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Disclosing Elite Ecologies Methodologies For Doing Urban Elite Research

Disclosing elite ecologies: Methodologies for Doing Urban Elite Research offers a set of methodologies to chart urban elites. Whereas most research has focused on the global super-rich this book pays specific attention to the multidimensional urban geographies of elite reproduction and transformation as elites depend on urban contexts for capital accumulation consumption and leisure and housing. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach to the topic contributing authors discuss various theoretical and methodological antecedents in urban studies and related areas of research that have investigated economic elites. Building on but also moving beyond these bodies of literature the book rejects a-priori definitions of the size and shape of this social group and instead pursues relational place specific conceptualizations of elite composition and behavior. In particular the contributions to the volume show that urban elite research benefits from paying more attention to: (i) boundary work between elites and non-elites; (ii) intra-elite competition and distinction; (iii) national state spaces in determining elite composition; and (iv) the urban sense of belonging of economic elites. This extensive volume provides readers with various empirical inroads into the study of urban elites drawing on research set in Brussels Fez London Lyon Madrid Manchester Milan New York City Paris and Porto Alegre. Taking inspiration from urban and economic geography elite theory and urban sociology cultural sociology political economy anthropology criminology architecture and migration studies this book aims to open up the opportunity for methodological cross-fertilization. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Urban Geography. | Disclosing Elite Ecologies Methodologies For Doing Urban Elite Research

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Elite Deviance

Tracing the causes of elite deviance to the structure of U. S. power and wealth this book introduces students to theories of elite deviance and covers both criminal and non-criminal elite acts that cause significant harm. This considerably updated 11th edition enriches its coverage of both historical and contemporary elite deviance. Updates include: New and expanded discussions on history property and historical critique from Revolutionary America onward. New analysis on Donald Trump: his cabinet members of the political elite his relationship with the EPA and his business connections. Investigation into Caribbean and European tax havens. An extended review on elite deviance and increasing inequalities. Very current information and examples of scandals in international conflicts. The section on changing media patterns.

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Routledge Handbook of Elite Sport Performance

The Routledge Handbook of Elite Sport Performance is the first book to examine a broad span of performance and support issues in contemporary elite sport; including coaching sports science and medicine leadership and management operating in different societies living in the system as a performer and future developments in the domain. The book is written by authors with elite-level experience expertise success and status across individual and team sports including football NFL track and field athletics rowing and rugby in professional Olympic and other elite domains. The book also considers the integration of systems at micro to macro levels from working with individual athletes to developing national organisations and policy and features in-depth case studies from real sport throughout. This is an essential reference for any researcher or advanced student with an interest in elite sport or applied sport science from sport injury and sport psychology to sports coaching and sport policy. It is also an invaluable resource for coaches managers administrators and policy-makers working in elite sport offering them a breadth first guide to how and why specialists may work together for maximum effect.

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Elite Soccer Players Maximizing Performance and Safety

The sport of soccer has evolved immensely since its beginning around 2 000 years ago and is now considered the most popular sport in the world. The research related to the physical psychological and tactical aspects of the game has risen in conjunction with its fame. Elite Soccer Players: Maximizing Performance and Safety seeks to inform the reader with the most current research connected to optimizing physical performance and reducing the risk of injury of the elite soccer athlete for a variety of ages. After providing an initial brief overview of applying physical and psychological scientific concepts in soccer (Part I: Laying the Foundation”) this book then takes the reader through a series of important yet novel parts including: “Athlete Monitoring and Data Analysis ” “Optimizing Physical Performance ” “Injury Epidemiology and Risk Reduction ” “Achieving Peak Performance and Safety in Various Environmental Conditions ” and “Unique Aspects of the Game. ” The goal of Elite Soccer Players: Maximizing Performance and Safety is to conceptualize and expand upon the current research associated with these topics and provide an applicable point of view to the coaches sport scientists strength and conditioning coaches and sports medicine professionals who work with these athletes every day. | Elite Soccer Players Maximizing Performance and Safety

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Elite Universities and the Making of Privilege Exploring Race and Class in Global Educational Economies

