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Examines the relationships between pornography, misogyny and rape, and argues forcibly that the victims of pornography are women everywhere.

A supplemental text that poses an alternative approach to the models currently in use for assessing intelligence.

Dana Lear has written a timely and persuasive book which considers how sexual communication does and does not occur among young adults, how gender and sexual orientation influence the ability to negotiate safer sex, and what barriers to open communication still exist.

`This book is a must for scholars and practitioners interested in managing work teams in organizations.... Yeatts and Hyten have written an excellent reference work. The book synthesizes a wealth of prior research into a testable model of Self-Managed Work Team performance' - Management Learning

This practical volume addresses the concerns of the working professional seeking a graduate degree while trying to maintain career and family responsibilities. The helpful information, advice and short cuts the author provides are gleaned from nearly twenty years of service in the divisions of continuing education of three major state universities in the United States.

This volume explores a range of issues surrounding the process of finding employment in academic settings. It includes surveying the market, preparation of credentials, marketing onself, hunting for a job, negotiating an offer, and issues arising in dual-career partnerships.

The author of this volume examines seven psychologists' personal accounts of their moral and professional development. In doing so she develops and applies a conceptual framework that links knowledge interests and creativity in professional life to identify development and existential choices.

Integrating multidisciplinary perspectives on the relation of rhetoric, science, technology and public policy-making to the process and product of technical communication, this textbook reformulates the issues raised by science and technology studies (STS) within the context of technical communication.

Kenneth Doyle provides a conceptual framework for understanding the social meanings of money and property - the psychological, cultural, economic and political variables which contribute to these meanings.

Fred Davidson demonstrates how to input, manipulate and debug data to make substantive analysis easier and more accurate. Davidson presents a situation or a problem, suggests how it might be resolved and demonstrates the implementation of each principle as it appears in the command languages of SAS and SPSS.

Written in a scholarly but accessible style, this book provides an integrated critical analysis of lesbian and bisexual women's health. The book highlights trends and themes, with selected examples of research and personal experience of lesbians and bisexual women and their health care providers.

An expansion of Baxter's earlier award winning work on relationship communuication and 'relational dialectics theory', the 1996 Relating Dialogues and Dialectics (co-authored with Barbara Montgomery).

Concise, accessible introduction to this expanding and interdisciplinary field of study.

A strong addtion to the Key Concepts series, this book takes a interdisciplinary and an international approach to this increasingly popular field.

Moves beyond the narrow, prescriptive focus on the 'how' employed by other textbooks, and places equal emphasis on the 'why' - all the time considering the role of enterprise, entrepreneurship and small business in the world we live in.

Save countless hours with more than 100 ready-made letters and other communications. Use "as is" or customize them for your particular needs. This handy collection will help you communicate more effectively with parents and enlist their support.

This book provides the tools needed to assess, monitor and evaluate the change and progress made by criminal justice clients at the beginning, during and after treatment

This book offers educators tools to break the cycle of failure for students who are unsuccessful in school, including alternative instructional strategies, practices for vulnerable children, and more.

Covering history, geography, and sociology, these sample lessons and units show how to use the Parallel Curriculum Model to provide rigorous learning opportunities for students in social studies.

Through the use of contemporary examples - from 9/11 to the war in Iraq, and media reporting on immigration to the global economy - Calloway-Thomas explores the various ways empathy can help create a greater understanding accross the world.

Managing difficult employees is one of the most challenging aspects of a headteacher's job. This title is designed to help educational leaders learn and apply specific techniques and strategies for effectively dealing with difficult school employees. Each chapter presents easy-to-understand concepts, actual stories and vignettes, and templates.

Articulates the roles communication plays in co-constructing group, organizational, or community direction and on the skills to help co-construct direction in one's systems while playing the roles of doer, follower, guide, manager, and/or leader.

Students will gain an understanding of the power of organizations in contemporary society and be able to think critically about organizational messages.

This is an important and practical book that looks at all the necessary professional considerations to be aware of when working with suicide potential.

Teachers can use these practical classroom applications to customize relevant and meaningful instruction around critical music and visual arts concepts.

The award-winning introduction now has more on the role of emotions, happiness and general well-being in decision making; research on the neuroscience of decision processes; and more on the adaptive value of non-rational heuristics.

An engaging, and refreshingly international analysis of globalisation from two of the world's leading figures in the field.