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The Routledge Handbook of Critical Social Work

The Routledge Handbook of Critical Social Work

The Routledge Handbook of Critical Social Work brings together the world’s leading scholars in the field to provide a cutting-edge overview of classic and current research and future trends in the subject. Comprised of 48 chapters divided into six parts: Historical social and political influences Mapping the theoretical and conceptual terrain Methods of engagement and modes of analysis Critical contexts for practice and policy Professional education and socialisation Future challenges directions and transformations it provides an authoritative guide to theory and method and the primary debates of today in social work from a critical perspective. This handbook is a major reference work and the first book to comprehensively map the wide-ranging territory of critical social work. It does so by addressing its conceptual developments its methodological advances its value-based front-line practice and as an influence on the policy field. By offering a definitive survey of current academic knowledge as it relates to professional practice it provides the first comprehensive up-to-date definitive work of reference while at the same time identifying emerging innovative and cutting-edge areas.

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Ventilation Systems Design and Performance

Ventilation Systems Design and Performance

This comprehensive reference guide to ventilation systems provides up-to-date knowledge based on the experience of internationally-recognized experts to deal with current and future ventilation requirements in buildings. Presenting the most recent developments in ventilation research and its applications this book covers the fundamentals as well as more advanced topics. With rigorous coverage for researchers and a practical edge for building professionals Ventilation Systems is the one stop guide for the subject. | Ventilation Systems Design and Performance

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Handbook of Research Methods in Health Psychology

Handbook of Research Methods in Health Psychology

In this comprehensive handbook Ragin and Keenan present an all-encompassing analysis of the variety of different methods used in health psychology research. Featuring interdisciplinary collaborations from leading academics this meticulously written volume is a guide to conducting cutting-edge research using tested and vetted best practices. It explains important research techniques why they are selected and how they are conducted. The book critically examines both cutting-edge methods such as those used in NextGen genetics nudge theory and the brain’s vulnerability to addiction as well as the classic methods including cortisol measurement survey and environmental study. The topics of the book span the gamut of health psychology field from neuroimaging and statistical analysis to socioeconomic issues such as the policies used to address diseases in Africa anti-vaxers and the disproportionate impact of climate change on impoverished people. With each section featuring examples of best research practices recommendations for study samples accurate use of instrumentation analytical techniques and advanced-level data analysis this book will be an essential text for both emerging student researchers and experts in the field and an indispensable resource in health psychology programs. | Handbook of Research Methods in Health Psychology

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Mood Disorders Practical Issues in Diagnosis and Management

Mood Disorders Practical Issues in Diagnosis and Management

Mood Disorders: Practical Issues in Diagnosis and Management provides cutting edge knowledge about the diagnosis and treatment of principal mood disorders namely major depressive disorder and bipolar disorder. Covering diagnosis differentiating features and illness course and trajectories of principal mood disorders Dr. Ather Muneer provides essential information in a succinct and practical manner while highlighting significant new findings in the area. This book will help a broad range of mental health professionals better treat the millions of people with mood disorders across the globe. | Mood Disorders Practical Issues in Diagnosis and Management

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The Routledge Companion to Auditing

The Routledge Companion to Auditing

Auditing has been a subject of some controversy and there have been repeated attempts at reforming its practice globally. This comprehensive companion surveys the state of the discipline including emerging and cutting-edge trends. It covers the most important and controversial issues including auditing ethics auditor independence social and environmental accounting as well as the future of the field. This handbook is vital reading for legislators regulators professionals commentators students and researchers involved with auditing and accounting. The collection will also prove an ideal starting place for researchers from other fields looking to break into this vital subject. | The Routledge Companion to Auditing

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A New Public Management in Mexico Towards a Government that Produces Results

A New Public Management in Mexico Towards a Government that Produces Results

This title was first published in 2001: This innovative text applies new institutional economics public choice theory and new public management concepts to the political arena of the Mexican administration. Including cutting-edge benchmarking analysis about best practices of human resources and the modernization of the public sector the book also considers the history and situation of other countries from the Mexican perspective especially those of Latin America and the OECD. An essential text for all those with an interest in public policy or Latin American politics. | A New Public Management in Mexico Towards a Government that Produces Results

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Community Mental Health Challenges for the 21st Century

