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Encourages educators and researchers to understand the complexities of adolescent gang members' lives in order to rethink their assumptions about these students in school. This book is useful for education researchers, professionals, and students in the areas of middle/high school education, and alternative community programs.

Shortly after passage of the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments, a controversial US EPA mandate led to intense conflict between federal regulators and California politicians. The disagreement pitted EPA's required overhaul of auto inspections against California's desire to self-govern its test program - Smog Check. This book presents these struggles.

This text explores changing understanding of literacy and its place in contemporary workplace settings. It highlights questions and dilemmas to consider when planning and teaching workplace education and challenges traditional thinking about workplace literacy as functional skills.

This revised edition presents a rhetorical analysis of written communication in the mental health community. It discusses questions such as: what "ideological biases" are reflected in the language the nurse uses to talk to, and talk about, the patient?

This text explores the long-term consequences of chronic illnesses followed by the death of a sibling on adult adjustment. The illness and loss of the child will have a direct impact on the siblings, and the siblings world will be shaped by the handling of the illness and loss by the parents.

Research on media and the law has generally been atheoretical and contradictory. This volume explains why pretrial publicity is unlikely to affect the outcome of most jury trials, despite many experimental studies claiming to show the influence of publicity.

An attempt to show that preservice teacher knowledge is substantive and should be part of the wider database of knowledge about teaching and learning in the field of teacher education. This text urges the reader to consider the possibilities of teacher research for advancing knowledge.

A sourcebook on practical, innovative techniques to effectively solve problems throughout the life cycle stages. It presents instructive, revelatory stories about working with real life clients and provides dynamic, innovative, and often times surprising solutions to a wide range of specifically detailed problems and clinical issues.

An analysis of the decade (1986-97) that brackets the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. This collection of essays is both a narrative of that event and a re-examination of the international role in addressing humanitarian issues and complex emergencies.

This volume focuses on and exemplifies how ethnography can shed light on educational processes framed by the complex, internationalized societies in which we live today. It offers theory about ethnography and examples of innovative ethnography from particular perspectives.

Describes the development of automation in aircraft and in the aviation system and the effects that these technologies have had on the human operators and managers of the system. This book focuses on the ability of human operators to work cooperatively with the constellation of machines they command and control.

A theoretical and practical guide to analysis of variance (ANOVA) for the use of students and researchers who have not had a formal course in this technique. It includes a summary of the statistical theory underlying ANOVA, together with important issues, guidance, practical methods, references, and hints about using statistical software.

Describes how to successfully manage and market a public relations firm. This book demonstrates how to market, promote, and sell a firm to attract, win, and hold the right clientele. It is useful for owners of small- and medium-sized PR firms, senior managers of small, medium, and national firms, and university public relations professors.

Provides students preparing for the pastoral ministry with training in communications that focuses on the conversations they can have with their parishioners. This book examines many topics, such as perception, self-disclosure, verbal and non-verbal messages, listening, stages of relational development, conflict management, forgiveness, and more.

Indonesia contains some of Asia's most biodiverse and threatened forests. The challenges result from both long-term management problems and the political, social, and economic turmoil. This book focuses on what can be done differently to counter the destruction of forests due to asset-stripping, corruption, and the absence of government authority.

Presents a forum for the ideas and experiences of a researcher and consultant concerned with change in organizations. This volume responds to an avalanche of social criticism that has been directed at bureaucracy, 'organizational America', and the 'organizational ethic'. It gives you a hands-on view of the history and character of this field.