This practice-oriented handbook presents practitioners and students with a comprehensive overview of the current best practice in project management. It includes the most up-to-date thinking in the discipline, describing recent developments in a way that practitioners can immediately use in their work.

Organized thematically around important questions in comparative politics—who rules? what explains political behavior? where and why?—Introducing Comparative Politics integrates a set of extended case studies of 11 countries that vividly illustrate issues in cross-national context. The cases are placed within the chapters where they make the most sense —not separated from the theory or in a separate volume—helping students make connections between theory and practice earlier in the se...

Think Faster, Talk Smarter is the essential guide to finding and delivering the right words when it matters the most – in the moment. From Stanford University lecturer Matt Abrahams.

Gain a complete grounding in Accounting and Finance and develop the skills to make successful business decisions.

Accounting and Finance: An Introduction, 11th edition is the ideal guide to the subject, providing the knowledge you need to build your skills for a career in Business.

With its approachable style and language that is easy to understand, this edition will help you learn how to use financial information and reports and expand your learning from theory to practice.

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Tortora/Case/Bair/Weber/Funke's Microbiology, An Introduction delivers an exceptionally clear presentation of complex topics, a careful balance of concepts and applications, and pedagogically superior art. With a focus on big-picture concepts and themes in microbiology, the text encourages you to visualize and synthesize more difficult topics such as microbial metabolism, immunology and microbial genetics. The trusted clinical focus and student-friendly narrative will help you understand why ...

Positive Psychology uses a storytelling approach to provide a broad and objective understanding of the science of well-being, and to show how this knowledge can be applied to our own lives and to the well-being of entire societies.

In this fully updated sixth edition of this much-loved textbook, students will be introduced to different ways of looking at education, supported by links to classic and contemporary research. Built around the essential themes of psychology, history, policy and sociology, this new edition explores a range of contemporary topics found on Education studies courses, including:UK education policy since 2020, including policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemicDecolonising the curriculum and social...

This book is the ultimate guide for digging deeper into issues of ownership, power, class, and (in)justice, equipping you with a critical understanding of the complexities and contradictions at the heart of social media’s relationship with society.

A comprehensive introduction to both quantitative and qualitative research methodologies in Psychology, the book guides readers through every step of the research process and engages with research ethics in Psychology.