Doing Gender in Media, Art and Culture, 2nd edition is a comprehensive gender studies textbook with an international focus and relevance across a broad range of academic disciplines. Covering an array of topics, theories and approaches to gender studies, it introduces students to the study of gender through geographically diverse case studies on different historical and contemporary figures. The volume covers the established canon of gender studies, including questions of representation, stan...

This text provides a comprehensive and critical exploration of food from the unique perspective of place. It shows that our experiences with food are deeply influenced by their cultural, social, economic, and political contexts. The authors explore a wide range of questions such as: Do GMOs threaten rural livelihoods? Why don't we eat dogs? Does your neighborhood make you fat? Do community gardens encourage urban gentrification? Can cheese save a local economy? Why are gourmet burgers appeari...

The past decade has seen increased attention to cost-effectiveness and benefit-cost analysis in education as administrators are being asked to accomplish more with the same or even fewer resources, philanthropists are keen to calculate their "return on investment" in social programs, and the general public is increasingly scrutinizing how resources are allocated to schools and colleges. This text (titled Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in its previous editions) is the only full-length book to p...

Designed for students and practitioners, this book uses a unique problem-solving framework to demonstrate how behavior change principles can be applied to practice situations.

Providing a full account of victimisation across the social spectrum of class, race, age and gender, this new edition has new material on defining and constructing victims, fear and vulnerability, sexuality, white collar crime, and implications of policy.

This book takes a new and innovative approach to looking at the commonalities and disparities between counselling/psychotherapy and forensic psychology. It aims to develop a critical understanding of the themes and issues related to crime and therapy that are highly relevant to theory and practice, yet are often ignored or neglected.

New to Andrew Reeves' Essential Issues series, this book introduces what is meant by boundaries in counselling and psychotherapy, as well as the surrounding issues and debates. It shows students how to use boundaries as the basis for a positive therapeutic alliance and as a consistent framework for the counselling process.

This ground-breaking book offers an innovative approach to grounded theory - situational analysis - useful in a wide range of qualitative research settings. It also features chapters on mapping and analyzing discourse materials - narrative, visual and historical.

Dit boek geeft studenten een helder beeld van de structuur en werkwijze van organisaties in de zorg- en welzijnssector. Het is een nuttig hulpmiddel voor hbo-studenten die op stage gaan of hun eerste baan beginnen in deze sector: Maatschappelijk Werk en Dienstverlening, Sociaal-Pedagogische Hulpverlening, Sociaal-Juridische Dienstverlening, Toegepaste Psychologie, Verpleegkunde, Management in de zorg, Fysiotherapie, Logopedie en andere vormen van hulp- of dienstverlening.Een greep uit de beha...

Illegale wietplantages, mensenhandel, XTC-labs, grootschalige fraude - de georganiseerde criminaliteit grijpt om zich heen in Nederland. Bestuurders worden geïntimideerd, ondernemers worden medeplichtig gemaakt en kwetsbare burgers worden uitgebuit. De samenleving wordt ondermijnd. Politie en justitie kunnen het probleem niet alleen aan. Conventionele methoden van opsporing en vervolging schieten te kort. Daarom zoeken medewerkers van de Nationale Politie, het Openbaar Ministerie, de Belasti...