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Presents a step-by-step guide to designing and conducting methodologically sound, yet cost effective needs assessments.

The central purpose of this text is to build a bridge between therapeutic and educational discourses in order to encourage a greater exchange of knowledge and to contribute to the development of discourses and practices that reconceptualize the intersection between violence and learning.

This text presents a different approach to understanding the family unit and how and why it functions as it does. The approach focuses on the cognitions of family members and how these, in turn, shape individuals' behaviour and the functioning of the family system.

This practice guide describes an approach to psychological evaluation of the chronic pain patient who is being considered for surgery. It identifies a multitude of risk factors for poor surgical outcome and reviews research associated with each risk factor.

The development and use of the atomic bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki number among the formative national experiences for both Japanese and Americans as well as for 20th-century Japan-US relations. This volume explores the way in which the bomb has shaped the self-image of both peoples.

This is an assessment of the role of presidency in Russia's difficult transition from communist rule. It analyzes the establishment and functioning of the Russian presidency as an institution and in relation to other institutions of state - government, parliament, courts and regional authorities.

"Working With Numbers and Statistics: A Handbook for Journalists" is designed to bolster the journalists' math skills and in turn improve math confidence.

Showing how to choose, develop, and administer effective staffing procedures, including conducting job analyses, measuring job performance, identifying predictors of performance that are valid and legally defensible, and using this information to make sound hiring decisions, this book explains how organizations can gain a competitive advantage.

Using conversation analysis to explore the nature of argument, asymmetry, and power, this book focuses on the interplay between the structures of participation on talk radio. It demonstrates how conversation analysis may be used to account for power as a feature of institutional discourse.

Actors memorize hours' worth of verbal material in a very short time, and they retrieve it verbatim along with the accompanying gestures, movements, thoughts and emotions of the characters. This book studies and details the mental processes involved in this task.

Traces the development from infancy through adulthood in the capacity to form, retain, and retrieve autobiographical or personal memories. This book is intended for scholars and researchers in the fields of cognitive psychology, memory, infancy, and human development.

This volume presents an analysis of psychopathic and sociopathic personalities and the conditions that give rise to them. It offers an analysis of socialization and the role played by the crime-relevent genetic traits of the child and the skills and limitations of the parents.

A textbook to deal exclusively and thoroughly with the significant principles of social work practice and methods that integrate these principles into the common base of practice. It helps you to learn from case examples how to apply crucial ethical, personal, and methodological principles to different practice areas.

Explores the mismatch between perception and physical reality, and describes the many factors that influence the perception of space including the meaning assigned to geometric concepts like distance, the judgement methods used to report the experience, and the presence or absence of cues to depth.

A landmark analysis of the ongoing socioeconomic transformations of the Middle East.