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This trusted, brief guide helps readers become savvy consumers of public opinion polls, offering solid grounding on how the media cover them, their use in campaigns and elections, and their interpretation.

In 2016, Americans fed up with the political process vented that frustration with their votes. Republicans nominated for president a wealthy businessman and former reality show host. Democrats nearly selected a self-described socialist. The authors describe effective citizenship skills and provide tips from civic experts.

This accessible book is one volume of a four-book series enabling understanding of Academic Language development among English Language Learners and speakers of non-standard English

This book demonstrates how to help teenagers develop in an emotionally and socially healthy way by building the promotion of resilience into day to day classroom teaching.

Brain research has the power to revolutionize education. This book explains how educators can use current neuroscience findings to improve student achievement, behavior, and school climate.

This guide helps teachers to effectively express themselves, define a sense of purpose, work collaboratively, and use technology for powerful school change.

This textbook takes an integrated approach to research methods and statistics, namely: given a question, what methods and statistical procedures should be employed? With a focus on the use of technology (Excel and SPSS) in the analysis of statistical results, it trains students to be researchers in the real world.

Offers an introduction to the study of consumerism and consumption from a sociological perspective. The author examines what we buy, how and where we consume, the meanings attached to the things we purchase, and the social forces that enable and constrain consumer behavior.

This book presents, for the first time, a practical manual for psychodynamic-interpersonal therapy. This evidence-based conversational model places strong emphasis on the relational aspects of therapy, and provides a comprehensive approach to a wide variety of presenting issues.

This book provides prospective facilitators with clear instructions on how to plan and effectively deliver a Successful Substitute Teaching workshop.

This book provides workshop participants with copies of all Power Point slides formatted to facilitate note-taking or journaling during the training.

Providing a fresh methodology for sociological research, this title features innovative and practical methods for substantive social science research; contributions by both sociologists and nonsociologists that have important methodological implications for the social sciences, and offers purely methodological work that may benefit sociology.

This book equips students, managers, and executives with the strategies and tools to address common communication problems experienced in organisations, with the goal of learning how to add value to their organisations by communicating more effectively.

Patty McGee helps teachers transform student writers by demonstrating what to do to build tone, trust, motivation, and choice into daily lessons, conferences, and revision suggestions.

This book shows educators how to become powerful, effective allies for marginalized students so they can challenge the barriers, practices, and beliefs that diminish opportunities for many students.

For busy classroom teachers, this practical book makes manageable the process of differentiating mathematics instruction to maximize each student's learning potential, ultimately leading to improved test scores.

For busy classroom teachers, this practical book makes manageable the process of differentiating mathematics instruction to maximize each student's learning potential, ultimately leading to improved test scores.

Strategies and techniques to make lessons more engaging and student-centred.

This classic text successfully provides a comprehensive overview of methods to prepare students to carry out, report, and evaluate research on human development, with a focus on the whole lifespan.

Provides in-depth examination and insight into how candidates plan and execute advertising campaigns, how the media covers these campaigns, and how American voters are ultimately influenced by them.

In order for school change efforts to succeed, educators must ensure that changes are being implemented at the classroom level. Jane Kise provides a tested framework for working with teachers to change their classroom practices.

Theory and Practice of Addiction Counseling brings together contemporary theories of addiction and helps readers connect those theories to practice using a common multicultural case study.

This book is unique in that the cases included aim to significantly increase student's knowledge base about broad social justice issues. This will allow students to evaluate, analyze, and synthesize facts and consequently create more engaged and informed classroom discussions.

Analyzing Inequalities: An Introduction to Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality Using the General Social Survey is a practical resource for helping students connect sociological issues with real-world data in the context of their first undergraduate sociology courses. It: introduces readers  to the GSS, one of the most widely analyzed surveys in the U.S. examines a range of GSS questions related to social inequalities demonstrates basic techniques for analyzing this data online. No special software is required - the exercises can be completed using the Survey Documentation and Analysis (SDA) website at the University of California-Berkeley which is easy to navigate and master.  Students will come away with a better understanding of social science research, and will be better positioned to ask and answer the sociological questions that most interest them.  

This book offers a detailed explanation of co-teaching which has been embraced by many as a particularly powerful strategy for serving English Learners.

Well-known editors and contributors across a span of disciplines, including social work, criminology, and sociology, ensure the highest quality contributions for studying violence against women.

This innovative book equips readers with the knowledge and skills they need to be effective case management practitioners in a variety of health and human service organizations.

Using real research on antisocial behaviours such as cyberbullying, prejudice and discrimination, this text helps readers across the social sciences to understand the underlying theory behind statistical methods.

This highly integrative book helps students gain the knowledge and skills they need to assess, engage, and address the spiritual and religious needs of older adults.

Builds on the idea of developing a new paradigm for probation and parole officers to use in supervising offenders