Jossey Bass imprint: 1362 books
Student Services
A Handbook for the Profession
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
The bestselling student affairs text, updated for today's evolving campus
Student Services is the classic comprehensive text for graduate students in student affairs, written by top scholars and practitioners in the field. Accessible and theoretically grounded, this book reflects the realities...
by Norbert W. Dunkel, John H. Schuh, Nancy E. Chrystal-Green
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
The only manual for faculty and staff who work directly with student organizations
Advising Student Groups and Organizations is a one-of-a-kind book that equips faculty members and administrators to competently and confidently serve as advisers to clubs and other student groups. The second...
Mapping Leadership
The Tasks that Matter for Improving Teaching and Learning in Schools
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017
Drawing on twenty years of research in school effectiveness, this book presents a distributed model of task-based school leadership that leads to continuous school improvement. The book outlines the tasks school leadership teams must focus on to improve teaching and learning, grouped into the following...
EQ and Leadership In Asia
Using Emotional Intelligence To Lead And Inspire Your People
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2011
Increase your emotional intelligence, build a better workplace
Emotional intelligence is crucial for business leadership, and nowhere is that more true than in Asia, where emotions are particularly likely to be concealed during daily business interactions. Emotions can be a major asset for...
Putting Students First
How Colleges Develop Students Purposefully
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
In Putting Students First, the authors argue that colleges can and should invest in holistic student development by recognizing and building on the students’ search for purpose in life, intellectually, spiritually, and morally. Based on a study conducted at ten religiously-affiliated schools, the...
Undergraduate Global Education: Issues for Faculty, Staff, and Students
New Directions for Student Services, Number 146
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2014
Find practical research, strategies, and advice in this issue on the power of global education for 21st-century college learners.This volume assists campus professionals and faculty members as they:
Design courses for study abroad
Implement programs of various lengths and types
Consider their...
Quick Answers for Busy Teachers
Solutions to 60 Common Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2014
Deftly handle the sixty most common problems classroom teachers face
Quick Answers for Busy Teachers presents some of the most common challenges teachers encounter in the classroom, and provides expert help toward solving those problems. This easy-to-read guide is organized into short, discreet...
Designing and Conducting Health Surveys
A Comprehensive Guide
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2011
Designing and Conducting Health Surveys is written for students, teachers, researchers, and anyone who conducts health surveys. This third edition of the standard reference in the field draws heavily on the most recent methodological research on survey design and the rich storehouse of insights and...
Public Health Law Research
Theory and Methods
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2013
Public Health Law Research: Theory and Methods definitively explores the mechanisms, theories and models central to public health law research – a growing field dedicated to measuring and studying law as a central means for advancing public health.
Editors Alexander C. Wagenaar and Scott...
The Red Book
A Deliciously Unorthodox Approach to Igniting Your Divine Spark
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2010
The Red Book is nothing less than a spiritual fire starter -- a combustible cocktail of Hindu Tantra and Zen Buddhism, Rumi and Carl Jung, goddesses and psychics, shaken with cosmic nudges, meaningful subway rides, haircuts, relationships, sex, dreams, and intuition. Author Sera Beak's unique hybrid...
Community-Based Participatory Research for Health
Advancing Social and Health Equity
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
The definitive guide to CBPR concepts and practice, updated and expanded
Community-Based Participatory Research for Health: Advancing Health and Social Equity provides a comprehensive reference for this rapidly growing field in participatory and community-engaged research. Hailed as effective...
Diversity and Cultural Competence in Health Care
A Systems Approach
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
Major changes are occurring in the United States population and the nation's health care institutions and delivery systems. Significant disparities in health status exist across population groups. But the health care enterprise, with all its integrated and disparate parts, has been slow to respond....
Planning Health Promotion Programs
An Intervention Mapping Approach
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2016
The Intervention Mapping bible, updated with new theory, trends, and cases
Planning Health Promotion Programs is the "bible" of the field, guiding students and practitioners through the planning process from a highly practical perspective. Using an original framework called Intervention...
Empowered Educators in Canada
How High-Performing Systems Shape Teaching Quality
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2017
BEST PRACTICES FROM CANADA'S HIGH-PERFORMING SCHOOL SYSTEMS
Empowered Educators in Canada is one volume in a series that explores how high-performing educational systems from around the world achieve strong results. The anchor book, Empowered Educators: How High-Performing Systems Shape Teaching...