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This work brings together the range of theoretical issues which underpin social psychology together with social experience. Topics focused on include "psychology and science" and and the social and political uses and abuses of social psychology.

Understanding Digital Societies provides a framework for understanding our changing, technologically shaped society and how sociology can help us make sense of it.

A critical introduction to key debates about how problems of mental health are understood, and to the core approaches taken to working with counselling and psychotherapy clients.

A critical introduction to key debates about how problems of mental health are understood, and to the core approaches taken to working with counselling and psychotherapy clients.

Written by leading academics, this volume provides an overview of key contemporary themes in educational leadership

Inventing Adulthoods is based on a study of a diverse group of young people over a 10 year period. The book explores high profile policy issues including: education, employment, drugs, cultures of violence and well-being. It is the set book for the Open University course Youth: Perspectives and Practice (KE308).

Designed to heighten awareness of statistical ideas, this comprehensive and research-based text explores four main themes: describing, comparing, inter-relating, and uncertainty.

Knowledge management is crucial to organizational learning, innovation and success within organizations. This second edition of the successful knowledge management reader provides a core source of key theoretical thinkers in the field and presents the most up-to-date leading-edge articles that explore emerging trends.

By integrating pedagogy and subject knowledge through experiencing a variety of tasks for learners, this book makes it possible for all learners to succeed in thinking algebraically.

Doing Social Science Research gives an introductory overview of the process of social research, from research design to data collection and analysis. It provides students and teachers with a mix of resources to help them to get to grips with the main methods of social research.

Explains and critically evaluates a range of research techniques for the caring professions.

Provides a detailed examination of all aspects of completing a doctorate in education, from research methodologies, to the analysis of data. This book is designed to help students to achieve an understanding of practical and theoretical issues involved in a doctorate in education, and how to link their studies with their professional experience.

This major text takes the reader on an intellectual journey starting with the story of modern science and the impact that this has had on social scientific practice, and going on to outline and critically review the major approaches to social scientific inquiry, ranging from positivism to postmodernism.

Contains chapters on intuitive cognition, complexity, emotion, team innovation, development and well-being. This textbook includes seminal papers on creativity, perception, style, culture and sustainable development. It gives an overview of the topics discussed whilst explaining their practical implications.

Useful strategies and guidance for anyone needing to explore the practical and ethical issues around researching with children and young people.

Useful strategies and guidance for anyone needing to explore the practical and ethical issues around researching with children and young people.

Primary Teaching Assistants: Learners and Learning draws together the key ideas that are of central importance to teaching assistants and other support staff working in primary schools. It presents a rich variety of material written by teachers, teaching assistants, researchers and parents, that has been carefully chosen to offer a broad-based understanding of learning and the contexts in which learners can engage with learning.

Introductory text, examining psychological and sociological perspectives on the family, and exploring the links between the family and social policy. The focus is on issues which bring the family into contact with the welfare state, such as domestic violence, child abuse, mental health and poverty.

This collection deals with the central questions which have emerged from the break-up of the postwar political consensus around the welfare state. A series of distinguished contributors, including exponents of alternative positions on welfare from the right, left and centre, examine key issues in the disputes over the relationship between the state and welfare.

This study presents theoretical and practical perspectives on how society intervenes in the lives of people with disabilities, demonstrating ways in which such interventions can be ineffective and often counter-productive. Topics include care and counselling, legislation, and future developments.

Decision Making for Business

An up-to-date compendium of key articles, this reader should be a useful introduction to management and organizational behaviour. It brings together pieces written on the art and science of management, deliberately counterposing them to highlight alternative perspectives.

This volume focuses on strategic leadership, the impact of external and internal factors on organizational leadership, and how effective educational leaders manage the competing demands of autonomy and accountability.

This book provides a comprehensive, clear and accessible introduction to counselling and psychotherapy theory and practice

A reflective and challenging book which analyses all the current key themes in public health

This book accompanies the Reader for the OU course Death and Dying (K260) and is not a buy-back, which means guaranteed sales of 800 copies per year through the bookshops.

Encourages early years practitioners to take a critical stance in relation to a wide range of themes and issues