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Help your teachers and your students face the biggest challenge education offers: the fundamental, necessary change from total reliance on a teacher to self-directed, self-motivated lifelong learning.

Among the greatest challenges faced by teachers and administrators are how to communicate effectively with students and how to resolve conflicts between them. This title discusses the communication skills and conflict resolution principles necessary for the smooth functioning of schools and the effective teaching of students.

The First Edition of this useful book was popular for its integration of multiple regression with evaluation design and for offering systematic ways to select the proper goals for single- and multiple-outcome evaluations. This revised edition covers new issues and to clarify further the concepts used in impact analysis.

Why are some acts but not others perceived to be fair? How do people who experience unfairness respond toward others held accountable for the unfairness? This book reviews the theoretical organizational justice literature and explores how the research on justice applies to various topics in organizational behaviour.

This text explores the subject of sexual abuse by pre-teen offenders. It examines the factors that contribute toward sexually abusive behaviour in young children. It also identifies nine programmes and practices that have been designed to treat offenders on an individual, family or group basis.

A practical guide to sample size calculations and general principles of cost-effective research. It introduces a simple technique of statistical power analysis which allows researchers to compute approximate sample sizes and power for a wide variety of research designs.

Doing Statistics With SPSS is derived from the authors' many years of experience teaching undergraduates data handling using SPSS. It assumes no prior understanding beyond that of basic mathematical operations and is therefore suitable for anyone undertaking an introductory statistics course as part of a science based undergraduate programme.

This book provides an overview of some of the key issues in developing professional performance and examines critically some of the key strategies that can be used to enhance professional performance.

Wright Mills' classic The Sociological Imagination has inspired generations of students to study Sociology. However, it is nearly half a century old. What would a book address, aiming to attract and inform students today? This book sets the agenda for imagining Sociology in the 21st century.

Devoted to conflict analysis and resolution, this work begins with a discussion of the philosophical foundations for doing research, providing guidelines on how to develop research questions and how these questions can be addressed with various methodologies. It also integrates the various methodologies, including their complementary strengths.

In this examination of the discourse of environmentalism, the authors explore the linguistic, philosophical, psychological and cultural-historical aspects of environmental discourse, rather than environmental phenomena themselves.

`[A] useful addition to the increasing body of ongoing research into reliable and valid ways of using linguistic analysis in forensic contexts, and it provides some fascinating insights into the role of the linguist as expert witness' - Forensic Linguistics

This book is an ideal introduction to the world of new educational technologies. Filled with case studies, and built on an intuitive set of `How do I ...' questions, it will provide a strong foundation for teachers who need to know more about open and distance learning, across any academic discipline.

Based on the theoretical approach to cooperative negotiating skills developed at the Harvard Project on Negotiation, this book presents a two-step process towards mastery of negotiating and influencing skills.

A state-of-the-art look at the field of personnel selection.

In this useful and practical book, Elisa Carbone offers a wealth of sound advice on how to deal with a large class, from the first day to end of term evaluations. Full of examples taken from many different disciplines, Teaching Large Classes will be an ideal companion for any teacher facing the challenge of the large introductory class.

The authors of this book develop principles that can guide the use of data and models in the human sciences. Writing as scholars who are at home with empirical and mathematical social science, yet taking seriously the critiques of this heritage, they propose ways of developing norms without becoming subjective.

This text demonstrates that, regardless of a practitioner's theoretical orientation, addressing the basic human need of touch as an adjunct to talk-therapy is intrinsic to the healing process. It encourages readers to explore possible biases and misconceptions related to touch.