Product Description: This book explores how the political process in the United States influences the economy and how economic conditions influence electoral results. It explains how the interaction between the President and Congress lead to the formulation of macroeconomic policy and how the American voters achieve moderation by balancing the two institutions...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Areas covered in this resource include human growth and development, social and cultural foundations, helping relationships, theories of counseling, groups, life-style and career development, appraisal research and evaluation, and professional orientation...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: First published in 1989. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Product Description: Providing life-saving strategies to help save a friend or to motivate a suicidal youngster to seek counsel, this tells kids how to spot a young person in need and what to do about it. An excellent initiator to individual and group discussions led by an adult facilitator.

Discusses the causes of suicide and how it may be prevented. Also examines suicidal behavior and how a person's will may be used to save his or her life.

Product Description: Ordinal data can be rank ordered but not assumed to have equal distances between categories. Using support by judges for civil rights measures and bussing as the primary example, this paper indicates how such data can best be analyzed.