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  • Cooperation in Modern Society

    Promoting the Welfare of Communities, States and Organizations

    Edición de Anders Biel, Mark Snyder, Tom R. Tyler, Mark Van Vugt ...
    Series series Routledge Research International Series in Social Psychology
    Why do so many people volunteer to help others in need in society today? What makes people give up the convenience of driving their car to benefit a better environment? And why are citizens, in general, quite prepared to pay taxes to ensure adequate health care, and support for the elderly and unemployed? These are examples of a more fundamental question addressed in this book: why do people ... Leer más

    $65.99 USD

  • Individual and Structural Determinants of Environmental Practice

    de Bengt Hansson ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Environmental Policy and Practice
    During recent years, there has been a growing awareness that a better understanding of human activities and the behavioural components of environmental problems is needed. This volume brings together psychologists, philosophers, sociologists, historians of technology and economics, and management experts to identify and examine the rules and motives that govern the environmental behaviour of ... Leer más

    $65.99 USD

  • From Kyoto to the Town Hall

    Making International and National Climate Policy Work at the Local Level

    Edición de Lennart J. Lundqvist, Anders Biel ...
    International agreements such as the Kyoto Protocol, EU regulation and country-specific national climate policies offer some hope of addressing climate change. But all too often implementation of these high level objectives is derailed at the sub-national, local and - perhaps most important - individual level, by a variety of structural, policy and perceived barriers that result in a failure of ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD

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  • At Risk

    Social Justice in Child Welfare and Other Human Services

    de Karen Swift, Marilyn Callahan ...
    In At Risk, Karen J. Swift and Marilyn Callahan examine risk and risk assessment in the context of professional practice in child protection, social work, and other human services. They argue that the tools, technologies, and practices used to measure risk to the individual have gone unquestioned and unstudied and that current methods of risk assessment may be distorting the principles of social ... Leer más

    $33.99 USD

  • Lowering Higher Education

    The Rise of Corporate Universities and the Fall of Liberal Education

    de James Cote, Anton L. Allahar ...
    What happens to the liberal arts and science education when universities attempt to sell it as a form of job training? In Lowering Higher Education, a follow-up to their provocative 2007 book Ivory Tower Blues, James E. Côté and Anton L. Allahar explore the subverted 'idea of the university' and the forces that have set adrift the mission of these institutions. Côté and Allahar connect the ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

  • Why People Cooperate

    The Role of Social Motivations

    de Tom R. Tyler ...
    Any organization's success depends upon the voluntary cooperation of its members. But what motivates people to cooperate? In Why People Cooperate, Tom Tyler challenges the decades-old notion that individuals within groups are primarily motivated by their self-interest. Instead, he demonstrates that human behaviors are influenced by shared attitudes, values, and identities that reflect social ... Leer más

    $26.69 USD

  • Sustainability Assessment

    Criteria and Processes

    de Bob Gibson, Selma Hassan, James Tansey ...
    Sustainability assessment is now emerging as a more transparent, comprehensive, integrated and far-sighted approach to decision making. Its basic demand is that all significant undertakings must make a positive contribution to sustainability. To apply this test, decision makers need criteria based on the core requirements of sustainability and the particularities of the context. As well, they need ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD

  • Canadian Social Policy, Fifth Edition

    Issues and Perspectives

    Edición de Anne Westhues, Brian Wharf ...
    Social policy shapes the daily lives of every Canadian citizen and should reflect the beliefs of a majority of Canadians on just approaches to the promotion of health, safety, and well-being. Too often, those on the front lines—social workers, nurses, and teachers—observe that policies do not work well for the most vulnerable groups in society. In the first part of this new edition of Canadian ... Leer más

    $43.99 USD

  • Educational Goods

    Values, Evidence, and Decision-Making

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $3.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Research In Multicultural Education

    From The Margins To The Mainstream

    de Carl A. Grant ...
    A work specifically written to encourage research into multicultural education and to help researchers work through some of the inherent problems that face schools with mulicultural students. ... Leer más

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  • Mediating Interpersonal and Small Group Conflict

    de Cheryl A. Picard ...
    This is a guide to the theory and practice of mediation. It sets out a systematic approach to the use of mediation and to assuming the role of mediator. This book will be one of value to individuals interested in becoming mediators, to parties in conflict considering recourse to mediation to resolve issues, to students studying mediation as a dispute resolution alternative, to professionals who ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Public School Advantage

    Why Public Schools Outperform Private Schools

    de Christopher A. Lubienski, Sarah Theule Lubienski ...
    Nearly the whole of America’s partisan politics centers on a single question: Can markets solve our social problems? And for years this question has played out ferociously in the debates about how we should educate our children. From the growth of vouchers and charter schools to the implementation of No Child Left Behind, policy makers have increasingly turned to market-based models to help ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD