The all-round companion for your secondary teacher education school placements, no matter what subject you are studying.

From research preparations to post-research debriefing, this book covers every stage of the social research process, outlining how to undertake fieldwork as safely as possible.

This final book in Paul Atkinson's celebrated quartet focuses on material culture and sensory ethnography. Using the author's original fieldwork, the book explores how materials, techniques, tools, and perspectives combine with the five senses to inform ethnographic methods.

This book empowers you to take a fresh, effective approach to getting better data from your surveys.

The SAGE Handbook of Cultural Anthropology is an essential resource for social scientists globally and contains a rich body of chapters on all major topics relevant to the field, whilst also presenting a possible road map for the future of the field.

This accessible new textbook offers a straightforward introduction to doing spatial statistics in the context of unique considerations that apply with geographic data. Grounded in real world examples, it shows you how to extend traditional statistical methods for use with spatial data.

A newly updated and significantly expanded fifth edition of Youth and Crime. The most comprehensive and authoritative textbook on youth crime and youth justice available.

A fresh introduction to the European Union that helps students take an analytical look at this dynamic institution.

From a best-selling social work author, this book is about assessment and intervention, in other words what you actually do as a social worker.

A clear, snappy introduction which walks students through the selection and application of research methods within tourism. Over thirty individual concepts are discussed. Each concept is defined, applied and then cross-referenced and includes suggestions for further reading. Perfect for students of tourism in business, sociology, hospitality and geography departments.