Salary surveys worldwide regularly place software architect in the top 10 best jobs, yet no real guide exists to help developers become architects. Until now. This book provides the first comprehensive overview of software architecture's many aspects.

Aspiring and existing architects alike will examine architectural characteristics, architectural patterns, component determination, diagramming and presenting architecture, evolutionary architecture, and many other topics. Mark Richards and Neal...

Knoke and Yang's handy primer on social network analysis offers a concise introduction to basic network concepts, data collection, and network analytical methodology.

Sue Roffey's evidence-based approach to building a healthy classroom environment has proven to be a unique and invaluable intervention worldwide, enhancing the social and emotional well-being of both students and teachers. The new edition has been updated with many more activities and exercises as well as explicit instruction on how to structure and implement SEL.

This book explores the key skills required, helping trainees begin use them in their teaching, reflect on their development of these skills (with their mentors) and evaluate their impact on learning.

Learning the lessons from the past helps us to understand how we can make the most of the opportunities in the turbulent times ahead

The first academic text to shine a light on the darker side of global business, providing an illuminating and critical approach to the study of business and management which is vital in ensuring students develop responsible business-conscious and macro interdisciplinary thinking.

Get the most out of learning online so you can succeed in your studies - this handy guide is packed with support and tips on navigating digital learning so you don't miss out.

From one of the world's leading experts, this absorbing narrative history of the changing structure of modern families shows how children can flourish in any kind of loving home.

The past few decades have seen extraordinary change in the idea of a family. The unit once understood to include two straight parents and their biological children has expanded vastly'same-sex marriage, adoption, IVF, sperm donation, and other forces have enabled new forms to take shape. This has resulted in enormous...