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Latinx Studies The Key Concepts

Latinx Studies The Key Concepts

Latinx Studies: The Key Concepts is an accessible guide to the central concepts and issues that inform Latinx Studies globally. It summarizes explains contextualizes and assesses key critical concepts perspectives developments and debates in Latinx Studies. At once comprehensive in coverage and detailed and specific in examples analyzed it provides over 25 key concepts to the field of Latinx Studies as shaped within historical social cultural regional and global contexts including: • Body • Border Theory • Digital Era • Familia • Immigration • Intersectionality • Language • Latinidad/es • Latinofuturism • Narco Cultura • Popular Culture • Sports Fully cross-referenced and complete with suggestions for further reading Latinx Studies: The Key Concepts is an essential guide for anyone studying race ethnicity gender class education culture and globalism. | Latinx Studies The Key Concepts

GBP 29.99
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Education Studies The Key Concepts

Education Studies The Key Concepts

Written by educational specialists and including over fifty interdisciplinary entries this essential compendium offers accessible detailed definitions of the core concepts typically explored on undergraduate Education Studies courses. Its interactive design clarifies topics at an introductory intermediate and advanced level supporting students across the three years of their undergraduate study. The history and evolution of each concept is outlined with concepts practically grouped around four interrelated key educational categories - the personal philosophy practice and power. Key academic debates and points of contest are explored reference to real-life educational examples are offered and reflective questions and further reading scaffold critical engagement. Education Studies: The Key Concepts is a bookshelf must-have moving readers towards a coherent stance based on theory and research. It is an easy-to-use resource for anyone looking to better understand education. It is also useful for those researching education at postgraduate level to broaden their educational knowledge base outside their specific foci. | Education Studies The Key Concepts

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Key Variables in Social Investigation

Key Variables in Social Investigation

Key Variables in Social Investigation encourages sociologists and other social scientists to think about the conceptual and empirical problems of using and evaluating key variables in social research. The book contains reviews of ten major variables: age; gender; race and ethnicity; health and illness; education; social class and occupation; work employment and unemployment and unemployment; leisure; politics; and voluntary ways in which concepts can be specified and translated into variables and indicators.

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Photography The Key Concepts

Photography The Key Concepts

Providing a thorough and comprehensive introduction to the study of photography this second edition of Photography: The Key Concepts has been expanded and updated to cover more fully contemporary changes to photography. Photography is a part of everyday life; from news and advertisements to data collection and surveillance to the shaping of personal and social identity we are constantly surrounded by the photographic image. Outlining an overview of photographic genres David Bate explores how these varied practices can be coded and interpreted using key theoretical models. Building upon the genres included in the first edition – documentary portraiture landscape still life art and global photography – this second edition includes two new chapters on snapshots and the act of looking. The revised and expanded chapters are supported by over three times as many photographs as in the first edition examining contemporary practices in more detail and equipping students with the analytical skills they need both in their academic studies and in their own practical work. An indispensable guide to the field Photography: The Key Concepts is core reading for all courses that consider the place of photography in society within photographic practice visual culture art media and cultural studies. | Photography The Key Concepts

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Sustainable Consumption Key Issues

Sustainable Consumption Key Issues

Sustainable Consumption: Key Issues provides a concise introduction to the field of sustainable consumption outlining the contribution of the key disciplines in this multi-disciplinary area and detailing the way in which both the problem and the potential for solutions are understood. Divided into three parts the book begins by introducing the concept of sustainable consumption outlining the environmental impacts of current consumption trends and placing these impacts in social context. The central section looks at six contrasting explanations of sustainable consumption in the public domain detailing the stories that are told about why people act in the way they do. This section also explores the theory and evidence around each of these stories linking them to a range of disciplines and approaches in the social sciences. The final section takes a broader look at the solutions proposed by sustainable consumption scholars and practitioners outlining the visions of the future that are put forward to counteract damage to environment and society. Each chapter highlights key authors and real-world examples to encourage students to broaden their understanding of the topic and to think critically about how their daily lives intersect with environmental and ethical issues. Exploring the ways in which critical thinking and an understanding of sustainable consumption can be used in daily life as well as in professional practice this book is essential reading for students academics professionals and policy-makers with an interest in this growing field. | Sustainable Consumption Key Issues

