A critical introduction to meaning and power in an age of participatory culture, social media and digital platforms. Helps students to understand the central role media play in the social world, and how they can become informed media citizens themselves.

The third edition of this popular text offers a uniquely scholarly approach towards the subject and has been fully updated to include technological advances in practice such as AI and virtual marketing, and a brand-new chapter on the rise of influencer culture and marketing.

A book to inspire and support teachers to explore and teach amazing words.

The essential guide to the science behind reading and its practical implications for classroom teaching in primary schools.

Responding to the crucial focus on wellbeing, resilience and personal development for those working in health and social care, this book will equip students and practitioners with the necessary tools to support, improve and maintain their wellbeing throughout their programme and into their career.

This illuminating guide to the core skills and techniques of the relational approach to coaching brings the intersubjective, collaborative relationship between coach and client into focus. The authors use key case examples from a variety of settings to illustrate the skills needed at different stages of the coaching relationship, including chapters on:

Establishing the Working Alliance

Inquiring Collaboratively

Use of Self

The Presenting Past

Enactments, Games, Ruptures and Repairs

Endings in...

Organizational Communication is the first textbook in the field written from a critical perspective, while providing a comprehensive survey of theory and research in organizational communication. It familiarizes students with the field of organizational communication-historically, conceptually, and practically-and challenges them to reconsider their common sense understandings of work and organizations, preparing them for participation in 21st century organizational settings. Linking theory w...

This book is based on one of the most important influences on student learning: teachers who believe that they can improve their students' achievements. Along with this, the book explores the notion that this powerful belief can also exist between students, enhancing their achievements but also preparing them for real world encounters and job demands.

Communication in Everyday Life, Fourth Edition remains the only introductory communication book to explore fundamental concepts, theories, and skills aimed at helping readers apply the material to their personal and professional lives--with a thematic integration of the relational perspective and a focus on demonstrating its direct relevance to their own everyday communication. This book helps readers develop a strong foundation in communication concepts, theory, and research, as well as prac...