Jossey Bass imprint: 1362 books
Pocket Guide to the Bible
A Little Book About the Big Book
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2009
"Jason Boyett's Pocket Guides are smart and hilarious. And they're sneaky too: You don't realize how much you're learning because you're having so much fun." —AJ Jacobs, author, The Year of Living Biblically
Americans consistently identify the Bible as the most influential book...
The Heroic Client
A Revolutionary Way to Improve Effectiveness Through Client-Directed, Outcome-Informed Therapy
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2011
In this controversial book, psychologists Barry Duncan and Scott Miller, cofounders of the Institute for the Study of Therapeutic Change, challenge the traditional focus on diagnosis, "silver bullet" techniques, and magic pills, exposing them as empirically bankrupt practices that only diminish...
Culture and Health
Applying Medical Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2008
Culture and Health offers an overview of different areas of culture and health, building on foundations of medical anthropology and health behavior theory. It shows how to address the challenges of cross-cultural medicine through interdisciplinary cultural-ecological models and personal and institutional...
Emerging Infectious Diseases
A Guide to Diseases, Causative Agents, and Surveillance
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
Emerging Infectious Diseases offers an introduction to emerging and reemerging infectious disease, focusing on significant illnesses found in various regions of the world. Many of these diseases strike tropical regions or developing countries with particular virulence, others are found in temperate...
Race and Social Change
A Quest, A Study, A Call to Action
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
A powerful study illuminates our nation's collective civic fault lines
Recent events have turned the spotlight on the issue of race in modern America, and the current cultural climate calls out for more research, education, dialogue, and understanding. Race and Social Change: A Quest, A Study,...
Practicing Narrative Mediation
Loosening the Grip of Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2008
Practicing Narrative Mediation provides mediation practitioners with practical narrative approaches that can be applied to a wide variety of conflict resolution situations. Written by John Winslade and Gerald Monk—leaders in the narrative therapy movement—the book contains suggestions and illustrative...
Effective Implementation In Practice
Integrating Public Policy and Management
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
A unique approach to policy implementation with essential guidance and useful tools
Effective Implementation in Practice: Integrating Public Policy and Management presents an instrumental approach to implementation analysis. By spanningpolicy fields, organizations, and frontline conditions...
by Stephen D. Brookfield
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2017
A practical guide to the essential practice that builds better teachers.
Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher is the landmark guide to critical reflection, providing expert insight and practical tools to facilitate a journey of constructive self-critique. Stephen Brookfield shows how you...
The California School of Organizational Studies Handbook of Organizational Consulting Psychology
A Comprehensive Guide to Theory, Skills, and Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
Discover a wealth of issues in the field of consulting psychologywith this landmark book. Explore key topics in assessment andevaluation, building teams, executive coaching, career counseling,interpersonal conflicts and relationships, benefit design,personality testing, and much more. Learn to delineate...
Healing the Heart of Democracy
The Courage to Create a Politics Worthy of the Human Spirit
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
Hope for American democracy in an era of deep divisions
In Healing the Heart of Democracy, Parker J. Palmer quickens our instinct to seek the common good and gives us the tools to do it. This timely, courageous and practical work—intensely personal as well as political—is not about them,...
Codes of Conduct in Academia
New Directions for Higher Education, Number 160
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
Chapters of this issue of New Directions for Higher Education present tenets of codes of conduct for the presidency, academic deans, admissions officers, fund-raising professionals, faculty who teach undergraduate students, and faculty who teach graduate students. The need for such codes of conduct...
Concepts in Male Health
Perspectives Across The Lifespan
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
Concepts in Male Health
Concepts in Male Health: Perspectives Across the Lifespan offers a practical approach to understanding the health of males of all races, ethnicities, socioeconomic status, cultures, ages, and orientations. Each chapter of this book comprehensively reviews an important...
Purposeful Program Theory
Effective Use of Theories of Change and Logic Models
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2011
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 used in government and not-for-profit organizations, program theory provides a coherent picture of how change occurs and how to improve performance....
Asian American Communities and Health
Context, Research, Policy, and Action
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2009
This ground-breaking textbook examines Asian American health from a public health perspective. It provides an overview of the social, political, economic, and cultural forces that influence the distribution of disease and illness in Asian American communities. The book explores the diversity within...