Furlong: 60 books

In real-life conflict resolution situations, one size does not fit all. Just as a mechanic does not fix every car with the same tool, the conflict resolution practitioner cannot hope to resolve every dispute using the same technique. Practitioners need to be comfortable with a wide variety...

Levels of suffering among young people have always been much higher than governments suggest. Indeed, policies aimed at young workers have often been framed in ways that help secure conformity to a new employment landscape in which traditional securities have been progressively removed. Increasingly...

Explore the most effective methods of studying school violence! School violence and safety research will move forward and make unique scientific contributions only if it develops a core literature that critically examines its measurements, methods, and data analysis techniques. Issues in School...

“An inspirational collection of stories that have the potential to empower many learners and their communities.” Dr Vicky Duckworth, Faculty of Education, Edge Hill University Learner stories were collected from across Australia and the United Kingdom, and include voices spanning much of...

The story of America begins in the Old World, for the first American settlers came from Europe, bringing their heritage with them to the New World. The Old World and America, a popular and beloved middle-school history text, documents the Western World from the beginning of mankind through ancient...

As a Christian, I learned at an early age the importance of God in my life. Over the years, I have been mocked and scorned because of my faith, yet I have never doubted my faith in God and the Lord Jesus Christ. I worked, for many years, as a hill shepherd in the beautiful Lake District in Cumbria...

With its focus on water supply, Leaky Governance will be of interest to professionals, scholars, students, and policymakers working on related issues across a variety of disciplines, including geography, urban studies, environmental studies, political science, and public policy.

First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Youth Studies: an introduction is a clear, jargon-free and accessible textbook which will be invaluable in helping to explain concepts, theories and trends within youth studies. The concise summaries of key texts and the ideas of important theorists make the book an invaluable resource. The book also...

Environmental Biotechnology: Theory and Applications, 2nd Edition is designed to draw together the microscopic, functional level and the macroscopic, practical applications of biotechnology and to explain how the two relate within an environmental context. It presents the practical biological approaches...

Developed from nearly 20 years' practice and consulting experience, this ground-breaking text challenges practitioners to understand, and work, with their clients as relational beings rather than independent units, whatever the presenting problem might be. The book focuses on an often neglected key...

For more than fifteen years The Graduate School Funding Handbook has been an invaluable resource for students applying to graduate school in the United States or abroad, at the master's, doctoral, and postdoctoral levels. Illuminating the competitive world of graduate education funding in the arts,...

In the UK and elsewhere, the training of teachers is increasingly seen as a matter of partnership between schools and institutions of higher education. There is thus an urgent need within the profession to define more carefully what the role of teachers acting as mentors should be. Clearly some aspects...

*When the mutilated remains of a young woman are found in an Appalachian Mountain cave, newly sworn-in deputy sheriff Brynn Callahan is forced to track down a killer driven by twisted motives . . . *** **   Not long after donning the uniform of the McCreary County Sheriff's department in Bone Gap,...