Authoritative collection from the Open University team.

This book is an introduction in the very best sense of the word. It provides the beginner with an accurate, sophisticated, yet accessible account, and offers new insights and challenging perspectives to those who have more specialized knowledge. Focusing on the period in Chinese philosophy that is surely most easily approachable and perhaps is most important, it ranges over of rich set of competing options.

It also, with admirable self-consciousness, presents a number of daring attempts to re...

This second edition of a bestseller details the manifestations, diagnosis and treatment of immune-related disease in the dog and cat. It is illustrated throughout in full color, to show and explain to the reader as clearly as possible the complicated principles of disease and immunodiagnostic tests, supported by clinical cases, gross and histopathology, cytology, hematology, immunohistochemistry and other immunological tests.

This is the only book that covers working memory in children - a major topic for courses in cognitive development and developmental psychology, as well as educational psychology and special and inclusive education.

Guiding students through the process of writing both traditional and systematic literature reviews, this book tackles an area that is an integral part of doing research, yet is often overlooked by other methods texts.

An agenda-setting and topical textbook that looks at how ICTs have become an important part of social work and how they can improve and affect practice

This accessible, comprehensive and up to date book looks at the reality of social work in practice. It will be essential reading for all social work students.

Introduces students to the language, ideas, and concepts that are used frequently in Critical Management Studies and that they will be expected to discuss in seminar debates and to draw upon in their essays

This pocket-sized book is the ideal starting place for those new to person-centred counselling. The revised new edition provides a concise, yet thoroughly up-to-date introduction to the theory and practice of this approach.