An indispensable international resource for students and researchers of all levels studying the rapidly developing, interdisciplinary field of criminology.

A strong addtion to the Key Concepts series, this book takes a interdisciplinary and an international approach to this increasingly popular field.

Video is an increasingly important topic in the social sciences, particularly in the US, UK, Europe and the Far East, where researchers and students are using this widely available technology to gather data about a wide range of social activities.

This text offers basic generalist practice methods which emphasize the common elements in working with individuals, families and groups.

This thoroughly updated new edition of the bestselling text trains students to critically read a research article from start to finish. Containing twenty-five engaging articles of both ideal and flawed research, it discusses how to assess them in terms of soundness of the design and appropriateness of the statistical analyses.

Prensky presents a model for 21st-century teaching and learning, in which students become learners and creators of knowledge through technology while teachers guide and assess student learning.

Global in scope and unmatched in its coverage of both academic research and professional best practice, this is an essential resource for those studying and teaching PR

Changing whole education systems for the better as measured by student achievement requires coordinated leadership at school, community, district, and government levels. This book lays out a comprehensive action plan for achieving whole-system reform.

Offers an overview of technical collection, examining the collection, processing, and exploitation of non-literal intelligence information, including laser, acoustic, and infrared signals; non-imaging optical intelligence sources; and, radar tracking and measurement of aerospace vehicles.

In Hello Everybody! a bestseller in his native Holland, Joris Luyendijk tells the story of his five yearsas a reporter in the Middle East. Young and inexperienced but fluent in Arabic, he speaks to stone throwers and soldiers, taxi drivers and professors, victims and aggressors chronicling first-hand experiences of dictatorship, occupation and war. But the more he witnesses, the less he understands and he becomes increasingly aware of the yawning gap between what he sees on the ground and wha...