Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: jordan

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  • SOCIAL WORK CHILD WELFARE PRACTICE
    GIESELA GRUMBACH, PHD, LCSW, PEL / JODEE KELLER, PHD, LICSW / YOLANDA JORDAN, MSW, LCSW
    Blends practitioner-focused and culturally responsive interventions to provide an innovative approach to learningWith the aim of transforming flawed child welfare practices and policies into a more equitable system, this comprehensive, practice-based text delves into contemporary child welfare practice from antiracist, social justice, and decolonial perspectives. Incorporating ...

    $1,596.00

  • AUSTRALIAN WOMEN'S JUSTICE
    DEBORAH JORDAN
    This book explores how women spearheaded the democratic suffrage campaign in colonial Queensland engaging with international debates on women’s activism, leadership, advocacy, print culture, and social movements. Australian Women's Justice provides a nuanced reading of the diversity and differences of the women’s movement in Queensland, from the time of first white colonisation...

    $1,099.00

  • MAPPING INNOVATION IN INDIA’S CREATIVE INDUSTRIES
    ROHIT K DASGUPTA / JENNIE JORDAN / GRAHAM HITCHEN / KISHALAY BHATTACHARJEE / DIVIANI CHAUDHURI / DEEPA D /  
    The first in-depth study of the Indian creative industries, this book provides a comprehensive mapping of the Indian creative industries and its policy landscape, developing and defining key concepts and terms and offering detailed case studies of specific sectors, geographic regions and governance structures. Using an ecosystem framework, this book focuses on strategy/policy; ...

    $999.00

  • IRISH THEATRE
    EAMONN JORDAN
    This book on modern and contemporary Irish theatre traces how social, cultural and economic capital are circulated in order to demonstrate complex and often contradictory outlooks on equality/inequality. Individual chapters analyse property ownership and inheritance; wealth acquisition; employment conditions; educational access; intercultural encounters; sexual intimacy and vio...

    $1,099.00

  • BE DATA ANALYTICAL
    JORDAN MORROW
    Be Data Analytical is the book organizations and individuals need to understand how to truly use analytics to turn data into valuable insights and drive smarter decision making. Data needs analytics to turn it into value and for organizations to be truly data-driven, they need to use analytics correctly. However, most organizations do not move beyond the first, most rudimentary...

    $599.00

  • ACCEPTANCE AND COMMITMENT THERAPY FOR BEHAVIOR ANALYSTS
    MARK R. DIXON / STEVEN C. HAYES / JORDAN BELISLE
    This book provides a thorough discussion of acceptance and commitment therapy or training (ACT) and a guide for its use by behavior analysts. The book emphasizes how the intentional development of six core behavioral processes – values, committed action, acceptance, defusion, self-as-context, and present moment awareness – help establish the psychological flexibility needed to ...

    $1,239.00

  • BE DATA DRIVEN
    JORDAN MORROW
    Make any team or business data driven with this practical guide to overcoming common challenges and creating a data culture. Businesses are increasingly focusing on their data and analytics strategy, but a data-driven culture grounded in evidence-based decision making can be difficult to achieve. Be Data Driven outlines a step-by-step roadmap to building a data-driven organizat...

    $629.00

  • COLLECTIVE ACTION
    BILL JORDAN
    This book examines how different levels and forms of human collectivity have interacted, voluntarily or coercively, and how these transformed societies and polities. Every size and type of human collective involve co-operation among members and competition with other groups. The two most recent trends in human relations – individualism and economic globalisation – have contribu...

    $1,039.00

  • TACKLING RAPE CULTURE: ENDING PATRIARCHY
    JAN JORDAN
    In Tackling Rape Culture: Ending Patriarchy, Jan Jordan asks why, despite decades of feminist activism, does rape culture remain so endemic within contemporary society. She argues that, in order to understand the global pandemic of sexual violence, we must view rape culture as a consequence of the social divisiveness that emerges from the logic of patriarchy. In advancing this ...

    $1,099.00

  • THEOLOGY, MORALITY AND ADAM SMITH
    JORDAN J. BALLOR
    This work details the theological sources and moral significance of the life and work of the Scottish moral philosopher Adam Smith (1723–1790). The panel of contributors deepens our understanding of Adam Smith in his religious and theological context and the significance of this understanding for contemporary moral, economic, and political challenges to modern social life. The ...