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Animal Studies The Key Concepts

Animal Studies The Key Concepts

Prefaced with a brief introduction to the field of animal studies the text explores the key influential terms topics and debates which have had a major impact on the field and that students are most likely to encounter in their animal studies classes. Animal Studies provides a guide to key concepts in the burgeoning interdisciplinary field of animal studies laid out in A-Z format. While Human–Animal Studies and Critical Animal Studies are the main frameworks that inform the bulk of the writings in animal studies and the key concepts discussed in the volume other approaches such as anthrozoology and cognitive ethology are also explored. The entries in the volume attend to the differences in ongoing debates among scholars and activists showing that what is commonly called “animal studies” is far from a unified body of work. A full bibliography of sources is included at the end of the book along with an extensive index. The book will be a valuable guide to undergraduate and postgraduate students in geography philosophy sociology anthropology women’s studies and other related disciplines. Seasoned researchers will find the book helpful when researching topics outside of their specialization. Outside of academia it will be of interest to activists as well as professional organizations. | Animal Studies The Key Concepts

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Religious Studies: The Key Concepts

Religious Studies: The Key Concepts

Religious Studies: The Key Concepts is an accessible A-Z resource defining and explaining key terms and ideas central to the study of religion. Exploring broad and recurring themes which are applicable in both eastern and western religions cross-cultural examples are provided for each term to give a comprehensive overview of the subject. Subjects covered include: afterlife comparative religion festivals ethics gender monotheism world religions modernity pilgrimage theism secularization With cross referencing and further reading provided throughout this book provides an inclusive map of the discipline and is an essential reference for all students academics and researchers.

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Environmental Justice Key Issues

Environmental Justice Key Issues

Environmental Justice: Key Issues is the first textbook to offer a comprehensive and accessible overview of environmental justice one of the most dynamic fields in environmental politics scholarship. The rapidly growing body of research in this area has brought about a proliferation of approaches; as such the breadth and depth of the field can sometimes be a barrier for aspiring environmental justice students and scholars. This book therefore is unique for its accessible style and innovative approach to exploring environmental justice. Written by leading international experts from a variety of professional geographic ethnic and disciplinary backgrounds its chapters combine authoritative commentary with real-life cases. Organised into four parts—approaches issues actors and future directions—the chapters help the reader to understand the foundations of the field including the principal concepts debates and historical milestones. This volume also features sections with learning outcomes follow-up questions references for further reading and vivid photographs to make it a useful teaching and learning tool. Environmental Justice: Key Issues is the ideal toolkit for junior researchers graduate students upper-level undergraduates and anyone in need of a comprehensive introductory textbook on environmental justice. | Environmental Justice Key Issues

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Critical Approaches to TV and Film Set Design

Critical Approaches to TV and Film Set Design

The analysis of scenic design in film and television is often neglected with visual design elements relegated to part of the mise-en-scène in cinema or simply as wallpaper in television. Critical Approaches to TV and Film Set Design positions itself from the audience perspective to explore how we watch TV and film and how set design enhances and influences the viewing experience. By using semiotics history and narratology and adding concepts drawn from art architecture and theatre Geraint D’Arcy reworks the key concepts of set design. Looking at the impact of production design on how the viewer reads film and television these updated theories can be applied more flexibly and extensively in academic criticism. D’Arcy creates a new theoretical approach representing a significant expansion of the field and filling the remaining gaps. This book is ideal for anyone interested in understanding how we can read and interpret design in film and television and should be the primary point of reference for those studying TV and film set design.

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Key Clinical Topics in Cardiology

Key Clinical Topics in Cardiology

Key Clinical Topics in Cardiology presents a brand new addition to the Key Clinical Topics series. The book provides a comprehensive overview of the subject comprising over 60 carefully selected topics in alpha order that together provide an extensive understanding of the management of cardiovascular disorders. This collection of highly practical guides systematically addresses management techniques for a large number of clinical settings. Edited by experienced specialists with contributions from consultants who have recognised expertise in their field this book provides an authoritative and up-to-date guide on cardiovascular medicine. Designed to enable rapid access to core information KCT Cardiology offers effective exam revision and the ideal quick reference for day-to-day practice.

