Financial Management for Public, Health, and Not-for-Profit Organizations provides students with a comprehensive yet practical introduction to the financial decision-making and management skills required of students and practitioners in the public, health, and not-for-profit sectors.

The second edition of a best-selling, market-leading textbook which maps directly onto the undergraduate youth work degree. Kate Sapin, who leads the youth work course at the University of Manchester, has included ample student exercises, points for reflection and references to theory.

Covers essential skills of working with this client group in detail - communicating, listening and understanding children's behaviour.

Your Foundation in Health & Social Care provides readers with all the knowledge and skills necessary for effective learning at Foundation level, both in study and the workplace. It explores all the key areas of the Foundation degree, including values, communication, legal issues and psychology.

Now with 20 cases on major events with relevance for intelligence analysis, this text gives readers a hands-on opportunity to apply structured analytic techniques to tackle real-life problems.

Rising East Asia by Chien-pin Li is a core text for the Politics of East Asia course that covers the economic, political, and security concerns of China, Japan, and Korea since the end of World War II.

This book's foremost emphasis is on practical applications, helping students to recognize the importance and utility of research in their professional lives, and to master research methods that are immediately applicable in their professional settings.

The second edition of this lively and comprehensive textbook helps policing students to understand the challenges of modern policing and the current debates associated with the profession, with reference to key topics such as diversity and the police, methods of policing, police accountability, and women in policing.

The ideal introduction to research methods in global politics, Lamont offers a broad survey of the leading methods and theories in IR with unrivalled clarity, packed with engaging examples throughout. This is the gold standard, step-by-step guide to embarking on research in IR.