    $1,099.00

  • WOMEN, RAPE AND JUSTICE
    JAN JORDAN
    Is justice possible for a woman raped in contemporary patriarchal culture? This book explores one of the major conundrums of our time: given all the feminist activism and reforms of the last 50 years, why does rape remain so prevalent and justice so elusive? In exploring these questions, Jan Jordan takes us back into the patriarchal origins of our rape culture in order to trace...

    $1,099.00

  • PUTTING THE FAMILY FIRST
    BILL JORDAN / MARCUS REDLEY / SIMON JAMES
    First published in 1994, Putting the Family First is a study of better-off couples that clarifies the relationship between individualism and family values. Partners’ cultural practices focus on "making something of themselves", being "supportive" of each other, and spending "quality time" with children. But their economic strategies are directed towards competition for position...

    $859.00

  • HELPING IN SOCIAL WORK
    BILL JORDAN
    First published in 1979, Helping in Social Work elaborates on the personal processes of influence in social work between clients and social workers. Shifting focus from the organizational structure of social work to face-to-face interactions, the author expounds on the personal and qualitative components in social work. The aim of this book is to present a simple, practical and...

    $859.00

  • STATE AND SUFISM IN IRAQ
    DAVID JORDAN
    State and Sufism in Iraq is the first comprehensive study of the Iraqi Baʿth regime’s (r. 1968–2003) entanglement with Sufis and of Sunnī Sufi Islam in Iraq from the late Ottoman period until 2003 and beyond. For far too long, the secular and authoritarian Baʿth regime has been reduced to the dictator Saddam Husayn and portrayed as antireligious. Its growing political employmen...

    $1,099.00

  • CREATIVITY IN THE CLASSROOM
    ALANE JORDAN STARKO
    Now in its seventh edition, Creativity in the Classroom helps teachers link creativity research and theory to the everyday activities of classroom teaching. Ideal reading for any course dealing wholly or partially with creativity and teaching, this foundational textbook covers definitions, research, and theory in the first half, and reflects on classroom practices in the second...

    $1,499.00

  • INNOVATION, COMMERCIALIZATION, AND START-UPS IN LIFE SCIENCES
    JAMES F. JORDAN
    Innovation is a translation of a new method, idea, or product into reality and profit. It is a process of connected steps that accumulates into a brand reputation required for success. Unlike Fortune 500 companies, whose projects are self-funded, a start-up must simultaneously have a value proposition that attracts a customer (for revenue), investors (for capital), and acquirer...

    $1,559.00

  • ESTABLISHING AN EXPERIMENTAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE IN THE UNITED STATES
    CHET JORDAN
    This text offers an in-depth case study of the development of an experimental community college established by City University of New York with the aim of increasing two-year completion rates. By detailing academic and administrative reforms undertaken at Guttman Community College since 2007, the text illustrates the implementation of innovative practices in developmental educa...

    $459.00

  • 183 TIMES A YEAR
    EVA JORDAN
    “A candid account of family life that we can all relate to . . . An absolutely astonishing, thought provoking, hilarious and life affirming debut novel.” —The Book Magnet Meet Lizzie, the exasperated mother of Cassie, Connor, and stepdaughter Maisy. She gets by with good friends, cheap wine and talking to herself. Teenager Cassie, the Facebook-tweeting, selfie-taking, music and...

    $179.00

  • TIME WILL TELL
    EVA JORDAN
    A woman and her family confront past traumas and present-day suspicions after news emerges of a celebrity’s mysterious death . . . Lizzie and her loving but somewhat dysfunctional family are still grieving over the loss of a much-loved family member. Lizzie is doing her best to keep her family together—but the recent death of a high-profile record producer has them in a spin. T...

    $149.00

  • BE DATA LITERATE
    JORDAN MORROW
    WINNER: International Book Awards 2023 - Business: Technology In the fast moving world of the fourth industrial revolution not everyone needs to be a data scientist but everyone should be data literate, with the ability to read, analyze and communicate with data. It is not enough for a business to have the best data if those using it don't understand the right questions to ask ...