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Fifty Key Theatre Designers

Fifty Key Theatre Designers

Fifty Key Theatre Designers looks at the history of theatrical scenography by examining the work and contributions of fifty ground-breaking set costume lighting and projection designers since the Renaissance. Developments of scenic design are traced from the introduction of perspective painting to create illusionistic scenery in Renaissance Italy to the use of digital projection in the twenty-first century. The book also discusses important landmarks in the evolution of costume and lighting design as well as the introduction of film and video technology to stage design. A broad range of work is explored including opera dance Broadway and West End commercial theatre avant-garde performance and even Olympic spectacles. Each chapter features one designer including basic biographical information and a discussion of that artist’s style aesthetics and contributions. Designers covered include Sebastiano Serlio Ferdinando Bibiena Richard Wagner Adolphe Appia and Edward Gordon Craig amongst many other notable individuals. Each chapter also includes references to other significant designers with similar aesthetics or who made similarly important contributions to the development of that aspect of scenography. This book is ideal for undergraduates and graduates of scenography theatrical design and theatre history.

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Transactional Analysis 100 Key Points and Techniques

Transactional Analysis 100 Key Points and Techniques

The second edition of Transactional Analysis: 100 Key Points and Techniques synthesizes developments in Transactional Analysis (TA) and psychotherapy research making complex ideas accessible and offering therapists practical guidance on refining TA psychotherapy skills. Divided into seven parts the 100 key points cover: The philosophy theory methods and critique of the main approaches to TA New developments and approaches in TA TA perspectives on the therapeutic relationship Client assessment diagnosis and case formulation Contracting and treatment planning using TA A troubleshooting guide to avoiding common pitfalls Refining therapeutic skills Specific updates incorporate emergent approaches in TA recent developments in the understanding of neurodiversity and current best practice thinking. This book is essential reading for trainee and beginner TA therapists as well as experienced practitioners looking to update their field knowledge for a skilful and mindful application of this cohesive system of psychotherapy. | Transactional Analysis 100 Key Points and Techniques

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Popular Music Culture The Key Concepts

Popular Music Culture The Key Concepts

Now in its fifth edition this popular A–Z student reference book provides a comprehensive survey of key ideas and concepts in popular music culture examining the social and cultural aspects of popular music. Fully revised with extended coverage of the music industries sociological concepts and additional references to reading listening and viewing throughout the new edition expands on the foundations of popular music culture tracing the impact of digital technology and changes in the way in which music is created manufactured marketed and consumed. The concept of metagenres remains a central part of the book: these are historically socially and geographically situated umbrella musical categories each embracing a wide range of associated genres and subgenres. New or expanded entries include: Charts Digital music culture Country music Education Ethnicity Race Gender Grime Heritage History Indie Synth pop Policy Punk rock and Streaming. Popular Music Culture: The Key Concepts is an essential reference tool for students studying the social and cultural dimensions of popular music. | Popular Music Culture The Key Concepts

GBP 35.99
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Gestalt Therapy 100 Key Points and Techniques

Gestalt Therapy 100 Key Points and Techniques

Gestalt therapy offers a present-focused relational approach central to which is the fundamental belief that the client knows the best way of adjusting to their situation. This new edition of Gestalt Therapy: 100 Key Points and Techniques provides a concise accessible guide to this flexible and far-reaching approach. Substantially updated throughout topics discussed include: The theoretical assumptions underpinning gestalt therapy. Gestalt assessment and process diagnosis. Field theory phenomenology and dialogue. Ethics and values. Evaluation and research. As such this book will be essential reading for gestalt trainees as well as all counsellors and psychotherapists wanting to learn more about the gestalt approach. | Gestalt Therapy 100 Key Points and Techniques

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Sustainable Business Key Issues

