Society & Social Sciences Books

In this fresh and provocative book, Anthony DiMaggio uses the war in Iraq and the United States confrontations with Iran as his touchstones to probe the sometimes fine line between news and...

Among the major Marxist thinkers of the period of the Russian Revolution, Rosa Luxemburg stands out as one who speaks to our own time. Her legacy grows in relevance as the global character of the...

Military interventions on supposedly humanitarian grounds have become an established feature of the post-Cold War global order. Since September 11, this form of militarism has taken on new and...

"The guerrilla fights the war of the flea, and his military enemy suffers the dog's disadvantages: too much to defend; too small, ubiquitous, and agile an enemy to come to grips with." With these...

On November 22, 1963, the author of Behind the Scenes was a young Dallas Times Herald reporter who sprinted from his newspaper desk to Dealey Plaza minutes after shots were fired at President John F...

On August 1, 1966, Charles Whitman ascended the University of Texas Tower and committed what was then the largest simultaneous mass murder in American history. He gunned down forty-five people inside...

More than a century before Alan Greenspan coined the phrase 'irrational exuberance' to describe the speculative bubble inflating technology stocks, Charles Mackay was recording the history of...

Antisocial behavior takes on many forms, from rebellious teens with green hair and pierced skin to the truly dangerous homicidal individuals whose horrible stories fill our newspapers. Parents worry...

The author of this volume integrates existing theories of creativity with quantum physics-based experimental data. He supports his theory with practices toward fulfilling one's creative potential.

Where do you go for help when no one believes you're really sick? The doctors can't explain your symptoms, but you know there's something wrong because you can sense it in your body. Living with the...

This groundbreaking volume presents a unifying theory of personality pathology together with vital insights on diagnosing and treating each of the DSM-IV personality disorders. The paperback edition...

Designed to bring about lasting change in clients with personality disorders and other complex difficulties, schema therapy combines proven cognitive-behavioral techniques with elements of...

This hands-on guide is designed to help school practitioners conduct effective multidimensional assessments of a wide range of emotional and behavioral difficulties. Each chapter focuses on a...

Emotional intelligence has emerged as an area of intense interest in both scientific and lay circles. Yet while much attention has been given to the measurement of an ""EQ,"" little has been written...

More than one in six boys in the United States has been sexually victimized by the age of 16. Yet in the growing professional literature on child sexual abuse, few books focus specifically on the...

Capturing the complexities of working with abused children, the author explores the intrapsychic worlds of these youngsters and examines many of the paradoxes and complications encountered when...

This guide is a perfect overview for the topics covered in introductory statistics courses.

Being a parent is perhaps the most important job many of us will ever have. In this text, clinical psychologist Dr Edward Christophersen and his colleague, child psychologist Dr Susan Mortweet, show...

Packed with practical strategies - based on research and the author's continuing field work - the second edition of this guidebook shows therapists, early interventionists, social workers, educators,...

This new edition of a guide to social and emotional development of young children gives readers everything they need to understand social and emotional development and how to support it.Healthy...

This is a guide to aid clinicians who provide AAC interventions for adults with acquired communication disabilities. Covering a wide range of communication disabilities and disorders caused by injury...

This book presents practical discussions of best practice techniques for job development along with reproducible forms for use in the field. The purpose of the book is to systematize the job...

This book examines the relationship-promoting approach to child care. The authors use the metaphor of the dance to explain the give and take interactions between caregivers and children that help...

This book guides decision-making for professionals and communities working to create and maintain state-of-the-art early intervention programs. The book presents a comprehensive early intervention...

This book describes how professionals can use consultation to work collaboratively with others from various disciplines in inclusive settings. Consultation reflects changes in the field as...

Learn to manage a wide range of behaviours in early childhood settings with this strategy-filled resource for teachers and other professionals. It helps early childhood teams assess the classroom...

This work covers securing satisfying jobs for people with disabilities by fostering partnerships between employment specialists and businesses. It helps readers to: understand the theoretical...

This guide synthesizes the administrative details for AEPS (R) in one convenient volume. Professionals will find a step-by-step "Quick Start" section that makes AEPS easier for new users guidelines...

Used after the AEPS (R) Test is completed and scored, this developmentally sequenced curriculum allows professionals to match the child's IFSP/IEP goals and objectives with activity-based...

The AEPS (R) Test allows professionals to gather assessment data for one child or a group of children in home- or center-based settings. This volume includes the tests for both age levels, which are...

This informative resource responds to recent developments in social work practices in North America and abroad through its exploration of anti-oppression practice. This groundbreaking collection...

The Third Edition of A Primer on Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) guides readers through learning and mastering the techniques of this approach. The authors use their...

Designing and Managing Programs for human services helps readers grasp the meaning and significance of measuring performance and evaluating outcomes. Hands-on and practical, the book incorporates the...

Examines issues of women and leadership from an interdisciplinary perspective. Profiles and examples highlight a diverse array of female leaders.

The Fifth Edition builds on the experiences of the authors by acknowledging the dramatic changes taking place in our everyday lives, including developments of social and digital media that have...

Getting Real About Race is an edited collection of short essays that address the most common stereotypes and misconceptions about race held by students, and by many in the United States, in general...

Designing research is about making decisions to transform an idea into a plan that can provide answers to a research question. This engaging new text provides a serious but accessible introduction to...

Reflective practice is at the heart of becoming a competent and confident social worker. It's both a key element of learning and development on social work courses and an important aspect of social...

Everything you need to succeed in your social work degree! Written by subject experts, this essential guide will introduce you to all the core areas of your course, helping you develop the knowledge...

The new media landscape touches every aspect of our social, political and cultural lives. It is more important than ever, therefore, that we are able to understand and explain the complexity of our...

A Little Guide for Teachers: Engaging Parents and Carers with Schools builds on author experience, and findings from the spotlight thrown on home-school relationships during Covid-19, to provide...

Updated with new chapters on multiple regression and high-level research methods, this 4th edition of Research Methods and Statistics in Psychology delivers all you need to develop a practical...

This accessible guide to child development is for students of degrees and foundation degrees in Early Years, Early Childhood Studies and related disciplines and for early years practitioners...

Psychology, as it is taught in the Global North, strives to be an objective science beyond reproach - but what happens when we examine the discipline critically, through an anti-colonial lens? This...

A truly modern approach to criminological and forensic psychology, this engaging text explores all aspects of the field, from defining forensic psychology, through the psychological explanations of...

This unique text takes a holistic approach to show you how different biological and medical aspects of health operate at the cellular level all the way up to the society level, and back again. It...

Relevant, engaging, and packed with student-focused learning features, this book provides the basic step-by-step introduction to quantitative research and data every student needs. Gradually...