Providing an extraordinary picture of the inner workings of elite universities Elite Universities and the Making of Privilege draws on current debates on education and inequality and considers the relevance of universities’ global brand identities. Using the work of Bourdieu and critical race theory to explore how identity experience and family background affects how people navigate the social space of the university this book is underpinned with empirical research that considers different social economic and educational contexts. Using interview accounts of graduate students this book highlights ambiguities in how eliteness works as both a recognisable marker of institutional status and a marker that is rarely quantified or defined. Combining intellectually rigorous accessible and controversial chapters Elite Universities and the Making of Privilege is crucial reading for anyone looking to understand how race and class affect those navigating elite universities. | Elite Universities and the Making of Privilege Exploring Race and Class in Global Educational Economies

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Embedded Multi-Level Leadership in Elite Sport

This book represents an alternative perspective on international elite sport systems. It focusses on the embedded multi-level nature of leadership and the scope that this might give for degrees of leadership autonomy and discretion. The chapters show how mechanisms of leadership on different levels interact. The nature and mix of leadership mechanisms reflect values and expectations related to specific political normative and commercial sport contexts. Three introductory chapters outline key elements of these dimensions of elite sport contexts. Seven empirical cases illustrate how national contexts facilitate and constrain leadership practices related to specific sports across Russia China Ghana Germany Switzerland Denmark Norway and the US. The final chapter discusses embedded multi-level leadership from a comparative perspective. Based on the countries covered the book distinguishes between three groups: state-dominated systems state-elite sport partnership and countries with a passive state with no state intervention. This book is important reading for researchers and students with an interest in sport management sport development sport policy and sport governance as well as for policy-makers performance directors and managers working in elite sport. | Embedded Multi-Level Leadership in Elite Sport

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Peak Performance for Soccer The Elite Coaching and Training Manual

In this book over 40 of the world’s leading practitioners working in elite soccer— over 6 continents—share advanced knowledge of the environment as well as a scientific understanding of the game and players. This book explores those traits at an intricate level through shared experiences of some of the best performance coaches working in elite soccer. The content in this book is derived from practical and evidence-based concepts that have been applied at the elite level. Uncovering the coaching strategies as well as contemporary issues in elite soccer this comprehensive textbook illustrates what it takes to thrive as a performance coach at the top level. Collaborating with the industry leaders in soccer the chapters address a myriad of topics such as: • the multiple roles and responsibilities; • youth development; • strength and conditioning application; • nutrition and recovery strategies; • tracking and monitoring fitness and fatigue; • powerful communication methods and staff cohesion; and • return to play and injury prevention strategies Peak Performance for Soccer is essential reading for all coaches and practitioners at any level who work in soccer. Alex Calder is the head of sports science with the Houston Dynamo competing in Major League Soccer (MLS). He is an accredited level 3 elite coach with the Australian Strength and Conditioning Association (ASCA) as well as holding accreditations through the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA) and Collegiate Strength and Conditioning Coaches Association (CSCCa). Adam Centofanti is currently the head of fitness for the Seattle Sounders FC having previously served as the head of academy strength and conditioning for Houston Dynamo FC. Formally with Melbourne City FC Adam held various roles with the club including conditioning coach/sports scientist in the academy sector as well as overseeing the women’s performance program achieving multiple championships. | Peak Performance for Soccer The Elite Coaching and Training Manual

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Money Culture Class Elite Women as Modern Subjects

Based on ethnographic research this book explores the ways in which elite women use and view money in order to construct identities – of class status and gender. Drawing on their everyday worlds it tracks the intricate and contested meanings they attach to money. Focusing on weddings travel and spirituality Parul Bhandari delineates the entitlements and privileges as well as the obsessions and vulnerabilities that underlie the construction of class the shaping of elite cultures and the curating of femininity. As such this book offers an innovative account of the interplay between money modernity class and gender. | Money Culture Class Elite Women as Modern Subjects

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Mental Health in Elite Sport Applied Perspectives from Across the Globe

