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Rhythms of Academic Life
Personal Accounts of Careers in Academia
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 1996
This invaluable source book offers guidance, support and advice for those contemplating or involved in academic careers. The contributions provide rich, personal, sometimes poignant and often humorous accounts of shared and unique experiences of those in the world of academia.
Reason & Rigor
How Conceptual Frameworks Guide Research
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2016
Designed for novice as well as more experienced researchers, Reason & Rigor by Sharon M. Ravitch and Matthew Riggan presents conceptual frameworks as a mechanism for aligning literature review, research design, and methodology. The book explores the conceptual framework—defined as both a process...
Gestalt Therapy
History, Theory, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2005
Gestalt Therapy: History, Theory, and Practice is an introductory text, written by major Gestalt theorists, that will engage those new to Gestalt therapy. Editors Ansel Woldt and Sarah M. Toman introduce the historical underpinnings and fundamental concepts of Gestalt therapy and illustrate applications...
Parents and Families of Students With Special Needs
Collaborating Across the Age Span
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2017
Parents and Families of Students With Special Needs: Collaborating Across the Age Span teaches students the skills they need to effectively collaborate with parents and families to ensure a child's success in the classroom. Authors Vicki A. McGinley and Melina Alexander’s text takes a lifespan approach...
The Handbook of Humanistic Psychology
Theory, Research, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2014
The Second Edition of the cutting edge work, The Handbook of Humanistic Psychology, by Kirk J. Schneider, J. Fraser Pierson and James F. T. Bugental, represents the very latest scholarship in the field of humanistic psychology and psychotherapy. Set against trends inclined toward psychological standardization...
Understanding Research in Personal Relationships
A Text With Readings
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2005
`The main strengths of the book are its uniqueness… its mix of emphasis on methods, statistics, and ideas, its commentaries by the authors, and the well-chosen journal articles' - John Harvey, University of Iowa
Understanding Research in Personal Relationships is a comprehensive introduction...
Strategic Issues Management
Organizations and Public Policy Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2008
Strategic Issues Management explores the strategic planning options that organizations can employ to address crucial public policy issues, engage in collaborative decision making, get the organization's "house" in order, engage in tough defense and smart offense, and monitor opinion changes...
Systems Thinking for Effective Managers
The Road Less Travelled
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
Traditional education has been extremely biased towards science, owing primarily to the success that science has demonstrated in the last three centuries. While the methods of science are greatly, if not fully, responsible for its success, these are grossly inadequate in the context of societal...
Introducing the Creative Industries
From Theory to Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
"This text does a sterling job at identifying, outlining and defining the many elements that go to make up this booming sector of industry. What makes it particularly interesting is that it includes the view of the creative industries from the perspective of working in it, then the definitions...
by Guy Julier
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
What is the social impact of design? How do culture and economics shape the objects and spaces we take for granted? How do design objects, designers, producers and consumers interrelate to create experience? How do new networks of communication and technology change the design process? Thoroughly...
by David L. Morgan
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 1997
Providing a general introduction to focus group research, Morgan includes the appropriate reasons for using focus groups and what you can expect to accomplish with them. He provides a brief history of focus groups, a discussion of when to use focus groups and why, and several brief case studies illustrating...
by David L. Morgan
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 1997
David L Morgan covers the wide range of practical tasks required in the course of a research project when using focus groups. Throughout, Planning Focus Groups emphasizes the clarifying purposes of the research project in order to collect data that meet the goals. The author extensively and concisely...
by Stephanie A. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
Skills for finding and securing a job in mass communication
**Careers in Media and Communication **is a practical resource that helps you understand how a communication degree can prepare you for a range of fulfilling careers; it gives you the skills you will need to compete in a changing...
The Synergy of Microfinance
Fighting Poverty by Moving beyond Credit
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2014
The Synergy of Microfinance underlines the significance of innovative financial and risk management tools and non-financial complementary services by microfinance institutions in poverty alleviation. It undertakes a nuanced analysis of financial instruments— microcredit, microsavings, microinsurance,...