Packed with examples, including a full sample puzzle game for you to use with your students, this book is a primer for classroom teachers on designing robust learning activities using problem-solving principles.

This book provides a skills focused entry point to the interventions, techniques, strategies and core knowledge you need to work with children and young people.

Cultures lead to differences in children's development, but equally important, culture is an essential component of every child's psychological development. Taking a chronological approach, this book offers a complete picture of child development.

In a new textbook designed for students new to statistics and social data, Gorard focuses on non-inferential statistics as a basis to provide readers with fundamental statistical literacy. Assuming no previous statistical knowledge, the author demystifies the subject in an engaging and approachable style.

Designed for both students and newly-qualified social workers, this dip in and out of guide introduces students to over 60 key skills in a concise and no-nonsense way. Test your knowledge and how to apply skills in practice with Skills in Action, Stop, Reflect and Top Tips boxes.

An easy-to-use textbook that helps nursing students become confident in their calculations skills. Using clear and simple language, hundreds of practice questions, and real-life clinical scenarios, to help students pass their exams first time and become responsible nursing professionals.

This highly accessible fifth edition continues to open windows to the world of marketing, with cases that are vibrant and engaged, links that allow students to explore topics in more detail and content to encourage them to relate theory to practice.

The concise and easy-to-read guide for users who want to learn how to perform the same statistical calculations in R as in SPSS.

Written by award-winning CQ Researcher journalists, this collection of non-partisan reports offers an in-depth examination of today's most pressing global issues.

Media/Society: Industries, Images, and Audiences provides a framework to help students understand the relationship between media and society and helps students develop skills for critically evaluating both conventional wisdom and one's own assumptions about the social role of the media. The Seventh Edition retains its basic sociological framwork, but also includes additional discussions of new studies and up-to-date material about a rapidly changing media landscape. This edition significantly...