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In this unique and innovative book, the author draws on her depth of knowledge and practical experience in helping children to become skilled, creative and imaginative in a wide range of movement-oriented activities.

Written to give the front line practitioner help in assessing and managing cases with children aged 18 months to 6 years who present with allegations of sexual abuse, this book provides concrete and easily understood information about basic child development, interview procedures, and case management theory.

Ethics and Journalism provides a comprehensive overview of the main approaches to ethical enquiry in Western journalism. It examines the ethical dilemmas faced by journalists in all areas of the media and sets our ways of achieving ethical journalism.

This textbook provides a comprehensive analysis of how geographical perspectives can be used to understand the problems of health inequalities. It relates theoretical arguments to specific landscapes and will be a key resource for understanding the articulation between theory and empirical methods for understanding health variation in urban areas.

Proposes an answer to - how should democratic societies organize cyberspace? - that puts human-rights, rather than profit, at the top of the agenda. The author argues that conventional ethical approaches are all seriously flawed.

The New Sociology of Economic Behaviour seeks to revitalize the classical approach and introduces students to the essential ideas in the field. It also shows researchers and graduate students how to make use of concepts like demoralization, cheap labour, dignity at work and a fair day's pay, to develop critiques of current economic arrangements.

This book is a major addition to undergraduate reading lists. It is reliable, allows for easy transference to essays and exams and easy to use, and exceptionally clearly written for student consumption. Topics range over qualitative and quantitative approaches and combine practical considerations with philosophical issues.

Explains and critically evaluates a range of research techniques for the caring professions.

Argues that social theory is moving in the wrong direction in its reflections on human freedom and autonomy. This book identifies human beings as social agents in a profound sense, and emphasises the vital importance of their sociability.

Recreating Men asks whether men can and will change in response to the changing role of women. This critique of patriarchal dominance is presented from the perspective and experience of white, heterosexual profeminist men. It examines how men who are supportive of feminism, are responding to the feminist challenge.

Essential reading for those engaged in the research and analysis of educational data.

An introduction to Bourdieu's work which places him in an appropriate intellectual and historical context. Derek Robbins argues that Bourdieu is best understood as a cultural analyst.

Illustrated throughout with clinical vignettes, this book is a comprehensive guide to psychodynamic brief counselling and psychotherapy. It is ideal for those looking for a practical introduction to the subject.

Encourages psychotherapists and counsellors to consider seriously the relationship between spiritual experiences and therapeutic practice. This work proposes that therapy itself can be seen as a spiritual process and discusses the implications of this view for therapists, clients and the wider world.

Rethinking Youth challenges the conventional wisdoms surrounding the position and opportunities of young people today and provides a systematic overview of the major perspectives in youth studies.

Provides a consideration of how services are conceptualized, designed and managed, creating the basis for an understanding of the multi-dimensional aspects of services. This book explores the effect of organizational structures, management styles, marketing and management competencies on service management decision making and implementation.

The Second Edition of Persuasion combines a discussion of research on the production of persuasive messages with more traditional research on the study of message effects. It covers the theory of reasoned action, contains new chapters on functional approaches to attitude and behavioural change, and new material on persuasive campaigns.

Proposing a non-western way of conceptualizing identity - the cornerstone of cultural research - this book shows how traditional western and non-western views can be blended into a broader, more realistic understanding of cultures and communication.

Provides students with a synthesis of cognitive psychology at its encapsulating relevant background, theory, and research within each chapter. This title highlights the contributions from the neurosciences, notably neuroimaging, in recent years and approaches cognition in the context of both its development and its biological, bodily substrate.

This updated edition of Unobtrusive Measures builds on the earlier version's drive to justify novel techniques of survey and archival research. This book encourages and motivates ingenuity in obtaining information. The authors combine different methods so that research results can withstand the 'threats to validity'.

Tune In, Log Out is an ethnographic study of an Internet soap opera fan group. Bridging the fields of computer-mediated communication and audience studies, the book shows how verbal and non verbal communicative practices create collaborative interpretations and criticism, group humour, interpersonal relationships, group norms and individual identity.

An examination of fundamental strategic issues confronted by firms competing in newly opened markets. Michael W Peng's comparative and interdisciplinary study covers emerging markets in East Asia, Central and Eastern Europe and the newly independent states of the former Soviet Union.

This book is based on the evaluation of British criminal justice responses and treatment programmes for men who use violence against a woman partner. Court enforced abuser programmes are compared with more traditional sanctions such as fines and probation.

This critical introduction to consumption and its geographies provides an engaged summary of the consumption literature and demonstrates that consumption is intimately related to the production of space in everyday life.

Shows how the methods and findings of conversation and discourse analysis may inform the development of empirical research questions. It will therefore be an invaluable resource for social science students on courses which require them to undertake practical or empirical exercises.

Shilling offers the most comprehensive overview of the field to date and an innovative framework for the analysis of embodiment, founded on a revised view of the relation of classical works to the body. Shilling believes the body should be read as a multi-dimensional medium for the constitution of society.

This text guides students through the complexities and implications of the concepts of power and domination. It provides accounts of debates about the dynamics and rationale of state power in an era of globalization, social citizenship and the significance of social movements.