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The Handbook of Conflict Resolutionby Morton Deutsch; Peter T. Coleman; Eric C. Marcus
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2011; US$ 75.00The Handbook of Conflict Resolution, Second Edition is written for both the seasoned professional and the student who wants to deepen their understanding of the processes involved in conflicts and their knowledge of how to manage them constructively. It provides the theoretical underpinnings that throw light on the fundamental social psychological processes involved in understanding and managing conflicts at all levels—interpersonal, intergroup, organizational, and international. The Handbook covers a broad range of topics including information on cooperation and competition, justice, trust development and repair, resolving intractable conflict, and working with culture and conflict. Comprehensive in scope, this new edition includes... more...
Social Exclusionby David Byrne
McGraw-Hill Education 2007; US$ 47.98The second edition of this widely read book explores developments in social theory, social experience and social policy in relation to Social Exclusion. The first part examines the origins of the term and implications of the difference between the ideas of 'exclusion', 'underclass', 'residuum' and related concepts. The discussion is informed by the application of Complexity Theory. In the updated second part, the theoretical account is developed through a detailed review of the dynamics of individual lives in a changing social order. Income equality, spatial division, and exclusion in relation to health, education and cultural provision and processes are examined in a range of societies in Europe and North America. The last part contains a... more...
Interpersonal Relationshipsby Diana Dwyer
Routledge 2000; US$ 17.00Considers friendships and more intimate relationships including why we need them, how they are formed, what we get out of them and the stages through which they go. more...
Mediating Dangerouslyby Kenneth Cloke
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2002; US$ 46.00Sometimes it's necessary to push beyond the usual limits of the mediation process to achieve deeper and more lasting change. Mediating Dangerously shows how to reach beyond technical and traditional intervention to the outer edges and dark places of dispute resolution, where risk taking is essential and fundamental change is the desired result. It means opening wounds and looking beneath the surface, challenging comfortable assumptions, and exploring dangerous issues such as dishonesty, denial, apathy, domestic violence, grief, war, and slavery in order to reach a deeper level of transformational change. Mediating Dangerously shows conflict resolution professionals how to advance beyond the traditional steps, procedures, and techniques of... more...
Informalityby Barbara Misztal
Routledge 1999; US$ 57.95Argues that only a society that achieves an appropriate balance between informality and formality of interaction will find itself in a position to move forward to further democratisation and an improved quality of life. more...
Between Two Worlds - Society, Politics, and Business in the Philippinesby Rupert Hodder
RoutledgeCurzon 2002; US$ 170.00Considers varying attitudes to social relationships in the West and Asia, in the context of the Philippines, and how bound up these are with material progress, business and politics. more...
Violence and the Bodyby Arturo J. Aldama
Indiana University Press 2003; US$ 23.95Violence and the Body: Race, Gender, and the State explores the relationship between subalternity, the discourse and technology of the body, and the rise and proliferation of racial, colonial, sexual, domestic, and state violence, examining the materiality of violence on the "otherized" body. Grounded in U.S./Mexico border and Latin American cultural studies, the essays in this collection intersect discussions of subalternity, violence, and discourses of the body in a transethnic, feminist, and global cultural studies context. They provide a global mapping of contemporary modes and acts of physical and representational... more...
Handbook of Violenceby Lisa A. Rapp-Paglicci; Albert R. Roberts; John S. Wodarski
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2002; US$ 105.00A multidisciplinary team of experts examines violence from a resilience perspective Violence knows no boundaries. It attacks in schools, in families, and even in the workforce-places that should be regarded as safe havens. Encompassing the enormity of violence through a comprehensive, biopsychosocial perspective, Handbook of Violence examines community, school, family, and workplace violence, including identification, classification, prevention, and interview programs and case management. Written by the leading authorities in their fields, this groundbreaking compilation: * Reviews how children and adolescents from violent homes are detrimentally affected in multiple ways, including short- and long-term consequences that seriously impair... more...
Isolationby Carolyn Strange; Alison Bashford
Routledge 2003; US$ 123.00In addition to offering new perspectives on the continuum of medico-penal sites of isolation from the asylum to the penitentiary, Isolation looks at less well-known sites, from leper villages to refugee camps to Native reserves. more...
Communication, Relationships and Careby Martin Robb; Sheila Barrett; Carol Komaromy; Anita Rogers
Routledge 2003; US$ 47.95Specifically for front-line workers in health and social care Communication, Relationships and Care aims to improve understanding of communication and relationships in care settings and to enable critical reflection on practice and experiance. more...