Mental Health in Elite Sport: Applied Perspectives from Across the Globe provides a focused exhaustive overview of up-to-date mental health research models and approaches in elite sport to provide researchers practitioners coaches and students with contemporary knowledge and strategies to address mental health in elite sport across a variety of contexts. Mental Health in Elite Sport is divided into two main parts. The first part focuses globally on mental health service provision structures and cases specific to different world regions and countries. The second part focuses on specific mental health interventions across countries but also illustrates specific case studies and interventions as influenced by the local context and culture. This tour around the world offers readers an understanding of the massive global differences in mental health service provision within different situations and organizations. This is the first book of its kind in which highly experienced scholars and practitioners openly share their programs methods reflections and failures on working with mental health in different contexts. By using a global multi-contextual analysis to address mental health in elite sport this book is an essential text for practitioners such as researchers coaches athletes as well as instructors and students across the sport science and mental health fields. | Mental Health in Elite Sport Applied Perspectives from Across the Globe

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Elite Soccer Referees Officiating in the Premier League La Liga and Serie A

Soccer is undeniably the most popular sport in the world. While we know much about its high-profile players and their increasing wealth and global influence we know little about referees and the ways in which refereeing has changed throughout the history of the sport. This book provides an in-depth exploration of the evolution of the match official. It presents a comparative analysis of elite Association football referees in England Spain and Italy as well as offering insights into the involvement of UEFA and FIFA in referee training. Drawing on archive material the book documents the historical development of refereeing and sheds new light on the practice of elite refereeing in the present day. Including exclusive interviews with elite and ex-elite referees as well as with professional soccer managers and members of the broadcast media it considers the current role of match officials and the challenges and controversies they encounter. Elite Soccer Referees: Officiating in the Premier League La Liga and Serie A is fascinating reading for all students and scholars with an interest in soccer sport history sport policy sport management and the sociology of sport. | Elite Soccer Referees Officiating in the Premier League La Liga and Serie A

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Elite Origins of Democracy and Development in the Muslim World

Using an elite consensus/conflict analytical frame this book examines why some majority Muslim countries perform so much better at democracy and/or development than others questioning received wisdoms that Islam authoritarianism and underdevelopment go together. Identifying four distinct democracy and development outcomes in the Muslim world four case studies are interrogated to show that there is more variability in democracy and development outcomes in Muslim majority countries than macro-historical studies and aggregate data have shown. By demonstrating that democracy and development outcomes in Muslim countries are the consequence of elite conflict and elite consensus rather than the precepts or institutions of Islam the book places the competition for power among contending elites rather than Islam at the center of the story of democracy and development in the Muslim world. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of political development/development studies democratization and autocratization studies democracy promotion and more broadly comparative politics. | Elite Origins of Democracy and Development in the Muslim World

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Political Psychology And Biopolitics Assessing And Predicting Elite Behavior In Foreign Policy Crises

The interface between psychology and politics has been an area of sustained inquiry for several decades. More recently the nexus between psychopolitical factors and international politics-linkages among biopolitics political psychology elite analysis foreign affairs and world politics-has been explored. This volume reviews and assesses the m | Political Psychology And Biopolitics Assessing And Predicting Elite Behavior In Foreign Policy Crises

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Rugby Union and Professionalisation Elite Player Perspectives

The game of rugby has changed significantly in the course of its history. In the early part of the 19th century it evolved from a folk game played by the working class to a recreational activity for public schoolboys. From the 1820s rugby represented an opportunity for gentlemen to demonstrate physical prowess and masculinity and in more recent times it has developed into an activity that reflects the changing attitudes towards professional sport. For the most part of the last one hundred years rugby union became an important international sport that represented the nationalistic ideals of a number of countries. However a number of developments including the increasing influence of a business ethos within sport during the latter decades of the twentieth century exposed rugby union to the realities of commercialism and all the factors associated with it especially the demands of a more diverse spectating public. Drawing on interview material with forty-eight elite level rugby union players from England Wales Scotland France Ireland South Africa New Zealand and Australia who participated in elite level rugby union either before in the overlapping period or after the declaration of professionalism this book traces the evolution of attitudes towards professionalism from a players’ perspective and develops a critical review of the impact that professionalism has had upon the sport of rugby union. Rugby Union and Professionalisation: Elite Player Perspectives is fascinating reading for all students and scholars with an interest in rugby union sport history sport policy sport management and the sociology of sport. | Rugby Union and Professionalisation Elite Player Perspectives

