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Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches (Fourth Edition)
The eagerly anticipated Fourth Edition of the title that pioneered the comparison of qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods research design is here! For all three approaches, Creswell includes a preliminary consideration of philosophical assumptions, a review of the literature, an assessment o... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014 -
Organization
by John ChildThe definitive organization management text for executives andaspiring business leaders Organization: Contemporary Principles and Practices, SecondEdition is the completely updated and revised landmark guide to"macro" organization theory and design, fully grounded in currentinternational practice. I... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
Vox Popular
by Robin QueenOur favorite movies and TV shows feature indelible characterswho tell us about themselves not just in what they say but in howthey say it. The creative decisions behind these voices--suchas what accent or dialect to use--offer rich data forsociolinguistic study. Ideal for students of language variat... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
How to Ask Great Questions: Guide Your Group to Discovery With These Proven Techniques
Ideal for small-group leaders, Sunday school teachers, and anyone who regularly leads group discussions, this book will equip you to build relationships, analyze Scripture, draw out opinions, and facilitate meetings.... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1998 -
Linking Theory to Practice: Case Studies For Working With College Students (Third Edition)
Framed by an overview of theories that guide student affairs practice, the cases in this book present a challenging array of problems that student affairs and higher education personnel face, such as racial diversity, alcohol abuse, and student activism. The revised edition has thirty new cases, wi... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2012 -
Suffering and Salvation in Ciudad Juarez
Since 1993 more than six hundred girls and women have been brutally slain in Ciudad Juárez in internationally condemned violence for which no one has been arrested. Nancy Pineda-Madrid's powerful reflection on this destructive and dehumanizing violence, based on first-hand knowledge of the traumati... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2011 -
Teenage Witches: Magical Youth and the Search for the Self
A popular new image of Witches has arisen in recent years, due largely to movies like The Craft, Practical Magic, and Simply Irresistible and television shows such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, and Charmed. Here, young sexy Witches use magic and Witchcraft to gain control ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2007 -
The Grocery Revolution: The New Focus on the Consumer
This text provides an introduction to the understanding of changing consumer behaviour and trends in managerial practice in the grocery industry.... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1997 -
Art Therapy and Social Action
by Michael Franklin • Pat Allen • Frances F. Kaplan • Edward Ned Bear • Susan Berkowitz • Lani Alaine Gerity • David GussakArt Therapy and Social Action is an exciting exploration of how professionals can incorporate the techniques and approaches of art therapy in their work to address social problems. Examining the expanding role of art practitioner as social activist, leading art therapists and other professionals sh... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2007 -
The Good Life: Helen and Scott Nearing's Sixty Years of Self-Sufficient Living
Helen and Scott Nearing left teaching positions in New York City for subsistence living on a farm in the hills of Vermont with minimal cash and the knowledge of self reliance and good health. ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1989 -
Health and Education in Early Childhood
Health and Education in Early Childhood presents conceptual issues, research findings, and program and policy implications in promoting well-being in health and education in the first five years of life. Leading researchers in the multidisciplinary fields of early learning and human capital formati... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014 -
Political Order and Inequality
by Carles BoixThe fundamental question of political theory, one that precedes all other questions about the nature of political life, is why there is a state at all. Is human cooperation feasible without a political authority enforcing it? Or do we need a state to live together? This problem then opens up two fu... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
Dorothy Day for Armchair Theologians
If theology is about more than books and libraries, lecture halls and dusty debates; if theology is instead about lived experience, especially the experiences of those living at the margins of society's care and concern; if, in short, theology is about the real needs of real people, then Dorothy Day... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014 -
The Sociology of Marx
The crucial importance of Karl Marx's thought for his own time and for ours is beyond dispute, but the there have always been two considerable impediments to understanding: first, the supposed complexity with which Marx articulated his ideas; second, the accretions which commentators, disciples, and... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1968 -
Buffalo for the Broken Heart: Restoring Life to a Black Hills Ranch
by Dan O'BrienFor twenty years, Dan O'Brien battled drought, overgrazed pastures, and falling cattle prices as he struggled to maintain his cattle ranch, The Broken Heart, nestled at the foot of South Dakota's Black Hills. Having to take stints as an endangered species biologist, English teacher, and handyman to ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2001 -
Handbook of Emotion Regulation, Second Edition
Reviewing the state of the science in a dynamic, thriving field, this influential handbook integrates knowledge from multiple psychological subdisciplines. Foremost experts address the neurobiological and cognitive bases of emotion regulation and examine how individuals develop and use regulatory st... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014 -
Annals of an Abiding Liberal
Addresses, essays, lectures on economic policy, economic affairs, Galbraith's personal history, several authors, and the arts - a mixed bag by the famous economist.... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1979 -
How to Kill a Unicorn
by Mark PayneA unique behind-the-scenes look at the groundbreaking methodology that today's most in-demand innovation factory uses to create some of the boldest products and successfully bring them to market. Today, innovation is seen by business leaders and the media alike as the key to growth, a burning issu... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014 -
Class Lives: Stories From Across Our Economic Divide
Class Lives is an anthology of narratives dramatizing the lived experience of class in America. It includes forty original essays from authors who represent a range of classes, genders, races, ethnicities, ages, and occupations across the United States. Born into poverty, working class, the middle c... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014 -
Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi
by John DittmerWinner of the Bancroft Prize, the Lillian Smith Book Award, the Mississippi Historical Society McLemore Prize, the Herbert G. Gutman Prize and the Gustavus Myers Center for Study of Human Rights Outstanding Book Prize. For decades the most racially repressive state in the nation fought bitterly and ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1994 -
Joy, Inc.
The moment you walk into Menlo Innovations, you can sense the atmosphere full of energy, playfulness, enthusiasm, and maybe even . . . joy. As a package-delivery person once remarked, "I don't know what you do, but whatever it is, I want to work here."Every year, thousands of visitors come from arou... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
SmartTribes
Are You Scaring Your People into Mediocrity? All leaders want to outperform, outsell, and outinnovate the competition. And most teams are fully capable of doing so. The problem: we consistently say and do things that spark unconscious fears and keep our people stuck in their Critter State. This pri... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013 -
Social Work Documentation: A Guide to Strengthening Your Case Recording
In Social Work Documentation: A Guide to Strengthening Your Case Recording, Nancy Sidell has written the perfect, practical, how-to book on developing effective documentation. Regardless of the practice setting, clinical specialty, and documentation format, this book will help to build better recor... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2011 -
Sociological Theory in the Classical Era 3rd Edition
Sociological Theory in the Classical Era introduces students to original major writings from sociology's key classical theorists. It also provides a thorough framework for understanding these challenging readings. For each theorist, the authors give a biographical sketch, discuss intellectual influe... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
Naming the Witch
by James SiegelSiegel (anthropology and Asian studies, Cornell U.) explores the series of witchcraft accusations and killings in East Java that spread as the Suharto regime began to fall. Dismissing previous anthropological explanations of witchcraft and magic as inadequate, Siegel argues that witchcraft is an eff... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2005