Community Mental Health Challenges for the 21st Century

The newest edition of Community Mental Health continues to be at the leading edge of the field providing the most up-to-date research and treatment models that encompass practice in community settings. Experts from a wide range of fields explore the major trends best practices and policy issues shaping community mental health services today. New sections address the role of spirituality veterans and the military family treatment and emerging new movements. An expanded view of recovery ensures that a thorough conversation about intersectionality and identity runs throughout the book. | Community Mental Health Challenges for the 21st Century

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Sustainable Buildings and Infrastructure Paths to the Future

Sustainable Buildings and Infrastructure Paths to the Future

The second edition of Sustainable Buildings and Infrastructure continues to provide students with an introduction to the principles and practices of sustainability as they apply to the construction sector including both buildings and infrastructure systems. As a textbook it is aimed at students taking courses in construction management and the built environment but it is also designed to be a useful reference for practitioners involved in implementing sustainability in their projects or firms. Case studies best practices and highlights of cutting edge research are included throughout making the book both a core reference and a practical guide. | Sustainable Buildings and Infrastructure Paths to the Future

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Philosophy through Film

Philosophy through Film

In Philosophy through Film Amy Karofsky and Mary M. Litch use recently released well-received films to explore answers to classic questions in philosophy in an approachable yet philosophically rigorous manner. Each chapter incorporates one or more films to examine one longstanding philosophical question or problem and assess some of the best solutions that have been offered to it. The authors fully integrate the films into their discussion of the issues using them to help students become familiar with key topics in all major areas of Western philosophy and master the techniques of philosophical argumentation. Revised and expanded changes to the Fourth Edition include: A brand new chapter on the mind-body problem (chapter 4) which includes discussions of substance dualism physicalism eliminativism functionalism and other relevant theories. The replacement of older movies with nine new focus films: Ad Astra Arrival Beautiful Boy Divergent Ex Machina Her Live Die Repeat: Edge of Tomorrow A Serious Man and Silence. The addition of two new primary readings to the appendix of source materials: excerpts from Patricia Smith Churchland’s Can Neurobiology Teach Us Anything about Consciousness? and Frank Jackson’s What Mary Didn’t Know. The inclusion of a Website with a Story Lines of Films by Elapsed Time for each focus film. The films examined in depth are: Ad Astra Arrival Beautiful Boy Crimes and Misdemeanors Divergent Equilibrium Ex Machina Gone Baby Gone Her Inception Live Die Repeat: Edge of Tomorrow The Matrix Memento Minority Report Moon A Serious Man Silence

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Relational Family Therapy The Systemic Interpersonal and Intrapsychic Experience

Relational Family Therapy The Systemic Interpersonal and Intrapsychic Experience

Relational Family Therapy introduces a cutting-edge family and couple therapy model that synthesizes relational theories and integrates object relations theory with interpersonal psychoanalysis and self-psychology. The model holds that individuals deal with conflicts rooted in the frustrated and threatening environment they grew up in by later forming intimate relationships that are comparable to the core experiences from their primary family systems. The book outlines the three levels of experience—systemic interpersonal and intrapsychic—and provide concrete ways for the therapist to address client problems and promote affect regulation. Chapters include transcripts of actual family therapy sessions as well as genograms so readers can see the model in action. | Relational Family Therapy The Systemic Interpersonal and Intrapsychic Experience

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Sport Governance Insights

Sport Governance Insights

This book introduces the fundamentals of sport governance assuming no prior knowledge on the part of the reader. It explains to students and practitioners alike why governance matters and how it can be better practiced in sport organizations. Introducing key concepts and the micro-processes of implementation the book explains what governance is and why it has become increasingly important. It explains what sport boards do and how they should function for sport organizations to be effective and it provides practical tools to help ensure good governance. Full of insights from cutting-edge research and real-world cases this is essential reading for any student or practicing sport manager administrator or policy-maker who needs a concise introduction to this important topic. | Sport Governance Insights

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Routledge Handbook of Global Health Security

Routledge Handbook of Global Health Security

This new Handbook presents an overview of cutting-edge research in the growing field of global health security. Over the past decade the study of global health and its interconnection with security has become a prominent and rapidly growing field of research. Ongoing debates question whether health and security should be linked; which (if any) health issues should be treated as security threats; what should be done to address health security threats; and the positive and negative consequences of ‘securitizing’ health. In academic and policy terms the health security field is a timely and dynamic one and this handbook will be the first work comprehensively to address this agenda. Bringing together the leading experts and commentators on health security issues from across the world the volume comprises original and cutting-edge essays addressing the key issues in the field and also highlighting currently neglected avenues for future research. The book intends to provide an accessible yet sophisticated introduction to the key topics and debates and is organised into four key parts: Health Securities: the fundamental conceptual issues historical links between health and security and the various ways of conceptualising health as a security issue Threats: those health issues which have been most frequently discussed in security terms Responses: the wide range of contemporary security-driven responses to health threats Controversies: the securitization of health its impact on rights and justice and the potential distortion of the global health agenda This book will be of great interest to students of global health security public health critical security studies and International Relations in general. | Routledge Handbook of Global Health Security

