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"?this is a very good book - an easy and informative read on a topic of immense complexity and very enjoyable. The layout is excellent, with clear headings, a useful three-part structure and good-quality print. ?This book will undoubtedly find its...

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`With this book David de Vaus has written one of the best general research methods textbooks around. The use of different types of research design as the point of departure is a different and very helpful approach to take, especially since many te...

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`Could certainly be used as a stand-alone text. Aimed primarily at advanced undergraduates, it could also be read by others who may be prompted to identify yet further dimensions with which to map contemporary social psychology and define their po...

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A practical guide for building and sustaining top-performing teams Based on the authors′ many years of consulting experience with teams in the public and private sectors, Creating Effective Teams: A Guide for Members and Leaders describes wh...

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`A thought provoking and interesting book that will be of interest to nurses and others supporting patients? - Accident and Emergency Nursing `It is a relevant and timely book that will remind therapists of the importance of the telling of client?...

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"?this is a very good book - an easy and informative read on a topic of immense complexity and very enjoyable. The layout is excellent, with clear headings, a useful three-part structure and good-quality print. ?This book will undoubtedly find its...

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?"Bureaucracy is the reason for the decline in school trips". A statement often quoted. But it is a myth that there is a decline in school visits... It?s competent people, not paperwork, that make visits safer? - Ian Park, ex-Chairman, Outdoor Edu...

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A thinking student is an engaged student Teachers often find it difficult to implement lessons that help students go beyond rote memorization and repetitive calculations. In fact, institutional norms and habits that permeate all classrooms can act...

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`A lucid and much-needed account of existential psychotherapy... As well as locating existential psychotherapy within a historical and philosophical context, Hans W Cohn encompasses various therapeutic issues and provides some vivid and sensitive ...

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"This truly deserves to be considered a classic and I strongly encourage my students to read it from cover to cover. Turner?s work on the body needs to be considered in its own right within courses on the sociology of the body." - Dr Robert Meadow...

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"Information security has become an important and critical component of every organization. In his book, Professor Chatterjee explains the challenges that organizations experience to protect information assets. The book sheds light on different as...

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Doreen Massey is one of the most profound thinkers in contemporary human geography, and her work addresses fundamental issues with great insight. This is a work of enormous ambition, breadth, and depth, and not a little complexity. - David M. Smit...

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Practical and proven math tasks to maximize student thinking and learning Building upon the blockbuster success of Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics, Peter Liljedahl has joined forces with co-author Maegan Giroux to bring the Building Th...

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Your Teacher Toolkit for Better Teaching and Learning Every educator needs a toolkit of strategies to ensure that students of different abilities, backgrounds, and learning profiles achieve success in the classroom. Rather than requiring busy educ...

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Keep thinking?keep learning in different settings In Peter Liljedahl's bestselling¿Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics: 14 Teaching Practices for Enhancing Learning, readers discovered that thinking is a precursor to learning. Translating ...

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?This book, written from an international perspective and thus eminently readable by a wider audience, draws on the author?s considerable experience and is amply supplied with a good range of illustrations from real-life practice?The logical struc...

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Making a case for a reflexive approach to leadership, the authors draw upon decades of carrying out in-depth studies of professionals trying to "do" leadership. Through interviews with managers and their subordinates, getting a good understanding ...

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Dial back and make room for impact With teacher and leader workloads and burnout at an all-time high, it's time for¿de-implementation: de-prioritizing and deleting the less effective, higher-cost initiatives we implement in schools. De-implementat...

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Excellent leadership matters Without excellent leadership, school improvement is impossible, or at least impossible to sustain. But what are the characteristics of an excellent leader? Is general leadership experience and knowledge enough? And how...

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Drawing on disciplines including psychology, sociology and organizational theory, Stephen Fineman explores a number of familiar and not so familiar work arenas. He examines the way emotion penetrates leadership, decision-making and organizational ...

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Children′s Thinking: Cognitive Development and Individual Differences, Seventh Edition by David Bjorklund presents current, thorough research studies and data to show the effects of biology, and both physical and social environments on child...

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The essential guide-updated, expanded, and easier to use than ever. Creating a successful literature review can be a daunting task, which is why so many researchers have relied on previous editions of this book to make the process more manageable....

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Combining key theoretical perspectives with contemporary case studies, this text will be invaluable in helping you to fully understand the complex issue of racism. With clear definitions and practical examples this is a solid resource when seeking...

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"An exemplary textbook. Making even the most complex ideas fully accessible, it is grounded in an extensive literature, filled with engaging examples, and offers ample suggestions for independent research. It's been a key text in my classes for ov...

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Doing Ethnography¿is invaluable reading for anyone collecting data through observation. Innovative and thought provoking, it is a refreshing take on ethnography stressing both academic rigor and practical necessity. It combines theoretical perspec...

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`Catherine Casey has written an excellent book that provides a lucid and comprehensive critical analysis of organizations.?[It] extends in reach and relevance beyond the specific field of organization studies and the sociology of organizations to ...

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Visual Communication: Understanding Images in Media and Culture¿provides a theoretical and empirical toolkit to¿examine implications of mediated images.¿It explores a range of approaches to visual analysis, while also providing a hands-on guide to...

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In the Fourth Edition of this bestselling book, John W Creswell and new co-author Cheryl N Poth explore the philosophical underpinnings, history and key elements of each of five qualitative inquiry traditions: narrative research, phenomenology, gr...

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The Handbook of Gender and Education brings together leading scholars on gender and education to provide an up-to-date and broad-ranging guide to the field. It is a comprehensive overview of different theoretical positions on equity issues in scho...

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