Work Motivation: History, Theory, Research, and Practice provides unique behavioural science frameworks for motivating employees in organizational settings.

This is a one-stop introductory text for students wanting to understand the creative industries, what they are, what they do and how they affect our society.

In this fully updated and expanded second edition, Carol Grbich provides a guide through current issues in the analysis of qualitative data.

A fully revised, up-to-date overview of a great range of visual methods data sources, including 2D, 3D, lived, living and virtual visual data.

This is a clear and engaging introduction for students involved with data analysis in criminology and across the social sciences.

Gives students access to basic medical education, knowledge and skills. This title helps students to develop the knowledge, skills and attitudes that advances their careers and, ultimately, enhance the health of the population and contribute to the advancement of medicine.

Introduction to Pragmatics guides students through traditional and new approaches in the field, focusing particularly on phenomena at the elusive semantics/pragmatics boundary to explore the role of context in linguistic communication. Offers students an accessible introduction and an up-to-date survey of the field, encompassing both established and new approaches to pragmatics. Addresses the traditional range of topics - such as implicature, reference, presupposition, and speech acts - as we...

This new edition retains the appeal, clarity and practicality that made the first so successful, and continues to provide a fundamental introduction to the principles and purposes of rubrics, with guidance on how to construct them, use them to align course content to learning outcomes, and apply them in a wide variety of courses, and to all forms of assignment.

Through a series of case studies, the authors employ both neopluralist and exchange perspectives to explore the lobbying activity that occurs in the later stages of the policymaking process which are typically less partisan, involve little conflict, and receive scant public attention.