This practice-based text is a comprehensive guide to the skills used in social work and other human services professions across a variety of contexts. Taking a unique approach to the study of social work, it integrates theory and practice throughout to help students build real-world skills for their future careers. Featuring a wealth of Canadian examples and activities, this first Canadian edition is indispensable for all social work and human service students.

Skills for Human Service Practice: Working with Individuals, Groups, and Communities, First Canadian edition

Politics & Social Sciences

O'Hara, Agi

Levine, Kathy

Weber, Zita

Social Sciences

Oxford University Press

A humorous and anecdotal celebration of entering middle age is filled with observations from the front lines about what it is like to be a single woman in the nineties. By the author of It's Better to Laugh.

We Should Be So Lucky : Love, Sex, Food, and Fun After Forty from the Diva of QVC

Parenting & Relationships

Atria Books

The QVC celebrity shares her experiences on and off the camera, discussing such topics as her plastic surgery, disastrous dates, personal tragedy, and weight-loss secrets. Reprint.

We Should Be So Lucky

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Pocket

Kathy Levine, the television hostess from the widely viewed cable television shopping network, describes her struggle to find herself, her discoveries about life, and her hard-won successes. Reprint.

It's Better to Laugh...Life, Good Luck, Bad Hair Days & QVC

The ultra-popular host of QVC shares her fascinating life story!   ""I am who I am, and you like it or don't. I'm not changing. Since I made the decision to be myself, I've had more fun and better relationships than ever. No lightning bolt is going to strike this girl twice!""   Kathy Levine is the girl next door who answered an ad in 1986 and became a host for the then-infant cable-TV shopping network, QVC. A few years and over fifty million viewers later, Kathy, "the champion of the middle-aged, not-so-beautiful woman," is a national phenomenon.   In "It's Better To Laugh...," Kathy reveals to her fans the most precious jewels of all -- her laughter, her tears, her hard-won triumphs, and what she's learned about life and being good to herself. She also tells all about life at QVC -- off "and" on camera, her romantic ups and downs, her special bond with her mother, and her ongoing struggles with her weight and hair!   Told with the warmth, honesty and humor that could only come from Kathy herself, "It's Better To Laugh..." brings us the nicest, funniest, most down to earth woman on television today -- sharing her intimate thoughts and experiences.

IT'S BETTER TO LAUGH...LIFE GOOD LUCK BAD HAIR DAYS & QVC: America's Top Learning Expert Shows How Every Child Can Succeed

Literature & Fiction

Audioworks

The award-winning host of QVC Inc., America's premier televised shopping show, was always the overweight kid in class who could tell a good joke. Now, after more than a decade of TV fame, fifty million fans, and the New York Times bestseller It's Better to Laugh..., Kathy Levine is the one who's laughing. Her message on how to cope after forty? "Try it, buy it, diet, but do it. Life is too short, so eat dessert first. Enjoy it -- and don't regret anything." Now Kathy brings us up to date on her personal life by telling all, and she means all, in a book that's as irresistible as an intimate diary accidentally left open to a juicy part. Discover the naked truth about:  Love after forty...the date from hell, the romantic fling with a much younger man, the truly terrifying mistake -- and more! Those weighty ups and downs...including the hot skinny on the breakthrough diet program that changed Kathy's life. Nips and tucks...did she have cosmetic surgery? Kathy supplies the bare facts. Personal tragedy...the heartbreaking loss of the man who was her best friend. QVC...behind the scenes. then and now. Kathy gives us the scoop on the secrets of QVC's success, Joan Rivers, viewer mail, and some brand-new developments.  WE SHOULD BE SO LUCKY And we are -- lucky that Kathy's here to make us laugh and fuel our dreams, just as we'd expect from our best girlfriend, a lady we all love.

Arts & Literature

GALLERY BOOKS

Kathy Levine, the television hostess from the widely viewed cable television shopping network, describes her struggle to find herself, her discoveries about life, and her hard-won successes.

It's Better to Laugh...Life, Good Luck, Bad Hair D: Life, Good Luck, Bad Hair Days, and Qvc

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Books by Levine, Kathy

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Skills for Human Service Practice: Working with Individuals, Groups, and Communities, First Canadian edition

We Should Be So Lucky : Love, Sex, Food, and Fun After Forty from the Diva of QVC

We Should Be So Lucky

It's Better to Laugh...Life, Good Luck, Bad Hair Days & QVC

IT'S BETTER TO LAUGH...LIFE GOOD LUCK BAD HAIR DAYS & QVC: America's Top Learning Expert Shows How Every Child Can Succeed

We Should Be So Lucky

It's Better to Laugh...Life, Good Luck, Bad Hair D: Life, Good Luck, Bad Hair Days, and Qvc