Bücher veröffentlicht von SAGE Publications Inc

Step-by-step advice on successful speech making, with examples and skill-building exercises. A cased edition will also be published priced at 26.50, ISBN 0 8039 5173 6.

Rational Choice Theory and Organizational Theory is written in response to the neo-classical economic rational choice theories and organizational economic theories which have emerged in the past decade and gained center stage in current organizational analysis.

The Second Edition of this provocative book reveals that racism remains a pervasive force in American society and that its effects on whites are still misunderstood. This new edition contains updated chapters which take account of the developments in American society over the past 15 years.

Drawing on the author's extensive experience in the field, this book demystifies the committee. It explains how to get on certain committees and avoid others, how to get committee work done efficiently, how to ensure that your views are properly represented, how chairing a committee can help direct its outcome, and how to use committees to advance your academic career.

Gaining face, maintaining face and losing face all have numerous implications in the management of close relationships. This title focuses on self-presentational aspects of communication in intimate relationships - 'facework'.

This sensitive yet practical book explores challenges to adult close relationships that result from long-term illness and disability. The authors focus on illness and: relationship change; interpersonal supports and stressors; and relationship-focused coping.

Looks at the movements of immigrants and refugees and the challenges they face as they cross cultural boundaries and strive to build a new life in an unfamiliar place. This book focuses on the psychological dynamic underpinning of their adaptation process, and how their internal conditions change over time.

These stimulating companion volumes reflect an expansion of the coverage of Wrightsman's earlier book Personality Development in Adulthood. They encourage readers to look at the evolving nature of their own lives, and include case studies throughout to illustrate concepts in a thought-provoking, non-technical manner.

Income, employment and family composition are all topics on which the Panel Study of Income Dynamics has gathered data from more than 4,800 US households. This text aims to make this data more accessible to researchers by reviewing key analysis issues and identifying key variables for the user.

Investigating the role of alienation and shame as a source of repetitive cycles of marital quarrel, this study analyzes existing theories and offers a new, integrative theory which is then applied to four case studies. It is hoped the data will be useful for prediction and prevention.

The answers to questions on a wide variety of social and political issues from more than 25,000 respondents are contained in the General Social Survey (GSS) data base. The authors, who have directed the GSS since its inception, have set out to enable social scientists to exploit this large data set more effectively.

Critical epidemiological concepts and designs are explored in this volume within a general framework of the referral pathway to psychiatric care for children. Factors involved in the help-seeking process are clarified.

How has the world coped with past energy crises? Introducing energy issues by reviewing events which transpired in the Persian Gulf after August 1990, the author then examines trends in energy production and consumption worldwide since the first energy supply crisis of 1973.

Considers the problems of development management in the context of political process. Focuses on bureaucratic politics and political relationships between people, their organizations and the state in development programmes and projects, particularly agricultural and health development programmes.

Based on a study of violence in lesbian relationships, this book derives from a common theme expressed by the subjects - the sense of having been betrayed, first by their lovers, and subsequently by a lesbian community which tends to deny the problem when victims seek help.

This book explores ways of overcoming the problems researchers may encounter in collecting and interpreting data generated from Hispanic studies.

Provides counsellors who work with violent men through the specifics of the counselling process, instructing them about the clinical skills, strategies and programme content. This book presents a group treatment programme as the treatment of choice and describes individual assessment and counselling.