This new translation of a popular German text gives a clear and accessible introduction and overview of the most important approaches to discourse across disciplines and from mainly English, French and German contexts.

This volume offers reflective yet practical guidance on carrying out critical management research as part of organization and management studies.

An essential guide on effective supervision for managers and their staff.

Combining an examination of theory and research with practical case studies and real examples of teaching practice, this book shows how to engage and motivate children to develop a range of primary English skills.

Introducing readers to the key historical and sociological perspectives on childhood, this book includes discussion features to encourage students to be critical and discursive around the subject

Putting employability - and the realities of the workplace - at its heart, this handy guide provides the means and motivation to help you get the most out of your time at university, focusing your skills on helping you achieve a great job on graduation.

Based on the theory of the Rhetorical Arena and the multivocal approach, this guide explores a new perspective on crisis communication, and what happens when external voices start communicating as a crisis breaks out.

Taking as her starting point the need for students to conduct research for themselves in the `real world', Zina O'Leary guides those new to research through the whys and how-tos of the entire research process. This student-focused book offers a hands on and practical guide to the research process.

An invaluable guide to a variety of core research concepts in both political science and international relations. Each entry is consistently structured and cross-relates entries, it contains examples and can be used across an entire degree.

Offers a guide to the nature of counselling contracts, why they are needed and how they are made. This book takes account of the BACP ethical framework and covers the legal aspects of contracting, and how to make contracts with trainees. It is intended for trainees and practitioners in counselling and psychotherapy.