This is a popular guide to a complex and demanding area of practice that looks at the experiences of children in need who live in state care and the social worker's role in working with them. There are chapters on communication and children's rights, life story work, attachment and culture, as well as ethnicity and faith.

A clear and accessible introduction to the complex issues surrounding mental health.

Interactive, interconnected and participatory, journalism today is a constant live-stream of outrage, terror, polarised politics and fake news. With a news landscape that's dominated by emotionally charged material, Stephen Jukes investigates emotionality's impact on the practice of journalism and the journalists themselves.

Introduction to Cyber Politics and Policy is a comprehensive introductory textbook for cyber politics and security courses that bridges the gaps between the intricacies of technology and the theories of political science.

Rebooting Policy Analysis is a savvy introduction to policy analysis that gets students thinking not just about how decisions should be made, but how they are made.

Logically organized and accessible, this updated Fifth Edition of Gujarati's classic text provides students with an overview of the basics of econometric theory from ordinal logistic regression to time series.

Winner of the 2021 “Best Book Award” from the Academy of Management Division of Public and Nonprofit Management! “Rosemary O’Leary’s The Ethics of Dissent offers a novel take on rule breakers and whistle-blowers in the federal government. Finding a book that elegantly interweaves theory, case detail, and practice in a way useful to students and researching proves challenging. O’Leary achieves those aims.” —Randall Davis, Southern Illinois University From “constructive con...

Written specifically for Politics and IR students, with subject-specific guidance and examples, this book provides students with a step-by-step introduction to quantitative methods using SPSS