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Explores the dynamics of the antinuclear protest movement, particularly the freeze and its origins, growth, decline, and enduring problems. Beginning with a historical analysis of early attempts to control nuclear weapons, this work uses a sociohistorical case study to give insight into how social change occurs in postindustrial society.

A systematic study of interpersonal communication, which aims to emphasize experimental methodology and may be useful for conceptualizing empirical research. The text is aimed at developing tools for creative thinking and the design of a personal empirical research study.

The authors establish a plan for unifying the separate and parallel systems of special and general education.

This book addresses the issues important to supply teachers, and identifies the skills necessary for handling the demands they face.

The 2nd edition has been updated in line with the latest developments in US law, including the new Americans with Disabilities Act.

The 8% Solution is a practical, common-sense guide offering long-term solutions to juvenile crime through a proven program. Written in narrative style with a liberal use of anecdotal incidents, this is an easy-to-read description of the law and details effective ways to correct the problem.

This book seeks to define nursing at a management or administrative level. Using the widely regarded Orem self-care deficit model to provide a nursing focus, the authors explore the nursing needs of populations, the roles and functions of advanced practice nursing administration, and the administrative structures, processes and outcomes that facilitate nursing practice.

The purpose of this book is to provide a process for the development of effective community-wide health behaviour programmes for children and adolescents. Significant behaviour change among young people across a variety of behaviors and community-based research studies has been achieved through programmes that have been created on this ten-step process

Spiritual Resiliency In Older Women records the narratives of spiritually resilient older German and American women. The authors suggest how persons of all ages can gain maturity and spiritual coping by participating in communities based on faith, which acknowledge the emotion of spiritual experiences and integrate faith and close human relationships.

This comprehensive textbook and reference recognises marketing as the key to the success of ecologically sound products.

Examines the reaction of a real police department in the USA to television representations of 'cops'.

Presents a phenomenological framework for understanding the intricate relationship between culture, power and communication. Grounded in muted group and standpoint theory, this volume presents a theoretical framework which fosters a critically insightful vantage point into the complexities of culture, power and communication.

Barber delineates three stages of recruitment - generating applicants, maintaining applicant status & influencing job choice - and discusses relevant existing knowledge and important unanswered questions. For professionals and students.

Presents a comprehensive and critical portrait -- based on theory, research and clinical practice experience -- of the phenomenon of neglect. The interdisciplinary team of contributors move far beyond the current child welfare focus on parental omissions in care to address the many complex and pervasive underpinnings of neglect.

This work documents the damage done by the migration of academic ideas into music journalism. The author synthesizes a number of fields including American and British academic and journalistic music criticism and aesthetic and literary history and theory from romanticism through to postmodernism.

This work examines the nature, causes and consequences of family homicide in modern American society. Using a case study approach, the author explores the social, cultural and psychological forces that lead people to kill members of their own families.

A practical guide to recently developed management principles that takes the reader beyond the basics of the TQM fad to the core concepts that undergird it. The book provides a basic reference and field guide for mental health service organizations that are interested in learning about and applying sound management principles.

Whether the goals of research are applied or more abstract, team research has been an important aspect of ethnography. This title examines the myriad of challenges and opportunities in doing team ethnography.

Completely rewritten to reflect recent research into family and intimate violence this Second Edition of Family Violence explores the subject from its origins to assessment and treatment. The revision offers a summary of some of the best current scholarship conducted by family researchers.

This book demonstrates how an understanding of the fundamental principles of communication will help in evaluating the effects, effectiveness, truthfulness and ethics of every kind of communication. Cohen introduces classical theories of rhetoric at the beginning of each chapter, then expands the discussion with contemporary postmodern theories, and concerns.