Social Sciences and Education

This concise, no-nonsense guide shows students how to adopt a critical approach in order to unlock their academic potential. It explains: - what 'g...

In The Pilgrim’s Bowl, Swiss poet Philippe Jaccottet examines Giorgio Morandi’s ascetic still lifes, contrasting his artistic approach to the life ...

From the Plantation of Ulster in the seventeenth century to the entry into peace talks in the late twentieth century the Northern Irish people have...

bVery Short Introductionsb: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring /b T.W. Adorno (1903-69) was a German philosopher and social and cultural theorist. His wo...

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, InspiringCompetition is responsible for much of the prosperity around us. Competitive markets deliver l...

Mark Katz surveys the age-old interrelationship between music and technology, from prehistoric musical instruments to today's digital playback devi...

bVery Short Introductionsb: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring /b In today's society, work takes up a vast proportion of the time and energy of ordinary ...

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring The myths surrounding Sparta are as old as the city itself. Even in antiquity, Sparta was a ...

Criminal Law: The Basics is an insightful introduction to the legal aspects of criminal acts, ranging from battery to burglary and harassment to ho...

Nuclear weapons have not been used in anger since the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. Yet even after t...

The Federmanns live a pleasant but painfully normal life in the Munich suburbs. All that the three children really know about money is that there’s...

A pithy, go-to guide for understanding both what we know about the causes of depression and what to do about it. Depression now affects more than ...

This book is an accessible guide for understanding and treating psychological trauma. Drawing on Dr. Woodcock’s extensive experience and the latest...

How do you ensure that your content is found (search engine optimization)?This book is a translation of an original German 5th edition Online-Journ...

Rage and obstinacy are close relatives—and fundamental categories in the work of both Georg Baselitz and Alexander Kluge. In World-Changing Rage, t...

Information Science: The Basics provides an accessible introduction to the multifaceted field of Information Science (IS).

Dynamic programming (DP) has a relevant history as a powerful and flexible optimization principle, but has a bad reputation as a computationally im...

Political theory offers a great variety of interpretive traditions and models. Today, pluralism is the paradigm. But are all approaches equally use...

April 30, 1945, marked an end of sorts in the Third Reich. The last business day before a national holiday and then a series of transfers of power,...

Highlights advancement opportunities for the food manufacturing sector, including innovation in products, processes and services, and considers dis...

This book provides a comprehensive overview of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and its practical applications. In addition to the structured ...

The fourth chapter specifies the detailed goals, processes, functions, artifacts, roles and tools of EAM, building the basis for an EAM process fra...

This book explores the possibilities and scope of facilitating innovation and transfer of the environmentally sound technologies in the Post-Paris ...

The Natural Speaker is a friendly step-by-step guide to public speaking that explores the fundamental skills necessary to present a natural, and re...

This fully updated third edition of Social Media and the Law offers an essential guide to navigating the complex legal terrain of social media.

Love & Rage is a book about children, both the child in those of us who are chronologically adult, as well as the children we may be interactin...

For MBA/graduate students taking a course in corporate finance. An emphasis on modern theory blended with practice elevates students’ financial de...

This textbook provides an overview of the core concepts, theories and methods in strategic communication. The content of this 2nd edition has been ...

This book challenges the orthodox discourse on leadership - often expressed in heroic and individualistic terms - and presents leadership as a prac...

This text, provides an interdisciplinary and international introduction to the study of political economy, looking at interests, institutions, idea...

The new edition of this textbook presents a practical, updated approach to predictive analytics for classroom learning. The authors focus on using ...

The third edition of Archaeological Research introduces the basic methods of archaeological research, including data collection, analysis, and inte...

A unique analysis of the numbers that came to define Chinese politics and how this quantification evolved over time. For decades, a few numbers ca...

A sweeping and theoretically original analysis of the India-Pakistan rivalry from 1947 to the present. Since their mutual independence in 1947, Ind...

This textbook provides a short introduction to auction theory through exercises with detailed answer keys. Focusing on practical examples, this tex...

This book critiques modern museologies and curatorial practices that have been complicit in emerging existential crises. It confidently presents no...

Footprints of a Queer History is a simple narrative of queer stories marked by personal journeys, political consciousness, socio-legal struggles, f...

This book provides a wide-ranging theoretical and empirical overview of the disparate achievements and shortcomings of global communication.

The new edition of the book readers call the bible for advertising The sixth edition of Hey Whipple, Squeeze This offers a new take on the rapidly...

Global migration flows in the 20th century have seen the emergence of Muslim diaspora and minority communities in Europe, North America and other p...

This monograph illustrates the conception, planning, and building of a unique settlement named Hathigaon, or Elephant village, designed by Rahul Me...

Revolutionize your data-driven presentations with this simple and actionable guide In Winning The Room: Creating and Delivering an Effective Data-...

In this expanded second edition, Dai and Chen explore the effective ways to manage intercultural conflict and develop intercultural harmony, and ta...

A groundbreaking exploration of purchasing behaviour and its essential role in smarter marketing practices to benefit your organization If you und...

Criminological Theory: The Essentials, Fourth Edition by Stephen G. Tibbetts and Alex R. Piquero is a brief yet comprehensive overview of the major...

Disability Studies and the Inclusive Classroom integrates knowledge and practice from the fields of disability studies and special education to pro...

This book provides an understanding of innovation models and why they are important in the business context, considers sources of innovation, and h...