Built on the premise that anyone can learn to use the R software, this book emphasizes using R to do useful things like writing papers and reports, creating graphs, and conducting simple data analysis.

The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Business and Management Research Methods provides a state-of-the art overview of qualitative research methods in the business and management field. Chapters offer a comprehensive overview of contemporary uses of methods in business & management disciplines, and the challenges that emerge in looking ahead to the future.

We are all aware of social media and how it is seamlessly integrated into our private and public lives as everyday users, but this book aims to provide a deeper understanding of social media by asking questions about its place in our society, our culture and our economy.

This book provides the support that trainee and beginning teachers need to enable them to teach and assess writing. The book covers all the main aspects of writing, both compositional and transcriptional, including those where the National Curriculum has very little detail.

Concerned with the ways humans develop an organised set of characteristics to shape themselves and the world around them, this is a study of how people come to be 'different' and 'similar' to others, on both an individual and a cultural level. This volume focuses on various contexts and applications of personality and individual differences, in chapters arranged across three thematic sections.

This book supports trainee and beginning teachers to understand what 'mastery' is and how to effectively integrate it into class teaching. It explores how 'mastery' is viewed and supported in other countries and encourages a critical examination of this topical theme.

The Fifth Edition of the bestseller Research Methodology has reimagined, redesigned (now in landscape format), and fully renovated how a textbook can help students achieve success in their methods course or research project.

Understanding Social Enterprise explores the growth of social enterprise and entrepreneurship, it's popularity, global impact, and sustainability. The 3rd edition includes new case studies and updates to literature, research, policy and legal references.

The fashion and luxury industries have been well-established for centuries, but the new disruptive digital environment is causing these industries to rethink their business case and adapt their brand offerings. This exciting new text, the first on this timely subject, offers ways forward through a mixture of research and practice-led examples.