Society & Social Sciences Books

Global support for improving child welfare and upholding the rights of children is strong, but in practice often fails to recognise the emerging gap between traditional child welfare practices and the evolving nature of child vulnerability.This book...

Children often struggle to cope with anger, and angry feelings can boil over into aggression and destructive behaviour. This resource takes a different approach to anger, teaching children how to be angry effectively, rather than telling them not to be...

Recurrent themes in this study of violence a gainst women include: authority, women as sexual property, t he assymetry of women, socialisation, patterns and deviation s of victims and offenders, personal accounts and socio-cult ural contexts. '

Negotiating and Influencing Skills is design ed to help the reader acquire, develop and improve the skill s required to be an effective negotiator. Every aspect of ne gotiation is covered, and case studies are used to illustrat e key points. '

Providing an overview of the practice of par ish nursing, this book covers a variety of perspectives on f aith community nursing roles and practice. It discusses diff erent settings such as urban and rural, and examines practic e and educational issues. '

Quality Improvement in Health Care offers gu idelines to the untrained researcher for carrying out ''nuts- and-bolts'' quality improvement research. '

Leading social research methodologists and evaluators address the issues of validity, research design and social experimentation in this first of two volumes inspired by the work of Donald Campbell and sponsored by the American Evaluation Association...

Numbering over a third of California's population and thirteen percent of the U.S. population, people of Mexican ancestry represent a hugely complex group with a long history in the country. Contributors address a broad range of issues regarding...

Using a rich array of newly available sources and contemporary methodologies from many disciplines, the ten original essays in this volume give a fresh appraisal of Addams as a theorist and practitioner of democracy. In an increasingly interdependent...

Exporting Japan examines the domestic origins of the Japanese government's policies to promote the emigration of approximately three hundred thousand native Japanese citizens to Latin America between the 1890s and the 1960s. This imperialist policy,...

Many spiritual caregivers, including chaplains, spiritual directors and clergy, are unaware of how they can support people with chronic health conditions. This book combines insights on chronic illness with spiritual care skills and suggestions to...

Cultural views of femininity exerted a powerful influence on the courtroom arguments used to defend or condemn notable women on trial in nineteenth-century and early-twentieth-century America. A. Cheree Carlson analyzes the colorful rhetorical strategies...

Cultural views of femininity exerted a powerful influence on the courtroom arguments used to defend or condemn notable women on trial in nineteenth-century and early-twentieth-century America. A. Cheree Carlson analyzes the colorful rhetorical strategies...

Raymond Cattell, the father of personality trait measurement, was one of the most influential psychologists in the twentieth century, the author of fifty-six books, more than five hundred journal articles and book chapters, and some thirty standardized...

This book examines ritual practices and public festivals in the Otavalo and Cotacachi areas of northern Andean Ecuador's Imbabura province. Otavaleños are a unique group in that they maintain their traditional identity but also cultivate a...

One of the few publicly known communists in the South, Junius Scales organized textile workers, fought segregation, and was the only American to be imprisoned under the membership clause of the Smith Act during the McCarthy years. This compact collective...

Values in Evaluation and Social Research provides a compelling examination of the concept of values in program evaluation.'

Exploring the link between domestic violence and welfare reform, this book discusses how public assistan ce can be the financial support for escaping violence, batte rers restrict their partners'' job opportunities and child ab use''s link to welfare. '

This study explores contemporary novels, films, performances, and reenactments that depict American slavery and its traumatic effects by invoking a time-travel paradigm to produce a representational strategy of ''bodily epistemology.'' Disrupting the...

`Given the currency of the issues and the status of the contributors, this book will be an important foundational source for faculty and doctoral students in the organizations sciences' - Michael Tushman, Harvard University Variations in Organization...

Policing and the Poetics of Everyday Life takes a unique approach to several abiding issues in criminology and sociology from the standpoint of philosophy and aesthetics. This study by a self-described “philosopher-cop develops a phenomenological...

This book examines Fanti kinship terminology from a variety of analytic and formal perspectives. Based on work with a broad number of informants, David B. Kronenfeld details and analyzes internal variation in usage within the Fanti community, shows the...

Seeking to demonstrate the intimate connections among our public, political, and personal lives, these essays by Robert Cantwell explore the vernacular culture of everyday life as a way of understanding the cultural ecology of the contemporary world.A...

