This comprehensive Handbook is the first to provide a practical, interdisciplinary review of ethical issues as they relate to quantitative methodology including how to present evidence for reliability and validity, what comprises an adequate tested population, and what constitutes scientific knowledge for eliminating biases. The book uses an ethical framework that emphasizes the human cost of quantitative decision making to help researchers understand the specific implications of ...

Create effective community-based programs for substance abusers with HIV/AIDS!Substance abusers are the fastest-growing population of people with HIV/AIDS in the US--and one of the hardest to reach and treat. Evaluating HIV/AIDS Treatment Programs offers new strategies for providing care for this vulnerable population. The programs evaluated and discussed in this volume were funded as part of the DHHS Health Resources and Services Administration through its Special Projects of National Sig...

'Fascinating . . . a must-read' MojoAs bass player with the Specials, in his second-hand suit and pork pie hat, Horace Panter was a member of one of the most innovative and exciting bands to come snarling out of the punk era. Founded by Jerry Damners, their fusion of punk, reggae and ska created a new musical fashion, spearheaded by their own record label Two Tone. They stood for unity and racial harmony in a polarised society. They even got British men da...

We Hide in Plain Sight is a lesbian love story set in a dystopian near future, when the Canadian Government has been overthrown and homosexuality has been banned. Lozen and Becca, along with their best friend Kyle, attempt to navigate their way through chaos, violence and fear as the government and its’ army of “Sergeants” hunt down members of the LGBTQ+ community. Their singular desire is to not only survive but construct a future where they will once again be free.Told through the...

Building on comparative research in the U.K. and the U.S.A., this is the first book focused specifically on transgender experiences within policing. It examines the issues faced by the transgender community within policing and explores how gender, and the non-conformity of it, is perceived within police cultures. Moreover, it provides an on-going critique of the queer criminology movement and why it is crucial to policing studies, emphasising the specific importance of transgender issues t...

Grant Panter grew up in England and went to Canada as a young man, where, while managing a store, a customer recommended that he consider teaching English as a Second Language in Toronto. After many years at George Brown College he was asked to evaluate student teachers and found, that although they had theoretical knowledge, they were not able to prepare clear, understandable lesson plans and he resolved to remedy that with this book. He taught students from all over the world for 27 joyf...

Would You Rather Be began as a simple game the author played with two of his grandchildren when they got together. Over time it became a fun thing to do with the grandchildren over the phone as well. It is a fanciful book that ends with a solid Christian message.

Quality is a Mindset - not just a System Discover how Interpunctuation Corp. turns a market share crisis into an opportunity to reclaim industry leadership - using the right quality management tools at the right time. This unique parable brings to life the power of proven QM methods like 8D reports, FMEA, and Poka Yoke, demonstrating their practical application and synergy in a compelling, easy-to-follow story. More than just a reference book, this is a transformative read for anyone passi...

Exploring most aspects of English domestic life during the war, they are about separation, sewing parties, fear, evacuees sent to the country, obsession with food, the social revolutions of wartime. In the Daily Mail Angela Huth called Good Evening, Mrs Craven ‘my especial find’ and Ruth Gorb in the Ham & High contrasted the humour of some of the stories with the desolation of others: ‘The mistress, unlike the wife, has to worry and mourn in secret for her man; a middle-aged spinster finds...

'As profound as Katherine Mansfield, restrained as Jane Austen, sharp as Dorothy Parker' IndependentINTRODUCED BY NICOLA BEAUMANThe lark rose in the brilliant air, higher, higher on its spun-glass spiral of song, knowing nothing of peace or war, accepting joyously the bounty of another day.A hot summer's day in 1946. The village of Wealding is no longer troubled by distant sirens, yet the rusting coils of barbed wi...

Tells the story of the married life of Nevis Falconer, a young woman novelist, and Simon Quinn. Temperamentally unsuited, they live this superficial existence for three years, until one day Nevis meets Marcus Chard, her American publisher, who has just arrived in London. Soon friendship develops into love. Nevis finds herself caught in a whirl of circumstances over which she has no control.

Gandhi's involvement in Middle Eastern politics is largely forgotten yet it goes to the heart of his teaching and ambition - to lead a united freedom movement against British colonial power.Gandhi became involved in the politics of the Middle East as a result of his concern over the abolition of the Ottoman Caliphate following the First World War. He subsequently - at the invitation of the Jewish Agency - sought to reconcile Jews and Arabs in a secret deal at the time of the Mandat...