Written by a highly respected author team, this is a new textbook on play-based learning in primary education for students on primary initial teacher education courses.

This bestselling text is an essential primer for undergraduate students in Criminology, mapping out key course content and offering helpful tips for both students and lecturers on making the most out of lectures and seminars.

A timely and multidisciplinary addition to the Theory, Culture & Society book series (given the recent turn to affect in the social sciences) from one of the leading figures in body studies today.

Cross-Cultural Analysis is the sequel to Culture's Consequences, the classic work published by one of the most influential management thinkers in today's times, Geert Hofstede.

This book is an invaluable guide to help researchers and graduate students understand ethical concerns within real-life research situations.

Examines how people of color fit into the fabric of America and how the media tell them and others how they fit.

Shows how science is done with unsurpassed clarity.

Exploring Chemical Analysis provides an ideal one-term introduction to analytical chemistry for students whose primary interests generally lie outside of chemistry. Combining coverage of all major analytical topics with effective problem-solving methods, it teaches students how to understand analytical results and how to use quantitative manipulations, preparing them for the problems they will encounter in fields from biology to chemistry to...

Addressing and alleviating the anxieties around practising 'creatively' in today's complaints culture, this book offers a safety net to therapists trying to work safely and ethically whilst remaining true to their humanistic values.

The new comprehensive introduction to Gestalt therapy from top authors in the field, this fills a gap for an accessible Gestalt text that will be relevant to coaching trainees as well as those in the counselling and psychotherapy field.

This is the first textbook written in direct response to the Munro review of child protection. It will be valuable reading for students taking courses in social work with families, and also for practitioners across all fields who work on child protection.