Adult Books

£20.99 Discourse and Material Culture Discourse and Material Culture The traditional approach to culture focuses on the symbolic meanings of objects rather than the impact that these objects have on contemporary life. Using the car as a recurring theme, Tim Dant challenges the well-established idea that consumption is the principal relationship with things in our lives and argues that it is through material int

£21.99 Governing Societies Many people in academia, as in politics and business, question the idea of being able to govern society. This book provides an overview of perspectives and theories, and examines transformations in techniques and rationalities of rule. It presents an argument for the importance and transformation of sovereignty and powers of life and death. Ma

£19.99 Science Social Theory and Public Knowledge How might social theory, public understanding of science and science policy best inform one another? What have been the key features of science-society relations in the modern world? This book draws together the three perspectives on science-society relations: public understanding of science, scientific and public governance, and social theory

£18.99 Policy Explores power, decision-making, and the implications for policy. This book is suitable for students studying the subject, public officials or community activists engaged in making policy, and those members of the public who want to know where policy comes from, and why it matters. Why has policy become so important? Why is there so much of a

£21.99 A World of Difference Compares the experience of young learners in England, France and Denmark in order to examine the relationship between national educational cultures, individual biographies and classroom practices in creating the context for learning. This book is useful for researchers, practitioners, students, and policy-makers. This fascinating volume compar

£22.99 Working in Postcompulsory Education Helps develop an active engagement with the issues facing teachers and trainers working in the field of post compulsory education. This book includes overviews with self-assessment exercises, authors pursuing particular lines of inquiry, and suggestions for ways in which readers might engage in debate and research. It is intended that readers

£21.99 Understanding Psychology and Crime Discusses the complex relationships between psychology, criminology and criminal justice. This book challenges the assumptions of those who object to the use of psychology within criminology and shows how a methodical approach to the study of criminal behaviour can generate both systematic findings and practical solutions to problems. 'Thi

£19.99 Boys and Girls in the Primary Classroom Features contributors such as: Louise Archer, Mike Askew, Shereen Benjamin, Margaret Brown, Paul Connolly, Bronwyn Davies, Hazel Denvir, Becky Francis, Helen Lucey, Jackie Marsh, Diane Reay, Michael Reiss, Valerie Rhodes, Jean Rudduck, Christine Skelton, and Isobel Urquhart. This book features contributors such as: Louise Archer, Mike Askew, S

£18.99 Teachers Parents and Classroom Behaviour Offers an account of understanding and managing behaviour in schools. This book examines the reasons why strong statements of mutual recrimination and blame often occur in schools and looks at policies and practices which are co-operative, preventive and proactive in nature. 'Andy Miller's Teachers, Parents and Classroom Behaviour is t

£17.99 Key Times for Play Takes a look at the importance of play for children from birth to three and sets play within the framework of a child's whole development. This book combines theory and practice and is illustrated by various examples from direct observation of children. 'There are three reasons why this book deserves to be taken seriously. The first is

£24.99 Managing Complexity in the Public Services Gives an introduction to complexity theory and its application to public services management. This work presents the difficult concepts of complexity theory in an accessible manner that explains the central concepts in this approach to social science. It also explores knowledge management, emotional intelligence, and risk management. This text

£19.99 Engendering the Social Introduction : feminist encounters with sociological theory by Anne Witz and Barbara L. Marshall 11 The masculinity of the social : towards a politics of interrogation by Anne Witz and Barbara L. Marshall 192 Sex and the sociological fathers by R. A. Sydie 363 Elective affinities : Georg Simmel and Marianne Weber on gender and modernity by The

£16.99 Science Technology and Culture Introduces students to cultural studies of science and technology. This work focuses on topics such as: popular representations of science and scientists, the place of science and technology in everyday life, and the contests over amateur, fringe and pseudo-science. Each chapter also includes case studies ranging from the MMR vaccine to UFOs.

£19.99 Enhancing Primary Mathematics Teaching Explores the effect that the National Numeracy Strategy and its successor, the Primary Strategy, have had on the way in which mathematics is taught in primary schools. This book discusses the issues involved, including ideas for extending practice and suggestions of useful aspects of mathematics teaching that are being given little or no empha

£18.99 Research Interviewing What is research interviewing? What techniques are used? Exactly what do you do in each technique? How is interview data analysed and written up? This book deals with methods in research interviewing. It covers distance and face-to-face interviewing, from un-structured and naturalistic to structured, focused and time-efficient. The most compre

£20.99 Social Exclusion 'Social Exclusion' is a key phrase in social policy and social politics across most of contemporary Europe. This book explores developments in social theory, social experience and social policy in relation to Social Exclusion. Reviews of the First Edition: 'Thoughtful, critical, comprehensive, genuine! Byrne's work should prove

£23.99 Simulation for the Social Scientist 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. What can com

£17.99 Interest A study of interest in a variety of fields. It discusses what interest means in economics, sociology, political science, and history, and looks at how its meaning has changed over time. This is a fascinating study of interest in a variety of fields. Interest is used in different contexts, from everyday language to political and social communic

£21.99 Gender and Work in Capitalist Economies Provides an intervention into Marxist analysis of time and capitalist accumulation, and looks at how in contemporary regimes this translates as the universal appropriation of women's labour time. This book explores industrial and post-industrial times as moments in a longer-term trend and accelerated rates of disaggregated production. From

£19.99 Intolerant Britain Uses case studies to explore contemporary 'social problems' that exist in British society, including racism and institutional racism; ethnic and religious community segregation; Social and institutional asylophobia; islamophobia and the incitement of religious hatred; and homophobia, institutional homophobia and community safety. This

previous Adult Books next

Adult Books pages: 1 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 [24] 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33