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Provides a comprehensive and well-illustrated framework for the analysis of everyday texts by outlining and integrating three different perspectives: discourse, rhetoric and social history.

Media and Violence pays equal attention to the production, content, reception and consumer involved in any representation of violence. This book offers a framework for understanding how violence is represented and consumed and is illustrated with topical and well-known examples, enabling the reader to critically engage with the debates.

Anyone involved in the field of early-childhood literacy should be familiar with the work of the REAL (Raising Early Achievement in Literacy) Project. This book discusses the policy contexts of early-childhood and literacy. It also discusses and illustrates research and evaluation strategies for family literacy workers.

Provides trainees/NQTs with the management and leadership techniques that they will need in order to develop, with appropriate experience and opportunities, into subject consultants or effective members of a senior management team. The emphasis in this book is on the practical techniques and strategies of curriculum management.

"To do justice to the postgraduate journey as experienced by the students, quotations and anecdotes from the author's own research ... are drawn upon. These anecdotes provide vivid insights into the postgraduate experience, thereby livening up the text and providing some solace to those facing similar issues in their postgraduate existence' - Education and Training Journal

The authors take a complex, under-discussed topic and give teachers and administrators useful, basic guidelines they can put to use quickly in understanding, identifying, and helping this special group of students.

The Media and Globalization offers: a clear and accessible overview of globalization and the pivotal role of the media; an introduction to the concepts and theories of globalization; empirical data on the production and consumption of media; and a methodology for relating individual, local experiences to the global picture.

Communication Theory argues that the different kinds of communication dynamics found in cyberspace demand a reassessment of the methodologies used to explore media, as well as new understandings of the concepts of interaction and community (virtual communities and broadcast communities).

`This book confirms David Harris' status as a leading theorist in contemporary culture and leisure in the UK. He offers a distinctive, coherent and authoritative guide to the major concepts and debates that should engage leisure scholars and scholarship' - Dr Peter Bramham, Senior Lecturer in Leisure Studies, Leeds Metropolitan University

Explores the conflicts of running a business that needs to be ethical and responsive to clients' needs - but at the same time has to be successful and profitable. This book provides advice on business, tax, VAT and accounting with examples of budgets to illustrate how to make business perform.

Doing Research in Business and Management provides a comprehensive overview of management research and research methodology. Taking the reader through all the major stages of the research process, this wide-ranging text introduces the key methods that are available to students as researchers in management and business.

This illuminating book, which explores the idea of subcultures, traces the concept back to the works of Tonnies and Durkheim. Jenks also analyses subcultures in American urban sociology and criminology. Finally, he evaluates the work of Stuart Hall and the Birmingham School and argues for the continuing relevance of subcultures.

How do we conceptualise the production and re-production of social life? What are the most appropriate ways to conceptualise capitalist economies and their geographies? Economic Geographies integrates ideas of structure, agency, and practice to provide: A detailed overview of recent key debates in economic geography: from political-.

This introduction to the sociology of consumption critcally examines the relation between production and consumption in late capitalist societies. After a detailed historical overview of the advents of consumer society, the author examines theoretical accounts of consumption and consumer practice.

Presents an introduction to contemporary rural societies and economies in the developed world. This book examines the social and economic processes at work in the contemporary countryside - including the more traditional: like agriculture; land use; and population; as well as wider themes like: rural health, crime, exclusion, commodification.

This powerful resource includes valuable self-assessment tools, resources, and practical applications that will help instructional leaders develop a modern, creative, team-centered school.

This book introduces students to the key concepts in Public Relations and draws on a wide range of interdisciplinary sources to encourage students to think critically about public relations as an occupation, to widen their intellectual perspective on the subject, and to really engage the thinking that has shaped both the discipline and practice of public relations.

This easy-to-use guide introduces many proven models, strategies, examples, and methods to new generations of educators, emphasizing the essentials of good teaching.

This text specifically targets busy school principals who want practical suggestions grounded in national NSDC standards for balancing everyday administrative tasks while encouraging teachers' professional growth.

With in-depth analysis of nine different cases, several of which have influenced the codes and regulations of corporate behaviour in the UK and America, this book explores the relationship between governance practice and theory.

Written for new and aspiring principals in a quick-access, bulleted format, this handbook is an excellent off-the-shelf reference, organized into five key management sections.

Provides a step-by-step process for creating a sustainable afterschool program that incorporates a high-level curriculum, integrates standards, and improves achievement, particularly for students who are at risk.

`As the creator of Rational Emotive Therapy I have probably read more books dealing with its theory and practice than has anyone else. Of all these books, Windy Dryden and Michael Neenan's is easily one of the best - Albert Ellis, Albert Ellis Institute

This general theory of small groups as complex systems draws on general systems theory, dynamical systems theory, and complexity and chaos theory.

Body Modification

An exploration of understandings of globalization in relation to the 'nature, culture and gender' concerns of two decades of feminist theory.

An overview of linguistic and sociological approaches to text and discourse analysis.

`A major contribution of this exciting book is the perspective of the subsidiary manager operating network.... With exceptional clarity of thought and writing, Julian Birkinshaw stakes out the ground as a major new thinker in the fields of international business and strategic management' - Alan Rugman, Templeton College, University of Oxford