A comprehensive guide to local management with a unique regional approach that provides practical applications for future local leaders.

Your Foundation in Health & Social Care provides readers with all the knowledge and skills necessary for effective learning at Foundation level, both in study and the workplace. It explores all the key areas of the Foundation degree, including values, communication, legal issues and psychology.

Now with 20 cases on major events with relevance for intelligence analysis, this text gives readers a hands-on opportunity to apply structured analytic techniques to tackle real-life problems.

Rising East Asia by Chien-pin Li is a core text for the Politics of East Asia course that covers the economic, political, and security concerns of China, Japan, and Korea since the end of World War II.

The second edition of this lively and comprehensive textbook helps policing students to understand the challenges of modern policing and the current debates associated with the profession, with reference to key topics such as diversity and the police, methods of policing, police accountability, and women in policing.

A comprehensive guide to understanding the complexities of Global Political Economy, emphasising the importance of context and a truly global range of perspectives in analysing global issues.

The ideal introduction to research methods in global politics, Lamont offers a broad survey of the leading methods and theories in IR with unrivalled clarity, packed with engaging examples throughout. This is the gold standard, step-by-step guide to embarking on research in IR.

Adapted from the groundbreaking Principles of Comparative Politics, now in its third edition, Foundations of Comparative Politics presents a scientific approach to the rich world of comparative inquiry, research, and scholarship, providing students a guide to cross-national comparison and why it matters to them.