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  • TAKING FLIGHT
    LAURA CRUZ / MICHELE A. PARKER / BRIAN SMENTKOWSKI / MARINA SMITHERMAN
    Taking Flight synthesizes research on best practices for running centers of teaching and learning, providing practical guidance and resources for educational developers who are looking to open new centers; revitalize an underperforming center; or sustain and enhance an effective center. The authors offer the necessary background, relevant examples, and practical exercises speci...

    $960.00

  • THE THERAPEUTIC INCLUSION PROGRAM
    MICHAEL A. MURRAY / LAURA BALOGH
    This timely guide discusses methods, organizational structures, and philosophies which can be used by school counselors, special educators, and administrators to establish therapeutic inclusion programs in K-12 schools. The Therapeutic Inclusion Program opens with information about therapeutic classrooms and continues with explanations of how the programs function within the la...

    $780.00

  • GENDER AND HUMAN RIGHTS IN A GLOBAL, MOBILE ERA
    LAURA A. HEBERT
    Gender and Human Rights in a Global, Mobile Era delves into feminist debates surrounding the relationship between gender and human rights through engaging feminist perspectives on the multifaceted issue of human trafficking. Building on analyses of domestic servitude, commercial sex, and labor trafficking by military contractors, and grounded in intersectional feminist cosmopol...

    $1,100.00

  • AN INTRODUCTION TO APPLIED BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE
    LAURA A. FREBERG
    An Introduction to Applied Behavioral Neuroscience explores the connection between neuroscience and multiple domains, including psychological disorders, forensics, education, consumer behavior, economics, leadership, health, and robotics and artificial intelligence. The book ensures students have a solid foundation in the history of behavioral neuroscience; its applicability to...

    $1,800.00

  • ANIMALS IN THE CITY
    LAURA A. REESE
    This book presents interdisciplinary research to examine the ongoing debates around nonhuman animals in urban spaces. It explores how we can better appreciate and accommodate animals in the city, while also exploring the ecological, health, ethical, and cultural implications of the same. The book addresses seven interrelated themes such as blurred boundaries between the human a...

    $1,200.00

  • ESSENTIALS OF PUBLIC HEALTH RESEARCH METHODS
    RICHARD A. CROSBY / LAURA F. SALAZAR
    Part of the Essential Public Health Series, Essentials of Public Health Research Methods is specifically written for undergraduate students studying public health who want to fully understand the range of research methods as applied to public health. Using the circular model of public health research as an overarching framework, Essentials of Public Health Research Methods p...

    $411.67

  • A GUIDE TO THOMAS JEFFERSON'S VIRGINIA
    LAURA A. MACALUSO
    Tour Thomas Jefferson's Virginia, from Monticello to the Blue Ridge Mountains and beyond, with a guide that "mixes historical background with how-tos" ( Daily Press).   Few prominent Americans are as associated with a place as Thomas Jefferson is with Virginia. The heart of "Jefferson Country" is his house and plantation at Monticello, but Jefferson traveled the breadth of his ...

    $229.00

  • HEALTH BEHAVIOR THEORY FOR PUBLIC HEALTH
    RALPH J. DICLEMENTE / LAURA F. SALAZAR / RICHARD A. CROSBY
    This one-of-a-kind text book examines health behavior theory, through the context of the “New Public Health”. Health Behavior Theory will provide your students with a balanced professional education – one that explores the essential spectrum of theoretical tools as well as the core practices. ...

    $468.64

  • MISINFORMATION AND MASS AUDIENCES
    BRIAN G. SOUTHWELL, EMILY A. THORSON, AND LAURA SHEBLE
    "Gathers an impressive group of experts across disciplines to explore who believes in misinformation, what effect it has, and how to address it." —Brendan Nyhan, Professor of Government, Dartmouth College Lies and inaccurate information are as old as humanity, but never before have they been so easy to spread. Each moment of every day, the Internet and broadcast media purvey mi...

    $382.00

  • THE HUMAN FACTORS OF FRATRICIDE
    LAURA A. RAFFERTY / NEVILLE A. STANTON
    Fratricide has been defined as firing on your own forces, when mistaking them for enemy forces, which results in injury or death. Rates of fratricide incidence have been steadily increasing and the complexity of the contemporary operating environment may lead to a continuation of this trend. Although the majority of research into fratricide has focused on the development of tec...