    $529.00

  • SURVIVING YOUR FIRST YEARS IN THE CLASSROOM
    JORDAN MCKINNEY
    Survive your first years as a teacher with the no-nonsense tips and stories in this book. Learn how to choose respect over being liked, content over cute, grace over grades, and planning over Pinterest. Also find out how to avoid the teacher’s lounge mentality and surround yourself with positive influences. The author’s honest tone and humor throughout will leave you feeling in...

    $539.00

  • BEFORE-AND-AFTER PHOTOGRAPHY
    JORDAN BEAR / ‎KATE PALMER ALBERS
    The before-and-after trope in photography has long paired images to represent change: whether affirmatively, as in the results of makeovers, social reforms or medical interventions, or negatively, in the destruction of the environment by the impacts of war or natural disasters. This interdisciplinary, multi-authored volume examines the central but almost unspoken position of be...

    $899.00

  • AN INTRODUCTION TO USABILITY
    PATRICK W. JORDAN
    This work gives a broad introductory overview of the topic of usability. Firstly, usability is defined and a framework for identifying different aspects of usability is given. The main principles for creating usable designs are expounded, followed by practical advice as to how to design usable products. The book then tackles the issue of usability evaluation - a series of evalu...

    $1,659.00

  • HELLBENT
    THOMAS M. MALAFARINA / CATHERINE JORDAN / KYLE ALEXANDER ROMINES / JOHN KACHUBA / MICHAEL L HAWLEY / CHRI
    The authors publishing under the Hellbender Books imprint have gathered together to produce a volume of short stories. Enjoy these spine-tingling tales of horror and suspense by established and emerging writers in the genre. Included in this volume: Foreword – Thomas M. Malafarina Introduction – Catherine Jordan Parallelism – Thomas M. Malafarina Panty Lines – Catherine Jordan ...

    $179.00

  • ASSESSMENT IN OPEN, DISTANCE, AND E-LEARNING
    JESSICA EVANS / SALLY JORDAN / FREDA WOLFENDEN
    Universities across the globe are attempting to change assessment practices to address challenges in student engagement and achievement and to respond to a global employability agenda demanding evidence of a broader range of skills and competencies. In the UK this has acquired urgency given the shift of higher education over the last 20 years from the prerogative of an elite mi...

    $1,059.00

  • THE TRANSFORMATION OF RURAL AFRICA
    T S JAYNE / JORDAN CHAMBERLIN / RUI BENFICA
    Contemporary discussions of Africa’s recent growth have largely interpreted such growth in terms of structural transformation, based mainly on national- and sectoral-level data. However, the micro-level processes driving this transformation are still unclear and remain the subject of debate. This collection provides a micro economic foundation for understanding the particular g...

    $1,099.00

  • POSTDIGITAL STORYTELLING
    SPENCER JORDAN
    Postdigital Storytelling offers a groundbreaking re-evaluation of one of the most dynamic and innovative areas of creativity today: digital storytelling. Central to this reassessment is the emergence of metamodernism as our dominant cultural condition. This volume argues that metamodernism has brought with it a new kind of creative modality in which the divide between the digit...

    $1,099.00

  • IN THE LONG RUN
    JORDAN SCHILDCROUT
    In the Long Run: A Cultural History of Broadway’s Hit Plays presents in-depth analysis of 15 plays that ran over 1,000 performances, examining what made each so popular in its time—and then, in many cases, fall into obscurity. Covering one hundred years of theatre history, it traces the long-running Broadway play as a distinct cultural phenomenon that rises and falls from 1918 ...

    $999.00

  • POST-RECESSION COMMUNITY COLLEGE REFORM
    CHET JORDAN / ANTHONY PICCIANO
    The book analyses and evaluates several key community college reform programs that emerged after the Recession of 2008 and as a result of major initiatives in California, New York, Tennessee, Florida, Connecticut and Wisconsin. Because of the economic downturn in the early 21st Century, an already eroding financial base for public higher education saw even further losses. At th...

    $1,059.00

  • POLITICAL LEADERSHIP IN NATO
    ROBERT S JORDAN
    This unusual history of the first four secretaries-general of NATO and their importance in the post-war politics of Western defense is a study of diplomacy–of individuals and the impact of their personalities on international events. It can perhaps best be described in terms of what it is not. It is not, for example, exclusively a book on NATO, nor is it a text on international...

    $1,339.00


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