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Law Enforcement Ethics is at the forefront of engaging in the conversation about the future of law enforcement ethics, while examining many of the classic, enduring challenges posed by the profession itself.

A guide offering seven comprehensive steps to create instruction and a classroom culture that engages students intellectually, emotionally, and behaviorally.

Offers step-by-step tutorials on how to use the Google Apps for Education suite, in addition to providing classroom examples and teaching tips.

A user-friendly, practical guide on school-based mental health counseling approaches for K-12 school counselors, psychologists, and other mental health professionals

This "how-to" book is the perfect mix of theory and practice for the busy educator who needs an immediate game plan for getting boys on the path to higher achievement.

A volume that is at the forefront of engaging in the conversation about the future of the American prison.

This book will offer a different school review approach that is evidence based and successful in a large setting where school improvement has been exemplary.

The definitive guide to implementing change from the experts who designed the Concerns-based Adoption Model (CBAM)!

A practical guide to using RTI in writing instruction in the classroom.

Covering all aspects of the proposal process, from the most basic questions about form and style to the task of seeking funding, this Sixth Edition has been completely updated and revised to offer clear advice backed up with excellent examples.

This handy guide can be used in conjunction with any introductory or intermediate statistics book where the focus is on in-depth presentation of how graphs are used.

Developed by an acclaimed media literacy program, this innovative guide shares strategies and lesson plans that help children ages 5-12 become empowered and responsible communicators.

This traditional A-to-Z reference has significant coverage of police and courts and other criminal justice sub-disciplines while also featuring thematic articles on the sociology of street crime.

Written by experts with firsthand experience in applying for and getting grants, this guide shows how to build a successful grant proposal. It provides advice on planning, executing, submitting, and revising grant proposals in order to maximize their chances of success.

This interdisciplinary text examines five different components of family health--biology, behavior, social-cultural circumstances, the environment, and health care--and the ways they affect the abilities of family members to perform well in their homes, workplaces, and communities.

This practical text will help students to understand the causes and treatment of historical trauma on an individual, group and community level.

This new third edition has been redesigned and updated with new entries covering the vital current elections topics that readers want to know about, including short definitions of terms like "front-runner" to in-depth essays exploring vital aspects of campaigns and elections.

Through primary source and other documents and insightful narratives, this work discusses appointments, prerogative governance, and the role of time and regimes in the complex scheme of checks and balances.

Taking both social and clinical psychological perspectives, this volume examines pressing community problems such as homelessness, racism, delinquency, alcoholism, violence, unemployment and workplace health. The contributors, leaders in community and social psychology, present the results of their empirical research into these problems.

This text is designed to introduce readers to the language of contemporary rhetorical studies. This glossary of key terms and concepts in contemporary rhetorical studies offers an introduction to the definitional ambiguities of the central concept of rhetoric itself. The primary emphasis is on the contemporary tradition of rhetorical studies as it has emerged in the discipline of speech communication.Each entry in the glossary ranges in length from a few paragraphs to a short essay of a few pages. Where appropriate, examples are provided to further illustrate the term or concept. Each entry is accompanied by a list of references and additional readings to direct the reader to other materials of possible interest.

Provides readers with information and background on the presidency through a comprehensive encyclopedia of over 300 easy-to-read entries. This title features biographies of every president and many others important to the office.

Comparative politics students will benefit from CQ Researcher's award-winning, non-partisan reporting that looks at today's most important problems, ranging from democratization and regime change to policies on immigration, welfare and religion.

Just two years after the country was electrified by President Obama's historic election, the political scene in Washington has changed radically once again. This insider's guide includes discussions on the roles both party committees and outside groups played in the November vote.

Is your state trending toward healthier habits? What kind of exercise activities are popular among residents? Are lyme disease or salmonella infections prevalent where you live? This annual guide features more than 500 tables compiled from authoritative sources of health care data for the 50 United States as well as Washington, DC.

Researchers and legislators grapple with how to appropriate funds across their respective state even as federal and state funding decrease in today's economic tumult. This title compares the 50 states and Washington, DC, in more than 500 crime-related categories.

Examines the different approaches that drive the debate concerning the presidency: liberal, conservative, moderate, constitutionalist, libertarian, and presidentialist. This title also examines an approach in light of presidential-congressional relations, presidential power and accountability, the rule of law, and domestic and foreign policy.

Offers advice, guiding both first-year students and seasoned professionals through the essentials of writing for the ear. With countless scripts collected from writing workshops in newsrooms across the country, this title is studded with insightful - and at times entertaining - comments, suggestions and much-needed corrections.

Provides a look at state judicial systems. This title places the various state court systems within the overall political and judicial framework and examines events in, and policymaking by, state courts.

Is the health care reform law a good idea? Should marijuana be legalized and taxed? Should government agencies do more to combat superbugs? Should fertility medicine be regulated more vigorously? Based on selections from "CQ Researcher", this title takes up these and other questions.

For law and courts courses focused on the federal level, this title is the suitable supplement. It explains the organizational structure of the federal courts, outline the jurisdiction of the three levels of US courts, and pay particular attention to the link between the courts, public policy, and the political environment.