Macmillan Education Uk: 1090 books
Media Research Methods
Audiences, Institutions, Texts
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017
This indispensable textbook provides student researchers with extensive guidance and methods from across the social sciences and humanities, showing them how to make informed choices and consider the many alternatives available throughout the research process. Unique in approach, the text focus on...
Quarantine
Local and Global Histories
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2016
Over five centuries, a global archipelago of quarantine stations came to connect the world's oceans from the Mediterranean to the South Pacific, from Atlantic coasts to the Red Sea. In the process, great new carceral structures materialised, many surviving into the present as magnificent ruins or...
Approved Mental Health Practice
Essential Themes for Students and Practitioners
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
Drawing on a wealth of experience from both current and past practitioners in mental health, this book is a handbook for Approved Mental Health Practitioners at a time of uncertainty and change. The book considers the themes and issues relating to the role, the present day challenges and future directions for the profession.
by Simon Honeyball
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
This textbook is an ambitious and engaging introduction to the more advanced writings on employment law, primarily designed to allow students to ‘get under the skin’ of the topic and begin to build their critical thinking and analysis skills. Each chapter is structured around key questions and...
Rethinking the Third World
International Development and World Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2014
A systematic reassessment, by two leading figures in the field, of the paradigm of international development in both theory and practice. It offers an overview and critique of development theory and strategy, and a new framework for the analysis of global inequality, poverty and development in an era of globalization.
Cultural Performance
Ethnographic Approaches to Performance Studies
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2017
This engaging text introduces the burgeoning and interdisciplinary field of cultural performance, offering ethnographic approaches to performance as well as looking at the aesthetics of experience and performance theory. Examining cultural performance from anthropological, geographical and corporeal...
Global Journalism
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
Providing a truly comprehensive overview of international journalism and global news reporting in the digital age, this new introductory textbook surveys the full variety of contexts that journalists around the world operate in; the challenges and pressures they face; their journalistic practices;...
Social Work Methods and Skills
The Essential Foundations of Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2011
This brilliantly systematic and comprehensive textbook provides an integrated approach to social work theory, methods and skills as the bedrock of all social work practice. Recognizing social work as a diverse activity that is rooted in common foundations, it explains how practice both shapes and...
The Relationship Paradigm
Human Being Beyond Individualism
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013
In this important new book, Godfrey Barrett-Lennard challenges the individualist focus of traditionalist psychology by proposing that the human condition is basically relational and interdependent. Rich in depth and scope, The Relationship Paradigm explores relationship systems over an absorbing vista...
by Aled Griffiths, John Williams, Gwyneth Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Social work law is at the foundation of all social work practice, from shaping professional boundaries to determining the level of intervention. Every case is complex and unique and therefore requires different legal treatment; this means it is absolutely vital that social workers not only understand...
by Patrick White
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
This no fuss, compact guide steers Social Science students of all levels through the complex process of conducting a research project. It explains how to break down initial ideas and broad topics into manageable questions and gives detailed guidance on how to refine these as the project progresses....
Understanding Social Work
Preparing for Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2015
Focusing on the challenges of achieving good practice, Understanding Social Work reflects recent developments in social work within the context of contemporary society, law and policy. This popular text continues to offer an excellent foundation for readers for anyone wanting a better understanding of the social work role.
by Alan Booth
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
It is commonplace to assume that the twentieth-century British economy has failed, falling from the world's richest industrial country in 1900 to one of the poorest nations of Western Europe in 2000. Manufacturing is inevitably the centre of this failure: British industrial managers cannot organise...
Assessment in Counselling
Theory, Process and Decision Making
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Whilst assessment has long been central to the counselling process, with the recent moves towards evidence-based practice and increased regulation it is taking an increasingly pivotal role in service provision. This important new text helps clarify the nature and purpose of assessment in counselling....