Sage Publications Inc imprint: 1562 books
by Dr. John Fox, Professor Sanford Weisberg
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2018
An R Companion to Applied Regression is a broad introduction to the R statistical computing environment in the context of applied regression analysis. John Fox and Sanford Weisberg provide a step-by-step guide to using the free statistical software R, an emphasis on integrating statistical computing...
by Dr. John Fox
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2008
John Fox's A Mathematical Primer for Social Statistics covers many often ignored yet important topics in mathematics and mathematical statistics. This text provides readers with the foundation on which an understanding of applied statistics rests.
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by Bruce Oliver Newsome
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
A Practical Introduction to Security and Risk Management is the first book to introduce the full spectrum of security and risks and their management. Author and field expert Bruce Newsome helps readers learn how to understand, analyze, assess, control, and generally manage security and risks from...
Of Mice and Metaphors
Therapeutic Storytelling with Children
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
In Of Mice and Metaphors, Second Edition, psychoanalyst and child treatment specialist Jerrold R. Brandell introduces a variety of dynamic strategies for therapists to understand and incorporate a child’s own creative story-narrative into an organic and reciprocal treatment process leading to therapeutic...
by Dr. Steven J. Cann
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2005
In this new edition, author Steven J. Cann once again enlivens the topic of United States administrative law through the use of recent and "classic" legal cases to make it accessible and interesting to students. Administrative Law, Fourth Edition is an engaging casebook that presents a...
Social Policy and Social Change
Toward the Creation of Social and Economic Justice
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2014
The Second Edition of Social Policy and Social Change is a timely examination of the field, unique in its inclusion of both a historical analysis of problems and policy and an exploration of how capitalism and the market economy have contributed to them. The New Edition of this seminal text examines...
by Paul E. Spector
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1981
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1981
Research Designs is a clear, compact introduction to the principles of experimental and non-experimental design especially written for social scientists and their students. Spector covers major designs including: single group designs; pre-test/post-test designs; factorial designs, hierarchical designs;...
Social Workers as Game Changers
Confronting Complex Social Issues Through Cases
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
Designed to promote active, hands-on learning, Social Workers as Game Changers: Confronting Complex Social Issues Through Casesby Laura Lewis is composed of 11 chapter-length case studies that prepare students to address the types of challenging social issues they will encounter as practicing social...
Empowerment Evaluation
Knowledge and Tools for Self-Assessment, Evaluation Capacity Building, and Accountability
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
This Second Edition celebrates 21 years of the practice of empowerment evaluation, a term first coined by David Fetterman during his presidential address for the American Evaluation Association. Since that time, this approach has altered the landscape of evaluation and has spread to a wide range of...
Argumentation
The Art of Civil Advocacy
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2017
Argumentation: The Art of Civil Advocacy teaches students the principles of argumentation as a practical way to engage in interpersonal and public deliberation. Authors Larry Underberg and Heather Norton offer a unique approach for creating civil discourse by encouraging students to consider how they...
The World of Crime
Breaking the Silence on Problems of Security, Justice and Development Across the World
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2007
*"This book is important for students who want to put domestic crime and justice issues and criminological theories in an international perspective....It is more than likely that this book will also interest all those who are professionally or privately interested in issues of crime, corruption,...
by Carol S. Aneshensel
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2012
Carol S. Aneshensel's Second Edition of Theory-Based Data Analysis for the Social Sciences presents the elaboration model for the multivariate analysis of observational quantitative data. Two complementary strategies are used: an exclusionary strategy and an inclusive strategy. The primary emphasis...
Methods for Policy Research
Taking Socially Responsible Action
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2013
Methods for Policy Research, Second Edition, by Ann Majchrzak and M. Lynne Markus, is a book about responsible and evidence-based policy decision making written for those interested in improving the decisions that affect people’s lives. It describes how to define policy research questions so that...
by Professor Dawn Iacobucci
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
This book covers mediation analysis—the examination of whether an effect of one variable on another is direct or indirect or both. Author Dawn Iacobucci offers thorough coverage of introductory and advanced material as well as conceptual and statistical information. The book begins by introducing...