Books published by SAGE Publications Inc

Skills in caring for people with dementia are increasingly demanded of all health care practitioners as the numbers of diagnosed increase. This text presents the latest research into improving dementia care for both non-expert students and junior staff as well as more senior managers.

The most informed, practical, and succinct guide to digital technology for journalists. Journalism Next, Third Edition, is a forward-thinking, accessible text that prepares today's journalists for tomorrow's media landscape transformations.

Incorporating the latest updates from DSM-5 and ICD-10 and a balanced critique of the DSM approach, this is an essential introduction for undergraduate students taking courses in abnormal and clinical psychology.

Provides a comprehensive introduction to interdisciplinary studies with an approach that is succinct, conceptual, and practical.

Addresses a broad range of Google tools that encourage communicating and collaborating, creating, sharing and publishing, researching and evaluating. This edition includes teacher vignettes, classroom projects and an accompanying website featuring screencast tutorials that will walk readers through various projects in step by step videos.

From Staff Room to Classroom offers district-level leaders, staff developers, and instructional coaches sure-fire tools and strategies for delivering professional learning that answers the question, "How can I use this in my classroom?"

Lays out the actors involved-interest groups, public officials, legislators, and the public-and shines a light on how these groups, who each have their own goals, are able to bargain and barter their way to a resolution.

With new coverage of digital research tools and social media, as well as that of areas such as autoethnography, visual and feminist ethnography, this important introduction continues to provide readers with the perfect mix of theory and practical advice to ensure their research is carefully thought through, replicable, and ethically sound

This book helps nursing students recognise why they need to know about psychology, how it can affect and influence their individual nursing practice as well as the role it plays in health and illness.

Now in its second edition, this textbook continues to provide all the information nursing and healthcare students need to know about 'what is legal' and 'how to decide what is right' in order to practice safely and ethically.

Approaching the subject from a focussed international and pluralist perspective, this book provides advanced-level treatment of all the core areas to give postgraduate students a wide-ranging and dynamic introduction

With new chapters on ethnicity and immigration, and with material supported by 30 new case studies, this up to date resource provides students with an engaging - and international - introduction to the subject

This book teaches the fundamental factors that drive U.S election outcomes through the experiences of 150 campaign managers, and assesses the current state of modern political campaign management.

An introduction to self-reflexive practice, this book - a collage of different voices and perspectives - in underpinned by the idea of living your life as inquiry

This book provides students and managers alike with the guidance, tools, and examples needed to develop leadership talent and inspire performance.

From the bestselling Maths Recovery series comes another exciting resource for teachers. Focusing around the three stages of development that connect to whole number knowledge this is an essential addition to your Mathematics teaching toolkit.

Equipping students with the skills needed to do political analysis and critically assess statistical research, this Fifth Edition has been updated with new data sources, coverage of box plots and error bar charts, and looks at visual depictions of variables.

Provides students with the latest data and coverage of Black, Hispanic, Asian-American and Native American intersections with the criminal justice system.

Focused on developing the theoretical, methodological, and conceptual knowledge needed to engage in rigorous, valid, and respectful qualitative research, this introductory text presents the field of qualitative research in a unique and meaningful way.

A practical and inspiring guide to getting out there and actually doing fieldwork.

This fifth edition updates the book through to the end of the 113th Congress. Sinclair incorporates new examples and new case studies throughout, including the budget battles between President Obama and the House of Representatives and failed immigration reform bills.

Not just a book about research methods, this book explores multiple ways in which research can be used to inform and enhance counselling practice.

Known for its brevity and student-friendly approach, this book remains one of the most popular introductory books on statistics for public policy and public administration students, using carefully selected examples tailored specifically for them.

This new fourth edition takes the reader through the complex network of policy development with activities which make a potentially dry subject matter come alive.

Student study guide to accompany Statistics for the Behavioural Sciences.

In the updated Third Edition, Jean Mercer offers 59 essays that confront popular misconceptions and fallacies about the field of child development.

Exploring the idea that there is an American style of foreign policy imbued with a distinct sense of national exceptionalism, this book introduces students of American or comparative politics to the complexity of the field.

Ideal for students who have a basic background in algebra but who have had little or no exposure to the study of statistics, this text shows readers that statistics used in criminal justice can be enlightening and eye-opening.