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  • Crafting Scholarship in the Behavioral and Social Sciences

    Writing, Reviewing, and Editing

    by Robert M. Milardo ...
    Crafting Scholarship helps readers improve their writing and publishing success in academia. Framed within the context of the editorial and peer review process, the book explores writing, editing, and reviewing in academic publishing. As such it provides unique coverage of how successful writers work, how they manage criticism, and more. Examples from successful scholars provide helpful tips in ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • The Forgotten Kin

    Aunts and Uncles

    by Robert M. Milardo, PhD ...
    Although much is written about contemporary families, the focus is typically limited to marriage and parenting. In this path-breaking assessment of families sociologist Robert M. Milardo demonstrates how aunts and uncles contribute to the daily lives of parents and their children. Aunts and uncles complement the work of parents, sometimes act as second parents, and sometimes form entirely unique ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

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  • When to Use What Research Design

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    Systematic, practical, and accessible, this is the first book to focus on finding the most defensible design for a particular research question. Thoughtful guidelines are provided for weighing the advantages and disadvantages of various methods, including qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods designs. The book can be read sequentially or readers can dip into chapters on specific stages of ... Read more

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  • Handbook of Father Involvement

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    This second edition reviews the new research findings and theoretical advances on fathers, families, child development, programs, and policies that have occurred in the past decade. Contributors from a range of disciplines and countries showcase contemporary findings within a new common chapter structure. All of the chapters are either extensively revised or entirely new. Biological, evolutionary, ... Read more

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  • Motives in Children's Development

    Cultural-Historical Approaches

    Edited by Mariane Hedegaard, Anne Edwards, Marilyn Fleer ...
    The contributors to this collection employ the analytic resources of cultural-historical theory to examine the relationship between childhood and children's development under different societal conditions. In particular they attend to relationships between development, emotions, motives and identities, and the social practices in which children and young people may be learners. These practices are ... Read more

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  • Five Ways of Doing Qualitative Analysis

    Phenomenological Psychology, Grounded Theory, Discourse Analysis, Narrative Research, and Intuitive

    by Frederick J. Wertz, PhD, Kathy Charmaz, PhD, Linda M. McMullen, PhD, Ruthellen Josselson, PhD, Rosemarie Anderson, PhD, Emalinda McSpadden, MA ...
    This unique text provides a broad introduction to qualitative analysis together with concrete demonstrations and comparisons of five major approaches. Leading scholars apply their respective analytic lenses to a narrative account and interview featuring "Teresa," a young opera singer who experienced a career-changing illness. The resulting analyses vividly exemplify what each approach looks like ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Child Development

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    The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Child Development remains the most authoritative and accessible account of all aspects of child development. Written by an international team of experts, its comprehensive coverage includes everything from prenatal development to adolescence, pediatrics, theories and research methods, physical development, social and emotional development, perceptual and cognitive ... Read more

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  • Cyberbullying

    Approaches, Consequences and Interventions

    by Lucy R. Betts ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    Drawing on research evidence and media coverage, this book explores a number of key debates surrounding cyberbullying. The increasing digitization of society affords many benefits; however, some of these benefits are offset by more adverse consequences. Cyberbullying represents one of the adverse consequences of technology use, which has become a topic of increasing societal concern. Betts adopts ... Read more

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  • Empowerment Evaluation Principles in Practice

    Edited by David M. Fetterman, PhD, Abraham Wandersman, PhD ...
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    Edited by Dorothy S. Becvar ...
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    Resilience is a topic that is currently receiving increased attention. In general, resilience refers to the capacity of those who, even under the most stressful circumstances, are able to cope, to rebound, and to go on and thrive. Resilient families are able to regain their balance following crises that arise as a function of either nature or nurture, and to continue to encourage and support their ... Read more

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  • Missing Data

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    by Patrick E. McKnight, PhD, Katherine M. McKnight, PhD, Souraya Sidani, PhD, Aurelio José Figueredo, PhD ...
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