This book's foremost emphasis is on practical applications, helping students to recognize the importance and utility of research in their professional lives, and to master research methods that are immediately applicable in their professional settings.

In this handbook, editors Philip Reichel and Jay Albanese bring together renowned scholars from around the world to offer various perspectives providing global coverage of the increasingly transnational nature of crime and the attempts to provide co-operative cross-national responses.

Ideal for Common Core initiatives, this much-needed book offers a step-by-step approach for teaching academic language, including case studies, classroom strategies, study questions, and more.

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The Second Edition of the award-winning The SAGE Handbook of Conflict Communication emphasizes constructive conflict management from a communication perspective which places primacy in the message as the focus of conflict research and practice.

A concise guide that offers a step-by-step approach to the strategic use of alternative media by both the marketing and advertising professions.

Written by experts with firsthand experience in applying for and getting grants, this guide shows how to build a successful grant proposal. It provides advice on planning, executing, submitting, and revising grant proposals in order to maximize their chances of success.

Bell and Thorpe provide a stimulating and critical overview of the key theoretical debates on research paradigms and methodologies and relate them to the day to day practice of the research, demystifying the process and providing invaluable insights into the politics and practice of research.

This comprehensive textbook presents a thorough understanding of abnormal psychology with a focus on the integration of psychology, biology and health and is supported by interactive learning features for undergraduate students.

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