Bøger af Ian Shaw

This volume, which brings together chapters and journal articles published by renowned academic Ian Shaw, focusses on the practice/research relationship within social work - a theme that has preoccupied much of his writing over the last forty or more years.

Mind of A Lost Soul is an contemplation of poems that were derived from the author's personal experiences as a manic depressive. Losing both his parents to a murder suicide, Ian turned to writing to give his pain a voice. Although his voice may sound painful, it breathes life into the anguish we all feel. These poems are dark yet heartfelt. They can come off depressive yet so real. These are the feelings a lost soul ponders when trying to find his way.

Succinctly presented, this book covers all the facets of forensic science for students who are hoping to become police officers, lawyers or other members of the criminal justice system.

Dr Patrick Galloway has created a revolutionary serum that sterilises female mammals, forever. If it falls into the wrong hands, the potential for bio-terrorism and extortion on a grand scale is huge. Intended for pest control, the serum has a more sinister capability - it can be used on endangered species and, ultimately, humans. When Paddy Galloway, the creator of the serum, disappears, his oldest friend Captain Peter Corbett, (Blue), sets out to find him in a life or death quest. The action takes us via London, Lexington, Nairobi, Tanzania, New Zealand and New York. Finally to Southern France where Paddy has been held captive in a medieval chateau in the heart of the Languedoc by two South African paramilitary - Danie du Plessis and Gert Botha; a French mercenary, Andre Ducat; a French Scientist, Mme Juliette Pelletier, and their paramilitary support crew. With a deadline fast rising, Blue has to rescue Paddy, save two threatened colonies of endangered species, and, most critically - destroy the human serum.

In this book we encounter a man whose twentieth-century life and ministry mirrored a concern for faithful preaching, pastoral care, and the mission field. Leslie Land avoided labels, but his gentle, impeccably courteous, yet penetrating expositions laid the foundations of a Reformed evangelicalism which was to influence many in the United Kingdom from his church in Leicester. He would say, "I have sought to emphasise none other loyalty than Christ and His Word." The second half of the book gives a selection of extended outlines of his biblical, doctrinal, and experiential preaching, grouped according to declaring the gospel to those who were not Christians, the relation between faith and life, the life of the church, and the necessary defence of the gospel.

This volume, which brings together chapters and journal articles published by renowned academic Ian Shaw, focusses on the practice/research relationship within social work - a theme that has preoccupied much of his writing over the last forty or more years.

This book, the fieldwork for which was undertaken between 1984 and 1990, concentrates on the travertine (Egyptian alabaster) quarries at Hatnub, some 25 kilometres southeast of the modern town of Mallawi, in the Eastern Desert of Egypt. Most of the archaeological remains date to the Old and Middle Kingdoms (c.

Drawing on evidence from across Europe, Asia and the USA, this accessible book covers how social workers can engage with research and draw on it in practice.

What is the role of science in social work? Ian Shaw considers social work inventions, evidence-based practice, the history of scientific claims in social work practice, technology, and social work research methodology to demonstrate the significant role that scientific language and practice play in the complex world of social work.By treating science as a social action marked by the interplay of choice, activity, and constraints, Shaw links scientific and social work knowledge through the core themes of the nature of evidence, critical learning and understanding, justice, and the skilled evaluation of the subject. He shows specifically how to connect science, research, and the practical and speaks to the novel topics this integration introduces into the discipline, including experience, expertise, faith, tacit knowledge, judgment, interests, scientific controversies, and understanding.

Bringing key developments and debates together in a single volume, this book provides an authoritative guide for students and practitioners embarking on qualitative research in social work and related fields.

Demonstrates how evaluation and inquiry are just as much practice tasks as planning, intervention and review. By demonstrating that good evaluating in practice helps sustain a commitment to evidence, understanding and justice, this title shows that for this to be achieved, evaluating in practice must permeate every aspect of social work.

Ian Shaw shows how evaluation practice can utilize qualitative approaches to gain an understanding that more traditional quantitative approaches may fail to do. Three broad sections include discussions of: the foundations of evaluation and recent trends; evaluation and action programmes and policies; and the practice of evaluation.

Noted food expert and author, Ian Shaw, also places the risks of food, food-born pathogens and food contaminants into the context of life's overall risks.

The study of ancient Egyptian materials and technology is a vibrant one, with research being conducted by many scholars throughout the world. This book brings together the basic evidence for different aspects of change and evolution in Egyptian technology. It also examines wider cognitive and social contexts.