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Examines the ways in which organizations achieve "goodness" through reputation, reputation management and reputation strategies. This book presents a contemporary model of strategic reputation management. It introduces the eight generic reputation strategies, through which organizations can organize their stakeholder relationships in various ways.

Advocates an inquiry and activity-based view of social studies teaching that respects the points of view of students and teachers. This book offers systematic support, and advice for new teachers. It includes examples. It is suitable as a text for undergraduate and graduate pre-service social studies methods courses.

This study's goal is to help students develop skills of scientific inferences. The author has developed "the experimental pyramid" which summarizes the philosophy of the book. Containing six levels, the pyramid portrays a hierarchy of considerations involved in empirical investigation.

This project offers a thorough examination of rumours and proposes strategies for organizations to use in combatting rumours that occur both internally and externally. Author Allan J. Kimmel explores the rumour phenomenon and distinguishes it as a distinct form of communication.

This study of parental involvement in modern education covers such diverse topics as lessons from personal experience, the quest for equity in family-school relations and the obscure side of homework.

Examines new and innovative approaches to treating domestic violence, de-emphasizing the unilateral phychoeducational approach in favor of treatment modalities that focus on the offenders individual characteristics.

Aims to help resolve two urgent needs of our era: the need to develop a scientific comprehension of human psychology, and the need to reform society in order to solve pressing social ills. This book also outlines a qualitative methodology for investigating the psychology of individuals.

An examination of Russia's philosophical heritage. It extends from the Slavophiles to the philosophers of the Silver Age, from emigre religious thinkers to Losev and Bakhtin and assesses the meaning for Russian culture as a whole.

Introducing the philosphical basics of computer science and the contributions that philosophy and computer science can make to each other, this text investigates what makes computer science an empirical science and offers philosophical issues associated with artificial intelligence practices.

Aims to reveal the personal stories of twenty-five women, including the author, who were widowed at a young age and forced to create a new life without their life partners. This book is useful for lesbians, friends, and family of lesbians, mental health professionals, medical professionals, psychiatrists, and LGBT health providers.

Focuses on the treatment of adult autism as used at Bittersweet Farm. The first part of this book offers information on the range of treatments available. The second section covers behaviour modification techniques and the third deals with the funding of residential care programmes.

This work offers a perspective on language teaching by placing moral issues - questions of values - at the core of what it is to be a teacher. It shows that all language teaching involves an interplay of deeply held views, but in each situation these values are played out in different ways.

Offers psychiatrists, psychologists, counselors, physicians, and students, a review of the history, pharmacology, chemistry, and uses of medicinal herbs. This title examines such herbs as ginkgo, ginseng, kava, linden, German chamomile, St John's wort, and valerian, among others.

Children, adolescents and young adults here talk openly and candidly about how and when they learned of their parent's sexual orientation and the effect it had on them and their families, covering themes of prejudice, harassment, conflict and confusion, as well as hope for tolerance and family harmony.

Looks at the election process on both sides of the Atlantic, providing an insight into how modern political communication and marketing strategies are used in the United States and the United Kingdom. This book is suitable for political practitioners, researchers, and scholars, candidates seeking political office, lobbyists, and others.

The authors present a social linguistic/social interactional approach to the discourse analysis of classroom language and literacy events. They describe a microethnographic approach to discourse analysis that provides a reflexive research process that questions what counts as knowledge in and of the interactions among teachers and students.

Barton and Levstik present a clear overview of competing ideas among educators, historians, politicians, and the public about the nature and purpose of teaching history, and they evaluate these debates in light of current research on students' historical thinking.

This text takes the area of counselling practice and systematically reviews relevant counselling theory, counselling ethics, and counselling skills in relation to web counselling. It will be of interest to professionals working in the field of career counselling.

Using a cross-disciplinary approach, this volume shows how language and discourse play key roles in understanding and communicating gender and culture. The starting point and central focus of the book is linguistics, but the author also draws on anthropology, biology, philosophy and psychology.

Helps you learn how political marketing and public relations affect the electoral process. This book examines how communication and marketing experts influence politics. It reviews the advances in political communication management and marketing through a cross-cultural integration of research and theoretical approaches.

Presents an introduction to child development concepts and the development of anger, examining how hostility and aggression impact the family and illustrating the effects of resistance and oppositional behavior. This book focuses on practical aspects of anger management, including: attachment issues, and antisocial behavior.