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They provide a view of child neglect which moves beyond the current child welfare focus on parental omissions in care.

This insightful volume examines how: sociological understanding helps with the experience of everyday life; the observation of everyday life affects research agendas and vice versa; and how the qualitative approach helps the understanding of experiences in a broad sense rather than as random and isolated events.

The major components of a life in the academy - teaching, advising, publishing, research and service - are examined in this book. Practical, comprehensive, and engaging, the Handbook will appeal to a broad audience across all academic disciplines - from new professors to tenured faculty.

Designed to fill a gap in the literature on professional ethics for psychologists, this book covers topics typically neglected in existing books, being more radical and controversial than much of the literature in this area

Focuses on Donald Campbell's contributions to the concept of validity and the more activist side of his thinking, social experimentation.

Two topics of current concern -- domestic violence and welfare reform -- are linked in this timely book that has been developed by leading academics, practitioners, advocates, policymakers, and abused welfare recipients. The chapters explore various threads that link family violence to welfare including: how public assistance can provide the financial support necessary for escaping violence; how batterers restrict their partner's employment and educational opportunities, thereby preventing them from being independent of the welfare system; how child support regulations require disclosure about abusers that may increase the danger of family violence; and how child abuse is linked to the need for welfare.

A guide to developing a response to domestic violence using the Duluth Model.

Comparing progress in the United Kingdom, United States, Scandinavia and Australia, this book looks at how organizations are changing to help individuals combine work and family roles.

This incisive examination of identity, community and cyberspace shows how new technologies are altering the nature of identity, the relation of self to other, and the structure of community and political representation. `Contains valuable insights for scholars teaching and researching in this field' - Political Science

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Border Health offers a wide range of studies involving health care and health promotion on the US - Mexican border.

This volume offers a variety of perspectives on politics and culture. The authors are united in their assumption of, and inquiry into, the pre-existing cultural values and practices that are brought to and reflected in activities of the state, as well as in organized activities against the state. The authors also address the intercultural nature of such political activism.Part One describes ways of configuring politics, culture and communication. Part Two presents case studies that explore the cultural grounds of political activism. The final section introduces a new feature to the Annual: a forum in which scholars question, challenge and explore a topic related to the volume's theme. In this year's forum, four scho

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The politics and economics of the United States are wedded in the political economy of the nation state and the nationalist economic policies. This book proposes that political jurisdictions are not economies but polities, and explores the complex and important economic implications of this thesis.

This is an interdisciplinary analysis of the largest Asian American ethnic group, addressing such issues as ethnic identity, the impact of different colonizations on ethnic identity, personal and family relationships, mental health, race and racism.

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Using real-world cases and empirical data throughout, this book considers the role of new communication technologies in shaping organizations today and in the future.

African American Males: A Practice Guide examines the special issues associated with providing mental health and guidance services to African American males.

The cases of 129 successful women entrepreneurs, who previously worked in corporate environments, are considered in this book. It examines the driving forces which led these women to leave the organizational environment, and the use of the organization as an incubator to entrepreneurship.

Understanding the masculinities-violence nexus is crucially important to finding ways to mitigate the masculine tendency towards violence. Taking a sobering look at men and violence, Lee H Bowker has carefully chosen essays which shed light on the causes and settings of masculine violence. The three essays in Part One lay out the ways in which men learn violence and repeat it. Part Two focuses on the ways men victimize women and children. Part Three turns to the ways men victimize other men, and the final part examines men and organizational violence.

This book presents an historical overview of heroin use in the USA, as well as articles by experts in the field which focus on current developments and emerging trends in prevention, treatment, distribution and consumption. Filling a void in the literature on what is known about the `new' heroin users, this volume also updates the reader on the status of ageing heroin-addicted populations who initiated use of the drug prior to the `age of cocaine'.

The Research Triangle Institute recently completed a five year study sponsored by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). The study, which focused on the Washington, DC metropolitan area, attempted to look at the nature and extent of drug use in a single urban setting.

The Research Triangle Institute recently completed a five year study sponsored by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). The study, which focused on the Washington, DC metropolitan area, attempted to look at the nature and extent of drug use in a single urban setting.

How do you intervene in abusive and neglectful families, or prevent maltreatment in families at risk? How can you find the answers you need in the overwhelming array of information now available? This volume helps readers focus by evaluating a wealth of references to current published literature and pinpointing the practical applications that put these findings into action.

This comprehensive resource book examines a broad range of issues that confront the victims of same-sex domestic violence and those who offer them services. Chapters include topics of practical concern, HIV, same-sex domestic violence, establishing safe-home networks for battered gay men, courtroom advocacy, coalition building and dating violence prevention.

This is a book about the past, present and future of personality at work. It begins by introducing the principal concepts of current personality theory. A concerted effort is made to communicate the sense of coherence that exists among the components of personality such as needs, traits, social cognition, and emotions. The `Five Factor Model' of traits is described. This work also gives an overview of the techniques used to evaluate personality and is a useful guide to personality research with suggestions on how it can be integrated into organizational research.

The nature of statistics has changed from classical notions of hypothesis testing, towards graphical and exploratory data analysis which exploits the flexibility of interactive computing and graphical displays. This book describes seven statistical computing environments - APL2STAT, GAUSS, Lisp-Stat, Mathematica, S, SAS//IML, and Stata - which can be used effectively in graphical and exploratory modeling.These statistical computing environments, in contrast to standard statistical packages, provide programming tools for building other statistical applications. Programmability, flexible data structures, and - in the case of some of the computing environments - graphical interfaces and object-oriented programming, permit res

In this volume leading composition scholars consider the ways in which argumentation as an approach to teaching writing remains valuable - in spite of the challenge presented by postmodern theories.The book first explains the traditional approaches to argument - the enthymeme, evidence, Toulmian, Rogerian and classical rhetoric - and illustrates why they are of particular relevance today. The contributors then `redefine' argument by connecting it with theoretical movements that have been adverse to it - feminism, narratology and reflexive reading. As a result, the book unites apparently conflicting approaches into a new definition of argument that emphasizes inquiry over discord and understanding over entrenched difference

This book is a bold, innovative examination of the factors behind the low representation of women in scientific disciplines and, more broadly, other competitive professional career tracks.

This book is a bold, innovative examination of the factors behind the low representation of women in scientific disciplines and, more broadly, other competitive professional career tracks.