Conceived by Chris Grey as an antidote to conventional textbooks, each book in the 'Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap' series takes a core area of the curriculum and turns it on its head by providing a critical and sophisticated overview of the key issues and debates in an informal, conversational and often humorous way.

Need to raise your writing game? Save time and improve your grades, with this snappy guide to improving your academic writing.

The new edition of a unique guide for students, practitioners, parents, and administrators of young children who want to understand specific strategies to maximise parent involvement and collaboration.

This practical guide will provide readers with the ideal 'way-in' to counselling, whether they are looking to use counselling skills to enhance their existing helping role or are taking their first steps towards becoming a professional counsellor.

This book presents, for the first time, a practical manual for psychodynamic-interpersonal therapy. This evidence-based conversational model places strong emphasis on the relational aspects of therapy, and provides a comprehensive approach to a wide variety of presenting issues.

An Introduction to Data Science is an easy-to-read data science textbook for those with no prior coding knowledge. It features exercises at the end of each chapter, author-generated tables and visualizations, and R code examples throughout.

A step-by-step approach to guide students through the whole research process, from initial ideas, through to writing up and presenting the findings.

An up-to-date and global perspective exploring the socio-cultural issues facing Early Childhood today.

This book will enable students to better understand key concepts and ethical and philosophical positions which will inform their assessed work and competence as a professional.

Looking in depth at the therapeutic meeting between therapist and client, this now includes an updated preface, new content on recent research and new developments and debates around relational depth, and new case studies.