Books published by SAGE Publications Inc

From Pulitzer-nominated journalist and international best-selling author, Noah benShea, this quick-reference collection of quotes belongs on the desk or in the briefcase of every school administrator.

`Darryl Glaser supplies an illuminating overview of the scholarship since 1970 on South Africa's political history. His emphasis is on the debates between liberals, Marxists, and to a lesser extent "post-structuralists" about the origins and the course of South Africa's racial order' - Tom Lodge, University of Witwatersrand

Written from the authors' experience in conflict intervention in their private consulting practice, this book addresses insights and methods in private mediation, small group facilitation, system design, large-scale interventions, and public-issue management. It discusses numerous methods and principles in conflict resolution.

This Second Edition updates the techniques of assessment and includes more coverage of interventions following on from assessment. The book considers the various roles of statutory agencies, the legal framework, and provides practical advice on interviewing children and making assessments.

This expanded and updated second edition of Legal Issues in Child Abuse and Neglect Practice offers a state-of-the-art exploration of what role the law can play in bettering the lives of victimized children.

Positions issues management as an essential part of strategic planning and management for any organization

Provides specific strategies for counsellors working with boys and male adolescents from different cultural backgrounds. This title examines how psychological, career and athletic development of boys is shaped by a complex interaction of biological, social, cultural and economic forces.

This textbook takes a critical symbolic interactionist approach designed to help students to an understanding of how and why individuals do things together in today's society.

This comprehensive guide for mental health practitioners and medical professionals addresses the delicate issues surrounding breast cancer and the processes involved in emotional coping and healing. The book covers concerns of family members as well as women worried about developing breast cancer.

Expand students' digital literacy and critical thinking as they learn to evaluate the validity of written and visual content online and use language tactfully and ethically.

A 'one stop PR shop' for students in this increasingly popular field of study.

Approaches argumentation from a rhetorical point of view and demonstrates how logical and dialectical considerations depend on the rhetorical features of the argumentative situation. This book identifies how argumentation as a communicative practice can best be understood by its rhetorical features.

Qualitative Data Analysis provides a practical and accessible introduction to data analysis which sees analysis as an integrated part of the whole research process, rather than something to be done after data collection is complete. This sets it apart from other data analysis books.

The first book to provide a comprehensive overview and critical analysis of children's social care in England following the introduction of Every Child Matters and the 2007 Children's Plan

Taking an integrative, interdisciplinary approach to the coverage of managerial issues, functions, practices and problems, the text provides a view of international management beyond intercultural issues.

The book's pedagogical features, practical focus and cross disciplinary theoretical perspective makes this an interesting, accessible and interactive as well as a provocative textbook for students and researchers

Stimulating and practical student guide to the key concepts in the increasingly popular field of sports studies.

This latest edition draws upon research to illustrate essential mentoring behaviors. Provides new tools such as classroom observation methods, teacher mentor standards, and learning styles assessment.

A step-by-step approach to applying high impact innovation in any organization.

This interdisciplinary book overviews political and cultural identity in the context of changes across the political landscape. These changes - from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the recent Islamic revival - have profoundly altered the received ideas that define political cultures throughout the world.

Demonstrates sound principles for handling misbehaviors, establishing a positive atmosphere for learning, encouraging cooperation, strengthening teacher-student relationships, and supporting students with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.

Assess teacher affect and dispositions with a comprehensive framework linked to standards. The authors provide a step-by-step implementation sequence and examples from preservice and inservice settings.

Attempts to bridge the gap between research on substance abuse treatment programs and what actually goes on in the field of substance abuse treatment. This book is aimed at both the academic and practitioner market and it describes how to determine what evidence based practice is.

Features an expanded discussion of mediated learning and includes case studies, reflective activities for the reader, and in-depth coverage of metacognition, metalearning, metateaching, and metatasking.

Provides administrators and staff developers with step-by-step guidance for designing, implementing, and sustaining a professional growth plan. This guidebook: demonstrates how participants can develop their own goals and action plans; and, provides different terminology and topics for individual growth plan development.