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This unique Handbook presents a wide range of chapters representing state-of-the-art summaries of research related to couple, marital, and family influences on health. In addition, coverage includes issues related to public policy, healthcare financing, and the conduct of funded research related to families and health.

An assessment of the historical, sociopolitical, and economic factors that have influenced social work policy and practice in the United States.

Presents the scholarly research on stepfamilies in an accessible way, weaving together predominant theoretical perspectives, findings from research and national surveys, and interviews with stepfamily members. This book also investigates the social and demographic trends that have irrevocably altered stepfamily life.

Provides applied researchers in the social, educational, and behavioural sciences with comprehensive coverage of analyses for ordinal outcomes. This book includes content that builds on a review of logistic regression, and extends to details of the cumulative (proportional) odds, continuation ratio, and adjacent category models for ordinal data.

Shows how an ordinary school, with only its existing resources, can engage students and create a student-learning-centered culture. This book shows what can happen when a principal begins to seek out student voices and open doors for greater interaction among adults and students.

Explores two contemporary theories of the family - rational choice theory and transition theory. This book discusses how meta-theories can assist in building and refining theory and offers insight on the 'understanding versus explanation' debate.

Spiritual development is an important part of human development that has links to identity development, moral development and civic engagement. This title presents the connections that exist between domains of human development in general and spiritual development in particular.

Covers what you need to know about organizing engaging meetings, including preparing agendas, controlling what happens behind the scenes prior to and after meetings, and managing conflicting values and personalities. This book provides best practices for supervising or instigating meetings with decision accomplishment outcomes.

Offers an anthology of work on dialogic approaches to communication that offers a collection of original essays. This title examines the spaces for discourse in more expansive public, intercultural, and mediated settings.

The Handbook of Social Problems provides a unique, broadly comparative perspective on the current state of social problems and deviance in a variety of societies around the world. George Ritzer, gathers a number of leading international theorists to examine a wide variety of social problems that afflict the world today.

Proving a non-technical introduction to probability theory, this book covers topics including: the concept of probability and its relation to relative frequency, the properties of probability, discrete and continuous random variables, and binomial, uniform, normal and chi-squared distributions.

This book presents a counter-view, based on a survey of several thousand young persons and adults, probing attitudes, beliefs, feelings, and perceptions of risk associated with smoking. The authors agree that young smokers give little or no thought to health risks or the problems of addiction. The survey data contradicts the model of informed, rational choice and underscores the need for aggressive policies to counter tobacco firms' marketing and promotional efforts and to restrict youth access to tobacco.

Collects in one volume Sidney J. Levy's and his collaborators' essays and studies in the field of marketing.

In the QUANTITATIVE APPLICATIONS IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES series, an introduction to correspondence analysis which outlines the history and logic behind the technique. It explains the analysis of large contingency tables and survey data and compares correspondence analysis with log linear models.

The contributors shed much light on the causes and settings of masculine violence.

This revised edition examines current issues in public health including social and behavioural sciences.

Assesses the state of the debate on the privatization of justice. Key aspects of the arguments are examined and compared, as the authors clarify both the theoretical issues and the practical problems involved in the privatization of justice.

This interdisciplinary review of the literature identifies a series of key issues in discourses on sexuality, including gender and sexuality, representation and concepts of identity, and Foucault's notion of 'discourse'. These issues are explored in a series of contemporary contexts, such as 'gender bending' and masculinity and the maternal body.

This text is a unique and authoritative resource consisting of 25 chapters covering a range of evaluation theories and techniques in a single, accessible volume.

This volume provides an in-depth and global study of nursing as a profession. The contributors project patterns about nursing now in to the future and present their views on how the profession should go advance. This volume contains 78 original chapters by 105 contributing authors, many of whom are elected Fellows of the American Academy of Nursing.

The Encyclopedia of Libertarianism offers an extensive historical and thematic overview of libertarianism, accompanied by a chronology of key events and publications in the development of libertarian thought

Offering perspectives from experts in diversity and/or literacy, this resource illustrates how teachers can improve reading achievement for students from diverse backgrounds by combining research-supported best practices with culturally-responsive instruction.

A wide reaching collection of readings in criminology.

The Second Edition of Preventing and Reducing Juvenile Delinquency: A Comprehensive Framework aims to inform students about the latest research and the most promising and effective programs and provides a wealth of information for understanding, preventing and controlling juvenile delinquency.

The Handbook of Social Research Ethics is the first comprehensive volume of its kind to offer a deeper understanding of the history, theory, philosophy, and implementation of applied social research ethics.

Focuses on 50 key issues across the public health discipline. Readers can dip into the book to find a snapshot of the definition of the concept, or read it through like a regular textbook from start to finish.

Brings together contributions from a wide range of practitioners and academics to explore the knowledge, skills and values required of a social worker upon qualification and beyond.

Covers both theoretical and empirical metacognitive research in educational, developmental, cognitive and applied psychology.

This Handbook will fill an important niche in helping those in the remote sensing field stay current in this rapidly changing field.