    $1,620.00

  • DIGITISING COMMAND AND CONTROL
    NEVILLE A. STANTON / DANIEL P. JENKINS / PAUL M. SALMON / GUY H. WALKER / KIRSTEN M. A. REVELL / LAURA A.
    This book presents a human factors and ergonomics evaluation of a digital Mission Planning and Battle-space Management (MP/BM) system. An emphasis was placed on the activities at the Brigade (Bde) and the Battle Group (BG) headquarters (HQ) levels. The analysts distributed their time evenly between these two locations. The human factors team from Brunel University, as part of t...

    $1,700.00

  • HUMAN FACTORS METHODS AND ACCIDENT ANALYSIS
    PAUL M. SALMON / NEVILLE A. STANTON / MICHAEL LENNÉ / DANIEL P. JENKINS / LAURA RAFFERTY / GUY H. WALKER
    This book provides an overview of, and practical guidance on, the range of human factors (HF) methods that can be used for the purposes of accident analysis and investigation in complex sociotechnical systems. Human Factors Methods and Accident Analysis begins with an overview of different accident causation models and an introduction to the concepts of accident analysis and in...

    $4,500.00

  • HUMAN FACTORS METHODS
    NEVILLE A. STANTON / PAUL M. SALMON / LAURA A. RAFFERTY / GUY H. WALKER / CHRIS BABER / DANIEL P. JENKINS
    This second edition of Human Factors Methods: A Practical Guide for Engineering and Design now presents 107 design and evaluation methods as well as numerous refinements to those that featured in the original. The book has been carefully designed to act as an ergonomics methods manual, aiding both students and practitioners. The eleven sections represent the different categorie...

    $3,000.00

  • RUSSIAN CIVIL SOCIETY: A CRITICAL ASSESSMENT
    ALFRED B. EVANS / LAURA A. HENRY / LISA SUNDSTROM
    A vibrant civil society - characterized by the independently organized activity of people as citizens, undirected by state authority - is an essential support for the development of freedom, democracy, and prosperity. Thus it has been one important indicator of the success of post-communist transitions. This volume undertakes a systematic analysis of the development of civil so...

    $1,420.00

  • ANTHROPOLOGISTS IN THE SECURITYSCAPE
    ROBERT ALBRO, GEORGE E. MARCUS, LAURA A. MCNAMARA AND MONICA SCHOCH-SPANA
    As the military and intelligence communities re-tool for the 21st century, the long and contentious debate about the role of social scientists in national security environments is dividing the disciplines with renewed passion. Yet, research shows that most scholars have a weak understanding of what today's security institutions actually are and what working in them entails. Thi...

    $1,240.00

  • COMPARATIVE CIVIC CULTURE
    LAURA A. REESE / RAYMOND A. ROSENFELD
    The quest for a theoretical framework for understanding urban policy-making has been a recurring focus of research into local governments. Civic culture is a means for understanding how municipal policy-makers weigh the interests of different groups, govern the local community, frame local goals, engage in decision-making, and ultimately select and implement public policies. ...

    $1,460.00

  • REINVENTING CIVIL SOCIETY: THE EMERGING ROLE OF FAITH-BASED ORGANIZATIONS
    CYNTHIA JACKSON-ELMOORE / RICHARD C. HULA / LAURA A. REESE
    This guide concentrates on resources that are useful, in an easy-to-use format to enable architects, designers and engineers to access a wealth of knowledge. Information allows users to find, evaluate and contact the resources that can save time and money in day-to-day practice. ...

    $860.00

  • SHAPING WORK-LIFE CULTURE IN HIGHER EDUCATION
    LAURA KOPPES BRYAN / CHERYL A. WILSON
    Shaping Work-Life Culture in Higher Education provides strategies to implement beneficial work-life policies in colleges and universities. As compared to the corporate sector, higher education institutions have been slow to implement policies aimed at fostering diversity and a healthy work-life balance, which can result in lower morale, job satisfaction, and productivity, and c...

    $1,160.00

  • LOCAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT POLICY
    LAURA A. REESE / URBAN CENTER STAFF
    First published in 1997. Part of the contemporary urban affairs series this volume looks at the local economic development policy of the United States and Canada. Laura Reese compares and analyzes local economic development efforts in Michigan and Ontario. She seeks to redress the paucity of literature comparing local economic development in the United States and Canada. Her go...

    $1,000.00

  • DATA MANAGEMENT FOR LIBRARIES
    LAURA KRIER / CARLY A. STRASSER
    Since the National Science Foundation joined the National Institutes of Health in requiring that grant proposals include a data management plan, academic librarians have been inundated with related requests from faculty and campus-based grant consulting offices. Data management is a new service area for many library staff, requiring careful planning and implementation. This gui...

