Paul Stoneman and Nigel Gilbert breathe new energy into this classic bestselling textbook providing clear, relevant advice and extensive coverage of all the research methods you need to understand today's society.

A guide for professionals who use groups to help people. It provides exercises for use in practice; guidance on evaluating the outcomes of group work; and, models for group supervision. It shows practitioners how to create group culture and how to maintain this culture in spite of the challenges, tensions and difficulties that arise within groups.

Ethnography is one of the chief research methods in sociology, anthropology and other cognate disciplines in the social sciences. This book provides an unparalleled, critical guide to its principles and practice.

Coverage of all the core aspects of Criminal Justice is accompanied by details of a wide range of insights and experiences of real world practitioners to really bring the subject to life, providing students with a resource they can rely on throughout their degree

Through practical and straightforward language, this book helps administrators master crucial tasks of relationship building, motivating and inspiring, sharing a common set of values and goals, focusing on employee strengths and creating a collaborative, supportive environment.

Covering working with children from infancy to secondary school, this book is an essential resource for both trainees and practising therapists who wish to work in schools.

Including nine new entries, this thoroughly revised edition provides an authoritative account of gender studies, reflecting on the complex and multi-faceted character of the field in a way that is accessible to students across the social sciences and humanities.

Examines the efforts and failures of economic experts to make government and public life amenable to measurement, and to re-model society and state in terms of competition. This book explores the practical use of economic techniques and conventions by policy-makers, politicians, regulators and judges and more.

This methodology-focused textbook explores today's digital technologies in relation to our roles in society.  Exploring themes such as interaction, power, consumption, gender and the self, Orton-Johnson examines how digital technologies shape our lives.

A very practical guide teaching students everything they need to know to successfully apply theory, methods and approaches in real-life practice.