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The geographer seeks to describe the diverse features of the earth's surface, to explain if possible how these features have come to be what they are, and to discuss how they influence the distribution of man with his diverse activities

This two-volume work levels both criticism and challenge to traditional developmental psychology

This two-volume work levels both criticism and challenge to traditional developmental psychology

Family Group Conferencing indicates a large-scale shift in assumptions about the way child welfare services are planned and delivered - away from models that emphasize pathology, and toward those seeking an ecological understanding of the families and social networks involved

Dissatisfaction with a human services system that is unresponsive, stigmatizing, and ineffective has led to a ferment of experimentation in recent years.

The first edition of this volume successfully applied Bronfenbrenner's "micro-systems" taxonomy to childrearing and family life

This book is based on the assumption that when key elements are in place, the direct practice of case management belongs within the spectrum of methods for and approaches to helping clients. The book provides an in-depth examination of the functions and skills of social work case management.

The 1970s witnessed a growing concern and awareness regarding child abuse, an awareness which gradually extended to include the maltreatment of adolescents

This revision of an important and path-breaking work holds to its central argument that troubled young people can develop self-worth, significance, dignity, and responsibility only through commitment to the positive values of helping and caring for others

The book has two principal purposes: To provide an introduction to interpersonal helping in the context of social work practice, and to develop a conceptual framework for interpersonal helping that will enable the social worker and members of other helping professions effectively to use all the various methods and strategies currently practiced

The volume of relevant research and literature on this topic is growing but originates mainly from economists, sociologists, and political scientists; geographers have been slow to make contributions

When first released much praise was given to this book: "An outstanding book on urban geography

How are foreign policy decisions made? This volume shows the various approaches to answer this question

Every year the Administration and the Congress battle stubbornly and often bitterly over appropriations for foreign aid

Since the early 1950s, the "decline of ideology" hypothesis has commanded a great deal of attention in the intellectual community at large

This volume discusses some of the factors determining the political impact of the city planner on community decision-making

Examines the place of the Supreme Court in our political system. This book aims to improve the public understanding of what the Supreme Court does, how its acts have been received, and how its way of influencing public policy is related to other methods of making public policy.

The flow and counter flow of revolution and counterrevolution have become the norm of twentieth century. This book illuminates the revolutionary process as it has developed from antiquity onwards, from the vantage points of political science, history, and sociology.

Research in Psychotherapy is a comprehensive synthesis and assessment of the psychotherapeutic research literature for the use of both researchers and those in clinical practice

The field of counseling and psychotherapy has for years presented the puzzling spectacle of unabating enthusiasm for forms of treatment whose effectiveness cannot be objectively demonstrated

Significant as has been the role of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy in contemporary culture and society, its importance continues to grow at an accelerating rate as more specific, focused, and involving forms of therapy are devised

In the field of abnormal psychology, too often data are collected and presented in terms of, or in relation to, some overall "theory of behavior," which they are then used to support or disprove

Education, rightly conceived, is the process by which a growing person, according to his individual capacity, is prepared to understand himself, his place in society, and to act upon this understanding. This book evaluates the educational system of United States from schools for the young up to universities and various forms of adult education.

This book examines the economic issues of education from an unusually systematic and broad perspective

The exuberant explosions of old college days have traditionally been forgiven as somewhat enviable expressions of the high spirits of exultant youth

Like many concepts, privacy has a commonly accepted core of meaning with an indefinite or variable periphery

*The Boomerang Age was named an Outstanding Academic Title of 2007 by Choice Magazine

A companion volume to the "Causal Models in the Social Sciences", this work includes articles, the majority of which concern panel designs involving repeated measurements while a smaller cluster involves discussions of how experimental designs may be improved by more explicit attention to causal models.

A study of a rural region and plural society, this book is a distinctive contribution to anthropology, cultural ecology, the study of social and economic change, and North American studies.

"Community" is a basic concept, perhaps the basic concept, in social science and in social philosophy