Academic & Professional

Mitchell Dean / Critical And Effective Histories: Foucault's Methods and Historical Sociology (Large Paperback)

First Published in 2004. This work places Foucault's methodologies against social theory and philosophy in order to provide a guide to social sciences, particularly historical sociology. Written to clarify Foucault's contribution for professional and...

Ken Evans / An Introduction to Integrative Psychotherapy (Large Paperback)

This introductory text provides an invaluable and accessible overview of the rapidly developing field of integrative psychotherapy, and offers a relational-developmental approach to theory and practice.The book goes beyond the confines of the therapy...

Sue Arrowsmith / Social and Environmental Policies in EC Procurement Law: New Directives and New Directions (Hardback)

In developing public procurement policy, governments are often concerned not only with value for money but also with promoting their social and environmental objectives. However, imposing social and environmental requirements makes it harder for some...

David J. Wallin / Attachment in Psychotherapy (Hardback)

This eloquent book translates attachment theory and research into an innovative framework that grounds adult psychotherapy in the facts of childhood development. Advancing a model of treatment as transformation through relationship, the author...

Forrest W. Breyfogle III / Implementing Six Sigma: Smarter Solutions Using Statistical Methods (Hardback)

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John H. Dirckx / Stedman`s Concise Medial & Allied Health Dictionary (Hardback)

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Jean McNiff / Action Research for Teachers (Large Paperback)

Assuming no prior knowledge of research methods and techniques, this book is the perfect companion for teachers at all levels undergoing professional development who need to enhance their formal reflection skills. Providing a detailed explanation of what...

Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, Diane Eyer / Einstein Never Used Flash Cards: How Our Children Really Learn--and Why They Need to Play More and Memorize Less (Large Paperback)

In Einstein Never Used Flashcards highly credentialed child psychologists, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Ph.D., and Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, Ph.D., with Diane Eyer, Ph.D., offer a compelling indictment of the growing trend toward accelerated learning. It's a...

Colin Neville / How to improve your Assignment Results (Large PaperbackI

Are you puzzled by tutor comments on your assignments? Do you want to improve your grades but aren't sure how? Do you want help but don't know where to go or who to ask? If so, then this book will save the day! It will help any student to understand the...

Ragavendra R. Baliga / 250 Cases in Clinical Medicine

A collection of short cases arranged by clinical area, emphasising the key diagnostic features of clinical conditions as commonly presented in the short-case part of the Final MB and MRCP examinations. It includes instructions or commands expected...

John Guillebaud / Contraception Today: A Pocketbook for General Practitioners and Practice Nurses

Previous editions of this best-selling pocketbook have been recognized as the gold-standard introductory guide to contraceptive practice. The target audience - family practitioners and practice nurses - are often well placed to offer good...

Anne D. Cockburn / Teaching Under Pressure: Looking At Primary Teachers' Stress (Large Paperback)

This text is based on the author's research into primary school teacher's stress. The research has been linked with the author's belief in the need to understand ourselves, our personal and professional situations and how they relate. The resulting book...

Denis Gill / Paediatric Clinical Examination Made Easy

This book provides a concise, humorous, and carefully written and illustrated guide to paediatric clinical skills, including the skill of history taking from the child at various ages and from the parents, as well as examination of the body systems. The...

Bruce L. Berg / Qualitative Research Methods for the Social Sciences (Large Paperback)

This text shows novice researchers how to design, collect, and analyze qualitative data and then present their results to the scientific community. It also stresses the importance of ethics in research and taking the time to properly design and think...

Harold Garfinkel / Studies in Ethnomethodology (Large Paperback)

This is the first appearance in paper back of one of the major classics of contemporary Sociology. Studies in Ethnomethodology has inspired a wide range of important theoretical and empirical work in the social sciences and linguistics. It is one of the...

John Heritage / Garfinkel and Ethnomethodology (Large Paperback)

The writings of Harold Garfinkel have had a major impact on the social sciences and linguistics. This book offers a systematic and innovative analysis of his theories and of the ethnomethodological movement which he has inspired.It is the only...

Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development / Nature Of Learning: Using Research To Inspire Practice (Large Paperback)

What do we know about how people learn? How do young people's motivations and emotions influence their learning? What does research show to be the benefits of group work, formative assessments, technology applications, or project-based learning and...

Paul Dix / When the Adults Change, Everything Changes: Seismic Shifts in School Behaviour (Large Paperback)

When it comes to looking at behaviour in schools, the elephant in the room is adult behaviour. It is the only behaviour over which we have enough control. Creating a seismic shift in behaviour across a school requires adult behaviour to be adjusted...