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The Routledge Companion to Digital Ethnography

The Routledge Companion to Digital Ethnography

With the increase of digital and networked media in everyday life researchers have increasingly turned their gaze to the symbolic and cultural elements of technologies. From studying online game communities locative and social media to YouTube and mobile media ethnographic approaches to digital and networked media have helped to elucidate the dynamic cultural and social dimensions of media practice. The Routledge Companion to Digital Ethnography provides an authoritative up-to-date intellectually broad and conceptually cutting-edge guide to this emergent and diverse area. Features include:a comprehensive history of computers and digitization in anthropology;exploration of various ethnographic methods in the context of digital tools and network relations;consideration of social networking and communication technologies on a local and global scale;in-depth analyses of different interfaces in ethnography from mobile technologies to digital archives.

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The Business of Sports Off the Field in the Office on the News

The Business of Sports Off the Field in the Office on the News

The Business of Sports provides a comprehensive foundation of the economic organizational legal and political components of the sports industry. Geared for journalism communication and business students but also an excellent resource for those working in sports this text introduces readers to the ever-increasing complexity of an industry that is in constant flux. Now in its third edition the volume continues to offer a wealth of statistics and case studies up to date with the newest developments in sports business and focused on cutting-edge issues and topics including the many changes in international sports and the role of analytics in decision-making and tax rules that have a major effect on athletes and teams. | The Business of Sports Off the Field in the Office on the News

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The Routledge Companion to Non-Market Strategy

The Routledge Companion to Non-Market Strategy

It is commonplace for today’s transnational enterprises to undertake political risk analysis when choosing foreign markets and creating entry strategies. Despite this non-market elements of corporate strategy are less well researched than the traditional market-based perspectives. Providing comprehensive and leading edge overviews of current scholarship this Companion surveys the current state of the field and provides a basis for improving our understanding of the non-market environment encouraging new insights to improve strategies for enhancing a firm’s performance and legitimacy. With a foreword by David Baron the international team of contributors includes Jean-Philippe Bonardi Bennet Zelner and Jonathan Doh who combine to create a book that is essential reading for students and researchers in business management and politics including those interested in business regulation environmental policy political risk and corporate social responsibility. | The Routledge Companion to Non-Market Strategy

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The Routledge Companion to International Human Resource Management

The Routledge Companion to International Human Resource Management

International human resource management (IHRM) is a key area of research in the sphere of international business and management. Described as a field in its infancy in the 1980s IHRM has quickly advanced through adolescence and into maturity. Today it is a vibrant and diverse discipline which boasts a large and active body of researchers across the globe. This volume examines cutting-edge themes with the input of contributions from both established and emerging scholars. The Routledge Companion to International Human Resource Management gives a state-of-the-art overview of the key themes topics and debates in the discipline with valuable insights into directions for future research. Drawing on a large and respected international contributor base and with its focus on mature and emerging markets this book is an essential resource for researchers students and IHRM professionals alike.

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Adventure Tourism Meanings experience and learning

Adventure Tourism Meanings experience and learning

Adventure tourism is an increasingly widespread phenomenon appealing to an expanding proportion of the population who seek new destinations and new experiences. This timely edited volume offers new theoretical perspectives of this emerging subset of Tourism. it uses philosophical and cutting edge empirically grounded research to challenge existing thinking and develop the conceptual framework underpinning definitions of adventure interrogating the adventure tourism experience and further building upon recent advances in adventure education. The book brings together adventure literature from range of disciplines and applies it to focused study of Adventure Tourism. By doing so it significantly furthers understanding and moves forward this development of this area of Tourism. This significant volume is written by leading academics in the area and will be valuable reading for all those interested in Adventure Tourism. | Adventure Tourism Meanings experience and learning

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Key Issues in Chinese as a Second Language Research

Key Issues in Chinese as a Second Language Research

Key Issues in Chinese as a Second Language Research presents and discusses research projects that serve as theoretical grounding for improving the teaching and learning of Chinese as a second language (CSL) in order to help researchers and practitioners better understand the acquisition development and use of CSL. With the exception of the first chapter which is state-of-the-art each chapter makes an attempt to bring together theory and practice by focusing on theory building and theory application in practice. The book is organized around areas where most future research is needed in CSL: phonology semantics grammar and pragmatics. Consisting of contributions from an international group of scholars working on cutting-edge research this is the ideal text for researchers graduate students and practitioners in the area of Chinese as a second or foreign language.

