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This four-volume set focuses on ethnic identity, the causes of ethnic conflict - covering both traditional and contemporary theoretical approaches, the consequences and the settlement of ethnic conflict.

This new edition of Ann Browne's popular text on language and literacy is now completely up-to-date, covering everything students of primary and early years education need to know about language and literacy.

Organizational Ethnography brings contributions from leading scholars in organizational studies that help to develop an ethnographic perspective on organizations and organizational research.

The first comprehensive, purpose-written textbook for students of Sport Studies in higher education.

This clearly written and thought-provoking book provides excellent summary and analysis of therapy with children and children's rights.

This book covers various aspects of modern, professional social work practice from concepts and ideas through to the practical realities of frontline work.

Developing Your Career in Nursing is an accessible guide to help you choose your initial or continuing nurse training, and to plan your future career. It builds a complete picture to help reader'ss chose the right career path.

School inspection under OFSTED continues to generate discussion and controversy. This book is a contribution to the wide debate about the role and function of OFSTED inspection, particularly as it relates to school improvement and raising standards.

The most learner-friendly introduction to sport management ever published for students in higher education.

This book offers a specifically feminist perspective on women's lives in contemporary cities; The contributors offer an array of knowledge about women's place and women's places in cities today.

Policy, Leadership and Professional Knowledge in Education brings together influential articles from Educational Management and Administration

Following on from the UN Conference on Environment and Development in 1992, sustainable development has become a major policy objective throughout the world. This book addresses the nature of sustainable development, the particular issues raised at local level, and the ways in which local citizens, organizations and businesses can respond.

The relevance of these three volumes lies in the steady expansion of the global IT and business process outsourcing markets. These have consistently grown during the 18 years they have been the subject of academic study.

The comprehensive yet concise guide to carrying out regression analyses using the program R.

This new edition of a bestselling introductory text for school leaders combines leading contributors, an easy-to-read style and coverage of the 'need to know' topics that any practising or aspiring school leader will cover in their course.

This set will include seminal journal articles and book excerpts dealing with various approaches to International Relations (IR) theory selected and introduced by the editors.

This accessible text enables criminology and criminal justice students to understand and critically evaluate the criminal law, in the context of criminal justice and wider social issues.

Nicholas Walliman's writing style is well loved and widely read. In this book the authors practically guide health and social care students through the process of doing a dissertation and how to achieve success with such a project.

An introduction to religion and spirituality within the social care framework.

Whatever areas of Sport and Exercise Science students are studying, this will be the resource they turn to first and return to most often.

An essential source of support and guidance for undergraduate students doing work placements or summer internships as part of their degree course

This book looks at state involvement in education and education policy. It explains the role of education policy in the context of the general direction of government policy, politics and the economy.

This title looks at how achieving positive outcomes for children in care is possible when the root causes of failure are tackled.

This book positions qualitative analysis as an ongoing process occurring over the life cycle of a project. It pays attention to the research proposal and the decisions taken early on in the research design that influence the analysis, such as the use of theory, sampling and data collection.

This book provides a timely and expansive study on the subject of the impact that academic social science has across a broad societal canvas, including on government and public policy, commerce and business, and the third sector and public engagement.

An original, path-breaking exploration of power in contemporary social science and humanities, from one of the biggest names in the field today.

Taking a broad approach to asset-based public health, the authors outline a programme of action for commissioning appropriate interventions to achieve evidence-based and values-based improvements in all areas of health and social care.

Informed by over 10 years of cutting-edge thinking and teaching at the Oxford Brookes Institute of Public Care, this practical text takes readers methodically and logically through the challenging task of commissioning public services across the health and social care sector.

This book provides an introduction to the technology and techniques of EEG in the context of social neuroscience research that will appeal to investigators (students or researchers) wishing to broaden their research aims to include EEG, and to those already using EEG but wishing to expand their analytic repertoire.

Bell and Thorpe provide a stimulating and critical overview of the key theoretical debates on research paradigms and methodologies and relate them to the day to day practice of the research, demystifying the process and providing invaluable insights into the politics and practice of research.