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The SAGE Handbook of Power is the first touchstone for any student or researcher wishing to initiate themselves in the state of the art.

This handbook provides a premier point of departure for students, scholars, and researchers wishing to initiate themselves into the 'state of the art' of current macro-organizational behaviour.

The SAGE Dictionary of Policing is THE definitive reference tool for students and academics in Police Studies.

New edition of this best-selling textbook, with ten new chapters.

Includes excerpts from seminal works and summaries of key theoretical models that form the basis of the field of organization theory.

Restructured and expanded editon of this popular introduction to the theoretical approaches to urban governance.

Bringing together scholars and researchers from across the disciplines who are doing work in rhetorical studies, this book addresses and explores fundamental issues and pivotal questions about the role of rhetoric in history and in society. It contains scholars from composition, speech communication, English, philosophy, education, and sociology.

Helps readers understand the relationship between organizations and everyday experience, enriching both their encounter with the field of organization studies as well as their understanding of the complexities of corporate life itself.

A definitive Handbook containing 'state of the art' articles that address current developments in the field of hospitality mangement.

Provides a distinctive overview and analysis of the place of social constructionism in social psychology. The text discusses two main arguments, questioning how social constructionism accounts for changes in human identities, and how it might accommodate a role for nonhumans.

This text offers guidelines on aspects of knowledge, skill and management expertise required by counselling services. The authors examine the implications of funding, budgeting, staffing issues, location, and furnishing of premises on daily working routines.

This stimulating case-study volume addresses key issues in organizational behaviour (OB), organizational change and human resource management (HRM) in a range of European organizations. Its consistent emphasis is organizational change in a shifting, `internationalizing' world and sensitivity to the impact of different cultures on the problems as they are defined, as well as on their solutions.

The 2002 British Social Attitudes Report continues to provide indispensable information on British opinion and social values. The 19th Report summarizes and interprets data from the most recent survey, and makes comparisons with findings from previous years.

Discussing the process, the difficulties and the achievements in the transformation of the RSA's political and legal institutions, this study addresses various aspects of constitutional design and their interaction with social forces.

Conflict - be it war between states, ethnic violence, civil war, or terrorist activity - endures, despite immense efforts to end it. This title outlines a spectrum of solutions states use to manage violent conflict, ranging from strategies that individual governments enact largely on their own, such as distribution of power, and more.

This text explores the ideas of the influential lesbian feminist poet, Adrienne Rich, covering such topics as: feminist struggles; the focus on the "body"; the spiritual continuity of women's history; and "the dynamic between poetry as language and poetry as a kind of action".

This text scrutinizes a wide range of traditional psychological theories, including neuropsychology and memory, childhood development, and the IQ debate, to show how rhetorical strategies and the deployment of metaphors are central to the work of creating a convincing theoretical account.

Provides a theoretical framework which helps the reader make sense of the detail contained in the later case studies. This title shows how choosing a particular concept of quality has significant political and organizational consequences and also discusses how quality may be measured.

Re-evaluates mainstream issues. Specialists contribute their experiences and thoughts on strategy (regards operations as an asset in their own right), methodology (examines approaches towards process improvement), technology (asks why implementation of technology problems dog organizations) and human issues (repositions human input to the top).

This invaluable resource is the first independent review of curriculum materials for technology and offers readers a practical guide to the latest technology textbooks and integrated resources.

Addressing five sets of environmental forces (industry structure, macroeconomic, political, societal and technological variables), Cases in the Environment of Business provides an outstanding collection of relevant, classroom-tested cases. In discussing the cases, students will participate in managerial decisions set in an international context.

The cases illustrate basic concepts while expanding students' understanding of economic, political and cultural concerns that must be interwoven into such key areas as process design, quality and supply chain management.

Cases for Teacher Development can be used in many ways: in classes, in discussion groups, as practicum and as self-study. The goals of the text are to provide a path for your exploration as an educator and to facilitate your growth in the teaching profession.

Explores the untapped potential that narrative and experiential approaches have for understanding multicultural issues in education. This title includes the research that reflects a way of thinking about human experience.

Divided into three parts, this book systematically integrates vulnerability-stress models of psychopathology with a developmental psychopathological approach. It brings together leading experts in the field of vulnerability, stress, specific vulnerabilities to psychological disorders, psychopathological disorders and clinical interventions.

Narrative from the Classroom introduces the reader to many important classroom issues surrounding the field of teaching. It is a collection of personal accounts and ideas written by the teachers and teacher educators. There is also a section that addresses preparation for the job market and what the first year of teaching is like.

This volume on marketing as a field of study, research and practice proposes ways forward for the discipline and profession. The contributors cover issues in contemporary marketing, including: marketing philosophy, marketing ethics, the marketing profession, and marketing teaching and research.