    $855.54

  • OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY APPROACHES TO TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY
    LAURA H KREFTING / JERRY A JOHNSON
    This sensitive book provides a much-needed compilation and description of OT programs for the care of individuals disabled by traumatic brain injury (TBI). Focusing on the disabled individual, the family, and the societal responses to the injured, this comprehensive book covers the spectrum of available services from intensive care to transitional and community living. Both the...

    $1,540.00

  • COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL THERAPY FOR THE BUSY CHILD PSYCHIATRIST AND OTHER MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONALS
    ROBERT FRIEDBERG / ANGELA A. GORMAN / LAURA HOLLAR WILT / ADAM BIUCKIANS / MICHAEL MURRAY
    Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for the Busy Child Psychiatrist and Other Mental Health Professionals is an essential resource for clinical child psychologists, psychiatrists and psychotherapists, and mental health professionals. Since 2001, psychiatry residency programs have required resident competency in five specific psychotherapies, including cognitive-behavioral therapy. Thi...

    $1,200.00

  • USING DISCOURSE ANALYSIS TO IMPROVE CLASSROOM INTERACTION
    LESLEY A. REX / LAURA SCHILLER
    This accessible 'how to' text is about classroom interaction – how to study it and how to use that knowledge to improve teaching and learning. Actually showing what critical, constructionist, sociocultural perspectives on teaching, learning, and schooling are and what they can do, it makes discourse analysis understandable and useful to teachers and other nonlinguists. Using Di...

    $1,280.00

  • PARKINSON'S DISEASE
    PAUL TUITE / CATHI A. THOMAS / LAURA RUEKERT
    "As a quick, user-friendly reference, this book covers all aspects of effectively managing patients with Parkinson's disease, with discussions of symptoms, causes, patient evaluation, and home care adviceÖ.Nurses, physicians, and associated healthcare professions from rehabilitation specialists to social workers will find this an excellent source of information on the many aspe...

    $1,561.00

  • ASPECTUAL GRAMMAR AND PAST TIME REFERENCE
    LAURA A. MICHAELIS
    This study presents a semantic framework for analysing all aspectual constructions in terms of the event state distinction, and describes the grammatical expression of aspectual meaning in terms of a theory of grammatical constructions. In this theory, grammatical constructions, like words, are conventionalized form-meaning pairs, which are best described not only with respect...

    $1,460.00

  • HANDBOOK OF COMMUNICATION AND EMOTION: RESEARCH, THEORY, APPLICATIONS, AND CONTEXTS
    ANDERSEN, PETER A. / GUERRERO, LAURA K.
    Emotion is once again at the forefront of research in social psychology and personality. The Handbook of Communication and Emotion provides a comprehensive look at the questions and answers of interest in the field: How are specific emotions (fear, jealousy, anger, love) communicated? How does the effectiveness, or ineffectiveness, of this communication affect relationships? Ho...

    $2,289.00

  • HANDBOOK OF POLYMER COATINGS FOR ELECTRONICS: CHEMISTRY, TECHNOLOGY AND APPLICATIONS
    LICARI, JAMES J. / HUGHES, LAURA A.
    This completely revised edition remains the only comprehensive treatise on polymer coatings for electronics. Since the original edition, the applications of coatings for the environmental protection of electronic systems have greatly increased, largely driven by the competitive need to reduce costs, weight and volume. The demands for high-speed circuits for the rapid processing...

    $1,844.00

  • SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY AND PALLIATIVE CARE
    LAURA CHAHDA, BERNICE A. MATHISEN AND LINDSAY B. CAREY
    This collection provides a unique anthology using current evidence, to consider the valuable role speech-language pathologists play in palliative care across the lifespan. The text empowers SLPs to work effectively and brings awareness to the role of SLPs within the medical, nursing, and allied health care community. Written by SLPs for SLPs, the book brings together experts in...

    $1,240.00

  • MAKING PRECARITY WORK
    LAURA A. ORRICO
    Shows how the precarious workers of Venice Beach—without help from the government—work together to create a safety net for themselves.   In Making Precarity Work, sociologist Laura A. Orrico shows how Los Angeles’s Venice Beach boardwalk, which is a magnet for tourists, is also a workplace, one that wouldn’t exist without the motley crew of people selling art, drinking, perform...

    $481.51

  • THE GERONTOLOGY FIELD PLACEMENT
    RONA J. KARASIK / LAURA K.M. DONORFIO / PHYLLIS A. GREENBERG
    The first book to focus specifically on practical gerontology field experiences This innovative text guides gerontology students step-by-step through the process of searching for, securing, and completing an aging-based internship, practicum, or field placement. It underscores the value of hands-on, community-based learning and provides a framework for identifying experiences t...

    $1,773.00


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