Understanding and Evaluating Research: A Critical Guide shows students how to be critical consumers of research and to appreciate the power of methodology as it shapes the research question, the use of theory in the study, the methods used, and how the outcomes are reported.

Researching City Life: An Urban Field Methods Text-Reader examines the city from a street level perspective and provides readers with tools to conduct research on urbanism—the everyday experiences of people in cities. Contending that culture is central to understanding urbanism, editors Tyler Schafer and Michael Ian Borer address qualitative research in cities and how it provides insights unable to be captured via quantitative methods. Carefully selected and edited readings cover participan...

Cities in a World Economy examines the emergence of global cities as a new social formation, as well as sites of rapid and widespread developments in the areas of finance, information and people.

An essential resource, Research Ethics for Human Geography is an engaging introduction to key ethical issues in geographical research; edited and authored by leading figures in the discipline.

This book offers students a framework to explore how their professional responsibility to understanding sociology can be realised in every aspect of their work with a diverse range of service user groups including children and families, adults, older people, people with learning disabilities and people suffering from mental distress.

Introduces you to the core counselling and psychotherapy skills you will need for effective therapeutic practice.

A popular text/reader hybrid, combining the major writings of sociology's core contemporary theorists with a historical and theoretical framework.

Containing various perspectives on counselling individuals from cultures other than that of the counsellor or therapist, this book covers everything on cross-cultural counselling from basic issues in cross cultural counseling and counselling in ethnocultural contexts to counseling individuals in transitional, traumatic, or emergent situations.

This accessible, hands-on text has now been revised and updated, with expanded coverage of topics including how theory may emerge from exploratory data analysis. The book prepares graduate students, new researchers, and even seasoned investigators to develop their own theories and build on existing ones.

Drawn from the author's experience as an internationally recognized theorist, lecturer and practitioner, this book on existential therapy elucidates this notoriously difficult and distinctly different therapeutic approach to counselling and psychotherapy.