Jossey Bass imprint: 1362 books
by Russell P. Lopez
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2011
The Built Environment and Public Health
The Built Environment and Public Health explores the impact on our health of the environments we build for ourselves, and how public health and urban planning can work together to build settings that that promote healthy living. This comprehensive text...
Designing and Conducting Survey Research
A Comprehensive Guide
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2014
The industry standard guide, updated with new ideas and SPSS analysis techniques
Designing and Conducting Survey Research: A Comprehensive Guide Fourth Edition is the industry standard resource that covers all major components of the survey process, updated to include new data analysis techniques...
Urban Health and Society
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Research and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2009
Praise for Urban Health and Society
"This is a spectacular resource for practitioners, policymakers, researchers, and students interested in improving the lives and health of individuals and families in urban settings. This book provides the most current frameworks, research, and approaches...
The Time Cure
Overcoming PTSD with the New Psychology of Time Perspective Therapy
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
In his landmark book, The Time Paradox, internationally known psychologist Philip Zimbardo showed that we can transform the way we think about our past, present, and future to attain greater success in work and in life. Now, in The Time Cure, Zimbardo has teamed with clinicians Richard and Rosemary...
by Craig E. Runde, Tim A. Flanagan
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2012
Understanding how to cool down, slow down, and engage the naturally occurring conflicts among team members is critical to the ultimate success of a team. With this book, your team and its members will gain a deeper understanding of how conflict emerges and how to respond in ways that will leverage...
AARP The Scientific American Healthy Aging Brain
The Neuroscience of Making the Most of Your Mature Mind
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
AARP Digital Editions offer you practical tips, proven solutions, and expert guidance. Scientific American and Scientific American Mind have good news about getting older!
AARP The Scientific American Healthy Aging Brain taps into the most current research to present a realistic and encouraging...
Qualitative Research
An Introduction to Methods and Designs
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2011
The authors—noted scholars and researchers—provide an up-to-date guide to qualitative study design, data collection, analysis, and reporting. Step by step, the authors explain a range of methodologies and methods for conducting qualitative research focusing on how they are applied when conducting...
Effective Instruction for STEM Disciplines
From Learning Theory to College Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2011
Praise for Effective Instruction for STEM Disciplines
"The world of today's learners is a multimode, information-intensive universe of interactive bursts and virtual exchanges, yet our teaching methods retain the outdated characteristics of last generation's study-and-drill approach. New...
Momfulness
Mothering with Mindfulness, Compassion, and Grace
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2010
Denise Roy combines the hard-won wisdom of a parent with the insights of meditation to create a spiritual practice that goes to the heart of everyday life: mothering with mindfulness. Through anecdotes, reflections, and specific practices, this book invites mothers to wake up and embrace their lives, discovering that they are always standing on holy ground.
by Henrie M. Treadwell, Clare Xanthos, Kisha B. Holden
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
This groundbreaking book applies the concept of social determinants of health to the health of African- American men. While there have been significant efforts in recent years to eliminate health disparities, serious disparities continue to exist especially with regard to African–American men who...
Never Mind the Bosses
Hastening the Death of Deference for Business Success
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
Over the last few decades, power, information and resources have moved from being concentrated in the hands of a few, to being disbursed across many. We need look no further than events on the world stage to see the heat signature of this – from the arrival of Wikileaks, the Arab Spring of 2011...
The Essential Academic Dean or Provost
A Comprehensive Desk Reference
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
The go-to reference for academic leaders seeking practical answers to everyday challenges
The Essential Academic Dean or Provost explains the "how" of academic leadership, providing a practical, comprehensive, reality-based reference for almost any problem, challenge, or opportunity....
Why Talking Is Not Enough
Eight Loving Actions That Will Transform Your Marriage
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2010
Why Talking Is Not Enough, written by Susan Page, author of the acclaimed bestseller If I’m So Wonderful, Why Am I Still Single? presents a novel relationship strategy based on subtle, powerful changes in your own actions. This method shows you the magic of “Keep your mouth out of it!” Page’s...
Asking Questions
The Definitive Guide to Questionnaire Design -- For Market Research, Political Polls, and Social and Health Questionnaires
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2015
Since it was first published more than twenty-five years ago, Asking Questions has become a classic guide for designing questionnaires¾the most widely used method for collecting information about people?s attitudes and behavior. An essential tool for market researchers advertisers, pollsters, and...