Sociology and anthropology

In Living the Questions: Dispatches From a Life Already in Progress, Wade Tillett takes up the question of how to live - not in some abstract sense, but in the urgent present.

Every day we wake up, send our children to school, go to work, attend sports or other entertainment events, etc.

In many international settings, developing economies are in danger of declining as the digital divide becomes the knowledge divide.

Succession planning at all levels of an organization is crucial.

Exploring Values Through Multimedia, Literature and Literacy Events was written by teachers and educational researchers for classrooms and schools interested in developing learning communities that develop critical and compassionate future citizens.

Ethical business creates social value.

The American Educational History Journal is a peer-reviewed, national research journal devoted to the examination of educational topics using perspectives from a variety of disciplines.

This book is a powerful antidote to the negative portrayals of African-American families that abound in mainstream media.

This book offers a first-hand look at the importance of human resource management (HRM) processes to not just one public agency but a large group of public administration entities that rely on a public HRM agency (the Personnel Board of Jefferson County) for its HRM processes.

This volume not only illustrates the research that is being done in the area of human resources in entrepreneurial firms but it raises many issues that exemplify the complexity of the topic.

This book will examine mentoring from a global perspective in an effort to discover the commonalties and differences, not only in diverse fields of practice, but across a wide range of contextual Place your subscription or standing order today!

This work looks at new directions in human resource management.

What do young people do with the novels they read, the films they see, the music they hear and sing?

While Research on the effectiveness of electronic portfolios for assessment and accreditation is emerging, many who are now using, or who are beginning to use, electronic portfolios are looking to justify the cost and effort involved.

This volume seeks to address select questions drawn from the matrix of the complex issues related to culturally responsive evaluation.

The authors of the nine other chapters in this book have struggled with the issues discussed above in several different ways.

The issues that these authors address in this book are some of the most salient in American society.

This volume of Research in Social Issues in Management critically examines theoretical underpinnings of organizational justice and corporate social responsibility by identifying motives underlying desires for justice and by considering responses to injustice.

Thirteen contributions from academics representing a variety of disciplines confront issues relating to social justice in a post-9/11 world.

The book is based on the recently held Symposium on mathematics and its connections to the arts and sciences, namely the second Mathematics and its Connections to the Arts and Sciences (MACAS2)Symposium in Odense, Denmark (May 29-31, 2007).

This book is a straightforward and entertaining primer on college teaching.

It is more important than ever to share best practices with emerging leaders in the social services and education fields, as leaders and students need to understand the practical application of policies and theories.

The current volume, the fourth in the series, provides a broad look at the meaning and understanding of diversity and inclusion in organizations.

This new edition of the landmark text Law and Society exposes readers to the dominant theoretical perspectives and sociological methods that are used to explain the interplay between law and society.

This book delves into the interrelationship among gender, power, and economic disparity in the Global South through an intersectional lens.

This book provides researchers, faculty, and students with a comprehensive resource for applying qualitative methods in Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) research among underrepresented communities.

Making of the Future is the first English-language coverage of the new methodological perspective in cultural psychology-TEA (Trajectory Equifinality Approach) that was established in 2004 as a collaboration of Japanese and American cultural psychologists.

The Davis Conference on Organizational Research, held for the last 15 years, is the world's leading conference for qualitative researchers in organizational studies.

This book focuses on capturing one of the most important elements in successful leadership - giving followers a voice and motivating them to use that voice to help the leader be successful.

The series, Contemporary Perspectives on Data Mining, is composed of blind refereed scholarly research methods and applications of data mining.

This book explores the tension between money and medicine: how it emerges, how doctors of different medical disciplines deal with it in various contexts, and what its respective consequences are.

Hardly a month goes by without news of a high profile corporate failure that raises the question of the role of the board.

This volume of the Research in Global Child Advocacy Series explores participatory methodologies and tools that involve children in research.

Few time periods in the past five decades match the intensity of intergroup conflict that people around the world are currently experiencing.

As Western educational practices have become global, the cultural aspects and the problems associated with them have become more apparent as they are contrasted with local ways of learning and knowing in the widely diverse societies around the world.

The book is based on the recently held Symposium on mathematics and its connections to the arts and sciences, namely the second Mathematics and its Connections to the Arts and Sciences (MACAS2)Symposium in Odense, Denmark (May 29-31, 2007).

(orginally published by Allyn & Bacon 1997)This book provides a powerful and clear picture of some of the outstanding programs designed and implemented in the United States to provide young adolescents with rich, meaningful, and powerful learning activities with community service.

Human Resources Management Issues, Challenges and Trends: 'Now and Around the Corner' explores and provides an updated look at some of the challenges, trends and issues HRM professionals will need to focus on now and around the corner.

Classification and regression trees (CART) is one of the several contemporary statistical techniques with good promise for research in many academic fields.

The focus of this book is on different aspects of leadership and governess for learning in the early childhood education and care (ECEC) sector, which serves children aged 1-5 years.

In Living the Questions: Dispatches From a Life Already in Progress, Wade Tillett takes up the question of how to live - not in some abstract sense, but in the urgent present.

There is no HR-related topic more popular in the business press than performance management (PM).

The Leader-Member Exchange (LMX) model of leadership has shown that effective leader-follower relationships predict employee well-being and performance.

This volume of the series Research in Human Resource Management (HRM) focuses on a number of important issues in HRM and OB including performance appraisal, political skill, gratitude, psychological contracts, the philosophical underpinnings of HRM, pay and compensation messages, and electronic human resource management.

Making of the Future is the first English-language coverage of the new methodological perspective in cultural psychology-TEA (Trajectory Equifinality Approach) that was established in 2004 as a collaboration of Japanese and American cultural psychologists.

Are you intrigued by ancient wisdom traditions?

The Davis Conference on Organizational Research, held for the last 15 years, is the world's leading conference for qualitative researchers in organizational studies.

The series, Contemporary Perspectives on Data Mining, is composed of blind refereed scholarly research methods and applications of data mining.

This volume for the first time examines the intricate and often obscured interplay between death and public relations across historical periods and within contemporary society.

In this book, the chapters are designed to move us towards a complete understanding of what a great place to work is, how to develop such an organization, and how to measure whether your organization is a great place to work.