Presents a report from the Cambridge Primary Review, the comprehensive enquiry into English primary education. This book is grounded in evidence from research, official data and the enquiry's thousands of individual and organisational witnesses.

Sex Tourism examines the issues which emerge from sex worker-client interactions and from tourists visiting 'sex destinations'. It is a comprehensive summary of past research by academics and original research by the authors.

Presses the case for better mental health care for mentally disturbed law breakers, and the need to divert them from unnecessary imprisonment.

Combining scholarship with readability, this book shows that political corruption must itself be analyzed politically. It is a valuable read for anyone studying social science disciplines such as politics, international relations, sociology, anthropology, criminology and public policy.

Theoretically innovative, this book reviews disparate existing literature on comparative probation and offers a coherent analysis of probation around the world. Represents findings of the UN Crime and Justice Research Unit.

Higher education institutions are concerned with the quality of teaching and learning experiences they provide for students, including the increasing number of overseas students.

The authors use a major empirical study of children in secure accommodation as a basis for a theoretical analysis of relations between the state, the family and the 'difficult' child.

A much-needed guide to thinking critically for oneself and how to tell a good argument from a bad one. Includes topical examples from politics, sport, medicine, music, chapter summaries, glossary and exercises.

An exploration of children's mathematical development to show how you can encourage and enhance the numeracy skills of any child in the early years by linking maths to every-day life and making it a playful and enjoyable cross-curricular activity.

The contributors to this book examine the relationships that exist between the social, political, economic and cultural contexts of inclusive education as it is being implemented - or in some cases not implemented.

An introduction to thinking clearly and rationally for oneself, which equips students with the skills to tell a good argument from a bad one.

By developing a long-term supranational perspective, this ambitious, multi-faceted work provides a new understanding of 'totalitarianism', the troubling common element linking Soviet communism, Italian fascism and German Nazism.

Simone Weil writes on the subject of uprootedness and calls for a rediscovery of spiritual roots. She deals with the needs of the soul, discussing order, liberty, obedience, responsibility and finishing with the need for truth.

The book explains key ethical issues and reviews various ethical principles and guidelines developed by professional bodies. Problems relating to different kinds of research are discussed, as well as the special case of socially sensitive research.

This book is a concise and accessible introduction to the lives and key contributions of fifty of the world's leading development thinkers from across the ideological and disciplinary spectrum, including Hirshman, Frank, Prebisch, Mao, Gandhi and Blaikie.

This book looks at sociability and attachment and how they relate to emotional and cognitive development. Social and cultural variations are considered, and theories of attachment and loss are described and evaluated.

Considers how thinking, intelligence, and moral understanding develop in childhood. Key theories are discussed, along with their real-world applications.

The goal of this book is to provide unacquainted readers and non-specialists in the basic mechanisms of cardiac excitation matter with the information necessary to develop pathophysiologically oriented clinical reasoning in this area.