Integrates elements from agency theory and signaling theory and draws upon recent changes in the Australia payout policy and incentives pay for risk-averse employees to explain the paradox of the popularity of on-market stock buyback activities in a market environment characterized by reasonably high share prices.

This book provides group therapists and counselors with the necessary knowledge and help to develop their skills in effectively conducting online groups.

This is the latest edition of Garry Landreth’s comprehensive text on creating therapeutic relationships with children through play.

Introduction to Multicultural Counseling for Helping Professionals, 4th ed, is the essential introductory text for studying multicultural counseling. Providing a broad survey of counseling concepts and techniques for different marginalized ethnic and cultural groups, it is at once practical and easily understood.

Sustainable Business: Key Issues is the first comprehensive introductory-level textbook to address the interface between environmental challenges and business solutions to provide an overview of the basic concepts of sustainability, sustainable business, and business ethics.

Building upon the scope of its predecessors, Dairy Science and Technology, Third Edition offers the latest information on the efficient transformation of milk into high-quality products.

This practice-oriented handbook presents practitioners and students with a comprehensive overview of the current best practice in project management. It includes the most up-to-date thinking in the discipline, describing recent developments in a way that practitioners can immediately use in their work.

This authoritative yet accessible introduction to understanding Europe today moves beyond accounts of European integration to provide a wide-ranging and nuanced study of contemporary Europe and its historical development. This fully updated edition adds material on recent developments, such as Brexit and the migrant and Eurozone crises. The concept of Europe is instilled with a plethora of social, cultural, economic, and political meanings.

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Trauma, Resilience, and Posttraumatic Growth in Frontline Personnel examines the history, context, nature, and complexity of working in front-line services.

The new edition of The Practice of Generalist Social Work is guided by the 2022 EPAS and reflects on new developments related to systemic racism and movements for social justice; the impact of technology on social work practice; and the practice-based implications of the COVID-19 pandemic.