A powerful and witty exploration of gendered cyberhate, this book combines scholarly literature, online evidence and personal experiences to expose the reality of the harassment faced by women online today

With a strong focus on using less traditional forms of data, the Third Edition provides a new perspective on issues such as the role of the researcher and the impact they have on data, and also considers the impact of social, cultural and political complexities across a range of disciplines.

An exhaustive, international overview of this broad field with a unique approach that bridges disciplines and moves beyond theoretical discussion to demonstrate how the central concepts can be applied.

A cutting edge collection for this global and fast-moving field, edited by two of the world's leading political communications scholars.

This landmark volume is the first to give a comprehensive assessment of the field of social work today. It covers the most pertinent topics of investigation in the subject and is written by an international team of highly regarded researchers.

"It is refreshing to see a book such as this which is both broad in its conceptualization of the field of child research and deep in its focus. The volume's editors are paragons of awareness when it comes to the need for interdisciplinary research and theory to illuminate the lives and experience of children" - Professor James Garbarino, Loyola University Chicago

Provides an authoritative and informed analysis of key issues in international migration, including its crucial significance far beyond the more traditional questions of immigrant settlement and incorporation in particular countries.

With a particular focus on the complexities of cross-national, comparative survey research, explored by a team of international experts at local and national levels, this exciting new handbook provides readers with a cutting-edge resource.

The R version of Andy Field's hugely popular Discovering Statistics Using SPSS takes students on a journey of statistical discovery using the freeware R - a free, flexible and dynamically changing software tool for data analysis that is becoming increasingly popular across the social and behavioural sciences.