This book is a key reference for students in further and higher education who are preparing for careers in social work, community care, residential care, child care, the probation service, counselling, and psychiatric nursing.

A fundamental introduction on how to think about, do, and evaluate research in the criminology and criminal justice field.

"Just mention the word "sibling," and everyone has a story to share.

This popular book is written by leading experts in the field and covers all the key aspects of healthcare management.

Based upon George Ritzer's McDonaldization of Society thesis and incorporating aspects of social theory, this book examines the introduction of care management to social work practice.

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With this book, Richard A. Epstein provides a spirited and systematic defense of classical liberalism against the critiques mounted against it over the past thirty years.

Treating Complex Trauma in Adolescents and Young Adults is the first empirically-validated, multi-component manual to guide practitioners and students in the treatment of multi-traumatized adolescents and young adults.

This book makes the case for why we as human beings need to stay creative and not lose our abilities to channel our inner lives in adaptive expressive ways. The arts, the book argues, are a container for the range of human experiences.

This is probably why there are fewer generic books on quantitative than qualitative research. This book is long overdue.