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by Judith Green, Nicki Thorogood
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
The Third Edition of this bestselling title is packed full of real-world advice for researchers and students. It is an invaluable introduction to the theoretical and practical essentials needed to design, conduct and appraise qualitative research in health.
The book highlights core research...
Creating Effective Teams
A Guide for Members and Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2014
A practical guide for building and sustaining top-performing teams
Based on the author’s many years of consulting experience with teams in the public and private sectors, Creating Effective Teams: A Guide for Members and Leaders describes why teams are important, how they function, and what...
Leading With Communication
A Practical Approach to Leadership Communication
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012
Leading with Communication, by bestselling authors Teri and Michael Gamble, prepares today's students to acquire skills, develop a global perspective, and master the technology they need to enhance their visibility and credibility as leaders. Addressing leadership from the students' perspective, the...
Today's Public Relations
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2005
Today's Public Relations: An Introduction is a comprehensive text that features all aspects of public relations with specific sensitivity to the message strategies that challenge practitioners to be successful, yet ethical. In this book, authors Robert L. Heath and W. Timothy Coombs redefine the teaching...
Engines of Anxiety
Academic Rankings, Reputation, and Accountability
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2016
Students and the public routinely consult various published college rankings to assess the quality of colleges and universities and easily compare different schools. However, many institutions have responded to the rankings in ways that benefit neither the schools nor their students. In Engines of...
The Art of Funding and Implementing Ideas
A Guide to Proposal Development and Project Management
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2010
** Takes the reader to a new level in proposal writing **
"The authors have captured the gestalt of grant writing in a lucid fashion. In short, I think students would appreciate the clarity and insights this book offers."
—Robert J. Hard, University of Texas at San Antonio
"As...
Leadership in Nonprofit Organizations
A Reference Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2010
Leaders of nonprofit organizations deliver programs and services vital to the quality of life in the United States. All the activities of our religious communities; the vast majority of the arts and culture, human services, and community development pursuits; as well as education and environmental...
Digital Media and Innovation
Management and Design Strategies in Communication
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Digital Media and Innovation, by Richard A. Gershon, takes an in-depth look at how smart, creative companies have transformed the business of media and telecommunications by introducing unique and original products and services. Today's media managers are faced with the same basic question: what are...
Transforming Indian Agriculture - India 2040
Productivity, Markets, and Institutions
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
India’s recent performance in agriculture has been favorable, with agricultural production growing over the past 30 years. Yet there is widespread consensus that, relative to the rest of the economy, agriculture is lagging and that it can and must do much better to support india’s overall high...
by Pingali Venugopal, Ram Kaundinya
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
Agri-input companies have played a significant role in transforming the post-Independence “ship-to-mouth” Indian economy, dependent on food grain imports, into a self-sufficient economy. Though agricultural productivity is declining and environmentalists are questioning the use of agri-inputs,...
by Gregory R. Maio, Geoffrey Haddock, Professor Bas Verplanken
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2018
This third edition explores the scientific methods that are used to better understand attitudes and how they change, updated to reflect the flurry of research activity in this dynamic subject over the past few years. Providing the fundamental concepts for understanding attitudes, with a balanced consideration...
Auto-Industrialism
DIY Capitalism and the Rise of the Auto-Industrial Society
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
DIY check-outs, drones, self-driving cars, and e-government all are signs of the coming auto-industrial age. Will this end in mass unemployment or will new kinds of work emerge? Will 3D print production, desktop workshops and mass customization make up for lost blue-collar jobs? What will happen...
What Works for Workers?
Public Policies and Innovative Strategies for Low-Wage Workers
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
The majority of new jobs created in the United States today are low-wage jobs, and a fourth of the labor force earns no more than poverty-level wages. Policymakers and citizens alike agree that declining real wages and constrained spending among such a large segment of workers imperil economic prosperity...
Cultures and Globalization
The Cultural Economy
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2008
The world's cultures and their forms of creation, presentation and preservation are deeply affected by globalization in ways that are inadequately documented and understood. The Cultures and Globalization series is designed to fill this void in our knowledge. In this series, leading experts and emerging...