The Know Your Numbers Little Quick Fix teaches students easy ways to nail the basic numbers, but also why it's important. Relationships between numbers are what underpins all quantitative research. This LQF teaches them why it's fun, and powerful, and definitely not scary, to see the world in numbers.

The standard teaching text for Data and Society modules explaining to undergraduates, in different social-science disciplines, the Big Data Revolution in an accessible and critical way.

Understanding Digital Societies provides a framework for understanding our changing, technologically shaped society and how sociology can help us make sense of it.

In this engaging and well-illustrated volume of the SAGE Quantitative Research Kit, Peter Martin provides practical guidance on conducting regression analysis on categorical and count data. The author covers both the theory and application of statistical models, with the help of illuminating graphs.

A clear, innovative text from world experts, this clearly lays out the problems, strategies and resources associated with the teaching of quantitative methods in modern universities. It is a pragmatic approach which will be of interest to any academic teaching 'numbers' to their students.

An original and enlivening book that really stands out amidst the drier, denser titles currently on the market. Brings social theory to life in an exciting and elegant way.

A fully revised edition of a seminal text from a world class authority in tourism. Each chapter has been significantly updated to include fresh data, examples and critical theory and three entirely new chapters have been added. A modern classic.

Helping readers to understand what good practice entails, this book provides clear guidance on the rights of young people today. Covering education, social care and welfare, and health this book allows readers to put policy into practice in their setting.

In de jaren zeventig keerden Nederlanders hun familie de rug toe, omdat we bevrijd wilden worden van knellende banden en dwingende waarden. Tegenwoordig is er echter weer volop aandacht voor families. Families dragen immers wijsheid in zich die kan helpen op je levenspad, en bij je familie en haar geschiedenis kun je steun vinden in moeilijke omstandigheden en in tijden van kwetsbaarheid.Maar hoe mobiliseer je deze familiewijsheid? Cruciaal is dat je inzicht krijgt in de manier waarop je fami...