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Handbook of LGBTQ-Affirmative Couple and Family Therapy

Handbook of LGBTQ-Affirmative Couple and Family Therapy

This comprehensive second edition inspires therapists to utilize clinical work to pragmatically address intersectional oppressions lessen the burden of minority stress and implement effective LGBTQ affirmative therapy. A unique and important contribution to LGBTQ literature this handbook includes both new and updated chapters reflecting cutting-edge intersectional themes like race ethnicity polyamory and monosexual normativity. A host of expert contributors outline the best practices in affirmative therapy inspiring therapists to guide LGBTQ clients into deconstructing the heteronormative power imbalances that undermine LGBTQ relationships and families. There is also an increased focus on clinical application with fresh vignettes included throughout to highlight effective treatment strategies. Couple and family therapists and clinicians working with LGBTQ clients and those interested in implementing affirmative therapy in their practice will find this updated handbook essential. | Handbook of LGBTQ-Affirmative Couple and Family Therapy

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The Routledge Handbook of Planning History

The Routledge Handbook of Planning History

2018 IPHS Special Book Prize Award Recipient The Routledge Handbook of Planning History offers a comprehensive interdisciplinary overview of planning history since its emergence in the late 19th century investigating the history of the discipline its core writings key people institutions vehicles education and practice. Combining theoretical methodological historical comparative and global approaches to planning history The Routledge Handbook of Planning History explores the state of the discipline its achievements and shortcomings and its future challenges. A foundation for the discipline and a springboard for scholarly research The Routledge Handbook of Planning History explores planning history on an international scale in thirty-eight chapters providing readers with unique opportunities for comparison. The diverse contributions open up new perspectives on the many ways in which contemporary events changing research needs and cutting-edge methodologies shape the writing of planning history.

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The Routledge Handbook of Instructed Second Language Acquisition

The Routledge Handbook of Instructed Second Language Acquisition

The Routledge Handbook of Instructed Second Language Acquisition is the first collection of state-of-the-art papers pertaining to Instructed Second Language Acquisition (ISLA). Written by 45 world-renowned experts the entries are full-length articles detailing pertinent issues with up-to-date references. Each chapter serves three purposes: (1) provide a review of current literature and discussions of cutting edge issues; (2) share the authors’ understanding of and approaches to the issues; and (3) provide direct links between research and practice. In short based on the chapters in this handbook ISLA has attained a level of theoretical and methodological maturity that provides a solid foundation for future empirical and pedagogical discovery. This handbook is the ideal resource for researchers graduate students upper-level undergraduate students teachers and teacher-educators who are interested in second language learning and teaching. .

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Innovation in Music Performance Production Technology and Business

Innovation in Music Performance Production Technology and Business

Innovation in Music: Performance Production Technology and Business is an exciting collection comprising of cutting-edge articles on a range of topics presented under the main themes of artistry technology production and industry. Each chapter is written by a leader in the field and contains insights and discoveries not yet shared. Innovation in Music covers new developments in standard practice of sound design engineering and acoustics. It also reaches into areas of innovation both in technology and business practice even into cross-discipline areas. This book is the perfect companion for professionals and researchers alike with an interest in the Music industry. Chapter 31 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www. taylorfrancis. com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4. 0 license. | Innovation in Music Performance Production Technology and Business

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Introduction to Construction Management

Introduction to Construction Management

Introduction to Construction Management Second Edition is the beginner’s guide to key concepts terms processes and practices associated with modern construction management. The new edition has been fully updated with new data case studies and enhancements and remains the most practical and accessible book on the subject available. Significant new topics have been added including construction ethics coverage of mental health and wellbeing in the industry project delivery and Construction 4. 0 to make this the most cutting-edge book available for students on construction and engineering management courses. Supported by diagrams illustrations and case studies the book starts with a general introduction to the industry and covers the relevant management theory before providing applied coverage of: Production management Commercial management Quality management Health and Safety management Environmental management This is the most approachable text available for anyone starting to learn about construction management at any level.

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