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Using real-world cases and empirical data throughout, this book considers the role of new communication technologies in shaping organizations today and in the future.

African American Males: A Practice Guide examines the special issues associated with providing mental health and guidance services to African American males.

The cases of 129 successful women entrepreneurs, who previously worked in corporate environments, are considered in this book. It examines the driving forces which led these women to leave the organizational environment, and the use of the organization as an incubator to entrepreneurship.

Understanding the masculinities-violence nexus is crucially important to finding ways to mitigate the masculine tendency towards violence. Taking a sobering look at men and violence, Lee H Bowker has carefully chosen essays which shed light on the causes and settings of masculine violence. The three essays in Part One lay out the ways in which men learn violence and repeat it. Part Two focuses on the ways men victimize women and children. Part Three turns to the ways men victimize other men, and the final part examines men and organizational violence.

This volume is a comprehensive exploration of historical and contemporary patterns of parenting in black families. Based on interviews and survey data, African American Children focuses on black families of various social classes as well as a comparative sample of white families. It covers major areas of child socialization.

This book presents an historical overview of heroin use in the USA, as well as articles by experts in the field which focus on current developments and emerging trends in prevention, treatment, distribution and consumption. Filling a void in the literature on what is known about the `new' heroin users, this volume also updates the reader on the status of ageing heroin-addicted populations who initiated use of the drug prior to the `age of cocaine'.

The Research Triangle Institute recently completed a five year study sponsored by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). The study, which focused on the Washington, DC metropolitan area, attempted to look at the nature and extent of drug use in a single urban setting.

The Research Triangle Institute recently completed a five year study sponsored by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). The study, which focused on the Washington, DC metropolitan area, attempted to look at the nature and extent of drug use in a single urban setting.

How do you intervene in abusive and neglectful families, or prevent maltreatment in families at risk? How can you find the answers you need in the overwhelming array of information now available? This volume helps readers focus by evaluating a wealth of references to current published literature and pinpointing the practical applications that put these findings into action.

This comprehensive resource book examines a broad range of issues that confront the victims of same-sex domestic violence and those who offer them services. Chapters include topics of practical concern, HIV, same-sex domestic violence, establishing safe-home networks for battered gay men, courtroom advocacy, coalition building and dating violence prevention.

This is a book about the past, present and future of personality at work. It begins by introducing the principal concepts of current personality theory. A concerted effort is made to communicate the sense of coherence that exists among the components of personality such as needs, traits, social cognition, and emotions. The `Five Factor Model' of traits is described. This work also gives an overview of the techniques used to evaluate personality and is a useful guide to personality research with suggestions on how it can be integrated into organizational research.

The nature of statistics has changed from classical notions of hypothesis testing, towards graphical and exploratory data analysis which exploits the flexibility of interactive computing and graphical displays. This book describes seven statistical computing environments - APL2STAT, GAUSS, Lisp-Stat, Mathematica, S, SAS//IML, and Stata - which can be used effectively in graphical and exploratory modeling.These statistical computing environments, in contrast to standard statistical packages, provide programming tools for building other statistical applications. Programmability, flexible data structures, and - in the case of some of the computing environments - graphical interfaces and object-oriented programming, permit res

In this volume leading composition scholars consider the ways in which argumentation as an approach to teaching writing remains valuable - in spite of the challenge presented by postmodern theories.The book first explains the traditional approaches to argument - the enthymeme, evidence, Toulmian, Rogerian and classical rhetoric - and illustrates why they are of particular relevance today. The contributors then `redefine' argument by connecting it with theoretical movements that have been adverse to it - feminism, narratology and reflexive reading. As a result, the book unites apparently conflicting approaches into a new definition of argument that emphasizes inquiry over discord and understanding over entrenched difference

This book is a bold, innovative examination of the factors behind the low representation of women in scientific disciplines and, more broadly, other competitive professional career tracks.

This book is a bold, innovative examination of the factors behind the low representation of women in scientific disciplines and, more broadly, other competitive professional career tracks.

This book looks at social science techniques that integrate language arts with an inquiry-based approach to social science

Drawing on cutting-edge research, this inspiring book shows how to integrate movement with classroom instruction, providing hundreds of activities that improve attention spans and student learning.

By providing readers with real-life ethical dilemmas and detailed case studies, this book encourages personal and systemic changes in schools

Provides a framework, language, guidelines, and set of easy-to-use tools for understanding challenges, generating ideas and transforming promising ideas into action, from leading experts in the field

This text clearly and straightforwardly demonstrates how to collect, manage, analyze, and present data in real world applications in education, criminal justice and other fields in the social science

Drawing on their own successes in the field, the authors show educational leaders how to offer all children high-quality educational experiences.

This resource helps raise awareness of ethical issues and guides teachers and teacher leaders in approaching difficult ethical dilemmas

This is an edited text that will explore the challenges faced by convicted offenders over the course of rehabilitation and reintegration.

By presenting a discussion about Response to Intervention in mathematics this book provides teachers with guidelines to all that is involved with mathematics instructional programmes

This book shows how questions, not answers, help drive school improvement by applying the principles of quality questioning to four critical leadership functions: maximizing, mobilizing, mediating, and monitoring

This seventh volume in The Soul of Educational Leadership series provides educational leaders with ideas and strategies for data-enhanced decision making in school leadership practice

Realism is an increasingly popular specialism as there is a huge advantage to having a philosophy of science which can consistently deal with both nature and society. This set pulls together the key thinking and papers on realist methodology.

Provides readers with a comprehensive look into the field of public communication campaigns. This title features chapters on topics such as campaign history, theoretical foundations, formative evaluation, systems approaches, input-output persuasion matrix, design and evaluation, meta-analysis, and sense-making methodology.

Capturing insights from 20 successful principals, this illuminating book presents real-world strategies that help school leaders refine their administrative skills and generate dramatic improvements in schoolwide achievement.