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Decision Making for Business

This fully revised and updated Second Edition of the bestselling text offers a comprehensive analysis of some of the most important developments in the study of crime.

Useful for students and lecturers of communications studies, this book includes chapters from the "Handbook of International and Intercultural Communication, Second Edition" relating to the structure and growth of cross-cultural and intercultural communication.

Examining the phenomenon of crime waves, this work looks at the role media and politicians play in creating the perception that a crime wave has occurred. It investigates issues such as: how and why crime rates change over time; why some types of crime and not others come in waves; and how the ways in which we count crime document crime waves.

Examines how various media technologies have rapidly and deeply become embedded in our organizations and institutions. This book shows how these technologies mediate the community, political, economic, personal, and global spheres of our social lives. It is useful for students taking media studies courses in the areas of Information Sciences.

Covering the basics of the cohort approach to studying aging, social, and cultural change, this volume also critiques several commonly used (but flawed) methods of cohort analysis, and illustrates appropriate methods with analyses of personal happiness and attitudes toward premarital and extramarital sexual relations. Finally, the book describes the major sources of suitable data for cohort studies and gives the criteria for appropriate data.The Second Edition features:- a chapter on the analysis of survey data, which includes a discussion of the problems posed by question order effects when data from different surveys are used in a cohort analysis. - an emphasis on the difference between linear and nonlinear effects. - instruction on how to use available data from cohort studies.

This volume is a readily accessible compilation of current, original scholarly research in the area of power and influence in organizations. It offers a rich exploration of emerging trends and new perspectives.

This book introduces the technique and art of producing good charts. Carefully written with many examples and illustrations, the book begins with an introduction to the building blocks of charts (axes, scales and patterns) and then describes each step involved in creating effective and easy-to-read charts.

An engaging textbook that brings together a range of critical perspectives and issues, and which maps directly onto the Post-Qualifying Child Care Award (a compulsory programme for social work graduates wishing to specialise in child-centred social work).

This facilitator's guide helps trainers build educators' understanding of data analysis, promote an inquiry "habit of mind," and develop leaders' capacity to support an inquiry process.

Introducing Corwin Press Classroomuan innovative new imprint offering practical strategies for all grade levels. Derived from highly successful Corwin Press professional resources, Corwin Press Classroom books are full of research-based activities that make it easy for you to energize and improve learning for all your students!

Provides a 'roadmap' for designing and implementing school psychological services for all students in a school. This work offers guidelines for: conducting a mental health needs assessment; analyzing patterns and trends to identify risk factors and common needs; and, using the needs assessment to plan and implement mental health service programs.

[To be used for imprint and IFC copy]Introducing Corwin Press Classroomuan innovative new imprint offering practical strategies for all grade levels. Derived from highly successful Corwin Press professional resources, Corwin Press Classroom books are full of research-based activities that make it easy for you to energize and improve learning for all your students!

[To be used for imprint and IFC copy]Introducing Corwin Press Classroomuan innovative new imprint offering practical strategies for all grade levels. Derived from highly successful Corwin Press professional resources, Corwin Press Classroom books are full of research-based activities that make it easy for you to energize and improve learning for all your students!

[To be used for imprint and IFC copy]Introducing Corwin Press Classroomuan innovative new imprint offering practical strategies for all grade levels. Derived from highly successful Corwin Press professional resources, Corwin Press Classroom books are full of research-based activities that make it easy for you to energize and improve learning for all your students!

This book addresses the challenges of designing effective afterschool activities, provides quality program models from experts in the field, and aligns learning standards with youth development principles.

With over 100 entries on key concepts and theorists, this title provides full coverage of the field, explaining fundamental concepts and introducing new and unfamiliar terms. It also offers definitions, examples in the field of management studies, and, criticisms and possible future directions.

Offers more than 40 teacher-friendly, ready-to-use analogies for science classrooms and shows teachers how to select analogies for instruction, gauge their impact, and improve their effectiveness.

Suitable for researchers and thoughtful practitioners in business and management, psychology, and sociology, this title encourages growing support of crisis management in business environment.

This updated edition presents 18 successful real-world programs, 5 factors for developing a comprehensive mentoring initiative, and new material for mentoring special education, maths, and science teachers.

Suitable for researchers who are committed to co-developing research programs with people rather than for people, this book provides a history of PAR, its various strands, and the underlying tenets that guide most PAR projects.

Features classic and contemporary models of teaching appropriate to elementary and secondary settings. This book includes detailed case studies to discuss 10 models of teaching and demonstrate how the models can incorporate state content standards and benchmarks, as well as technology standards.

This book gives the reader easy access to information on the policies and practices in ECEC across each of the countries in the UK and the Republic of Ireland. Each chapter covers: background information; policy and practice in early childhood education and care; transition; schooling and curriculum; quality assurance; examination and inspection; and more.

Offers an explanation of the bullying and values underpinning the work. For those who are interested in understanding, using and evaluating the method, this book: explains how the Support Group Method began; charts the controversy over the approach; gives step by step guidance on using the SGM; and, answers frequently asked questions.

Explains how to meet the requirements of the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) document and how this relates to the National Curriculum and the Primary National Strategy: Framework for teaching for literacy and mathematics. This book offers informative guidance on planning learning and teaching opportunities across the curriculum.

Designed to help students and employees gain a hands-on understanding of gender issues in the workplace and to provide the necessary tools to handle those issues, this book includes case studies that address the range and types of gender issues in the workplace.

Helps school leaders cultivate improvement-driven, cross-age learning communities by providing case studies, workplace alternatives, and easy-to-apply strategies to promote cross-generational collaboration.

Offers students a brief and accessible approach to systematically quantifying various types of narrative data they can collect during a research process.

Prospective memory helps us with actions to be performed in the future, such as remembering to give a message to a friend, to take medication, or to turn off the oven. It supports the planning and forward-looking activities. This book provides an overview and synthesis of the theoretical and empirical work on this topic.

Presents students with the skills of video production while guiding their practice with an understanding of audience analysis, communication processes, the principles of aesthetics, and the nature and impact of the digital transition. This title also includes review questions, professional pointers, and interviews with practitioners.