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The Trilateral Commission and Global Governance Informal Elite Diplomacy 1972-82

This book provides the first analysis of the Trilateral Commission and its role in global governance and contemporary diplomacy. In 1973 David Rockefeller and Zbigniew Brzezinski founded the Trilateral Commission. Involving highly influential people from business and politics in the US Western Europe and Japan the Commission was soon preceived as constituting an embryonic or even shadow world government. As the first researcher to have accessed the Commission’s archives the author argues that this study demonstrates that global governance and international diplomacy should be considered a product of overlapping elite networks that merge informal and formal spheres across national borders. This work has three immediate aims: to trace the background origins purposes characteristics and modus operandi of the Commission; to investigate the elite aspect of the Commission and how this related to democracy; and to demonstrate how the Commission contributed to diplomatic practices and policy-formulation at national and international levels. The overall purpose of this book is to evaluate the significance of the Trilateral Commission with particular focus on the implications of its activities on the way we understand decision-making processes and diplomacy in modern democratic societies. This book will be of much interest to students of the Cold War US foreign policy diplomacy studies and IR in general | The Trilateral Commission and Global Governance Informal Elite Diplomacy 1972-82

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Post-Anthropocentric Social Work Critical Posthuman and New Materialist Perspectives

This book seeks to trouble taken-for-granted assumptions of anthropocentrism and humanism in social work - those which perpetuate human privilege and human exceptionalism. The edited collection provides a different imaginary for social work by introducing ways of thinking otherwise that challenge human exceptionalism. Social work is at heart a liberal humanist project informed by a strong human rights framework. This edited collection draws on the literature on affect feminist new materialism and critical posthumanism to critique the liberal framework which includes human rights. Disrupting the anthropocentrism in social work which positions humans as an elite species at the centre of world history this book develops an ethical sensibility that values entanglements of humans non-human life and the natural environment. The book provides new insights into environmental destruction human-animal relations gender inequality and male dominance as well as indigenous and settler/colonial issues and critical and green social work. It will be of interest to all scholars and students of social work community development social policy and development studies more broadly. | Post-Anthropocentric Social Work Critical Posthuman and New Materialist Perspectives

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Science and Soccer Developing Elite Performers

Now in a fully revised and updated fourth edition Science and Soccer is still the most comprehensive and accessible introduction to the physiology biomechanics and psychology behind the world's most popular sport. Offering important guidance on how science translates into practice the book examines every key facet of the sport with a particular focus on the development of expert performers. The topics covered include: anatomy physiology psychology; sociology and biomechanics principles of training nutrition physical and mental preparation playing surfaces and equipment; injury decision-making and skill acquisition coaching and coach education performance analysis talent identification and youth development Science and Soccer: Developing Elite Performers is a unique resource for students and academics working in sports science. It is essential reading for all professional support staff working in the game including coaches at all levels physiotherapists conditioning specialists performance analysts club doctors and sport psychologists. | Science and Soccer Developing Elite Performers

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Managing Work and Relationships at 35 000 Feet A Practical Guide for Making Personal Life Fit Aircrew Shift Work Jetlag and Absence from Home

This book seeks to contribute to a psychological perspective to aircrew wellbeing and help aircrew to acquire an understanding of how to better manage the many challenges arising from sleep deprivation and frequent absence from friends and loved others at home. | Managing Work and Relationships at 35 000 Feet A Practical Guide for Making Personal Life Fit Aircrew Shift Work Jetlag and Absence from Home

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Studying the Power Elite Fifty Years of Who Rules America?

