Books published by SAGE Publications Ltd

Understanding Careers focuses on the most current issues and emerging ideas in the field and relates these to everyday practice through plenty of examples and case studies.

Bestselling author Bill Rogers introduces his tried and tested approach to managing behaviour with children in the early years.

Tackling all the obstacles that are associated with presenting research, this handy guide will help students successfully and productively present relevant and engaging material.

This essential resource offers guidance, tips and tools covering all aspects of provision and best practice to successfully provide for two-year-olds in your setting.

This Major Work covers the historic development of transnational organized crime from its conception. Each volume contains an introduction illustrating and contextualizing the main themes in each section.

Going beyond simply understanding the work of key theorists, this book helps the reader comprehend and recognize what learning actually looks like and how to best facilitate it in any setting. The exercises, real-life examples and chapter summaries in the book make this an accessible course text.

This best practice, reassuring teaching guide will help to build trainees' confidence in teaching PSHE to primary children.

This practical, up-to-date guide helps trainee teachers understand the theory behind phonics and how children's learning of reading can develop using synthetic phonics.

The new edition of this much-loved handbook has been revised and updated to retain its cutting-edge focus on emergent and important areas of research in early childhood literacy.

As the only coaching text available to take this perspective, Coaching Understood does so by building an understanding of how all the basic elements present in the coaching interaction work and exposes the mystery underlying coaching's success as a personal and professional development intervention.

Covering the 2010 British election and key current issues and debates, this Second Edition takes an empirical approach to introduce students to the theory of and developments in British policy-making.

Proposing a post-positivist, interviewee-centred approach, Giampietro Gobo and Sergio Mauceri's new book offers students and researchers a practical introduction to the process of collecting and analyzing survey data.

An essential text on approaching assessment for all Certificate in Education and Training learners, no matter which awarding organisation they are registered with.

A complete guide to the mandatory units of the new Certificate in Education and Training.

Now available in paperback: This book brings together the most innovative contemporary ideas in method and methodology from global experts

A comprehensive and cutting edge Handbook, edited by two of the leading figures in physical geography and environmental science today. There is no other Handbook out there exploring this field.

Reflecting the enormous changes that have taken place in our knowledge and understanding of developmental disorders, this groundbreaking international volume brings this vast and complex field together for the first time.

A much needed retrospective and prospective look at how GIS technology influences and is influenced by today's post-industrial society.

This practical guide, linked to the Teaching Standards, not only helps NQTs pass the year, it also helps them to become happy and effective teachers.

A book on planning, organising, facilitating and evaluating groupwork which will help students to develop their skills and pass assessment, increasing confidence during placement groupwork activities.

Providing exemplar lessons. with detailed explorations of theory the behind them, this book encourages trainees to consider the teaching of grammar critically and to envisage how they can shape lessons to effectively teach grammar.

Taking a global, comparative look at voting and elections, this Fourth Edition has new chapters on authoritarian elections and regime change, electoral integrity, and voting behaviour

A book on communication skills for mental health nurses with a focus on promoting recovery

This new, four-volume Major Work presents a comprehensive and authoritative collection of both classic and contemporary readings in intergroup relations. Each volume is opened by an introductory chapter which provides the reader with an overview of the primary topics covered therein, and the rationale behind the editor's selection.

Combining coverage of all the key areas in penology with subject-specifc study skills advice, this book provides students with the whole package to succeed when studying this topic

An exploration of approaches to teaching through multiliteracies, this text helps trainee and practising teachers understand and support learners to enable development of their reading and writing skills.

Edited by two internationally renowned researchers on infancy, this six-volume set brings together influential works that explore the key conceptual issues and findings in research on infant development.

Since its appearance in the 1930s in the form of sociometry, social network analysis (SNA) has become a major paradigm for social research in such areas as communication, organizations, and social mobility, to name but a few. This work is dedicated specifically to the applications of social network analysis in diverse fields of scholarship.

With examples of real research projects from students and in-depth author commentaries, this is a step-by-step guide to undertaking an Early Years research project, helping students see what a good project really looks like.

Bringing key developments and debates together in a single volume, this book provides an authoritative guide for students and practitioners embarking on qualitative research in social work and related fields.