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For almost 20 years, the Journal of Management Education has clearly been the most authoritative and up-to-date forum for the improvement of management and organization studies education in both academic and professional settings. Charles M Vance has collected the best of the Journal in this anthology. He has organized the original articles into integrated chapters of lecture and discussion methods, case-study teaching, group-learning skills and managing learner diversity. There is also an annotated guide to many other key articles from the Journal's rich history.

This book on organization theory adopts a distinctive stance. In contrast to the traditional rational approach, it develops a transformational perspective which focuses on the organizational world as a projection of each organizational member's consciousness. While covering all the basic topics of organization theory, the author's approach reflects today's changing management paradigms.

This is the first book to examine the relationship between sexual and psychological functioning in terms of its effects on patterns of sexual practice over the lifespan. The authors explore: the impact of both voluntary and involuntary sexual experiences in childhood on adolescent sexual activities; the consequences of childhood and adolescent sexual experiences on women's sexual behaviour in adulthood; and the influence of adult sexual abuse.

Reviews the major democratic theories of our time and canvasses astutely the salient issues among them. This title synthesizes a theory of the author's' own which he proffers as a new mainstream view to his readers.

Considers important issues of what theory and research on human development can teach us about adolescents' vulnerability, how to reduce that vulnerability and under what circumstances parental consent does not protect children's rights.

'Mowlana examines the human dimensions and the technological imperatives of international communications. [He] provides a comprehensive and multi-disciplinary analysis, covering the fields of history, power, community, legitimacy, and language. By analyzing the implications of communication today Mowlana provides a new paradigm for the study of international communication' Culturelink

Researchers in gerontology sum up the current state of knowledge of health and ageing. Topics range from conceptual and measurement issues to social factors in health and illness, to service utilization and consumerism amongst the elderly.

Families today are changing in response to shifts in the broader environment: dual-career couples, single-parent families, racially mixed families, now represent the norm rather than the exception. A group of leading family researchers examine current social changes and their impact on family relationsips and family functioning. As an overview of the present state of and future directions for families, this book should be required reading for family researchers, practitioners and students.

Examining the reactions people have to new technology, this book focuses on computerization in the office environment, the use of robots in factories and advanced technology in the aerospace industry. The authors also provide information on the latest research in this growing field.

How do cities innovate in the face of fiscal austerity? Based on survey data from the Fiscal Austerity and Innovation Project this book reassesses theories of political leadership and government decisionmaking, exploring how various cities have made innovations over the past decade and reviewing 33 specific strategies. The turbulence of the past two decades is critical in reshaping our ways of thinking about how governments work.

This two-volume work focuses on the social, economic, political and technological determinants of growth and change in the great cities of the world. It describes the consequences of rapid change in such cities as New York City, Los Angeles, Cairo, London, Tokyo, Delhi and Shanghai.

The evaluation of social programmes for families and children that focus on keeping the family intact - rather than those that emphasize removing the child from the family - is discussed in this volume. Written primarily for evaluators and administrators involved in analyzing family services, chapters raise issues pertinent to the design of both comprehensive and special focus studies.

The evaluation of social programmes for families and children that focus on keeping the family intact - rather than those that emphasize removing the child from the family - is discussed in this volume. Written primarily for evaluators and administrators involved in analyzing family services, chapters raise issues pertinent to the design of both comprehensive and special focus studies.

Presents perspectives on altered states of consciousness and mental health and places them within the boundaries of cross-cultural psychology. This volume considers theoretical and methodological issues in the study of altered states of consciousness. It focuses on models highlighting various paradigms and diverse methodological approaches.

This resource helps educators integrate Web and mobile technologies and tools into classroom instruction and offers a model for selecting appropriate tools and technologies for primary and secondary settings.

Take advantage of a resource that's right in your classroom-your students! This book offers practical strategies for empowering students as co-teachers, decision makers, and advocates.

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Lauffer's 1977 bestseller has been revised in order to place emphasis on the need to understand your own organization, your clients and your funding options throughout the grant-getting process. Via a series of checklists, vignettes and exercises, the author leads the reader through various marketing strategies to the actual writing of a grant proposal, casting of budgets, and alternatives if the grant is not given. Readable, concise, instructive and practical, Grantsmanship is an invaluable aid to funding in the eighties.'...we could all learn something from the author's no-nonsense approach to extracting funds from reluctant agencies...If we are to become more market-orientated, this book can only help.' -- British Accou

This book presents a technique for analyzing the effects of variables, groups, and treatments in both experimental and observational settings. It considers not only the main effects of one variable upon another, but also the effects of group cases.

An elementary introduction to significance testing, this paper provides a conceptual and logical basis for understanding these tests.

Restructure your personal and professional priorities by tackling the stresses of managing workplace environments, juggling competing priorities, and balancing personal and professional agendas.

NEW edition! More than any other social gerontology texts available, addresses issues of diversity in aging by race, ethnicity, social class, and gender throughout.

This book shows how the social constructions of time, space, race, gender and class intersect with each other to produce particular social phenomena. Leading the reader through examples from around the world, the author shows how these categories are social constructions; historically formed, ideologically loaded, and subject to change.

Designing Families is a thought-provoking examination of the challenges facing the nuclear family as it enters the new millenium. John Scanzoni sets the issue of change in families in aN historical and cross-cultural perspective tracing the development of the family from the Agricultural Age to the Information Age.

Examines how contemporary rhetorics and discourses of organizational change are breaking down such distinctions - with significant implications for the construction of subjectivities and identities at work. This title shows how the capacities and predispositions required of consumers and employees are increasingly difficult to distinguish.

Places terrorism within a spectrum of political violence, creating a typology of terror based on scale and intent as well as by type of actor - from isolated attacks by individual bombers, to large scale attacks against state targets by organized networks, to state-sponsored genocide and politicide.

Effectively lead at-risk, alternative, and special education students to critical thinking, self-discovery, and ultimately, more relevant and proficient writing.

Helping beginning teachers "over the hump" of their first year is no easy job. It takes dedicated and well-trained mentors. High-Performance Mentoring helps experienced educators meet the unique challenges of mentoring first-year teachers. This Participant's Notebook, used in conjunction with the training workshop, will help you fully explore the mentoring process.