An ideal starter text for those new to the field, this second edition has new examples from a range of social science disciplines, as well as a brand new companion website, making it even more valuable to even more students

An accessible text exploring current themes in early childhood education and encouraging and supporting readers to engage with topical debates.

A practical and user-friendly text to help education students develop their understanding of critical analysis.

Completely in line with the 2013 exam specifications, Proficiency Expert provides everything you need to help your students succeed. This coursebook supports students by giving them:

Examining current research on group counseling and psychotherapy, this is an essential resource for advanced students and researchers alike. Major topics in the field of groups are included: history; best practices; settings; groups across the lifespan; special topics; multicultural groups; as well as critical issues and emerging themes in group counselling and psychotherapy.

Featuring a host of judiciously edited and fully contextualised readings, this text provides students with an engaging resource on American Intergovernmental Relations

A student focused exploration of economic, political, social, and ethical perspectives on advertising, covering issues such stereotyping, controversial products, consumer culture, and new technology.

Featuring definitions, theoretical debates, coverage of social development practice, and discussion of future challenges, this key new text introduces students to all aspects of Social Development studies

Offers an introductory qualitative research for social science disciplines. This book covers the full range of methodologies and viewpoints about the field, including coverage of social media as a tool to facilitate research or as a venue for study.

Drawings and sequential images are an integral part of human expression dating back at least as far as cave paintings, and in contemporary society appear most prominently in comics. Despite this fundamental part of human identity, little work has explored the comprehension and cognitive underpinnings of visual narratives-until now.

This work presents a provocative theory: that drawings and sequential images are structured the same as language. Building on contemporary theories from linguisti...