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Go inside the assistant principal role through the experiences of ninety practitioners.

This reader-friendly second edition provides step-by-step procedures for using data to facilitate effective decision making and focuses on strengthening educators' problem analysis and data interpretation skills.

This expanded bestseller integrates the latest research and technology with tried-and-true methods for strengthening practitioners' problem-solving and decision-making skills.

A book that is suitable for undergraduate and postgraduate students of business administration who are pursuing courses in marketing, product portfolio management, new product development and product policy.

Defines the philosophy behind action research and the process of doing action research for those interested in this area. This book sets in place the foundations of action research as a discipline, and roots action research as an ethical and politically-engaged form of enquiry. It is for all those with an interest in Action Research.

Arranged in easily followed sections enlivened with checklists, style variations, examples and reflection points, this book has relevance to the social sciences, arts, humanities, natural and applied sciences and law. It is suitable for new and experienced researchers alike.

A guide to help undergraduate and postgraduate students across the social sciences master different critique methods.

Updated Edition of Bestseller!This update of the classic Corwin bestseller is a "how-to" on teacher compensation, bringing new information, insights, and innovations to an increasingly challenging discussion.

Problems in Marketing

Packed with sample units, rubrics, and more, this updated bestseller helps teachers develop and implement a curriculum that moves students along the continuum toward expertise.

Looks at the relationship between school inspection and school improvement.

A guide to, and analysis of, the range of this thinker's writings.

Intends to help students unscramble the mysteries of qualitative data collection, coding, and analysis. This book integrates and reconciles theory and methods by showing how to use a systematic, qualitative technique: interactive qualitative analysis.

An invaluable introduction to managing university life for any student, as well as a helpful resource for parents and friends wishing to gain a greater understanding of the stresses faced at university.

Personal accounts of adult survivors who have suffered abuse at the hands of their siblings. There are insights into why sibling abuse occurs, and suggestions for prevention and implications for treatment.

Suitable for professionals in the field of child maltreatment, this book presents a theoretical framework that guides assessment of children and adolescents who have been sexually abused and their parents. It helps clinicians to select a number of measures or procedures across three dimensions that have considerable clinical relevance.

`The publication of this second edition of Culture's Consequences marks an important moment in the field of cross-cultural studies.... Hofstede's framework for understanding national differences has been one of the most influential and widely used frameworks in cross-cultural business studies, in the past ten years' - Australian Journal of Management

`The book is exciting. It opens up new ways of developing both organization and management. It inspires ideas of excellence and achievement and gives hope for this age. You can probably open this book anywhere and find something of value' - Business Age

This popular book has been thoroughly updated for its Fourth Edition, targeting the contents directly to the needs of today's school manager.

Explores the politics and policies of new Labour. This book offers critical insights into Labour's impact on: the relationship between government and citizens public services and their users the state and civil society.

Careers Guidance in Context re-evaluates the concept of `a career' in the light of economic restructuring, globalization and the growth of information technology. It draws together up-to-date theories about guidance work and debates the importance of integrating theory and practice.

Qualitative Research Through Case Studies provides an accessible introduction to a wide range of approaches that deal with the theoretical analysis of qualitative data.

Focus Group Practice provides a picture of focus group moderation and interaction that is based on the study of what actually happens in high-class market research focus groups and in using recent theories of interaction, for example discourse and conversation analyses, to throw light on the practice of moderation.

Martin Conboy explores the complex and dynamic relationship between the popular press and popular culture. He argues for the importance of an historical perspective in understanding the contemporary relationship between the popular and the press. The book concludes with an analysis of the popular press in a globalized media environment.

Hybrid Geographies reconsiders the relationship between human and non-human, the social and the material, showing how they are intimately and variously linked. General arguments, informed by work in critical geography, feminist theory, environmental ethics, and science studies are illustrated throughout with detailed case-study material.

Looking at how the family is represented by the media, and by scrutinizing the manner in which it is regulated, this book uncovers the ways in which academic research and welfare policy have colluded with political rhetoric and the popular media to re-invent a mythical ideal family.