This new text from Mary Larkin on the increasingly important life course approach covers health from pre-pregnancy to old age. Chapters include suggestions for further reading, discussion points, activities and activity commentaries to make it ideal for interactive student learning and critical reflection.

A straightforward and accessible guide to Personal Development in Counselling and Psychotherapy

An invaluable introduction for all students and researchers of management confronting a new research project. Understanding Management Research provides an overview of the principal epistemological debates in social science and how these lead to and are expressed in different ways of conceiving and undertaking organizational research.

A brief, yet in-depth examination of twelve major sociological theories.

2016 Outstanding Publication Award (The International Association for the Study of Organized Crime) Organized Crime: Analyzing Illegal Activities, Criminal Structures, and Extra-legal Governance provides a systematic overview of the processes and structures commonly labeled "organized crime," drawing on the pertinent empirical and theoretical literature primarily from North America, Europe, and Australia. The main emphasis is placed on a comprehensive classificatory scheme that highlights und...

This accessible book explores and demonstrates methodological tools used to guide qualitative relationships research, especially studies of interpersonal communication.

Virginia Government offers an excellent introduction to the political institutions, actors, and policy processes of the Old Dominion state.

Terrorism in Perspective combines original thematic overview essays with the best of the existing literature.

Best-selling author and futurist Mark R. Prensky's book of essays challenges educators to "reboot" and make the changes necessary to prepare students for 21st century careers.

Every child valued and empowered to learn-this book shows you how! This book is focused on a set of strategies that have a positive effect on student learning and attachment to schooling, in spite of real and powerful social inequalities. This evidence-based book is drawn from research showing that students from all backgrounds in identity safe classrooms learn better and like school more than their peers in other classrooms. In identity safe classrooms, teachers strive to ensure that student...