You have just been asked to run a focus group, but you don't know where to start. How do you get the right mix of people together? How many people should be in your group? What kind of questions should you ask? How do you phrase them? What do you do with the information you've gathered? How do you put it all together in one cohesive report? These ...
Managing a vastly diverse population, often stratified by economic status, education, culture, language, ideology, and political party, is no picnic. It never has been, nor is it likely to be. Managing Urban America has become the standard guide offering sage advice as to how to approach the formidable task. In a comprehensive, balanced manner, ...
Using a wide range of archival and written sources, Rudi Matthee considers the economic, social and political networks established between Iran, its neighbours and the world at large, through the prism of the late Safavid silk trade. In so doing, he demonstrates how silk, a resource crucial to state revenue and the only commodity to span Iran's ...
"Anxiety Disorders: A Pocket Guide for Primary Care" is designed to help the primary care practitioner recognize, diagnose, and manage anxiety disorders in a busy clinical practice. The first several chapters give an overview of anxiety and the anxiety disorders, and provide the practitioner with practical information and techniques regarding the ...
'A first-rate overview of Oklahoma politics. Interesting, informative, and current, this work is a superb contribution to the literature on state politics' - Lelan McLemore, author of "Task-Related Norms in a State Legislature: The Case of Oklahoma". Oklahoma is a plains state exemplifying the Middle American virtues of family, lodge, and church; ...
Why and under what circumstances did the religion of Islam emerge in a remote part of Arabia at the beginning of the seventh century? Traditional scholarship maintains that Islam developed in opposition to the idolatrous and polytheistic religion of the Arabs of Mecca and the surrounding regions. In this study of pre-Islamic Arabian religion, G. R ...
This is the fifth updated edition of Morgan's study and analysis of urban management in America. First issued in 1980, many of the same problems are found to be facing public officials today - fiscal stress, doing more with less, productivity enhancement, privatization, cutback management, retrenchment, and economic development are still very much ...
At the last Annual Representative Meeting of the British Medical Association a motion was passed that certain additional cannabinoids should be legalized for wider medicinal use." This report supports this landmark statement by reviewing the scientific evidence for the therapeutic use of cannabinoids and sets the agenda for change. It will be ...
Dina Rizk Khoury's book, which spans three centuries of Ottoman history, offers a new interpretation of relations between the central Ottoman empire and the frontier city of Mosul during the early modern period. Basing her work on Ottoman and Iraqi archival sources, the author demonstrates that, contrary to the accepted view, the links between the ...
The World Health Organization estimates that pesticides kill one million people each year and that as many as 25 million agriculture workers suffer an episode of poisoning. In 1985 over three million tonnes of pesticides were used in agriculture and horticulture world-wide, and use is increasing rapidly in developing countries. There is now ...
Using an integrated case study approach, the book begins with the underlying logic of single-case (and its relations to applied behaviour analysis) designs, specific design strategies and tactics, data presentation and interpretation, and the general advantages of single-subject research for those working in applied settings - particularly courses ...
Unlike other works in the field, Intergovernmental Relations and Public Policy deals with all levels of intergovernmental relations in the United States. Following an introductory section on the intergovernmental setting of public-policy, the book explores federal-state, state-local, and federal-state-local relations. There are discussions of ...
Britain has maintained a largely rabies-free status for most of the 20th century by retaining distinctive quarantine regulations. This work examines the possibility of equally efficient methods of keeping Britain free from the disease. Informing the continuing debate about rabies, this guide reviews the patterns of rabies around the world and the ...
Based on the small version of "Blooming Cats", this is intended as a whole class teaching resource used by teachers to teach reading and writing conventions. It is recommended by the NLS for use in the shared reading session of the reading hour, particularly at Key Stage 1. It tells the story of a lonely old man whose chief pleasure is feeding his ...
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