The only accessible, practical and discipline-specific qualitative methods textbook on the market. Introduces theoretical issues in parallel with step-by-step guidance on ‘how to do qualitative research’ and ‘how it has been done’ in seminal published research.

Organizational Leadership provides a critical introduction to traditional and contemporary leadership approaches, demonstrates leadership as a process shaped by internal and external factors. The book demonstrates how theory translates into practice through international case studies and video interviews with leaders across different organizations and sectors.

Mapped to the 2018 NMC Standards and full of cases and activities to support learning, this book explains in clear terms the theory and models of health promotion and how students can apply them in their nursing practice.

A contemporary overview of how to do a research project in topic areas relating to equality, diversity and inclusion and social justice. Giving students careful guidance on both how to approach key topic areas (such as sex/gender, race, disability, mental health) and also the research process itself.

As digital media come to saturate more and more of our societies, what benefits and challenges do they bring?Who holds power in contemporary media industries, and do they have our best interests at heart? What role do media play in our cultural identities and the relations between communities?How much control do media users have over the role of platforms, algorithms and data in their lives? Media increasingly dominate our social and cultural worlds, affecting issues of power, politics, knowl...

Focusing on the methods that are commonly used by social scientists, this text introduces the regression methods for analysing spatial data.

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.