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Global Modernities is a sustained commentary on the international character of the most microcosmic practices. It demonstrates how the global increasingly informs the regional, so deconstructing ideas like the `nation-state' and `national sovereignty'. The spatialization of social theory, hybridization and bio-politics are among the critical issues discussed.

An engaged and impassioned exploration of the extent to which neoliberalism has succeeded in replacing politics with economics. Can economics continue to provide government legitimacy?

Written for undergraduates, this book will become crucial to any student wanting a key to unlock the world of child development, by ensuring they understand the main concepts in the discipline.

A practical and accessible guide to the gestalt approach, now with updated content on trauma, mindfulness and awareness and new case examples and exercises.

A book to help students and newly-qualified social workers plan for and manage complex cases in an increasingly complex environment

Welfare Words analyses a number of keywords and phrases commonly used by policy-makers, news-outlets and wider society, when referring to social policy, welfare reform and social work in the present-day culture of neoliberal capitalism.

An approachable, holistic guide to qualitative inquiry across a wide range of interpretive perspectives, including thematic, narrative and arts-based types of inquiry, now with updated examples, a fresh text design and improved navigation.

This text introduces a socio-cultural approach to public relations as a way of analysing the growing importance of public relations in its social, cultural and political contexts and brings theory to life with a range of case studies, including YouTube vlogging, the global fair trade movement and the 2016 EU referendum in the UK.

Going beyond a general introduction to offer a hands-on guide, Participatory Research empowers students to feel confident understanding and applying participatory methods to their research projects.

With new material on working with diversity and difference, neuroscience and extended discussion on ethics, this is a quick and easy introduction to the psychodynamic approach.

This book explores what reasoning is and what it is not. It includes background theory and a rationale for primary teachers alongside examples of how reasoning in primary mathematics and science classes can develop.

Clinical Psychology: Revisiting the Classic Studies traces 14 ground-breaking studies by researchers such as Leo Kanner, David T. Lykken and Aaron T. Beck to re-examine and reflect on their findings and engage in a lively discussion of the subsequent work that they have inspired.

This is the ultimate book on what is now an established methodology in teaching the fundamentals of communication to children and adults who have severe learning difficulties or autism.

This text provides trainees, teachers and schools with practice-based advice, informed by current practitioners, relating to the delivery of British Values. It covers many topical themes and supports educational professionals to understand their duties around the PREVENT agenda and goes further to explore why this is important.

The SAGE Encyclopedia of the Internet addresses the many related topics pertaining to cyberspace, email, the World Wide Web, and social media. Entries will range from popular topics such as Alibaba and YouTube to important current controversies such as Net Neutrality and cyberterrorism.

The SAGE Handbook of Personality and Individual Difference is the broadest and most comprehensive overview of the field to date. Concerned with the ways humans develop an organised set of characteristics to shape themselves and the world around them, this is a study of how people come to be 'different' and 'similar' to others, on both an individual and a cultural level.

Taking a distinctive, multi-theoretical look at popular music's place in contemporary society, this book is both an original inquiry and an assessment of the state of popular music - its protagonists, audiences and practices.

In this landmark third edition, Netnography: The Essential Guide provides the theoretical and methodological groundwork as well as the practical applications, helping students both understand and do netnographic research projects of their own.

An accessible, definitive student introduction to geographical thought, this book takes a unique approach that encompasses environmental, historical and social perspectives.

This is a clear, comprehensive, systematic and practical guide to achieving Early Years Teacher Status and meeting the EYT Standards and requirements.

The fourth edition of this popular book supports trainee teachers working towards primary QTS while taking account of the diverse professional issues in teaching.

The fourth edition of this popular book supports trainee teachers working towards primary QTS while taking account of the diverse professional issues in teaching.

This is a popular guide to a complex and demanding area of practice that looks at the experiences of children in need who live in state care and the social worker's role in working with them. There are chapters on communication and children's rights, life story work, attachment and culture, as well as ethnicity and faith.

An introductory text that gives its reader a strong understanding of the dimensions of tourism, the industries of which it is comprised, the issues that affect its success, and the management of its impact on destination economies, environments and communities.

Shows you how to understand and use 10 key educational ingredients to become a better and more effective teacher.

This bestselling book explains how expressive and explorative writing can develop reflective practice and invite critical examination of practice, values, roles, and responsibilities.

Not quite sure how to raise your standards from undergrad level to post-grad level? This book suggests strategies and methods for making sure you meet the standards expected of postgraduate study.

This latest book in the bestselling Mathematics Recovery series gives mathematics educators a complete research-based framework for assessment, instruction and intervention in whole number arithmetic over the first 5-6 years of school.

This book is a detailed, empirical investigation into the question of whether academic social research can compete with the commercial sector, with its new technologies and big data, in order to classify, profile, and understand us.

This book combines practice, theory and research and draws on the authors' international experience to provide an invaluable resource for reflection and change for everyone who contributes to and studies leadership.