Improving Health and Social Cohesion through Education Book: This report addresses challenges in assessing the social outcomes of learning by providing a synthesis of the existing evidence, original data analyses and policy discussions. The report finds that education has the potential to promote health as well as civic and social engagement.

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Data Protection in a Profiled World Book: One of the most challenging issues facing our current information society is the accelerating accumulation of data trails in transactional and communication systems, which may be used not only to profile the behaviour of individuals for commercial, marketing and law enforcement purposes, but also to locate and follow things and actions. Data mining, convergence, interoperability, ever- increasing computer capacities and the extreme miniaturisation of the hardware are all elements which contribute to a major contemporary challenge: the profiled world. This interdisciplinary volume offers twenty contributions that delve deeper into some of the complex but urgent questions that this profiled world addresses to data protection and privacy. The chapters of this volume were all presented at the second Conference on Privacy and Data Protection (CPDP2009) held in Brussels in January 2009 (www.cpdpconferences.org). The yearly CPDP conferences aim to become Europe�s most important meeting where academics, practitioners, policy-makers and activists come together to exchange ideas and discuss emerging issues in information technology, privacy and data protection and law. This volume reflects the richness of the conference, containing chapters by leading lawyers, policymakers, computer, technology assessment and social scientists. The chapters cover generic themes such as the evolution of a new generation of data protection laws and the constitutionalisation of data protection and more specific issues like security breaches, unsolicited adjustments, social networks, surveillance and electronic voting. This book not only offers a very close and timely look on the state of data protection and privacy in our profiled world, but it also explores and invents ways to make sure this world remains a world we want to live in.

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Essays in Sociological Theory Book: Talcott Parsons needs little introduction to anyone acquainted with the literature of sociology. Few men have dominated their fields so much as Dr. Parsons does his.
In this collection of nineteen essays, Dr. Parsons focuses his attention on subjects ranging from the social structure of Japan to propaganda and social control, from sociological aspects of Fascist movements to the place of psychoanalysis in society. Also dealt with are such topics as: The role of ideas in social action, the motivation of economic activities, American social structure, social classes and class conflict, and the prospects for contemporary sociological theory.

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Designing Social Interfaces: Principles, Patterns, and Practices for Improving the User Experience Book: From the creators of Yahoo!'s Design Pattern Library, Designing Social Interfaces provides you with more than 100 patterns, principles, and best practices, along with salient advice for many of the common challenges you'll face when starting a social website. Designing sites that foster user interaction and community-building is a valuable skill for web developers and designers today, but it's not that easy to understand the nuances of the social web. Now you have help.
Christian Crumlish and Erin Malone share hard-won insights into what works, what doesn't, and why. You'll learn how to balance opposing factions and grow healthy online communities by co-creating them with your users.

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The Linked Photographers' Guide to Online Marketing and Social Media Book: "The Linked Photographer's Guide to Online Marketing and Social Networking" is a complete resource for photographers looking to improve their business through social media. This book provides a step-by-step process for getting a photographer's business online, and acts as a reference guide for the variety of online marketing options on the web. This one-of-a-kind guide is the key to making social media work for the photographer to improve their business!

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Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics Book: Japan�s welfare state is puzzling. On most measures, Japan�s welfare state is small. Its social spending levels are low; its tax revenue is small; and its benefit levels are meager (Figure 0.1).1 Japan�s social spending programs are among the least redistributive in the advanced industrial world (Table 0.1). At first glance, Japan�s small welfare spending appears to confirm the conventional scholarly wisdom that attributes the development of a generous and redistributive welfare state to a strong social democratic party � supported by well-organized and centralized labor unions. Yet despite its meager social spending, Japan has nonetheless managed to achieve a fairly egalitarian income distribution.

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Effective Communication: A Workbook for Social Care Workers (re-post) Book: Social care workers in residential or domiciliary settings need to be able to communicate effectively in order to carry out their work.Supporting people with a variety of challenges including hearing loss, impaired speech, visual impairment, dementia and physical and learning disabilities requires a range of communication skills, such as listening, sign language, writing notes, and using body language, touch and stimulation. This workbook will provide workers with the ability to enable adults with limited or no verbal communication skills to express their views."Effective Communication" includes practical guidance on using communication tools, such as computers, staff photo rota boards and pictorial menu boards, and use of photographs as visual reminders. The workbook meets the requirements of care standards and also refers to the importance of recording and reporting, and dealing with sensitive and complex issues, such as breaking the news of a family bereavement, or communicating with a person who has been abused.Designed to meet the requirements of Health and Social Care (Adults) NVQ Level 3, Unit 31, this workbook is also a valuable source of guidance for any social care worker wanting to improve communication with adults.

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The Social Media Bible: Tactics, Tools, and Strategies for Business Success Book: The Social Media Bible will show you how to build or transform your business into a social media�enabled enterprise where customers, employees, and prospects connect, collaborate, and champion your products, your services, and your way of doing business.
Using the systematic approach presented in this comprehensive guide, you'll learn how to:
�Increase your company and brand value by engaging people in new forms of communication, collaboration, education, and entertainment
�Determine which social media tactics you should be using with your customers and employees
�Evaluate and categorize the tools and applications that constitute the rapidly evolving social media ecosystem
�Make social media tools like Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, Twitter, blogging, podcasting, and hundreds of others a part of your business strategy
�Do a social media analysis inside your company to improve internal operations and outside your company to create and monetize relationships with customers and prospects.

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Marketing to the Social Web: How Digital Customer Communities Build Your Business PDF Book: Marketers must look on the web for new ways to find customers and communicate with them instead of them. YouTube and Facebook, blogs and Twitter-ing, social media on the Internet is the most promising way to reach new customers. Marketing to the Social Web, Second Edition, will help marketers understand their businesses and how enthusiastic, customers, build customer communities and maximize their profits in a time of marketing confusion. Author and social media guru Larry Weber describes newly available tools and platforms, and shows you how to apply them to see immediate results and the economy. Rather than broadcast messages to the public should be savvy marketers to participate in social networks, belong to the people, where the dialogue will grow with the customers and can vary between customers. In networking sites like MySpace, Facebook, Flickr and even the ideal forum for this dialogue, this book shows you how to tap into this new media.

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The Encyclopedia of Psychological Trauma Book: Every major healthcare, social and behavioral science, education, and human services discipline and sub-specialty now includes trauma/posttraumatic stress disorder as a focal topic for researchers, educators, and practitioners. The Encyclopedia of Psychological Trauma is the only authoritative reference on the scientific evidence, clinical practice guidelines, and social issues addressed within the field of trauma and posttraumatic stress disorder. Edited by the leading experts in the field, mental health practitioners will turn to this resource for complete coverage of evidence-based and standard treatments and topics as well as controversial topics including EMDR, virtual reality therapy, and much more.
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