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Focussing on 'knowing about' rather than 'knowing how', this text identifies many formal and informal learning opportunities, and puts theory and research into practical applications. It interests students and practitioners in human resource development, training, management, executive education, and organization change and development.

Beginning with an overview of the basic concepts of SEM and the EQS program, this book works through applications starting with simple single group analyses, through to more advanced applications, such as a multi-group, latent growth curve, and multilevel modeling. It provides a non-mathematical introduction to the basic concepts of SEM.

This title explains how theatre can be made to work in any free space. It provides specific and practical advice for any performer or director, and relates stories from the author's own Gorilla Rep experience that show what the most unorthodox of theatrical techniques can achieve.

Presents research findings from academics working in political science, advertising and management, and experts, who provide guidance on how to make a non-profit organisation work efficiently. This book helps develop strategies that make use of limited resources, as non-profit organisations face competition in the struggle for government funding.

Focusing on the pervading belief that everything a manager does must be customer oriented. Gives an overview of everything you need to know about managing.

This work covers such topics as: the anatomy of the communication process; language, meaning and messages; information and uncertainty - concepts and contexts; persuasion - concepts and contexts; and interpersonal communication - relationships, expectations and conflict.

This volume summarizes the research achievements during the past 30 years, and relates those achievements to work on memory development conducted throughout the 20th century. It has been reorganized to better discuss the most important themes in memory development for the novice student.

Based on two years of ethnographic fieldwork in an urban elementary school, this volume focuses on the webs of social relations that embed schools in neighbourhoods, cities, states, and regions. It raises questions such as what we mean when we talk about "school".

Mao Zedong launched the "Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution" 30 years ago. This documentary history of the event presents a selection of key primary documents dealing with the Cultural Revolution's massive and bloody assault on China's political and social systems.

This text presents scientific findings on gender differences, similarities, and variations - in sexuality, cognitive abilities, occupational preferences, personality, and social behaviours. It offers a synthesis of diverse points of view..

This text introduces readers to the ethnographic study of intercultural and social interactions through the analysis of conversations in which different cultural orientations are operating.

A collection of essays on the theory of education are featured in this volume, which portray the author's influence in a number of areas, including the political, phenomenological, the aesthetic, and the theological.

In the author's words: "This book is an honest attempt to understand what it means to be educated in today's world." Schank's argues that no matter how important science and technology are, as a society we believe that those educated in literature, history and other humanities are more worthy of the descriptor "well educated."

A realistic look at what it takes to develop leadership competencies. Its intended for graduate or undergraduate students of leadership, project managers, supervisors, senior executives, school principles, health care officers, or legislators.

Discusses playwriting from a language based approach. Includes chapters on dialogic applications and practices, monologic structure, language based character and establishing new approaches to character.

Discussing major themes in the field of socio-economics, this volume covers such topics as economic behaviour, processes of choice and goals, the role of institutions, entrepreneurship, collective human capital and the relationships between firms and organizations in the modern political economy.

This essential sourcebook organises the age-old wisdom of the Bible into episodes that can shed light on specific psychological issues.

Arguing that corruption increasingly appears a problem common to most, if not all democracies. This text develops a model to analyze corruption as a network of illegal exchanges.

This is a current and complete summary and synthesis of what is known about the media's role in and impact on children's cognitive, social and emotional development.

This text challenges the way communication is categorized and described. The author's infraphonological model permits reconceptualizations of the ways infant vocalizations progress toward speech, comparisons with vocal systems of other species, and speculations about the origins of language.

Par (education, U. of Ottawa, Canada) and Larner (a practicing clinical psychologist and family therapist in Australia) asked the contributors of these 18 papers to "push the envelope" in their presentation of social constructionist approaches to psychological theory, therapy practice, etc. Larner based in Sydney.

Looking at contemporary practices and trends in food and wine tourism, this volume presents destination management planning and marketing initiatives that can be easily adapted and applied to a wider range of wine tourism settings.