Books published by Macmillan Education UK

Packed with top tips and helpful examples, this concise book takes students through the process of preparing and making successful applications for work placements, internships and graduate jobs.

Written in a lively and engaging style, this brand new textbook provides students with a friendly yet authoritative introduction to the sounds of language. Divided into six thematic parts, it unpicks the relationship between sound and spelling before showing you how to describe and classify sounds.

This globally-focused and renowned textbook spans the entire discipline of psychology - from the fundamental principles of psychology as a science, to more nuanced approaches in core disciplines such as cognitive, developmental, social and personality psychology.

This interactive study journal places students at the centre of their learning experience and shows them how to develop the skills needed to be successful.

This book will inspire and motivate students to shape new habits and make effective use of time in their studies, work and everyday lives.

This engaging book will inspire and motivate students to shape new habits which will boost their employability and prepare them for their next steps.

Since media is omnipresent in our lives, it is crucial to understand the complex means and dimensions of media in history, and how we have arrived at the current digital culture.

This highly practical book will inspire and motivate students to shape new habits and develop a winning approach to writing.

This practical book will inspire and encourage students to shape new habits and make stress-management a natural part of their everyday routine. It shows students how to recognise helpful and unhelpful stress, identify their stress triggers and develop coping mechanisms to ease and manage stress.

This practical guide presents fifty ways in which students can revitalise their approach to studying and boost their grades.

Building Stronger Communities is an introductory textbook that provides guidelines, frameworks and a range of approaches to help plan and implement effective community engagement and build community strengths.

Drawing together the philosophical principles of research and the application of ethical theories to real-life case studies, this text provides a complete start-to-finish guide to research ethics for postgraduate researchers of all subject areas.

By problematising core HR topics and presenting significant new developments in the field, this engaging textbook will enable students to develop a nuanced and critical approach to HRM.

In this engaging and accessible guide, Eugen Bacon explores writing speculative fiction as a creative practice, drawing from her own work, and the work of other writers and theorists, to interrogate its various subgenres.

Since the establishment of sensation fiction in the 1860s, key trends have emerged in critical readings of these texts.

This textbook presents overviews of 12 landmark studies in psychology from diverse areas of research such as consciousness, developmental psychology, learning, memory, social psychology and psychopathology.

This exciting new book explores attachment, alliance and therapeutic practice. Grounded in theory and built on new research findings based on adult attachment styles, it brings together ideas on attachment and the connections that counsellors and therapists make with the people who seek their help.

This is an essential text for undergraduate and postgraduate students studying Global Governance or International Organizations, and is also important reading for those working on Political Economy, International Development and Globalization.

In this dynamic exploration of the discipline of creative writing, Graeme Harper departs from the established 'how-to' model in a personal manifesto which analyses why human beings are, and have long been, passionate about writing.

This textbook explores the relationship between the natural world and psychological well-being. It draws upon a wide context, brings the experience of our existence as part of the wider natural world to the forefront throughout, and relates it to therapy practice in mainstream settings.

Now in its second edition, this engaging text introduces readers to all the key developments in American history between 1900 and 2000.

Investigating a range of influential movement training practices, this ambitious book considers the significance of professional training to performers and their bodies.

Social and Community Development is an essential introduction to the subject for students, potential practitioners, and activists interested in community action and emancipatory social change.