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This work describes the strategies and tactics of opinion management that have been utilised in the United States long before the growth of public relations as an occupation. The book serves as a companion work to the author's "The Unseen Power: Public Relations".

Provides practitioners and policy-makers with practice methods for working with various types of sex offenders. This book explores gender issues, demographics, offence characteristics, family characteristics, and assessment issues in dealing with sex offenders who use psychological and physical means to victimize children, adolescents and adults.

A selection of presentations from the European Conference on Encoded Archival Description and Context (EAS and EAC) held in Paris. This work explores the history and practical use of EAS in Europe, the development and future of EAC, and a data format for information about archive holders, Encoded Archival Guide (EAG).

This textbook offers an articulation of the dimensions of constructivism relevant to social work practice and research.

Describes an approach to computer-based work in complex sociotechnical systems. This book provides a motivation by introducing three themes that tie the book together - safety, productivity, and worker health. It describes the concepts that comprise the cognitive work analysis framework.

Published for the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, this work highlights the multiplicity of perspectives and approaches to dealing with political, economic, military, cultural and sexual discrimination of women in Japan. Twelve interviews with Japanese feminists are included.

15 long-term gay couples share experiences from their own lives as they have lived them, giving you insight into their present relationships, and discussing former long term partners who have died or moved onto other relationships.

This collection of essays and reviews represents the most significant and comprehensive writing on Shakespeare's A Comedy of Errors.

Helps education professionals understand the educational/societal situations they are dealing with, and literacy instruction and second language learning in particular contexts. This third edition progressively works through differences and tensions in the discourses and practices of sociolinguistics, bilingual education, whole language, and more.

Provides knowledge of basic tasks and tools needed by administrators and tells how to adapt them to various professional settings. This book addresses the terms of leadership, management and administration; examines the tasks associated with each term, and provides the concepts and skills needed by any counseling administrator in any setting.

An historical overview of adult literacy theory, policy, practice, and research from the mid-1980s to the present. The main focus is a descriptive analysis of three schools of literacy: the Freirean-based participatory literacy movement; the British-based New Literacy Studies; and the U.S. federal government's focus on functional literacy.

This work is a cross-cultural examination of globalization and women in higher education. The book compares experiences of Western and Asian women within a framework that raises important questions about cultural difference and institutional power.

Topics covered in this volume include: communication privacy management and HIV disclosure; decisions to disclose or not disclose an HIV diagnosis; and stigma as risk criteria influencing disclosure decisions

This volume provides an historical, philosophical and practical critique of public and civic journalism - a movement that gained momentum in the final decade of the 20th century, postulating that world journalism is veering away from the traditional idea of press freedom.

Blending personal narrative with analysis and description, this study examines the use of ethnically diverse published autobiographies in a teacher education book club and course.

Computer-assisted investigative reporting (CAIR) can provide the Press with insights into trends and patterns unlikely to be revealed by other means. This book addresses procedures and issues in investigative journalism, explaining the origin and characteristics that make CAIR possible.

This work examines the concept of "community", focusing on how communication practices help manage the tensions of everyday communal life amidst the crises of human loss. The authors explore these ideas at Bonaventure House, an award-winning residential facility for people with AIDS.

Offers a detailed examination of the methods and theoretical frameworks for conducting research with LGBT populations. This work provides guidelines for defining these groups, strategies to obtain more inclusive and representative samples, and methods for engaging these populations to produce consistent and relevant data.

Addresses the difficulties experienced by cocaine addicts and their families. This work suggests sources of help and includes stories of recovering addicts, relating the authors' own experiences, themselves both recovered addicts.

This work aims to combine research from various disciplines concerned with intergenerational communication, framed by several theoretical perspectives drawn from the communication discipline.

Examines three different youth civic engagement initiatives, Public Achievement, Youth in Government, and Youth Science Center. This book discusses the initiatives from various perspectives, including the academic perspectives of political theory, theories of youth, and vocation. It is suitable for secondary social studies teachers.