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Details the common approaches to social simulation, to provide social scientists with an appreciation of the literature and allow those with some programming skills to create their own simulations. This book presents the techniques of building computer simulations to assist understanding of social and economic issues and problems.

"Funding Health Care".

The term 'moral panic' is frequently applied to sudden outbreaks of concern about social problems. This work critically evaluates the usefulness of moral panic models for understanding how politicians, the public and pressure groups come to recognise apparent new threats to the social order, and also scrutinizes the role of the media.

Offers an outline of the main thesis of social movements and offers a perspective, based upon the work of the social theorist, Pierre Bourdieu. This book is intended for sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists and social psychologists.

Provides an introduction to the debates about the future direction of welfare reform on both sides of the Atlantic. This work outlines a range of different perspectives on welfare, and shows how each of them rests upon a different assumption about the role and purpose of welfare policy and a different understanding of human nature and motivation.

Based on sound theoretical concepts, this book offer a range of solutions for different teaching situations, taking into account factors such as group size, physical space, and technology.

Drawing on a substantial research base, this book provides useful suggestions to facilitate successful talk between teachers and children to improve learning and raise standards. It provides ideas, techniques, and practical suggestions for making classroom talk effective and looks at international perspectives in the field.

This book explores how historical and contemporary museums and exhibitions restage the relationship between people and material things and how in doing so, they become important sites for the development of new forms of experience, memory and knowledge.

What is viva and how can students prepare for it? What should supervisors consider when selecting PhD examiners? The doctoral examination process has been shrouded in mystery and has been a source of anxiety and concern for students, supervisors and examiners alike. This book provides constructive ways of understanding the doctoral examination.

Identity and Culture looks at how different cultural narratives and practices work to constitute identity for individuals and groups in multi-ethnic, 'postcolonial' societies. This book encompasses issues of class, race, and gender, with a particular focus on the mobilization of forms of ethnic identity in societies still governed by racism.

Examines issues of television and cultural identities in the context of globalization. This book explores issues in contemporary cultural studies, such as media, globalization, language, gender, and identity. It is a useful read for undergraduate and postgraduate courses on television and cultural identities in the field of cultural studies.

Provides a set of principles for doing educational research for social justice. This book is helpful to various researchers, whether they are just beginning their first project, or whether they are already highly experienced.

The book presents a detailed and in-depth picture of early years development, particularly of developmental processes and interactions.

Offers a range of perspectives on the complex and multifaceted history of a British commercial broadcaster, this book explores key tensions and conflicts which have influenced the ITV service. It shows that ITV has had to tread an uneasy line between public service and commercial imperatives, and between a pluralistic regional structure.

Offers a research background for adults helping three- to five-year-olds learn mathematics, including social and emotional processes as well as mathematical ideas and common difficulties. This book includes implications for practice and proposes a playful and sensitive approach.

This book provides a multi-professional introduction to the key concepts in public health and epidemiology. It presents a broad, interactive account of contemporary public health, placing an emphasis on developing public health skills and stimulating the reader to think through the issues for themselves.

A guide to cancer treatment relief through art therapy. It provides theoretical insights into the value of art therapy for cancer sufferers.

All forms of psychotherapy deal with the limitations of our awareness. This book offers a comprehensive overview of the ways in which these discourses employ a rich variety of concepts to address the limits of our everyday consciousness.

This book investigates how social control has been used to how individuals, communities and societies respond to a variety of forms of deviant behaviour.

Takes both a chronological as well as thematic approach, in order to explore the ways in which the audience, as an analytical concept has changed. This book also examines the relationships which audiences have with texts and the ways in which they exert their power as consumers.

Examines approaches used to manage pharmaceutical expenditure across Europe and what impact these strategies have had on efficiency, quality, equity and cost of pharmaceutical care. This book is suitable for students of health policy, regulation and management, and for health managers and policy makers.

Introduces students and practitioners to a range of different approaches to early childhood. This book provides practical strategies for developing and implementing early learning experiences that promote excellence and equity for children.

Provides an introduction to analysing media texts. This book with its award winning DVD, helps students learn how to do semiotic, genre and narrative analysis, content and discourse analysis, and engage with debates about the politics of representation.

There are so many ways in which health might be improved today and, as technology improves, the opportunities will increase. Economic evaluation can help set out the value of the costs and benefits from competing choices. This book examines how to undertake economic evaluation of health care interventions in low, middle and high income countries.

The impact of the environment on human health is of growing concern to the public, politicians and public health practitioners. This book describes the methods available for public health practitioners to enable investigations to be carried out and how findings should be interpreted to ensure that the most appropriate policies are adopted.

Explores the links between therapy and the political world, and their contribution to each other. This collection covers topics such as psychotherapy in the political sphere, including the roots of conflict, social trauma, and ecopsychology and political dimensions of psychotherapy practice, such as discrimination, power, and sexuality.

What does higher education learning and teaching enable students to do and to become? Which human capabilities are valued in higher education, and how do we identify them? This book offers ways to reflect ethically about the purposes and values of contemporary higher education in relation to agency, learning, public values and democratic life.

This book outlines approaches to networked e-learning course design that are underpinned by a belief that students learn best in these contexts when they are organised in groups and communities. As such, the book is one of the first to provide a detailed analysis of what goes on in e-learning groups and communities.

Life history has become popular with researchers investigating educational topics of various kinds, including: teachers' perceptions and experiences of different areas of their lives and careers; curriculum and subject development; pedagogical practice; and managerial concerns. This book explores the various reasons for this popularity.

Explores the diverse characteristics of those who inhabit and cultivate academic knowledge. This book reviews fundamental changes in the nature of higher education and in the academic's role are reviewed and assesses their significance for academic cultures.