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Forensic Psychology
Routes through the system
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2018
This brand new textbook provides a complete course in forensic psychology, covering the criminal justice system, law and legislation, and treatments and outcomes for offenders. It offers rigorous coverage of the major topics: from theoretical concepts and research methods to explaining criminal acts...
Dickens to Hardy 1837-1884
The Novel, the Past and Cultural Memory in the Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2007
This authoritative survey examines how the Victorian middle-classes perceived themselves, through analyses of the literature of the period. Asking how the middle classes distinguished themselves from their forbears, Julian Wolfreys reads in detail major novels by:
- Charles Dickens
- Elizabeth Gaskell
-...
Dance and the Body in Western Theatre
1948 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2015
While the body appears in almost all cultural discourses, it is nowhere as visible as in dance. This book captures the resurgence of the dancing body in the second half of the twentieth century by introducing students to the key phenomenological, kinaesthetic and psychological concepts relevant to both theatre and dance studies.
by Martin Coyle, Julian Hanna
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2008
Introducing the dynamic study of a literary period stretching from 1900 to the Second World War, the book reflects the exciting mix of European avant-garde, writers of the Harlem Renaissance and regional voices within Britain. Three distinct sections explore the major concepts, themes and issues that characterise the literature.
Re-imagining Government
Public Leadership and Management in Challenging Times
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2011
In an age of austerity, public leaders and managers face a range of external challenges - fiscal, social and political. Combining theoretical insight, empirical commentary and practical experience, this book examines how democratic political systems work and how public decisions are made - and how they could be made better.
Discovering Sociolinguistics
From Theory to Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
This engagingly written textbook provides a unique ‘hands-on’ introduction to sociolinguistics, which equips readers with the tools to start their own sociolinguistic research project. The book begins by outlining the historical, theoretical and cultural space in which language use occurs, before...
Victorian Hauntings
Spectrality, Gothic, the Uncanny and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Victorian Hauntings asks its reader to consider the following questions:
What does it mean to read or write with ghosts, or to suggest that acts of reading or writing are haunted ? In what ways can authors in the nineteenth century be read so as to acknowledge the various phantom effects which...
Consumer Behaviour
Perspectives, Findings and Explanations
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
A high level textbook discussing different perspectives in consumer behaviour. Drawing on real life case studies, this book enables students to critically approach and evaluate behavioural concepts.
by W. Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
In this clear, jargon-free guide, Willie Thompson provides a concise introduction to postmodernist theory and its significant impact on the study of history. Although this is a hotly-debated topic, with much of the current literature being both polemical and inaccessible to the beginner, Thompson...
Political Analysis
A Critical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Political Analysis provides an accessible and engaging yet original introduction and distinctive contribution, to the analysis of political structures, institutions, ideas and behaviours, and above all, to the political processes through which they are constantly made and remade. Following an innovative...
Social Constructionisms
Approaches to the Study of the Human World
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
Social constructionism is one of the key ideas in the social sciences, offering different frameworks for understanding the human world. But what does it mean when we say that something is 'socially constructed'? What exactly do we construct in our social interaction? And what actually 'does' the constructing?
This...
Power
A Radical View
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
The second edition of this seminal work includes the original text, first published in 1974, alongside two major new chapters. Power: A Radical View assesses the main debates about how to conceptualize and study power, including the influential contributions of Michel Foucault. Power Revisited reconsiders...
by David Howe
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2009
This textbook offers the perfect introduction to the complex world of social work theory, giving a concise yet comprehensive overview of how practice is influenced by each theoretical approach described. The book begins by outlining the origins and historical context of social work, which allows the...
by Jonathan Grix
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2010
The fully revised second edition of this popular text provides an accessible introduction to the tools, terminology and research perspectives that students need to know in order to engage in academic debate and successfully complete research-based assignments. It first explores the language and nature...