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This second edition of The Social Work Student's Research Handbook
provides an essential guide for social work students beginning to
participate in research. Practical and easy to use, this
comprehensive handbook provides instant access to the nuts and
bolts of social work research. Each chapter in this second edition
has been updated to reflect the dynamic and changing nature of
social work research, and three new topical chapters have been
included that offer new food for thought on research context and
ethics and on the role of evidence in professional practice. The
book is intended as a resource to complement the dense and heavy
research books available. This text provides the tools students
need to fully engage with their research and is an essential
reference aid for use alongside professional literature for
selecting a problem for social work study with consideration of
context and ethics; identifying a design type; developing or
selecting an instrument; developing a sampling strategy; collecting
and analyzing data; and organizing, writing, disseminating, and
utilizing results in a politically sensitive way. The Social Work
Student's Research Handbook is an invaluable resource for
undergraduate and graduate social work students as well as
practitioners new to the field as they apply what they've learned
in research courses toward consuming research effectively,
implementing original research projects, and ultimately, toward
becoming an evidence-based practitioner.
Take control of your wedding planning (and budget) with over 500
easy hacks to help your wedding go as smoothly as possible-from
preventing wardrobe malfunctions to making an adjustable seating
chart. Congratulations-you're engaged! But, now what? As you start
to share the news with your family and friends, you might start
feeling slightly stressed about the amount of planning you suddenly
have to do. But wedding planning can actually be easier than you
think! With Wedding Hacks you'll find solutions to all your wedding
planning worries and prevent any problems that you might not have
seen coming. From finding cheaper prices online to dealing with
difficult relatives, this book has everything you need to know to
make your wedding day one you'll never forget (all while keeping
your sanity intact)!
This new edition contains over 250 fully updated entries in
operations management;
All bibliographies have been significantly up-dated and extended;
Features 93 new entries across a wide range of areas, including:
service, strategy, technology and innovation;
Expands on core entries such as the newsvendor model;
Contains entries from 31 new, worldwide authors, featuring more
than 50 international contributors in total.
For millennia, humans have regarded snakes with an exceptional
combination of fascination and revulsion. Some people recoil in
fear at the very suggestion of these creatures, while others
happily keep them as pets. Snakes can convey both beauty and menace
in a single tongue flick and so these creatures have held a special
place in our cultures. Yet, for as many meanings that we attribute
to snakes--from fertility and birth to sin and death--the real-life
species represent an even wider array of wonders. The Book of
Snakes presents 600 species of snakes from around the world,
covering nearly one in six of all snake species. It will bring
greater understanding of a group of reptiles that have existed for
more than 160 million years, and that now inhabit every continent
except Antarctica, as well as two of the great oceans. This volume
pairs spectacular photos with easy-to-digest text. It is the first
book on these creatures that combines a broad, worldwide sample
with full-color, life-size accounts. Entries include close-ups of
the snake's head and a section of the snake at actual size. The
detailed images allow readers to examine the intricate scale
patterns and rainbow of colors as well as special features like a
cobra's hood or a rattlesnake's rattle. The text is written for
laypeople and includes a glossary of frequently used terms.
Herpetologists and herpetoculturists alike will delight in this
collection, and even those with a more cautious stance on snakes
will find themselves drawn in by the wild diversity of the suborder
Serpentes.
This is the first reference work to describe the history of
embroidery throughout Central Asia, the Iranian Plateau and the
Indian Subcontinent from the medieval period through to the
present. It offers an authoritative guide to all the major
embroidery traditions of the region and a detailed examination of
the material, technical, artistic and design dimensions of the
subject, including its use by today’s fashion designers. For
millennia, the peoples of Central Asian, the Iranian Plateau and
the Indian Subcontinent have migrated and traded along the multiple
strands of the Silk Road, both north–south and east–west. This
history of contact has found rich expression within the arts and
crafts of the region and particularly in the heritage of embroidery
which has sat at the heart of the social and cultural lives of
these diverse communities. Embroidery has been produced to decorate
individuals, their families, their clients, their homes and public
spaces and has reflected economic and political changes over time
as well as social, religious and artistic contexts. Generously
illustrated with 500 images (over 450 in colour) of clothes,
accessories, and examples of decorated soft furnishings such as
cushions, bed linen, curtains, floor coverings and wall hangings,
the Encyclopedia is an essential resource for students and scholars
of the subject. This volume is the second in the Bloomsbury World
Encyclopedia of Embroidery series. The first volume, on embroidery
from the Arab World, won the 2017 Dartmouth Medal, awarded by the
American Library Association for a reference work of outstanding
quality and significance.
