Dan Allen

Puzzled by terminology, skills, law, or theory? Revising for your placement or exam? Then look no further! This series of concise and easy-to-use A-Zs will be your guide. Designed for both students and newly-qualified social workers, this book will introduce you to over 60 key skills in a concise and no-nonsense way. You can test your knowledge and how to apply each skill in practice with Skills in Action, Stop-Reflect and Top Tips boxes.

Puzzled by terminology, skills, law, or theory? Revising for your placement or exam? Then look no further! This series of concise and easy-to-use A-Zs will be your guide. Designed for both students and newly-qualified social workers, this book will introduce you to over 60 key skills in a concise and no-nonsense way. You can test your knowledge and how to apply each skill in practice with Skills in Action, Stop-Reflect and Top Tips boxes.

From tales of revenge and spurned lovers to vengeful ghosts and blood-thirsty misandrists, this unique collection explores the violent potential of women. Turning old tropes on their heads, we have male victims and female killers. This anthology of Feminazi Splatter Goth will uncover the darkness of the "fairer sex" and prove the age-old maxim that - the female of the species is more deadly than the male. Short stories of horror and torture from indie authors around the globe including Kenzie Jennings, Jef Rouner, Carmilla Voiez and Timothy Black. Twenty-two short stories of murder and mayhem.

On the outskirts of a small town in Alabama during the waning days of Reconstruction, the young son of a sharecropper finds that there is something more than his subconscious, speaking. An advanced technology has taken residence in his brain, making him privy to uncanny facts. The boy must complete implausible feats, all the while becoming a quieter voice inside of his own head.

This highly practical guidebook will help you develop the critical and analytical skills essential to your successful social work education and evidence-informed, reflective practice. Key features include: Theoretical break down and simplification of key theoriesHow to avoid common pitfalls Activities to help you cement your learningCase studies applicable in practice. This will support you right from the very beginning of your programme through to the end of your final placement and into practice.

This highly practical guidebook will help you develop the critical and analytical skills essential to your successful social work education and evidence-informed, reflective practice. Key features include: Theoretical break down and simplification of key theoriesHow to avoid common pitfalls Activities to help you cement your learningCase studies applicable in practice. This will support you right from the very beginning of your programme through to the end of your final placement and into practice.

HIGHLIGHT Seam in Action offers a practical, in-depth look at JBoss Seam, an exciting new Java application framework used to build rich, web applications. DESCRIPTION Seam is poised for the same sort of success Struts enjoyed 5 years ago. By combining the energy of the open-source Java community, the gold-plated name recognition of Seam and Hibernate creator Gavin King, and the full backing of JBoss and Red Hat, Seam has both the technical strength and marketing support it needs to break away from the pack. Seam in Action presents a thorough Seam tutorial along with practical techniques for combining Seam with the other industry-standard technologies Java developers use daily. It’s the first book to cover Seam 2.0, a significant upgrade from Seam 1.2 released in late 2007. Seam in Action is also first to cover Seam’s integration with the very popular Spring framework. Author Dan Allen presents an unbiased, in-depth view of Seam from outside the walls of Red Hat/JBoss, focusing on such topics as Spring integration and deployment to alternative application servers to steer clear of vendor lock-in. By the end of the book, readers will gain not only a deep understanding of Seam, but also come away with the confidence to teach the material to others. KEY SELLING POINTS • First book to cover Seam 2.0, released in Nov 2007 • First book to cover Seam-Spring integration • Reviewers comment that the very in-depth information goes far beyond the manual