Captivating, concise, and accessible, Essentials of Terrorism: Concepts and Controversies covers key foundational topics by defining terrorism and introducing its history and causes.

A complete guide to success on the social work degree.

Written by internationally renowned scholar Armand Lauffer, the book focuses on how nonprofit agencies operate and not how they are managed. This text addresses the current trend to differentiate how nonprofits are disctint.

Combining inter-disciplinary resources from sociology, history, communication and media studies and cultural studies, Matthew David unpacks the economics, psychology and philosophy of file-sharing.

Covering a core topic on the curriculum, this book provides students with the key knowledge and skills that they need for practice and is fully up-to-date, incorporating the findings of the Munro Report (2011).

Now in its Second Edition, this straightforward book introduces students to research. Specific to social work, it is widely used on undergraduate programmes.

Community-Based Corrections covers the necessary topics in community corrections enriched with edited articles taken from current research literature. This unique text/reader format presents a more practical viewpoint than other texts on the market. The authors' expertise with both special needs populations and in the comparative field give the book a unique perspective.

In this book, Celia Doyle and Charles Timms join forces to take your students step-by-step through the underlining theory, skills and practice of working with vulnerable children, using case examples to cover everything they need to know, from detailing the assessment process to positive interventions and family management approaches.

Criminological Theory: The Essentials, Fourth Edition is a brief yet comprehensive overview of the major concepts and perspectives of the key theories in the evolution of criminology. The new edition has been thoroughly updated with the latest theoretical extensions and empirical research, with links made to specific theories and recent events.