Sustainable Business Key Issues

Sustainable Business: Key Issues is the first comprehensive introductory-level textbook to address the interface between environmental challenges and business solutions to provide an overview of the basic concepts of sustainability sustainable business and business ethics. Fully updated for the third edition to take into account recent developments and trends such as the climate emergency COVID-19 and supply chain sustainability this textbook introduces students to the background and key issues of sustainability and suggests ways in which these concepts can be applied in business practice. Though the book takes a business perspective it is interdisciplinary in its nature and draws on knowledge from socio-economic political and environmental studies thereby providing a critical understanding of sustainability in the changing paradigm of global business. It goes beyond the conventional theories of sustainability and addresses critical issues concerned with population consumption and economic growth. It discusses realistic ways forward in particular the circular economy and Cradle to Cradle frameworks. The book is both a theoretical and a practical study guide for undergraduate and postgraduate students of broad areas of sustainability teaching ways to recognize opportunities for innovation and entrepreneurship at the intersection of environmental economic ethical and social systems. It takes a strategic approach in applying the power of business methods and policy to address issues of global importance such as climate change poverty ecosystem degradation and human rights. This textbook is essential reading for students of business management and sustainability courses. It is written in an engaging and accessible style with each chapter including case studies discussion questions and end of chapter summaries. | Sustainable Business Key Issues

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Sustainability A Key Idea for Business and Society

Sustainability A Key Idea for Business and Society

The heightening impact of ecological and societal crises makes sustainability an increasingly urgent imperative requiring a fundamental shift in how we understand and practice management and business. In this book the authors set out the key characteristics of sustainability such as its temporal and multilevel effects and highlight the complex array of sustainability risks and opportunities for business and management. Setting business within a systems perspective the authors outline different sustainability discourses that frame how business responds to the sustainability imperative. They call for the normative and scientific approaches to sustainability to be merged so that a new transdisciplinary approach that brings together the material and relational traditions in sustainability management is developed. Sustainability work is understood as the reframing of tools technologies practices and business strategies to respond to the imperative. The book concludes by highlighting dynamic features of the imperative as it is shaped by the urgent need to restore and regenerate social and ecological systems. Sustainability transitions such as the Circular Economy and Net Zero are suggested as inspiration for profound business transformation. By facing the intractable complexity associated with sustainability this book challenges students and scholars to draw from across the sciences and social sciences to understand reflect upon and deliver responsible business outcomes in contemporary society. | Sustainability A Key Idea for Business and Society

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Ecosystem Services Key Issues

Ecosystem Services Key Issues

Revised and fully updated this textbook provides a detailed yet accessible introduction to the key aspects of ecosystem services. Ecosystem services is one of the most powerful guiding principles for ecology biodiversity conservation and the management of natural resources. It provides the basis of assessing the multiple values and services that ecosystems can provide to humankind including diverse issues such as carbon sequestration flood control crop pollination and aesthetic and cultural services. The second edition of Ecosystem Services: Key Issues has been fully revised and updated to address policy and scientific developments as well as new and emerging issues such as nature-based solutions zoonotic diseases and environmental justice. It includes new and updated case studies from across the world and each chapter contains further reading learning objectives and discussion questions to aid student learning. The book details the historical roots of ecosystem services in the second half of the twentieth century through initiatives such as the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment The Common International Classification of Ecosystem Services (CICES) and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. It shows how ecosystem goods and services can be categorised and valued in economic as well as non-monetary terms while also highlighting some of the difficulties and limitations of valuation techniques. The author describes how themes such as systems thinking social-ecological resilience and natural capital relate to ecosystem services and how these can contribute to more sustainable and equitable development. This book will be essential reading for students and scholars of ecosystem services ecology environmental science biodiversity conservation environmental economics natural resource management and sustainable development. It will also be of use to professionals and policymakers who are looking to integrate ecosystems and their services into their decision making processes. | Ecosystem Services Key Issues

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Fifty Key Irish Plays

Fifty Key Irish Plays

Fifty Key Irish Plays charts the progression of modern Irish drama from Dion Boucicault’s entry on to the global stage of the Irish diaspora to the contemporary dramas created by the experiences of the New Irish. Each chapter provides a brief plot outline along with informed analysis and alert to the cultural and critical context of each play an account of the key roles that they played in the developing story of Irish drama. While the core of the collection is based on the critical canon including work by J. M. Synge Lady Gregory Teresa Deevy and Brian Friel plays such as Tom Mac Intyre’s The Great Hunger and ANU Productions’ Laundry which illuminate routes away from the mainstream are also included. With a focus on the development of form as well as theme the collection guides the reader to an informed overview of Irish theatre via succinct and insightful essays by an international team of academics. This invaluable collection will be of particular interest to undergraduate students of theatre and performance studies and to lay readers looking to expand their appreciation of Irish drama.

