Emphasizes the scope and power of administrative government, as well as how the legal system shapes administrative procedure and practice.

An agenda setting book from a major academic figure in the social sciences.

This is a popular guide to a complex and demanding area of practice that looks at the experiences of children in need who live in state care and the social worker's role in working with them. There are chapters on communication and children's rights, life story work, attachment and culture, as well as ethnicity and faith.

A clear and accessible introduction to the complex issues surrounding mental health.

Introduction to Cyber Politics and Policy is a comprehensive introductory textbook for cyber politics and security courses that bridges the gaps between the intricacies of technology and the theories of political science.

Rebooting Policy Analysis is a savvy introduction to policy analysis that gets students thinking not just about how decisions should be made, but how they are made.

Interactive, interconnected and participatory, journalism today is a constant live-stream of outrage, terror, polarised politics and fake news. With a news landscape that's dominated by emotionally charged material, Stephen Jukes investigates emotionality's impact on the practice of journalism and the journalists themselves.

In the mid 1920s Lukacs wrote a sustained and passionate response to Stalin's onslaught on his earlier seminal work History and Class Consciousness. Unpublished at the time, Lukacs himself thought that the text had been destroyed. However, a group of researchers recently found the manuscript gathering dust in the newly opened archives of the CPSU in Moscow.

Now for the first time, this fascinating, polemical and intense text is available in English. It is a crucial part of a hidden intellectu...

How do victims and perpetrators of political violence caught up in a complicated legal battle experience justice on their own terms? Phenomenal Justice is a compelling ethnography about the reopened trials for crimes against humanity committed during the brutal military dictatorship that ruled Argentina between 1976 and 1983. Grounded in phenomenological anthropology and the anthropology of emotion, this book establishes a new theoretical basis that is faithful to the uncertainties of justice...