Focusing particularly on compassionate care, this practical textbook covers all aspects of psychology relevant to nursing and healthcare students.

The SAGE Handbook of Small Business and Entrepreneurship offers contemporary chapters on all aspects of this rapidly-evolving discipline. Contributions from the best international scholars explore Entrepreneurship as an academic field, investigate its key current debates and consider its future directions.

Using the author's latest research this book emphasises how an educator's investigation of children's perspectives and feelings can actually make teaching more effective for a range of purposes - as well as potentially more fulfilling for the teacher.

Looking at the rise of the auto-industrial economy and evaluating its effect on modern society, this book provides a succinct exploration that will be of interest across the social sciences

Offering a panoramic view of the broad field of International Relations by integrating three distinct but interrelated foci. This handbook is a timely and innovative reference text for academics, researchers and practitioners in the world of International Relations.

In the present epoch of global change, movement, interconnection and the intensification of social issues within and across many societies, applied social psychology is more relevant than ever. The SAGE Handbook of Applied Social Psychology offers an overview of the field and the disparate and evolving approaches.

A positive and practical guide that shows you how to succeed in academia, helping you hone your skills in teaching and research as well as building softer skills like interpersonal development.

This book is designed to help Education students gain confidence in analysing and interpreting quantitative data and using appropriate statistical tests, by exploring, in plain language, a variety of data analysis methods.

Includes most organized discussion of mass media culture, the meaning of leisure, and anomie in affluent society.

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.