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Researchers in gerontology sum up the current state of knowledge of health and ageing. Topics range from conceptual and measurement issues to social factors in health and illness, to service utilization and consumerism amongst the elderly.

Families today are changing in response to shifts in the broader environment: dual-career couples, single-parent families, racially mixed families, now represent the norm rather than the exception. A group of leading family researchers examine current social changes and their impact on family relationsips and family functioning. As an overview of the present state of and future directions for families, this book should be required reading for family researchers, practitioners and students.

Examining the reactions people have to new technology, this book focuses on computerization in the office environment, the use of robots in factories and advanced technology in the aerospace industry. The authors also provide information on the latest research in this growing field.

How do cities innovate in the face of fiscal austerity? Based on survey data from the Fiscal Austerity and Innovation Project this book reassesses theories of political leadership and government decisionmaking, exploring how various cities have made innovations over the past decade and reviewing 33 specific strategies. The turbulence of the past two decades is critical in reshaping our ways of thinking about how governments work.

This two-volume work focuses on the social, economic, political and technological determinants of growth and change in the great cities of the world. It describes the consequences of rapid change in such cities as New York City, Los Angeles, Cairo, London, Tokyo, Delhi and Shanghai.

The evaluation of social programmes for families and children that focus on keeping the family intact - rather than those that emphasize removing the child from the family - is discussed in this volume. Written primarily for evaluators and administrators involved in analyzing family services, chapters raise issues pertinent to the design of both comprehensive and special focus studies.

The evaluation of social programmes for families and children that focus on keeping the family intact - rather than those that emphasize removing the child from the family - is discussed in this volume. Written primarily for evaluators and administrators involved in analyzing family services, chapters raise issues pertinent to the design of both comprehensive and special focus studies.

Presents perspectives on altered states of consciousness and mental health and places them within the boundaries of cross-cultural psychology. This volume considers theoretical and methodological issues in the study of altered states of consciousness. It focuses on models highlighting various paradigms and diverse methodological approaches.

This resource helps educators integrate Web and mobile technologies and tools into classroom instruction and offers a model for selecting appropriate tools and technologies for primary and secondary settings.

Take advantage of a resource that's right in your classroom-your students! This book offers practical strategies for empowering students as co-teachers, decision makers, and advocates.

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Lauffer's 1977 bestseller has been revised in order to place emphasis on the need to understand your own organization, your clients and your funding options throughout the grant-getting process. Via a series of checklists, vignettes and exercises, the author leads the reader through various marketing strategies to the actual writing of a grant proposal, casting of budgets, and alternatives if the grant is not given. Readable, concise, instructive and practical, Grantsmanship is an invaluable aid to funding in the eighties.'...we could all learn something from the author's no-nonsense approach to extracting funds from reluctant agencies...If we are to become more market-orientated, this book can only help.' -- British Accou

This book presents a technique for analyzing the effects of variables, groups, and treatments in both experimental and observational settings. It considers not only the main effects of one variable upon another, but also the effects of group cases.

An elementary introduction to significance testing, this paper provides a conceptual and logical basis for understanding these tests.

Restructure your personal and professional priorities by tackling the stresses of managing workplace environments, juggling competing priorities, and balancing personal and professional agendas.

NEW edition! More than any other social gerontology texts available, addresses issues of diversity in aging by race, ethnicity, social class, and gender throughout.

Designing Families is a thought-provoking examination of the challenges facing the nuclear family as it enters the new millenium. John Scanzoni sets the issue of change in families in aN historical and cross-cultural perspective tracing the development of the family from the Agricultural Age to the Information Age.

Examines how contemporary rhetorics and discourses of organizational change are breaking down such distinctions - with significant implications for the construction of subjectivities and identities at work. This title shows how the capacities and predispositions required of consumers and employees are increasingly difficult to distinguish.

Places terrorism within a spectrum of political violence, creating a typology of terror based on scale and intent as well as by type of actor - from isolated attacks by individual bombers, to large scale attacks against state targets by organized networks, to state-sponsored genocide and politicide.

Effectively lead at-risk, alternative, and special education students to critical thinking, self-discovery, and ultimately, more relevant and proficient writing.

Helping beginning teachers "over the hump" of their first year is no easy job. It takes dedicated and well-trained mentors. High-Performance Mentoring helps experienced educators meet the unique challenges of mentoring first-year teachers. This Participant's Notebook, used in conjunction with the training workshop, will help you fully explore the mentoring process.

A comprehensive collection of writings on popular culture to explain and inspire!Popular Culture: A Reader helps students understand the role of popular culture and the processes that constitute it as:- a product of industry;- an intellectual object of inquiry- an integral component of all our lives.

Examines the embodied nature of people's experience in, and of, the modern world. This book argues that bodies in nature are subject to novel, complex and contradictory opportunities of freedom and escape, surveillance and monitoring.

Recent mental health policy has focused on developing community-based services, but the reality remains that patients experiencing acute episodes of illness are mainly cared for in hospital settings. Acute Mental Health Nursing has been developed as a guide to the core knowledge and skills required for working in inpatient settings.

Short Introduction to Psychotherapy

Provides a rethinking of the study of Europe and social policy and offers ways of analysing European welfare and its future. This book addresses a range of other challenging and provoking issues which have been marginalized or ignored in the study of European social policy. It for students of European social policy, social work, and politics.

Welfare States under Pressure provides a comprehensive review of welfare policy-making in Europe. It takes a fresh approach in its analysis of the future of the welfare state in Europe. It suggests that opportunities for radical change in welfare systems are now opening up, and that there will be little continuity between the future and the past/present of the welfare system in Europe.

`If you are teaching postgraduate research methods courses, including those aimed at a mixture of psychologists and other health professionals, this book is worth considering as a core text' - John Hegarty, Times Higher Educational Supplement, Textbook Guide, November 2004

Intended for students across the social sciences who need to learn how to analyze discourse. This title introduces students to the principal range of methods for analyzing different types of text, taken through key analytic concepts, offered specimen analyses and given the opportunity to try out analytic concepts on new data.