Society & Social Sciences Books

This book helps adults to understand firesetting behaviour in children and teens andprovides strategies to work with them to address the behaviour. Drawing upon the latestjuvenile firesetting...

Bridget Knight, B.A (Hons), B.Ed, NPQH, M.A. is in her third headship, now leading a renowned values-based primary school. For a number of years, her work was in Local Authority School Improvement,...

This book serves as a valuable guide for professionals across working across health, education, and social care, aiming to deepen understanding of the complex relationship between ADHD symptoms,...

This essential book shows practitioners how they can engage with teens' online lives to support their mental health. Drawing on interviews with young people it discusses how adults can have open and...

Digby Tantam is Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist for Sheffield Health Care NHS Foundation Trust, an Emeritus Professor at the University of Sheffield, and Honorary Senior Research...

Supporting professionals to promote diversity and inclusion in early years settings, this book promotes awareness and understanding of the needs of children and families from diverse backgrounds, and...

Professor Arlene Astell completed her PhD at the University of Warwick on the impact of dementia on speech. Over the past twenty years her work has focused on developing interventions to support...

Working with Troubled Children and Teenagers is an easy to understand guide packed with wisdom for anyone working with or caring for troubled children and teens. Author Jonny Matthew has decades of...

Examining recent research and practice on reminiscence, life review and life story work, this book offers critical accounts of the rapidly growing and extensive global literature, and highlights the...

Counselling professionals are increasingly seeking training for working with gender variant clients. Madison-Amy Webb invites them to consider a simple truth: everyone has a gender identity, whether...

Being able to offer support to the bereaved is an important part of many frontline professions, such as nurses, teachers, funeral directors and anything in between. Yet very little theoretical...

Child sexual abuse leaves a legacy that continues to affect survivors in adulthood. This practical book is full of personal stories that provide helping professionals with the knowledge they need to...

Judith Milner and Jackie Bateman are both solution focused practitioners, trainers, consultants and writers. Previously a senior lecturer in social work, Judith now acts as an a therapist, consultant...

A collection of over 100 structured activities for use with groups of older people that are designed to improve overall physical health and emotional wellbeing. Each activity comes with specific...

The trauma caused by rape and sexual assault can often be further compounded by unthinking or insensitive comments from people who may judge, disbelieve or disparage the victim.    This authoritative...

People with dementia increasingly find themselves staying in hospitals for extended periods, often due to separate health issues. This best-practice guide presents healthcare staff with the...

Relationships and communication are the foundation of good social work practice. This book offers a new model, drawn from research and practical experience, which describes how to carry out effective...

How can children begin to understand death and cope with bereavement? And how can we, as adults, support and engage with children as they encounter this complex subject?    Exploring how children and...

Through revealing interviews with most of the main protagonists in education since the Ruskin speech of Jim Callaghan in 1976, including nearly all Secretaries of State, Sir Tim Brighouse and Mick...

Foreword by Mick Waters.The Trojan Horse affair sent shock waves across Englands education system in 2014. The affair centred around an anonymous letter that contained instructions on how to take...

Great teachers make a difference. And if we want to see great outcomes for all students, schools need to develop all of their teachers - and we need them to believe that this is possible. There is a...

Accessible, readable and engaging, Becoming a Teacher draws on Alan Newland's decades of professional work and academic study in education to set out the key principles for developing and...

How did our relationship with nature become broken, why does it matter and how can we fix it? From a past in which we were embedded in the natural world, revolutions in farming, science and industry...

There is a long-forgotten reason why Communism succeeded in 1923 Russia. Rather than Lenin's oratory, it was the formation of its secret service the Cheka ('The All-Russian Extraordinary Commission')...

In this hard-hitting book, public health expert Professor Dr John Ashton describes how Westminster panicked and used science to cover themselves rather than create an informed policy to manage the...

The Ukrainian bestseller that predicted the invasion, revised and updated, now available in the English language

For the first time in British history, both major political parties are controlled by what are inverted elites: well-born, privately educated men (mostly) who affect populist attitudes.

A forensic investigation of the most demonic state-organised murder conspiracy of the 21st century. In February 2021, Joe Biden released the CIA report that concluded the de facto leader of Saudi...

In this fascinating work, Karl Konig offers a detailed study of the human soul's different characteristics. He looks at a range of human experiences, including pain, anxiety, fear, shame and anger,...

Mobilised by the stirring words and protests of Greta Thunberg, young people all over the globe are calling for more action to combat climate change and better protect their futures. Yet they cannot...

Despite being least affected by the virus itself, children and young people bore the brunt of Covid-19 pandemic restrictions. When schools were closed, playgrounds taped up and play outlawed,...

Why do doctors, generals, civil servants and others consistently make wrong decisions that cause enormous harm to others? Irrational beliefs and behaviours are virtually universal. In this...

The information age has opened a new front of adversarial statecraft. The past decades have seen the rise and refinement of conflict enacted in the world of information, with tactics including...

An Introduction to Global Health presents a broad yet detailed overview of population health in developing countries. This text carefully examines the factors that influence a community's health...

With the aim of producing counterstories that participate in social resistance, Critical Clinical Social Work focuses on integrating critical theory with direct clinical practice. Exploring the...

William 'Bill' Mott came from generations of farmers/graziers who never wanted anything else but to own their own land. Hard work family and the sense of community were pitted against the harsh...

Author Ronald Woods draws on his experience of more than 40 years as a professor, coach, and sport administrator to explore modern sport from historical and cultural perspectives. New coauthor B...

This is the loose-leaf version of Life Span Motor Development, Eighth Edition, which offers students a less expensive, printed version of the text. Life Span Motor Development, Eighth Edition With...

Discover the brain benefits of exercise. Brain Health and Exercise is one of the first professional resources to integrate current neuroscience with practical approaches to dual-task training and...

Motor Learning and Performance: From Principles to Application, Seventh Edition With HKPropel Access, constructs a conceptual model of factors that influence motor performance, outlines how motor...

Ethics in Sport, Fourth Edition, offers a total of 33 essays from influential authors. These essays provide readers with classic and contemporary views on ethical issues in today's sport culture. The...

Foundations of Sport and Exercise Psychology, Eighth Edition With HKPropel Access, is a leading textbook that offers a comprehensive view of sport and exercise psychology. It draws connections...

Like an autoimmune disease that attacks the body it dwells in, capitalism is tearing apart the very planet that feeds it. Metabolic Rifts: Capitalism’s Assault on the Earth System, builds on Karl...

Paul M. Sweezy was one of the greatest Marxist political economists of the twentieth century. Born in 1910, his upbringing during the Depression deepened his understanding of capitalism, especially...

Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism? offers a crash course in the history of imperialist propaganda, as well as in the Marxist method for analyzing culture and ideology. Author Gabriel Rockhill...

John Jenkins, Maine's first Black state senator and mayor of both Lewiston and Auburn, led a remarkable life and his influence extended far beyond his politics and his constituents. He was a...

The history of coffee is much more than the tale of one nonessential good-it is a lens through which to consider various strands of world history, from food and foodways to religion and economics and...

During the 2016 presidential campaign, millions of voters, concerned about the economic impact of illegal immigration, rallied behind the notion of a wall between the United States and Mexico. Not...