A crucial guide for clinicians and leaders on preventing and treating child maltreatment. It offers research-based strategies to reduce job stress for working parents, addressing the work-family conflicts that can put children at risk.
Co-creating Actionable Science
This collection of essays provides insights into the challenges of collaborative, solutions-oriented research for sustainability. Probing how actionable science emerges in the global North and South, it offers valuable, empirically-based guidance for scholars and educators.
This book tackles the effects of co-occurring substance abuse and mental health disorders on offenders transitioning from incarceration. Offering an inside look at a community reentry program, it uncovers how these disorders jeopardize the transition back into society.
Coaching and Teaching Soccer
This book introduces an innovative, evidence-based model to coach soccer. It provides practical examples and useful resources for physical education teachers and coaches to systematically develop players’ technical ability, tactical knowledge, and overall game competence.
Collaborative Intelligence
This book describes the steps to transform a company into a social organization. It covers the strategic transformation, how HRM must adapt for collaborative work, and the new leadership skills needed, all supplemented with case studies from managers.
This book explores diverse approaches to collaborative writing as critical arts-based inquiry. Not a handbook, but a scrapbook of methods, fragments, and excursions into practices like poetic writing—a gesture against the market-driven academy.
Collapse, Catastrophe and Rediscovery
Shaped by its dictatorial past and current economic crisis, Spain is in a moment of great rediscovery. This collection explores how contemporary Spanish film and literature dialogue with the nation’s social situation, offering a wide range of analyses.
The people of a small town absorbed by Mexico City share memories of the games, food, and streets of their past. This book presents a way to build a future that rescues the community’s identity, which still binds them together in spite of the city’s segregating trends.
Colonial Inventions
This book analyzes how visual art was not just illustrative but constitutive of colonial power in 19th-century Trinidad. It unearths sketches and paintings that created racialized scripts for colonized subjects, nature, and the plantation landscape.
Colonial Visions, Postcolonial Revisions
This book traces the Malaysian Indian diaspora from colonial subordination to postcolonial identity. It uncovers the suppressed story of coolie resistance and reveals how pioneer immigrants choreographed the diasporic identity they left as a legacy for today.
Coming to Senses
Archaeology has long neglected the sensory dimension of the material world. The essays in this volume use international case studies and imaginative scenarios to incorporate all the senses, stimulating new ways to conceptualise the past and bring the “self” back to science.
This collection presents studies of communication in its many forms around the world. It covers a wide range of topics, including new media, technology, cultural practices, interpersonal communication, politics, law, rhetoric, and journalism.
Community Policing as a Public Policy
Many community policing initiatives fail. This book explains community policing not as a philosophy, but as a sustainable public policy. It provides a model with challenges and recommendations to serve as guidelines for policymakers and implementers.
Community Practices in India
This ground-breaking collaboration by Indian practitioners and academics presents indigenous knowledge in community organizing. Through case studies of social justice for marginalized communities, it captures locally relevant approaches and engages readers in critical reflection.
Comparative Patriarchy and American Institutions
This book oscillates between analysis, which tries to explain what man is, and anecdote, which teaches what he is capable of becoming. By examining diverse gender relationships, we may gain wider perspectives on our own prejudices and become more fully human.
Conceptualizing our Interpersonal Impressions
Psychoanalysis is rich in theory but poor in evidence. This book breaks the mold, clarifying a 70-year-old problem with the first scientific evidence of psychoanalytic phenomena in everyday life—not from the analyst’s couch.
Confining Spaces, Resistant Subjectivities
This book offers a contemporary re-reading of postcolonial women’s narratives, focusing on female oppression, voice, and agency. An analysis of unconventional spaces of female resistance, such as prison and madness, yields surprising results.
Master negotiation with a superior competency: perspective-taking. This book teaches you to understand others’ views to create beneficial outcomes, find sustainable solutions, and build healthier relationships in your professional and personal life.
Conflict, Trauma and the Media
These essays study the complicated relationship between the messengers bringing news of catastrophic upheaval and the recipients of that message. They consider not only the motivations behind such work, but also the psychological consequences of witnessing extreme suffering.
Confronting the International Patriarchy
While external states—often in the name of women’s liberation—restrict the participation of women in the Middle East, this book demonstrates their joint efforts to confront the international patriarchy with examples of resistance from Iran to the UN.