With its friendly, step-by-step format, the Third Edition of Becoming an Academic Writer by Patricia Goodson helps readers improve their writing by engaging in deep, deliberate, and daily practice. Featuring 50 exercises, this guide is organized so readers can either work through exercises in order, or focus on specific areas.

A fully updated introductory text for first year criminology students, the second edition of Criminology covers the key questions, debates and theoretical models that are essential for their learning.

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It is essential that social work students have a clear grasp of the history and the evolution of social work practice and this classic text explores the fundamental questions: What is social work? How has social work been defined over the years? What does social work look like now? And what is to come?