Using a conversational tone, the author speaks to the reader as a researcher when covering statistical theory, computation, and application, giving them the confidence to use statistics to summarize data and make decisions about behaviour.

This twenty-first edition of American Foreign Policy Since World War II features three new chapters that examine the aftershocks of the Arab Spring and the revival of power politics and discuss the implications of a changing American policy under the Trump presidency.

The Sixth Edition of Making Sense of the Social World offers students an introduction to the variety of social research methods, and helps the reader to understand research in their roles as consumers and novice producers of social science.

Revised edition of the authors' Race and crime, [2016]

Part leadership manual, part short novel, this unique best-seller uses dialogues between a novice and a master teacher and between a new and a seasoned principal to illuminate how viewing a problem through a different lens - political, human resources, structural, or symbolic - can reveal the right solution

Engaging and thoroughly updated, this text provides a global perspective on the use and regulation of legal and illegal drugs. It examines drug policies in terms of their scope, goals, and effectiveness, as well as the effects of drugs, the patterns and correlates of use, and theories of the causes of drug use.

Responding to Domestic Violence explores the response to domestic and intimate partner violence by the criminal justice system as well as public and non-profit social service and health care agencies. Thoroughly revised by an expert author team, this book provides a thorough exploration of modern strategies to address the realities and needs of all survivors.