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The Practice Educator's Handbook
2023 || Paperback || Sarah Williams e.a. || SAGE
Written specifically to support those undertaking practice educator awards that meet the staged requirements of the Practice Educator Professional Standards, this book will provide invaluable guidance and support to social workers who are new to a practice education role.
Fieldwork for Social Research
A Student's Guide
2023 || Paperback || Richard Phillips e.a. || SAGE
As one of the few teaching books that looks at fieldwork in the broadest of contexts, this book provides a strong foundation in the fundamentals of fieldwork within social research. It not only teaches theory but puts into practice planning, designing, conducting and sharing social research.Â
The Celebrity Culture Reader
2006 || Paperback || P. David Marshall || Taylor & Francis
From the new celebrity culture that has emerged from reality television and the Internet, to the paparazzi-filled endgame of Princess Diana and the bizarre trials and tribulations of Michael Jackson, The Celebrity Culture Reader documents the significant role that celebrities occupy in contemporary culture. Combining classic essays and contemporary writings, The Celebrity Culture Reader investigates the cultural implications of this complex contemporary phenomenon.
Cows, Pigs, Wars & Witches
The Riddles of Culture
2020 || Paperback || Marvin Harris || Random House
One of America's leading anthropolgists offers solutions to the perplexing question of why people behave the way they do.
Why do Hindus worship cows? Why do Jews and Moslems refuse to eat pork? Why did so many people in post-medieval Europe believe in witches?
Marvin Harris answers these and other perplexing questions about human behavior, showing that no matter how bizarre a people's behavior may seem, it always stems from identifiable and intelligble sources.
City / 2nd edition
2017 || Paperback || Phil Hubbard || Taylor & Francis
City provides an accessible yet critical introduction to one of the key ideas in human geography. While most of the world’s population now lives in cities, the definition and theoretical specification of the city nonetheless remains elusive. In this extensively updated second edition, Phil Hubbard considers the different ways that the lived and messy realities of urban life have been approached by geographers, past and present.
Situating these in the context of ongoing debates concerning gl...
The Heritage Reader / 1st edition
2007 || Paperback || Graham Fairclough e.a. || Taylor & Francis
This resource is a much-needed support to the few textbooks in the field and offers an excellent introduction and overview to the established principles and new thinking in cultural heritage management . Leading experts in the field from Europe, North America and Australia, bring together recent and innovative works in the field. With geographically and thematically diverse case studies, they examine the theoretical framework for heritage resource management.
Setting significant new thinking ...
Rhetoric in Popular Culture
2022 || Paperback || Barry S. Brummett || SAGE
Digital Criminology
Crime and Justice in Digital Society
2018 || Paperback || Anastasia Powell e.a. || Taylor & Francis
The infusion of digital technology into contemporary society has had significant effects for everyday life and for everyday crimes. Digital Criminology: Crime and Justice in Digital Society is the first interdisciplinary scholarly investigation extending beyond traditional topics of cybercrime, policing and the law to consider the implications of digital society for public engagement with crime and justice movements. This book seeks to connect the disparate fields of criminology, sociology, l...
The Routledge International Handbook of the Crimes of the Powerful
2020 || Paperback || Gregg Barak || Taylor & Francis
Across the world, most people are well aware of ordinary criminal harms to person and property. Often committed by the powerless and poor, these individualized crimes are catalogued in the statistics collected annually by the FBI and by similar agencies in other developed nations. In contrast, the more harmful and systemic forms of injury to person and property committed by powerful and wealthy individuals, groups, and national states are neither calculated by governmental agencies nor annual...
Applied Mass Communication Theory
A Guide for Media Practitioners
2021 || Paperback || Jack Rosenberry e.a. || Taylor & Francis
Now in its third edition, this dynamic textbook blends coverage of the major theories and research methods in mass communication to enable students to apply their knowledge in today's media and communication careers.
-Hybrid coverage of media theory and research methods that enables students to apply their academic knowledge in professional settings -Focus on building from theory and methods coverage to research projects makes for easy and dynamic use in a range of introductory, capstone, and...