This second edition of Increasing Multicultu ral Understanding has been revised and updated. Locke presen ts a model which helps counsellors understand culturally dif ferent groups and the role culture plays in shaping the way people think, feel and act...

This second edition of Increasing Multicultu ral Understanding has been revised and updated. Locke presen ts a model which helps counsellors understand culturally dif ferent groups and the role culture plays in shaping the way people think, feel and act...

Presented as a therapist''s guide, Family Rec overy details a structured, research-based approach to worki ng with the families of substance abusers. '

Edward W. Gondolf''s non-traditional strategi es and procedures are designed to help in identifying and as sessing battered women. This manual shows how to assess men who batter, assess women from differing racial backgrounds & avoid misdiagnosis. '

Harnessing concepts and theories from sociology, anthropology, and political science, this interdisciplinary study compares the vastly different experiences of two Croatian immigrant cohorts who have settled in the city of Perth in Western Australia. The...

Harnessing concepts and theories from sociology, anthropology, and political science, this interdisciplinary study compares the vastly different experiences of two Croatian immigrant cohorts who have settled in the city of Perth in Western Australia. The...

In this groundbreaking work, Lois Presser investigates the life stories of men who have perpetrated violence. She applies insights from across the academy to in-depth interviews with men who shared their accounts of how they became the people we most...

Policing the Media examines the reaction of a real police department in the USA to television representations of `cops'. Through interviews, personal observations and black and white photography, the author describes the lives and philosophies of street...

Policing the Media examines the reaction of a real police department in the USA to television representations of `cops'. Through interviews, personal observations and black and white photography, the author describes the lives and philosophies of street...

Innovative approaches to the treatment and p revention of physical and sexual abuse are assembled in this volume. As well as dealing specifically with areas of abuse , the book looks at integrating strategies into broader inte rvention services. '

Relational Responsibility replaces tradition al ideas on individual responsibility by giving centre stage to the relational process thereby replacing alienation with meaningful dialogue. '

Innovative approaches to the treatment and p revention of physical and sexual abuse are assembled in this volume. As well as dealing specifically with areas of abuse , the book looks at integrating strategies into broader inte rvention services. '

The author of this text identifies innovativ e and empirically based preventive and health promotion stra tegies to enhance children''s social, emotional and physical wellness. '

Establishing Preventive Services identifies state-of-the-art, empirically based strategies needed to str engthen the environments in which children develop. '

Robyn Munford is Head of the School of Sociology, Social Work and Social Policy at Massey University. She has published widely on social and community work and disability studies, and her research on families has gained international recognition.

Robyn Munford is Head of the School of Sociology, Social Work and Social Policy at Massey University. She has published widely on social and community work and disability studies, and her research on families has gained international recognition.

This second annual report presents comparative year-to-year data on the extent and nature of violence on television across programme genres and channel types. It contributes new data on the effectiveness of various kinds of violence ratings and...

Leading social research methodologists and evaluators address the issues of research design in this second of two volumes inspired by the work on Donald Campbell and sponsored by the American Evaluation Association. The book considers issues such as:...

Leading social research methodologists and evaluators address the issues of research design in this second of two volumes inspired by the work on Donald Campbell and sponsored by the American Evaluation Association. The book considers issues such as:...

This book offers educational and psychological perspectives to inform practice and increase options in addressing conflict situations. The first part of the book helps the educator understand the reasons for resistance and ways to prevent it. The second...

Some countries develop illegal drugs industries, and others do not. Discerning the distinguishing characteristics -- social, economic, and political -- of countries with these industries forms the subject of this sophisticated and humane study.The...

How did the nationalisms of Latin America's many countries -- elaborated in everything from history and fiction to cookery -- arise from their common backgrounds in the Spanish and Portuguese empires and their similar populations of mixed European,...

Islam and Democracy in the Middle East provides a comprehensive assessment of the origins and staying power of Middle East autocracies, as well as a sober account of the struggles of state reformers and opposition forces to promote civil liberties,...

This controversial study examines the effica cy of empirically validated interventions in the field of cl inical psychiatry. The contributors consider whether many su ch interventions are really valid in all cases and circumsta nces. '

Conceptualizing Co-cultural Theory presents a phenomenological framework for understanding the intricate relationship between culture, power and communication - wit h reference to how people traditionally communicate in the l ower ranks of society. '