Social Sciences and Education

Innovation is increasingly identified as the critical factor in ensuring economic competitiveness. Departments of state and quasi-governmental orga...

For many post-graduate students undertaking a research project for the first time is a daunting prospect. Gaining the knowledge and skills needed t...

Social theorists speculate about large-scale social questions, asking of any phenomenon, how is it possible? This book addresses how various social...

Macroeconomic Principles and Problems: A Pluralist Introduction offers a comprehensive overview of the major topics in modern macroeconomics, from ...

Ranging from travel to wellbeing and fashion to food, Lifestyle Journalism explores a wide variety of subjects within a growing field. This edited ...

Everything you always wanted to know about theories, meta-theories, methods, and interventions but didn’t realize you needed to ask. This innovati...

This thoroughly updated edition provides a balanced review of the core methods and the latest research on animal learning and human memory. The rel...

Work is, and always will be, a central institution of society. What makes a capitalist society unique is that it treats the human capacity to engag...

Key Readings in Journalism brings together over thirty essential writings that every student of journalism should know. Designed as a primary text ...

Journalism, Power and Investigation presents a contemporary, trans-national analysis of investigative journalism. Beginning with a detailed introdu...

Journalism Ethics: Arguments and Cases for the 21st Century explores the major ethical dilemmas facing journalists in the digital age. Engaging wi...

In the second edition of their award-winning book, W. Timothy Coombs and Sherry J. Holladay provide a broad and thorough look at the field of publi...

This book is a comprehensive study, which provides informed knowledge within the field of Islamic economics. The authors lay down the principal phi...

This accessible textbook gives students the tools they need to analyze games using strategies borrowed from textual analysis. As the field of game ...

Interviewing for Journalists focuses on the central journalistic skill of how to ask the right questions in the right way. It is a practical and co...

As Europe moves towards becoming a truly single European market, its contribution to global marketing grows. This topical text expands upon existin...

McFarlin and Sweeney provide students with an accessible, application-oriented approach to international management, focusing on key challenges inc...

The International Handbook of Research in Children's Literacy, Learning and Culture presents an authoritative distillation of current global knowle...

Inside Magazine Publishing is an engaging and practically-focused textbook exploring all aspects of the contemporary magazine industry. Editors Dav...

Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Geography and Growth provides a timely, accessible review of our understanding of the complex links between innovatio...

Inequalities of income, wealth and of power have been with us for millennia. This book is a critique of the counter-productivity of growing economi...

Conventional interpretations of the New Economic Policy introduced in India in 1991 see this program of economic liberalization as transforming the...

With over $233 billion and 50 percent of marketing budgets allocated to consumer promotion, marketing professionals need a working reference tool t...

Over five editions, How to Market Books has established itself as the standard text on marketing for both the publishing industry and the wider cre...

How to be a Researcher provides a strategic guide to the conduct of a successful research career within a university environment. Based on the auth...

Health and Safety: Risk Management is the clearest and most comprehensive book on risk management available today. This newly revised fifth edition...

Hacking provides an introduction to the community of hackers and an analysis of the meaning of hacking in twenty-first century societies. On the o...

A Guide to Teaching Statistics: Innovations and Best Practices addresses the critical aspects of teaching statistics to undergraduate students, act...

This book seeks to examine the basis of economic globalization, yesterday, today, and tomorrow, and to link the outcome of globalization into the c...

A concise exploration of globalization and its role in the contemporary era Driven by technological advancements and global corporations, more and...

Global Media Ethics is the first comprehensive cross-cultural exploration of the conceptual and practical issues facing media ethics in a global wo...

The clash of cultures, coupled with rapid technological advances, seems to be pushing us in paradoxical directions. On the one hand, the world seem...

The creative industries are the subject of growing attention among policy-makers, academics, activists, artists and development specialists worldwi...

The second edition of this bestselling textbook has been fully updated with a synopsis of the latest changes in the fields of intercultural communi...

Geomedia offers critical analysis of the new possibilities and power relations emerging in the public space of contemporary cities. As ubiquitous d...

Future Journalism investigates where journalism has come from, where it is now and where it might be going, through a range of case studies on orga...

Prepare for success in management today with this brief, streamlined approach from leading management author Ricky Griffin. FUNDAMENTALS OF MANAGEM...

Post the Financial Crash, the role of regulation and the impact of regulation on all aspects of the financial industry has broadened and intensifie...

Fundamentals of Cognitive Science draws on research from psychology, philosophy, artificial intelligence, linguistics, and neuroscience to provide ...

The agriculture system is under pressure to increase production every year as global population expands and more people move from a diet mostly mad...

Sweeping changes have taken place within financial services over the course of the past thirty years in response to a variety of influences, such a...

The new edition of Fifty Key Thinkers in Psychology introduces the life, thought, work and impact of some of the most influential figures who have ...

In this concise book, feminist thought is made accessible and relevant to both students and management practitioners. An empowering introduction to...

This third edition of Family Communication carefully examines state-of-the art research and theories of family communication and family relationshi...

This book offers a comprehensive and readable introduction to modern business and data analytics. It is based on the use of Excel, a tool that virt...

The last decade has witnessed an exciting change in our understanding of the way in which the mind operates and the reasons behind a myriad of huma...

Essentials of Consumer Behavior offers an alternative to traditional textbooks for graduate students. Shorter than competing books, but no less rig...

In a rapidly changing policy and scientific context, this new edition reflects an updated perspective on modern environmental topics. Now in its fi...