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Criminal and Social Justice provides an important insight into the relationship between social inequality, crime and criminalisation.

What are the essential research methods for students studying leisure, sport and tourism? What are the main benefits in competing research methods, and how can you avoid gremlins in the research process? This book deals with these questions.

The pervasive and long-term effects that stem from sexual abuse make it vital that counsellors become adept at addressing the needs of survivors. This book identifies the healing processes which are useful to achieve recovery including disclosing the abuse; and, reinterpreting it from an adult perspective.

How is economic evolutionary theory, in which organisations evolve according to environmental selection, reconciled with evidence of strategic management? This book provides the foundation for a theory of organizational selection and an organizational evolution and strategy model that reconciles economic evolution with strategic intentionality.

Timely contributions to research and practice Unique approaches among which include: socio-economic, cultural, emotional, sociological, and cognitive. This important book explores the diverse answers to questions posed about the educational achievement of African American males.

With contributions from top leadership figures, this innovative and inspirational collection combines research and thought-provoking ideas for applying spiritual principles to administrative roles and responsibilities.

Explaining clearly how schools can support gifted and talented students, this book provides lots of useful advice on policy, provision, and activities.

Provides the "go-to" reference on how to set standards on tests in education, licensure, and certification. This work catalogues the conceptual and procedural fundamentals of setting performance standards.

Offers a conceptual overview of the cultural, social and economic significance of computer and video games and traces the history of game culture and the emergence of game studies as a field of research.

Designed to assist undergraduate students and other beginning field researchers in carrying out their first qualitative studies. This edition includes examples from classic ethnographies, as well as examples generated by the author herself, that help bring alive the abstract principles of field research.

An up-to-date, student focused introduction that will be adopted on sociology, human geography and population studies modules across the social sciences.

Offers teachers of all grade levels and content areas ready-to-use graphic organizers with guidelines for supporting cooperative learning groups, strengthening students' thinking processes, and developing effective assessments.

This updated edition provides strategies for deepening students' understanding of math concepts, involving students in standards-based rubric development, and using rubric data to improve instruction.

Pick and Plan includes 100 classroom-ready strategies such as mnemonic devices, graphic organizers, manipulatives, and much more, based on how the brain learns new information.

Presents the essential resource to securing a job as a journalist on a newspaper or magazine, on radio and television, or online. This book contains details of over 60 highly-respected, NCTJ-accredited courses which give you exactly the qualifications you need.

Providing information on audience research, this book focuses on qualitative methods and draws upon students' own media experience. It is divided into chapters that deal with audience research in terms of concepts and topics. It offers interpretive approaches to studying viewers, readers and listeners.

Based on the authors' model of auditory, speech, and language development, the book provides educators with effective techniques and strategies for working with children in the primary grades.

This book provides a stimulating introduction to study skills for success at undergraduate level.

What is Geography? Geography is a fundamental fascination with, and a crucial method for, understanding the way the world works. This title offers readers a short and highly accessible account of the ideas and concepts constituting geography.

Helps equip practitioners with the knowledge and tools they need to critically examine practice in their own workplace. This book presents a range of different approaches, which have relevance in the context of health and social care. It explores what constitutes knowledge and evidence and the types of assumptions which are commonly held.

Offers an introduction to the legal issues in relation to counselling and psychotherapy in the UK. This work provides coverage of the key developments in the law that have had major impact on therapists' practice with regard to data protection and the management of confidentiality.

Introduces readers to conventional understandings of nature - realist, environmental, constructivist - while examining alternative accounts from different disciplines where nature resists easy classification. This book demonstrates how recent thinking has urgent relevance and impact on the ways in which we approach environmental problems.

This book covers preventive counseling and guides the reader on how to use such a model to prevent mental health issues occuring

This book offers readers a systematic review of the origins, history, and statistical foundations of PSM and illustrates how to use PSM methods for solving evaluation problems.

This is the first book to provide a complete guide to assessment across Health and Social Care. It truly takes an interdisciplinary approach to the assessment process and explores all the necessary policy and practice.

Gives an indepth view of US prisons within the broader theoretical body of work referred to as the sociology of punishment.

The first full length dictionary of leisure studies, offering a critical survey of this increasingly popular and interdisciplinary field and incisive overviews of the key figures whose work exercises the most powerful influence on leisure studies today.

Aimed at both graduate and undergraduate students majoring in business administration and in other fields of social sciences, Qualitative Marketing Research unpacks the emerging cultural approach in the field of marketing and consumer research and provides an interesting and informed study for anyone interested in cultural approaches to economic and social theory.

Helps educational leaders create a dialogue that represents all stakeholders, define relevant policies that are ethically sound, and integrate legally mandated policies with schoolwide resolutions.

Helps promote coaching and leadership capabilities in organizations. This book helps define the goals of coaching in order to develop leadership, and explains how a culture that encourages employees to seek out coaching and encourages managers to coach can be developed. It also provides a methodology for in-house training of coaching managers.