This book critiques and extends the analysis of power in the classic Who Rules America? on the fiftieth anniversary of its original publication in 1967—and through its subsequent editions. The chapters written especially for this book by twelve sociologists and political scientists provide fresh insights and new findings on many contemporary topics among them the concerted attempt to privatize public schools; foreign policy and the growing role of the military-industrial component of the power elite; the successes and failures of union challenges to the power elite; the ongoing and increasingly global battles of a major sector of agribusiness; and the surprising details of how those who hold to the egalitarian values of social democracy were able to tip the scales in a bitter conflict within the power elite itself on a crucial banking reform in the aftermath of the Great Recession. These social scientists thereby point the way forward in the study of power not just in the United States but globally. A brief introductory chapter situates Who Rules America? within the context of the most visible theories of power over the past fifty years—pluralism Marxism Millsian elite theory and historical institutionalism. Then a chapter by G. William Domhoff the author of Who Rules America? takes us behind the scenes on how the original version was researched and written tracing the evolution of the book in terms of new concepts and research discoveries by Domhoff himself as well as many other power structure researchers through the 2014 seventh edition. Readers will find differences of opinion and analysis from chapter to chapter. The authors were encouraged to express their views independently and frankly. They do so in an admirable and useful fashion that will stimulate everyone’s thinking on these difficult and complex issues setting the agenda for future studies of power. | Studying the Power Elite Fifty Years of Who Rules America?

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Social Work: The Basics

This revised second edition of Social Work: The Basics is an insightful introduction to the often misrepresented world of social work. This accessible book presents a broad view of contemporary social work exploring its roots and its possible future. It dispels myths surrounding social work addresses media debates and offers a balanced account of what social workers do. Arguing for a social work that is partisan in support of social justice questions covered include: How did social work arise? How and why do people come into contact with social workers? What are the true aims of social work – to help or to control? What is the relationship between social work and social policy? How and why do people become social workers? What’s it like to be a social worker? Can social work cross borders? Drawing examples from the full range of social work practice this book is valuable reading for all individuals interested in the field of social work. It will provide a helpful introduction for students considering a career in social work those beginning social work courses and other professionals whose work brings them into contact with social workers.

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The Routledge Handbook of Field Work Education in Social Work

This Handbook provides an authoritative account of international fieldwork education in social work. It presents an overview of advances in research in social work field education through in-depth analyses and global case studies. Key features: * Discusses critical issues in teaching social work and curriculum development; health care social work; stimulated learning; field education policies; needs challenges and solutions in fieldwork education; reflexivity training; creativity and partnership; resilience enhancement; integrated and holistic education for social workers; student experience; practice education; and ethical responsibility of social work field instructors. * Covers social work field education across geographical regions (Asia and the Pacific; North and South America; Australia and Oceania; Europe) and major themes and trends from several countries (U. S. A. ; Canada; Australia; China; Hong Kong; Sweden; Aotearoa New Zealand; England; Ukraine; Spain; Estonia; Italy; Ireland; Slovenia; Poland; Romania; Greece; Norway; Turkey; and the Czech Republic). * Brings together international comparative perspectives on fieldwork education in social work from leading experts and social work educators. This Handbook will be an essential resource for scholars and researchers of social work development studies social anthropology sociology and education. It will also be useful to educators and practitioners of social work in global institutions of higher studies as well as civil society organisations. | The Routledge Handbook of Field Work Education in Social Work

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Asian Social Work Professional Work in National Contexts

The countries of East and Southeast Asia taken as a whole display a laboratory of social and political conditions with individual countries presenting a variety of political cultural and social characteristics. Some with one-party state systems others with stable liberal democracies and yet others with more fragile democratic systems. As such the region presents a unique opportunity to examine the relationship between diverse national environments and social work education regimes. In this book social work educators and theorists from around East and Southeast Asia provide accounts of the social work programs within the higher education systems of their respective countries and compare them to those of their neighbours. This is the first book to offer a structured account of how social work and social work education have emerged and finds their present place in the historical economic political urban/rural and higher education contexts of Southeast Asia and East Asia. Experts from the region assess the extent to which these countries’ systems possess a collective coherence while examining the diversity among them. | Asian Social Work Professional Work in National Contexts

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Police Social Work Social Work Practice in Law Enforcement Agencies

