A long awaited fully revised and updated edition of Graeme Turner's popular exploration of celebrity studies.

A practical guide offering simple steps for trainee teachers or experienced practitioners new to research, on getting started with their education research project.

Robin Wensley explores all the basic analytical approaches required to inform a sound analytical approach to practical issues in the management of human organisations. Readers will gain crucial insight into the link between managerial theory and the key practical features of managerial experience in action.

Moving from conventional accounts of the society of states to non-state-centric understandings of global politics, this book presents readers with a state-of-the-art overview of international political theory.

Marking the anniversary of Napoleon's defeat at the Battle of Waterloo, the authors explore the relationship between power and leadership through power modes based on Napoleon's career.

The first text to introduce students to the fundamentals of crisis communication using an ethical approach.

This book uses intuitive examples to introduce readers to the idea of self-control and its importance for understanding criminal behaviour, and to explore the close connection between self-control and the behavioural choices people make.

This book aims to help students understand the nature of helping relationships and the specific skills involved in initiating and maintaining a helping relationship.

Covers the basic skills and core interventions needed to begin seeing clients. By approaching therapy as an art rather than from a prescriptive diagnostic position, this text encourages readers to look at every situation differently and draw from their embedded knowledge to best serve the individuals in their care.

Crisis Intervention takes into account various environments and populations across the lifespan to provide students with practical guidelines for managing crises.