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  • Rent-to-Own: How to Find Rent-to-Own Homes NOW While Rebuilding Your Credit

    by Wendy Patton ...
    A step by step guide to buying your dream home NOW without a mortgage using the rent-to-own method while rebuilding your credit. The entire rent-to-own process is covered explaining key fundamentals including:- How to find your dream home NOW- How you can save thousands of dollars on your purchase- Dozens of ideas to help you rebuild your credit along the way- How to keep from making costly ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Family Mobility

    Reconciling Career Opportunities and Educational Strategy

    by Catherine Doherty, Wendy Patton, Paul Shield ...
    Series series Changing Mobilities
    Family mobility decisions reveal much about how the public and private realms of social life interact and change. This sociological study explores how contemporary families reconcile individual members’ career and education projects within the family unit over time and space, and unpacks the intersubjective constraints on workforce mobility.This Australian mixed methods study sampled Defence Force ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

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  • Educational Leadership for the 21St Century

    Building a Capacity for Change

    by Peter J. Zsebik ...
    Public education, once considered a dogmatic institution in the 20th century, now finds itself challenged at almost every level in todays sociopolitical environment. New realities, as evidenced by the political complexities of the global village, widespread technological advances that undermine established educational practices, and ever mounting pressures on the curriculum to appease corporate ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Is That True?

    Critical Thinking for Sociologists

    by Joel Best ...
    Across disciplines, critical thinking is praised, taught, and put into practice. But what does it actually mean to think critically? In this brief volume, sociologist Joel Best examines how to evaluate arguments and the evidence used to support them as he hones in on how to think in the field of sociology and beyond.With inimitable style that melds ethnographic verve with dry humor, Best examines ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Tackling Wicked Problems

    Through the Transdisciplinary Imagination

    Edited by John Harris, Valerie A Brown, Jacqueline Russell ...
    From climate change to GM foods, we are increasingly confronted with complex, interconnected social and environmental problems that span disciplines, knowledge bases and value systems. This book offers a transdisciplinary, open approach for those working towards resolving these 'wicked' problems and highlights the crucial role of this 'transdisciplinary imagination' in addressing the shift to ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • The Sociology of Children, Childhood and Generation

    by Madeleine Leonard ...
    Outlining sociology’s distinctive contribution to childhood studies and our understanding of contemporary children and childhood, The Sociology of Children, Childhood and Generation provides a thought provoking and comprehensive account of the connections between the macro worlds of childhood and the micro worlds of children’s everyday lives.Examining children’s involvement in areas such as the ... Read more

    $69.29 USD

  • Learning Outside the Academy

    International Research Perspectives on Lifelong Learning

    Edited by Richard Edwards, Jim Gallacher, Susan Whittaker ...
    This book weaves together different strands of research in the area of lifelong learning that concentrates particularly on learning in alternative settings and ways, such experiential learning and informal and community learning. Drawing upon international research, the book examines how these strands of research can contribute to each other.The contributions to this book are based on material ... Read more

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  • Managing Complex Governance Systems

    Edited by Geert Teisman, Arwin van Buuren, Lasse M. Gerrits ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management
    Advances in public management sciences have long indicated the empirical finding that the normal state of public management systems is complex and that its dynamics are non-linear. Complex systems are subject to system pressures, system shocks, chance events, path-dependency and self-organisation. Arguing that complexity is an ever-present characteristic of our developed societies and governance ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Gender in Organizations

    Edited by Savita Kumra, Ruth Simpson, Ronald J. Burke ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The issue of gender in organizations has attracted much attention and debate over a number of years. The focus of examination is inequality of opportunity between the genders and the impact this has on organizations, individual men and women, and society as a whole. It is undoubtedly the case that progress has been made with women participating in organizational life in greater numbers and at more ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Participatory Research for Health and Social Well-Being

    by Tineke Abma, Sarah Banks, Tina Cook, Sónia Dias, Wendy Madsen, Jane Springett, Michael T. Wright ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This textbook is a comprehensive guide for students interested in using participatory research to improve people’s health and well-being. It is especially designed for those working in the fields of health and social welfare who are embarking on participatory research for the first time. It covers all phases in participatory research from “getting started,” to “acting for change,” “continuing the ... Read more

    $76.49 USD

  • Changing Teacher Professionalism

    International trends, challenges and ways forward

    Edited by Sharon Gewirtz, Pat Mahony, Ian Hextall, Alan Cribb ...
    Significant changes in the policy and social context of teaching over the last 30 years have had substantial implications for teacher professionalism. As the influence of central regulation and marketisation has increased, so the scope for professional influence on policy and practice has in many cases diminished. Instead, teachers have had to respond to a range of other demands stemming from ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Co-production and Criminal Justice

    by Diana Johns, Catherine Flynn, Maggie Hall, Claire Spivakovsky, Shelley Turner ...
    Series series Criminology in Focus
    This book explores practical examples of co-production in criminal justice research and practice. Through a series of seven case studies, the authors examine what people do when they co-produce knowledge in criminal justice contexts: in prisons and youth detention centres; with criminalised women; from practitioners’ perspectives; and with First Nations communities.Co-production holds a promise: ... Read more

    $26.99 USD