Grounded in contemporary social work practice approaches such as trauma-informed practice cultural competency and systems theory this book provides a model for developing implementing and evaluating police social work and social service collaboration within the context of contemporary policing strategies. The practice of professional social work in law enforcement agencies is increasingly becoming an important area of practice. Police social work as it is known benefits community residents and assists law enforcement agencies with accomplishing community policing and other problem-solving initiatives. Throughout 13 chapters this book covers: The practice of professional social work within law enforcement agencies The types of social problems addressed and characteristics of police social work collaborations Ethical and other practice issues that arise when collaborating with law enforcement agencies and required practice skills to address these issues An examination of collaborations formed between law enforcement agencies and social services agencies in which the service providers are not professional social workers A model for developing police social work collaborations and investigating collaboration effectiveness Expanded roles for police social work practice such as consultation officer selection training recruits and police officers and assisting their families Police Social Work provides a wealth of case studies and other reference material to prepare students for police social work practice as well as serving as a resource for police officers recruits and students majoring in policing. | Police Social Work Social Work Practice in Law Enforcement Agencies

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Perspectives in Social Work

Perspectives in Social Work was originally published in 1977 and provides a text for social workers in training to use. The book argues for a more philosophical approach to both understanding and doing social work and seeks to establish simple and basic elements in social work asking questions such as: what should a social worker be able to do? What should a social worker know and believe? Does social work actually work? In answering these questions the book offers a wide ranging and critical review of literature of the time and looks at social work as a method of altruism. This book is still topical today and acts as a useful document on the subject of social work both through the discussions within and through the lens of modern change. It will be of particular interest to those studying the history and changes in social work.

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Education for Social Work Readings in Social Work Volume 4

Some outstanding contributions to a better understanding of the issues of education for social work have been brought together in this volume originally published in 1968. Because of the wide relevance of the subject these articles should be valuable not only to social work educators and field supervisors in many different parts of the world but to others concerned with professional education. Today it can be enjoyed in its historical context. | Education for Social Work Readings in Social Work Volume 4

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Group Work Learning and Practice

Group work is central to social work whether it be work with individuals and families residential care community work management or social work education. Despite however the upsurge of interest in this aspect of social work method at the time Group Work: Learning and Practice originally published in 1978 represented the first attempt at providing an up-to-date and carefully integrated source book for students – in the form of a series of mainly original and British papers on social group work: its knowledge base; the possible varieties of practice settings and objectives; and its implications for social work education and training models. For new directions in social work education suggested that the small group was to become the core system around which much future social work teaching would be based. The main concern of this new National Institute for Social Work reader – the development and demonstration of intervention skills in practice – would be particularly relevant. The book draws attention to the opportunities for work with groups in the community in residential institutions and with families where the emphasis was rapidly shifting towards the need for greater understanding and use of the small group dimension. Group Work: Learning and Practice would have been widely welcomed both by specialists in group work at the time and all those more generally interested in social work methods – as teachers students practitioners supervisors and as local authority training officers. It would also be of interest to a wider readership of teachers youth workers and those concerned with the group dynamics and counselling fields. | Group Work Learning and Practice

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Disclosing Elite Ecologies Methodologies For Doing Urban Elite Research

Elite Deviance

Routledge Handbook of Elite Sport Performance

Elite Soccer Players Maximizing Performance and Safety

Elite Universities and the Making of Privilege Exploring Race and Class in Global Educational Economies

Embedded Multi-Level Leadership in Elite Sport

Peak Performance for Soccer The Elite Coaching and Training Manual

Money Culture Class Elite Women as Modern Subjects

Mental Health in Elite Sport Applied Perspectives from Across the Globe

Elite Soccer Referees Officiating in the Premier League La Liga and Serie A

Elite Origins of Democracy and Development in the Muslim World

Political Psychology And Biopolitics Assessing And Predicting Elite Behavior In Foreign Policy Crises

Rugby Union and Professionalisation Elite Player Perspectives

The Trilateral Commission and Global Governance Informal Elite Diplomacy 1972-82

Post-Anthropocentric Social Work Critical Posthuman and New Materialist Perspectives

Science and Soccer Developing Elite Performers

Managing Work and Relationships at 35 000 Feet A Practical Guide for Making Personal Life Fit Aircrew Shift Work Jetlag and Absence from Home

Studying the Power Elite Fifty Years of Who Rules America?

Social Work: The Basics

The Routledge Handbook of Field Work Education in Social Work

Asian Social Work Professional Work in National Contexts

Police Social Work Social Work Practice in Law Enforcement Agencies

Perspectives in Social Work

Education for Social Work Readings in Social Work Volume 4

Group Work Learning and Practice

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