'The world is never how it should be or how we want it to be, but this book helps in getting through.'Chris Yuill, Lecturer of Sociology, Robert Gordon University

With exercises and case studies, this book includes chapters debates and developments, politics, prejudice, power and privilege and client perception.

Detailing over 60 different special needs conditions this book is an ideal 'go-to-guide' to help teachers understand, identify and work with children who have special needs.

Television foreign correspondent Lindsey Hilsum thinks about why and when war zones become too dangerous to cover. The author (who broke the story of extraordinary rendition) reports on the modern threats to reporters' keeping their sources secret, while an Iraqi trainer of journalists investigates what measures journalists can take to stay safer.

A clear, contemporary, and student-friendly exploration of age and ageing as it relates to culture and society.

This book takes the approach of Erving Goffman - and its fundamental concepts including frames, stigma, definition of the situation, front and back stages, role distance, communication out of character, interaction rituals - as its focus, and shows how it can be applied in contemporary social contexts

This book reflects recent attention in both the press and peer-reviewed research on learning through online engagement, whether formally through online classes and MOOCs or informally within game environments and popular culture discussion boards.

Based on the lessons of World Class Learners this new series will show educators at all levels what it takes to help students be more insightful, creative, communicative, technically skilled, and decisive.

Based on the lessons of World Class Learners this new series will show educators at all levels what it takes to help students be more insightful, creative, communicative, technically skilled, and decisive.

An all-new anthology showcasing readings that reflect the diversity and complexity of racial dynamics in the contemporary United States.