Psychology Basics Revised Edition, a new two volume set in our Reference Collection, contains 127 essays on important theories and issues in the dynamic field of psychology. Additions to the revised edition include photographs and medical drawings, helpful lists of diagnostic criteria from DSM-IV-TR, and two appendices: a Biographical List of Psychologists with brief profiles of major figures in the field, both past and present, and an annotated Web Site Directory for support groups, organization's, and on-line sources of information on this field. Topics include aging, cognition, depression, intelligence, memory, motivation, personality and psychotherapy.

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Produced by Behavioral Measurement Database Services, is a comprehensive bibliographic database providing information about behavioral measurement instruments. Information in the database is abstracted into hundreds of leading journals covering health sciences and psychosocial sciences. Additionally, instruments from Industrial/Organizational Behavior and Education are included. Records contained in HaPI provide information on questionnaires, interview schedules, vignettes/scenarios, coding schemes, rating and other scales, checklists, indexes, tests, projective techniques and more.

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How to Conduct Survey Research: A Guide for Schools by Alicia Williams and Nancy Protheroe takes the mystery out of the survey process by providing readable, practical information that will help school leaders plan and conduct surveys that yield usable data-and communicate the data in a way that will truly benefit the district decision-making process.

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Business as Mission: From Impoverished to Empowered edited by Tom Steffen and Mike Barnett is a collection of essays providing an overview of the concept of business as mission (BAM) which originated from a 2005 meeting of the Evangelical Missiology Society. "Because the Holy Spirit continues to stir the hearts of numerous business persons to become involved in missions. Not just to write checks for missionaries and mission endeavors,..but to personally participate in global missions through starting businesses at home and abroad."

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