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Stewart M Hoover offers a cultural-historical analysis of the rise of religious stories in the media. The author's penetrating analysis brings into sharp focus: the relationship between religion and the news media, both in everyday practice and in the larger context of American public discourse.

Examines how the progay movement has moved toward an essentialist, non-sexual identify, while the antigay traditionalists have shifted towards secular public self-representation.

The "organization linkage" concept is relatively new. This book provides a unique and very valuable approach to the study of organizations - how do actions among individuals and groups affect (or not affect) organizations as a whole, and vice versa. This ground-breaking book shows how to bridge the gap between the traditional micro and macro camps of organizational studies.

The creation of innovative products and services by entrepreneurs is often cited as one of the key strengths of the current American economy. Academics and executives alike are beginning to recognize the advantages of innovation and real-time experimentation over traditional strategic planning processes. This book deals with this topic.

A collection of articles which cover a range of issues at the heart of the study of organizations.

How do gay men respond to controlling notions of masculinity in society and stereotypes of gay sexuality? This book explores the ways in which gay men in the United States engage in, contest and modify these notions and develop a sense of masculine identity. The book examines the creation of identity through the everyday lives of gay men: their work; home; community; and relationships.

This book illustrates why and how researchers must consider their own place in the research act. Part One looks at the populations and settings involved in research. Part Two considers ways the researcher experience can be processed, concluding with a section on how the researcher experience can be reported.

Thoroughly updated with new research conducted between 1996-1997, Lamorey, Robinson, Rowland, and Coleman put the latchkey phenomenon in perspective and attempt to dispel common misconceptions. They detail a variety of alternative care programs that have been successfully implemented in many communities

A guide to the 77 key organizations and publications in the field of advertising and marketing communications.

This book introduces a new, collaborative action methodology-called synergic inquiry (SI)-for both investigating and effecting transformative change among our individual and collective lives. It is inspired to work within the four levels of our lives-the mental, the social, the political, and the spiritual. In this text, editors Yongming Tang and Charles Joiner stress a strong theory/practice mix.

Widespread sexual harassment in the public sector makes implementing sexual harassment policy a decidedly necessary task. In this book the authors focus on the implementation of sexual harassment policy in public sector organizations using an analysis of case studies and survey data.

Goodman, an educator who has worked in several institutions, explains how others of her profession can work with adults on issues of diversity and social justice issues. She provides theory, perspectives, and strategies to help nudge dominant groups into supporting justice for others. Her suggestion

Providing a critical evaluation of the assets and limitations of contextualism for doing research in psychology and education, the authors compare contextualism, modified contextualism and mechanism as approaches to doing science, as well as their merits in studying closed versus open systems.

Takes a provocative look at specific aspects of professional athletic life that lead to sexual assault, and -- very frequently -- getting away with it.

Mass Marketing of Politics

This text seeks to provide answers to the questions: how frequently do women experience sexual discrimination? Does sexism have an effect on women's physical or mental health. How can we measure the impact of sexism, both blatant and subtle, on women exposed to it?

Subtitled 'Violence in the New Millennium', this provides an insight into this relatively new phenomenon in the United States.

Labour markets are changing - jobs are being created, but pay less. Authors discuss training, private and public partnerships and conclude with recommendations for better design, promotion and evaluation of community-based workforce development networks

This book takes a multidisciplinary perspective, presenting a discussion of the cultural significance of the honeymoon.

Critical assessment of the effectiveness of employee participation in organizational decision making.

This book examines the results of a decade of extensive studies with over 2500 adolescents which explored the young people's perceptions of the relationships between happiness, positive experiences and commitment, as mediated by diverse sociocultural factors and personality attributes.

A Cognitive View of Managing Complexity in Product, Information, and Environmental Design.

This useful volume provides communities and researchers with the necessary analytic and practical tools for assessing their programmes.

In post-secondary schools in North America, there are a number of women who become victims of physical, sexual and psychological assaults. This book overviews the Canadian National Survey on Woman Abuse in Dating Relationships, and exposes a 'hidden campus curriculum' that maintains the kinds of inequalities that can engender acts of violence.

Representing an entirely new approach to domestic violence interventions, this book is based on data accumulated by the authors over the past 12 years from a series of qualitative studies and clinical practice with battered women and their batterers.