General Academic Texts

Journalism is a powerful agent of change: political, social and economic. This book compiles chapters by renowned field authors and charts this power across parts of the world as diverse as China, Latin America and Africa.

A practical, one-stop reference on the theory and applications of statistical data editing and imputation techniques Collected survey data are vulnerable to error. In particular, the data collection stage is a potential source of errors and missing values.

The new Fifth Edition of The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research has been significantly revised, and draws together a team of leading scholars to present the latest in the theory and practice of qualitative research.

Literacy? That's someone else's job, isn't it?

David Didau and Nick Rose attempt to lay out the evidence and theoretical perspectives on what they believe are the most important and useful psychological principles of which teacher ought to be aware.

Presents in-depth explanations of database concepts, with interactive assignments to build experience in database design, implementation and organisation.

By the author of Step by Step Spreadsheets. Created for Microsoft (MS) Excel 2019 and Excel 2016, but compatible with Excel 2010, this book contains in-depth explanations of spreadsheet concepts with interactive assignments to test learning and knowledge. It meets all the learning outcomes for Spreadsheets Methods 5N1977.

Third edition of this popular, easy-to-use textbook, updated for the revised Spreadsheet Methods Level 5 module [5N1977], which details fundamental spreadsheet methods and facilitates practical experience in spreadsheet design and implementation.

Completely revised and updated edition of this well-established textbook, which details all recent changes in Government policy and legislation within the area of childcare.

Written as an essential text containing specialist knowledge on all necessary professional practice procedures to assist in becoming an Early Learning and Care (ELC) professional practitioner.