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  • More than Bouncing Back

    Examining Community Resilience Theory and Practice

    Edited by Anne Cafer, John J. Green, Gary Goreham ...
    Series series Community Development – Current Issues Series
    As the concept of community resilience moves from the margins of practice and theoretical research to more mainstream scholarship, critical issues of conceptualization and use emerge. This is particularly true at the intersection of community development practice and community resilience theory. This book teases out limitations with current conceptualizations of community resilience, offers ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

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  • Educational Goods

    Values, Evidence, and Decision-Making

    by Harry Brighouse, Helen F. Ladd, Susanna Loeb, Adam Swift ...
    "An ambitious effort that succeeds in providing a fundamentally new way to talk about and . . . think about policy choices in education." —Jeffrey R. Henig, Teachers College, Columbia UniversityWe spend a lot of time arguing about how schools might be improved. But we rarely take a step back to ask what we as a society should be looking for from education—what exactly should those who make ... Read more

    $21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Creating The World We Want To Live In

    How Positive Psychology Can Build a Brighter Future

    by Bridget Grenville-Cleave, Dóra Guðmundsdóttir, Felicia Huppert, Vanessa King, David Roffey, Sue Roffey, Marten de Vries ...
    This book is about hope and a call to action to make the world the kind of place we want to live in. Our hope is to provoke conversation, and gently challenge possibly long-held views, beliefs, and ideologies about the way the world works and the people in that world.Written by eminent researchers and experienced practitioners, the book explores the principles that underpin living well, and gives ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Community Health and Wellness

    Primary Health Care in Practice

    by Jill Clendon, Ailsa Munns ...
    A new edition of the esteemed nursing text exploring social, cultural and political issues affecting individual and community health What makes a healthy community? And how can nurses and midwives support community health and wellbeing? In Community Health and Wellness, 4th Edition: Primary health care in practice, authors Anne McMurray and Jill Clendon advance the discussion of health as a ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Making It Count: Increasing the Impact of Climate Change and Food Security Education Programmes

    by FAOoftheUN ...
    The evidence is clear: to change behavior 'environmental education' needs to change its focus – with less emphasis on knowledge and raising awareness (although still needed) and more on competency, action skills and problem solving (Marcinkowski, 2010). This report reviews the evidence base to establish which educational methods are proven to have an impact on behavior. The research is summarized ... Read more

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  • Nudge and the Law

    A European Perspective

    Edited by Professor Alberto Alemanno, Professor Anne-Lise Sibony ...
    Series series Modern Studies in European Law
    Behavioural sciences help refine our understanding of human decision-making. Their insights are immensely relevant for policy-making since public intervention works much better when it targets real people rather than imaginary beings assumed to be perfectly rational. Increasingly, governments around the world are keen to rely on those insights for reshaping public interventions in a wide range of ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Work-Life Balance

    A Psychological Perspective

    Edited by Fiona Jones, Ronald J Burke, Mina Westman ...
    What are the effects of conflict between home and work?Does work stress affect those who live with you?In the rapidly changing modern work environment, time pressures seem ever increasing and new technology allows work to be conducted any time and anywhere. These are just two of the factors that make it more and more difficult for working men and women to integrate work and home life. Consequently ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Promoting Health

    The Primary Health Care Approach

    by Lyn Talbot, Glenda Verrinder ...
    The new edition will provide readily accessible material for public health educators and practitioners, in a number of professions, who are increasingly being required to address the challenges emerging from the inter-related impacts of the social and environmental factors impacting on health in an era of globalisation. ... Read more

    $83.69 USD

  • A Wider Social Role for Sport

    Who's Keeping the Score?

    by Fred Coalter ...
    Sport is perceived to have the potential to alleviate a variety of social problems and generally to ‘improve’ both individuals and the communities in which they live. Sport is promoted as a relatively cost effective antidote to a range of social problems – often those stemming from social exclusion - including poor health, high crime levels, drug abuse and persistent youth offending, educational ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Transformative Consumer Research for Personal and Collective Well-Being

    Edited by David Glen Mick, Simone Pettigrew, Cornelia (Connie) Pechmann, Julie L. Ozanne ...
    Daily existence is more interconnected to consumer behaviors than ever before, encompassing many issues of well-being. Problems include unhealthy eating; credit card mismanagement; alcohol, tobacco, pornography, and gambling abuse; marketplace discrimination; and ecological deterioration; as well as at-risk groups who are impoverished, impaired, or elderly. Opportunities for well-being via ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Aging, Society, and the Life Course

    by Leslie A. Morgan, PhD, Suzanne R. Kunkel, PhD ...
    "[This] book’s unfading preoccupation with social context, social processes, and social structures distinguishes itself and greatly contributes to the discourse in gerontology."-The GerontologistThis classic text, now in its fifth edition, is distinguished by its emphasis on social context, social processes, and social structures as part of a broader understanding of the sociology of aging and the ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Using a Positive Lens to Explore Social Change and Organizations

    Building a Theoretical and Research Foundation

    Edited by Karen Golden-Biddle, Jane E. Dutton ...
    Series series Organization and Management Series
    How can application of a positive lens to understanding social change and organizations enrich and elaborate theory and practice? This is the core question that inspired this book. It is a question that brought together a diverse and talented group of researchers interested in change and organizations in different problem domains (sustainability, healthcare, and poverty alleviation). The ... Read more

    $77.99 USD