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As the first edited volume to offer a multicultural approach to violence, this book examines the role of cultural, social and historical factors in the manifestation and perpetuation of the cycle of violence. Issues examined include hate crimes against various minority groups and violence against women.

This textbook provides both the practical steps for doing discourse analysis and the theoretical justifications for those steps. The book presents examples of actual discourse analyses, covers data collection methods and strategies for data analysis, and addresses issues of reliability and validity.

Provides proven strategies for how to best recruit, manage, and use paraeducators in schools.

The National Curriculum places strong emphasis on experimenting with and applying the visual elements. This book systematically explores the basic knowledge needed to do this effectively.

Researching 'Race' and Ethnicity provides an innovative discussion of the methodological, epistemological and ethical challenges of doing qualitative research that is informed by questions of 'race', ethnicity and social difference. The book will be essential reading for students and academics across the social sciences.

Corporate Financial Reporting critically examines contemporary corporate financial reporting. The complexity of the reporting process and the myriad of issues facing the directors, accountants and auditors can only be successfully understood from a firm conceptual base. The book will be relevant to advanced undergraduate as well as postgraduate and MBA students.

In this book, George Ritzer, demonstrates the irrational consequences of the rational desire to consume and commodify.

Leading and Managing Education

Offers an essential roadmap to the key concepts which frame our understanding of society and culture. From cybernetics to quantum theory, from ideology to power, from aesthetics to mimesis, this book spans a range of disciplines to provide an insight into the scientific and intellectual state of society.

Challenges the mainstream approach to program evaluation by inverting the traditional relationship between program and person, this book addresses three principal concerns: learning about evaluation in relation to the experience of doing it; understanding evaluation as a form of personal expression; and using evaluation to comment on people's lives.

The economic and cultural role of the `creative industries' has gained a new prominence and centrality in recent years. These worlds are explored here through the most emblematic creative industry: advertising. Advertising Cultures presents a case-study of the social make-up, informal cultures and subjective identities of these creative practices.

This book examines the main approaches of longitudinal research as well as newer developments (such as structural equation modelling, multilevel modelling and optimal scaling) to enable the reader to gain a thorough understanding of the approach and make appropriate decisions about which technique can be applied to the research problem.

Providing a straightforward introduction to textual analysis, starting from the most basic philosophical foundations that underlie the practice Alan McKee works through the core issues step by step, drawing on examples from advertising, films, novels, comic books, television and videos.

By challenging the reactive, prescriptive and formulaic theories of late 20th century change management, Strategic Human Resource Development seeks to draw the boundaries for a new discipline that views change as an internal and proactive approach to organizations.

`Rob Singh has written a finely organized and informative textbook that combines to an unusually high degree analytical clarity, accessibility of style and form, and an enlightened scepticism about received wisdom. This is an admirable book' - Nigel Bowles, St Anne's College, Oxford

Shows how important students' motivational mindsets can influence the way they learn. This work brings evidence from research, shows how successful learning contexts can be created, and offers real-life suggestions for teachers working with disengaged learners. It is suitable to those wanting to develop their skills in motivating young people.

In this unique and innovative book, the author draws on her depth of knowledge and practical experience in helping children to become skilled, creative and imaginative in a wide range of movement-oriented activities.

Written to give the front line practitioner help in assessing and managing cases with children aged 18 months to 6 years who present with allegations of sexual abuse, this book provides concrete and easily understood information about basic child development, interview procedures, and case management theory.

Ethics and Journalism provides a comprehensive overview of the main approaches to ethical enquiry in Western journalism. It examines the ethical dilemmas faced by journalists in all areas of the media and sets our ways of achieving ethical journalism.

This textbook provides a comprehensive analysis of how geographical perspectives can be used to understand the problems of health inequalities. It relates theoretical arguments to specific landscapes and will be a key resource for understanding the articulation between theory and empirical methods for understanding health variation in urban areas.

Proposes an answer to - how should democratic societies organize cyberspace? - that puts human-rights, rather than profit, at the top of the agenda. The author argues that conventional ethical approaches are all seriously flawed.

The New Sociology of Economic Behaviour seeks to revitalize the classical approach and introduces students to the essential ideas in the field. It also shows researchers and graduate students how to make use of concepts like demoralization, cheap labour, dignity at work and a fair day's pay, to develop critiques of current economic arrangements.

This book is a major addition to undergraduate reading lists. It is reliable, allows for easy transference to essays and exams and easy to use, and exceptionally clearly written for student consumption. Topics range over qualitative and quantitative approaches and combine practical considerations with philosophical issues.

Explains and critically evaluates a range of research techniques for the caring professions.

Argues that social theory is moving in the wrong direction in its reflections on human freedom and autonomy. This book identifies human beings as social agents in a profound sense, and emphasises the vital importance of their sociability.

Recreating Men asks whether men can and will change in response to the changing role of women. This critique of patriarchal dominance is presented from the perspective and experience of white, heterosexual profeminist men. It examines how men who are supportive of feminism, are responding to the feminist challenge.

Essential reading for those engaged in the research and analysis of educational data.