The book is an ethnography that draws upon 25 years of qualitative research and shipboard field work in the merchant cargo shipping sector. It explores the lives and work of seafarers and how these have changed over time.

This book aims to help readers understand the status of the division of labour in global value chains, its impact on traditional research topics, and to familiarise readers with the application of input-output methods in GVC research.

This book examines proximity as a benchmarked concept that can be deployed across a range of humanities disciplines to rethink the ways in which existences in the world are always already coexistences – and to parse the heuristic, ethical, epistemological, praxeological consequences of this recognition.

Loss, Grief and Existential Awareness introduces the Integrated Process Model (IPM), a new interdisciplinary and interprofessional model for grief research, education, and accompaniment that distinguishes and integrates five dimensions of grief: physical, emotional, cognitive, social, and spiritual.

The seventh edition of How to Conduct Surveys: A Step-by-Step Guide by Arlene Fink provides a concise and reliable resource for developing and running surveys. The seventh edition includes new information on the use of AI in surveys, social media, videoconference platforms, cultural validity, and research ethics, along with updated data and citations throughout.

An Introduction to Political and Social Data Analysis (With R) provides students with an accessible overview of practical data analysis while also providing a gentle introduction to the R programming environment. Author Thomas M. Holbrook patiently explains each step in statistical analysis with R, avoiding complicated tools or packages.

Peter Hall’s seminal Cities of Tomorrow remains an unrivalled account of the history of planning in theory and practice, as well as of the social and economic problems and opportunities that gave rise to it. Now comprehensively revised, the fourth edition offers a perceptive, critical, and global history of urban planning and design throughout the twentieth-century and beyond. A revised and updated edition of this classic text from one of the most notable figures in the field of urban plann...

Written in a lively and engaging style, this book will enable both supervisors and supervisees to get the best they can from the supervisory experience.

Social Work: From Theory to Practice provides a critical introduction to core and emerging theories of social work. This edition introduces a cultural lens through which to interrogate theory. A new chapter on Aboriginal perspectives teaches students how to decolonise their practice and provide socially just outcomes for communities.