Contains up-to-date research and literature in the area, covering the entire spectrum of educational institutions.

Suitable for anyone coming to the subject of disability studies, this book tackles a wide range of issues in numerous succinct chapters written by contributing authors, many of whom are disabled themselves.

Bringing together a range of expert voices to tackle the essential topics relevant to the study of disability from a social perspective, this interdisciplinary introduction includes over 50 chapters relevant across health and social care.

Explaining the techniques and applications of exponential random graph modeling (ERGM) for social scientists, this is a uniquely sophisticated volume for examining social systems.

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.

Updated edition of this popular student exploration of the effects of media on young people. Discusses the latest research on such issues as advertising, violence, video games, sexuality, drugs, body image and eating disorders, music, and the Internet.

This accessible and student-friendly book is the first to focus specifically on schemas for children under three.

A long-awaited second edition of this classic cultural studies textbook. A seminal text brought right up to date for a new generation of students and teachers.

A comprehensive biological psychology textbook that fits with the BPS guidelines for undergraduate study, this title represents an inexpensive, yet graphical, colourful, research-rich, and pedagogically developed textbook fully in tune with lecturers' and students' needs in biological psychology.

Mary Douglas was one of the most regarded anthropologists of the 20th Century. This is a collection of her latest essays on culture, previously uncollected, from the last decade and a half of her life.