Designed for both students and newly-qualified social workers, this dip in and out of guide introduces students to over 300 key laws, legal terms, and legal processes in a concise and no-nonsense way. I t covers all areas of social work practice, ensuring students have the knowledge they need to apply the law with confidence.

This text is both a practical account of the research process, and an invitation to think more deeply and reflexively about the imperfect, multifaceted nature of social research itself.

Cutting edge guide to applying the latest advancements in digital methods to social research.Â

Designed to help students think critically about the skills and knowledge they need to understand and tackle inequality, and provide meaningful help to those people most in need.

An accessible introduction to social work practice with adults written in collaboration with service users, carers and practitioners.

Written for a wide audience, from undergraduate and graduate students to citizens and activists, this engaging text explains how economics can help us to better understand the development of digital technologies. Â

Action Research is an invaluable guide to novice researchers from a diversity of disciplines, backgrounds, and levels of study for understanding how action research works in real-life contexts. It helps students see the value of their research in a broader context, beyond academia, to effect change on a larger scale.

Over 30 landmark legal cases, from 1973 to 2023, that mark the most impactful and significant milestones in LGBTQ history

In this book, the famous Russian scientist, Sergei Kapitsa, explains complicated theories in an uncomplicated manner that is easily accessible to readers with no specialist knowledge. The author focuses on the processes taking place inside the global demographic revolution and on the destinies of nations, mankind and our planet as a whole.The author cites a number of facts and assessments concerning not only projections for population growth, but also a common view on the causes of the curren...

Bestselling authors Cooper and McLeod present a groundbreaking new approach to counselling, outlining a flexible framework for practice applicable to all modalities of therapy at all levels.