An invaluable guide to a variety of core research concepts in both political science and international relations. Each entry is consistently structured and cross-relates entries, it contains examples and can be used across an entire degree.

Updated edition of this popular student exploration of the effects of media on young people. Discusses the latest research on such issues as advertising, violence, video games, sexuality, drugs, body image and eating disorders, music, and the Internet.

This accessible and student-friendly book is the first to focus specifically on schemas for children under three.

A long-awaited second edition of this classic cultural studies textbook. A seminal text brought right up to date for a new generation of students and teachers.

A comprehensive biological psychology textbook that fits with the BPS guidelines for undergraduate study, this title represents an inexpensive, yet graphical, colourful, research-rich, and pedagogically developed textbook fully in tune with lecturers' and students' needs in biological psychology.

This innovative guide to research in early childhood takes you step-by-step through the research process.

Mary Douglas was one of the most regarded anthropologists of the 20th Century. This is a collection of her latest essays on culture, previously uncollected, from the last decade and a half of her life.

Comprehensive coverage on the state of research, critical analysis and promising avenues for further study on prejudice, stereotyping and discrimination.

A dynamic guide to improving student achievement through high impact teaching practices and school improvement

Emphasizing the theory and methods that social scientists employ to study globalization, this undergraduate text explores how macro globalization processes impact individual lives.