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Developing Person-Centred Counselling,Second Edition is designed to help counsellors improve their skills within the person-centred approach. With chapters on growth and transference, the book covers the subjects which are central to person-centred training. The book is supported by case material and examples from practice.

The concept of `governance' has become a central catchword across the social and political sciences. In Governing as Governance, Jan Kooiman revisits and develops his seminal work in the field to map and demonstrate the utility of a sociopolitical perspective to our understanding of contemporary forms of governing, governance and governability.

This readable and comprehensive book overviews the new sciences of chaos and complexity. The author describes formal and social organizations from the perspective of chaos and complexity theories. The book is generously illustrated and includes references plus an annotated bibliography.

Making Sense of Multivariate Data Analysis is a short introduction to multivariate data analysis (MDA) for students and practitioners in the behavioral and social sciences.

Utilizing the `self-OTHER' perspective as a conceptual foundation, the authors portray and interpret some of the distinctive communication practices in Chinese culture. They examine how self-conception, role and hierarchy, relational dynamics and face affect ways of conducting everyday talk in Chinese culture

`Stephen Reicher and Nick Hopkins write with elegance and clarity, drawing the reader into their argument, without losing any of its complexity and nuance. This book deserves to make a major impact in studies of nationalism. It ought to become a classic.... I'm quite bowled over - it's really brilliant' - David McCrone, Edinburgh University

Elizabeth Wilson explores the contradictory nature of cultural relations through an examination of fashion, feminism, consumer culture, representation and postmodernism. Debates within feminism on the nature and effects of pornography are used to illustrate a particular kind of cultural contradiction.

How do we describe ourselves? Where have we, do we, will we, live our lives? Why are the differences between people a source of tension? How can social change occur? This book shows how geographers work across ideas of difference to understand questions of identity, power and action. It is suitable for students of human geography.

`A bold and imaginative attempt to reorganize and restructure social theory's map of sexuality' - Bryan S Turner, University of Cambridge, This thoughtful and accessible book provides a critical examination of the central debates attached to conceptualizing sexuality as a site of knowledge and politics.

Examines the work of key figures and institutions in the classical tradition and the agenda they provide for contemporary sociology. It analyzes theories such as those of Karl Marx and Max Weber, and then covers debates on the family, religion, the city, social stratification and citizenship.

This book enables teachers to develop a complete range of basic investigations for science with students aged 5 to 11 years.

Helps counsellors and professional helpers give sensitive and appropriate support to clients from cultures other than their own. This title illustrates the process of transcultural counselling using the contrasting case studies of 4 different clients, and highlights the impact of cultural issues at individual, community and global levels.

By introducing the reader to regression analysis through a simple model-building approach, this book takes a fresh look at applying regression analysis in the behavioural sciences.

A guide to critical realism and an assessment of its virtues in comparison with other traditions in social science. It criticizes reductionism and determinism in "modernist" social science, along with postmodernism, anti-essentialism and constructionism.

Examines the extent to which commercial populism dominates electoral and other political discourses. This book also examines: the ways in which the functions of leadership, government and political parties are modified by different forms of both old and new media; and the democratic or undemocratic import of such changes.

An account of the competing schools of thought in international theory. It examines mainstream approaches in international relations and applied ethics, and introduces the central debates. It also draws conclusions for transcending the theoretical deadlock in international relations.

The main purposes of this book are twofold: to promote an understanding of the harmful possibilities of fieldwork; and to provide ways of dealing with ethical problems and dilemmas. To these ends, examples of actual fieldwork are provided that address ethical problems and dilemmas, and posit ways of dealing with them.

An extensive resource book for researchers at all levels to draw upon in planning and conducting effective research. It focuses systematically on researching the small firm. It covers: Basic Issues of Definition / Selecting Topics & Research Designs / Fieldwork Problems / Analysis Data / Writing & Presenting Results

This text covers the main designs, both independent and related ANOVA and ANCOVA, single and multi-factor designs. The conventional statistical assumptions underlying ANOVA and ANCOVA are detailed and given expression in GLM terms.

Drafting and Assessing Poetry

Drawing and Painting

Offers a critical mapping of the field of journalism studies among academics across different fields that have come to look at journalism. This book calls for realignment of the goalposts through which journalism has traditionally been conceptualized.

Marketing - The Retro Revolution

'This is an inspiring book from bilingual, bicultural New Zealand about revolutionizing the assessment of young children's learning and progress.... I hope this book inspires United Kingdom practitioners to set out on learning story journeys' - Nursery World

An introduction to theories of European integration in the contemporary study of Europe, the European Union and European integration.