A complete guide to applied research, featuring original data and detailed case studiesApplied Research Methods in Public and Nonprofit Organizations takes an integrative approach to applied research, emphasizing design, data collection, and analysis. Common case studies across chapters illustrate the everyday nature of research, and practical exercises reinforce concepts across all sections of the text. The book includes forms and formats for data collect...

There are ghosts in our homes. Some we create ourselves and leave inside the selves of others.Michelle, Eric, and Gerard struggle with loneliness, drugs, loss, and hope as they search for a way to conquer solitude and survive in a world increasingly camouflaged in modern connections. How to Be Alone is a love story, a break up story, and a quiet, daily struggle in a world upturned, sometimes suddenly, by depression and abandonment and revelation and inspiration and understanding.

Struggles for control. Facing death head on. Fighting memory. Switching gender roles. MUTANTS! This collection of six stories, some too fiction, some too true, include the mania, reluctance, and bravery of the women of Herland.

Lead with Power. Lead with Care. Change Everything.Revolutionary Leadership: A Power Playbook for Black Women redefines what leadership looks like by honoring the distinctive, transformative approaches Black women have pioneered for generations. Drawing on foundational academic research, historical analysis, evidence-based consulting practice, and powerful personal narratives, this guide challenges outdated norms and offers actionable frameworks rooted in ...

Twenty-somethings grapple with jobs, drugs, lives.

Kept is a memoir that recounts the defining moments in my journey from life in a middle-class African-American family tightly bound by duty and God to a life of prostitution, drugs, and crime, and ultimately to the life I lead now- defined by faith, community, and family. It's a journey that stretches from California through Arizona and Texas and on to Memphis. This is not just another story about a woman who loses her way and finds redemption in the end. Even in cheap hotels, dens of drug...

Steps 1 - 9: Confidence is everything. Small stories. Quiet people. Some political, some feminist, some mothers, some mentally ill, some healthy. Lot of them about people talking and searching. Trying their best to be human.Herland.Headless in MidcityThe Glass WombLegJoining ISISdanger generationGhosts Aren’t RealAnaSpore

Impulse, beauty, determination, conceit, but mostly a search. Two beings together in a single room. Searching. These are the stories of Conversations with Furious Women. Lacy, married mother of two. Shelly, widowed, monied, and alone. Rhonda, a single, 40-something driven in uncertain directions, and Alice, the young careerist. Four characters seeking out sex as a means of revelation and some possibly finding it, and that's only Year 1.Join the conversation and the wine laced, desp...

Hillary meets with Bernie. Carly connects with Rick Perry in a downtown Dallas skyscraper. Mr. Rubio's on the trail, trying to tamp down rising erotic thoughts confluenced with power. And Rand Paul preps for the first Republican National debate as he reflects on life as the child of a politician and once presidential candidate. Lindsey and Rick S. make cameo appearances in this rousing, literary novella delving deep into the interior lives and desires of the current 2016 presidential candi...

The idea of voting is simple, but the administration of elections in ways that ensure access and integrity is complex. In How We Vote, Kathleen Hale and Mitchell Brown explore how election officials work, how ballots are cast and counted, and how jurisdictions try to innovate while also protecting the security of the voting process.Election officials must work in a difficult intergovernmental environment of constant change and intense partisanship. Voting practices and fun...

The idea of voting is simple, but the administration of elections in ways that ensure access and integrity is complex.In How We Vote, Kathleen Hale and Mitchell Brown explore what is at the heart of our democracy: how elections are run. Election administration determines how ballots are cast and counted, and how jurisdictions try to innovate while also protecting the security of the voting process, as well as how election officials work.Election of...

"Sobbing so uncontrollably I could not take a breath,the pain was unbearable.I washed down the pills with an openbottle of wine I grabbed from the fridge.I just wanted it all to stop...the pain... the fighting... the lies..."Scars to Stars TM is a series of online summits, live events,and books. These writers vulnerably share their personal, authentic stories of overcoming adversity to motivate and inspire you, wherever you might be a...