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Introduction to Soil Mechanics, Béla Bodó & Colin Jones Introduction to Soil Mechanics covers the basic principles of soil mechanics, illustrating why…

In this volume, African scholars engaged in research on the continent reflect on their recent and ongoing empirical studies. They discuss the strength…

Praise for Handbook of Global and Multicultural Negotiation «In today's globalized world, few competencies are as essential as the ability to negotiat…

UNESCO’s 1997 CONFINTEA V conference in Hamburg has been described as the high-water mark of international adult education policy-making. It produced …

Radicalizing Learning calls for a total rethinking of what the field of adult education stands for and how adult educators should assess their effecti…

This book presents one of the first studies of the Renaissance notion of conscience, through examining theological manuals, legal treatises, letters a…

Educational Neuroscience provides an overview of the wide range of recent initiatives in educational neuroscience, examining a variety of methodologic…

Written with a fresh voice and a dash of humor, Do Good Well is an exciting and readily adaptable guide to social innovation that not only captures th…

Praise for Development for Academic Leaders «Penny Hunt has opened the door on what many academics consider the mystery of fundraising success. In a s…

This issue delivers concrete suggestions for optimally using data visualization in evaluation, as well as suggestions for best practices in data visua…

This groundbreaking book presents a new way of looking at leadership that is anchored in research on women leaders in education. The authors examine h…

Praise for On Being Presidential «This is the best book I've ever read on being a college president.»—Arthur Levine, president, Woodrow Wilson Nationa…

This volume looks at graduate education, specifically the doctorate, through the lens of adult education practice. Students in doctoral programs are, …

Thoroughly revised and updated, the third edition of bestselling The ABCs of Evaluation offers an introduction to program evaluation. This comprehensi…

A topical and provocative volume that invites consideration of the most fundamental issues concerning future educational provision: what is the purpos…

The new edition of this authoritative introduction to the philosophy of technology includes recent developments in the subject, while retaining the ra…

Multilevel modeling is an increasingly popular multivariate technique that is widely applied in the social sciences. Increasingly, practitioners are m…

Materials and Methods in ELT is an essential resource for teachers or for those engaged in taking professional courses relating to all aspects of Engl…

Fully revised to reflect today’s media environment, this new edition of Critical Media Studies offers students a comprehensive introduction to the fie…

Prioritizing Academic Programs and Services Revised and Updated Increasing economic concerns make the new edition of this best-selling classic an inva…

Chapters of this issue of New Directions for Higher Education present tenets of codes of conduct for the presidency, academic deans, admissions office…

How does one assess community service, civic engagement, and the impact of service learning on a college campus? This volume reviews contemporary rese…

What’s it really like to be a chemist? Leading chemists share what they do, how they do it, and why they love it. “Letters to a young …” has been a mu…

Linking Leadership to Student Learning Linking Leadership to Student Learning clearly shows how school leadership improves student achievement. The bo…

Between good intentions and great results lies a program theory—not just a list of tasks but a vision of what needs to happen, and how. Now widely use…

The first edition of Assessment Clear and Simple quickly became the essential go-to guide for anyone who participates in the assessment process in hig…

Written by Matthew Reed, the formerly anonymous author of Inside Higher Ed's most popular blog, Confessions of a Community College Dean, this book off…

Shows how the design process can be successfully applied to satisfy market needs and trends Fashion design seems to be a glamorous mystery for which o…

Widen your view of adult education by learning how it is applied by the nation’s largest adult education provider: the military. Woven through this is…

Continuing to Engage the Online Learner Contributing to both the theoretical and practical literature, Continuing to Engage the Online Learner expands…

The use of webcam, especially through Skype, has recently become established as one more standard media technology, but so far there has been no attem…

Now available in a fully revised and updated ninth edition, World News Prism provides in-depth analysis of the changing role of transnational news med…

Historicising Gender and Sexuality features a diverse collection of essays that shed new light on the historical intersections between gender and sexu…

This comprehensive book focuses squarely on academic portfolios, which may prove to be the most innovative and promising faculty evaluation and develo…

The second edition of this bestselling narrative history has been revised and expanded to reflect recent scholarship. The book traces the transformati…

The trinity of government, military and publics has been drawn together into immediate and unpredictable relationships in a «new media ecology» that h…

Through a series of case studies from around the world, Capitalism and Conservation presents a critique of conservation’s role as a central driver of …

It's estimated that, in the coming decade, as many as 2 million students with military experience will take advantage of their education benefits and …

The Second Edition of this unique pocket field guide has been thoroughly revised and updated to include advances in physical volcanology, emplacement …

The newest edition of the bestselling book on educational leadership This expanded and thoroughly updated edition of the popular anthology contains th…

Designed to accompany the new Open University course in Environmental Monitoring and Protection, this is one of four new titles which will equip the r…

This volume offers institutional researchers several examples of the ways in which quantitative and qualitative methods can be integrated for a better…

Take a candid look into how some traditional liberal arts colleges have incorporated nontraditional adult degree programs. This volume of case studies…

Suicide Risk Management: A Manual for Health Professionals is a short, clearly written book that provides practical guidance on how to manage the suic…

The second edition of Effective Grading—the book that has become a classic in the field—provides a proven hands-on guide for evaluating student work a…