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The goal of Bridging the Gap is to provide a book that takes a competing approach to Needs Assessment and shows the alternative side - the capacity building and assets of communities and individuals.

Available in print and online, this monumental work is edited by two leading figures in the field with a distinguished international editorial advisory board to select and assign entries, ensuring authoritative content that readers can trust.

This exciting new volume of 15 cases considers military, economic, human and global security issues from their roots, in the structure of world politics, to the ways in which foreign policy is made.

A comprehensive examination of family communication theory and research. Leading scholars expand the definition of family, address recent shifts in culture, and cover important new topics, including families in crisis, families and governmental policies,social media, and extended families.

Providing strategies for the development and implementation of classroom assessment systems, this book explores using evidence of student achievement in the evaluation of teacher performance.

This book provides a comprehensive model of systemic school improvement that is designed around four, high-leverage practices.

Using a series of engaging case studies written by policy area experts, this volume asks whether European policies might prove effective in the U.S. context, as well as what pitfalls might be avoided.

The first textbook to take a comprehensive look at the history, theory and treatment of child and adolescent sexual abuse, this book covers all aspects of child and adolescent sexual abuse from the history, theory and treatment to special issues such as pornography and the Internet. There are also dedicated chapters on assessment, intervention, treatment and prevention.

Janie H Wilson and Beth M Schwartz offer applied, step-by-step instructions on how to present research in a professional manner. Their book includes example poster layouts, checklists for preparing a presentation and assessments to show students what members of the audience (and instructors) are looking for in their presentation.

Covering all the essential topics found in planning texts, guidelines and templates, this book provides insights students and executives need to develop sound and convincing market strategies and business plans that enable businesses to succeed.

Beginning at a personal level and then moving onto a wider organizational view, this book delves into what is known about resilience and how this can be applied to educational leadership.

Offers an examination of social policy through a social constructivist and economic lens. This book illuminates the root causes of common social problems and how policy has attempted to ameliorate them. It focuses on how social policies in the United States can be transformed to promote social justice for all groups.

Providing a contemporary approach to the nature versus nurture debate, this book encourages reflection on the contest between environmental factors and the interplay between biology/genetics and environmental factors on criminal behaviour.

Helps counselors in training learn essential skills for consultation positions for those who opt not to go into private practice. This title also helps students understand the process and stages of consultation as well as some key skills such as writing proposals, conducting workshops, drafting contracts, fees, and reporting.

Changing Climate Politics provides a comprehensive account of the current state of government action and political participation in the US on the issue of climate change.

Containing various perspectives on counselling individuals from cultures other than that of the counsellor or therapist, this book covers everything on cross-cultural counselling from basic issues in cross cultural counseling and counselling in ethnocultural contexts to counseling individuals in transitional, traumatic, or emergent situations.

An undergraduate exploration of urban sociology, giving balanced treatment to both the process by which cities are built (urbanization) and the ways of life practiced by people that live and work in more urban places (urbanism).

This new edition accounts for the latest developments in telephone, Internet, and email surveying and provides a more comprehensive treatment on questionnaire testing

Explore the four approaches to co-teaching with updated discussions of RTI, discussions of the roles of paraprofessionals and administrators, and lesson plans linked to the Common Core.

An accompanying workbook to Bruce Bueno de Mesquita's Principles of International Politics, this text is packed-full with exercises to help students really get to grip with their studies.

Using cutting-edge research, this text lays a theoretical foundation to help students and practitioners understand the grounding and theory behind strengths-based therapy and then presents a model for use with a variety of client types/settings.

Finally a single, integrated approach to the Common Core and RTI, with real-world scenarios, work samples, online resources, and guidance on special-needs students and ELLs.

Combining empirical data with practical experience, Landrum and Hettich provide essential advice and tools to help psychology students survive and thrive in the workplace.

An essential introduction to the cognitive sciences which examines both historical and contemporary research findings of the core cognitive science disciplines.

The Second Edition of the award-winning The SAGE Handbook of Conflict Communication emphasizes constructive conflict management from a communication perspective which places primacy in the message as the focus of conflict research and practice.

Students With Mild Exceptionalities: Characteristics and Application prepares students for teaching in today's diverse classroom. The text uses an active, problem-solving approach that reflects how students learn.

In his eagerly-awaited second edition, Ray revisits his deceptively simple premise that the highest priority of leaders is to stay in power. Looking at how political ambition and domestic pressures impact foreign policymaking is the key to understanding how and why foreign policy decisions are made.

'A thoughtful reflection on the concept of the state in the context of post-colonial realities and a very uesful historical investigation of imperialism as cultural contact, which in a very timely way calls for the cross-fertilisaton of debates in international communiction by post-colonial studies' - Media Development

What Successful Math Teachers Do is a powerful portal to what the best research looks like in practice, strategy by strategy-now aligned to both the Common Core and the NCTM Standards.

Les Foltos' successful method for peer coaching is now available in this book that shows teachers how to help their colleagues meet 21st century challenges.