion held by many people with disabilities that death was not Tracy Latimer’s only option.

A Voice Unheard: The Latimer Case and People with Disabilities

Self-Help

Enns, Ruth

Death & Grief

Navigating the maze of issues, both social and personal, which surround death and dying in our country, this book examines how Canadian cultures deal with concepts relating to death and challenges readers to examine their own thoughts, feelings, and fears about death and dying.

Social Perspectives on Death and Dying

Auger, Jeanette

This volume presents a number of studies on the effects of colonization, the need for programming specific to and by Aboriginal people, and the efforts made by the Aboriginal community to meet that need.

No Place For Violence: Canadian Aboriginal Alternatives (Hurting and Healing series)

The result of four years of rewriting, revising, and updating, this new edition includes reams of shocking new data about the confrontation between the Mi'kmaq and European civilizations. This re-examination of original historical records casts doubts on early military and political figures now honored as heroes and questions who the savages really were.

We Were Not the Savages: A Mi'kmaq Perspective on the Collision Between European and Native American Civilizations New Twenty-First Century Edition

History

Paul, Daniel N.

Americas

This straightforward examination of globalization within a Canadian context considers its effects on sovereignty, covers democratic governance, and looks at the losers and winners of a globalized Canada.

Paradigm Shift: Globalization and the Canadian State

Business & Money

McBride, Stephen

International

Care providers, academics, and women themselves offer their perspectives on the abuse of women by intimate partners in this analytical text. The causes of partner abuse; adequacy of shelters, support groups, and other resources for abused women; and the impact of government policies are among the key issues explored. The voices and recommendations of abused women are presented in these real-life case studies. The often underexamined experiences of women abused by lesbian partners and the future challenges faced by abused women are also considered in this hard-hitting discussion of domestic violence.

Reclaiming Self: Issues and Resources for Women Abused by Intimate Partners (Hurting and Healing series)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Women's Health

This introduction to criminology uses the ethics of social justice to confront traditional views of criminals. Key questions are addressed, including What is defined as criminal? How do we respond to crime? and Why do individuals behave in ways that reproduce social inequalities? Applied real-life scenarios address such realities as the prison experience, young men in the sex trade, race and crime in the media, and racial profiling. This text provides an alternative pedagogy for teaching criminology that discusses both the abstract theory and contemporary implications of the criminal justice system.

Marginality & Condemnation: An Introduction to Critical Criminology

The voices of young female prostitutes offer a chorus of disturbing firsthand perspectives on sexual exploitation and the inadequacies of government programs designed to help them in this account of the sex trade. To provide a full picture of the complex issues of the sex trade, discussions are included of health and safety concerns, the effect of prostitution on identity, the prevalence of violence, the legislation passed to protect prostitutes, the factors that force young women to become prostitutes, and the support required to facilitate their transition out of the sex trade. This candid look at a much-neglected, grisly reality provides perspectives on why social service agencies so often fail to help prostitutes.

Being Heard: The Experiences of Young Women in Prostitution (Hurting and Healing series)

Psychology & Counseling

The inequalities in the treatment of individuals whose gender, race, class, or sexual orientation relegates them to a minority status are presented as the root cause of social, economic, and political problems in this survey of Canadian social issues.

Power and Resistance: Critical Thinking About Canadian Social Issues

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