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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy 100 Key Points and Techniques

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy 100 Key Points and Techniques

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: 100 Key Points and Techniques offers a comprehensive yet concise overview of the central features of the philosophy theory and practical application of ACT. It explains and demonstrates the range of acceptance mindfulness and behaviour change strategies that can be used in the service of helping people increase their psychological flexibility and wellbeing. Divided into three main parts the book covers the ‘Head Hands and Heart’ of the approach moving from the basics of behavioural psychology via the key principles of Relational Frame Theory and the Psychological Flexibility model to a detailed description of how ACT is practiced providing the reader with a solid grounding from which to develop their delivery of ACT-consistent interventions. It concludes by addressing key decisions to make in practice and how best to attend to the therapeutic process. The authors of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy bring a wealth of experience of using ACT in their own therapy practice and of training and supervising others in developing knowledge and skills in the approach. This book will appeal to practitioners looking to further their theoretical knowledge and hands-on skills and those seeking a useful reference for all aspects of their ACT practice. | Acceptance and Commitment Therapy 100 Key Points and Techniques

GBP 21.99
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Key Settlements in Rural Areas (Routledge Revivals)

Key Settlements in Rural Areas (Routledge Revivals)

The problems of providing essential services in a constrained economic climate and of conserving the rural environment whilst protecting rural people are of immediate importance. This book first published in 1979 was the first major piece of published research on the topic of rural settlement planning. It examines in detail the history and theory behind key settlement policies and their practical application within the British rural planning system. Using Warwickshire and Devon as two very different case studies Paul Cloke measures the outcome of settlement planning and discusses the wider implications of the ‘concentration-dispersal’ debate. This reissue will provide essential background for students of rural and social geography and rural sociology and economics. | Key Settlements in Rural Areas (Routledge Revivals)

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Teaching Well Understanding Key Dynamics of Learning-Centered Classrooms

Teaching Well Understanding Key Dynamics of Learning-Centered Classrooms

What does it mean to teach well? In short it means a willingness to do anything that helps students learn. Teaching Well investigates the fundamental principle of what teaching effectively entails by exploring the key dynamics of a learning-centered classroom. Based on interviews with renowned scholar Stephen D. Brookfield this book covers a wide range of topics – such as classroom democratization critical thinking and reflection race and power and more. Each chapter is framed by key questions meant to hone teachers’ crafts and encourage important conversations. Further this engaging book examines the crucial steps of bringing educators’ identities and backgrounds into practice by soliciting and responding to student feedback negotiating power dynamics and the ways institutional constraints students and self-concepts can sabotage efforts. A timely text Teaching Well is the ideal companion for all college and university educators and experienced practitioners across the globe who continue to reflect critically about their teaching practice. | Teaching Well Understanding Key Dynamics of Learning-Centered Classrooms

