Books published by SAGE Publications Inc

Discusses the historical and contextual perspective on the rights of children, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, and the rights of children within the family, the social service system, the health care system, the educational system, the juvenile justice system and in employment.

This text attempts to describe, illustrate and discuss the problem of substance abuse, current theory and research in causes and risk factors and alternative intervention approaches. These issues span the topics of epidemiology, treatment, prevention, programme planning and evaluation.

A rich and fundamental understanding of the foundations and building blocks of benefits.

This book provides a theoretical guide for researchers learning how to interview in the social sciences.

The third edition of this bestseller offers first-person accounts from teachers who share the influential strategies of outstanding principals who empowered them.

Suitable for students with learning disabilities, this title offers staff developers print and visual tools to demonstrate effective differentiated and brain-compatible teaching methods for students with learning disabilities, at-risk students, or youngsters who may have learning difficulties.

Featuring updated research and current topics such as cyberbullying, this revised bestseller provides teachers with a variety of effective methods for guiding student behavior.

This resource examines developmental, situational, physical, and temperamental factors that can trigger tantrums and provides effective interventions to help teachers avoid long-term negative consequences for children.

Much more than a revision guide for undergraduates, this is an essential tool that will help readers take their course understanding to new levels and help them achieve success in their undergraduate course

This edited volume examines current disability classification systems, the dilemmas educators face in categorizing students with special needs, and alternative options based on recent challenges and trends.

Cutting edge text on the sociology of the body from one of the most popular and respected authors in the field today.

Examining the efforts to effect behavior change, the author questions how far health communication can and should go in changing people's values. He broadens the analysis of interventions and presents conceptual frameworks that help identify values and justifications that are embedded in health communication goals and evaluation criteria.

Reviewing the myths of global marketing, this book explores the concept of culture and models of culture. It provides empirical evidence of convergence and divergence in consumer behaviour. It also covers the various psychological and sociological aspects of human behaviour and uses them for explaining consumer behaviour.

A step-by-step guide to planning and carrying out research to improve professional practice.

This book will help social science students with successful completion of their dissertation. A truly practical, step-by-step guide which will take students through the whole process from start to finish.

The ideal text developed for students to combine political theory and criminology.

This volume presents a clear description of the problems of women offenders, a variety of treatment approaches and prospects for the future. Four chapters are devoted to the particular conditions of women's prisons, and the psychological effects on their inmates. The remaining chapters address clinical issues.

Online Interviewing is a short, accessible and highly practical introduction to designing and conducting online interviews in qualitative research.

Much more than a revision guide International Business is an essential tool that will help readers take their course understanding to new levels and help them achieve success on their undergraduate course.

ReCreating Strategy

Introduces over thirty years of Bauman's work, providing a guide to one of the characters of 20th century social thought.

Provides researchers and students with a step-by-step guide to planning qualitative research. This book presents an approach to the components of design and how they interact with each other. It presents a strategy for creating coherent and workable relationships among these design components and highlights key design issues.

A resource book intended to help mental health practitioners and trainees develop ethical decision-making skills which reflect cultural responsiveness. It covers ethical dilemmas arising in face-to-face counselling interactions; the supervisory relationship; and, the teaching of counselling.

An alternative for conducting business, which bridges the consumer's social concerns and the producer's financial concerns. Mary Ann Littrell and Marsha Ann Dickson utilize case studies to introduce past successes and failures for seven Alternative Trading Organizations (ATO's).

This practical guide provides 36 hands-on strategies to help teachers give students the necessary skills to decipher academic language in reading, writing, listening, and speaking.

Concise yet critical, this is a student friendly introduction to the multi-disciplinary field of community studies.

A critical evaluation of the central debates within leisure studies, looking at both management theories and leisure management, as well as historical debates on key issues such as rational recreation, public service broadcasting and tourism.