Domestic violence can affect all areas of social work. In this book, the authors draw on their extensive experience as practitioners and researchers in the field to show how social workers can intervene in everyday practice and facilitate change.

Through developing a decomposition analysis of the inequality measures and promoting their effective use in research, this book provides readers with a step-by-step understanding of the inequality measures that are currently used.

Written by internationally renowned scholar Armand Lauffer, the book focuses on how nonprofit agencies operate and not how they are managed. This text addresses the current trend to differentiate how nonprofits are disctint.

A theoretical and empirical toolkit for analysing and understanding media and mediated images - from branding and PR, to tweets and selfies. It explores a range of approaches to visual analysis, while also providing a hands-on guide to applying methods to your own work.

Comprehensive yet introductory survey text appropriate for undergraduate students who need historical context, theoretical grounding, critical issues perspective, and the how-to application for community development.

Based on the workshop, Nurturing Creativity: Seven Practices for Educators and Students, this book affirms the conviction that creative teachers are effective teachers and emphasizes that every child's creative self must be valued-regardless of a child's cultural and linguistic background.

Providing readers with cutting-edge details on multicultural instrumentation, theories, and research in the social, behavioral, and health-related fields, this Handbook offers extensive coverage of empirically-supported multicultural measurement instruments that span a wide variety of subject areas.

Judgment and Decision Making is a refreshingly accessible text that explores the wide variety of ways people make judgments. .

Expand your basic knowledge of Python and use PyGame to create fast-paced video games with great graphics and sounds. This second edition shows how you can integrate electronic components with your games using the build-in general purpose input/output (GPIO) pins and some Python code to create two new games. You'll learn about object-oriented programming (OOP) as well as design patterns, such as model-view-controller (MVC) and finite-state machines (FSMs). Whether using Windows, macOS, Linux,...

Computational approaches offer exciting opportunities for us to do social science differently. This beginner's guide discusses a range of computational methods and how to use them to study the problems and questions you want to research.