Tony Stubblebine / Regular Expression Pocket Reference

Regular expressions are such a powerful tool for manipulating text and data that anyone who uses a computer can benefit from them. Composed of a mixture of symbols and text, regular expressions can be an outlet for creativity, for brilliant programming,...

Æleen Frisch / Essential System Administration Pocket Reference

If you're a Unix system administrator, then the information you need every day just to get your job done could fill a book--a very large book. But, practically speaking, you don't want to stop and thumb through a weighty volume each time a problem...

Christopher Mabey, Graeme Salaman, John Storey / Strategic Human Resource Management: A Reader (Large Paperback)

The emergence of the resource-based view of the firm has meant that, increasingly, issues in human resource management occupy a central place in the agenda of management and strategy. This textbook brings together outstanding contributions from some of...

Michael A. Jackson / Software Requirements and Specifications: A Lexicon of Practice, Principles and Prejudices (Large Paperback)

Software Reqiuirements and Specifications is the latest book from Michael Jackson, one of the foremost contributors to software development method and practice. The book brings together some 75 short pieces about principles and techniques for...

Tony Fry / Becoming Human by Design (Large Paperback)

The last in Tony Fry's celebrated trilogy of books continues his radical rethinking of design. Becoming Human by Design 's provocative argument presents a revised reading of human 'evolution' centred on ontological design.Examining the relation of design...

Peter Checkland / Systems Thinking, Systems Practice: Includes a 30-Year Retrospective (Large Paperback)

Thirty years ago Peter Checkland set out to test whether the Systems Engineering (SE) approach, highly successful in technical problems, could be used by managers coping with the unfolding complexities of organizational life. The straightforward transfer...

Frank Webster / Theories of the Information Society (Large Paperback)

Information has come to be regarded as a symbol of the age in which we live. Talk nowadays is of an `information technology' revolution, even of an `information society'. But just what does this mean? In Theories of the Information Society Frank...

Jane M. Healy / Failure to Connect: How Computers Affect Our Children's Minds – and What We Can Do About It (Large Paperback)

* When should children start using computers?* How should schools incorporate computer use into their curriculum?* Which types of computer software programs should be avoided?* Are children who don't have computers in class and at home doomed to fall...

Richard Buchanan / Discovering Design: Explorations in Design Studies (Large Paperback)

Discovering Design reflects the growing recognition that the design of the everyday world deserves attention not only as a professional practice but as a subject of social, cultural, and philosophic investigation. Victor Margolin, cofounder and an editor...

Michel Lincourt / In Search of Elegance: Towards an Architecture of Satisfaction (Large Paperback)

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Malcolm McCullough / Abstracting Craft: The Practiced Digital Hand (Large Paperback)

In this investigation of the possibility of craft in the digital realm, Malcolm McCullough observes that the emergence of computation as a medium, rather than just a set of tools, suggests a growing correspondence between digital work and traditional...

James Howard Kunstler / Home from Nowhere: Remaking Our Everyday World for the 21st Century (Large Paperback)

In his landmark book The Geography of Nowhere James Howard Kunstler visited the "tragic sprawlscape of cartoon architecture, junked cities, and ravaged countryside" America had become and declared that the deteriorating environment was not...

Margaret A. Boden / Computer Models of Mind: Computational approaches in theoretical psychology (Large Paperback)

What is the mind? How does it work? How does it influence behavior? Some psychologists hope to answer such questions in terms of concepts drawn from computer science and artificial intelligence. They test their theories by modeling mental processes...

Hans-Georg Gadamer / Reason in the Age of Science (Large Paperback)

The essays in this book deal broadly with the question of what form reasoning about life and society can take in a culture permeated by scientific and technical modes of thought. They attempt to identify certain very basic types of questions that...

Jörn Rüsen / Thinking Utopia: Steps into Other Worlds (Large Paperback)

After the breakdown of socialist and communist systems in the East, it had become fashionable to declare the so-called "end of utopia" ("end of history," "end of narratives"). The authors of this volume do not share this view but think that it is...

Jerome Bruner / The Process of Education (Large Paperback)

In this classic argument for curriculum reform in early education, Jerome Bruner shows that the basic concepts of science and the humanities can be grasped intuitively at a very early age. He argues persuasively that curricula should he designed to...

