This methodology-focused textbook explores today's digital technologies in relation to our roles in society.  Exploring themes such as interaction, power, consumption, gender and the self, Orton-Johnson examines how digital technologies shape our lives.

This is a clear, comprehensive, systematic and practical guide to achieving Early Years Teacher Status and meeting the EYT Standards and requirements.

With new chapters on key topics such as mental health, the environment, race, ethnicity and health, and pharmaceuticals, this new edition maintains its multidisciplinary framework and bridges the gap between health policy and the sociology of health.

Provides final year nursing students with comprehensive guidance on how to make the leap from student to registered nurse, helping them to master the skills needed to progress from supervised to professional practice.

Mapped to the 2018 NMC Standards and filled with real life scenarios and activities, this book develops students' competence and confidence in managing the care of critically and acutely ill patients.

Adopting an international approach and offering a broader context to social marketing, this second edition presents social marketing principles in a strategic, critical and reflexive way, illustrating the value of applying marketing to solve social problems.

A leading Professor of Retail Marketing presents 5 new frames through which students and practitioners can understand and approach the evolving environment of retailing today: Entrepreneurial mindset, Excitement, Education, Experience, and Engagement.

Through a series of examples of statistics in the media, this book shows you how to critically assess the presentation of data in the media, to identify what is significant and to sort verifiable conclusions from misleading claims.

Rules and codes for healthcare professionals continue to proliferate yet are unable to offer practical advice in specific circumstances. To help balance official rules with the variable, unique human element, David Seedhouse and Vanessa Peutherer explain what personal judgement is and how it can be applied routinely and effectively in everyday decision-making in healthcare.

An invaluable step-by-step, pedagogically engaging guide to data management in R for social science researchers. This book shows students how to recode and document data, as well as how to combine data from different sources, or import from statistical packages other than R.