This textbook helps nursing students understand why sociology is relevant and important to them, and how they can actually use it as nurses to understand real situations and improve care.

A critical analysis exploring nursing theory and the way nurses learn. It focuses on the way theory manifests in day-to-day practice and contributes to nursing education and professional development and learning.

This book explores how teachers in the FE and Skills Sector can address the mathematics and English needs of all learners.

An undergraduate introduction to both classical and contemporary social theory.

A revised and updated edition of this accessible yet provocative survey of contemporary social and sociological theories.

Continually praised for its conversational tone, personal examples, and helpful pedagogical tools, this book is organized around the modern ideas of progress, knowledge, and democracy.