John H. Zammito / A Nice Derangement of Epistemes: Post-positivism in the Study of Science from Quine to Latour (Large Paperback)

Since the 1950s, many philosophers of science have attacked positivism—the theory that scientific knowledge is grounded in objective reality. Reconstructing the history of these critiques, John H. Zammito argues that while so-called postpositivist...

Victor Papanek / Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change (Large Paperback)

This is a completely revised second edition of Design for the Real World, which has since its first appearance twenty years ago, become a classic. Translated into twenty-three languages, it is one of the world's most widely read books on design. In...

Ivan Illich / Celebration of Awareness: A Call for Institutional Revolution (Large Paperback)

The book consists of 12 essays on the following themes: Vietnam & the resistance; the war on poverty; Latin America, Puerto Rico & immigration to the US mainland; Catholic Church problems; the Church's role in social change & development; the...

Karl E. Weick / Sensemaking in Organizations (Large Paperback)

The teaching of organization theory and the conduct of organizational research have been dominated by a focus on decision-making and the concept of strategic rationality. However, the rational model ignores the inherent complexity and ambiguity of...

Michael Cole / Mind, Culture, and Activity: Seminal Papers from the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition (Large Paperback)

This volume brings together articles from The Quarterly Newsletter of the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition. The selected articles are important benchmarks in the recent history of research and theory on the cultural and contextual...

Hans Jonas / The Imperative of Responsibility: In Search of an Ethics for the Technological Age (Large Paperback)

Hans Jonas here rethinks the foundations of ethics in light of the awesome transformations wrought by modern technology: the threat of nuclear war, ecological ravage, genetic engineering, and the like. Though informed by a deep reverence for human...

Michael Heim / The Metaphysics of Virtual Reality (Large Paperback)

Computers have dramatically altered life in the late twentieth century. Today we can draw on worldwide computer links, speeding up communications by radio, newspapers, and television. Ideas fly back and forth and circle the globe at the speed of...

John F. Lebaron / Technology in Its Place: Successful Technology Infusion in Schools (Large Paperback)

Technology in Its Place is a practical resource that features diverse approaches for improving teaching and learning through the use of technology. The contributors are a blue-ribbon panel of experts in the field who cover a broad range of topics...

Rob Kling / Computerization and Controversy: Value Conflicts and Social Choices (Large Paperback)

The Second Edition of Computerization and Controversy: Value Conflicts and Social Choices is a collection of 78 articles that examine the social aspects of computerization from a variety of perspectives, many presenting important viewpoints not...

Colin Crouch / The Politics of Industrial Relations (Exact Copy) ( 2nd Edition)

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COGG / Oscail & Leigh! Áiseanna Teagaisc Ghaeilge (Exact Copy)

Oscail agus Léigh ( Open and Read) - Eagrán a sé, Samhain 2016.  Liostaí do áiseanna - leabhair, téacsleabhair agus áiseanna ar an idirlíon - atá usáideach le foghlaim agus...

Martin Fink / The Business and Economics of Linux and Open Source (Large Paperback)

Open Source has become a buzzword synonymous with growth and change in computing. Many of the Fortune 500 companies have made huge investments in Open Source technology. This book examines the Open Source movement, what's worked and why, and explains...

J.C. Smith / Smith and Thomas: A Casebook on Contract (Large Paperback)

Smith and Thomas is well established as the leading casebook on the law of contract. This 11th edition has been fully revised and updated to embrace the most significant legal decisions of recent years, along with other developments including the...

Ortrun Zuber-Skerritt / New Directions in Action Research (Large Paperback)

This collection provides a worldwide perspective on action research, a process which covers educational, professional, managerial and organizational development.         All of our books are second hand, and while you may...

Neill Nugent / The Government and Politics of the European Union (Large Paperback)

A systematically updated and entirely redesigned new edition of the leading text on the European Union. The seventh edition is packed with new features, accompanied by an all-new companion website and includes new chapters on member state relations...

Keith Grint / The Sociology of Work: Introduction (Large Paperback)

The third edition of this best-selling textbook has been carefully revised to provide an up-to-date, indispensable introduction to the sociology of work. It not only includes clear explanations of classic theories and evidence, but also covers the...

Loraine Blaxter / How to Research (Large Paperback)

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Rachel Sutton-Spence, Bencie Woll / The Linguistics of British Sign Language: An Introduction (Large Paperback)

This is the first textbook dealing specifically with British sign linguistics. It provides essential support for learners of British Sign Language and others interested in the structure and use of BSL, and assumes no previous knowledge of linguistics...