A fresh, timely book from a rising star - this is an excellent resource for students and researchers of everyday life, activism and sustainability across the social sciences. It provides a useful theoretical and methodological framework for understanding everyday practices, and uses real world case-studies to bring it to life.

A new mainstream textbook on primary English for those training to teach in primary education, carefully written to be relevant for the changing education landscape of the next few years.

The belief that change occurs during the therapeutic process is central to all counselling and psychotherapy. This volume examines how change can be facilitated by the counsellor embodying certain therapeutic qualities - in particular empathy, unconditional positive regard and congruence.

In a lively and accessible style, the student is introduced to research design issues alongside statistical procedures and encouraged to develop analytical and decision-making skills.

A guide to critical realism and an assessment of its virtues in comparison with other traditions in social science. It criticizes reductionism and determinism in "modernist" social science, along with postmodernism, anti-essentialism and constructionism.

The essential guide to research in educational leadership and management, substantially revised and updated.

For all students undertaking work-based and academic undergraduate degrees in early years, this book focuses upon how reflective learning develops the practitioner's professional practice, academic knowledge and understanding.

Bell and Thorpe provide a stimulating and critical overview of the key theoretical debates on research paradigms and methodologies and relate them to the day to day practice of the research, demystifying the process and providing invaluable insights into the politics and practice of research.

The definitive text on spatial statistics, from two key figures in the field. A systematic overview of everything an upper level student or researcher needs to know about spatial statistical and geostatistical methods.