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Key Thinkers on Development

Key Thinkers on Development

Since its publication in 2006 as Fifty Key Thinkers on Development this invaluable reference has established itself as the leading biographical handbook in its field providing a concise and accessible introduction to the lives and key contributions of development thinkers from across the ideological and disciplinary spectrum. This substantially expanded and fully updated second edition in the relaunched series without the numerical constraint includes an additional 24 essays filling in many gaps in the original selection greatly improving the gender balance and diversifying coverage to reflect the evolving landscape of development in theory policy and practice. It presents a unique guide to the lives ideas and practices of leading contributors to the contested terrain of development studies and development policy and practice. Its thoughtful essays reflect the diversity of development in theory policy and practice across time space disciplines and communities of practice. Accordingly it challenges Western-centrism Orientalism and the like while also demonstrating the enduring appeal of development in different guises. David Simon has assembled a highly authoritative team of contributors from different backgrounds regional settings and disciplines to reflect on the lives and contributions of leading authorities on development from around the world. These include: Modernisers like Kindleberger Perroux and Rostow Dependencistas such as Frank Furtado Cardoso and Amin Progressives and critical modernists like Hirschman Prebisch Helleiner Sen Streeten and Wang Political leaders enunciating radical alternative visions of development such as Mao Nkrumah and Nyerere Progenitors of religiously or spiritually inspired development such as Gandhi Ariyaratne and Vivekananda Development–environment thinkers like Agarwal Blaikie Brookfield Ostrom and Sachs International institution builders like Singer Hammarsköld Kaul and Ul Haq Anti- and post-development thinkers and activists like Escobar Ghosh Quijano and Roy Key Thinkers on Development is therefore the essential handbook on the world’s most influential development thinkers and an invaluable guide for students of development and sustainability policy-makers and practitioners seeking an accessible overview of this diverse field and its leading voices.

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Key Materials in International Environmental Law

Key Materials in International Environmental Law

This compilation of key materials in international environmental law takes account of the most significant developments in the field that have occurred during the past decade including in the areas of climate change chemicals and pesticides biosafety and nuclear safety as well as good governance compliance and liability. Not only does multilateral environmental law making have wide-ranging repercussions on the way national development policies are drafted and business is conducted but also environmental issues increasingly interweave with those relating to human rights trade agriculture and intellectual property making familiarity with the key instruments in international law essential for all working in these areas. The book comprises a representative selection of the most important studies in international environmental law with an editorial introduction to each topic. Its focus on recent trends and cross-sectoral aspects makes it an indispensable tool for students researchers practitioners and policy makers in international environmental law and related fields.

GBP 42.99
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Local Ownership in International Peacebuilding Key Theoretical and Practical Issues

Local Ownership in International Peacebuilding Key Theoretical and Practical Issues

This edited volume empirically examines key theoretical and practical issues relevant to the promotion of local ownership in contemporary international peacebuilding. This book attempts to provide comprehensive understanding of the issue of local ownership in international peacebuilding. By providing an empirical analysis of nine case studies the volume aims to supplement contemporary academic discussions on local ownership which have thus far mainly focused on its normative or theoretical dimensions. The case studies included here examine the peace operations in a wide range of countries - Afghanistan Bosnia-Herzegovina Cambodia Cyprus Kenya Uganda Sierra Leone South Sudan and Sri Lanka. The book seeks to address the weaknesses of conventional studies by: empirical review of the achievements and limitations of previous attempts to promote local ownership; examination of the key concepts of local ownership; and analysis of structural and practical challenges. The volume concludes by presenting practical proposals for addressing the limitations of contemporary local ownership promotion. Through these means the book aims to explore a key research question from both theoretical and empirical perspectives: How can international peacebuilding facilitate effective active local community participation? This volume will be of much interest to students of peacebuilding development studies global governance peace and conflict studies security studies and IR. | Local Ownership in International Peacebuilding Key Theoretical and Practical Issues

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Key Themes in Health and Social Care A Companion to Learning

Key Themes in Health and Social Care A Companion to Learning

This revised and expanded second edition of Key Themes in Health and Social Care is a learning resource for students in health and social care. It provides an overview of foundational issues and core themes in the field and introduces key areas of debate moving from an introductory level to in-depth discussion as the book progresses. Divided into three parts: the first part sets the scene addressing introductory psychology and sociology social policy equality and diversity skills for practice and working with people the second part considers key themes such as mental health and wellbeing; management of services; the relationship between place and wellbeing; research in health and social care; and person-centred interventions the third part looks at discrete areas of practice such as mental health; ageing leading and managing health and social care; working with vulnerable populations; and health promotion Each chapter begins with an outline of the content and learning outcomes and includes reflective exercises to allow students to reflect on what they have read review their learning and consolidate their understanding. Time-pressed readers wanting to ‘dip into’ the book for relevant areas can do so but read from cover to cover the book provides a comprehensive introduction to the key areas of contemporary health and social care practice. It will be particularly helpful for students undertaking health and social care undergraduate and foundation degrees. | Key Themes in Health and Social Care A Companion to Learning

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