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.

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.

The perfect guide for pre-service teacher education students, in both primary and secondary education, to help you use technology in your classroom to effectively support your students' learning.

The perfect guide for pre-service teacher education students, in both primary and secondary education, to help you use technology in your classroom to effectively support your students' learning.

A complete, highly readable and student orientated introduction. Comprehensive coverage of all the key theories, debates and issues showing how sociology can answer complex questions about health and illness.