The long awaited new edition of this popular student text analyses contemporary issues in sport from a multi-disciplinary perspective.

With over 120,000 copies sold worldwide, Peter Dicken's Global Shift has been the definitive work on economic globalization for almost 30 years now. A tried, trusted and unrivalled resource for undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers across the social sciences, this is a seminal text from an internationally renowned author.

Challenging current modes of thinking, and covering areas not usually found in qualitative research texts such as social reality/ontology and quantum reality/mechanics, this book helps readers to choose and defend their research methods and to take their work beyond standard perspectives

A book on planning, organising, facilitating and evaluating groupwork which will help students to develop their skills and pass assessment, increasing confidence during placement groupwork activities.

Marking the anniversary of Napoleon's defeat at the Battle of Waterloo, the authors explore the relationship between power and leadership through power modes based on Napoleon's career.

Provides an essential introduction to the major theoretical approaches in counselling and psychotherapy. This book includes two chapters on mindfulness and positive therapy, as well as additional content on ethics, and new developments in each approach, including the research and references.

Presenting the latest thinking and research on how children acquire their first language, this book takes the reader from a standing start to the point where they can engage with key debates and current research in the field of child language.

Wide ranging text offering a developmental approach and contextual understanding of intellectual disabilities, with chapters dedicated to specific conditions such as autism, ADHD, Down syndrome, and foetal alcohol spectrum conditions.

Examining the role of the media in the generation, circulation and contestation of racist ideas, this text provides the theoretical and analytical tools needed to interrogate how media dynamics and processes impact on racism and anti-racism

An agenda setting book from a major academic figure in the social sciences.