Taking a fresh look at actual practice, this book sets diplomacy in its contemporary context and analyzes the major factors that have changed the nature of the intelligent conduct of diplomacy.

An essential new guide for any person-centred trainee or practitioner, this book offers a unique focus on how to practise the various contemporary person-centred therapies.

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.

A comprehensive guide to key areas of professional knowledge and skill. The authors draw directly on their own clinical work, taking the trainee from the start to the finish of the therapy session and showing them exactly how keen observation, critical thinking, and developing a system for evaluating can be used throughout the entire therapeutic process.

'An excellent volume that will be of interest to all therapists (from trainee to more experienced practitioner) who have any curiosity about pluralistic therapy.' - Andy Pendle, Senior Lecturer in Counselling, Coaching and Mentoring, York St John University

Two leading names from the independent and state sectors draw on their own first-hand experiences and international research to scrutinize what works and does not work in teaching the most able students and offer thought-provoking suggestions for a way forward.

Written as an introductory food science textbook that excites students and fosters learning, the first edition of Introducing Food Science broke new ground. With an easy-to-read format and innovative sections such as Looking Back, Remember This!, and Looking Ahead, it quickly became popular with students and professors alike. This newly revised second edition keeps the features that made the first edition so well liked, while adding updated information as well as new tables, figures, exercise...

This book provides the very basics for understanding SPSS and how to use it when analyzing data, and contains a number of examples of how to work with Versions 20-23.

This book is a self-contained treatment of all the mathematics needed by undergraduate and masters-level students of economics. Building up gently from a very low level, the authors provide a clear, systematic coverage of calculus and matrix algebra. The second half of the book gives a thorough account of probability, optimisation and dynamics.The emphasis throughout is on intuitive argument and problem-solving.

All methods are illustrated by examples, exercises and problems selected from cen...

This book deals with syntax in three dimensions: in part I with the history of grammatical theory, in part II with synchronic aspects of Present-Day English, and in part III with diachronic aspects of English. The most prominent linguistic terms and phenomena are discussed in their historical context and are taken up again in the synchronic and diachronic parts. In this way they can be viewed from different perspectives.

At the end of each chapter a summary and recommendations for further rea...