Speed in acquiring the knowledge and skills to perform tasks is crucial. Yet, it still
ordinarily takes many years to achieve high proficiency in countless jobs and professions, in government, business, industry, and throughout the private sector. There would be ...
Volunteering is a recent and highly visible phenomenon in Japan, adopted as a meaningful social
activity by millions of Japanese and covered widely in the Japanese media. This book, based on extensive original research, tells the stories of community volunteers ...
This highly regarded textnow revised and expanded with 50% new materialhelps students and professionals build
their knowledge and competencies for effective intercultural communication in any setting. The authors' comprehensive, updated theoretical framework (integrative identity negotiation ...
Corrections in the Community, Seventh Edition, examines the current state of community corrections and proposes
an evidence-based approach to making programs more effective. As the U.S. prison and jail systems continue to struggle, options like probation, parole, alternative sentencing, and ...
The rapid pace and increasing convergence of internet, phone and other communications technologies has created
extraordinary opportunities for business but the complexity of these new service mixes creates parallel opportunities for fraud and revenue leakage. Companies seeking to use communications ...
This collection offers a diverse range of perspectives that seek to find meaning in madness.
Mainstream biomedical approaches tend to interpret experiences commonly labelled psychotic as being indicative of a biological illness that can best be ameliorated with prescription drugs. ...
When traumatic historical events and transformations coincide with one's entry into young adulthood, the personal
and historical significance of life-course transitions interact and intensify. In this volume, Alena Heitlinger examines identity formation among a generation of Czech and Slovak Jews ...
The Malayan Communist Party’s (MCP) decisive defeat in 1960 led many academics and Counterinsurgency (COIN)
experts to overlook the resurrection of its armed struggle in 1968. Most scholars continue to regard the so-called ‘Second Emergency’ in Malaysia (1968-1989) as a ...