An accessible text exploring current themes in early childhood education and encouraging and supporting readers to engage with topical debates.

A thought-provoking exploration not about space per se, but rather about how we perceive space, and why it is important to look at space if we want to understand human interaction.

A succinct guide to understanding and developing transferable skills, explaining why they are needed and how they can be acquired, and how to use them to impress prospective employers.

New edition of this essential text for secondary teacher trainees covering all the key issues for learning and teaching in secondary schools. Linked to the new Teachers' Standards.

A user-friendly guide to the Philosophy of Education, its extent, its key thinkers and movements, and its potential contribution to a range of educational concerns.

An indispensable international resource for students and researchers of all levels studying the rapidly developing, interdisciplinary field of criminology.

This popular and critically acclaimed Handbook is now available in paperback.

"This is a thoughtful update on previous editions; Julier takes time to pick up on 'sticky' issues and explain them in detail without sounding pedantic or over-bearing. This new edition will be a welcome addition to contemporary design culture and of use to designers and students alike." - Dr Juliette MacDonald, Edinburgh College of Art

Unlike other publications, this is a book on using propensity scores without using matrix or vector algebra.

Defines the distinctive set of psychometric and operational principles which, when combined with specialized statistical applications of correlation and factor-analysis techniques, provide researchers with a systematic and rigorously quantitative means for examining human subjectivity.