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How to Raise a Sexually Healthy, Safe, and Informed Child in Our Modern World Parenting Sexually Healthy Kids  enables parents to engage in effective age-appropriate, evidence-based, integrated discussions with their children to optimize sexual health and reduce risk behaviors. Raise sexually healthy kids.  As parents, we want our children to be armed with scientifically accurate sexual education. But many of us lack the information, tools, and skill to be able to effectively engage in these complex conversations with our children. This is where Dr. Robin Pickering's  Parenting Sexually Healthy Kids  comes in. This book is an essential tool for parents, informing them about key issues surrounding sexual health so that they are better equipped to engage in age-appropriate, evidence-based, informed discussions with their children that improve sexual health and reduce risk behaviors throughout their lives.[b][/b] Help your kids through puberty and beyond.  Dr. Pickering knows that your children are going to face unique and difficult issues as they grow up. To help you prepare,  Parenting Sexually Healthy Kids  covers controversial and sensitive topics, diving into questions that many parents are afraid to ask. The chapters are written in an accessible format that will be easy for parents to understand and pass on to their kids. This book also takes an inclusive approach to sex education, capturing the unique concerns and questions related to modern sexuality, including: Issues related to social media and the internetTopics such as consent and personal safetyUnique concerns in the LGBTQ+ communitySafe sex for those who chose to be sexually activeEffective promotion of abstinenceAccessing appropriate healthcare resources and information Parents looking for age-appropriate books on sexuality and puberty like  Celebrate Your Body (and Its Changes, Too!) ,  Growing Up Great! ,  Boys & Sex , and  Girls & Sex  will love the scientifically based educational tools in  Parenting Sexually Healthy Kids .

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"Kemmerer will melt your heart and blow your mind." –#1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer L. Armentrout One misstep and they lose it all. For the last time. Michael Merrick is used to pressure. He's the only parent his three brothers have had for years. His power to control Earth could kill someone if he miscalculates. Now an Elemental Guide has it out for his family, and he's all that stands in the way. His girlfriend, Hannah, gets that. She's got a kid of her own, and a job as a firefighter that could end her life without a moment's notice. But there are people who have had enough of Michael's defiance, his family's «bad luck.» Before he knows it, Michael's enemies have turned into the Merricks' enemies, and they're armed for war. They're not interested in surrender. But Michael isn't the white flag type anyway. There will be blood on the ground tonight. . . Praise for Brigid Kemmerer and The Elemental Series "Magic, suspense, and enough twists to keep you reading until sunrise.!" –Award winning author Erica O'Rourke"A refreshingly human paranormal romance. . . Read fast and keep that heart rate up." – Kirkus Reviews on Storm

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Being a force of nature doesn't keep you safe. Hunter Garrity is used to watching his back. The kids at school sense something different about him. And they're right. Hunter has powers that have nothing to do with how hard he can throw a punch. Maybe that's what Clare Kasten is picking up. She's shy, quiet, and intense, but she's sought him out. There's no telling what she wants from him. But Hunter knows enough to sense a secret when it's close. And getting close to Clare is a danger he's ready to face. . ."Plenty of romance and non-stop action. . ..Elemental is the new series to watch." –Inara Scott, author of The Marked Praise for Brigid Kemmerer and The Elemental Series "Magic, suspense, and enough twists to keep you reading until sunrise. An incredible start to the series!" –Award winning author Erica O'Rourke"Overflowing with action, snappy dialog, and hot guys–The Elemental Series will take your breath away." –Kim Harrington, author of Clarity Brigid Kemmerer finds time to write between her family and her day job, but sometimes she ends up mothering her coworkers and managing her family. 11,000 Words

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Introducing the theory and practice of conversation, discourse and document analysis, this book proves how useful these methods are in addressing key questions in the social sciences. A true masterclass on practical issues such as generating an archive, transcribing video material, and analyzing discourses using a full range of documentary and verbal data. It is the essential guide to exploring the rich rewards of working with text and talk. 

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Focus groups are a popular method for collecting qualitative data in the social sciences.  Doing Focus Groups   provides a concise, practical introduction to planning and organizing successful focus groups. Barbour discusses the advantages and limitations of using group discussion and demonstrates effective methods for collecting and analyzing data. This is a perfect how-to introduction to getting the most out of your focus group research.

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Talk is one of the main resources available to qualitative researchers. It offers rich, meaningful data that can provide real insights and new perspectives. But once you have the data how do you select an appropriate means of analysis? How do you ensure that the approach you adopt is the best for your project and your data? The book will help you choose strategies for qualitative analysis that best suit your research. It walks you through key decisions, provides actionable game plans and highlights the advantages and challenges of the main approaches. It is packed full of real examples designed to showcase the different tools you might use to meet your own objectives. Each section of the book focuses on one popular strategy for analyzing talk-based data: Narrative Analysis Conversation Analysis Discourse Analysis  Taken together these sections will help you to fine-tune the link between your primary research question and your methods; to ensure that your theoretical stance fits with your methods; and to reason through your analysis in a way that will be recognizable to the intellectual communities of narrative, conversation, or discourse analysts. This book is both starting point and map for any social scientist looking to strategically and purposefully analyse talk data.  

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How do you turn a really good idea into a really good question, and how do you turn this into successful research?   Barbara Fawcett and Rosalie Pockett use their expertise as supervisors and researchers to provide you with the frameworks and the theoretical and practical guidance you need to design, carry out and communicate your research effectively. Using a range of examples that relate research to the real world, they demonstrate: how to develop research questions how to select appropriate theoretical frameworks how to integrate theoretical perspectives with empirical research how to gather and interpret data how to ensure that the research undertaken makes a difference. The authors’ user-friendly approach emphasizes the importance of participation, collaboration and inclusivity, and examines worldviews and understandings of knowledge in order to enable greater critical reflection. Chapters provide guidance on achieving impact with your research, and feature reflective questions to enhance your engagement with the issues covered.   This text is the ideal companion as you set about transforming your ideas into robust research.

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The <strong>Second Edition</strong> of this popular text confirms the book&rsquo;s status as an important forerunner in the field of visual methods.<br /> <br /> Combining the theoretical, practical and technical the authors discuss changing technologies, the role of the internet and the impact of social media. Presenting an interdisciplinary guide to visual methods they explore both the creation and interpretation of visual images and their use within different methodological approaches.<br /> <br /> This clear, articulate book is full of practical tips on publishing and presenting the results of visual research and how to use film and photographic archives.<br /> <br /> This book will be an indispensable guide for anyone using or creating visual images in their research.

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