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Ridinger (chair, Electronic Information Resources Management, Northern Illinois University) collects the most important public rhetoric on gay and lesbian rights, along with political manifestoes, broadsheets, and performance pieces of the gay and lesbian liberation movement. Brief commentary introd

Focusing on the pragmatic aspects of social work with gay and lesbian persons, this book offers a knowledge base of practice that enables prepare students and practitioners for working more competently and effectively with lesbians and gay men. It teaches you how to develop practice approaches that are sensitive to issues of sexual orientation.

Provides evidence-based guidelines for policymakers in developing countries, for researchers focusing on development problems, and for the international development assistance community in the search for ways to effectively reduce poverty in the developing world. This book is useful for those working towards the goal of poverty reduction.

An introduction to law librarianship, written for general librarians, library school students and novice law librarians. Subjects covered include legal clientele, collection development, the impact of technology and the ways in which law libraries differ from other special libraries.

This book explores the inspirations and creative process of America's Pulitzer Prize-winning playwrights of the last dozen years.

Focusing on two Chicago neighborhoods as case studies, this text examines the regional and national factors that affect urban development as well as the specific local characteristics that impact revitalization.

This collection of essays focuses on such topics as the daily experience of teaching art in today's public schools; the tradition of honoring only the European patriarchal canon; structural change in school policy and curriculum and teaching.

Emotional disorders such as anxiety, depression, and dysfunctional patterns of eating are clearly among the most devastating and prevalent confronting practitioners, and they have received much attention from researchers - in personality, social, cognitive, and developmental psychology.

Using examples from politics, law, and education, this book shows how people misconceive language every day and what the consequences of misconceptions can be. This book offers many specific suggestions and guidelines for approaching a linguistic project. It also helps students of sociolinguistics avoid pitfalls that may inhibit research.

Ths book offers a clear, readable, comprehensive overview of all the knowledge those training as alcohol and other drug abuse counselors need to pass final examinations in their academic programs and certification or licensing examinations pre-practice. It includes challenging study questions, lists of key terms, and suggestions for further reading.

Illustrated with numerous case studies, this book identifies 19 myths and misconceptions about youth violence, from ordinary bullying to rampage shootings. It demonstrates how fear of school violence has resulted in misguided, counterproductive educational policies and practices ranging from boot camps to zero tolerance.

This introductory media sales text serves as a step-by-step manual to assist students in attaining sales proficiency and confidence. It is organized into 15 chapters and features assignments and handout materials throughout.

This book offers a concise, readable, research-grounded synthesis of the special concerns mental health and other helping professionals need to address when working with men today, and explains a wealth of effective gender-specific approaches to assessment and intervention that result in more successful outcomes for male clients.

This text explores public affairs journalism - a practice that lies at the core of the journalism profession. It goes beyond the journalistic instruction for reporting, presenting news and reflecting on why journalism works the way it does even though other options are available.