This book offers the most comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to comparative inquiry, research, and scholarship. It also benefits from an international focus, taking into consideration nearly 200 countries.

This landmark handbook brings together the fundamentals of counselling children and young people, across theory, research, skills and practice. It addresses what every successful trainee or practitioner needs to know in a way that is comprehensive, accessible and jargon-free.

An expert and accessible exploration of the increasing number and influence of authoritarian regimes. It explains the realities of recent trends to ‘autocratization’, the tools these regimes use, what we can do to resist, and why we might even allow ourselves some optimism.

In Michael Nelson's Sixth Edition of The Evolving Presidency, 60 documents help to anchor the ever-changing presidency in historical context. Students encounter a range of documents-from speeches and debates to letters, landmark Supreme Court decisions, and even tweets-that demonstrate how the presidency is shaped through both word and deed.

An in-depth, authoritative, and timely look at the unprecedented economic war the US and its European allies are waging against Russia after Putin’s invasion of Ukraine—written by a veteran journalist with unparalleled access to Western and Russian sources.

Undeterred by eight years of timid US sanctions, Vladimir Putin ordered his full-scale assault on Ukraine on February 24, 2022. In the hours that followed across the world, Western leaders weaponized economic tools to co...

“Een strak betoog” – Volkskrant

“Uitstekend geschreven” – Maarten

“Van der Ham geeft een les ethiek mee” – Trouw

De ‘Vrije Moraal’ voert de lezer mee in de intrigerende, verassende, en soms schokkende geschiedenis van het politieke debat over seks, drank en drugs. Boris van der Ham beschrijft hoe Nederland al 200 jaar worstelt met de dilemma’s rond keuzevrijheid, verslaving, misbruik en criminaliteit. Daarnaast houdt hij een vurig pleidooi tegen onverschilligheid. Van ...

Van de toeslagenaffaire tot het vastgelopen stikstofdossier: de kranten staan vol over de ‘bestuurscrisis’ waar Nederland in verkeert. In die discussie wordt één stem opvallend weinig gehoord: die van de vele tienduizenden mensen die het overheidsbeleid ook echt moeten uitvoeren. In de politiek worden zij niet gezien en op de ministeries worden zij niet begrepen.

Tot die conclusie kwamen Alexander Pechtold en Bart Snels toen zij enkele jaren geleden zelf de overstap maakten van de Tweed...