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This new fourth edition takes the reader through the complex network of policy development with activities which make a potentially dry subject matter come alive.

With this Third Edition, students quickly learn Stata (R) with step-by-step instructions, more than 50 exercises, customized data sets, annotated screen shots, boxes that highlight Stata (R)'s capabilities, and guidance on using Stata (R) to read raw data.

This book includes strategies for identifying and addressing cyberbullying, based on 11 years of research with data collected from thousands of students.

This is a detailed, step-by-step guide for students to practice formulating case conceptualizations and treatment plans using a variety of popular theoretical models. Each chapter focuses on a specific theoretical approach and includes client interviews and a sample case conceptualization followed by a treatment plan which will help students develop their plan in a guided, methodical way.

This Reader brings together pieces written by award-winning CQ Researcher journalists to look at 12 key issues in urban politics and policy-making.

This collection of non-partisan and thoroughly researched reports focuses on 12 hot-topic issues that impact the politics of race and ethnicity.

In Writing for Psychologists veteran teacher, author, and editor Rob Kail provides straightforward and hands-on strategies for effective scientific writing.

In this unique text, Digby Tantam brings together the many different professional and theoretical perspectives of well-being, unpacking the complexities of each to help students understand what well-being means in their chosen field.

A student-friendly introduction to the broad field of leisure studies, encouraging students to engage in reflexive analysis of their own common sense understandings of contemporary leisure practices.

The New World of Police Accountability, 2e provides an original and comprehensive analysis of some of the most important developments in US policing over the past twenty years.

Written by award-winning scholar Jonathan H Turner, this is a comprehensive, in-depth and detailed review of present-day theory in sociology.

Written by award-winning scholar Jonathan H Turner, this 936 page resource is a comprehensive, in-depth and detailed review of both classical and present-day theory in sociology.

This text provides readers with all they need to ensure that statistics are not difficult or dull

This reassuring handbook walks new teachers through their first days and covers the latest tips on technology, differentiated instruction, and planning effective standards-based lessons.

This popular textbook provides practical material for career-oriented students, introducing communication theory in a way that helps them understand its importance to careers in communication and business.

Featuring definitions, theoretical debates, coverage of social development practice, and discussion of future challenges, this key new text introduces students to all aspects of Social Development studies

Domestic violence can affect all areas of social work. In this book, the authors draw on their extensive experience as practitioners and researchers in the field to show how social workers can intervene in everyday practice and facilitate change.

This experience-based, practical book demystifies the process of writing a thesis or dissertation, helping students prepare their scholarly work and takes them through the process one step at a time.

Provides the rationale, conceptual framework and practical tools needed to build and sustain management and organization integrity over time. Individual chapters are devoted to ethical planning, leadership and control.

Focuses on the modern aspects of the Criminal Justice, from 1900 to the present. This book offers students the advanced in historical scholarship that made relevant to their needs as future practitioners in the field.

Your Statistical Consultant is an authentic alternative resource for describing, explaining, and making recommendations regarding thorny or confusing statistical issues.

Cross-Cultural Analysis is the sequel to Culture's Consequences, the classic work published by one of the most influential management thinkers in today's times, Geert Hofstede.

Derived in part from Joseph F. Healey's best-selling text Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Class, this accessible 10-chapter text teaches concepts and theories through current, engaging topics, such as the Obama election and presidency and the economic recession.

In this extensive study, C D Mortenson presents a theoretical examination of the complex conditions that cause miscommunication, highlighting specific categories of implication, distortion, disruption and confusion.

This volume presents a valuable alternative interviewing approach - the interactive-relational - that promotes a clearer, deeper portrait of the person interviewed.

This book will provide practitioners, researchers and counsellor trainers with the knowledge they need to influence more competent therapeutic practice with a diverse clientele. It is a companion volume to Volume 7 in the Multicultural Aspects of Counseling series.

Many adolescents in the United States are at risk from substance abuse, unsafe sexual practices, academic under achievement, crime and violence. What can be done to tackle these growing problems? This book suggests the need to focus on young people's development in relation to specific features of the individual's environmental 'context'.

This comprehensive handbook provides the latest information on HIV care, with an emphasis on the provider-patient partnership and the need to view HIV patients holistically. It will become an essential guide for any health care professional working with patients who are HIV positive.

The negative interactions that take place between dating and courting partners, most notably physical aggression and sexual exploitation, are explored in this volume. The authors blend qualitative interviews with current research findings.