Books published by SAGE Publications Ltd

Covering the essential aspects of critical care nursing, students are asked to consider the biopsychosocial triggers of critical illness, and are walked through a number of different patient scenarios.

Circulation and Urbanization is a theorisation of 'the urban' and an interrogation of the question, 'what is the relation between circulation and power?', among others.

This new academic writing guide coaches you through the trials and tribulations of transitioning to postgraduate studies from undergraduate study.

Research-based and highly practical, this book provides guidance on how to develop creative and critical thinking through your classroom teaching.

Safeguarding is a serious and complex area of social work practice and for all students, demonstrating an understanding of important safeguarding theory, law, policy and skills for practice is essential. Students need to understand what safeguarding is and means across the life course, and this new text brings together common themes and knowledge in safeguarding across children, young people and adult social work to do just that. This approach will encourage students to approach the subject from a holistic perspective, helping them develop their understanding of core themes and transferable skills for practice.

A Super Quick guide to avoiding plagiarism, helping you study with integrity and understand how to credit your sources.

A Super Quick guide to polishing your academic writing, helping you write with impact and get the best grades.

Focused on building confidence and decreasing anxiety from information overload this Little Quick Fix helps students build a manageable system that works for digging into and making sense of their individual data.

A Super Quick guide to giving successful presentations, from preparing material and getting timings right to body language and confidence.

This is more than just a book about learning theories, it shows new and trainee teachers how to use theory to improve their teaching and to help students learn more every day.

An experiential and skills-building approach, exploring the realities and complexities of performance management. Cross-cultural cases, review questions and exercises provide students with the practical skills they need to understand how performance management links to business results.

Broad-ranging and thought-provoking analysis of the mental health crisis examining the current challenges in mental health service delivery and access using a range of perspectives

Outlining what a literature review is - and isn't - this is the Little Quick Fix for using the literature to construct a strong academic argument.

This third edition continues to guide students through the challenging field of special educational needs and disability, offering essential support as they develop a critical and up-to-date understanding of the practical challenges and opportunities concerning inclusion.

This text is an introduction to learning and teaching in the post compulsory sector, going further than other texts in its exploration of the sector.

This book offers pragmatic guidance to support academic and student services staff in both being proactive within their role to promote a positive approach to wellbeing, and understanding how to care appropriately for students who may not be flourishing in the university environment.

This book offers pragmatic guidance to support academic and student services staff in both being proactive within their role to promote a positive approach to wellbeing, and understanding how to care appropriately for students who may not be flourishing in the university environment.

Using observations of children in play and cutting-edge research, this book will empower students and build their confidence so that they are able to challenge perceptions and think creatively about how they can use technology.

This is essential reading for aspiring and practicing primary school teachers to develop strategies to enhance the importance of mental health and emotional well-being.

Lecturers teaching big mixed cohort intro statistics courses cite one of the more frequent challenges their students encounter involves choices over which statistical test to use. This Little Quick Fix helps them to overcome this common hurdle.

Taking students through the essentials of managing, coding and interpreting interview data, this Little Quick Fix helps them master interviews as a data collection method.

Making questionnaire data more accessible, this Little Quick Fix will teach students how to manage, code and interpret effectively.

This quick guide will help students be prepared for and avoid the unique and complex issues that can arise when working with online data, enabling them to decide what online data is best suited to their research question.

This Little Quick Fix addresses one of the most crucial steps in any research project: understanding and choosing an appropriate theory to frame the research question.

A Super Quick guide to taking the best notes, with tips and strategies to get the most out of every lecture or study session.

This reader-friendly and accessible text introduces 50 teaching and learning approaches and explores how they work in practice by taking an honest look at the advantages and disadvantages of each one.

This new title explores the role of teaching within the modern university and the impact of the Teaching Excellence and Student Outcomes Framework (TEF), providing a critical analysis of recent policy reforms designed to increase competition and choice in higher education and what these mean for the sector.