This textbook helps nursing students understand why sociology is relevant and important to them, and how they can actually use it as nurses to understand real situations and improve care.

Provides the perfect reference point for graduate students, scholars, and researchers wishing to familiarise themselves with current research and debate in the academic literature on coaching.

Aimed directly at those who aspire to be university leaders in these turbulent times, and written as an academic counterpart to Machiavelli's The Prince, The Academic Caesar explores four themes that are central to the contemporary university: its Caesar-leaders, its economics, its disciplines, and whether academics have a future in the universities. Drawing on a wealth of experience writing about the social epistemology of higher education, Steve Fuller makes a witty, robust and provocative...

Written by internationally renowned author and scholar James Midgley, this book provides a comprehensive framework for examining social welfare from a global perspective.

Not just a book about research methods, this book explores multiple ways in which research can be used to inform and enhance counselling practice.

This sophisticated and cutting-edge exploration of the state of critical social theory today relates the key concepts and theorists to major contemporary developments such as globalization, social conflict and neo-liberal capitalism.

This book traces 17 ground-breaking studies by researchers such as Gage, Luria, Sperry, and Tulving to re-examine and reflect on their findings and engage in a lively discussion of the subsequent work that they have inspired.

This book approaches research methods from a practice-first perspective that aligns research with professional experiences and identifies the tools and resources readers can use when conducting their own research.

Show students at any level how to plan, shoot, and edit their own ethnographic videos within 3 weeks using desktop technology and widely available software.