The final volume of The Papers of Jefferson Davis follows the
former president of the Confederacy through the completion of his
two monumental works on the history of the Confederate States of
America. In the first, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate
Government (1881), Davis sought to recast the Confederacy as a just
and moral nation that was constitutionally correct in standing up
for its rights. Himself the subject of heated debates about why the
Confederacy lost, Davis also used the book to castigate Confederate
government and military officials who he believed had failed the
cause. Later, A Short History of the Confederate States (1890)
attempted to burnish the image of the former Confederacy and to
refute accusations of intentional mistreatment of Union prisoners.
While completing these books, Davis attended and spoke at numerous
Confederate memorial services and monument dedications, all the
while waging a bitter feud with two of his former top
generals-Joseph E. Johnston and P. G. T. Beauregard-over the
reasons for the fall of the Confederacy. In late 1889, having
returned to New Orleans from a trip to his plantation, Brierfield,
Davis succumbed to pneumonia. His funeral procession attracted an
estimated 150,000 mourners, a testament to the lasting popularity
of the Confederacy's only president. In volume 14 of The Papers of
Jefferson Davis, the editors have drawn from over one hundred
manuscript repositories and private collections, in addition to
numerous published sources, to offer a compelling portrait of Davis
over the last decade of his life.
Raids, invasions and sieges; trench battles, naval encounters and
aerial dogfights; civil wars, guerrilla wars, trade wars and
nuclear wars; wars of succession, religion and independence wars
have been fought in all kinds of ways and for all kinds of reasons.
From the ancient world to the Arab Spring, from the Hundred Years
War to the Six Day War, from the Wars of the Roses to the Opium
Wars, across 1000 pages The Encyclopedia of Warfare presents the
reader with more than 5000 entries arranged chronologically on
wars, campaigns, empires, rebellions and counter insurgencies. From
battles fought with spears to the latest drone technology, The
Encyclopedia of Warfare features an immense range of conflict. Each
war narrative, where appropriate, includes descriptions of its
campaigns, battles and sieges. All this is easily accessed via an
extensive index. Featuring 600 full color maps created specifically
for this volume, The Encyclopedia of Warfare is written in a style
accessible to both the student and the general enthusiast, and
reflects the latest thinking among military historians. The
Encyclopedia of Warfare is an authoritative compendium of almost
five millennia of conflict.
Worlds of Reference is a history of dictionaries, encyclopedias and
reference materials, but it is also far more than that, because it
is concerned with the growth of civilisation, education and culture
- and particularly how the human race learned to store information
beyond the brain. It looks at how our species moved from being able
to communicate only orally and to store information only in the
head (rote memorisation) to the evolution of technologies for
external reference: clay- and cunieform, reed-and-hieroglyph,
bamboo-and-ideogram, parchment-and-alphabet, codices, books, pages,
columns and so forth through the print revolution to the current
electronic revolution. Along the way it looks at how this has
affected languages like Latin, french, and English and people's
attitudes to those languages - and to words and the listing of
information about words. This intensely human subject is as
compelling and important today as any account of kings, queens,
wars and social upheaval.
In Can Crocodiles Cry? Paul Heiney unravels further science behind
those things we take for granted, and explains just why the world
and its contents are the way they are. Drawing on questions asked
by the public, this book brings some of the finest scientific minds
to bear on how the laws of science apply to everyday life. It is
the perfect gift for the insatiably curious, provocative poseurs,
quizaholics and science addicts everywhere.
Discover where faeries and other mythical creatures are hiding in
our modern, urban environment with this beautifully illustrated
guide to uncovering magical beings. From the musty corners of
libraries to the darkest depths of urban sewers, faeries, boggarts,
redcaps, and other fantastical species can be found all around
us-but only if we know where to look. And like every other being in
the modern world, these wonderous creatures have been forced to
adapt to the climate, industrial, and cultural changes of the
modern era. Many formerly common creatures from akeki to cave
trolls have been driven out by the urban sprawl, technological
advancements, and climate change while others, including ether
sprites and brownies, have been able to thrive in abundance,
creating homes within electrical hotbeds and massive landfills.
Featuring descriptions of magical creatures from around the globe,
this encyclopedic collection details the history and adaptability
of more than fifty different species of fae. Describing
little-known and fascinating creatures such as the Luck Pigeon of
Baltimore, the akaname of Eastern Asia, and the konderong of South
Africa, this book will expose readers to fantastical species from a
variety of cultures and communities. Combining scholarship with
modern lore and environmentalism, and featuring stunning hand-drawn
illustrations, Finding Faeries is a captivating look at the
fantastical beings that inhabit our world today.
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