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With a section on ethical issues, this book is suitable for social science researchers and their students.

Offers pluralistic perspectives on the patient experience and patient care.

This Second Edition addresses issues regarding women and men at work from a comparative, historical, global perspective.

Citizenship has become an increasingly important axis in the social sciences. This book constitutes the most authoritative and comprehensive guide to the terrain. Drawing on a wealth of interdisciplinary knowledge, and including some of the leading commentators of the day, it is an essential guide to understanding modern citizenship.

This text studies how far culture can be regulated through formal controls on the media and how such controls are shaped in an age of cultural diversity and global cultural industries. It deals with how the issues of sexuality, globalization and multiculturalism influence the process of regulation.

`It is not only about sport, but the contexts [and] cultures that encircle it. The authors[...] review every known theory, topic and problem relevant to the scholarly analysis of sport.... a champion without challengers' - Ellis Cashmore, Staffordshire University, and author of Making Sense of Sports

The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies is the most authoritative and extensive resource in the field. This volume represents the social constructivist turn of the field, which made a major impact during the 1970s and 1980s. The diverse papers included here highlight the role of ethnography in STS.

Int roduction

Buci-Glucksmann explores the condition of modernity through the works of a number of writers and philosophers. She considers how figures such as Nietzsche, Adorno, Musil, Barthes and Lacan constitute a baroque paradigm, united by their allegorical style, their conflation of aesthetics with ethics and their subject matter.

This study discusses Kelly's theory of "Personal Construct Psychology". His philosophy of constructive alternatism and his methods of measurement, and demonstrates their lasting influence on current theory and practice of psychotherapy and counselling. Examples of his work are also featured.

Managing Public Organizations presents the case for the development of public management and indicates the directions it should take. It reviews the progress of new management initiatives in the European public sphere; examines the role of the public manager and the organization of public bodies; and considers the potential for change.The contributors reject the notion that there are formulas for management innovation or that general rules from private sector management can be applied. They emphasize the need to develop a concept of management that is appropriate for public organizations.

An introduction to the notion of intersubjectivity as a central concern of philosophy, sociology, psychology and politics. The main purpose of this volume is to provide a coherent framework for this concept against which the various and contrasting debates can be more clearly understood.

This book offers both an extensive exploration of the theoretical background to co-operative inquiry and a detailed practical guide to the methods involved.

Cultural Methodologies illustrates the distinctiveness and coherence of cultural studies as a site of interaction between the humanities and the social sciences.

Designed to provide students with a nontechnical, user-friendly guide, Research Made Simple will help relieve the anxiety often associated with research methods courses. Unlike other books that prepare the reader to become producers of research, this handbook enables readers to be informed consumers of research carried out by others.

This volume encourages students to engage in critical thinking by exploring the main assumptions upon which behavioural science theories are based and offering some alternatives to these assumptions.

Patricia Benner's introduction to phenomenology develops the reader's understanding of the strategies and processes involved in this innovative approach to nursing.The author discusses the relationship between theory and practice, considers the possibility of a science of caring from a feminist perspective, introduces interpretive phenomenology to the study of natural groups such as families, and suggests a basis for developing nursing ethics that is true to the caring and healing practices of the nursing profession.

Givers information on computer-based storage and retrieval systems. This title features expanded coverage of computer-based information, including a chapter on CD-ROM products and updated coverage of on-line information search services.

Practitioners, critics and commentators from psychotherapy and counselling discuss classic controversies and contemporary debates, including: does the unconscious really exist; should one believe in "false memories"; and does therapy benefit individuals or amount to social control.

Continuing and developing the argument of Deborah Lupton's "The Imperative of Health", the authors use contemporary socio-cultural and political theory to examine: the notion of citizenship; the concept of the "healthy citizen"; the healthy cities project; and community participation.

Doing Research with Children and Young People introduces researchers to the key considerations involved in working with children and young people.

Integrates the thinking in the human services to provide supervisors and those preparing to become supervisors with an approach to the important skills and knowledge needed for effective practice in the 21st century. This title builds upon past efforts to define the principles and practices of supervision in the human services.

Coping with Prisons explores the unique nature of the prison environment and examines the range of opportunities that exist to help prisoners address their offending behaviour, acquire skills, and gain qualifications.

This book adds a valuable `Chinese voice' to the current Western-dominated forum on Chinese business negotiating style. The book provides the reader with an in-depth socio-cultural understanding of Chinese negotiating behaviour and tactics in the context of Sino-Western business negotiation. It addresses this fascinating and complex subject by looking systematically at various components of Chinese business culture which range from contemporary Chinese politics to ancient Chinese philosophies and military stratagems.

This book sets out to examine how animals affect their companion humans' quality of life. The contributors address human animal interaction (HAI) according to the elements that define quality of life: physical; mental/emotional and social health; functional health; and general well-being. The book will be required reading for all health and social science professionals caring for clients who already have companion animals or for clients who might benefit from such interaction.

This text focuses on normative family problems, such as birth or leaving home; problems which distort normative expectations, such as divorce and step-parenting; and those that are produced by the unexpected, such as accidents or chronic illnesses.

The widespread rejection of conventional theory and method has led to the evolution of different ways to gather and analyze psychological data. This text provides a guide to key effective methods, for example, semi-structured interviews, grounded theory, and discourse analysis.

Provides guidelines and help for counsellors wishing to work in and with groups. The book: covers the stages from setting up a group, developing and maintaining it and bringing it to and appropriate end; an integrates multicultural perspectives on groups and group-work.

Cultural Methodologies illustrates the distinctiveness and coherence of cultural studies as a site of interaction between the humanities and the social sciences.