Human Resource Management: Gaining a Competitive Advantage was developed to teach students how to strategically overcome challenges within organizations, and gain a competitive advantage for their companies.

This new edition of the European adaptation of Anita Woolfolk's market-leading US text, Educational Psychology, is essential reading for anyone studying or interested in education and learning from a psychology perspective. The second edition includes new work in the areas of Assessment for Learning and Attachment Theory, as well as reflecting recent changes in Special Educational Needs provision. The text shows how information and ideas drawn from cutting-edge research in educational psyc...

An Introduction to Data Science is an easy-to-read data science textbook for those with no prior coding knowledge. It features exercises at the end of each chapter, author-generated tables and visualizations, and R code examples throughout.

A step-by-step approach to guide students through the whole research process, from initial ideas, through to writing up and presenting the findings.

An up-to-date and global perspective exploring the socio-cultural issues facing Early Childhood today.

This book will enable students to better understand key concepts and ethical and philosophical positions which will inform their assessed work and competence as a professional.

Looking in depth at the therapeutic meeting between therapist and client, this now includes an updated preface, new content on recent research and new developments and debates around relational depth, and new case studies.

Revisiting the Classic Studies is a series of texts that introduces readers to the studies in psychology that changed the way we think about core topics in the discipline today. It provokes students to ask more interesting and challenging questions about the field by encouraging a deeper level of engagement both with the details of the studies themselves and with the nature of their contribution. Edited by leading scholars in their field and written by researchers at the cutting edge of these...

Priyanka Das has so many unanswered questions: Why did her mother abandon her home in India years ago? What was it like there? And most importantly, who is her father, and why did her mum leave him behind? But Pri's mom avoids these questions - the topic of India is permanently closed.

From the leading authors in mediation and dispute resolution comes this new psychology-based work on the nuts and bolts of mediation. Using the behavioral theories of interests, rights, and power, Goldberg, Brett, and Brenneur explain what mediators do, what makes for a successful mediator, and how best to structure a mediation-essentially the role of the mediator and the disputing parties at each step of the process. Also included is an essential chapter on the relationship between mediation...