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Providing a focus on strategy throughout the text, this book introduces and operationalizes the concept of service leadership. This book provides discussions of methods associated with the identification and tracking of customer needs in a strategic and design process context.

The author discusses stages in the learning cycle, diverse learning styles, and how the classroom environment and different teaching methods influence children's ability to learn.

Working with the sound thinking skills children already display as part of their learning, this book takes a practical approach to getting the best out of th

For the child who doesn't have friends, does poorly in sports, or has difficulty learning, Greene provides solid, proven methods to help these learners succeed.

The last three decades have seen a dramatic increase in the attention businesses devote to their quality of service. This title presents an overview and analysis of the field and its research, including its growth, various trends, and debates.

Examines the impact of Internet technology on qualitative research methods. This book draws on studies using computer-mediated communication (CMC) and shows how online researchers can employ Internet-based qualitative methods to collect descriptive, contextually-situated data. It is intended as a guide for students and researchers.

Drawing on feminist theory, this title points to the deeply entrenched, hierarchical ways of thinking which permeate every level of our lives. It is suitable for counsellors, therapists, trainees and others who want a deeper understanding of how society affects them psychologically.

In this Second Edition of Melanie Klein, Julia Segal uses case studies of Klein's sessions with children to show how she developed her unique form of communication with her clients

Ideal in introductory courses dealing with grammatical structure and linguistics analysis, Introduction to Typology overviews the major grammatical categories and constructions in the world's languages. Framed in a typological perspective, the constant concern of this primary text is to underscore the similarities and differences which underlie the vast array of human languages.

In this textbook, Derek Layder offers a better understanding of the links between theory and research, and provides an analysis of the relationship between the two.

Ritzer discusses the process of McDonaldization, and scrutinizes: the labour process and the degree to which it has been McDonaldized; the relationship between McDonaldization and globalization and Americanization. Part Three presents new means of consumption and the book concludes with a re-evaluation of the McDonaldization thesis and its future.

This book provides a powerful and lucid account of risk in society today. Denney critically examines the social construction of risk, by considering a range of social theories, addressing the literature and providing an authoritative guide to the key issues raised.

This indispensable handbook focuses on new teachers' needs while emphasizing high-quality teaching through the use of standards-based teaching, teacher assessments, and reflective practice.

Provides a foundation of the microeconomic principles and concepts required to understand media industries and issues in the converging media environment. Explaining economic principles, this book use cases and examples to demonstrate how these principles can be used to analyze media issues and problems.

The third edition of this practical guide for experienced therapists and students in clinical training brings together contemporary gerontological theory, research and clinical experience with the elderly.

Guides students and researchers through the maze of research traditions, cultures of inquiry and epistemological frameworks of social sciences. This title introduces the underlying logic of cultures of inquiry: ethnography; quantitative behavioral science; phenomenology; action research; hermeneutics; evaluation research; and theoretical research.

Containing over 200 entries on key concepts and theorists, the Dictionary provides an unparalleled guide to cultural studies. The definitions are authoritative, stimulating, written in an accessible style and include up-to-date entries on new concepts and innovative approaches.

This text provides a critical introduction to the debates and politics surrounding welfare reform in the UK, Europe and the US. The author demonstrates how values derived from the family and voluntary associations are in danger of running counter to the principles of liberal democracy.

Dennis Smith offers a fascinating survey of Elias's life and writings and traces the growth of his reputation. He also illustrates how Elias's insights can be applied to understand Western modernity and social and political change, showing why Elias is so important to sociology.

Integrating a discussion of the application of quantitative methods with practical examples, this book explains the philosophy of the quantitative methodologies. It discusses issues such as: the nature of modern quantitative geography; spatial data; geographical information systems; visualization; local analysis; and point pattern analysis.

Documenting instances where ideas from psychotherapy have been incorporated into the political agenda, this book demonstrates the practical value of psychotherapy as an instigator of social and political change. Related to this, attempts to understand and evaluate political life through the application of psychotherapeutic concepts are examined.

A look at the strengths and weaknesses of cultural studies, providing a blend of performance and risk theory. It explores the need to erase the separation of "high" and "popular" culture studies, starting from the thesis that cultural studies has been too pre-occupied with popular culture.

Sparks provides a challenging reassessment of the impact of the collapse of communism on the media systems of Eastern Europe. He analyzes both the changes themselves and their implications for the ways in which we think about the mass media.

This edition explores and explains the use of this methodological tool. Evert Gummesson refines the basic ideas from the first edition with conceptual developments, updated literature references and current examples from research and practice.

This book focuses on the author's experience in Minnesota where a design team of architects, planners, economic and community development practitioners provided planning and design assistance to local communities. The book explores the advantages of a systems approach to community design.