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Successful Statistics For Nursing and Healthcare helps students to gain an understanding of statistical methods within the evidence-based health care context.

The transformation of local governance in the 1980s and 1990s has put the nature and prospects for local democracy in question.

This New Casebook provides an overview of the criticism of work by Toni Morrison, the first African-American woman to win the Nobel prize for literature, and an introduction to the key works and issues in African-American literary scholarship.

In this book Guy Reynolds offers a wide-ranging introduction to American women writers. He presents detailed readings of both classic and little-known fictions, placing works in the social and historical contexts of their times. Incisive and detailed, this book will interest readers and students in this increasingly important field of study.

Why are western societies - and particularly Britain - becoming more deeply divided, more violent, more squalid? Donnison draws on the experience of innovative civic leaders, community activists, local policy-makers and researchers to answer these pressing questions.

Adopting a chronological framework, this up-to-date study examines how the regime emerged out of the chaos of the Algerian crisis, how its political evolution has been very different from that envisaged by de Gaulle, and why it has endured.

This text provides comprehensive coverage of the core elements of economic policy, from both microeconomic and macroeconomic approaches. This book will be particularly appropriate for introductory courses on economic policy and economics courses with a particular policy emphasis.

An extremely fluent and effective text designed to be a complete resource for single semester modules, this new edition has a unique combination of text, case studies. Also available is a companion website with extra features to accompany the text, please take a look by clicking below - http://www.palgrave.com/business/brennan/

This collection of essays is in no way an attempt to instruct people in ways to teach Drama. Each of the essays in this volume challenges that perception, but all of them challenge it in very different ways.

This impressive text guides the reader through the myriad of concepts and approaches used in the research and practice of psychology. The text is an invaluable and readily-accessible guide to a complex field for students and experienced health care professionals who are interested in learning more about the psychological aspects of health care.

This book explores the lives of girls who have grown up in the last decades of the 20th century and into the 21st examining the complex ways that wealth and poverty, class and ethnicity are forever changed but terribly present in their experiences and life chances.

This major new study re-examines one of the most controversial issues of early modern history: the impact of the English Reformation upon the English people.

This text offers a wide-ranging account of the dynamic relationship between gender, culture and society. Incorporates feminist theory, theories of men and masculinity, and post-structuralism, as well as recent global events, ensuring a highly topical and relevant discussion.

This comprehensively revised and updated new edition of the leading text in the field provides full coverage of the historical, political and European context of British transport policy, of the new financial and regulatory regimes of the Twenty-first century and of the impact of such major new initiatives as London's congestion charge.

Spain's religious heritage is distinguished by the drive for conformity on the one hand and the endurance of a vibrant inclusive tradition on the other. This volume is a critical assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of Spain's Catholic identity in the early modern period.

This book explores the influence of late seventeenth-century Christianity in Locke's philosophical, political, and educational thought. This book incorporates the latest scholarship and reassesses the nature of Locke's most important writings in the light of his strong commitment to traditional Christian notions of morality and human purpose.

Explores changes in clanship and inheritance, the employment of single women, the punishment of pregnant brides and scolds, and the introduction of Protestantism, all of which contributed to the diversity of women's lives in Britain during the early modern period.

A comprehensive survey of women's drama between the Renaissance and the end of the eighteenth century, assessing the plays' characteristic features and the ruptures in the text indicating the writers' precarious social and artistic position and ambiguous stances to their own creativity and sex.

Contact Languages: Pidgins and Creoles aims to introduce the reader to the exciting and important field of pidgin and creole studies. Detailed case studies of individual pidgins and creoles are based around texts drawn from a range of different types and contexts (mainly contemporary), with discussion and grammatical notes.

This work throws new light on the nature and origins of ideas of racial difference. It reconstructs the evolution of the modern discourse of race and investigates its meaning in contemporary society. It presents a critique of postmodern theories of cultural "difference".

Articles from the last two decades by leading critics of English early modern drama provide a variety of fresh, controversial and enlightening critical perspectives on five of Marlowe's plays: Tamburlaine the Great Parts One and Two, The Jew of Malta, Doctor Faustus, and Edward II.

The author explores the involvement of ordinary people within, alongside and beyond the church, covering topics such as liturgical practice, church office, relations with the clergy, festivity, religious fellowships, cheap print, 'magical' religion and dissent.

This fifth volume in the immensely popular series introduces new topics of Midwifery Practice and revisits some topics already discussed in previous volumes.

This book highlights the basic principles of monetary economics and their application to developing countries. Fully illustrated, the new edition includes four entirely new chapters, with material on financial crises, the debates surrounding inflation targeting, and an examination of the role and future of financial institutions.

Britain's health service has seen a period of unprecedented change over the last decade. In Perspectives in Health Care they have produced a straightforward introduction to social policy for nurses, nursing students and other health care professionals.

This book presents a critical analysis of the relation between sociological theory and recent debates in cultural studies. The book examines the problems of theorising issues such as modernity, mass culture and postmodernity by advocating a historical and context-based approach.

Women in the United States, 1830-1945 investigates women's economic, social, political and cultural history, encompassing all ethnic and racial groups and religions.

This text analyzes the evolving relationship between the French monarchy and the French nobility in the early modern period. The provinces of Provence, Dauphine and Brittany illustrate the ways in which elites organized were co-opted or subverted by the crown.

State intervention in family life is an important and problematic political and social issue, and one which is surrounded by debates of a highly ideological nature. The central theme of this valuable book is that of 'family life' as an object of both social policy interest and welfare intervention.

Focuses upon Gothic fiction produced predominantly in the Romantic era (1780-1820). This title assembles some of the critical writings about Romantic Gothic literature since its inception. It begins by charting the moral and political panic provoked by Gothic's popularity in the 1790s, and then examines the genre's recuperation.