Split into three parts, this book considers what is meant by disadvantage and marginalisation, how this can come about and the impact this may have on lives, before unpicking the key knowledge and skills needed to practice effectively with individuals and groups.

This brief book frames the big puzzles and, through lively stories and clear examples, provides a valuable how-to guide for producing analysis that works.

With two comprehensive writing models, Scott A Kuehn and Andrew Lingwall help readers to develop the essential writing skills and professional habits needed to succeed in 21st-century media careers.

Bringing together conceptual, practice, and advocacy knowledge, this book explores the complexities of human trafficking and modern-day slavery through a global perspective.

Offers a practical introduction to the changing structure, forms, and functions of U.S local governments.

Strategies and techniques to make lessons more engaging and student-centred.

Drawing on extensive teaching and clinical experience, this book discusses how therapists can bring about change in group settings using a well-developed organizing framework that utilizes interpersonal processes.

In the Fourth Edition of this bestselling book, John W Creswell and new co-author Cheryl N Poth explore the philosophical underpinnings, history and key elements of each of five qualitative inquiry traditions: narrative research, phenomenology, grounded theory, ethnography and case study - putting them side by side, so that we can see the differences. The authors relate research designs to each of the traditions of enquiry. They compare theoretical frameworks and ways to employ standards of q...

This book provides personal experiences, best practices, and deeper resources for educators who work with students with special needs. Chapters discuss how special educational needs affect reading and math instruction, accommodations, culturally responsive practices, legal issues, home-school collaboration, and more.

Moving beyond the narrow confines of a "how to" of innovation management, The Business of Innovation takes a contemporary approach reflecting on the wider, external contexts in which management decisions are made.