Search results for “[Subject: volunteering]”

• Author(s): C. Rochester • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Volunteer WorkExpectations about the contribution that volunteering can make are at a new high. This book aims to meet this interest by bringing toge...

• Author(s): Stefan T. Güntert • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Psychotherapy - GeneralFrom the Back CoverThis open access book offers a comprehensive view of the phenomenon of volunteer work: it examines motivational ...

• Author(s): Jacqueline Butcher • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralFrom the Back Cover​This volume overlooks the distinct expressions and awareness of volunteering in the lived reality of people from d...

• Author(s): Mario Peucker • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralFrom the Back Cover"The words Islam and volunteering rarely go in tandem, especially in the West. This book proves how wrong we a...

• Author(s): Christopher J. Parker • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Earth Sciences - GeographyFrom the Back CoverThis book explores the roles in which volunteered and professional information play within neogeography f...

• Author(s): Merve Reyhan Kayikci • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Sociology of ReligionFrom the Back CoverThis book unpacks how the ethical is embodied through an examination of the lived experiences of fema...

• Author(s): Elizabeth C. Bartels • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Criminology​This work examines in-depth the phenomenon of volunteer policing in the United States. Due to a combination of municipal budget cuts, decre...

• Author(s): Jacqueline Butcher • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralFrom the Back CoverThis comprehensive volume presents research on Mexican practices of solidarity where citizens were engaged in worki...

• Author(s): Susanne Strauß • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Vs Verlag Fur Sozialwissenschaften • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralFrom the Back CoverConceptualising employment and volunteering as two distinct forms of social inclusion, Susann...

• Author(s): Riccardo Guidi • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Public Policy - Social PolicyFrom the Back CoverFor a long time, volunteering lacked standardized data sets allowing methodologically robust comparative anal...

• Author(s): Lesley Hustinx • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralFrom the Back CoverReligion is considered a key predictor of volunteering: the more religious people are, the more likely they are to volu...

• Author(s): Kathrin Thiel • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Applied PsychologyKathrin Thiel untersucht in einer längsschnittlichen Studienreihe das Erleben von Konflikten in Non-Profit-Organisationen: Welche Auswirkung...

• Author(s): C. G. Krüger • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Military - GeneralExploring volunteering as a characteristic of modern wars, this book examines why individuals go to war. It studies the motivations...

• Author(s): K. Borland • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Business EthicsDesigned to promote reflection and 'better practices' among the prospective volunteers and organizers of travel-for-service experiences,...

• Author(s): Barbara Imperatori • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Human Resources & Personnel ManagementThis book offers a concise summary of cutting-edge research and practical implications about employee engagemen...

• Author(s): C. Rochester • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Public Policy - Social PolicyVolunteering and voluntary organizations have become increasingly important in British social and political life but at ...

• Author(s): Helen Louise Ackers • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: World - AfricanFrom the Back CoverThis book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This book investigates what international placements of h...

• Author(s): Susanne Freund • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Industrial & Organizational PsychologySusanne Freund untersucht in einer längsschnittlichen Studienreihe, unter welchen Bedingungen Ehrenamtliche Verände...

• Author(s): Lars Skov Henriksen • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralFrom the Back CoverSince the 1990's, a number of studies have documented a remarkable high and stable amount of popular engagement in...

• Author(s): Mildred M. G. Olivier • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: OphthalmologyFrom the Back CoverGlobal Health and Volunteering: A Guide for Healthcare Professionals is designed to educate volunteers to be effective...

• Author(s): Sigmund Simonsen • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: EthicsFrom the Back CoverThis book is the first major work that addresses a core question in biomedical research: the question of acceptable risk. The acce...

• Author(s): Daniel Sui • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Data Science - Data AnalyticsFrom the Back CoverThe phenomenon of volunteered geographic information is part of a profound transformation in how geographic data,...

• Author(s): Anne Sophie Krossa • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Emigration & ImmigrationFrom the Back CoverThis book is the empirical part of a broad research project on society in a global context, comp...

• Author(s): Theo Wehner | Stefan T. Güntert | Harald A. Mieg • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Social PsychologyDie Autoren er�rtern in diesem essential die wesentlichen Punkte f�r das Verst�ndnis und die Organisation ...

• Author(s): Dirk Burghardt • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Data Science - Data AnalyticsFrom the Back CoverThis open access book includes methods for retrieval, semantic representation, and analysis of Volunteered Ge...

• Author(s): Fernando Purcell • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Latin America - GeneralFrom the Back CoverIn the 1960s, twenty-thousand young Americans landed in South America to serve as Peace Corps volunteer...

• Author(s): Gloria Bordogna • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: TelecommunicationsFrom the Back CoverThis book, written by an international team of prominent authors, gathers the latest developments in mobile technologie...

• Author(s): Bernard Enjolras • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Public Policy - Social PolicyFrom the Back CoverThis book provides a critical account of the third sector and its future in Europe. It offers an ...

• Author(s): Rupert Taylor • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Philanthropy & CharityFrom the Back CoverTo mark the 20th Anniversary of Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations the edit...

• Author(s): Juan De Dios Robinson • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: OrthopedicsFrom the Back CoverOrthopaedic trauma represents 75% of the casualties in a disaster. Many of these patients will be cared for by internati...

• Author(s): Holly Hull Miori • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Public FinanceFrom the Back CoverNearly 75 million people make up the Millennial generation in the United States, and yet, for many nonprofits, t...

• Author(s): M. Nissen • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Social WorkWhat is a 'we' a collective and how can we use such communal self-knowledge to help people? This book is about collectivity, participation, a...

• Author(s): K. W. Mitchinson • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Europe - Great Britain - GeneralDefending Albion is the first published study of Britain's response to the threat of invasion from across the Nor...

• Author(s): Annette Zimmer • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Vs Verlag Fur Sozialwissenschaften • BISAC: Comparative PoliticsFrom the Back CoverThe development of civil society and its broad organizational spectrum is the focus of the h...

• Author(s): Neil Cocks • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryFrom the Back CoverQuestioning Ayn Rand: Subjectivity, Political Economy, and the Arts offers a sustained academic critique of Ay...

• Author(s): Andreas Oberprantacher • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: PoliticalFrom the Back CoverThis book explores, discusses, and assesses the actual and potential sense of subjectivation in a variety of co...