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An exciting new textbook examining big data and business analytics to look at how they can help managers become more effective decision-makers.

This book contains everything students need to succeed as a business student and graduate, from essential study, presentation and leadership skills to practical advice on getting that all-important job after university.

Now completely up to date with the latest innovations, this book engages with recent controversies to give students the best start with their research.

This is an interdisciplinary examination of populism as a factor in global change, drawing on international politics, sociology, and global studies.

In Society in the Digital Age: An Interactionist Perspective, William Housley explores the ways interactionist thinking contributes to our understanding of current trends and topics within digital sociology.

This practical guide offers an approachable introduction to doing hermeneutic phenomenological research across the health and social sciences.

Provides final year nursing students with comprehensive guidance on how to make the leap from student to registered nurse, helping them to master the skills needed to progress from supervised to professional practice.

Drawing on the authors' 30 years of combined experience in the field, this authoritative, step-by-step guide to conducting focus groups features dedicated chapters on all aspects of the research process.

This is an essential companion to your coaching training. It guides you through the foundational knowledge and skills, looks at ethics and practice issues, answers key questions about the training process, and includes top tips from students.

An essential resource, Research Ethics for Human Geography is an engaging introduction to key ethical issues in geographical research; edited and authored by leading figures in the discipline.

Media and Communication traces the historical development of media and communication studies in the 20th century, forming an invaluable resource for students across the discipline as well as cultural studies and sociology.

Provides students with the tools and knowledge to address the concepts of diversity, oppression, power and powerless, and empower them to practice in ethically appropriate ways for contemporary social work practice.

Written by leading social psychologists with expertise in leadership, health and emergency behaviour - who have also played an important role in advising governments on COVID-19 - this book provides a broad but integrated analysis of the psychology of COVID-19

Bridging the gap between research and practice A Little Guide for Teachers: Formative Assessment gives teachers practical tried and tested strategies to put formative assessment into action in their classrooms.

Sociologies in Dialogue brings together expert contributions from international scholars, who reflect on the importance of collaboration between diverse sociological perspectives to enhance our understanding of the role of sociology as an academic discipline, and as a vehicle for social change.

Little Guide for Teachers: Supporting Behaviour in the Classroom inspires you to rethink how you manage behaviour. Using the authors' tried and tested approach, this book encourages you to manage mood as a preventative strategy for disruptive behaviour.

This book is designed to help pre-service teachers through one of the most important aspects of their education: their school experience placements.

The ABC of CBT introduces you to the basics of CBT, guiding practitioners through how to apply the key principles, techniques and strategies across a range of disorders.

This practical guide for teaching numeracy to children with a developmental disability is based on core concepts from the landmark Mathematics Recovery (R) text Teaching Number (aka 'the green book') that have been adapted for children with developmental disabilities.

There is a pressing need for new teachers to understand the wider context of language development and to know how best to support children in learning to talk. This accessible text introduces trainee teachers to the numerous contexts of language development and supports readers to understand the many ways in which children acquire language skills.

Unpacking the vital elements of SEND, Special Educational Needs in the Early Years seeks to empower students to not only understand the impact of policy on practice, but to question it.

Provides final year nursing students with comprehensive guidance on how to make the leap from student to registered nurse, helping them to master the skills needed to progress from supervised to professional practice.

This is an essential companion to your coaching training. It guides you through the foundational knowledge and skills, looks at ethics and practice issues, answers key questions about the training process, and includes top tips from students.

A beginner's guide to reflective practice that guides the reader through how to write reflectively throughout their career in nursing, from the first reflective exercise at university to carrying out reflective practice on placement or as a professional nurse.

Covering the entire research process - from theory through data collection and analysis to writing up the project - this book offers an easy-to-follow introduction to qualitative methods in nursing and healthcare.

This Little Quick Fix helps readers truly understand their perspectives and use that understanding to inform their research approach, enabling first-time researchers to reflect upon and identify their view of truth and knowledge. After reading they will be better placed to choose and critically evaluate appropriate research questions and make informed methodological decisions.

This easy to read guide continues to provide a concise overview of the different research methods and terminology and helps readers understand how research is implemented in practice.

The Politics of Fear traces the trajectory of far-right politics from the margins of the political landscape to its very center. It explores the social and historical mechanisms at play, and expertly ties these to the "micro-politics" of far-right language and discourse.