Helps support students to learn how the Mental Capacity Act operates, what its key principles are when applied to safeguarding adults and how these two principles interact and inform one another.

This comprehensive, up-to-date core text covers all aspects of the early childhood studies course. Throughout, key theories and research findings are highlighted and explored to help readers make links between theory and early years practice.

Offering students the opportunity to determine and understand statistical analysis by first choosing the answers to basic design questions, readers will find that this hands-on book simplifies a complex research design into a few basic components.

Walking the reader through the material at a steady pace, this book provides 3 - 5 pop quizzes in every chapter so the reader can check their knowledge about what they have read.

This Second Edition of The Tao of Statistics: A Path to Understanding (With No Math) provides a reader-friendly approach to statistics in plain English. Unlike other statistics books, this text explains what statistics mean and how they are used, rather than how to calculate them. The book walks readers through basic concepts as well as some of the most complex statistical models in use.

The Second Edition adds coverage of big data to better address its impact on p-values and other key concep...

Five Principles of the Modern Mathematics Classroom offers new ideas for inspiring maths students by building a more engaging and collaborative learning environment.

This book will help you communicate clearly, help you learn, help you connect, help you be better. At the heart of its innovation is the belief that we can "self-coach" ourselves to become better communicators.

This text introduces students to the most important social-scientific theory and research on persuasion. The Third Edition adds two new chapters on social judgment theory and stage models, revision of the treatment of the theories of reasoned action and planned behavior, and new attention to subjects such as reactance and the use of narratives as vehicles for persuasion.

Takes an integrated, cross-cultural approach that weaves various developmental and neuroscience research into every chapter. This book includes separate chapters on bilingualism and sign language and offers integrated coverage of the social aspects of language acquisition and language use.

Provides a unified framework for both single-level and multilevel modeling of ordinal categorical data